Sermon
The Greatest Gift
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Speaker: Jonathan Pokluda
December 24, 2025 · 29 min
Summary
Through a creative Christmas pageant, the pastor teaches that salvation is God's gift to receive, not a performance to earn. Drawing on Luke 2 and Romans 6:23, he explains that eternal life comes through faith in Christ's death and resurrection, received like a child receives a gift—with simple trust rather than works or merit.
Highlights
The gift we receive at Christmas is our ticket in. You received the greatest gift anyone could ever ask for.
How do you get into heaven? You receive a gift. There's no other relationship on earth that is not performance-based like this.
Tonight, you don't need fixing. You don't need to promise anything. You don't need to clean anything up. Wherever you're at right now, what you need to do is you need to receive the gift.