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Significance of the Manger
Text: Luke 2:7, 12, 16
The word manger only shows up three times in the Bible; all three times are in the verses we will preach from in Luke chapter 2.
It’s significant why Jesus was there
- No room in the inn. The inn would be like a house with a couple extra rooms.
- I like the Christmas music, the lights, the decorations, the days off work, the presents, the get togethers. But some things about Christmas which is supposed to be a birthday for Jesus Christ.
- Christmas is the only birthday celebration I know of where everyone else gets gifts except the one with the birthday. We may say He’s the reason for the season, but how many of you have a gift to give the Lord Jesus Christ?
- Christmas is the only birthday I know of where sometimes the birthday boy is not allowed to attend. Instead the heroes are Santa, Rudolph, and Frosty.
- Let’s get personal. Haven’t you found in your life fitting Jesus in is like an overbooked innkeeper who would have to say no to other guests in order to make room.
- It’s significant why Jesus was in the manger.
- No room because of ignorance.
- You didn’t know he’d be here, so you’re booked. No rooms vacant. You’ve let guests in that you shouldn’t have.
- Entangled. Now, it’s going to be hard to get those guests out to make room for him.
- No room because of indifference.
- Maybe you didn’t care he was coming. Church, prayer, Bible, preaching, teaching, witnessing; none of it is “your thing.”
- You can take him or leave him. Makes no difference to you.
- No room because of inconvenience
- Look, as an innkeeper, to take on a pregnant mother means special accommodations are going to have to be made.
- Things will have to be rearranged in order to make room and I just don’t want to get into that.
It’s significant that the manger is where the flock was fed
- The angel said this would be a sign to the shepherds that they’d find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. The sign to the shepherds was unmistakable. The manger is where the flock is fed.
- Here is Jesus Christ, the bread of life, to feed the flock of God. John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
It’s significant who was in the manger
- …the babe…That baby is God. Your calendar would forever be changed with this event.
- In that manger was the humanity of God (manifest in the flesh, truth, eternal life, wisdom, righteousness, Word made flesh!)
