Well, what I’ve discovered is this. People who know how to give joyfully and abundantly, and abundance isn’t the same in everybody’s mind, but people who learn how to give and know how to give and give joyfully and freely are the happiest people I know. There’s something about learning to give because you see that’s what life’s all about.

Life’s all about giving and receiving and loving. And people who are real genuine givers know how to love someone. And if you don’t know how to love someone, I doubt if you really know how to give them. And so when I think about the greatest giver of all, I think about God that he is a continuous giver in our life. Always giving.

doesn’t really ask for a whole lot comparatively, but he’s always giving. And the one thing that he’s given us above all the rest is what I want to talk about in this message. And I want to title this message simply this. Jesus, a gift from the father. And I want us to look at the gift. I want us to look at many aspects of the gift because I want you to appreciate having and experiencing and having a relationship with the most important gift that you’ll ever receive no matter how long you live.

And when I think about that gift, I think about what a tiny gift it was in its original giving. And that is it came or he came as a baby, a tiny babe, transported in the womb of the Virgin Mary, born in a very simple kind of place out in a stable or a barn or a cave, whatever it may have been that they used in those days.

And so there did not appear to be anything very significant about this gift. But you see, you have to look beyond what you see with the naked eye and recognize that lying there in a trough which they fed the animals from was the son of God. This was the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords lying there in the form of a babe.