Tuesday, December 1, 2009
THE "COMING" OF OUR SAVIOR IN THE FIRST GOSPEL PROMISE
(Excerpts from a Children's Christmas Eve Service)
Narration: In our modern times we seldom hear about kings. If we do it is typically in connection with a fairy tale or some type of make-believe. However, the King whom we honor on Christmas Eve each year is no fairy tale and there is nothing make-believe about our need for a Savior. The promise of a Savior King came very early in the history of the world. We recall the sad and soul condemning events that unfolded in the Garden of Eden as recorded in Genesis chapter three:
Child's Recitation: Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden" (Genesis 3:4-8).
Narration: It was from this moment that man no longer lived in the perfection that our God had intended. It was from this moment on that the human race became a slave to sin and in desperate need of a heavenly king to protect us from the snares and traps that Satan has prepared for us. Our heavenly Father was not long in bringing the promise of such a King to His wayward creation. Even in the sadness of Genesis chapter three we are given hope through the first promise of a Savior.
Child's Recitation: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel (Genesis 3:15).
