I Believe in Christmas

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🗓️ 22 December 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Pastor Robert shares with us regarding the reason for the Christmas season—God coming down and living among us as Jesus. Jesus was and is fully God, and fully man—and the best Christmas gift ever given, reconciling us completely to God.

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0:00.0	All right I want you to turn in your Bibles to two passages. I want you to open to Matthew
0:05.2	Chapter 1 and then put a marker at Isaiah 7. So open your Bibles to Matthew Chapter 1 and then put a marker at Isaiah Chapter 7 and then
0:17.8	you'll be able to flip over there quickly.
0:19.7	Matthew 1 and Isaiah 7. The title of the message today is I believe in Christmas. I believe
0:27.2	in Christmas and the reason I decided to to put it in the first person I is
0:32.4	because I want each of you as you take notes and as you
0:35.4	remember this message, I want you to make the same declaration.
0:38.7	And each of the points will begin with I.
0:41.0	I believe in Christmas. Now one of the reasons I'm saying this is there is a concerted
0:46.8	effort today to take Christ out of Christmas. And I just want to boldly declare it is not season's greetings.
0:56.8	It is not happy holidays.
0:59.4	It is Mary Christmas. It is Mary Christmas.
1:02.8	It is Mary Christmas.
1:06.3	It is the celebration of Christ's birth.
1:09.8	The word Christmas comes from two words, obviously Christ, the Greek word, and then Mass is a Latin
1:15.7	word which means celebration or festival.
1:19.1	It is the celebration of Christ.
1:22.2	And so I want us to go through the story and talk about two truths
1:26.5	about Christmas that we need firmly established in our lives. So Matthew
1:31.3	Chapter 1, look at verse 18.
1:34.0	Matthew 1 verse 18.
1:37.1	Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows.
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