God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all equal, one essence, one Deity, however all of them maintain very DIFFERENT personalities.
God, the Father is VERY critical. If you find yourself in HIS presence it’s that, take off your sneakers you’re within the presence of THE LORD (Exodus 3:5). It’s extremely respectful and also you bow since you understand His huge energy over every little thing, together with your very life.
There’s a seriousness there, a reverential awe. You don’t converse to Him except He asks you to talk. You’re simply speechless in awe of His majesty.
HE…IS…GOD.
Jesus is loads much less critical. Jesus is like your brother. You’ll be able to mess around with Him, make a joke and it’s okay. You’ll be able to hang around with Him, really feel extra comfy with Him. He’s your buddy, your buddy, your brother. He’s nonetheless God, nonetheless holy, nonetheless respectable on all counts. He’s nonetheless good, however the persona is completely different.
When spending time with each, God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ, I desire to spend time with God the Father. He’s rather more direct, to the purpose, and He’s my favourite. However attending to spend time with God the Father is VERY troublesome. Neither can look on sin, so that you have to be fully holy, CONSTANTLY repenting of your sins (identified and unknown) and in a pure coronary heart time in your life. You MUST be pure within the moments you spend with both God or Jesus. It’s mandatory.
More often than not, we spend time with angels, who’re doing the work of God on His behalf. They convey with us (by means of Scripture) and lead us, information us, and assist us.
It’s extra uncommon to have the ability to get to spend time with God the Father or Jesus, so when these occasions come, it’s completely a “Mary and Martha factor”. You set every little thing down and also you LISTEN. You’re not working, you’re not doing different issues. They’re holy, good, and you’re listening to their each Phrase, blessed to be of their presence.
However once you ARE of their presence, it’s probably the most unbelievable expertise you’ll ever know, and probably the most joyous moments of your total life!!!
NOTHING, and I say NOTHING, on this world can examine to spending time with the Residing God.
In the present day, for Christmas, we’re celebrating JESUS delivery. We’re celebrating a time for one of many “personalities” of God (I understand that utilizing a time period like “personalities of God” is humanizing His existence, however that’s one of the simplest ways to clarify it in human phrases in order that we will perceive).
Jesus is your brother. He got here to earth to die on the cross so that you just and I could also be saved. He additionally took away the Outdated Testomony sacrificial system of sacrificing an animal (to which, I personally am VERY grateful for!) Are you able to think about having to purchase or get an animal and kill it to atone to your sins? Not me! I couldn’t do it (I cry at Bambi when the mother dies!), so I’m particularly grateful to Jesus for changing into the one-time lamb for us, in order that we by no means must sacrifice animals once more. Thanks, Jesus!
Jesus solutions to the Lord, so He’s 100% submissive to God, the Father, similar to we ought to be additionally. Jesus is a good PICTURE of us, but additionally of God. He serves as an important MODEL of how God IS and the way we ought to be. It’s the right mix between God and man…Jesus.
He lowered Himself to be like man, left Heaven (an incredible place) for US! As a result of God (and Jesus) care about us so immensely, He died for us. Christmas, in essence, is His birthday.
Since God was by no means born, He was all the time already in existence (Revelation 1:8; Psalm 90:2), there’s not a date we will rejoice, however with Jesus, fortunately, we will! So we will rejoice God (all three in a single) on at the present time, not JUST Jesus.
It’s an incredible time, right here on earth, the place we’re allowed to know extra about our Lord. As He walked the earth amongst His individuals, but by no means sinned. What an incredible deal with that might be!!!
Some individuals got here throughout to see Jesus, some for His miracles and curiosity and a few as a result of they beloved Him, accepted Him, and wished to observe Him. Both approach, anybody who’s within the presence of Jesus, whether or not in spirit now or again then in individual, it’s a REAL deal with and we rejoice HIM and all He’s completed (and does) for us on daily basis, together with the cross.
That is His birthday, a celebration of life, a celebration of Him, a celebration of His deity and His sacrifice to and for us. He’s superb, One to be treasured.
In the present day, let’s take a look at these 30 Bible verses for Christmas, as we mirror on all He’s completed for us in our life all through historical past!
30 Bible Verses for Christmas
1) Luke 2:10-11
“And the angel mentioned to them, “Worry not, for behold, I deliver you excellent news of nice pleasure that shall be for all of the individuals. For unto you is born at the present time within the metropolis of David a Savior, who’s Christ the Lord.”
2) Titus 3:4-7
“However when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not due to works completed by us in righteousness, however based on his personal mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly by means of Jesus Christ our Savior, in order that being justified by his grace we would develop into heirs based on the hope of everlasting life.”
3) Colossians 3:15
“And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which certainly you had been known as in a single physique. And be grateful.”
4) John 3:16
“For God so beloved the world, that he gave his solely Son, that whoever believes in him shouldn’t perish however have everlasting life.”
5) Proverbs 17:22
“A joyful coronary heart is nice medication, however a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
6) Psalm 65:11
“You crown the yr together with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.”
7) Romans 15:13
“Might the God of hope fill you with all pleasure and peace in believing, in order that by the ability of the Holy Spirit you could abound in hope.”
8) Luke 2:12-14
“And this shall be an indication for you: one can find a child wrapped in swaddling cloths and mendacity in a manger. And abruptly there was with the angel a large number of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God within the highest, and on earth peace amongst these with whom he’s happy!”
9) Matthew 1:18-23
“Now the delivery of Jesus Christ happened on this approach. When his mom Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, earlier than they got here collectively she was discovered to be with little one from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a simply man and unwilling to place her to disgrace, resolved to divorce her quietly. However as he thought of these items, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t worry to take Mary as your spouse, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She’s going to bear a son, and also you shall name his identify Jesus, for he’ll save his individuals from their sins.” All this happened to satisfy what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, they usually shall name his identify Immanuel” (which suggests, God with us).”
10) James 1:17
“Each good reward and each good reward is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no such thing as a variation or shadow as a result of change.”
11) 2 Corinthians 9:15
“Thanks be to God for his inexpressible reward!”
12) Isaiah 9:6
“For to us a toddler is born, to us a son is given; and the federal government shall be upon his shoulder, and his identify shall be known as Fantastic Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.”
13) John 1:9-10
“The true mild, which supplies mild to everybody, was coming into the world. He was on the planet, and the world was made by means of him, but the world didn’t know him.”
14) Luke 1:26-33
“Within the sixth month the angel Gabriel was despatched from God to a metropolis of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a person whose identify was Joseph, of the home of David. And the virgin’s identify was Mary. And he got here to her and mentioned, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” However she was vastly troubled on the saying, and tried to discern what kind of greeting this is likely to be. And the angel mentioned to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you’ve discovered favor with God. And behold, you’ll conceive in your womb and bear a son, and also you shall name his identify Jesus. He shall be nice and shall be known as the Son of the Most Excessive. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he’ll reign over the home of Jacob perpetually, and of his kingdom there shall be no finish.”
15) 1 Peter 1:8-9
“Although you haven’t seen him, you’re keen on him. Although you don’t now see him, you imagine in him and rejoice with pleasure that’s inexpressible and crammed with glory, acquiring the end result of your religion, the salvation of your souls.”
16) 1 John 4:9
“On this the love of God was made manifest amongst us, that God despatched his solely Son into the world, in order that we would reside by means of him.”
17) 1 Corinthians 1:3
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
18) John 1:1-7
“At first was the Phrase, and the Phrase was with God, and the Phrase was God. He was at first with God. All issues had been made by means of him, and with out him was not any factor made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the sunshine of males. The sunshine shines within the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a person despatched from God, whose identify was John. He got here as a witness, to bear witness in regards to the mild, that each one would possibly imagine by means of him.”
19) Luke 1:14-15
“And you should have pleasure and gladness, and lots of will rejoice at his delivery, for he shall be nice earlier than the Lord.”
20) Revelation 11:15
“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there have been loud voices in heaven, saying, “The dominion of the world has develop into the dominion of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign perpetually and ever.”
21) Luke 2:16-20
“And so they went with haste and located Mary and Joseph, and the child mendacity in a manger. And once they noticed it, they made identified the saying that had been informed them regarding this little one. And all who heard it puzzled at what the shepherds informed them. However Mary treasured up all these items, pondering them in her coronary heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they’d heard and seen, because it had been informed them.”
22) Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is dying, however the free reward of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
23) Matthew 2:10-11
“Once they noticed the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with nice pleasure. And going into the home, they noticed the kid with Mary his mom, they usually fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they provided him presents, gold and frankincense and myrrh.”
24) John 1:14
“And the Phrase grew to become flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we have now seen his glory, glory as of the one Son from the Father, filled with grace and fact.”
25) Galatians 4:4-5
“However when the fullness of time had come, God despatched forth his Son, born of girl, born below the legislation, to redeem those that had been below the legislation, in order that we would obtain adoption as sons.”
26) Luke 1:32-33
“He shall be nice and shall be known as the Son of the Most Excessive. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he’ll reign over the home of Jacob perpetually, and of his kingdom there shall be no finish.”
27) 1 Timothy 1:15-17
“The saying is reliable and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus got here into the world to avoid wasting sinners, of whom I’m the foremost. However I acquired mercy because of this, that in me, because the foremost, Jesus Christ would possibly show his good endurance for instance to those that had been to imagine in him for everlasting life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the one God, be honor and glory perpetually and ever. Amen.”
28) 1 John 5:11
“And that is the testimony, that God gave us everlasting life, and this life is in his Son.”
29) Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he’ll rejoice over you with gladness; he’ll quiet you by his love; he’ll exult over you with loud singing.”
30) Luke 19:10
“For the Son of Man got here to hunt and to avoid wasting the misplaced.”
