Four Reasons Christmas Is Special

Ask Pastor John

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Christmas is a day for marveling. Pastor John shares four earth-shaking, soul-satisfying reasons to glory in the coming of the Son of God.

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0:00.0	Good morning on this Christmas day, honored to share this holiday together with you and for you
0:09.3	Patrick on such a day I actually have no question for you. I just want to clear the decks and let you take it
0:16.6	from here to share any front burner thoughts that you have with us. What's on your mind as you think
0:21.5	about scripture and as you meditate on on such a glorious
0:26.5	day like today? On this Christmas day, what I would like to do is try to help you all our listeners marvel at
0:39.0	the coming of the eternal Son of God into the world.
0:42.8	I want to help you marvel today.
0:46.5	Jesus is coming back to this earth, the Bible says,
0:50.2	to be marveled at
0:52.1	among all who have believed.
0:55.0	That's his destiny.
0:56.3	To be marveled at by millions on that day.
1:01.2	And Christmas is a great day for rehearsing what it will be like to marvel at Jesus on that day.
1:11.6	Because Christmas rivets our attention on four stupendous realities
1:20.1	which if we see them, for what they really are, will cause our hearts to marvel.
1:29.8	Number one, the mysterious greatness of God who was simply there before there was anything else.
1:39.7	2. The marvel that this infinite eternal creation the Christ. Three, the happy reason for why he came to creation, a creation in high treason against
2:00.6	him.
2:02.1	And four, the boundless joy offered to all because of what Jesus did
2:09.8	when he came. Let's take these four realities one at a time and see if we can
2:17.7	awaken in our souls Christmas marveling, last day marveling in advance.
2:26.2	Number one, the mysterious greatness of God
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