Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for December 25th, Christmas Day.

Jesus intends to do much more for us than offer to take us to heaven when we die.

Celebrate the birth of Jesus by embracing his abundant life.

Would you turn to John chapter 10?

And this is the third and the last in our series of messages on why Jesus came?

And we have mentioned the first is that he came in order to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant that God promised Abraham,

that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through him. so his son Isaac Jacob Jacob had 12 sons one of whom was Judah through whom Jesus Christ was born and surely

all the nations of the earth have been blessed as a result of his coming. The second message was that

Jesus Christ came in order to redeem mankind.

He says he was born of woman, born under the law, in order to redeem us.

They were under the law that we might be freed and liberated in him.

And then in John chapter 10, Jesus very clearly says there is a third reason that he came.

And to miss this reason is only to experience a part of what God has for his children.

So what does he mean when he says,

he came that you and I may have life and have it more abundantly?

Let me ask you this.

You know that Jesus Christ is living within you today. You know that you're saved. There came a time in your life when you accepted him. But let me ask you this.

Since that time, has your life been characterized by struggle? Wanting to do right, but somehow can't seem to do right.

Wanting to be better, desiring to be better, promising to do better, but somehow falling back down to the lower level.

Full of worry, heartaches, disappointments, things about yourself you don't like.

Maybe at times trying to live up to God's level and stand it and somehow recognizing that you can't do it and so wanting to give up.

The truth is, my friend, that is where most of God's children are.

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