Jesus Only Jesus

Matthew 1:21 says, “She will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

It is about Jesus. It is not about Joseph and Mary. It is not about the shepherds. It is not about the wise men. It is not about decorations. It is not about presents. It is not about family.

It is all about Jesus. It is not all about Jesus just at Christmas. It is all about Jesus every day.

Why is it all about Jesus?

It is all about Jesus because “He will save His people from their sins”.

Jesus is the Savior.

He is the one who went to the cross and died there for our sins. Jesus took our punishment.

Jesus is the only means of salvation for all human beings.

I cannot save myself.

My parents cannot save me.

My wife cannot save me.

My children or grandchildren cannot save me.

The church cannot save me.

Only Jesus can save me.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is trusting Jesus and Jesus alone for salvation.

Jesus is the Christ.

Jesus is the Messiah.

Jesus is the Anointed One of God.

In John 1 John says that Jesus is the Word.

Jesus came to proclaim the Gospel. The gospel is the good news. That good news is that God loves us and, through His grace that caused Him to send Jesus, we have forgiveness of sins.

Jesus being the Christ or the Messiah means that He came to proclaim and demonstrate how we can know and please God.

Jesus as the Christ is, according to John, full of grace and truth. He not only came to proclaim that, but He came to share that with us.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is Jesus as the Christ proclaiming truth and grace.

Jesus is the Lord.

Jesus is the absolute sovereign creator and ruler of all creation.

We don’t have anybody in the American culture that is an absolute ruler. But in Jesus’ time on earth the people knew and understood what it meant for someone to be an absolute ruler.

Jesus is the ultimate absolute ruler. He has no one more powerful than Himself or more majestic or with more authority. There is absolutely no being that is above Jesus.

1 John 4:4 says that the One who is in us is greater then he that is in the world. Jesus is the greatest.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is acknowledging Jesus is Lord and living under His authority.

The thing that blows me away is the sacrificial love that Jesus shows by His willingness to give up the awesomeness of heaven and His position as God to become a human in the manner of a servant.

Jesus is the Savior.

Jesus is the Christ.

Jesus is the Lord.

Jesus is all that and yet He chose to go to the cross and die as the sacrifice for our sin.

That is why it is all about Jesus all the time.

Making It All About Jesus, Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

                                                   Joe