Well, Christmas is nearly here and it's a great season to reflect on our anointed king

who entered into human history.

Fully God, fully man, God with us, it came for us.

Jesus came not to be served, but to serve, to serve us, which means Christmas fundamentally

highlights our neediness.

But what are we needy for?

That's the million dollar question of Christmas, Pastor John, answered the question in his 2003

Christmas sermon titled, If the Root Is Holy, The Branches Are Holy.

Here's what he said building from Romans chapter 11, verses 13 and 14.

One of the follies of trying to turn the gospel into a way of meeting felt needs in 21st

century America is that the three main needs that the gospel meets are felt by almost

nobody.

Right here in our text, there's an explosive word at the center of the gospel.

It's the word save or saved.

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles in as much as then I am an apostle to the Gentiles.

I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some

of them.

The loud, joyful, glorious word at the center of the gospel is saved.

So what Christmas is all about, right?

Behold, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all the people for unto

you this day and the city of David is born a savior.

We need to be saved.

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