Main idea: Celebrate Christmas by receiving the Word, the son of God who took on human flesh for our salvation.
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going to be looking at the Advent season through the opening the prologue of the Gospel of John. If you have your Bible, turn to John chapter one. And tonight, this morning, I'm going to talk about the deity of Christ tonight, how to receive and believe Christ next Sunday, the Incarnation, and Christmas Eve, how Jesus brings the Father. So if you're gonna want the whole series, you got to come to all of them. And I know everybody's like, I want the whole series. I got to make sure I come back. Nobody's thinking, I want the whole series. Will there be great music? Yes, you're all thinking that that is great. Stand with me for the reading of God's Word. I'm going to read one, one through five. And this is John's prolog. And about the deity of Jesus Christ, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, all things were made through Him, and without him, was not anything made. That was made in Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. This is the word of the Lord O Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are doing here the most important thing to do during the Christmas season, worshiping you. You are eternal God. You are eternally. Love, eternally, holy and just and righteous, and you are Redeemer. Being a people that have been redeemed through Christ, we are so profoundly joyful and exuberant, and want to be that in our praise, and we want that to be the center of why we celebrate this season. We enjoy many things in our city. We enjoy the lights at Kendall yards, but the lights at Kendall yards have nothing about Christ. We must see Christ in the word in our gatherings as churches and in the witness of other believers, and we pray that this would be a work toward that end us receiving and believing you, worshiping you and us being a witness to you in our world. We pray that you would mute, that you would make the the festivities of the city empty without Christ at the center, and that there would be an awakening, a need. And souls there are. There are many who are extra grieved, sad, alone, having lost spouses this year, or recently, being alone without family. There are those who are going through very chaotic times, divorces or or other serious health crises. Can't even make it to church. God show the glory of the deity of Christ to them that their hearts may be filled and comforted. We pray for those who are in our church for the same thing. We pray this morning for Christ, our hope, Bible, church and the faithfulness of the ministry. There John Smith is preaching and Zach is leading the music. I pray that you would be working powerfully through the word Sung and the word spoken and preached, and that Christ, our hope, would be a testimony in the world around them. We pray that You would help us now be attentive. The thoughts that John writes here are simple, but they are more profound than we can fathom, and we would pray for Your Holy Spirit's aid and power to wrap our minds around them and return praise and worship and faith to you. We ask this in Jesus name, amen, you may be seated. Why do we celebrate Christmas? Well, John's answer would be this, God the Son, became man to adopt children into God's eternal family, according to John, 112 all who receive. Receive Him and believe in his name, become children of God. They are given the right to become children of God. We celebrate Christmas because God took on human flesh, entering as a baby to save us, and not just to save us to any old thing, but save us into the family of God that has eternally existed, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. What is necessary to be adopted into God's family? What's necessary to ask it another way? What does it take to be saved from sin, from death, from judgment? Well, what is necessary is to receive Jesus as God come in the flesh. This morning we're going to look at that. We're going to look at Jesus the Son of God. If I were to say, there's a big idea this morning, it's on your page, if you got notes, we celebrate Christmas by receiving the word the Son of God. Receiving is not a passive idea. It's not a one time idea. Receiving and believing is active. It happens at a point in time. I remember when I was 20, I received Christ, I believed Christ, but I still receive and believe. Are you receiving and believing the word the Son of God. See, the old apostle, John knew some things about Jesus that were really important, that didn't get included in his friend's other writings, Matthew, Mark and Luke, they were really important, and they all believed them at the end of his life, he says there's some important things that still need to be said. John 2031 gives his purpose verse of the book. These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and by believing, you might have life in His name, Jesus, God, the Son, came for you to give you life. Are you receiving it? Are you believing it? Do you have the kind of life offered by Jesus. Well, I don't know what is that life. I'll show you that today. Let's start with an illustration. I've been trying to think about this. I'm about 1/3 of the way there in this message of speaking the whole message to eight year olds. I have an eight year old granddaughter. I'm on my way. Let's use an illustration. One sunset. You steal a boat and take it out to the middle of Lake Coeur d'Alene. It gets dark because the sun set, a storm blows over the hills as the darkness Seth the wind kicks up massive waves never before seen on the lake. Rain pours down so hard that it inundates the boat. It capsizes. You are flung into the icy cold waters. You swim for your life, for seconds the cold overwhelms you. You choke and you sink and pass out under the water. It's a classic illustration. I didn't invent it. I just adapted it. Suddenly, hands take hold of you. They pull you up out of the water onto the shore. The rescuer does CPR breathes life back into your body. Here's the question, what kind of person would it take to save you? What kind of person would it take to save you? Would take a person who could find you in the dark to dive deep in the cold water and pull you up without drowning. It would take a person who could breathe life back into your cold, dead body. It would take quite a person, wouldn't it take quite a person to do that? Humanity has a much worse problem than drowning in a lake. Yeah, there's physical death. There's spiritual death. There's judgment and separation from God the Father, as a result of sin and rebellion. And John opens his gospel, describing the only one sufficient to save Jesus, the Son of God. And if you do not receive and believe this about Jesus, you will not be rescued. You will not be adopted into God's family. It, you will not escape the final judgment.
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So in the PROLOG of the book, he writes in the clearest and most profound terms, who Jesus is and what it takes to be saved. So this morning, we're going to look at the deity of Christ. Tonight, we'll look at what it means to receive and believe. I'll give a preview of that today, next Sunday, we're going to look at the Incarnation God, taking on human flesh. Christmas Eve, we're going to look at what it means to be united with God, the Father, through Jesus Christ, what you get in salvation is not merely an escape from pain. What you get in salvation is an internal relationship with a father, an eternal relationship with the Father, God, the Son plunged into the dark waters of our destruction to rescue and adopt. I've got eight realities about Jesus. I made up one more last service. Destiny gave me a 10th. So we've got 10. Hold your horses. Let's get ready to go. Get your pens ready. These are stunning truths, simple but more profound than you can fathom, eight realities about Jesus that you have to receive and believe to be adopted into God's family. Number one, eternal. Jesus is eternal. In the beginning was the Word. Now John's Gospel immediately opens with an allusion, reference to the first book of the Bible. In the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning. God Genesis. One, one in the beginning was the Word, whoever this is, was there at the creation. Whatever existed in the beginning. Was before the beginning? It's just a simple way of talking about eternity. What was before creation is eternal. Jesus, the Son of God, had no beginning. He always was. Jesus is eternal. He never ages, he never decays. He never dies. We age, we decay. Can I get an amen? We decay, we die. The fish in your tank ages and they die and they decay. The rocky cliffs age, they decay, they crumble. If we and the world are going to be rescued from death, sin, judgment and decay. We need someone who cannot grow feeble and helpless. If you were in the room, who do we have? Where do we have a child? We have a child somewhere. You're a little too close. I think I could get to you. But if we had a we had a baby, there we go. There's a child right there. Your dad is worthless. He's not going to do anything. The ceiling is falling down. Nobody knows but me and I see it. It's starting to crumble down, and the only hope for you is me sprinting to you and whisking you out of the way. Do you know what will happen if the ceiling comes down, and that's the requirement, you will die. This body does not sprint anymore as much as it wishes it could. It would weep watching you die and wince at its pulled hamstring. I
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Jesus, the Son of God, is eternal. He is eternal. He will never be too old to save. He will never be too feeble to rescue. Never be too feeble to reclaim, never too feeble to restore a decaying Earth in the beginning, Jesus is eternal. Second he is the word in the beginning was the word how interesting and eternally existent Word, Jesus, in His person, is the message. He is the message. He expresses the mind of God. Again, John wants us to remember in Genesis, one through. God said, Let there be light, and there was light. So that means, when God spoke, there was power in the Word, in the words, and the world was made. God's word has creative power. The word logos is a really cool word. Logos is the idea that makes the world work wonderfully and well. Logos is wisdom. God didn't use hands and feet and tools to make things. He spoke them and they became what they are. Prophets spoke the word of the Lord. That's God's message. The writer of Hebrews then advances Jesus being the message by saying it this way in Hebrews one three. He is the radiance of the glory of God, the exact imprint of his nature. He upholds the universe by the Word of His power. Jesus is the member of the Trinity that makes God audible and visible. The Word became flesh. You know you could send a message in a lot of ways. You can write a letter, you can text, you could speak. You could send a message also by showing up. Jesus is God's message. By showing up in the beginning was the Word. He showed up and showed out. The Word became flesh is the message of John. So he is saying to you, by his entrance, by his life, by his death, by His resurrection and his return to reclaim and restore. Receive me. Receive me. Believe me. Come join my family.
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Eternal Word number three, community, community. And we could use the word family and we could use the word trinity, both would be appropriate. Here he says he was in the beginning with God. In the beginning was the word he was in the beginning with God. God has always existed as one, being in three persons. This is John's first mention of two persons, the word and God. Verse 32 is the first mention of spirit. And if we would put the Bible together, understanding three distinct persons, Father, Son and and Holy Spirit, all in one essence. I'll get to that in a second, with deity. But here's what's significant, the word was in the beginning with God, that is face to face with God, distinct, yet in a close personal relationship. And so we have the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit, all in a close, intimate, personal relationship, having been that way from all eternity, the rescuer is saving us into his community, into his Family, to join the loving fellowship of the Trinity i i Come back to Christmas Eve because we're going to unpack that a baby came to give us an eternal Father. A baby came to give us an eternal Father, the Father Son and Spirit are love. And they have always loved each other. I mean, I think of this profound and terrible reality for us, we really get bored with God, with Jesus, with spiritual things easily, don't we? We get distracted by all kinds of things, but the father has never been born bored with the son. The son has never been bored with the Father. The spirit has never been bored. They have enjoyed each other in the fullness of loving affection and fellowship for all eternity. Jesus, being a member of the Trinity, offers us to enter the delight and love of the members of the Trinity. He
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is called. Calling you to receive and believe him to be united to the Father in love, eternal. Word community. Number four, he's distinct. I told you I was 1/3 of the way there for eight year olds. I don't have a eight year old word for distinct. Maybe I need to teach eight year olds new vocabulary, distinct. Here's one way to say it. Jesus is not another name for God. There's a lot of times when we pray this confusion. Dear Father, thank You for dying on the cross for our sins. We love you, spirit like wait. The father didn't die for our sins. We get confused about what the members of the Trinity do? We start to pray. We know there's a trinity, and we don't know how to properly all address it. It's a part of human weakness and understanding. But John, right out of the bat, wants us to know that the members of the Trinity are distinct. Each member of the Trinity is distinct from the other. This is what makes God a community, not schizophrenic. And if you put this together, it means that God did not create because he was lonely. He did not create because he lacked love. Jesus was the one who took on the special role of taking on human flesh. His role has always been to physically and audibly represent the Trinity, and this is going to be essential in paying the penalty for sin. Father, Son and Spirit are all just. They must and they will all punish sin. The father carries out the just punishment. The son volunteered, according to Revelation, 13 eight, to be the Lamb of God, slain from before the foundation of the world, before creation, Father, Son and Spirit had a plan for creation, redemption and re creation and God, the son took the role of taking on human flesh to save. What does it mean for our rescue? The son can bear the full punishment from the Father to satisfy his own demands for justice. There is no cosmic child abuse when the Son volunteered for this from eternity past,
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he is distinct. Number five, he is deity, which is really the summary of this opening line. These are all aspects of the deity of God. And here's how, how it's stated. And the Word was God. The Word was God. Jesus was distinct as a person at the same time, one in essence, with the Father and spirit. All attributes and qualities of Jesus are the same as the attributes and qualities of the Father and the Spirit. The ancient the ancient creeds use titles like CO, eternal. Whatever God is, Jesus is CO, all the members of the Trinity are equally God. There are not three parts of God. This emphasis the Word was God, not a God, not through parts of God, they are clear and precise words, is there anything else like this in existence? No, there isn't nothing else like this in existence. This is unique to the Godhead, but it's the uniqueness that makes Christianity so lovely and so beautiful. Jesus saves into community. Here's why his deity is so critical for us. You could be we're going to use our drowning illustration. You could be all the way at the bottom of the lake, so to speak. And God, the Son is there, reaches you, grasps you. There is no depth, no sin, no situation, no guarding demon. Hands off. This one's mine. No guarding demon that could get in the way of bringing you back to the life of the Father and into the Father's presence. Since a mere man could only bear the penalty for one man's sin, the God man can buttress the weight of all temptation. Never sin, and He can bear the weight of all punishment. Hebrews tells us he was tempted in all ways, and yet without sin. Why could he be tempted and experience the full force of the worst temptations ever undertaken, and not sin. How could he do it? Because he was the God man. There's much more you could say about that. Whatever is true about the attributes of God, about the qualities of God and the characteristics of God, is true about Jesus and God, the Son, is calling you to receive Him and believe in him. He's eternal. He's the word. He lives in community. Yet he is distinct. He is deity. He is Creator. He is Creator. All things were made through Him. He is the agency. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Classically, you could say God the Father is the architect. God the Son is the builder. God the Holy Spirit gives all the power and energy all things were made through Him. The agency of the Godhead to make things again, Genesis, one, three, God said, Let there be light. Jesus made the light. All things were made through Him. But he takes this a step farther without him. Was not anything made. That was made. Jesus didn't have a mass of matter and energy from which to gather and fashion all things. Jesus made the mass and the energy and then fashioned with all things. We have architects who can draw and design and make beautiful buildings. We have carpenters. We have general contractors that can take a plan and get the materials and they can execute it. We have interior designers that can make the inside beautiful, exterior designers that can make it functional and beautiful. And they, you could say all of them, wow. What a good job. You created a really good thing. Well, they didn't create, they just rearranged a lot of amazing materials. John wants this to be emphatic. Without him, was not anything made that was made. This has to include himself, because there were people teaching in John's lifetime that Jesus was the first thing that the Father created, which would have meant he didn't exist in eternity, in loving community. He existed by himself. Needed company. He was lonely. But that's not eternity. Jesus existed with God. He created co creator. CO eternal. Co creator speaks of wisdom that scientists, engineers and farmers have been discovering, experimenting with, utilizing and developing since all of creation. It also speaks of ownership. Speaks of ownership. What you create with your stuff is yours. It's your stuff, and you create with it. It's yours. Sin is rebellion against the Creator and His good purposes. Because Adam and Eve and all mankind ever since have been taking what is God's and they have been fashioning it, using it, abusing it, and rebelling with it.
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But the Creator has come and has been unleashing the power of new creation. The one who had the power infinite power to create, has the infinite power to recreate. He has the power of resurrection, He will return with the power of restoration. Jesus will make a new heavens and a new earth. He is Creator without beginning, without end, eternal word in community, yet distinct deity, creator and John wants to get to where we come. Ian life. Life In him was life. This kind of life is not mere biology. It speaks of a greater spiritual existence of God and what God made. The Old Testament. Name for God, the most common name, important name was Yahweh, which meant I am in the book of John. There are seven Ian's. I'll refer to them in a minute, which is close to the idea of living one In him was life. It's a massive idea life. Simply said, He lives. He lives when you sing. He lives always, has, always will. He lives eternally. He lives spiritually. He is self existent. He borrows no energy from anyone. But wait, there's more. The life is fountain like overflowing. He has life to give. And this whole book is about what this life is and how to get it. Many times it's spoken. One of them, John 336 says this, whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John is going to talk about superficial belief and true belief. Superficial belief is saying, Well, I agree with that, and I would like it, unless it's uncomfortable or difficult or hard or costly, then I don't like it anymore. There is a superficial belief common in John, and it's common today, but there is a true belief that is willing to take Jesus at his word being eternal King come for man and ready to submit themselves to him. And so he says, Whoever does not obey, the Son does not see life. They don't have the kind of belief that results in submission and obedience out of love for their king, because no the wrath of God remains on him. In our Johnny illustration, Jesus pulls you up to the surface, and he is the one to breathe new life in you by His Spirit In him was life. That life is the spiritual communion, spiritual reality with God and all of God's children. Eternal life is not merely a duration of time it will just keep going. It is a quality eternal life. Brings you into the presence, the relationship, the communion with the eternal members of the Trinity, and all their joy and delight in one another, and all their overflowing grace and mercy and love to all the other children. He is life. The life number eight is the light of men. Jesus is life. Jesus is light. Says the life was the light of men. Now that's a that's a statement. You go, huh? Life is light. How does life light? John, I know it's simple in Greek, but this one's stretching my brain. Let's talk about light for a second. What does light do on the Bible, light is pure and true and gives you the true perspective of all things. Light is what helps you see what exists, what you know, what you know, we walked Kendall yards last night. It was dark early. Only time of the year where it's nice to be dark early. We go down. We park in front of my fresh basket. We walk all the way down to Hello sugar. There's all these Christmas lights. And it's really beautiful, except that there's not one reference to Jesus, which is the origin of the Happy holiday. The world celebrates a derivative, kind of light derivative. There's a world word for eight year olds, just trying to be clear, for the eight year olds derivative. On our way back, we walked the Centennial Trail, which was dark. I was carrying my leftover food from the place we got food, and it was we could, we could just barely see the path, and I'm thinking this box of old food is my only weapon to protect my wife. If we're walking here, I'm bam, I'm ready, boom, with my box of old food, it's going to be great. Thankfully, a lot of people were out, but we're walking and there is a little herd of deer bedded down next to the fence in front of some of the apartments, the condos. And we spooked them, and they spooked us. And you know, all this clatter, clatter, clatter, clatter, and like, oh my goodness, we're in the middle of a herd. I mean, we were, we were, we were closer than Shawn to buck. And all these does, and they come scampering across. And I'm like, This is amazing, honey, I think that's a five point. Let's stop. And she says, it's got antlers. Don't stop. It's not a moose. Honey, a moose will be afraid a deer, he's going to run off. He'll leave all the does and fawns for to save his own skin. Like I'm not worried about that, but it was dark. That's the whole idea about being you could be surprised. What is light? Light shows you what's there. Okay, no light is and the Bible is pure. Jesus lights. Life is what gives light.
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And he's contrasting darkness and light. Darkness is deceitful. Light is instruction for obedience. Darkness is temptation for disobedience. Jesus shows you what your sin really is in his book, you think food and drink is what you need most. You think rules and religious practices will show you the way. You think getting serious about them will impress God. You think recognition and praise from people will energize you. You think keeping your loved ones alive a little bit longer will will mean everything to you. You think diet workouts, grass fed beef and a life free of micro plastics will help you live forever. You I think microplastics are going to keep my body from decaying when I die. I might die early, but Dan looks like he's made of plastic.
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Jesus shows us with his life that all of these things are lies. They're all lies.
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Jesus is the bread of life. Jesus is the living water. Jesus is the light, the door, the entrance, The Good Shepherd, Allah, Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd. Jesus is the Good Shepherd. Jesus is the resurrection. He is the Way. He is the truth. He is the vine that you must stay connected to every day, he sends out the spirit, breathes spiritual life. He draws you to God and nourishes you all the way to your entrance into God's presence. That is how Jesus is life, and his life is the light of men. How do you find true life is in Jesus? It's by Jesus. Jesus shows you what Satan really has in store for you, and Jesus shows you what God has to offer in forgiveness.
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He is the light. We've got a nine I thought of at this first hour. He is invincible. He is invincible. Come on. Note takers number nine, invincible. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. What is the darkness? From the moment Satan entered the garden to deceive Adam and Eve, promising them, if they ate from the forbidden tree, they could be their own gods, making their own way and own rules. And Adam and Eve bought in, we have all bought in. The Prince of Darkness, grim Martin Luther would call it, led all of us into darkness. This darkness is a darkness a blindness in our sin and a desire to do evil. I mean, it could be a moral evil, because it's all about us. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it from the beginning, from sin, the light has shined promising Genesis, 315, and on, the light has been shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Jesus took on that human flesh. He was born a babe. Herod tried to kill him. Later on, religious leaders tried to kill him. Later on, the Jews and Gentiles did kill him by the hands of Roman soldiers. And then Jesus was raised from the dead. The darkness has not overcome it. Jesus is raised, and the church has marched on with the preaching of the life and light of Jesus. The darkness has not overcome it. John is writing, maybe 50 years after Jesus, and it still had not overcome it. We are here reading John. We are here reading John. I mean, we're here reading John. Jesus is invincible. Says this about those who receive and believe He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son, Colossians. 113 says in this gospel, which is what I would recommend if you're brand new to the Bible, start this and continue to be amazed. Keep reading through John 812, he said, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Jesus' life is shining truth and giving truth. So here's the question for you, are you still in darkness about Christmas? Have you received and believed in the Son of God. Are you receiving and are you believing in the Son of God? What does it mean to receive and believe? I'll give more tonight, but let's just at least say this. What does it mean to receive. It means to welcome. It means to welcome. To receive something is to welcome, gladly, willingly to welcome, Jesus, Christ, God and King, welcome His truth, welcome His salvation. Offer and it is gladly, joyfully, almost with a sense of overwhelming relief, submitting to Jesus the King. Finally there's a king. Finally there's a king, a victor, invincible. It is believing that God is your life and Jesus is the only way to him.
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Destiny's words, number 10, it's exclusive. He is exclusive. There is no other way. There is no other way. If you're drowning, continue our picture. If you're drowning in a voluntary bondage to sin. We call that addiction in our culture, but voluntary bondage, alcohol, substances. I was meditating on this as I was drying driving by the marijuana driving dispenser, drying dispensary just over on on foothill. And Ruby. I was like, where do they get all the skunks around here? Oh, something else. If you're addicted to a substance, to gambling, gaming, pornography, and you know you're addicted, your life's miserable because of who you've hurt and how you hurt, and maybe you really have such overwhelming pain, and now it's it's magnified. You're told that you need a higher power. You need a higher power. All the all the programs are going to tell you need a higher power. You can't do this on your own. Okay? I agree. I'm not doing well. I need a higher powers. Many choose Uncle Joe or some caricature of God. Many choose Jesus as their higher power. I mean, I've heard that Jesus helps you. Can show me your one in your pin. I'm going to be really happy for you if you make it. And there's no sarcasm in that. There's a lot of sarcasm in a lot of things I say, but not that like that. That's a big deal. Get your one year pin, but all you need is a higher power for sobriety. Sobriety just takes a higher power. Millions of people do it, but it is not spiritual life. It is not eternal life. You are drowning in something much deeper than gaming or addiction. You are drowning in the guilt of your sin, and only God the Son, can plunge the depths and have the power to rescue you from that you might be drowning in strife in your marriage. I mean, the principles in this book are game changers for peace and harmony in the home, just the book of Proverbs. Just the book of Proverbs. If you read it and you put it into practice in your life, will you will make more money. You will spend less money. You'll speak better to your kids, better to your spouse. You will get a good reputation from the people who are around you, because wise living is enjoyable to everybody. You will look wise, but you will still be drowning under the judgment of God, and only the Son of God can plunge the depths to satisfy the judgment and the justice of God. You might be drowning in your guilt for not doing better or being more spiritual, and you say, you know, I haven't been very serious about God. I think it's time to get serious about God. You start attending church, you start putting biblical principles into practice. And if you want to go to a place that's serious about God, welcome. We are serious about God. Can I get an amen? We are serious about God. You can follow more commands and attend to every church service, and you can get more serious about the Lord, but when that video of your life is run in the courtroom of God and the brief and smudged versions of serious play against the long line of thoughts and words and actions against God And His Holiness, play they will not and cannot satisfy you. Need someone who lives such a life that his righteousness could clothe you, his forgiveness could unite you to God. Seriousness about God is not sufficient. Only God, the Son, is sufficient. He is the only one who can save you. You will not have the Father. You will not be in the Forever Family with God. If being serious about God is your solution to being the family of God forever, the Son of God had to become flesh to save you and adopt you as a child of God, you have no other hope. And so John says, All who received Him, who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. Why do we celebrate Christmas? Why do we celebrate Christmas? The Son of God became man to adopt us into. Family.
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Is there anything more precious than these truths? You may be here suffering sickness, some of you are watching online because you can't get here. Some of you are suffering with horrendous relationships that are exploding around you, pain of loss, emotionally, the pain of loss, relationally, the pain of loss, financially, the pain of loss. This one has the power to change you here, and he is coming to change all things you can endure a little while longer, because the Son of God has you in his care. He is sufficient for you to hold you. It's the reason we celebrate Christmas. It's the reason we recenter all of the busy things we do on Jesus Christ. Let's pray, Father. Thank you for this gospel. Jesus. It's it's beyond human comprehension, how God takes on human flesh, how Jesus, you were both a baby in Mary's womb, small and helpless, and yet God over all creation, powerful and mighty. It is beyond our comprehension, but it's not beyond our grasp that it is that it is the only way we could be with you and the Father forever. We believe it by faith. We receive it again in your name. Amen.
Dr. Dan Jarms is lead pastor at Faith Bible Church in Spokane Washington, as well as associate dean at The Master's Seminary in Spokane. He has been married for over 30 years to Linda, and has three adult children. He earned his B.A. in English at the Master’s College, B.Ed. at Eastern Washington University, M.Div and D.Min in Expository Preaching at The Master’s Seminary. His other interests include NCAA basketball, woodworking, and art.
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