We know that Dec 25 isn’t really the day that Jesus was born, but we celebrate it then anyway.
And that’s ok.
Yet there are many people who celebrate Christmas without any knowledge of the significance of Jesus. They just love the holidays, the gift giving, and the parties.
In fact, for many, Santa Clause or St Nicholas is the one they celebrate – with little or no acknowledgement of Jesus.
But that’s not the way we want it. We want to celebrate Jesus, the Savior of the world as the one and only reason for celebrating.
So, we are going to be looking at the real meaning of Christmas and why it’s truly a significant time.
First, Why do we need Jesus?
This goes back to the very first chapters of the Bible when we see the fall of man.
When God created man, He placed him in a beautiful garden and He breathed into him His very breath. Man’s spirit was alive and he could walk and talk with God. There was no reason to be ashamed or to hide. He was pure – without anything to separate him from God.
However, there was a choice given to him. Adam was given free will.
There were two special trees standing before Adam and Eve in the garden. One of them was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the second was the Tree of Life.
The two were to eat freely of everything they could find, except for one tree. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God told them that if they ate of that tree, they would die.
We know the story. They were tempted by Satan, and they disobeyed God. They chose to eat from the forbidden tree.
Many people wonder why that was so significant. They just made a mistake, right?
Well, actually it was much more than that. The two trees were very significant.
One meant they would trust in God and His spirit within them. The Life of God Himself flowing through them. He would flood their minds with His thoughts, His love, and the goodness that only He could bring to their lives.
God had some great plans for them.
However, Adam and Eve chose the wrong tree. It’s the I-can-do-it-on-my-own tree. The tree of Pride. The I-don’t-need-God-to-live-my-life tree.
Satan tempted mankind with the very same thing which had him thrown out of heaven. Pride. And they bought the lie. They disobeyed God and they lost their special place with Him. Their spirit within man died to God. It became dormant – and no longer could hear from Him or be led by Him.
Immediately they wanted to hide from God, because they knew that they weren’t connected anymore. And they soon realized that they weren’t prepared to lead good lives apart from God’s guidance. Yet it was too late.
God immediately began to speak prophecy about the future of the world.
He spoke to Satan that there would be “enmity between him and woman. Her offspring would crush his head and he would bruise her offspring’s heel.”
That prophecy – right at the beginning – was about Jesus. He was going to crush the head of Satan and Satan was going to bruise His heel. (Send Him to the cross).
So that was eventually what happened. Yet it wasn’t what Satan expected. When he managed to send Jesus to the cross, Jesus actually paid the price for all of mankind so that we could possibly be filled again with God’s Spirit.
Now we can be Born Again and our spirits can come back to life. No longer will our spirits be dormant, but alive – with God’s breath flowing through us.
During the next lesson we are going to show how God, through many signs, wonders, prophecies and instructions, taught mankind that His Special One, Jesus, would come and deliver us from the hand of Satan.
We will also look at the Christmas story itself and see the lessons our Father wants us to see.
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