By Pastor Albert Kang
Imagine this is your birthday party and you are not invited. In your place, they invite an old fat man who is not even real. That is exactly what happens in every Christmas. Hardly anyone knows the TRUE meaning of Christmas anymore. Some shops just placed signs that say, “Season’s Greetings!”
Many people from all walks of life celebrate Christmas without the birthday boy – Jesus Christ. They believe that Christmas is all about partying, fun, toys and Santa Claus. To the children, Christmas is about presents under the Christmas tree and inside stockings.
They are encouraged to write to Santa Claus instead of praying to the real God. Songs of jingle bells, snowmen and rein-deers fill the air. Everybody is spending lots of money, celebrating, having fun, eating, drinking and getting drunk.
Christmas means so much more than all these. For the followers of Christ, Christmas depicts the true love of God. We are all sinners infested with a terrible disease known as sins. This means that without help from God, we will naturally die and go to hell.
God does not want to send us to hell because He did not put that disease of sins there in our hearts. He is our Father and He wants us all to go to heaven. That is the reason why He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to bring a cure to our disease.
Jesus, who is pure and without sins, came to give us a ‘blood transfusion’ so that we will not continue under the curse of death. He takes our ‘diseased blood’ and in return, gives us His ‘pure blood’. He takes our ‘place of death’ so that we can have His ‘place of life’.
For example, in Africa, a whole family may be infected with HIV virus. If left to themselves, one by one, the family members will die horrible deaths. Let’s say, a brother of the family members, has found out where to get the medicine that can cure everybody in the family. Don’t you think he will want to share the good news with every member of his family?
That is the reason why we want to tell everyone about the Good News of Jesus. We do not want our good friends and loved ones to die in their sins. We want them to know that Jesus is the Cure!
Two thousand years ago, Jesus came as a little child. After he lived and told people about the way to heaven, he was crucified on the Cross. Satan thought that he had destroyed the ‘Cure’. However, death could not hold Jesus and on the third day, He became alive again.
Because of His death and resurrection, you and I do not need to die. All we need to do is to confess and repent of our sins, accept the new life that Jesus has given.
Confessing is almost similar to the African HIV victims acknowledging that they have the dreadful disease and need help. Repenting is similar to one, after having received the cure, would make every effort to avoid being contaminated by HIV virus again.
Today, you can receive the Cure too. Just acknowledge that you have the sin disease and then ask Jesus to cure you by giving you His forgiveness.
Once you do that, then this Christmas will become even more meaningful to you. Why? Because it is the birthday celebration of the One who saves your life and gives you hope of everlasting life.
Imagine this is your birthday party and you are not invited. In your place, they invite an old fat man who is not even real. That is exactly what happens in every Christmas. Hardly anyone knows the TRUE meaning of Christmas anymore. Some shops just placed signs that say, “Season’s Greetings!”
Many people from all walks of life celebrate Christmas without the birthday boy – Jesus Christ. They believe that Christmas is all about partying, fun, toys and Santa Claus. To the children, Christmas is about presents under the Christmas tree and inside stockings.
They are encouraged to write to Santa Claus instead of praying to the real God. Songs of jingle bells, snowmen and rein-deers fill the air. Everybody is spending lots of money, celebrating, having fun, eating, drinking and getting drunk.
Christmas means so much more than all these. For the followers of Christ, Christmas depicts the true love of God. We are all sinners infested with a terrible disease known as sins. This means that without help from God, we will naturally die and go to hell.
God does not want to send us to hell because He did not put that disease of sins there in our hearts. He is our Father and He wants us all to go to heaven. That is the reason why He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to bring a cure to our disease.
Jesus, who is pure and without sins, came to give us a ‘blood transfusion’ so that we will not continue under the curse of death. He takes our ‘diseased blood’ and in return, gives us His ‘pure blood’. He takes our ‘place of death’ so that we can have His ‘place of life’.
For example, in Africa, a whole family may be infected with HIV virus. If left to themselves, one by one, the family members will die horrible deaths. Let’s say, a brother of the family members, has found out where to get the medicine that can cure everybody in the family. Don’t you think he will want to share the good news with every member of his family?
That is the reason why we want to tell everyone about the Good News of Jesus. We do not want our good friends and loved ones to die in their sins. We want them to know that Jesus is the Cure!
Two thousand years ago, Jesus came as a little child. After he lived and told people about the way to heaven, he was crucified on the Cross. Satan thought that he had destroyed the ‘Cure’. However, death could not hold Jesus and on the third day, He became alive again.
Because of His death and resurrection, you and I do not need to die. All we need to do is to confess and repent of our sins, accept the new life that Jesus has given.
Confessing is almost similar to the African HIV victims acknowledging that they have the dreadful disease and need help. Repenting is similar to one, after having received the cure, would make every effort to avoid being contaminated by HIV virus again.
Today, you can receive the Cure too. Just acknowledge that you have the sin disease and then ask Jesus to cure you by giving you His forgiveness.
Once you do that, then this Christmas will become even more meaningful to you. Why? Because it is the birthday celebration of the One who saves your life and gives you hope of everlasting life.
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