Wk 3: How to Have a Great Christmas

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🗓️ 13 December 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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"Christmas is the end of thinking you are better than someone else, because Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you." – Tim KellerHave this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[b] being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8

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0:00.0	Well, Merry Christmas.
0:03.5	Everybody doing good? Good. Grab your Bibles if you got them and go to one of the most familiar
0:08.6	Christmas passages, Matthew Chapter 20. Actually, that has nothing to do with Christmas, but I'm going to turn
0:13.2	it into a Christmas sermon. Anybody get a BB gun growing up, an air rifle? Anybody get one growing up?
0:17.8	Okay. All right. Just a few of us. That's what's wrong with the world. Okay, no problem. I did. And me and my brother did when we were kids. And I can remember within the week after he got it, the neighbor came over to our house and said, Mr. Martin, your son, not me. Not me. I was probably praying somewhere. But it said, your son shot out seven windows from our house,
0:39.9	seven windows. So my dad went to him and said, son, if you accidentally shot out a window,
0:43.8	why didn't you tell us? And he said, Daddy, I was aiming right at him. And so he is now the SWAT
0:49.1	commander for St. John's SWAT team. All right? So, praise God. Hey, we are in week three of this series called
0:57.7	Unexpected Hope. What happens when you come face to face with Jesus? And that's what Christmas is.
1:02.1	Christmas is about coming face to face with Jesus. Last week, we talked about misplaced hope,
1:07.0	about putting your hope in the wrong places. And I warned you last week, I'm going to warn you every week, that this Christmas you
1:12.8	will be disappointed once again because you will have some un-met expectations,
1:18.6	especially when you put them into the wrong place.
1:21.2	And you last week wrote down where your hope craws off to sometimes.
1:26.0	And I thank you for your honesty.
1:27.5	And our staff went away this past week on our staff retreat.
1:30.3	And we prayed like crazy for you on Monday night.
1:33.4	And so tonight what I want to do is tonight I want to talk very practically about how do you do that?
1:39.1	How do you put your hope in Jesus?
1:40.5	In other words, what we're going to talk about is this, is how do you have a great
1:44.3	Christmas? And I very rarely ever do this kind of sermon, but tonight I am going to give you five
1:50.0	ways. I want you to think of them, not in steps. I don't like steps, but just five kind of think
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