What You Don’t Want to Miss This Christmas!

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Who is This Jesus?

What You Don’t Want to Miss This Christmas!

Mark 15:21-41, Romans 5:6-11

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Three Gifts of Christmas and the Cross

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8

1.The Gift of

Since we have now been justified by his blood Romans 5:9a

I am

2. The Gift of

For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!  Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Romans 5:9-11

My relationship with God is

3. The Gift of

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!   Romans 5:9

My Punishment has been

God’s Gifts are received by

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. Romans 3:23-25

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16