CHRISTMAS… WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Jesus birth changed the calendar of human history

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No other one person in history has brought more change to the world than Jesus

CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT DEALING WITH THESE PROBLEMS:

People don’t feel loved

People live feeling incomplete

People live in condemnation and failure

1. People live in condemnation and failure

People live in fear

2. People live in fear

Two Gifts Christmas Offers You

1. The Opportunity to experience your true identity

You Are loved and adored

God has made you heirs of God and Co-heirs with Christ.

Romans 8:16–17 NIV - Anglicised

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

2. The Opportunity to experience true freedom

He delivered us from the kingdom of darkness (the sense ruled world dominated by the law performance) and relocated us into the kingdom where the love of his son rules. (Mirror Bible)

Colossians 1:5 NIV - Anglicised

the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel

Why Did Jesus Come?

In Short...He wants you to experience all that he is, inside of him, forever!

Jesus said to pray:

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done

Matthew 6:10 NIV - Anglicised

your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Jesus birth changed the course of time.

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No other one person in history has brought as much change to the world.

Christmas Is About Love

Have you ever loved someone?

How do you define love?

This is how

This is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son

1 John 4:10 NIV - Anglicised

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

God so loved that he gave

John 3:16 NIV - Anglicised

“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.

I have loved you with an everlasting love

Jeremiah 31:3 NIV - Anglicised

The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us

Romans 5:8 NIV - Anglicised

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Christmas Is About Freedom

What is Freedom to you?

Freedom is not being able to do whatever you want but the power to do what you know is best.

Satan’s plan is domination of you through your lusts and desires

Jesus purpose is for you to live in complete freedom

Freedom from condemnation, rejection, failure and fear

Sting of death is sin, power of sin is the law

1 Corinthians 15:56 NIV - Anglicised

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

All who rely on observing the law are under a curse

Galatians 3:10–14 NIV - Anglicised

All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”Clearly no-one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

The reason the Son of Man appeared was to destroy the works of the devil

1 John 3:8b NIV - Anglicised

He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

Christmas Is About Experiencing the Life of Heaven

Loving being you

Having the freedom to be creative and to fulfill your divine destiny

I came that they might have life

John 10:10 NIV - Anglicised

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

In him was life, and that life was the light of men

John 1:4 NIV - Anglicised

In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

Through the obedience of the one man, many will be made righteous

Romans 5:13–21 NIV - Anglicised

for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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