The greatest Christmas blessings are not the gifts wrapped and placed under a Christmas

tree. They are the ones that are wrapped up in Christ. He is the gift, and he was given by God

to you.

The gift doesn't end with salvation through Jesus.

That is simply the beginning of the blessings given to you by the Lord.

Join Scott today for this study, Christmas blessings,

and let your heart be encouraged with scriptural promises of Christ's coming.

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

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