and his name will be on their foreheads.

This is Christmas feature and aren't we glad that among all those things he was the

Lamb?

The Lamb of God, John the Baptist said, who takes away what, sins of the world. Welcome to this Christmas Day edition of Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson. Today millions around the world are gathering with family,

recalling a town called Bethlehem, a child born in a stable and laid in a manger,

and when you hear those familiar Christmas truths, you're probably not thinking about what's going to happen the next time Jesus comes.

Yet the return of Jesus is an essential and often neglected part of the Christmas story.

John MacArthur explains why today in a message he calls Christmas future.

But before the lesson, John, let me wish you and Patricia and your family a wonderful Christmas celebration today.

Monday is a great day for Christmas.

Yesterday was full of worship and today we can ponder the incarnation and spend time with our families.

So typically what does this day look like for you?

Well I think you just noted one thing.

When it comes on a Monday, it's sort of front-loaded with the full worship and the Sunday of course is the day

when we tell the Christmas story and worship the Lord together with the church and that adds a wonderful

special dimension to it but it's like any family I think it's it's a day for

joy it's a day for the family to come together.

We meet in one of the homes of one of the kids these years.

Used to be all of them at our house,

but they've kind of spread them around among our kids and

the family gets together and we talk about all that the Lord has done. We use the

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