Welcome to the aggressive life.

This is the fourth and final day of the Christmas countdown.

I hope you've been getting some things that have helped orient or reorient your heart towards Jesus this Christmas.

We're going to look at John chapter 114. You know, the stories around Christmas

in the Bible really come from the books of Matthew and Luke. That's where we see the more

detailed play-by-play and the character interaction around the miraculous virgin birth and other things that are in that area. Book of John, though,

it actually has a very profound statement that is not traditionally read of Christmas, but actually

is Christmas as Christmas gets. I'll read it for you. John chapter 114. It says this,

the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

John 1 chapter 1, it says, in the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God, and it goes on and talking about this word.

The word is their logos, and the logos is known as this

the logos in the first century Greek empire, if you will, Roman Empire, was known as sort of the

cosmic goo that held everything together. That's what the logos was. The word. It's this,

it's this spiritual stuff that just is the real stuff and holds everything, everything together.

And John is making the argument of, hey, whatever holds anything together, that's God.

You may call him Logos, who's actually God, who's actually Jesus.

He's holding it together.

And in this verse, it says that word, that spiritual connective tissue goo that holds everything

together, that word actually became flesh, actual physical flesh and dwelt in our

neighborhood.

That's what Eugene Peterson put it. He the guy wrote the Bible or the translation called

the message which is really not translation it's more every verse Eugene Peterson gives a little

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