~ December 7, 2014 ~
Needy People At Christmas
Psalms 70:4-5
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
INTRO:
1. We seem to notice the poor and needy people more at Christmas time.
2. There are several areas that people are poor and needy in the Physical areas.
A. There’s Salary Poverty
B. There’s Supply Poverty
3. There are also several areas that people are poor and needy in the Spiritual areas.
A. There’s Scripture Poverty
B. There’s Salvation Poverty
C. There’s Savior Poverty
D. There’s Spiritual Poverty
4. You can have all the riches in the world and still be poor and needy concerning God’s riches.
5. You may lack peace, love, acceptance, forgiveness, strength, healing from brokenness. Whether it is a physical, emotional, or spiritual area of need, God can fill that need!
**I want us to look at the first Christmas and Christmas today and study out some Needy People at Christmas.
BODY – Needy People At Christmas
I. THE NEEDY PARENTS AT CHRISTMAS
A. Notice the Man
Matthew 1:19-21
19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
1. Joseph Needed God
a. Joseph needed an Angel
v-20 the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream
b. Joseph needed an Answer
v-20 fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
**There’s still a lot of people who need an Angel and an Answer at Christmas because we are poor and needy people.
2. Joseph Needed Guidance
a. He needed Guidance concerning His Spouse
v-20 fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife:
b. He needed Guidance concerning Her Son
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
**There’s still people who need guidance concerning their Spiritual Marriage and the Sacred Messiah.
B. Notice the Mother
1. Mary Needed to Believe in Personal Grace
Luke 1:46-47 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
**Like all Sinful Needy People, Mary Needed to Experience God and Experience Grace, and she did!
2. Mary Needed to Believe in Perpetual Grace
(Perpetual means continuing and lasting.)
Luke 1:50 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
**Like all Sinful Needy People, Mary Needed to Understand that Grace is Available to All from Generation to Generation! There’s hope for the kids and the grandkids!
3. Mary Needed to Believe in Performed Grace
a. She Believed that God Remembered His Promises
54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
b. She Believed that God Remembered His People
55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
**God did not choose Mary because she was totally Blameless, but He chose Mary because He knew she was a total Believer!
**There are a lot of parents who need to be Believers!
II. THE NEEDY PRINCE AT CHRISTMAS
**It’s hard to believe that Jesus needed anything, but in order to fulfill salvation’s plan the way He wanted it fulfill, He needed some things!
A. Jesus Needed Parents
1. He Needed Parents Who Had Faith
2. He Needed Parents Who Had Favor
**Without Faith Joseph and Mary would not have married.
**Without Favor Joseph and Mary would not have found a manger.
**We live in a world full of needy little Princes and Princess that need parents who have Faith in God and the Favor of God!
**These needy little people would not be in such a mess if their needy parents would just turn to God!
B. Jesus Needed Protection
1. Protection from Death
(Herod wanted Him dead.)
2. Protection from Dangers
(Protection from the dangers in Egypt.)
**There are needy children that need protection from spiritual death and from spiritual dangers!
C. Jesus Needed Praise
1. He Needed the Praise of the Heralds (The Angels)
2. He Needed the Praise of the Herdsmen
(The Shepherds)
3. He Needed the Praise of the Hopeful
(The Wise Men)
**This Prince still needs Praise from Needy People!
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice . . . and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
III. THE NEEDY PERISHING AT CHRISTMAS
John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
A. The Perishing Needs A Great Love
1. They Need A Christian’s Love
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
a. Love the Perishing to Church
b. Love the Perishing to Christ
2. They Need A Christ’s Love
a. Christ’s Love Has To Be Acknowledged
Share it and Show it!
**It’s acknowledged with the Head!
b. Christ’s Love Has To Be Accepted
**It’s accepted with the Heart!
B. The Perishing Needs A Great Lord
**There are Needy People who need . . .
1. The Lord’s Scripture
**Some don’t even know what a Bible is much less what it says!
2. The Lord’s Salvation
**So many Perishing Needy People just need Salvation!
3. The Lord’s Spirit
a. Many need to Feel the Holy Spirit!
b. Many need to Follow the Holy Spirit!
**I’m convinced there are more needy perishing people in this world than ever before! Hell has enlarged itself!
CLOSE
1. Today and tomorrow and as long as you live, you will talk to and interact with a lot of needy people. You do it every day!
a. Needy Parents
b. Needy Princes and Princesses
c. Needy Perishing
2. As a matter of a fact, there’s needy people right here in the church today.
a. You need God!
b. You need Guidance!
c. You need Grace!
3. I’ll be the first to admit, I am one of those who is a needy person! I still need God, Guiidance, and Grace.
4. What we need to do is come to this altar and talk to the Lord like the Psalmist did in our text and say, “ 5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.”
5. Are you a needy person today? If so come to the Lord. He still helps needy people even at Christmas time!
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
INTRO:
1. We seem to notice the poor and needy people more at Christmas time.
2. There are several areas that people are poor and needy in the Physical areas.
A. There’s Salary Poverty
B. There’s Supply Poverty
3. There are also several areas that people are poor and needy in the Spiritual areas.
A. There’s Scripture Poverty
B. There’s Salvation Poverty
C. There’s Savior Poverty
D. There’s Spiritual Poverty
4. You can have all the riches in the world and still be poor and needy concerning God’s riches.
5. You may lack peace, love, acceptance, forgiveness, strength, healing from brokenness. Whether it is a physical, emotional, or spiritual area of need, God can fill that need!
**I want us to look at the first Christmas and Christmas today and study out some Needy People at Christmas.
BODY – Needy People At Christmas
I. THE NEEDY PARENTS AT CHRISTMAS
A. Notice the Man
Matthew 1:19-21
19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
1. Joseph Needed God
a. Joseph needed an Angel
v-20 the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream
b. Joseph needed an Answer
v-20 fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
**There’s still a lot of people who need an Angel and an Answer at Christmas because we are poor and needy people.
2. Joseph Needed Guidance
a. He needed Guidance concerning His Spouse
v-20 fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife:
b. He needed Guidance concerning Her Son
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
**There’s still people who need guidance concerning their Spiritual Marriage and the Sacred Messiah.
B. Notice the Mother
1. Mary Needed to Believe in Personal Grace
Luke 1:46-47 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
**Like all Sinful Needy People, Mary Needed to Experience God and Experience Grace, and she did!
2. Mary Needed to Believe in Perpetual Grace
(Perpetual means continuing and lasting.)
Luke 1:50 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
**Like all Sinful Needy People, Mary Needed to Understand that Grace is Available to All from Generation to Generation! There’s hope for the kids and the grandkids!
3. Mary Needed to Believe in Performed Grace
a. She Believed that God Remembered His Promises
54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
b. She Believed that God Remembered His People
55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
**God did not choose Mary because she was totally Blameless, but He chose Mary because He knew she was a total Believer!
**There are a lot of parents who need to be Believers!
II. THE NEEDY PRINCE AT CHRISTMAS
**It’s hard to believe that Jesus needed anything, but in order to fulfill salvation’s plan the way He wanted it fulfill, He needed some things!
A. Jesus Needed Parents
1. He Needed Parents Who Had Faith
2. He Needed Parents Who Had Favor
**Without Faith Joseph and Mary would not have married.
**Without Favor Joseph and Mary would not have found a manger.
**We live in a world full of needy little Princes and Princess that need parents who have Faith in God and the Favor of God!
**These needy little people would not be in such a mess if their needy parents would just turn to God!
B. Jesus Needed Protection
1. Protection from Death
(Herod wanted Him dead.)
2. Protection from Dangers
(Protection from the dangers in Egypt.)
**There are needy children that need protection from spiritual death and from spiritual dangers!
C. Jesus Needed Praise
1. He Needed the Praise of the Heralds (The Angels)
2. He Needed the Praise of the Herdsmen
(The Shepherds)
3. He Needed the Praise of the Hopeful
(The Wise Men)
**This Prince still needs Praise from Needy People!
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice . . . and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
III. THE NEEDY PERISHING AT CHRISTMAS
John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
A. The Perishing Needs A Great Love
1. They Need A Christian’s Love
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
a. Love the Perishing to Church
b. Love the Perishing to Christ
2. They Need A Christ’s Love
a. Christ’s Love Has To Be Acknowledged
Share it and Show it!
**It’s acknowledged with the Head!
b. Christ’s Love Has To Be Accepted
**It’s accepted with the Heart!
B. The Perishing Needs A Great Lord
**There are Needy People who need . . .
1. The Lord’s Scripture
**Some don’t even know what a Bible is much less what it says!
2. The Lord’s Salvation
**So many Perishing Needy People just need Salvation!
3. The Lord’s Spirit
a. Many need to Feel the Holy Spirit!
b. Many need to Follow the Holy Spirit!
**I’m convinced there are more needy perishing people in this world than ever before! Hell has enlarged itself!
CLOSE
1. Today and tomorrow and as long as you live, you will talk to and interact with a lot of needy people. You do it every day!
a. Needy Parents
b. Needy Princes and Princesses
c. Needy Perishing
2. As a matter of a fact, there’s needy people right here in the church today.
a. You need God!
b. You need Guidance!
c. You need Grace!
3. I’ll be the first to admit, I am one of those who is a needy person! I still need God, Guiidance, and Grace.
4. What we need to do is come to this altar and talk to the Lord like the Psalmist did in our text and say, “ 5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.”
5. Are you a needy person today? If so come to the Lord. He still helps needy people even at Christmas time!
