At this time of year, we often think the blessing of family and friends.

We must never forget, however, that the greatest blessing of Christmas is Christ himself.

Today, we look with Scott Pauli at the eternal blessings found

in the Word of God.

We've come today to our final study in this series. We've been talking about all the blessings

associated with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I want to remind you that the blessings

did not end with his birth. In fact, that just set in motion everything that the Lord was doing.

And so I want to end this particular series with where the Lord continues the work

of redemption through His son, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in Matthew chapter 2. Now we know this verse well.

We've heard it perhaps many times in recent days. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea

in the days of Herod the King,

behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.

So the chapter opens with his birth, but it closes with his childhood.

When the chapter closes, he is in Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophets,

he should be called a Nazarene. And so we go into the boyhood years, the childhood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, here's what I want to draw your attention to today, and that is God's geography.

There are three locations connected to the boyhood years, the youthful years of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I don't know if you love geography or not.

I have grown to truly love Bible geography because it opens up so much scripture.

For example, years ago, someone showed me the placement of the Garden of Gassimony at the Mount of Olives

and how easy it would have been for the Lord on the night of his arrest and betrayal

to have seen the mob coming after him in the middle of the night and to have escaped.

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