Why We Celebrate Christmas – Greg Laurie
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and
they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” —Matthew
1:23
It really is an amazing thing to think about the mystery of the
Incarnation—that mysterious moment when God became a man.
Jesus Christ—God the Son—was born in a manger. He went
from the throne of heaven to a feeding trough. He went from the presence
of angels to a cave filled with animals. He who is larger than the
universe became an embryo. He who sustains the world with a word chose to
be dependent upon the nourishment of a young virgin.
Some people have a hard time believing in the Virgin
Birth. If you believe the Bible, you need to believe in the Virgin
Birth. The Bible teaches that God Almighty was supernaturally conceived
in the womb of a virgin (see Matthew 1:23).
This makes sense if you think about it. If God had chosen
to, He could have sent Jesus to this earth as a fully grown, yet sinless human
being. A shaft of light could have come out from heaven with Jesus
descending to the ground as an adult man.
But if Jesus came to us in that way, who could have related to
Him as a person, as a part of the human race? God also could have had
Jesus come into the world through two ordinary human beings—but still with a
divine nature. But then most of us would have doubted His divinity.
That’s why the Incarnation makes sense.
The event of the Incarnation is the reason for the Christmas
season. Christmas is the opportunity to worship God, to bow down and pay
homage to Him for humbling Himself and appearing in human form (see Philippians
2:6–9). That stands as the true mystery of the Incarnation—and the
reason we celebrate Christmas.
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