GOS-21 - The Gift Of God Is Jesus

This Christmas season, in the midst of the blur of activities, why not set some time aside to unwrap the greatest gift of all: the gift of salvation. Please start by opening your Bibles to Matthew 1.

Since God so loved the world, that He GAVE (Jn. 3:16).
Every human is a sinner earned the wages of death, but the free gift of God is eternal life (Rom. 6:23).
By grace, we sinners God loved are saved, not by works, because it is the gift of God (Eph. 2:8-9).

That is the Gift of Salvation; and the Gift of Salvation is most associated with Christmas, because that is where it all began.

Christmas is when God gave the greatest gift, the gift that no one can afford, no one can earn, and no one but God can give.

Christmas is actually about this gift that no one really seeks after, yet desperately needs. What is that gift? The substitutionary death of God's beloved Son, Jesus Christ, Who came to meet our critical, eternal, life-threatening needs prompted by our sins!

The Gift of God of Salvation is not a package, it is not a gift card, or a new gizmo: salvation is a person. We could best say that salvation is the only gift everyone really needs is Christ.