Christmas Solidarity

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Daily Devotional, John Piper, 163859, Desiring God, Joy, Devotional, Christianity, Jesus, Solid Joys, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

If you want to give a gift to God this Christmas, walk off the assembly line of sin and don’t go back. Take up your place, instead, in the picket line of love.

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0:00.0	December 20, Christmas Solidarity.
0:09.6	The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil, for John 3.8.
0:19.3	The assembly line of Satan turns out millions of sins every day.
0:26.7	He packs them into huge cargo planes and flies them to heaven and spreads them out before
0:33.9	God and laughs and laughs and laughs.
0:39.1	Some people work full time on the assembly line, others have quit their jobs there and
0:45.0	only now and then return.
0:48.6	Every minute of work on the assembly line makes God the laughing stock of Satan.
0:54.6	Satan is Satan's business because he hates the light and beauty and purity and glory
1:00.5	of God.
1:01.5	Nothing pleases him more than when creatures distrust and disobey their Maker.
1:08.6	Therefore, Christmas is good news for man and good news for God.
1:19.2	The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the
1:24.3	world to save sinners, 1 Timothy 1.15, that's good news for us.
1:31.2	The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil, for John 3.8.
1:36.6	That is also good news for God.
1:40.9	Christmas is good news for God because Jesus has come to lead a strike at Satan's assembly
1:46.9	plant.
1:47.9	He has walked right into the plant, called for the solidarity of the faithful and begun
1:54.2	a massive walk out.
1:57.7	Christmas is a call to go on strike at the assembly plant of sin.
2:03.1	No negotiations with the management, no bargaining, just single-minded, unswerving opposition to
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