Christ is Born FOR YOU

Beloved Kinney,

I love the simple chorus of the song Come All You Unfaithful that says, “Christ is born
for you.” Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Savior, the King, was born for you, for your
good, for your everlasting joy.

Do you know the best news of the gospel is not the forgiveness of sins? It’s not
justification and imputed righteousness. It’s not even that we get to go to heaven. The
best news of the gospel is that we get Christ himself.

Luke 2:10 puts it like this: “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news [a gospel] of
great joy that will be for all the people.” What’s the good news? What’s the gospel?
Verse 11 says, “For unto you [for you, for your good, for your “great joy”] is born this day
in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” The good news, the gospel, was
born when Jesus Christ was born! The best news of the gospel is the person of Jesus
Christ. He was born FOR YOU.

The reason I love the song Come All You Unfaithful so much is because it highlights
who we are apart from Jesus—unfaithful, weak, unstable, barren, waiting, bitter, broken,
fearful, guilty, hiding. In short, apart from Christ, we’re a mess.

But Christ was born for the messy. He was born for the unfaithful and weak and
unstable. He was born for the bitter and broken and fearful. He was born for those who
want to hide because of their guilt. Christ was born FOR YOU.

The best news of the gospel is Christ himself. He is for us all that we could not be in
ourselves. He is our sufficient representative before God. He was born for us.

This Christmas season, find comfort in this: Christ was born FOR YOU.

Love,
Pastor Josh