What Child is This

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What Child is This?

• Pastor John Hatcher
• Christmas Morning
• 25 December 2005

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• Jesus as a Baby
• Jesus as the Creator
• Jesus as the Dying Savior
• Jesus as the Empowering Lord
• Jesus as the Final Judge and Retuning King

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Jesus as a Baby

• He had a normal birth (Luke 21-7)
• In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree
  that a census should be taken of the entire Roman
  world. (This was the first census that took place
  while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And
  everyone went to his own town to register.  So
  Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in
  Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David,
  because he belonged to the house and line of
  David. He went there to register with Mary, who
  was pledged to be married to him and was
  expecting a child. While they were there, the
  time came for the baby to be born, and she gave
  birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in
  cloths and placed him in a manger, because there
  was no room for them in the inn.

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Jesus as a Baby

• He had a poor family
• He was questionable, or was an appearance of
  illegitimacy

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Jesus as the Creator

• John 11-3, 14
• (11-3) In the beginning was the Word, and the
  Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was
  with God in the beginning.  Through him all
  things were made without him nothing was made
  that has been made.
• (14) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
  among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of
  the One and Only, who came from the Father, full
  of grace and truth.

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Jesus as the Dying Savior

• Luke 211
• Today in the town of David a Savior has been born
  to you he is Christ the Lord.
• 1 Peter 224
• He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
  so that we might die to sins and live for
  righteousness by his wounds you have been healed.

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Jesus as the Empowering Lord

• Galatians 220
• I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer
  live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in
  the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who
  loved me and gave himself for me.

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Jesus as the Final Judge and Returning King

• Revelations 1911-15
• I saw heaven standing open and there before me
  was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful
  and True. With justice he judges and makes war.
  His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head
  are many crowns. He has a name written on him
  that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed
  in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the
  Word of God. The armies of heaven were following
  him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine
  linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a
  sharp sword with which to strike down the
  nations. "He will rule them with an iron
  scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of
  the wrath of God Almighty.