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539 | The Gifts He Brings · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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God is in control.
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She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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or on our website at watwm.org,
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we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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When we think of Jesus being introduced to the world as a babe wrapped in swaddling
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clothes, we may not immediately see the strength, majesty, and incredibleness
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that unfolds with the birth of Jesus.
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Jesus may have come as a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, but he was fully man and fully God.
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He was God's only Son, and he was sent with a mission, a mission to seek and to save the lost.
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His birth was nothing short of extraordinary, and the world will never be the same because He came.
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Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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journey through the Scriptures, revealing the gifts the birth of Jesus brings.
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Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this,
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another opportunity to come before you.
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Lord, we thank you that during this season of giving,
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this season where love is paramount, this season where those of us who know
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you and know you personally are even more drawn to the incredible gift you've
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given us in your Son, Jesus.
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Lord, I pray that you would be with everyone who listens. Lord,
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that you would be in this message, that you would help us to hear what you would
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have each of us to hear individually.
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And Lord, that at the end of this time we've spent together,
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Lord, that we would be closer drawn to you, that we would be more committed
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to walking with you and that we would be more grateful for the incredible gift
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it is to have you in our lives.
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Lord, we love you, we praise you, and we thank you.
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And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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It's Christmas time. It's a time when everybody is thinking about love and everybody
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is giving love and everybody cares about one another.
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People who are normally kind of mean and grouchy, they somehow become sweetened. Perhaps it's the food.
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Perhaps it's all of the sweets and the cookies and the gingerbread and the cakes
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and the pies, but I have to believe some of it is the togetherness.
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And the purpose of the whole season, the reason for the season, which is Jesus Christ.
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And especially among those of
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us who know Christ as Savior. This is a time when we celebrate the birth.
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And I promise you, without the birth, there could have never been a resurrection.
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Without the shedding of blood on the cross of Calvary, there'd be no remission for our sins.
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And so I think it's only fitting that we open and wrap gifts because the greatest
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gift ever known to man came wrapped in swaddling clothes and was lying in a manger.
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I used to always think how incredibly odd it is that at Christmas we give each other gifts.
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That is the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So it's a birthday celebration
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for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
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yet we give each other gifts, and we open up gifts from one another.
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And at my birthday parties, I was the only one that opened up a gift.
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And so I come to my parents often asking questions, and this was no different.
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I come to them asking, why is it that on the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords
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birthday, we are opening gifts for ourselves from each other and not giving gifts to the King?
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They would quietly and lovingly take me by the hand and open up Scripture and
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reveal to me that when we love one another, We are giving gifts.
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He said that we are to love one another as he loved us.
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And these gifts that we're giving to the ones that we love, to our friends and
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our family and our neighbors, these gifts represent the love we have for them.
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It represents how valuable they are to our lives.
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It's an acknowledgment of their presence, so we give them a present.
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I never forgot that lesson. It was a lesson that reminded me that we are put
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here on this earth to spread the gospel of the great story that His is the kingdom and the glory,
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to tell others how to know Jesus as a personal Savior, how to have a personal
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relationship with Him, to be the light in this dark world.
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And it all begins with a loving heart that cares enough to reach out to another.
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And so in many ways, this Christmas time, where we celebrate the birth of Jesus,
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where even sinners who do not call him a savior recognize Christ when they say Christmas.
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I realize that it shouldn't be just one season of the year, that he's called
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us to love one another with great love all the time,
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but that we do need to spread the love of Christ, and we do need to love those that are around us.
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And as I begin to look at Scripture and see what God has to say and begin to
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read the account of the birth of Jesus, I am astounded by the gifts he brings.
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So, if you would please, read with me the account of the birth of Jesus we find in Luke chapter 2,
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and then walk with me through the scriptures as we begin to let the scriptures
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unfold the gifts he brings.
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And perhaps when we're done we will have unwrapped them we will have received
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them and we will be very ready to deliver them.
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Beginning in verse 1 of chapter 2.
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And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus
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that all the world should be taxed.
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And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.
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And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
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And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, unto the city of David,
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which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
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to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child.
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And so it was, that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
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and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
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And there were, in the same country, shepherds abiding in the field,
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keeping watch over the flock by night.
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And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone
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round about them, and they were sore afraid.
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And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings
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of great joy, which shall be to all people.
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For unto you is born this day
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in the city of david a savior which
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is christ the lord and this shall be a sign unto you ye shall find the babe
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wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger and suddenly there was with them
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the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising god and saying glory to
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god in the highest and on earth peace goodwill toward men.
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And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven,
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the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem,
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and see this thing which come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
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And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
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And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told
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them concerning this child.
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And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
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But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.
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May God have his richest blessing on the reading of his word.
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As we begin to look at the gifts this babe in swaddling clothes,
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who is the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
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brings to each and every one of us, we can't help but realize who he is.
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Luke 2.11 tells the world of the splendor, the majesty, the greatness of who this baby is.
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He came as a babe, but he's returning as king.
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And Luke 2.11 says, For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,
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which is Christ the Lord.
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As we begin to look at the gifts that the birth of this child brings.
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We need to first realize why did he come? Why did he come?
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Why did he leave the splendor of heaven where the streets are of gold?
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The angels are singing. There's no pain. There's no sorrow. There's no death.
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There's no hurt. There are no tears.
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Why did he leave the splendor of heaven and not even bring back one piece of
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gold, not one chunk of the Jasper wall, not any of the precious jewels on the gates.
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But he came unpretentious, in low estate, accessible and available to all of us.
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Scripture tells us in Luke 19.10 that he came to seek and to save those which were lost.
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And Romans 3.23 says we're all lost and have come short of the glory of God.
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Friends, the world will try to tell you that your life is good.
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It'll try to tell you that you don't need anything. Those are lies from the
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devil. We have our very breath because God gives it to us.
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And every good and perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights.
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He's watching over us with an amazing plan. So why did he come?
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He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly,
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according to John 10.10.
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But the bottom line is, we could never go to where he is if we had never had
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a Savior come to where we are.
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Why did he come? He come for me, and he came for you.
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He come that we would have abundant life.
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Not a mediocre life not a
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life that is misery not a life that
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is dread friends we need to check what
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we're doing we need to check our hearts we need to check where we're placing
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our faith we need to check what our goals and our purposes are and the strategy
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at which we're living our life if we wake up every morning unhappy and miserable
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because the king of the kings came,
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seeking you while you were lost, providing for you that you may pay a sin debt
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you couldn't pay because you believe in faith and Jesus pays it for you, a debt he did not owe.
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On the cross of Calvary, he took the sins of the world upon himself.
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And he did it because of love.
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That's why he came. So how did he come?
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It's important that we understand how he comes, because this is what distinguishes
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him from every other child ever born, or every other child that will be born.
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Jesus came born of a virgin. In Matthew chapter 1 and verse 18,
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he says, Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when as his mother
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Mary was a spouse to Joseph, before they came together, she was found the child
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of the Holy Ghost. Joseph!
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Was Jesus's earthly father, but there was none of Joseph's blood or DNA in him.
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Jesus was fully man because he was born of a virgin.
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The Holy Ghost created him in Mary's womb. Man had no part of that.
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It's also important that we know that he come as a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes.
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There isn't anything any more delicate, any weaker, or with any more need than a newborn baby.
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He didn't come in power. He came in love. He didn't come in might.
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He came in inclusion. He came that we all would have access to him.
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He was born of a lowly estate. Had he come in
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some magnificent royal regal way only the royals only the regals would have
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been able to access him but no he come that we all would have life and have
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it more abundantly he wishes that none should perish but that all should come to repentance.
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His birth was announced to the shepherds. It wasn't announced in what would
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have been the equivalent in that day and time as the New York Times, the Monday Night News.
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Some big evening podcast or some type of highly followed social media.
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He came to the outcasts. He came to the shepherds.
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It was the shepherds that made themselves available. It was the shepherds that
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he reached out to. It was the shepherds that went.
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When Mary was having the baby, they wanted to see this baby the angels had spoken about.
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In Luke 2.7, as we read in your hearing, he says, And she brought forth her
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firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger
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because there was no room for them in the inn.
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I think many times we are quick to judge the innkeeper.
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We think you were looking at the King of Kings. The Lord of Lords was in your presence.
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The mighty Son of God was right there, and you did not make room for him in
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a proper, wonderful place. But you did find some room for him.
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You put him out in this manger, in this stable.
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You didn't completely turn him out.
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But you certainly didn't give him what he deserved.
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But I would submit to you that each of us must take a moment and really reflect
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in ourselves before we judge the innkeeper.
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Because for many of us, we don't make room for him either.
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We don't give him the best. We don't give him what he deserves.
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We give him the leftover of our energy of the day. We fit him into our schedule.
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We don't put things around him.
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We simply don't make room for him in a way that he deserves.
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He should be the center of all things.
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If you are at all familiar with
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Stephen Covey, he speaks about time management in a very practical way.
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One of the things he says is, it matters what you prioritize.
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And so he uses big rocks to illustrate the big things of your life.
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And my friend, Jesus should be the biggest thing in your life.
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And he uses small gravelly type rocks and rocks of slightly different size to
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represent all the busyness of our day, all the things that we do,
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all the tasks that are important but are not the most important.
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And then he illustrates how important it is to put first things first,
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to prioritize our life around the things that matter.
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Because at first he puts all of the busyness of things, those small rocks and
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those little pebbles, and he puts it in the jar.
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And then he tries to fit in the big rocks of our lives.
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And there simply just isn't room.
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And then he empties it and he shows that when we put the big rocks in,
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when the big rocks are given the priority they deserve, then all of the small things, they fit in.
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Stephen Covey is talking about getting the things done in your life that you need to get done.
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But I believe that same analogy holds very true to us today.
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When we put God first, I'll see you next time.
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We give him our best, our most energy, when he's our top priority,
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and he did say, thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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Gods are not always like Buddha and Confucius. They're sometimes boats and work
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and children and friends and hobbies.
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And this analogy shows us that when we put the thing that matters most in,
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and we get the priority straight in our life, all the other things will fall
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in, reminding me very much of Matthew 6.33.
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But seek ye first the kingdom of
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God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
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The innkeeper, he didn't prioritize baby Jesus.
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He didn't fully discard him, but he didn't prioritize him.
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And I wonder if we are honest with ourselves, if we would be able to say we prioritize Jesus?
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Or do we fit him in wherever we have time? And some days we do, and some days we don't.
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Do we give him the leftover of our energy, the leftover of our concentration,
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the leftover of whatever love that hasn't been absorbed all day?
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Oh, my friend, before we judge the innkeeper,
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let's look at our own lives and let's begin,
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right now at this moment to give him the place he deserves,
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which is king of our heart and lord of our lives he must be front and center
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in his will the center of his will we must strive to live our lives,
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you can't out give him by choosing to put him first in your life by choosing
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to have a personal relationship with Jesus, you will have...
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Opportunity to notice the gifts he brings.
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You'll enjoy what comes from a personal relationship with Jesus.
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First and foremost, we get to unwrap the gift of salvation.
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Romans 10.13 says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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I've been caught a lot of things in my life, nothing more important than a whosoever.
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God has brought his salvation so that you and I would walk free.
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It's important that you know him for who he is, that you allow him to be who he is in your life.
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God loves you, and he proves it over and over.
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The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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When you unwrap the gift of salvation, a whole new world opens up to you.
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You're going to know love like you've never known it before.
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You'll understand who God is in a way like you've never understood him before.
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1 John 4, 14-16 says this.
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We have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
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Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
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And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.
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God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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It was his love that held him on the cross.
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Romans 5.8 tells us that, But God commended his love toward us,
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and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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John 15 13 we read greater love have no man than this that a man would lay down
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his life for his friends the gift that God gives of love is beyond comparison
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God's love is never-ending,
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God's love is complete God's love reaches to the lowest hill and to the highest
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hill He'll reach you and save you from the guttermost to the uttermost.
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And he never leaves you or forsakes you.
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It is a love that you can depend on. It is a love that is strong.
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When we unwrap the gift of God's love.
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Unwrap a precious gift. Wrapped in that swaddling clothes, that babe in that
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manger who is God incarnate and fully man,
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brings with him the gift of grace.
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He tells us that his grace is sufficient.
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In Psalms 84.11, he speaks that no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
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In Ephesians 2, 8, 9, he says this, For by grace are you saved,
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through faith and not of yourselves. It is the gift of God.
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In 2 Corinthians 12, 9, he explains that his grace is sufficient.
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So I submit to you, my friend, the grace of God, it's matchless.
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It's never-ending.
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It's precious. And it's life-giving.
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As we continue to think about what we get when we unwrap this precious gift of the baby of Jesus,
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this incredible gift of Jesus in our life, from his salvation to his love to
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his grace, we find his peace.
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Oh, the world is desperately looking for peace.
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They're trying to find it everywhere they can. and they look upwards and backwards and downward.
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They look in a bottle. They look everywhere they can just to try to find peace.
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But peace isn't found in a bottle. Peace isn't found in a person besides Jesus Christ.
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Admit to you that when the woman at the well in John chapter 4 approaches Jesus
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in midday, it must have been shocking.
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Jews don't talk to Samaritans. She'd come at that time of day in hopes of blending
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in and not being seen from anyone.
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Her life was one of ill repute. She was a social outcast, no doubt ridiculed and mocked.
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And there sits Jesus, who had gone out of his way.
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Through Sychar, put himself in danger to sit and wait for her.
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He seeks and saves the lost.
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And when he meets her, he tells her all about herself, not to condemn her,
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but to let her know, look, don't be ashamed.
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I know all there is to know about you.
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I understand that you've had
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many husbands, and the man that you're living with is not your husband.
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I'm not here to condemn. I'm here to satisfy and to fill you and to save you.
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And he speaks to her about the gift that he has of living water to where she
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drinks of this, she'll never thirst again.
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And after a conversation, she leaves different than she came.
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This woman of ill repute who come
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at a time hoping to not be seen leaves
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in John chapter 4 verse 29 proclaiming come
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see a man he told me all things
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ever I did is not this the Christ this transformation between being ashamed
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and being publicly bold about who God is is a testament to the peace she found
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for the forgiveness that she received because God fills us to overflowing,
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giving us the gift of joy.
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Comes from the gift of peace. He tells us in Isaiah 26.3, that thou will keep
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him in perfect peace to his mind estate on thee, because he trusteth in thee.
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This peace, oh, it's necessary.
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Scripture tells us that the man's born of a woman and a few days full of trouble.
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Jesus himself says in john chapter 16 verse 33 that in this world you will have
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tribulation but be of good cheer i've overcome the world.
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This gift of peace that he gives, it comes from trusting, not in yourself, but in him.
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And as we continue to unwrap the gifts this baby wrapped in swaddling clothes
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brings to each of us, we come to the gift of joy.
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In John chapter 15 and verse 11, he speaks, these things have I spoken unto
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you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
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He came to seek and to save those which were lost. He came that we might have
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life and have it more abundantly.
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He came giving joy, because all things are under his feet.
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We are loved by a magnificent God. We are loved by a God that is not foreign to us, but is close to us.
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And as we draw near to him, he draws near to us. We are loved by a God who says,
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hey, I understand what you've been through.
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He was touched with our infirmities.
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He was tempted like we are, yet without sin.
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So when we come to him, handing him our burden, he invites us to come that we might find rest in him.
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He gives us peace, and then he gives us joy.
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Joy unspeakable and full of glory. We are loved by the Most High God. We are known by Jesus.
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He ever lives to make intercession for us. Jesus prays for you.
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He cares about you, and he says, cast your cares on him, for he cares for you.
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Unwrapping the gift of joy flows naturally once we have the gift of peace in
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our hands and filling our hearts.
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As we continue.
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Look at the gifts that Jesus brings. Submit to you.
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He's our very present help in time of trouble.
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He's our refuge and our strength. He provides us the things we have need of.
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He's our deliverer, our strong tower.
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When we walk through the fire, we won't be burnt.
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Through the flood, but it won't overtake us. He's holding our hand,
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and he goes before us, and he surrounds us, and he loves us.
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This gift of help, so plainly seen as the fourth man in the fire,
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as the one who shut the mouths of lions, who provided for Rahab and the spies,
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who provided for Ruth and Naomi,
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who kept Noah safe,
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who spared Abraham the pain of sacrificing his son, Isaac,
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who joyfully multiplied the cruise of oil and the flower for Elijah and the widow woman.
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From Genesis to Revelations, we are given the greatest love letter ever written.
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And each of its accounts reveals the gifts of God.
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And as we look at them and we meditate upon them and we embrace them, truly we know His joy.
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Something that fully solidifies that gift of joy in our heart,
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kind of anchors it to our soul.
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Gift of his constant presence. Deuteronomy 31.8 says, And the Lord,
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he it is that doth go before thee.
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He will be with thee. He will not fill thee, neither forsake thee.
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Fear not, neither be dismayed. God has you, people, and he's not going anywhere.
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He's never lost a battle, and he's not going to begin by losing yours.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. He sticks closer than a brother.
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The closer I get to him, the closer he comes to me. He's not going to ditch me in my time of trouble.
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He's not going to run from me because I'm needy. In fact, he says,
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humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, and he will exalt you in due time.
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For many of us, we don't have a lot of earthly companionship.
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Loved ones have gone on or moved on, and friends are far and few between.
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People we love just aren't close by.
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Not so with this babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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He's always near. He never sleeps and he never slumbers.
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He'll never forsake you nor leave you. He hears, he helps, he offers hope, and he can be yours.
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To all of this comes to earth, rats in swaddling clothes. And as we unwrap the
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character and the presence of who Jesus is in our life.
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To know what he brings. We understand the importance of his gifts.
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When it comes down to it, his gifts are his blessings.
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Psalm 68, 19 says, Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with his benefits,
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even the God of our salvation.
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Daily, he heaps us with bountiful blessings.
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And friends, one of life's difficult questions to answer is what will I do with
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my life? What's my purpose?
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How can I leave my mark? But for every believer, there's a gift Jesus brings,
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and it's the gift of his plans for our lives.
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In Jeremiah 29 11, he says, for I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
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saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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This babe wrapped in swaddling clothes has a perfect plan for you.
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And it really isn't about you leaving your mark on this world.
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It's about leaving his mark, about being the light in a dark world.
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He says, so let your light shine before men that they may see your good works
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and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5.16.
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With a lot during this time
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of the year but if we would concentrate on
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this babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and we would
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get to know him personally and we would understand his
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promises and we would have led his world of
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promises and love and goodness and faith and submit ourselves to follow after
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him and walk in his ways and we would unwrap all of his gifts that he has for
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us and we would allow him to execute his plan in our lives.
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Listen, he will do exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think according
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to the power that works in you.
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Open up your heart, open up your life and give yourself back to Jesus and allow
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him to fill you to overflowing and open his gifts of love, salvation, compassion,
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grace, peace, joy, constant companionship.
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Let it all come and follow the strategic plan that he has for you.
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As I'm telling you, Jesus is a gift that keeps on giving.
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Unwrap him daily. Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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Thank you.
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