The Greatest Story Ever Told

  Hello everybody, my name is Dean Davis, and this is “Multiply,” the podcast

that provides a word of encouragement for Village Church Planters.

One of the most beautiful features of the Village Church Planting training

program is its focus on telling God’s Big Story by telling individual Bible stories

in chronological order. At Christmas time, maybe more than any other time of

the year, we need to remember God’s Big Story and tell it to all who will

listen.

The world we live in is broken. We see brokenness all around us. But this was

not God’s original design. God created the world so that we could experience

his love and so we could love one another. The world he created was good. But

the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve disobeyed God. Their rebellion

brought brokenness to our world. God saw that the descendants of Adam and

Eve could not and would not turn back to him.

So, He took matters into his own hands. He called a man name Abram to follow

him. God said to Abram, “All peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

The descendants of Abram knew God, but they persisted in their sin and

rebellion. God sent many prophets to teach them, correct them, and guide

them in a better way. But they continued in their rebellion.

Finally, 2,000 years after calling Abram, in the fulness of time, God sent his

one and only Son to be born in Bethlehem. A song called “King of Kings” tells

it this way:

In the darkness we were waiting

Without hope, without light

“til form Heaven You came running

There was mercy in Your eyes

To fulfill the law and prophets

To a virgin came the word

From a throne of endless glory

To a cradle in the dirt

That’s right, God sent his Son to take on flesh and face the life we face. God so

loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever puts their

trust in Him may have abundant, eternal life. Jesus was confronted with

challenges, threats, and temptations just as we are. Yet he faced them all

without rebelling against God. In everything he did, Jesus showed love for God

and love for his neighbor. But sinful men nailed Him to a cross. Jesus the Son of

God, bled and died. But on the third day He rose from the dead. He came once

to show the way, to suffer, and to die. He is coming again to rule over a new

heaven and a new earth in which there will be no more sorrow and no more

tears. So, we love him, we trust him and we obey him. And we rejoice as we

await his second coming.

This is God’s Big Story. The story of Christmas when his Son took on flesh and

became one of us is an important part of that Big Story. So, tell it well and tell

it often; tell others and tell it over again to yourself. Tell it to your family and

your church. Tell it to your village and your nation. It is the greatest story ever

told!

This has been “Multiply,” and I’m Dean Davis asking, “Who will you share this

encouraging word with today?

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