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 approach.

Welcome to Grace to You, featuring the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

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, or visiting family and friends, or going to

school plays, or making those traditional Christmas treats. While those activities certainly have

their place, how do you make sure they don't distract you from what matters most when it comes to your Christmas celebration?

Consider that today on Grace to You as we continue a series of some of John MacArthur's most popular Christmas messages through the years.

It's called The Best of Christmas.

With today's lesson called The Child Who Was God, here's John. I want you to look in your Bible of Colossians chapter 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, and each of these five strokes represents a particular relationship.

We see Christ in 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.

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