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We're here today to the Worship.

The Lord, we are here today to celebrate his birth.

What we going to do, and we are also here today.

To draw closer to the Lord.

So before we even begin the sermon today, and I want to thank Richard Myrna and Justin for singing, wonderful music is always good for a preacher to hear good music before he gets up the free because it he did it just fires him up you know so I like that.

But if you're here today and you know, Christ as your savior I just want to say that you don't know how rich you are.

And if you're here today and you don't know Christ as your savior, you've never invited him into your heart.

You don't know how rich you can be.

When you leave here this morning and I'm going to try to explain that today about the riches that we have.

And if you'll take your Bibles and let me tell you, now we're going to look at three scriptures today but the main scripture that we're going to look at it 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 9.

So if you'll take your Bibles and turn their 2nd Corinthians 8, And verse 9.

And what I want to do today is I want to talk about the sacrifice of Christmas.

You know, when we think about Jesus sacrifice, we think about Easter, we think about Jesus, sacrificing his life, the ultimate sacrifice.

He gave his life for us and, of course, that's true.

But today I want to take maybe you may think it's something unique, but I want to look at the sacrifice that Jesus made.

To come to this Earth as a man.

The sacrifice that it took.

A matter of fact, when you leave here today, I hope that if someone ever asked you how to spell Christmas that you may say sacrifice, sacrifice, that's how you spell Christmas.

So I want you to look at 2nd Corinthians 8:9.

For, you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That though he was rich.

yet for your sakes, he became poor That you through his poverty might become.

Rich.

Could you put that up on the screen Vicki?

Let's read that again for, you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich.

When it says he was rich, what is talkin about was when he was in heaven before he came to Earth, he was rich.

And we're going to talk about that today.

How rich he was yet for your sakes, he became poor.

And we're going to talk about how he became poor that you through his poverty.

Might become rich.

You know, this is kind of that's a paradox of scripture.

How do you become rich from someone that's poor?

You know, if if I want, if I want an inheritance, it better come from someone that's rich.

I mean, that's how you going to get an inheritance, someone that's rich.

That's how are you going to be rich?

But yet the Bible says here that he became poor, and through his poverty, we might become rich.

So we're going to explain all that today, but I just want to say thank the Lord.

Thank God for the birthday of the Lord.

Jesus Christ that we celebrate today.

And have you ever thought about this?

If it were not for his birthday today, what would your birthday mean?

And I'm asking this talkin to a Christian.

What would your birthday mean?

What would the cards?

What would the candles and the cakes?

All mean on your birthday?

Let me tell you what it with me.

Here's what it would mean apart from his birthday.

Your birthday would mean that you're one year closer.

The death and judgement.

That's the only thing you would have to celebrate right there.

If you're here today and you've never accepted Christ on your birthday.

The only thing that you have to celebrate is that your one year closer to death and judgment, but because of his birthday, every birthday that we have is Christian's.

We're one year closer to Glory with one year closer to seeing the Lord.

Jesus with one year closer to going to our Heavenly home, having Heavenly fellowship.

And we're going to see him face to face because of his birthday.

Because he came to this earth.

Well, there's three wonderful trews.

I want to show you tonight or today rather.

Jesus was rich.

Jesus became poor.

And at the end, I'm going to show you how you can become rich today.

That's what Christmas is all about.

Well, so let's get into this.

And let's talk about how the Lord was rich.

As the Bible, says here in 2nd Corinthians 8:9 in the first points on the back of your bulletin is the Lord's.

Glorious possession.

We going to look at what he possessed in heaven.

Wow, why?

He was so rich.

Now to do that we're going to have to turn to a scripture that tells us now you don't have to turn in your Bible because we're going to put it up here on the screen.

But I want you to look at Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:6.

And I think that I have with me today, I do my laser pointer.

You don't I don't break that out often, but I'm going to break it out today and I want you to look at Isaiah 9:6 For unto us.

A child is born.

Speaking of Jesus's birth unto us, a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder.

And his name will be called, wonderful, counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting, father, and Prince of Peace.

Let me tell you how rich Jesus was, cuz you going to have to understand this.

If you going to understand how you can become rich, number one, Jesus was rich in his person.

Look, What?

Isaiah says here and 96, he says, and the government will be upon his shoulder, his name will be called, wonderful, counselor, Mighty God.

What's the net worth of everlasting?

Father, he was rich in his person.

What did Jesus say when he was on Earth?

He said, if you have seen the father, you have seen me.

He said, in John, I and the father are one.

What is he saying?

He saying I'm rich in person because Jesus Christ.

Listen to this carefully.

Jesus Christ is the Eternal God.

Jesus Christ was God, he was in heaven with the father 33 in one.

God, the Father God, the son, God the spirit, but it's one.

God, Jesus was God.

He's the Eternal God is beginning, did not begin in Bethlehem matter fact, he never had a beginning.

He's always existed from eternity past.

There was never a time when Jesus was not.

He's always been.

And when he was born, that little baby laying in that feeding trough that Christmas morning, I want you to listen to this.

He was as old as his father.