The Ultimate Gift

What is the ULTIMATE gift you could get for Christmas? A Wii? An iPhone? An engagement ring? A new car?

If you get it, will you react like this?

There is a gift that is greater than any of these things.

This is a gift of peace.

A gift of joy.

A gift of life!

This is the ULTIMATE gift. God's gift of His Son, Jesus.

But God isn't like Santa. He's not looking to see who's naughty and who's nice. Who's deserving of good gifts and who's not. None of us deserve this gift, but He freely gives it to all. All you have to do is accept it. Won't you accept it?

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

I John 4:9

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

Romans 5:8

God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:9-10

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

Romans 8:31-32, 35, 37-39

If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?...Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.