“Christmas Beyond Weakness” - Luke 2:4-20

1. Using weakness as a pathway to salvation. 

• “To be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.” (v.5)

• “And to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.’” (Luke 2:24)

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• “The Christian’s weakness will either make him miserable or it will make him mature. To say it another way, weakness will bear frustration or it will bear fruit.” (Tessa Thomson)

• “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

2. Making the Gospel approachable through weakness.  

• “And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” (v.12)

• “And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.” (v.16-17)