The Purpose of Christmas (Chantilly)

Mark 10:45 CSB – .…the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. 

John 3:16 CSB – For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 

Jesus Came to Set Us Free

Do I need ransomed?

Matthew 1:20-21 CSB – …an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Romans 6:23 CSB – For the wages of sin is death…

John 8:34 CSB – Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

2 Peter 2:19 CSB – They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

Galatians 4:4 CSB – When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, ⁵ to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

John 1:29 CSB – The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

1 John 1:7 CSB – the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Hebrews 9:22 CSB – According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Isaiah 53:4-6 NKJV –

Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
⁵ But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Psalm 49:7-8 NIV – No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them— the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—

“Here I am trapped inside a cell, and my only hope is for someone to come from the outside in to rescue me. There’s nothing I can do to get myself out, I need a rescuer.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

John 12:27 CSB – “Now my soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

John 10:18 CSB – No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down,

Mark 10:45 CSB – For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Romans 5:1 CSB – Therefore, …by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:1 CSB – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,

John 8:36 CSB – So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

Jesus Came to Set Us Free

What does freedom look like?

Jesus sets us free from the slavery of condemnation

Mark 10:45 CSB – …the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Ephesians 2:1 CSB – you were dead in your trespasses and sins

Romans 8:1 CSB – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus… [b/c] …Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Psalm 103:12 CSB – As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed
our transgressions from us.

Hebrews 9:14 CSB – …the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse(s) our consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?

Jesus sets us free from the slavery of sin & self

Galatians 5:1 CSB – For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Matthew 6:24 CSB – “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

2 Corinthians 3:17 CSB – Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom

John 8:32 CSB – So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

Romans 6:17-18 CSB – But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, ¹⁸ and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

Jesus sets us free to set others free

1 Corinthians 15:10-11 CSB – But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.¹¹ Whether, then, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

Mary Magdalene

1 Corinthians 15:10-11 CSB – But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me