Why no Room in the Inn - 12

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Please make your donation to vision on today we send out all day weekend edition Jesus birth in a humble stable is described in just a few words of gospel, but it resides with meaningful everyone on the right of the Jeremiah considers its significance. Listen as that which is today's message why no room in the message that we can edition of Turning Point and I am David Jeremiah were celebrating Christmas and were asking some Christmas questions today. The question is this why was there no room in the in for the birth of the son of God. Here's some answers from the word of God.

I want to watch 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 all of culture Christmas is truly a magnificent occasion. One of my favorite writers, Frederick Buechner tells about a 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 dry them and all data snow fell gradually the sidewalks in the parked cars and the buildings were covered with a blanket of white in the streets became slushy. 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 in business is 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've 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 midday 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 the rage of the wheels of our high-speed technological society. 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 them when you go.

I've done this more times than I can remember, and you go out and assist such an 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 laid 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 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, for it 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, 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 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 someplace 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 about 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 being 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 that 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 close. 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 to analogy to come and be born into humanity and for the years he walked upon this earth to live in the boundaries of time.

Mike and the 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 he'd 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 under the neighbor him but they missed the whole point when 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 humanity. 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. But 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 confining 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 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 across the feeding of animals and his first cast the despised shepherds from the hillside. Think it was well think of his poverty, he came down here to be one of us and 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 the beginning of our message is 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 there was no room for him in the in room for him.

The eternal God, the wealthy one. The rich one came to be born in the could find no place. As you know, because of Herod's decree everyone should go to their own town for a census. The little town of Bethlehem was overrun with aunts and uncles and cousins.

Many times removed, the scene was a cross between a great family reunion and a business convention and even with the makeshift ends and hotels that have sprung up overnight.

There just wasn't enough room for everyone to have a bad late coming travelers coming to Bethlehem would surely see the no vacancy sign flashing often on someone suggested you think there were crowds in Bethlehem, just suppose they knew what we now know, what were the crowds of been like if they had known what we know that this one who was being born in their midst was the eternal son of God, you talk about no vacancies were into split screen images in our culture today. Put this up on the screen of your mind the Lord Jesus in heaven seated next to his father in royal regalia. A baby and the stinking feed trough born to a peasant woman surrounded by sheep and shepherds.

Only God could have written a story like that we would never in our wildest dreams have ever imagined. This magnificent story in this missed opportunity.

Why was there no room in the in. I wrote a little book for Christmas called why the Nativity and one of the questions in the book is why was there no room in the coming face to friends.

If Almighty God could create a unique star from a distant galaxy to invite wise men from the East if he could do that. I mean, couldn't God find just one vacant room for his son to be born with Excel for God build a new hotel. Whatever we don't know all the reasons but there's some things we can say the Lord of creation chose to enter this world quietly.

It was my heavenly design that he came into the world, not in the relative comfort of the end. But in some farmers CD shed a homeless birth was part and parcel of a homeless life when they many years later when Jesus was an adult. Someone had come to him and said, Lord, will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said in Luke 958 foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.

His words bear a touch of sadness the life of Jesus was a long road that began in the stable and led to the cross. And finally, of course, to an empty tomb. Accepting humanity's rejection, even in his birth. Jesus sent a message of love to the world we would not afford him as much as a cramped closet.

We had no room for him no time to stop and worship no interest in a peasant child. But that same child for whom we had no room came here to find room for us. He would one day reserve accommodations for each of us would put our faith in him. In the end that awaits us on the eternal shores of heaven and before leaving on the final jury Jesus. One day, said to his disciples, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also. Where is Jesus. Now he is in heaven making rooms for us who found no room for him. He is the magnificent Savior of Christmas and he asked us now who listen to the story and experience it every year. If we will find room for him. He too hard on the innkeeper. Plus don't be too judgmental on someone who was just in the course of life as he knew it carrying out the merchandising of his day one, we apply that to our own hearts. We have to ask ourselves this question do we have room for him. One of the favorite hymns of the young people of our church and of young people across the nation is homebound fount of every blessing.

It was written by a man named Robert Robinson who accepted Christ into his life at the age of 17. Under the preaching of the great evangelist by the name of George Whitfield Robinson was deeply in love with the Lord, and he entered the ministry to give his life to Christ and service, but Robinson was an honest man and he had to face up to the fact that while he had a great love for Jesus. He wasn't a very dependable follower of Jesus, he would go off into long periods of sin and rejection that he would feel guilty and he would be broken about it. He would come back to the Lord will know what that's about.

The way many of us have been on that journey at one time or another. Perhaps some of you in the jury right now.

You love the Lord, you know the Lord knows that you love him but somehow your life just hasn't measured up recently to all of the things you know are are part of your walk with Christ, for that's the way this man was.

Sometimes he felt nothing at all for the Lord even though he knew that in his heart he accepted Christ. One day he began to write out his thoughts about his life as you would write in a journal, and he ended up writing out the words to this him come out fount of every blessing and part of the words to the second stanza vet him go like this prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.

He was saying, Lord, I have this propensity to wander and get away from you.

All of us understand that we know that even though we love God and worship Christ that we get caught up sometimes in the cultural pressures of everyday and they pull us away from the intimacy that we desire with our Lord.

That's what he was going through. And he wrote those words down over a period of time. He really got away from God to the point where he came to conclusion that he had sinned away the day of grace in his life, and the God wouldn't want anything to do with him anymore because of the way he was living and he was so terrified by it all and it was so internalized in his spirit that he just decided to run have to stop for a moment and ask about the intelligence of anyone who thinks they can run away from God, but this is what he tried to do he just ran. He just filled his life with travel and he would just go from one place to the next early, having enough to sustain himself, but just wanting to stop long enough to think about what was wrong between him and God one day in his journeys, he found himself on a stagecoach, and there was only one other passenger on the stagecoach. It was a young lady and you course, if you've seen the old Western movies you know that in stagecoach you don't sit in rows facing the same way you sit together one person here one person her and and you have to sit looking at each other. Where you going for this young lady was so full of the joy of Jesus.

She just couldn't keep quiet about it was the last thing in the world that Robert Robinson wanted he did not want any of that. If you've ever been out of fellowship with God.

You know you want to go to church you want to be a Christian theology Bible say away from me, leave me alone while she could help it. She was so filled with the joy of the Lord, she just bubbled over and over. The trail he couldn't shut her up.

Back in those days they used to have their devotional times, not only in the Bible, but in hymn books and she had a book with her and she was reading this him and she said to him, Robert, that you look at this him that I found it's not so much to me and tell me what you think of it, and she turned the hymnbook around and gave it to him and it was the him he had written come out fount of every blessing prone to want, Lord, I feel it and she noticed the tears coming down his cheeks and she thought he had just gotten blessed by the him when in reality, Almighty God use the him to once again say to Robert Robinson.

You may have walked away from me, but I have never walked away from in the message of Christmas is that very message came from heaven to be one of us. He loves us, he forgives us and welcomes us back no matter where we've been or what journey we've been on away from him. If he is our Savior and of God is our father. His arms are eternally extending outwardly to us, telling us to come home and I happen to believe that Jesus is the hound of heaven, and he will send a woman to a stagecoach with the right him at the right moment to bring somebody back to him who he loves as the thought of the cross your mind that perhaps this message. This moment is just for you. If you feel it in your heart is probably true. We hope you enjoyed today's turning board weekend edition with Dr. David Jeremiah did this another Turning Point programs to get more information about this ministry. Simply download the free Turning Point. My goal at peace, not device or visit our website.

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