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JESUS:
THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT
By: Pastor Max Solbrekken
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“Thanks
be unto God for His unspeakable gift.” (2
Cor. 9:15)
Almost
everyone enjoys receiving gifts; and not just at Christmas.
The wealthy, as well as the poor, are intrigued by receiving
gifts from someone they love or respect!
Children
love receiving gifts from their parents and grandparents. They
also like giving gifts like little notes, cards and other
artistic creations they have made!
Giving
is important because of the effort, love and time it takes to
make or purchase an appropriate gift. And in wrapping, mailing
or delivering it!
There
is usually a lot of love wrapped up with gift giving! It’s
easy for children to express their love, but harder for some
adults. That’s where the gift giving helps them!
Some
of us enjoy giving even more than receiving. We rejoice in our
ability to create little blessings in people’s lives, by the
things we are able to do for them!
Unfortunately,
there are those who are selfish, greedy and envious of others!
How sad! Some of the most envious people I have met, are those
who seemingly have everything. Yet they envy what little
someone has!
WHY
IS THIS? WHAT MAKES PEOPLE ACT SO DIFFERENTLY?
The
Bible speaks about the old nature and the new nature; the old
man and the new man; the old lifestyle and the new lifestyle!
The
prophet gets to the heart of the matter: “The heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it?” (Jer. 17:9)
Jesus
spoke about the sinfulness of the “heart of man” and
identified the corrupt fruit emanating from such a heart.
It’s not very pretty!
“For
out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” (Matt.
15:19)
But
the heart can be changed by the Word of God and the Holy
Spirit. The Bible says: “A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away
the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an
heart of flesh.
“And
I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My
statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.”
(Ezek. 36:26-27)
The
Bible states: “Therefore if any man (person) be in Christ,
he is a new creation: old things are passed away behold all
things become new”. (2 Cor. 5:17)
St.
Paul was referring to Jesus Christ - the world’s only
Saviour - when he stated, “Thanks be unto God for His
unspeakable gift”.
Jesus
Christ is the “desire of all nations”, that Haggai
prophesied should come! (Hag. 2:7)
The
Bible says, “For God so loved the world that HE GAVE HIS
ONLY BEGOTTEN - ONE AND ONLY - SON, that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”. (John
3:16)
Our
gracious Heavenly Father has given us so much. After giving
His Son to die for our sins, HE GAVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT to
empower the Church. And the “gifts of the Spirit” are
still available for us today!
OH,
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!
In
closing, allow me to put everything in perspective. St.
Paul’s statement thanking God “for His unspeakable gift”
was the conclusion of a powerful discourse regarding,
“GIVING ECONOMIC HELP” to the saints of God!
“But
this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall also reap
bountifully.
“Every
man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give;
not grudgingly or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful
giver.
“And
God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye
always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to
every good work.” (2 Cor. 9:6-8)
Let
us remember the poor, sick, sinful, orphaned and
disadvantaged, with our prayers and financial gifts. Help
support this ministry and others, which proclaim “the gospel
of Jesus Christ”!
There
is also an added bonus. The ‘Law of Reciprocity’ kicks in
when we give!
Jesus
said: “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure,
pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men
give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete
withal it shall be measured to you again”. (Luke 6:38)
Have
a joyous Christmas and remember “it is more blessed to give
than to receive”. (Acts 20:35) The word
"Christmas" is taken from the words ‘Christ’ and
‘mass’ (a holy day or feast), a festival celebrating the
birth of Jesus Christ. When I think about Christ's birth and
the great truths that surrounded that event - together with
the significance and the results of His coming - the exact
date and the name by which it is called, pale into
insignificance!
by Andale
Max Solbrekken World Missions @copyright 2000
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