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I want to love Jesus so much that when I look up to Heaven and say, 'Dear Jesus, I love You,' He'll look down and say, 'Yes, Charles, I know it.' —Charles Spurgeon

When you pray, you talk to God; but when you read the Bible, God talks to you.—D.L. Moody

Thursday, December 24, 2015

The Remarkably High Cost of Christmas


While the time of year may be off, the reason of the season, Jesus, is very much true. 
He was born and laid in a manger. 
But what did it cost?
  • It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in Egypt to protect Jesus.
  • It cost the mothers, in and around Bethlehem, the massacre of their babies by the cruel order of Herod.
  • It cost the wise men a long journey and expensive gifts and changed lives.
  • It cost the early apostles and the early church persecution and sometimes death.
  • It cost missionaries untold suffering and privation to spread the good news.
  • It cost Christian martyrs–in all ages–their lives for Christ's sake.

More than all this, it cost God the Father His own Son–for He sent Him to the earth to save men.
  • It cost Jesus a life of sacrifice and service, a death cruel and unmatched in history.
So let me ask, Is Christmas Too Costly? 
  • It is, if all that it means is gift exchanges.
  • It is if all it means is tinsel and millions spent in commercialization of Christmas.
  • It is, if all that it means is a holiday.

It Isn't Too Costly
  • If it means the hope of the world.
  • If it means the forgiveness of sin.
  • If it means peace among men.
  • If it means joyous singing.

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