The most awesome gift ever given was a very humble gift born in a stable or in a cave among cattle
he certainly was a humble gift God in his wisdom chose to send Jesus not born like a king but born
as a king but born in such a way that every single person the face of this earth could identify with
him because he was born this simple child and the fact is that when he grew up here's what he said
about himself he said I came not to be served but to serve and so where he was born fits who he was
God sent his gift to us and Jesus came in the most humble of circumstances he was born in a
cave not in a palace he was wrapped in rags not even clean sheets and certainly not satin he's
shivered in the cold night air as he entered our world and breathed our air and lived our life and
walked on our shoes and then he died in our place why did he come why did God send his son to this
earth why did Jesus walk among us as a man why was all this done so God could give to you
the greatest gift of all the gift of eternal life Romans 6:23 says it's the gift of God which is
eternal life through Jesus Christ Our Lord how do you receive this gift Jesus said in John 17:3
this is the way to have eternal life to know you the only God in Jesus Christ whom you have
sent so my question for you is do you know God in a personal way tonight this is why he came
to bring you this gift this gift was his very son as were told over in Isaiah 9:6 unto us
a child is born unto us a son is given it was a gift from heaven Jesus himself said for God so
loved the world he gave his only begotten son and whoever believes in him will not perish but
have everlasting life Jesus Christ according to Christmas is God come to save us to do for us what
we can't do for ourselves to know him is eternal life it's not like he comes and you follow him
and you do the things that you should do and you live a good life and then you know God blesses you
and God Saves you no no he is the life that God knew exactly what we needed we needed a savior
and all that that involves a deliverer who could deliver us from our own sinfulness because we
would never be able to deliver ourselves so God sent a gift Jesus and a lot of people spend their
whole lives trying to repay him or feeling like we're we're not doing enough or we haven't made
up for all of our past sins and we're working working working working when that's not what God
wants he wants us to enjoy the savior that he's given us enjoy our forgiveness enjoy this life
that we can have God the father sent him because the world living in sin needed a savior he came
as a needed gift because the truth is every single one of us have all of us have needed him each one
of us needs him every person needs him and many people need him who do not even believe that
he is or that he exists or that they have any needs it is sin within us that makes our need
of the greatest gift God has ever given the only person who can meet the sin need is Jesus Christ
he came into this world for the primary purpose of meeting that need and when he was introduced
John the Baptist said he is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world no gift ever
known and mankind could match that he was a very needed gift the Apostle Paul in Second Corinthians
chapter 9 and verse 15 says thanks be to God for his indescribable gift he's talking about Jesus
that you and I can't put into words how awesome the gift of Jesus is in fact I would suggest to
you that 10,000 years into our time in heaven we still will be learning about this gift we
still will be marveling at the magnitude of God's grace and giving us Jesus Christ as a gift as the
savior to save us from our sin and that a hundred thousand years into heaven will still be learning
about how great this gift is unable to put it into to human vocabulary because of the greatness of
his gift and yet as expansive as magnificent as that gift is still God is expressed it in a way
with such simplicity that every single human being can understand that God has given a gift the most
famous verse in the bible is probably John 3:16 where we read this for God so loved the world
he loved you he loved me he loves everybody he loves all humanity that he did what he gave that's
what Christmas is about celebrating the gift God gave what did he give he gave his one and only son
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life Jesus is God's gift to you and
I he is he is God's awesome gift to you and me and everything good about us and all the hope
and assurance and confidence that we have in life is wrapped up in the person of Jesus Christ God
is the most awesome thing he came to earth in the form of a natural born baby
but he was sent from God the father as a little boy being God at the same time having laid aside
his glory to be born into this world to walk among men in order to reveal to us who the father's like
we learned the intensity of God's love that the personhood of God how he desires to have
a personal intimate relationship with him things begin to take on a whole new perspective of our
view of God he says he was the gift who came down from heaven he's God's awesome gift for us and you
see the reason the father did it the way he did it sending him as a babe revealing the father
growing up dying on a cross going back to heaven so that every single one of us could have him
and you think about the fact that he is a spiritual gift he listen he's the one
gift that you and I have that no one can take away from us no matter what can't be bought
can't be remade can't be cloned just one nobody can take him away from us think about this
he's the one gift that you and I have that we can give away and still have
that no matter how many times we give him away to someone else talk to them about him
and introduce them to Jesus and shall we say give him them the gift of Jesus in their life
we still have him in ours there's no gift like that he's the eternal son of God what a gift
every other gift you've ever received will pass away sooner or later this is one that will not because
he is God God's gift to us to make life worth living and to make it the way he wants it to be