The Ugliness of Christmas
Grace to You: Radio Podcast
John MacArthur
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Christmas is this. |
| 0:01.5 | Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. |
| 0:05.4 | There's no other way. |
| 0:07.7 | There's no other cure. |
| 0:09.8 | Sin is a disease cured only by one thing, and that is the blood of the divine physician himself. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. |
| 0:29.0 | On today's broadcast, John begins a series of messages that can help you focus on what matters |
| 0:36.0 | most this holiday season, the Birth of Christ. |
| 0:39.4 | It's a collection of some of John's most popular Christmas sermons from over 54 years in ministry. |
| 0:45.8 | John has titled this study The Best of Christmas. |
| 0:49.2 | Well, John, more of a personal question as we get this series started. After so many years of |
| 0:55.1 | studying and preaching on the birth of Christ, what is it that still stops you in |
| 1:00.2 | your tracks when you approach the topic? why will listeners want to stay with you over the next two weeks? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, because the person of Jesus Christ is so utterly inexhaustible. |
| 1:13.0 | Everything that occurred in his incarnation is in itself profound. |
| 1:20.0 | And I've never been at a point where I've said oh okay I got all of that that there's |
| 1:24.3 | possible to understand it is endless there is I mean we all know that there's a |
| 1:29.7 | sort of a milk level of Christian truth and doctrine, and then there's a deeper meat level, and then |
| 1:35.6 | you could go even beyond that. |
| 1:37.8 | There's almost the heavenly food level where you just go even more deeply into the word of God and it goes from understanding to worship |
| 1:46.6 | and adoration. |
| 1:47.6 | So no, everything about Christ is inexhaustible and because in the scripture take the birth of Christ |
| 1:56.0 | for example you have so many passages that relate to that. |
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