This message forms Part 2 of our Christmas series – Hidden in Plain Sight – highlighting the glory of Jesus compared to the humility of his incarnation. He was something, but he became nothing so that we who were nothing might become something.

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” – 2 Corinthians 8:9 (NIV)

The irony of Christmas is that Jesus is the owner of all the resources of the earth, and that all its wealth actually belongs to him, yet he was born in poverty and ultimately left the earth without an asset to his name. Why does the Creator of the world stoop to such humility? And why does the Saviour of the world choose this path to offer us the gift of salvation?