CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

 We have entered into the days of Christmas. We are hearing about Christmas everyday in churches, TVs, and every where.

We all know :- “ we celebrate Christmas as “ birth of Jesus Christ”. Every lay man will also say that. But as a Christian after 2012 years of the birth of savior, how we are remembering His birth ?

A few questions arises in my mind…….

(1) How are we remembering His birth

(2) Can we remember His birth as any other great people born here.

(3) What makes his birth different from all other ordinary birth.

Now let us look at His birth.

First of all.

(1) The day He has born as child – first and for most “ Glory to God was given in the highest” by the  angels and a multitude of heavenly hosts.

Luke  2  : 13,14

Birth of any great man, or prophets or religious leaders, we don’t find such praises were given. It is not mentioned in any book expect the Bible. So, His birth was the special one and had a special purpose.

(2) His birth was prophesied thousands of years ago. Old testament we find many many prophecies.

I will mention a few of them,

Prophecy of His birth in Isaiah 9:6-7

Long before Jesus was born prophet Isaiah said that “ He will called “ Prince of Peace”

So Christmas shows the coming of prince of peace to this sinful world.

We know and also Bible says, Roman 5 : 12 Sin entered this world through one man Adam and through sin entered death. But our loving heavenly father who loved us so much that, He never wanted us to die. That’s why we see John 3: 16. God loved us so much that He sent his only begotten son to die for us. So in Christmas – Jesus Christ was born to die for us. So He is also called as the Savior.

In total history no savior is born till now and no book expect Bible tells us that a savior was born to die for the sin of mankind.

We also see in Eperian 2 : 14

He himself is our peace. He came as this prince as peace and he himself in our peace.

Peace can of two types :

1. Temporary
2. Permanent

Temporary peace : Temporary peace is very short lived. We find peace after stress or quarrel through the intervene of another person or other means. It may not last long, as we may be disturbed by some other means.

Permanent peace : Permanent peace when this scripture was written it was impossible to bring peace in the world because as the different rulers were torturing people for different reasons.

So Jesus Christ exalted himself to bring the everlasting and eternal peace to the world.

So he is called “ PRINCE OF PEACE “.

In our personal life also. If we accept Christ and make him to be born in our heart, We will experience the similar kind everlasting peace. No worldly things can ever give us this kind of peace.

If we look at the world again, there is unrest every where. As a Christian its our duty to bring peace which is given by our Lord. I know its difficult to establish peace in the world. But we can bring peace around us, among our friends, and families.

As Bible says in Roman 14:19 “ Let us pursue the things which make for peace.”

Heb 12 : 14 Pursue peace with all people.

So this Christmas I have a question for all : - Did you carry the message of peace to the people who need it or at least tried to tell anybody about this GOOD NEWS that on Christmas “ THE PRINCE OF PEACE “ was born.

In HIS Service,

Sangha.