Today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. Greer is getting to the heart of the Christmas story.

This Christmas, I want the mystery of the incarnation to overwhelm you, to just overwhelm you,

to see it with those eyes, to feel it, that what he was doing, he was doing for you as the son of God, he could feed

5,000, but as the son of man he became hungry so that he could say to you and to me,

I'm the bread of life.

Whoever comes to me will never hunger. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Vittevich.

We're so glad that you're back with us today as we journey one step closer to Christmas Day.

Okay, so have you ever had one of those moments when you're singing along with a song

and you know every word, every guitar riff, you've heard it a million times

but all of a sudden something clicks and you realize

what the song is actually about? Well a similar thing can happen with familiar

Bible stories like the Christmas narrative. Today Pastor Jady is urging us to look at the Christmas story

with fresh eyes so we can discover the true wonder

of God becoming man.

He is teaching from a first century song

recorded in Colossians chapter 1 versus 15 to 20.

Let's join him now.

This that you're about to look at is a Christmas song. You see, scholars tell us that what

Paul does in verse 15, halfway through this chapter in Colossians, is he breaks into a song.

We're going to go through it line by line because in it Paul gives one of the clearest

descriptions of who Jesus is. In short, his answer, Jesus God. He's going to say it in a half

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