And God Became Flesh

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore The Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Christmas is the celebration of the incarnation -- God becoming flesh, revealing Himself to us, identifying with us, giving Himself for us.

JESUS WAS:

• Born in a stable, not a mansion, that He might identify with the homeless of our world.
• Born in Bethlehem, the house of bread, not in Athens, that He might identify with the hungry masses.
• Grew up in the home of a carpenter rather than the home of Caesar, that He might identify with the working class.
• Born a Jew and not a Greek, that He might identify with the oppressed, the despised, and the rejected.
• Born and reared at the crossroads of the world that touches Asia, Africa, and Europe, because He belonged to the whole world.
• Died on a cross and not in a hospital, that He might identify with suffering of the world.