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  CHRISTMAS AND CHRIST'S SACRIFICE
  by K.P. Yohannan
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Summary: Christmas is the time when God became man, uniting the tangible
and the touchable, and making Himself approachable to humanity.

Duration: 5:19 Topics: "Incarnation"
Scripture References: Genesis 3:15, Luke 2:10-11, John 1:14, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 4:15, 1 Peter 2:21

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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the significance of Christmas and
the purpose behind Christ's incarnation. They highlight the awe-
inspiring scene of the birth of Jesus, with God the Father, the Holy
Spirit, angels, and the entire creation watching their Creator in the
manger. The speaker encourages the audience to deeply contemplate the
meaning of Christmas and to appreciate the grace and forgiveness that
God has provided through Jesus' birth and death on the cross. They
emphasize the importance of living as Christ lived and suffering as he
suffered, in order to spread the message of Christmas and bring more
people to understand its true meaning. The sermon references the Gospel
of John, specifically chapter 1, verse 14, which states that the Word
became flesh and dwelt among us, highlighting the profound mystery of
God becoming man.

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CONTENT
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Turn your Bibles, if you will please, to the Gospel of Saint John,
Chapter 1. Saint John, Chapter 1, Verse 14. The Word became flesh and
made His dwelling among us. The Word became flesh, God became man.

Christmas, the two events in history since Adam and Eve, that forever,
ever qualified by not time but eternity, will never be erased and
changed. And one is, there is a man in heaven who was spirit, God ye
cannot see, ye cannot touch. But now, there is a man sitting in heaven.

The God, the Almighty, who came to this earth by the means of the
daughter of Eve, who was human 100%. And God chose to come into the
world, the uniting of the tangible, the touchable, the humanity, and now
expressed with flesh. The mystery of godliness is great that He became
flesh.

And that is the uniqueness of Christmas. The God who was distant and
separated cannot approach, He dwells in light, no man can approach. And
finally, now we can touch Him.

We have seen His glory. Time will not permit us to explain that. Simple
words, we saw actually God with our eyes.

And this is the revelation, the understanding, the meaning of Christ
coming into the world. Redeeming not only our spirit but our mind being
transformed and finally our earthen vessels, the body that is going to
be transformed just as the man in heaven, the God-man, Jesus Christ. And
so, what better way than taking time to think this little baby that was
born just like any other little babies, thinking about what God the
Father was thinking, the Holy Spirit, the third person, the Holy
Trinity, thinking, watching, and the multiplied billions of angels and
archangels and the entire creation watching their creator in the manger.

But just as Mary was given the insight, how much more the heaven
understood what this baby was about. So, this kind of exercise is not
easy sometimes to think deep and then apply to our own personal life and
behavior. And may the Lord give us the grace to appreciate with
understanding the meaning of Christmas.

Yes, we rejoice in it because doomed forever, destined to perish in
hell, God gave us the means to be forgiven and to be spared and saved
and more than that to become his sons and daughters. But then too, his
incarnation had a purpose in it. And so, through his death on the cross,
we are born again, new beginnings.

And may we go forth from here, carrying this message. And we do that by
living as he lived and suffering as he suffered. And so that next day of
this time, how many more millions will have come to know the meaning of
Christmas and the reason for Christmas.

Amen.

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Audio: https://sermonindex1.b-cdn.net/28/SID28182.mp3
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/kp-yohannan/christmas-and-christs-sacrifice/
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