Summary: A look at why Jesus came in the way that He did.

A daughter came home from college for Christmas and was in the process of helping her mother get ready for Christmas dinner. For as long as they can remember, her mother, and her grandmother before her, had always prepared a roast. Now, there was one thing that puzzled the daughter. Every year, her mother would cut off the ends of the roast before putting it in the pan. This year, she got up the courage and asked, “Mom, why do you cut off the ends of the roast?” “Well,” her mother replied, “I always helped your grandmother with the meal and she always did the same thing. I think it helps to keep the meat moist, but I have never asked her why she did it.” The daughter kept on working, but she was not completely satisfied with the answer. A few moments later, the girl’s grandmother came in the door, and she asked her the same question: “Why do we always cut the ends off the roast we cook for Christmas dinner?” “Well,” replied the grandmother, “I have no idea why your mother does it, but I did it because I didn’t have a pan big enough to fit the roast into without doing it.”

There’s a moral to this story. Sometimes, you just have to ask “Why?” This mother had gone years doing this tradition of cutting off the ends of meat, but she had never asked her mother why she did it. As a result, she had wasted the ends of her roast for years. So, this morning, I want to ask the question why. Why Christmas? Why did God choose to come in this way? I think we can get the answer to this by turning to John 3:1-17. Please read along with me in your Bible or in your sermon notes.


This morning, I want to uncover four reasons from this passage the answer the question, “Why Christmas?” Before we go any further, let’s ask the Lord to bless our time.

Reason #1: It Fulfilled Prophesy

What are you going to do tomorrow? Some of you may have plans and some may be playing it by ear, but there is one thing that you can probably count on. Something will come up that you don’t expect too. It may not be tomorrow, but I bet there will be at least something this week that will happen that you never saw coming. Even when we have things planned down to the tiniest, most minute detail, we can never know for sure what the day will hold because the future is not in our hands. It is out of our control.

There is one that does know the future though, and that is God. How do we know that He knows the future? It is made very evident when we look at the Christmas story. After all, there are hundreds of times in the Old Testament where God revealed the future to the prophets, and they wrote down these predictions in their writings in the Old Testament. Most of these predictions, which we refer to as prophesy, referred to the coming of the Messiah to save Israel. They were put there so that people would know the Messiah when He came to earth, and they would follow and listen to Him. It’s quite amazing that every one of these prophesies were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. They told all about this man hundreds of years before He was even born. If you don’t believe that is amazing, let me prove it to you scientifically.

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