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and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account
How busy we are with our Christmas preparation.
What is the most urgent in our list?
To make a good confession is our list?
I want to begin with story of a small girl. She was
helping her mother in cleaning the house. Mother
asked her to clear the cobwebs. She went around
removing the cobwebs but next again found that
cobwebs were again found there. Again she
removed them but again next day she it was back
again. She got fed up and went to her mother and
complained. Her mother said, child it not enough
to remove the cobwebs you have also eliminate the
cause of this cobwebs. She the realised that when
she removed the cobwebs she used shake off the
broom there but she had not killed the spiders but
allowed it to escape.
There cobwebs of sin, sinful habits and addictions
in our life. May be others can’t see it but we know
it personally and God for sure knows it.
What is the point of our preparation for
celebrating the Christmas when our life is a mess.
Remember when 2000 years ago when mother
Mary and St Joseph looking for place to give birth
to Jesus. Nobody was willing offer space. All atlast
they got was a stable.
Today also the story remains the same Jesus looks
for hearts to be born in but we don’t have space
because it cluttered with cobwebs of sin, sinful
habit and sinful addictions.
The web has to be removed sin had to be killed.
Col 3:5-11 “ 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly
in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire,
Lord. Tell me what would give you the most joy
of these the wrath of God is coming.[a] 7 In these
you once walked, when you lived in them. 8 But
now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice,
slander, and foul talk from your mouth.”
Rn 8: 13 “or if you live according to the flesh you
will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the
deeds of the body you will live.”
What does Jesus wants from us?
fter many years spent in Jerusalem translating the
Word of God, Jerome finished his grand project
just days before Christmas. To celebrate his
accomplishment, Jerome decided to spend
Christmas Eve in nearby Bethlehem, in one of the
many grottoes that dot the countryside. According
to the ancient account, sometime around midnight
Jesus appeared to him, saying “Jerome, what will
you give me for my birthday?”
Immediately and enthusiastically, Jerome declared,
“Lord, I give you my translation of your word.”
But instead of congratulating him, Jesus simply
replied, “No, Jerome, that is not what I want.”
Jerome was speechless. Then he began to complain
and remonstrate with Jesus, asking why he had let
him go on for forty years, far from home, laboring
at something other than what God most wanted
from him. But Jesus remained silent. Jerome
started suggesting other ways of honoring Jesus’
birthday – fasting, becoming a hermit, giving his
possessions to the poor. To each of these Jesus
replied, “No. Jerome. That is not what I want
most.”
Finally, Jerome protested, “Then you tell me,
on your birthday, and you shall have it.
“Do you promise, Jerome?”
“Yes, Lord, anything at all.”
Jesus replied, “Give me your sins…”
The most precious gift for Jesus in this Christmas s
our sins giving away our by making a good
confession.
When we celebrate birthday of somebody dear to
us we give the gift what the person likes not what
we like.
He wants our heart.
Mt 5:8 “ “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God.”
Ps 24: 4-5 “He who has clean hands and a pure
heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false,
and does not swear deceitfully. 5 He will receive
blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the
God of his salvation.
Is 59:1-3 “ Behold, the LORD’s hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
2
but your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you
so that he does not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue mutters wickedness.

Unless we desire to have a pure heart we will
never have, and if we don’t have pure heart we
will never see God means we will never
experience Him. Our hear might have grown so
called that we don’t desire. Today open your
mouth tell Jesus put that desire in us to thirst for
pure heart.
Proverbs 13:2a “ From the fruit of his mouth a
good man eats good,”
The light came into the world but people loved
darkness more that light. By their own….they are
condemned
In Is…… we read workd of God telling us that our
sins accuses us, follow us
Not just hate sin but also hate sinful situations.
Sirach …….son run away from sin as you run away
from serpents their teeth are sharper that double
edged sword…….

Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of

the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits” There are seven weakness in every human being,
and if not checked it will be a disaster
Romans 10:9 “ if you confess with your lips that
Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God PLACES G
raised him from the dead, you will be saved. “ 1. Pride: If we ask oneself? Am I proud?
Spontaneous prayer……. Probably you would kn
2. Lust (
Remember 3. Anger
4. Covetousness
God hates sins but not the sinner. Where the men
5. Envy (
hate sinners not the sins.
6. Sloth
Example: Woman caught in adultery… all had 7. Gluttony
stone in hand except Jesus. What did Jesus said to
the woman sin no more.

Remember there are people standing around yes

holding stone to throw at us, might be for one
mistake of yours they have thrown stone at you,
stone of humiliation, accusation………

Jesus will never throw stone at you. He says I have

not to condemn the world but to save the world.

But also remember we stand because of our sins.