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Intro:

We can never exhaust our worship of Jesus! .....Put it another way....

You will never need to return the Christmas gift God gave to us (Jesus)....

Krystle and I went down memory lane of our childhood Christmases..... and we remembered some of the gifts we received.... some we played with a ton.... some we never could remember...... Maybe that is you too this morning if you were to think back on Christmases past.....

Rageddy Ann Dolls, Pogo Sticks, Electric Train sets, Radio Flyer Wagon, Dick Tracy Detective Kits , Slinky, Magic 8 ball, Matchbox Cars, Barbies, Etch a Sketches, Easy Bake Oven, Tonka, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Video Game Systems - Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Playstation.....etc., Tickle Me Elmo

These toys got our time, attention, and our affection..... but they all were temporary....

All of them will end up fading away and our memory of them will fade as they themselves will one day end up in the trash....BUT

Jesus will always deserve our time, attention and affection....

He is worth all of our worship and we will never run out of ways and reasons to worship HIM!

Year after year, we come to Christmas and we remember Jesus being born.... and year after year we read the same passages, remember the same points.....WHY?

We will never be able to exhaust our worship of HIM!

Because of who he is..... EVERY SUNDAY, WE WORSHIP HIM BECAUSE WE CANNOT REACH A LIMIT OF TOO MUCH!

Jesus in his very nature is worthy our praise!

In the Christmas narratives we are given 5 names we are going to look at this morning that we could call Jesus because in HIS very nature.... it is who HE is!

1. Son of God

2. Christ - Messiah

3. Lord

4. Jesus

Why go over these names given to us from the Christmas story?

Because in these names reveal a glimpse of Jesus to us.... a reason to worship Him!

The incomprehensible God has been made knowable....

He has come to dwell among us.... and there is no exhausting the depth of who he is, yet there is an unending journey of worship of Jesus.

You will never run out of reasons to worship Jesus..... God gave these names to Jesus to describe him, but they are also to us a gift.

A gift that results in our worship to Jesus!

1. Holy, Son of God

Jesus is God with us we talked about Emmanuel on Christmas EVE (go and watch the Christmas Eve service online.... but Son of God means he is truly God himself!

Hebrews 1:1–3 (ESV)

3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.

Even the Demons believed this to be true of Jesus....

Either Jesus is a liar, lunactic or he is God incarnate!

- Made famous to most of us by C.S. Lewis.... but

Rabbi” John Duncan (1796-1870) formulated what he called a “trilemma.”

In Colloquia Peripatetica (p.

109) we see Duncan’s argument from 1859-1860, with my numbering added:

Christ either [1] deceived mankind by conscious fraud, or [2] He was Himself deluded and self-deceived, or [3] He was Divine.

There is no getting out of this trilemma.

It is inexorable.

Matthew 26:63-4

The Jews decided that Jesus must be crucified for his statement of himself.....

We worship Jesus because it is true!

Why does this name result in our worship?......

All that Jesus accomplished was done because he was fully God and fully man!

When we think of our humanity....Christ has experienced it sinless.

When we think about his diety....Christ’s sacrifice is seen in its magnitude of Grace and Love!

2. Christ

This is the greek word for Messiah - The Annointed One - The Chosen One...... for God’s saving purpose!.....

We expect people, politics, or possessions to be the thing that fixes our lives.... but all of those will not do it!

(Even though President Trump thought he was the Chosen One to fix America..... We remain the same America.... he was not this annointed.....

Only Jesus can be this Christ.... be this Messiah that the Bible alluded too!

Whether you think Jesus fulfilled over 500 prophecies or 44 or 11.....

The OT is clear that this messiah would come....

Be born in Bethlehem to a virgin

Line of abraham, isaac, and jacob, line of david,

Suffer and Die

Bring salvation

The WHOLE BIBLE IS POINTING TOWARDS JESUS BEING THE CHRIST!

From Genesis 3 where the serpents head will be crushed to the Lamb of God in the New Heavens and New Earth!

Because of the glories of David’s reign, David became the prototype of the ideal ruler, and the prophets looked forward to the day when a king like David but even better would rule over God’s people once more (Jer.

23:5; 33:14–15; Zech.

12:8).

- Ligonier his rule would establish and maintain permanent peace between God and the king’s loyal subjects.

Jesus was so much more than the king on the throne of David.....He was the anointed savior of the people… ALL People!

Messiah!

Since Gen 3 we were a people that needed saving.....Every time we read the Bible it should elicit excitement that a Savior is coming, or has come or will come again!

3. Lord

This is the phrase that the athlete champions after the great personal accomplishments.... made real popular in the 1980s the Lordship Salvation - Jesus is Your Savior and Your Lord

He is a Ruler and authoritative King of your life not just a get out of hell ticket!.....

The Holy Spirit helps us confess this truth and helps us obey Jesus as Lord! 1 Corinthians 12:3 (ESV)

Obey Jesus as Lord......

Authority OVER our entire lives....

Owned by Jesus..... His children of His Kingdom!

He is Christ, the LORD!

4. Jesus

Jesus name means the Lord is Salvation.

He is our deliverer.... our savior!

Matthew 1:21

21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Every sin you commit magnifies the Saving power of Jesus!.... Every Sin makes your Salvation better and better!

Every Day your worship of Jesus should increase!

A never ending supply of forgiveness.... a never ending supply of worship to Jesus!

The hymn “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds”.... verse 1 and verse 4

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believers ear!

It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.

Jesus, my Shepherd, Brother, Friend, My Prophet, Priest and King.

My Lord, My life, My way, My End.... Accept the praise I bring.

Conclusion

This morning, why do you worship Jesus?

Why have you come to adore him?

He is Holy....Son of God!

He is Christ

He is Lord

He is Jesus

We will never exhaust our worship of Jesus!

We can never fully take in His fullness!

We will not return this gift to the store!!!!

Avoid:

Apathy......

Moving on to the next thing that grabs our attention....

Must do:

Hunger for God’s Word (Jesus is revealed there)

Passion to Pray