Luke 2:4-14. What if Jesus had not been born. I. IF JESUS HAD NOT BEEN BORN OUR SECULAR SYSTEM WOULD BE GREATLY AFFECTED. II. IF JESUS HAD NOT BEEN BORN IT WOULD HAVE A PROFOUND AFFECT ON OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION III. IF JESUS HAD NOT BEEN BORN IT WOULD HAVE A PROFOUND AFFECT ON OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE.

1. WHAT IF JESUS HAD
NEVER BEEN BORN?

2. Luke 2:4-14 Joseph also went up from Galilee,
out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the
city of David, which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and lineage of
David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his
betrothed wife, who was with child. 6 So it
was, that while they were there, the days were
completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she
brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped
Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a
manger, because there was no room for them
in the inn. 8 Now there were in the same
country shepherds living out in the fields,
keeping watch over their flock by night. >>>

3. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
before them, and the glory of the Lord shone
around them, and they were greatly afraid.
10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be
afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of
great joy which will be to all people. 11 For
there is born to you this day in the city of
David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And
this will be the sign to you: You will find a
Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a
manger." 13 And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly host
praising God and saying: 14 "Glory to God in
the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill
toward men!“

4. WHAT IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
A.Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film It’s a Wonderful Life.
1. James Stewart in the role of George Bailey, a kind-
hearted savings-and-loan manager who struggles
against a greedy banker in the small town of
Bedford Falls.
2. After suffering many hardships and dashed dreams
George contemplates suicide.
3. An apprentice angel named Clarence intervenes,
but the despondent man wishes that he had never
been born at all.
4. Clarence grant George’s wish, and Bailey is given a
nightmarish view of what Bedford Falls (renamed
Pottersville after the town’s evil bank tycoon) would
have been like without him.
5. Shown every year at Christmastime, this film drives
home the message that each life touches others in
profound ways.

5. WHAT IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
B.Abortion
1. http://www.numberofabortions.com/ -
Reports 59,623,300 Abortions in America
Since Roe v. Wade in 1973 –
1,438,048,205 worldwide.
2. Every year in America over 1 million
babies are aborted.
3. What great things might some of those
lives accomplished if they had been
allowed to live?

6. WHAT IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
C. What if Jesus had never been born?
1. What if there had been no star?
2. No wise men?
3. What if there had been no angelic host
announcing peace and goodwill to frightened
shepherds?
4. The results of a non-existent George Bailey on
the fictional town of Bedford Falls were grave
and distressful.
5. We might wonder what would have happened if
we had never been born.
6. What would the results if Jesus Christ had
never come into our world?

7. WHAT IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
D. One Solitary Life - James Allen Francis
“He was born in an obscure village, the
child of a peasant woman. He grew up in
another village, where He worked in a
carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then
for three years He was an itinerant
preacher. He never wrote a book. He never
held an office. He never had a family or
owned a home. He didn’t go to college...He
never traveled two hundred miles from the
place where he was born. He did none of
the things that usually accompany
greatness. He had no credentials but
Himself. >>>

8. WHAT IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
He was only thirty-three when the tide of
public opinion turned against Him. His
friends ran away. One of them denied Him.
He was turned over to his enemies and
went through the mockery of a trial. He was
nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While He was dying, His executioners
gambled for His garments, the only
property He had on earth. When He was
dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave
through the pity of a friend. >>>

9. WHAT IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
Twenty centuries have come and gone, and
today He is the central figure of the human
race. All the armies that ever marched, all
the navies that ever sailed, all the
parliaments that have ever sat, all the kings
that have ever reigned, put together, have
not affected the life of man on this earth as
much as that one solitary life.”

10. I. IF JESUS HAD
NOT BEEN BORN
OUR SECULAR
SYSTEM WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY
AFFECTED.

11. I. OUR SECULAR SYSTEM WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED.
A. NO JESUS, MEANS NO CALENDAR AS WE
KNOW IT TODAY – AD (anno Domini) Latin -
means in the year of our Lord. BC means
Before Christ. When a Jew, Muslim, Hindu etc
write a date, it is based on Jesus Christ’s
coming into the world.
B. NO JESUS, MEANS NO EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM AS WE KNOW IT TODAY - Our
educational system in this country was
begun the help study read and study the
words of the Master Teacher. - Mark 1:22 And
they were astonished at His teaching, for He
taught them as one having authority, and not
as the scribes.

12. I. OUR SECULAR SYSTEM WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED.
C. NO JESUS, MEANS NO HEALTHCARE AS WE
KNOW IT TODAY – most of our hospitals
were begun by those influenced by the Great
Physician’s teachings. - Luke 10:25-37 "A
certain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped
him of his clothing, wounded him, and
departed, leaving him half dead. Now by
chance a certain priest came down that road.
And when he saw him, he passed by on the
other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived
at the place, came and looked, and passed by
on the other side. >>>

13. I. OUR SECULAR SYSTEM WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED.
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came
where he was. And when he saw him, he had
compassion. So he went to him and bandaged
his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set
him on his own animal, brought him to an inn,
and took care of him. On the next day, when he
departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to
the innkeeper, and said to him, "Take care of
him; and whatever more you spend, when I
come again, I will repay you.' So which of these
three do you think was neighbor to him who fell
among the thieves?" And he said, "He who
showed mercy on him.”

14. I. OUR SECULAR SYSTEM WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED.
D. NO JESUS, MEANS NO DIVINELY-INFLUENCED
GOVERNMENT – Many of our laws were influenced
by the teachings of Christ. - Romans 13:1-4 Let
every soul be subject to the governing authorities.
For there is no authority except from God, and the
authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2
Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the
ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring
judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror
to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be
unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you
will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God's
minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be
afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he
is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on
him who practices evil.

15. II. IF JESUS HAD
NOT BEEN BORN
OUR SPIRITUAL
CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY
AFFECTED

16. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
A. NO BETHLEHEM, MEANS NO CALVARY – His
birth did not save us but if He hadn’t been born
He could not have gone to the cross for us. -
Matthew 1:21 And she will bring forth a Son,
and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will
save His people from their sins."
B. NO JESUS, MEANS NO RECONCILIATION - 2
Corinthians 5:18-19 Now all things are of God,
who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus
Christ, and has given us the ministry of
reconciliation, (19) that is, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing
their trespasses to them, and has committed to
us the word of reconciliation.

17. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
C. NO JESUS, MEANS NO REDEMPTION -
Colossians 1:13-14 He has delivered us from
the power of darkness and conveyed us into
the kingdom of the Son of His love, (14) in
whom we have redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins.
D. NO JESUS, MEANS NO SANCTIFICATION - 1
Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which
is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in
Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who
in every place call on the name of Jesus
Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

18. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
E. NO JESUS, MEANS NO GRACE - Ephesians
2:4-7 But God, who is rich in mercy, because
of His great love with which He loved us, (5)
even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace
you have been saved), (6) and raised us up
together, and made us sit together in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus, (7) that in
the ages to come He might show the
exceeding riches of His grace in His
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

19. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
F. NO JESUS, MEANS NO FORGIVENESS -
Colossians 2:11-13 In Him you were also
circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of
Christ, (12) buried with Him in baptism, in
which you also were raised with Him through
faith in the working of God, who raised Him
from the dead. (13) And you, being dead in
your trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, He has made alive together with
Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

20. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
G. NO JESUS, MEANS NO SALVATION - 2 Timothy
2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of
the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
H. NO JESUS MEANS CONDEMNATION - Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
I. NO JESUS, MEANS NO CHILDREN OF GOD -
Galatians 3:26-27 For you are all sons of God
through faith in Christ Jesus. (27) For as many of
you as were baptized into Christ have put on
Christ.

21. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
J. NO JESUS, MEANS NO SPIRITUAL
BLESSINGS - Ephesians 1:3-6 Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, (4)
just as He chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be
holy and without blame before Him in love,
(5) having predestined us to adoption as
sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according
to the good pleasure of His will, (6) to the
praise of the glory of His grace, by which He
has made us accepted in the Beloved.

22. II. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION WOULD
BE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
K. NO JESUS, MEANS NO ETERNAL LIFE -
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
L. NO JESUS, MEANS NO INHERITANCE -
Ephesians 1:11 In Him also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestined according
to the purpose of Him who works all things
according to the counsel of His will,
M.NO JESUS, MEANS NO HOPE - 1 Corinthians
15:19 If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

23. III. IF JESUS HAD
NOT BEEN BORN
OUR CHRISTIAN
LIFE WOULD BE
PROFOUNDLY
AFFECTED.

24. III. OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WOULD BE
PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
A. NO JESUS, MEANS WE WOULD STILL BE UNDER
THE OLD LAW - Colossians 2:13-14 And you,
being dead in your trespasses and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive
together with Him, having forgiven you all
trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of
requirements that was against us, which was
contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross.
B. NO JESUS, MEANS NO NEW CREATION - 2
Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; old things have passed
away; behold, all things have become new.

25. OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WOULD BE
PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
C. NO JESUS, MEANS NO BASIS FOR UNITY -
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free, there is neither
male nor female; for you are all one in Christ
Jesus.
D. NO JESUS, MEANS NO ANSWERED PRAYER - 1
John 5:13-15 13 These things I have written to you
who believe in the name of the Son of God, that
you may know that you have eternal life, and that
you may continue to believe in the name of the
Son of God. 14 Now this is the confidence that we
have in Him, that if we ask anything according to
His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He
hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have
the petitions that we have asked of Him.

26. OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WOULD BE
PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
E. NO JESUS, MEANS NO TRIUMPH - 2
Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God
who always leads us in triumph in Christ,
and through us diffuses the fragrance of
His knowledge in every place.
F. NO JESUS, MEANS NO LIBERTY -
Galatians 2:4 And this occurred because
of false brethren secretly brought in (who
came in by stealth to spy out our liberty
which we have in Christ Jesus, that they
might bring us into bondage),

27. OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WOULD BE
PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
G.NO JESUS, MEANS NO UNDERSTANDING
THE LOVE OF GOD - Romans 8:37-39 Yet
in all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us.
(38) For I am persuaded that neither death
nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor
powers, nor things present nor things to
come, (39) 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.

28. OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WOULD BE
PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED
H. NO JESUS, MEANS NO POWER - Ephesians
1:19-20 and what is the exceeding greatness
of His power toward us who believe,
according to the working of His mighty
power (20) which He worked in Christ when
He raised Him from the dead and seated Him
at His right hand in the heavenly places,
I. NO JESUS, MEANS NO BOLDNESS AND
CONFIDENCE - Ephesians 3:11-12 11
according to the eternal purpose which He
accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in
whom we have boldness and access with
confidence through faith in Him.

29. WHAT IF JESUS HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
A. IF JESUS HAD NOT BEEN BORN - by Cindy Wyatt
If Jesus the Christ had not been born
we would not have a savior
Our souls would be forever lost
and with God we could find no favor
If Jesus had not come down to earth
as a little babe born of a virgin
he could have never died for our sins
so that we could be saved and forgiven
Hallulejuh, Hallulejuh, praise God
our wonderful savior was born
and finished salvation's plan
through much agony, mocking, and scorn
as the babe in the manger grew up
and did suffer and die on Calvary's tree
so those who would accept him as their Savior
could from the bondage of sin be set free

30. WHAT IF JESUS HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
B.BUT JESUS DID COME TO THIS EARTH!
He IS the fulfillment of every OT prophecy.
He WAS born of a virgin in Bethlehem.
He WAS wrapped in swaddling clothes.
He WAS announced by heavenly angels.
He WAS visited by shepherds.
He DID live a perfect life.
He TOUCHED people and healed them.
He RAISED people from the dead.
He DID walk on water.
He HAS fed the multitudes.
He DID die on the cross.>>>

31. WHAT IF JESUS HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
B.BUT JESUS DID COME TO THIS EARTH!
He HAS risen from the dead.
He HAS paid our sin debt.
He IS seated at the right hand of the
Father.
He IS NOW making intercession for you
and me.
He LISTENS to the cry of your heart.
He LOVES you with an everlasting love.
He WANTS to forgive your sin.
He LONGS to be your Savior.
HE WILL BE your Savior.

32. WHAT IF JESUS HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?
He DIED for you so you would live for Him.
2 Cor 5:15
That NEW LIFE begins when we re-enact His
death, burial and resurrection in baptism.
Rom 6:3-5
WILL YOU LIVE FOR HIM SINCE HE DIED
FOR YOU?