God with us is Fellowship
Matthew 1:18-25
As we approach Christmas, many aspects of fellowship are inextricably tied to this celebration of Jesus.
Christmas is a rescue mission to save sinners from a burning hell but I also see it is the initiation of bringing us into fellowship with God
The sin of Adam separated us from God, Isa 59:2, “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear.”
Gen. 3:8, indicates God intentionally walked in the Garden of Eden for fellowship with Adam and Eve after the original sin, Adam and Eve were put out of the Garden of Eden where God would meet with them.
Well, Christmas is God fixing what Adam messed up.
We needed heaven to come down to earth, so we could go up to heaven.
Christmas is not only God coming to save us but also to be with us.
Isa. 7:14, “Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”
God with us is fellowship on the highest level, not only is He with us, He is in us, and He is for us.
I didn’t understand this as a little boy, I just wanted my toys with me, and little did I know that through Christ first advent I can have Christ with me forever.
The thing that is wonderful and powerful is how God arranged our fellowship with Him forever.
There is a hymn that goes like this, there are times I want to be all alone just my Savior and me.
Hymnologist says, “I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses and the voice, I hear falling my ear, the Son of God discloses, and he walks with me and he talks with me and tells me I am his own, and the joy that we share as we tarry there none other has ever known.”
The thing that should warm our hearts during this season and every season is God with us, the greatest fellowship known to man
Christmas is the good news of a visitor coming much farther than the North Pole; this visitor doesn’t need flying reindeer with a shiny red nose
That is why Jesus said to the saved “I will never leave you or forsake you,” He is always with us.
Because of God’s divine purpose and plan, we can sing the hymn, “What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arm, what a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arm, leaning on the everlasting arm, safe and secure from all alarms."
God with us is better than anyone being with us.
Fellowship is better because He is sweeter than the honeycomb
God with us is why Paul could say, if God be for us who can be against us!
Greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world!
Christmas is God’s divine plan to bring us into fellowship with the Savior!
Christmas is a rescue mission to save sinners from a burning hell but I also see it is the initiation of bringing us into fellowship with God
The sin of Adam separated us from God, Isa 59:2, “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear.”
Gen. 3:8, indicates God intentionally walked in the Garden of Eden for fellowship with Adam and Eve after the original sin, Adam and Eve were put out of the Garden of Eden where God would meet with them.
Well, Christmas is God fixing what Adam messed up.
We needed heaven to come down to earth, so we could go up to heaven.
Christmas is not only God coming to save us but also to be with us.
Isa. 7:14, “Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”
God with us is fellowship on the highest level, not only is He with us, He is in us, and He is for us.
I didn’t understand this as a little boy, I just wanted my toys with me, and little did I know that through Christ first advent I can have Christ with me forever.
The thing that is wonderful and powerful is how God arranged our fellowship with Him forever.
- God uses the humble and holy to come to us- vs. 18-21
- God uses the prophets to inform the saints of old He is coming to us- vs. 23
- God’s divine purpose and plan for humanity- vs. 21, 23
There is a hymn that goes like this, there are times I want to be all alone just my Savior and me.
Hymnologist says, “I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses and the voice, I hear falling my ear, the Son of God discloses, and he walks with me and he talks with me and tells me I am his own, and the joy that we share as we tarry there none other has ever known.”
The thing that should warm our hearts during this season and every season is God with us, the greatest fellowship known to man
- God uses the humble and holy to come to us- vs. 18-21
“Now the birth of Jesus was on this wise when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.”
- God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things
- Mary and Joseph are the right choices for this ministry to the world.
- They are nobody in the eyes of the world, but they are somebody in the eyes of the Lord.
- They are not perfect, but they meet the qualifications to be used of God.
- They are humble and set apart for God’s use only
Christmas is the good news of a visitor coming much farther than the North Pole; this visitor doesn’t need flying reindeer with a shiny red nose
- God uses the prophets to inform the saints of old, He is coming to us- vs. 23
“Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.”
- Isaiah, the prophet of God, wrote concerning the suffering of Israel that the Messiah was coming to rescue Israel from her captives.
- Isaiah 40:4-5, “Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain: and glory of the LORD shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”
- There is nobody like our God, nobody does what he does, nobody does it like He does it.
- He sends a King like no other king has come, instead of riding upon a white horse with an army following.
- He sends himself as a baby born in a stable
- A young girl shall bring forth a baby who has never been with a man.
- It usually takes two human cells, from a male and female to make a baby, but the miracle of Christmas is God only used the female cell.
- God’s divine purpose and plan for humanity- vs. 21, 23
“And she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shall call his name n Jesus for he shall save his people from their sin.”
- God’s divine purpose is in his first advent, which we call Christmas the purpose is in His name JESUS
- Jesus in the Heb. Yehoshua means Jehovah Saves.
- Jesus in the Greek Inqous (lesous) meaning Savior
- Christmas celebration is a reminder that Jesus came to save the word from a burning hell, just because God loves us
- God’s divine plan after salvation is fellowship with the Savior
- Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.
That is why Jesus said to the saved “I will never leave you or forsake you,” He is always with us.
Because of God’s divine purpose and plan, we can sing the hymn, “What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arm, what a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arm, leaning on the everlasting arm, safe and secure from all alarms."
God with us is better than anyone being with us.
Fellowship is better because He is sweeter than the honeycomb
God with us is why Paul could say, if God be for us who can be against us!
Greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world!
Christmas is God’s divine plan to bring us into fellowship with the Savior!
