The Stars and Scars of Christmas, Part 1

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This Christmas Eve, dust off the classic story of the birth of Jesus. Instead of seeing His birth in Bethlehem underneath the star in isolation, consider the big picture. The late Pastor Adrian Rogers reminds us that Christ was born to bear the scars of painful Roman whips and the cruel crucifixion to take the punishment for our sins. That's true, unconditional love!

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0:00.0	Well, hello everyone and Merry Christmas to you all.
0:10.7	I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm so happy you joined us today on this very special day,
0:17.6	and it's a pleasure to have a chance to bring this program to you. It's a very special
0:23.9	broadcast of family talk. Our guest is going to be one of our friends, the late Pastor Adrian
0:31.5	Rogers. How I loved that man. He was like a brother to me. He served on my board when I was president of
0:39.3	Focus on the Family, and he had a great influence on us all. I mean, just his presence changed
0:45.8	the character of our board. We still pray for his widow Joyce and their family. They're just
0:53.9	wonderful people.
0:55.5	Pastor Rogers was founder and president of a radio and TV ministry called Love Worth Finding.
1:02.7	And he was also senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
1:09.8	And what you're going to hear today is a sermon that he preached
1:14.9	at Bellevue, and it was later heard on Loveworth Finding. This is what we call a classic program,
1:23.7	and I know that you're going to enjoy it. And the title that Dr. Rogers put on it was Stars and Scars of Christmas.
1:38.2	This is Theology 101.
1:40.8	Are you ready for the test?
1:43.0	One question on the test. is Jesus God or man?
1:48.5	All right. The answer to that question is yes. He is the God man. God in human flesh. The prophet Isaiah said, us a child is born, and unto us a son is given.
2:07.5	When Isaiah said a child is born, he was speaking of his humanity.
2:13.1	When he said a son is given, he was speaking of his deity. He is the God man. Now, as a child,
2:24.9	he was born in Bethlehem. As God, he has ruled from eternity. He did not have his beginning,
2:34.0	only his birth at Bethlehem.
2:37.9	The star pointed the way to where the child was in the Christmas story, but there's a darker
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