O Come All Ye Faithful
Pastor Tung Le
December 10, 2022

Lake City Sermon Notes
December 10 & 11, 2022
Pastor Tung Le

O Come All Ye Faithful

Luke 2:8-14

1. The Christmas story tells us

everyone

“God comes in the most unexpected ways to some of the most unlikely people in order to forward His purpose.” – Alistair Begg

No matter our

, we can be used by God to accomplish His plans.

“If you feel less than, inferior, that you can never measure up, look not to yourself but to the greatness of Christ. If you feel vulnerable, small, or insignificant, remember that Jesus arose from a place of obscurity. If you feel weak, unsure, and unknown, draw your strength from God. God specializes in lavishing grace upon unworthy people. He delights in doing great things through the one the world would pick last.” – Trevin Wax


2. The Christmas story tells us everyone

God does not

a certain group of people over others; nor does God any group of people.

Access to God’s kingdom is through the

and not through anything else.

“[Jesus’ lineage] shows us that people who are excluded by culture, excluded by respectable society, and even excluded by the law of God can be brought into Jesus’ family … In Jesus Christ, prostitute and king, male and female, Jew and Gentile, moral and immoral – all sit down as equals.” – Tim Keller


3. The Christmas story tells us everyone

will be a primary characteristic of God’s people.

“O come all ye faithless, joyless and defeated. O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Christmas is for the weary, for the messed-up, for the broken. If your life isn’t Instagrammable, Christmas is for you.” – Sam Allberry