In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the real meaning of Christmas.

If you had to state the meaning of Christmas in one sentence, what would you say?

How would you describe what Christmas means to you Christmas in one sentence, what would you say? How would you describe what Christmas

means to you in just one sentence? Would you say that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus? That's

probably what most people would say. Or it is the birthday of the Son of God, or it may be many

other things, but more than likely, most people would define what Christmas

means to them by how they celebrate it. And so if a person's celebration is primarily,

parties and so forth, they would think in terms of this is what Christmas is all about.

But if you'll think about something we have been celebrating all these years,

and how many people

really and truly understand what is this I'm celebrating, especially if you have never

trusted Jesus Christ as your personal savior and God is somebody who's sort of foreign in your

life, what in the world is all this celebration about anyway?

And so what I want to do in this message today is to make it very

clear, what is the real, true, genuine meaning of Christmas? Now, people spending lots of

money, buying lots of gifts, lots of decorations, but do we really and truly understand what all this

is about? So I want you to turn to Luke chapter 2. And in the second

chapter of Luke is, indeed, the account of the birth of our Lord. And I want us to read this,

but I want us to go to another passage also, but so that you and I will not get too familiar.

And sometimes those passages that we know best, we become so familiar with them, we think,

oh, I know that one.

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