4 Reasons We Can Trust Jesus | Advent | John 1:1-3

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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So why is Jesus's birth such a big deal? How can we know he's for real? Why should you even trust Jesus? Tanya (and John) share four reasons why you can trust Jesus as found in John 1:1-3. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: John 1:1-3 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Today we're looking at how the Christmas story
0:15.3	unfolds in the first three verses of John, John chapters 1-1 through 3 and we're going
0:20.6	to find that the real Christmas story isn't a hallmark movie.
0:23.8	If that were the case, there would definitely be a small town.
0:27.2	There would be a woman who moves back to said small town from her big city job.
0:31.7	There would be a guy who is a firefighter that
0:33.9	saves her cat when she moves back and there would be a Christmas lighting
0:37.7	ceremony and a parade in the street where they kiss while the snow is falling
0:41.3	and live happily ever after.
0:43.0	Our culture has bought into a narrative that the true meaning of Christmas
0:47.0	is being together and warm moments of nostalgia and love.
0:52.0	Today we're going to look at the way John, the disciple Jesus loved,
0:58.0	delivered the Christmas story in the first three verses of his gospel account. He doesn't start with one night in
1:05.8	Bethlehem. John opens, in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. He was with God in the beginning.
1:16.5	All things were created through him and apart from him, not one thing that was created has been created.
1:24.0	John totally gets the beauty of a trifecta.
1:27.0	He tells us three times in uniquely beautiful ways what we need to know.
1:32.0	The word is the beginning. The word is the
1:36.4	creator. But what happened in the beginning and who or what is the word? Well first let's focus on the first three words in the
1:46.7	beginning. The way John begins his gospel should take us back to the pages of
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