Christmas happened ‘to you’ and ‘for you’"For there is born to you this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11). Merry Christmas! In the name of Jesus. Amen. There is born to you a Savior. He comes to save you. He comes to bring peace to His people on earth. He comes to reconcile God and sinners. He comes to us and we are saved!Everything depends on that Baby in the manger coming to you. Your salvation, your forgiveness, your life, your reconciliation, your resurrection, your redemption — your everything. For without that little Baby, we are totally lost and condemned, eternally separated from God by our sins, and are never at peace. Without Baby Jesus, we cannot be saved.But Jesus has come. The Virgin conceived and bore forth her first-born Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in the manger, because there was no room in the inn.That's not a story, it's what actually happened. Yet, it's not enough that it actually happened. No, what saves us from the terrible things we do and say both to God and to one another is that all of this happened "to you" and "for you."So, the angel points the way. "You'll find Him where I announce to you He is." He announced, the choir of heavenly hosts sang, and they went and found Him exactly where they said He'd be — right down to the manger.But Baby Jesus doesn't come "to you" anymore in the manger, does He? He isn't on the Cross, where He won your salvation, either. No, He comes to you today in His Word and in His Supper.As you hear and sing His Word today and eat His Body and Blood, Baby Jesus comes "to you." He came in the manger and He delivers Himself to you this Christmas in His gifts of Word and Sacrament. "To you" is for you! Merry Christmas "to you!" In the name of Jesus. Amen.