Christmas Again

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Christmas Again
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• A Time for Celebration

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• A Time for Celebration
• Of Gods LOVE

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• A Time for Celebration
• Of Gods LOVE
• Of Gods PRESENCE

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• A Time for Celebration
• Of Gods LOVE
• Of Gods PRESENCE
• Of Gods Support

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Christmas Again

• The Purpose of Christmas
• Part 2

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Christmas Again

• Salvation

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• "...a fairy tale about people on a farm in which
  the dog solves all the problems in 22 minutes, in
  time for the last commercial

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Luke 211

• Today in the town of David a Savior has been born
  to you he is Christ the Lord.

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from something

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He came to save you

• From sin

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Ecclesiastes 720

• There is not a righteous man on earth who does
  what is right and never sins.

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Romans 323

• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God

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1 John 18 10

• If we claim to be with-out sin, we deceive
  ourselves and the truth is not in us . . . if we
  claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a
  liar

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He came to save you

• From sin
• From yourself

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Salvation Freedom
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Salvation Freedom

• From Guilt

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Romans 623

• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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2 Corinthians 521

• God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so
  that in him we might become the righteousness of
  God.

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Salvation Freedom

• From Guilt
• From Addictions

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Romans 7 15-17

• I do not understand what I do. For what I want to
  do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do
  what I

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• do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but
  it is sin living in me.

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John 8 36

• if the Son sets you free, you will be free
  indeed.

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Salvation Freedom

• From Guilt
• From Addictions
• From Fear of Death

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Hebrews 214-15

• Since the children have flesh and blood, he too
  shared in their humanity so that by his death he
  might

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• destroy him who holds the power of death that
  is, the devil and free those who all their lives
  were held in slavery by their fear of death.

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from something

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from something
• . . . for something

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He came to save you

• For a PURPOSE

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2 Corinthians 515

• And he died for all, that those who live should
  no longer live for themselves but for him who
  died for them and was raised again.

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• no longer live for themselves
• but for him

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Romans 638

• offer yourselves to God, as those who have been
  brought from death to life

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• and offer the parts of your body to him as
  instruments of righteousness.

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• Jesus saved you to know, love, trust and serve
  GOD!

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from something
• . . . for something

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from something
• . . . for something
• . . . by something

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He came to save you

• By his GRACE

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Ephesians 28-9

• For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faithand this not from yourselves,

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• it is the gift of Godnot by works, so that no
  one can boast.

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Colossians 214

• having canceled the written code,
  with its regula-tions, that was against us and
  that stood opposed to us he took it away,
  nailing it to the cross.

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He came to save you

• By his GRACE

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He came to save you

• By his GRACE
• Through FAITH

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Romans 45

• However, to the man who does not work but trusts
  God who justifies the wicked, his faith is
  credited as righteousness.

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John 141

• Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God
  trust also in me.

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from your sin and yourself

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from your sin and yourself
• . . . for his purpose

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Jesus came to save you

• . . . from your sin and yourself
• . . . for his purpose
• . . . by grace through faith

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Matthew 2740

• . . . save yourself! Come down from the cross, if
  you are the Son of God!"

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