Sermon 2863 - Why Christ Came to Bethlehem to a Manager - 7th Message.....(Fri pm 12/25/2009)

WHY CHRIST CAME TO BETHLEHEM TO A MANGER — 7TH MESSAGE.....(FRI PM 12/25/2009)

(Christmas Service) Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 18:8). Jesus is the Name of Christ’s Humanity, and that Name was given on the eighth day when the Christ Child was circumcised. So it was Christ, the Son of God, in Full Stature, Who laid aside all His divine Kabode Glory and came down and became poor so that we, through His poverty, might be rich (II Corinthians 8:9). Rich in what? Rich in the Breath of the Torah.  In Matthew 6:33, Jesus told us to seek the Kingdom of God first; then, all the other things that we need will be added. Psalm 37:4 says: “Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”

In the second chapter of Luke, Christ, the Lamb, came down to a manger, and the Breath of God was all around the manger. God’s Lamb was inside the manger, clothed with Breath round about. Breath is a cycle from God. Breath travels in a cycle. We breathe in oxygen, and we breathe out carbon dioxide. What we breathe out gives life to all the plant world, for they breathe in carbon dioxide. Contrariwise, plants breathe out oxygen, and we breathe it in.