Why did Christ come into the world to save sinners?

To go to a cross, to shed His blood, through death,

pay the price for sin in order that He might present you to God

holy and blameless and beyond for Christ.

Even though Christmas is still several weeks away, you've probably already started thinking

about your Christmas must-do list.

Perhaps it includes shopping for loved ones, visiting family and friends, going to school

plays, and baking those traditional Christmas treats.

While those activities certainly have their place, how do you make sure that doesn't

distract you from what matters the most when it comes to your Christmas celebration?

Consider that today on Grace to You as John MacArthur continues his series on Christ's

birth titled The Best of Christmas.

And with the lesson now, here's John.

I want you to look in your Bible to Colossians 1.

Among all of the passages of Scripture that we might have looked at to see the reality

of the child who was God, none is more grand than this one in the first chapter of Colossians.

And I want you to see a portrait painted by the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of

the Holy Spirit that gives us a series of strokes that reveal Jesus Christ.

In each of these five strokes represents a particular relationship.

We see Christ and His relationship to God, then in His relationship to the created universe,

then to the unseen world, then to the church, and then to all other revelations.

Let's start with Jesus in His relation to God, verse 15.

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