People want a Christmas without Christ.

They want to displease God but get the benefits of Christmas all year long.

Dr. Tony Evans reminds us that Christmas loses its meaning when we try to celebrate its blessings without its Savior.

You can say Merry Christmas, all you want.

But unless Jesus is the reason for the season, you wind up with another day off from work.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of

Dr. Tony Evans. As we celebrate this Christmas season, Dr. Evans invites us back to Bethlehem, back to the night

when holiness stepped into human history.

Today, he discovers what was happening behind the scenes of that first Christmas and how

those events can strengthen our walk with God.

Let's join him as he begins.

There were some interesting scenarios when Jesus was born.

Maybe you can identify with one of them.

Number one, according to Luke chapter two, there was so much partying going on in Bethlehem,

there was no room for him in the end.

So many people, so much activities, so many festivities, so much concern about census and

passing new tax codes, there was just no spot for Jesus because too much was going on no room for him in the end or

perhaps you can identify with this one King Herod said where is he in Matthew

chapter 2 that I might go and worship him all the time knowing he wanted to kill him?

See the problem with Herod is there wasn't room for two kings.

He can't be king and Jesus be king. One of us has got to go.

But he used worship as the excuse to get rid of him.

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