1. The
Genesis
of Christmas

2. A Biblical celebration of Christmas requires a proper understanding of the origin of Christmas, and how it manifested to our benefit.

3. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends.

4. Outline
Identity of Love
True Manifestation of Love
Act of Love

5. Big Idea
A Biblical celebration of Christmas requires a proper understanding of the origin of Christmas, and how it manifested to our benefit.

6. Identity of Love

7. Manifestation of Love

8. Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”

9. 1 John1:1, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

10. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10:10
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

11. …were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked,
Ephesians 2:1-2
…were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked,

12. Ephesians 4:18
…alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

13. Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

14. …were by nature children of wrath
Ephesians 2:3
…were by nature children of wrath

15. Galatians 2:20
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

16. Act of Love

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

18. Romans 5:8
…but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

19. God Bless
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