Far as the Curse is Found

Far As the Curse is Found

By Pastor Gary Wayne

At the end of the video, the mouse said: “You got it all wrong!”
What do people get wrong about Christmas?

What do people get right about Christmas?

Text: Ephesians 3:16-20, Galatians 4:4-6

Fullness = full complement, full measure, abundance, completion.
The fullness of time was God’s perfect timing for Jesus to be born.
For over 300 years there was no fresh word from God. People were hungry.
The world conditions were just right.

Rome had built roads allowing the spread of the gospel.
A common language was used.

But even after Jesus came, there was a huge problem. A curse against us.
Gal.3:13 “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law…”

These Hebrew people were practicing what God had instruction, but it was about religion, not relationship.

If all we do is go to church, but don’t get to know the Jesus God gave, we get it all wrong. CLOSE, but still WRONG!
Billy Sunday said: “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a car.”

Song Joy To The World. Ver.3 “He comes to make His blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.”

Paul prayed this for us - Eph.3:16-20
Ver.19 “…that you may be filled with the fullness of God.”

What’s the difference between knowing about someone and knowing them?
Knowing Jesus breaks the curse against me.

TODAY WE PRAY Eph.3:16-20 “…that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height--
19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.