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Title of the Series this Morning

Experience The Gifts of Christmas

Title of the Message this Morning

Experience The Gift of Love - 2

Big Idea:

Christmas is more than just a season of romance—it's the ultimate love story of God's sacrificial love in sending Jesus.

While holiday songs and traditions might focus on romantic love, the real message of Christmas is about accepting, experiencing, and sharing the profound, life-changing love of God.

My goal this morning, is to invite you to a deeper understanding of the true gift of Christmas, exploring how God's love not only transforms us but also overflows to impact the world around us.

Prayer:

“God, thank You that in this season of Advent we can experience the gift of Your love.

Help us to accept, embrace, and share Your love with others this season.

Please continue to fill us with expectation as we live in Your love and wait for the complete fulfillment of that love when Christ comes again.”

Main Scripture: Ephesians 3:17–19, 1 John 4:9-11

Introduction

What would Christmas be without the songs and carols?

Bear with me because today we are going to play a little game.

It’s called “Name That Christmas Song.”

I’ll read a phrase from a well-known holiday song, and you try to think of the song title.

Ready? Here we go.

● We’re snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be. (“Sleigh Ride”)

● When we finally kiss goodnight, how I’ll hate going out in the storm. But if you really hold me tight, all the way home I’ll be warm. (“Let It Snow”)

● Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree won't be the same, dear, if you’re not here with me. (“Blue Christmas”)

● Please have snow and mistletoe and presents under the tree. (“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”)

● Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop. (“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”)

● In the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he is Parson Brown. He’ll say are you married; we’ll say no man. But you can do the job when you’re in town. (“Winter Wonderland”)

Okay, if you couldn’t get any of those, here is one for the rest of us. Hint: The song title is the same as the lyrics!

● All I want for Christmas is you. (“All I Want for Christmas Is You”)

Do you notice a theme here?

Valentine’s Day may get all the glory for being the holiday of love, but it’s pretty clear that Christmas holds a corner on the market as the season of love and romance.

In fact, in the “2014 American Wedding Study” conducted by Brides magazine, researchers found that 19 percent of all engagements occur in December, making it the most popular month to get engaged.

And can you guess what day is the most popular to pop the question?

Statistics show that Christmas Eve is the most popular day for engagements.

More people get engaged on Christmas Eve than on Valentine’s Day.

The challenge for all of us is to not miss the true gift of love this season.

This love story has been written for all of us.

The story of true, faithful, unending, sacrificial love.

It’s God’s lavish love in the sending of His son, Jesus.

Love has been God’s story from the beginning.

From the moment of creation, God’s love was part of the fabric of our world.

God’s love was with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden both before and after sin entered the world.

God showed His love by saving Noah and his family from the flood and giving them a new start.

In the Old Testament God gave the commandments and law in love as a way for His people to atone for their sin and stay connected to Him.

And His love turned the world inside out when He sent His Son to live among us—the God of the universe to be born in a stable, die on the cross, and rise again from the grave.

It took love to disrupt and overturn the power of death and evil.

This love is the second gift of Christmas that we experience this Advent season.

Main Teaching

If you were with us last week, you know that we began a journey through the season of Advent with the gift of hope.

The word Advent means “coming” or “arrival,” and this season is marked by expectation, waiting, anticipation, and longing.

Advent is not just an extension of Christmas, it is a season that links the past, present, and future.

Advent offers us the opportunity to share in the ancient longing for the coming of the Messiah, to celebrate His birth, and to be alert for His second coming.

Last week l talked about hope past, present, and future as we looked at a few prophecies about Jesus’s coming,

Today we will be discussing the topic of love.

Have you ever been with kids as they unwrap gifts on Christmas?

The excitement of opening up their presents, actually playing with whatever toy or game is inside.

The worst thing is a gift without batteries or a gift that requires adult setup.

Kids want to unwrap and dive in.

That’s what we are going to do today with the gift of love—dive right in…

And what better way to “dive in” than to receive and accept the gift we’ve been given.

1. Accept His Love

I’m going to guess that if I just say the reference John 3:16, many of us online hear the familiar verse run through our heads automatically.

Just in case, it goes like this: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

The problem is, sometimes we are so familiar with this verse that we can recite it and look right past it, but God’s love in sending Jesus is the one love that changes everything.

We know the verse so well that we can overlook it if we’re not careful.

But this was and is the ultimate gift and act of sacrificial, holy, complete, and infinite love.

The message of this verse is the core of what we believe.

So it makes sense that we should start here at the center:

God loved the world.

He gave His Son.

When we accept that gift and believe in Him, we are given His life—salvation and eternal life.

We must accept the gift.

For some of you here today, this step of accepting the gift of God’s love and believing in Jesus may be very difficult.

It may be something you’ve struggled with for a long time, it may be a brand-new idea for you, or it may be a gift you’ve neglected for a while.

Maybe you feel unlovable.

Maybe you’ve been burned by human love too many times to trust that there’s something greater.

Maybe you think, “You don’t know what I’ve done.

You don’t know the dark secrets and doubts and fears and pain inside.”

And the truth is, maybe I don’t, but God does—and the love He offers sees and knows and understands.

The love that God offers is the gift of His son; Jesus Christ.

No matter what challenges or hurts you hold, God’s love can handle them and heal them.

Wherever you are on the journey today it’s okay.

God knows.

He understands.

And His response is perfect love.

Wherever you find yourself, I encourage you to accept the gift of God’s love.

Accept His gift to you, and experience the lavish love of God.

2. Experience His Love

During this season of Advent, may we all also experience the love of God deeply.

It’s easy to be distracted by all the things that need to get done in the next few weeks.

It’s easy to read the headlines and wonder if love really can overcome the darkness and hatred in our world.

It’s easy to allow worry over tomorrow—or next week or next year—to overwhelm us and keep us from feeling loved.

All those things matter—God does not ask you to ignore those things in order to experience His love.

You don’t have to purge or rid yourself of hurry or worry.

He invites you to bring them to Him, to surrender the deepest hurts and concerns of your life to Him and allow Him to fill you and renew you with His love.

And the good news is that the love He gives through His Son Jesus Christ is enough.

The apostle Paul described the type of love we can experience,

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38–39).

This is a powerful love—the most powerful love.

It is love that can’t be contained or constrained by any power in the universe, not evil, not death, no person or power.

But it’s a love that’s meant to be experienced.

Going back to our example of a kid on Christmas day, this is not a gift to accept and unwrap and then put on a shelf.

It’s more like a new favorite stuffed animal to embrace and carry and hold and love till its ears wear off—or a complete set of clothes to put on and live in.

These examples don’t begin to do God’s love justice, but I hope you get the idea.

Let this season be one of embracing God’s love fully and experiencing His love in new and deep ways as we continually open our hearts and hands and minds and lives to Him…

As we do this we will be filled, hopefully overflowing, and we will want to share His love with others.

3. Share His Love

Have you ever been in love?

If so, there’s a good chance you’ve done something loud or crazy to proclaim your love to the world. Right?

Maybe you proclaim it on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or some other social media platform of choice.

The gift of God’s love is the same way—it’s for sharing.

Once we accept and experience the love of God, the next natural step is to share it, to let it overflow out and around us.

John addressed this process in

1 John 4:9–11: “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

God’s love comes to us and flows through us. The more we embrace and experience it, the more we share it with others.

Conclusion

What would it look like for you this season to accept, experience, and share the love of God?

It could mean spending quality time with family.

It could mean reconnecting with a friend who has drifted away.

It might mean serving neighbors or strangers or seeking out someone you suspect is lonely or hurting.

It might mean forgiving someone who has hurt you or apologizing to someone you have hurt.

There are endless ways to allow God’s love to flow through you as you love others as He has loved you.

Think of one way right now that you can share God’s love this week.

Then keep your heart and eyes open to the world around you as Christmas approaches.

Let’s keep our focus on making this a season of love.

May this be a season of accepting, experiencing, and sharing God’s gift of love in a new or deeper way.

Let’s pray together.

Salvation:

The Word of God says in: John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Romans 10:13 NKJV

For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

If you’d would like to receive Jesus today, please pray this prayer with all of us:

Lord I believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that He died On the cross for my sins and His resurrection from the dead gives me eternal life. I ask forgiveness of my sins, and I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Amen.

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Pepper Praise Reports

Victor was able to go to Thanksgiving Dinner at his sister’s house

Kia’s good friend, Blakley had a car accident with her 5 and 7 year boys in the car..

she fell asleep, ran a red light and hit an elderly couple couple..

No one was injured.. Praise God everyone was ok.

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Kia’s friend Blakley - Car accident.

Victor - Healing - update

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Benediction

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38–39).

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” -Madeliene L’Engle (Lang ill)

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