Rediscover the Real Meaning of Christmas – A Message of Hope
May I have your attention? To explain Jesus Christ is impossible. To ignore him is disastrous and to reject him is fatal. I am talking to you about Jesus Christ. May I say on the other hand to know him is to love him. To love him is to believe on him. And to believe on him is to be saved. And to be saved is to be radically and dramatically transformed for time and eternity.
Find God’s word and turn to Colossians chapter 1. And in a moment, we’re going to begin reading in verse 15. And because it is an extended passage, we’re going to break in into the middle of a sentence. Colossians chapter 1, John Blanchard has estimated that of all of the people who have ever lived since Adam and Eve till today, there have been just a few people, just a handful of people who have risen to great prominence, whose names are known through history, whose names today are household names. But there is one
person of all history who is absolutely totally uniquely in a class by himself. That one individual has been the subject and the combination of more attention, more devotion, more criticism, more adoration, and more opposition than any other person who’ve ever lived. Every recorded word that he spoke has been studied, analyzed, discussed, scrutinized, criticized by a generation of philosophers and scholars and theologians and historians.
There’s not a single moment since his life here on this earth till this very present time in which there are not millions of people who are talking about him are talking to him. It’s an amazing thing. This individual, that person, that singular person, that unique person, his name. Say it with me. Jesus. Jesus. That is his name. A man born in Bethlehem about 2,000 years ago.
And when he was born, his cradle rocked the world. I want us to look at the scripture here breaking in in verse 15. It speaks of Jesus who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
