Christmas Eve 2020
Sermon Notes
It’s true and sentimental.
It’s not true but it’s inspirational.
Don’t settle for sentimental.
Don’t dismiss it as inspiration.
Jesus came for transformation.
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Matthew 1:22
“..you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
Exodus 33:20
“And Manoah said to his wife, we shall surely die, because we have seen God”
Judges 13:21-22
“ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Isaiah 6:1-5
We will transformed the most by what we expect the least.
