Growing Kids in Grace: A Son is Given

1. Lesson:

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given
Why do we celebrate Christmas? To remember God coming down to earth as a little baby.
When man chose not to rely on God but to go their own way, they were separated from God by sin. Nothing they did could bring them back to God. We were lost. Hopeless. Helpless.
But God had a solution — Thousands of years ago, God promised that He will send a very special Saviour to save us. He would send Himself.
This Saviour was special. He would be:

God could have come as a tall, strong captain on a big horse. He could have come in a super fast space ship. He could have zoomed in like Superman.
But instead He chose to come as little helpless baby, a child. He was born and put in a smelly manger.
Man was the one who sinned. So man had to pay the price for the sin. So God had to be a man to pay the price for our sin.
He came down as a baby, lived a perfect life, and died on the cross to pay our sin for us.

God could have come as a tall, strong captain on a big horse. He could have come in a super fast space ship. He could have zoomed in like Superman.
God didn’t just send an angel, or a very good man to save us.
He sent us His very best — His Son.
Why would He give His very best for a people who hated Him and didn’t care about Him? Because of His great love.
Jesus Himself tells us: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Even though we made the decision to go our own way and were separated from God, God gave us His Son to die on the cross, pay for our sin and open the way back to Him.
All of us who trust in Jesus will not perish (die) but have eternal life — we can be with God forever.
This Christmas, let’s thank God for the precious gift of His Son, Jesus, who came as Child so that we all can call God “Father” and be with Him forever!
If anyone would like to receive this gift of Jesus and trust in Him, please pray together with me:

Lord Jesus, thank you for coming to earth 2,000 years ago as a little baby, a little child. You lived a perfect life. You died in my place. Because of You, I can be a son and daughter of God and be with Him forever. I receive Your love and your gift of eternal life. In Your name I pray, Amen!

Memory verse: John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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