Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dialin.

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and thank you for listening to the show.

It's so cool to see how the Lord is using the Dialin podcast all around the world.

And this episode will conclude our mini series on Advent

and be looking at the prophecies regarding the coming of Christ.

Let's dial in.

In one of the Christmas carols that we love, Hark the Herald Angels sing, we sing these words,

Peace on Earth and Mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. These words often sung,

but rarely contemplated, speak to the reason for why the Christ of Christmas was born,

to reconcile sinners to a holy God. As we conclude this mini Advent series, we are compelled to consider the reasoning

for why Christ came in the first place. Of course, I have already discussed in the previous

episode that Jesus came to be the long-awaited king, and he came to be the better tabernacle,

as we saw in our previous episode, and he would dwell amongst his people. But in order for him to be the

king that he claimed to be and to provide us with access to the father, he had to be something else.

He had to be a sacrifice. Now, to us, the word sacrifice means next to nothing. People on diet say

they have to sacrifice the consumption of soda in order to lose

a few LBs, or others may employ the same term because they sacrifice some of their time and money.

But biblically speaking, sacrifice always entails something much more serious than that.

Sacrifice involved the wailing of an animal as it was slaughtered on an

altar as a reminder of God's holiness, God's justice, man's sin, and yet God's love and providing

a system by which the sinner can live and have fellowship with God. Sacrifice always entailed the shedding of blood.

As we previously examined, Adam and Eve's sin ushered in brokenness and death for all mankind.

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