Why no Room in the Inn - Part 1

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Today we are going to talk about one of the questions of Christmas.

That is the birth of Jesus in the humble stable in Bethlehem. We have entitled this message why there was no room in the just imagine for a moment, a king or queen who decided to become a common man for a period of time and that they walked in work and talk with you. You would be awestruck. That is what Christ did for us.

He invaded humanity for a time so that someday we can see him in all its glory.

And it all began in the stable in the little town of Bethlehem. Well it's time for us to get started with this question why no room in the in. I want to wrap my thoughts today around one very simple verse of Scripture found in the second chapter of Luke Luke chapter 2 verse seven Luke chapter 2 verse seven let's read together and she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the something very credible, is going to happen, happen right here, right here among us all. Every store in America is going to close for 24 hours. Only emergency workers will be at work.

Families with small children will get up earlier than any other day of the entire year the streets and freeways will be empty over $233 billion worth of gifts will be exchanged among the people of America and all of this is explained by something that happened 2000 years ago in an obscure village described in the Bible as little among the thousands of Judah. Whatever you may think about Christmas you have to admit that this is an amazing story, even people who don't claim to believe in God will celebrate Christmas as described in Luke chapter 2, they will give gifts to one another without even realizing that in the very doing of that they are honoring the Christ, who many of them claim, not even to believe that there's really nothing like it in all of history and in all of culture Christmas is truly a magnificent occasion before our family moved here back in 1981 Smitty you know I started and pastor the church in Fort Wayne, Indiana 412 years now to say that Fort Wayne Indiana is in the snow belt is an understatement of all understatements. It was almost impossible for us to go through the winter without canceling at least one Sunday because of the snow one particular winter.

I shall never forget. We didn't just have snow.

We had an absolute blizzard.

It moved into the Fort Wayne area as the weekend was approaching and became quite evident that there would not be any church services anywhere in the whole Fort Wayne, Indiana area wheat at that time were doing television from our church live. We work. Take delay. It was carried by the ABC affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana live from the church and we had a meeting over the phone about how we were going to have a live television service when there would be any congregation.

The folks to get a picture of this out in front of our church was a major highway.

It was covered with snow. They couldn't plow it and there was a little someone had gone through and they'd shovel a little section about the speed where you could pull a sled and people were going to the grocery store, putting food on their sled and pulling the back to the home that was the way, what's on the forget it. We had a singer by the name of star that was her name.

She sang for us a lot. We picture up on a snowmobile and brought her to the church. We picked up all of our cameramen on snowmobiles and brought them to the church. I stayed up all night preparing a sermon on the subject of snow and I preached a sermon that Sunday on snow we had the largest television audience that they'd ever had in Fort Wayne on a Sunday and it wasn't because we were so great they couldn't do anything else.

They had to watch a source. I've often thought that's the only bandage I can think of being in the snow belt with something else happened that day and it is been repeated. I'm sure a number of times in other places a kind of quiet settled over the city of Fort Wayne like I have never known before.

Nobody could go anywhere. Everybody was locked in with their families. The fireplaces you could see from looking at you when you were all going. It was a moment of quietness like none we had ever experienced. One of my favorite writers, Frederick Mayor tells about a similar situation that happened one time in New York in 1947. He said there was a snowstorm that year that seemed no different than any other snowstorm. The flakes floating gently down without any wind to drive them in all data snow fell gradually the sidewalks in the parked cars and the buildings were covered with a blanket of white and the streets became slushy in the shopkeepers were out with their shovels trying to clear a path for folks to walk to the doorway and the snow just kept on falling and the plows couldn't keep ahead of it, and consequently the traffic nearly came to a standstill, and businesses closed and people did their best to get home before nightfall.

By the next morning, bustling New York was a totally different city.

We were in New York. I tried to imagine what this would have been like seeing all of the incredible commerce and traffic that goes on there during the season of the year continues. He says abandoned cars were buried. People just got out of them walk away from them left in the street. Nothing on wheels could move about mid day. Skiers were gliding down Park Avenue and the most striking transformation of all he said was the absolute incredible silence.

The only sounds were muffled voices and ringing church bells and people listen because they couldn't help themselves are room today. He wrote rarely listens anymore unless there's a crisis of significant magnitude that thrust a wrench in the wheels of our high-speed technological society that Buechner said on that day in New York at least, the world stopped for a moment to listen and there is an annual illustration of the silence that we all experience.

Have you ever gotten a toy for your children or grandchildren that needed batteries in the batteries didn't come with the toy. It's the only time of year when we all salute 711 because it's the only place you can find, and when you go it I've done this more times than I can remember, and you go out and assist such and everything because nobody is on the street when Christmas comes even without any biblical information. The whole world stops for a moment to listen and there is no explanation for it except for the fact that event happened 2000 years ago, from which we have still not been able to recover. People asked me why we fight for Christmas and what difference does it make if they would just stop and observe.

It would realize this is a magnificent occasion. I am a little boy at heart when it comes to this time of year and I hope it never changes the excitement and the mystery of the season begins to build up the need to the point where yeah I'm the one who said okay we can have ice-skating rink in front of our church Christmas brings all of that out of us come from. It goes all the way back to that little verse of Scripture that we read at the beginning of today's message and Mary brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laying him in a manger.

If you think what you to experience as a magnificent occasion friends. Let me tell you it doesn't even come close to the magnificent occasion that started all of this for that magnificent occasion brought together two worlds that had never intersected before on that night when Mary brought forth her firstborn child, who was the son of God for the very first time ever deity invaded humanity. Colossians tells us the story like this. It says that Christ is the image of the invisible God. Please the father that in Christ all the fullness of God should dwell. Colossians 2964 in him in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

Never before in all of the annals of history and God ever sold visited me in that he would deign to come and be born into a human/and become one of us deity literally came to me humanity.

He never lost his deity but he was God in the flesh, and that night when Jesus was born, started the celebration that were all experiencing right now. When God loved us so much said his only son to be one of us and God became a man, and he walked around and I've said it. Over the years Jesus Christ is nothing less than God walking around in the body.

He came to be one of us in Christ Jesus in the baby dwells the fullness of the Godhead in the body. This was the moment when God became a man.

Suppose it hadn't happened.

Suppose we lived in the generation prior to its happening.

And suppose that we could get some advance notice that on some particular day in some particular place. Almighty God was going to condescend from heaven and become a man walk among us so that we could understand who God is, in human terms. We would celebrate his coming in the biggest party of all time. We would probably gather in a place like New York or Los Angeles or Paris or some place around the world. It is notable and a huge celebration would be prepared because God was coming to be one of us.

God was leaving heaven to come and be one of us and we would celebrate that event. What I'm here to tell you, God has come.

The parties already started God has become a man on that day when Mary brought forth her firstborn son deity invaded humanity something else happened on that night when Mary brought forth her firstborn son eternity invaded time limit set it up for you.

We understand life in terms of days and minutes and hours and months and years. God, in his experience knows nothing of that God does not live in time. God created time. God lives outside of time and God and in his perspective, everything is in the present.

Everything is in the now. It is only humans who are linear, we see things looking back and looking forward. God does not see that God sees everything in the eternal present God who is eternal on that particular day determined for his eternal be to be confined for a few years in time some amazing thought eternity becoming time God who eternally existed with the father chose for a few years to come down and be confined in the boundaries of time pressure us every day of our lives. We know that pressure perhaps more during this season than any other time of the year were mindful of schedules and times and events and parties and deadlines and when the stores finally closed for the last time. It's an eternal scar in the minds of men all over the country. But God knew nothing that God lived above time God lived beyond time.

But on that night God was willing as the eternal son of God without giving up easy tonality to come and be born into humanity and for the years he walked upon this earth to live in the boundaries of time, like a prophet who gave us the prophecy concerning the birthplace of Jesus and Micah 52 says it this way. Yet out of Bethlehem shall come forth to me, the one who is to be the ruler in Israel, watch this, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Please hear me when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. He did not begin always been on one occasion as an adult, Jesus spoke to some leaders and he said an astounding thing he said before Abraham was, I am. And they were they were confounded by that. How could he, Jesus, in his 30s been Abraham but they missed the whole point. What Jesus was saying was that before he was born in Bethlehem eternally existed. Jesus did not come to begin his existence in Bethlehem he came to begin his existence in vanity, having had existed for all eternity. There never has been a time when Jesus did not exist nor will there ever be a time when he ceases to exist.

He is the eternal son of God would listen to me, the eternal son of God determined for our benefit for your benefit for all of our benefit to come down here in his eternal being, and confine his activities to the days and months and hours and years of time as we know it.

What a magnificent occasion when deity invaded humanity and eternity invaded time and then thirdly, not only did deity invaded humanity and eternity invaded time but royalty invaded poverty.

How rich is God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills wealth in every mine.

How much richer can you be created at all. He owns it all. We may think we have a piece of the action but were just stewards for short period of time. The ultimate owner of everything, and all the universe is Almighty God.

If you believe you own some of it.

Somehow we need to connect in the next hundred and 50 years and see how you doing, because we only have it for short period of time and then he goes back to the owner or back to the next steward. God owns it all owns everything in heaven is the place that is significant of his wealth and the Bible says to us in second Corinthians chapter 8 in verse nine that, because of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich he became poor for our sakes, that we through his poverty might become rich.

Wrap your mind around that verse for a moment that not only did deity invaded humanity and eternity invaded time by royalty invaded poverty on that day, the God who had lived in the unrestricted confines of heaven adorned in the royal robes of deity came to be born is one of us in a stable in a manger. He became poor since the Scripture that through his poverty. One day we might be rich. The unmeasured word of creation was coming to talk with shepherds and fishermen on Galilean hillsides and shores in the lake that once had blinded a wandering people in the wilderness was reduced to that little flicker of life in the rest of the baby.

Heaven's throne was about to be removed and turned into a wooden manger and the one who sat upon the throne would shortly no hunger and cold and will assume the life of a servant.

God was about to be born. Mary Ann because he was willing to humble himself and become a man because he was willing to become a man, even to die because through his death we have life. He was once in the throne room of heaven surrounded by the accouterments of wealth came to be born to a peasant woman so poor were Joseph and Mary, that when they went to the temple to offer their sacrifice. They had to bring a turtledove which was the least sacrifice.

Anyone could bring to worship and in his birth he found was his bed trough for the feeding of animals and his first cast the despised shepherds from the hillside. Think it was well configured his poverty, he came down here to be one of us and he didn't start in the middle class nor in the upper class started at the lowest echelon of human experience, so that no one would ever feel that they were too insignificant to come and receive him as their Savior and then this magnificent occasion in this little verse of Scripture we read at the beginning of our message to set off against the most amazing thought in the whole story the eternal one who invaded time deity who invaded humanity royalty who invaded poverty came to be born in the Scripture says it was no room for him in the in and of course the personal application of that which we will talk about again.

Tomorrow is why we marveled that there was no room in the infra Jesus we sort of forget the fact that sometimes we don't have any room for him in our lives either. Even as Christians if were not careful we can go through the whole season of Christmas and Jesus is kind of on the outside looking in, were trying to do with these lessons during the month of December to make sure that we celebrate the person whose birthday is on the calendar, we celebrate the birthday of Jesus will finish up our discussion of why no room and me in tomorrow on the Friday edition of Turning Point and I hope you'll join us that was he right here tomorrow for more information on Dr. Jeremiah's commissaries like the nativity, please visit our website with rules I find to revise the help you stay connected monthly magazine Turning Points and L daily email devotional sign up today@davidjeremiah.org/ready that David Jeremiah thought/right when you do ask for a copy of David 365 day devotional for 2021. It's called strength benefit of biblical truth for the yearly and the gift of EMS to keep this birthright through the holiday season. Visit the home for Christmas candlelight Turning Point.tv principles Christmas music videos, messages, and the harmful Christmas general and bending. TV Gary.

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