Christ didn’t come so that we could celebrate a sparkling white Christmas…

He didn’t come so we could give presents to one another or light up a Christmas tree or sing Christmas carols…

or delight in the sweet story of the baby in the manger!

He came to save Israel to bless the world!

God’s chosen people were meant to show God to the world through their lives, but they failed and a Savior was needed. Everyone failed from Adam and Eve to Abraham to Moses to King David. No one could fulfil the law. No one could rescue humanity from her sin…no one, but Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God. But Jesus came not only to save Israel to bless the world…

He came to reveal Himself to the Gentiles…

to die for the sins of the whole world, to rescue all who believe in Him – both Jews and Gentiles, so that those who trust in Him will bless the world and bring Him glory!

Another Christmas is ending and a new year is beginning.

May we bless the world in 2017 as we GO into ALL the world to preach the GOSPEL and MAKE DISCIPLES of ALL nations!

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20, NKJV)

 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8, NKJV)