Greetings and it is a joy to be able to come to you and spend time with you this week, as we lead up to Christmas, a wonderful time of the year when we get together with family and friends and our church community to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this week leading up to Christmas, I want to ask us a question that might be probably provocative in some sense, do we still need Christmas? I want to just consider a few of these as why this would be a question we need to answer in our day and time and think about certain things along these lines. Do we still need Christmas today? Celebrating the birth of Jesus, 2000 years ago, why do we still need to celebrate? For some of us, it is just tradition, it is something we do before the year wraps up something to do to get together with family, exchange some gifts and have some good meals, it is just tradition. For some it maybe cultural, it is just part of the way we do things in the society or in our part of the world. It is either a cultural or traditional thing. But do we still need Christmas? Do we still need to think about the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ? I want to just present this today for us to think about this, do we still need a savior? In Mathew chapter 1, verse 21, the angel announced saying, ‘And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.’ Why was Jesus born into this world? He came to be our savior; He came to be the one who would save us form our sins. Do we need a savior? Do we need somebody who can save us from our sins? Not for some people who lived 2000 years ago but you and me, do we need a savior? The people around us, do they need a savior? Someone who can save us from our sins, someone who could deliver us/ set us free from the power of sin, someone who could deal with the consequences of sin in our lives and how sin has affected our relationship with God, how sin has affected dour lives personally and how we live here on earth and how sin has affected our relationships with people, do we need a savior? The answer is yes! We, today need a savior, you and I, we need a savior and so we still celebrate Christmas, where we look to Jesus not just celebrating His birth in a sense but we are celebrating him, the fact where He came 2000 years ago but He is still our savior today, that today we experience salvation, we experience the forgiveness of our sins, we experience the deliverance from sin itself, we experience the transformation of lives because of Jesus. So, do we still need Christmas? I believe so, because we still need a savior and we embrace Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior. As we celebrate Christmas, it is not just about something that happened 2000 years ago but about who Jesus is to us today. He is our savior. Let’s pray, Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are our savior today and you still work in our lives, saving us from our sins, the consequences of sins, eternal hell and taking us into the very presence of God and saving us from a life that would have been in bondage to sin. Thank you for being our savior and we celebrate you, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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