The Great Christmas Mystery!
Scripture (1Tim.3:16)
Introduction, We have lived down to a time when every year Christmas creates a great Controversy! Over the the things surrounding it, Manger scenes, the words
Merry Christmas! Christmas trees! It certainly reveals the hatred toward Him!
And how the world has not changed it attitude about Christ! But it is true there
Is Mystery concerning Christmas! Things we cannot explain, only believe!

(1) THERE IS THE MYSTERY OF HIS BIRTH:
(Isa.7: 14) Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a Son and shall call his name Immanuel.(1Tim.3:16)
God was manifested in the flesh. Now this is indeed a Mystery!!
(a) It was a Mystery Not Impossible (Mt.19:26) with God all things
(b) It was a Mystery Necessary, (Rom.5:12) wherefore by one man
(c) It was a Mystery Not Explainable, (1Tim.3:16) Great is the mystery


(2) THERE IS THE MYSTERY OF HIS DEATH:
(Mt.2:21) And she shall bring forth a Son,and thou shalt call his name Jesus:
for he shall save his people from their sins.(1Tim.3:16)Justified in the spirit.
Now the purpose of this baby being born was not that we might celebrate his
birth and have Christmas! But the purpose of His birth was that he might die!
And that he might die For the sins of the world! The Word Vicarious means-for
another, in their Place!
(a) It is a Mystery how he could be wounded for all, (Isa.53:5) but he was
(b) It is a Mystery how he could made to be sin for all, (2Cor.5:21)He made
(c) It is a Mystery how he could taste death for all, (Heb.2:9) That he by the
Grace of God should taste death for every man.

(3) THERE IS THE MYSTERY HIS RESURRECTION:
(Lk.2:34)This child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel.
(1Tim.3: 16) received up into glory. Though this child was born to die, He
Died to rise again! After three days He arose this is a great Mystery!
(a) But it is a Mystery must be believed, (Rom.10: 9) If we believed
(b) But it is a Mystery which without there is no hope, (1Cor.15:19) if
In this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men
(c . But is was a Mystery believed by disciples, (1Cor.15:6) after he was

(4) THERE IS THE MYSTERY OF HIS SALVATION:
(Lk.2;11) For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which
Is Christ the Lord.(1Tim.3:16)believed on in the world. Not only was His
Birth a mystery, but so is the Child of God, You cannot explain it!
(a) Jesus told this to Nicodemus, (Jn.3:8) the wind bloweth where it
(b) Peter wrote this, (1Pet.1:8) Whom having not seen ye love:
(c) Many Lives prove this, (1Tim.1:13) who was before a blasphemer

Rick S.Proffitt 12-15-2005

Rick Proffit