VIKTORIOUS MINISTRIES

The “Christmas story”, it has been read to us for years and we have been given a vivid picture of what transpired December 25^th some two-thousand years ago.

We believe it was a warm setting with the shepherds abiding in the field and that Jesus was born in a nice quiet manger.

We believe that everything went exactly as it was planned and that the three wise men came in perfect timing to give Jesus gifts of golf, frankincense and myrrh.

We see Him as this Jesus who was not given the proper birth. We see Him as being poor, because if He was really rich I’m sure He would have been born in a fine hospital.

We believe right from the start Jesus has been totally shunned by the world and we start identifying with this persona.

I mean the Jesus said Himself that we’ll be persecuted just as He was right? Our perception of who Jesus has been formed by people who never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

See, we read the “Christmas story” every year about Christ’s birth but do we even know the facts?

We hear there were three wise men…… but where in the Bible does it say that? See history has a different story, one that actually matches the Bible better than what some pastors teach.

History tells us that there was a great multitude of Magi or Wiseman and this explains why Herod and all of Jerusalem were troubled because the army was out at war and these Magi could have taken the city.

We think of the gifts that these wise men presented and think maybe they gave some bars of gold and a little bit of perfume because were told that Jesus was poor because His parents only offered two turtle doves, signifying he was from a poor family.

But the wise men were not able to make it for the day of His birth, rather it was 8-9 months after He was born that they presented with gifts.

And do you know what the value of those gifts would be worth today? $420 million US! See our Savior was not broke, He was never sick and made the statement that He had the power to lay His life down and take it back up again!

We must not relate to “the son of man” that Jesus was but we must instead relate to the “Son of God” that He was, because that is who we are! We need to understand that He was rich and became poor for our sakes, so that we could be rich! (I Corinthians 8:9)