Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 23rd.

Do you know someone who plans a lot for Christmas?

Well, no one did that more than God.

Today's podcast shows just how much planning went on before that first Christmas.

I want to begin today a series of three messages to answer the question why Jesus came.

So, in order to do that and to lay a real foundation for that, if you'll turn to Genesis

chapter 12, and I want us to read the first three verses together, Genesis chapter 12.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from

thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee.

And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt

be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that cursed thee

and in these shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Now if I should ask, why did Jesus Christ come to this earth 2,000 years ago?

90% of the people would probably answer in order to save me from my sins.

And that is true.

But that is not the only reason Jesus came.

And I think one of the most beautiful demonstrations of the faithfulness of God

is wrapped up in the whole concept of Christmas and Bethlehem and what happened the night that Jesus

Christ was born. But I want us to see something here because what God did for Abraham, he has also done for us.

And so the first reason I want us to see for Jesus Christ coming was this, that Jesus Christ

came in order to fulfill an irrevocable, unchanging, unalterable covenant promise which he made to Abraham

some 6,000 years ago.

About 4,000 years before Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem.

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