We who believe

With Christmas all the buzz these days I can't help, but think of the lost. You know half the population who will celebrate Christmas. What does it mean to them? I find it so interesting that people who blatantly deny Christ celebrate Christmas. What gives ??? What's the point for them? Could it be that "we who believe" have bought into the commercialism so much that we aren't doing a good job of sharing the true meaning of Christmas with non-believers ? Are we all just going through the motions? Non believers put up Christmas trees and decorations. They go to Christmas plays, Christmas parties and even sing Christmas songs. They Christmas shop and give Christmas gifts. What's the deal? What is Christmas really about anyway? What does Christmas mean to you?

Christ-mas is Christ's birthday, PERIOD...... It is the day our Lord and Savior was born. Jesus Christ came down from heaven as a babe to this earth to show us how to live. To teach us, to deliver us, to love us and ultimately to die for our sins (MINE and YOURS). Yes, we are all sinners. He was sinless. He took the shame of all I have done and will do so I can be made holy, so I can one day enter into the presence of Almighty God. So I can live FOREVER in heaven. People He is REAL. Hell is real. Heaven is real. He is there right now preparing a place for me and all who believe.

Luke 2:10-12 "Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

The Bible tells us in John 3:16 -17 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him."

Romans 5:8-9 "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him."

Matthew 13:41-42 "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth." This is a biblical picture of hell.

John 14: 1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 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. "

We who believe need to start telling others what we believe. We need to let them know WHY we celebrate Christmas and what it really means. What does it mean to you?