Christmas Message Isaiah 7:10-14 Matthew 1:18-25 ? The sign that was prophesied the story in Isaiah was told in Matthew 1. ? Immanuel=God with us. God came to us in the form of a baby. God chose to invade the world through the womb of a woman. Jesus existed in eternity past ? But thou Bethlehem Ephratah though thou be little among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting. Micah 5:2 ? This took place ?in the beginning? Genesis 1:1 God is greater than the creation He created. There is a point where nothing is there. Creation is finite not infinite. Creation is limited and submitted to the Creator. God is Extra-creation. He is not contained in creation. Creation only exists for us. The Heavens were created for the earth. it was all created for man. God was and is from everlasting to everlasting. I Chronicles 16:36. Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I am. John 8:58 He is constantly current. He understands eternity past present future. He is an eternal God vast in His understanding and abilities and He penetrated our place with a baby. He has kept Himself invisible to us on purpose because He ants us to come to Him by faith. If we will come to Him His way He will allow us to enjoy Him and all His has forever! It has not entered the heart of man all that all that God has for him. Colossians 1:17 He is infinite and all knowing you are not. Analogy of the Ant Imagine looking down at some ants. Imagine loving those ants so much that all you could ever want is to be with them. Imagine wanting to understand them so that you could love them even more. Imagine loving an ant so much that you would give up everything you have and everything that you are to be an ant so that you could have a relationship and fellowship with them. Jesus gave up heaven and his deity so He could relate and know exactly what it is to ve a human and He knew that He would never again not be a man. ?God with us? is more than walking & talking. it is ?I am going to be one of you? In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1-3 Jesus was the Word before He became the Son. He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not John 1:10 ? Love & humility He was willing to submit to the creation knowing that they would ultimately kill him. If He had not defeated death then we would not be celebrating His birth. He would?ve been just another baby. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature of God did not consider equality with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to death? even death on a cross! Phillipians 2:5-7 The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and they will call him Immanuel"?which means "God with us." When Joseph woke up he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus. Matthew 1:23-25 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19:10 ? Jesus has God?s blood. The bloodline always comes from the Father. DNA proves that a man fathered a child. ? When Jesus only existed as the Son of God He could not redeem us. He had to become the Son of Man and redeem us with spotless sinless blood the blood from the Father. He had to become the Son of man so that the sons of man could become the sons of God. He brought us into full family rights. He said ?Every