5THINGS

iLEARNEDIN CHURCH

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# 1

christmas service

LAW&LOVE

JOHN 3:16For GOD so love the worldFor God gave his only son

It starts and ends with the love Godhas for us. God made the laws gov-erning the earth and He was bound by his own laws. While men have veto powers which makes an allow-ance for period when it would be inconvenient to follow the rules, God doesn’t veto anything. He plays by his rules and the only option that led to Christmas was to put forward his own Son as a subsitutute for man.

# 2worlDS end

HEB 9:26but now once in the end of the worldhas he appeared to put away sin by

the sacrifice of himself

its actually strange when your Pastor starts a Christmas sermon in Hebrews!. Well, that’s were is all started from. Christianity is easy today - AD. BC- building a relation-ship we pretty much like pulling a tooth everyday. In a really bad week you could have made 7 sacrifices for 7 sins that made you unclean...ar-rgh!! plus you couldn’t just close your eyes speak in tongues and get an inner winess of things you needed to do. You had to seek a priest and sac-rifice and on and on. God did’nt want all that he wanted each of us to have unrestricted access to him 24-7. So on Xmas he sent Jesus, to end that age of sacrifice, laws, burdens arrgh!!. So that its so easy to get access to him. Remember this is the same God that struck Uzzah dead for touching His arch, now we literari-ly/actually have that arch inside us.God has always been about how to have a better, more initimate rela-tionship with us.

# 3STARTs SMALL

LUKE 2:7Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes

Jesus was laid in a manger

I can almost authoritatively say that anything that is in “PURPOSE” must of a necessity start small. Somehow lives or “things” that bear great des-tiny start small.

# 4 THE DATE IS just A NUMBER

ROMANS 14:5One man esteems one day above another:another esteems everyday alike. Let everyman be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Look the essence of the thing is the life of the thing period. If you so choose you can celebrate Christmas on October 14th. It’s all good, so far Jesus Christ is glorified. Some say it’s the same day dedicated to the Sun God, lol. Everyday in history has been dedicated to something in the history of time so really if we wanted to set an undefiled day for Xmas, perhaps we might have to start spinning the Sun again. And if some people try to mask their tradi-tion in ours, once we step into it as the Sons of God we sanctify it period! Let me illustrate. The U.S oc-cupies Iraq. If they set a day as Love day but conveniently make it July 4th so that they can take time off to celebrate their own independence day back home as well. The Iraqis totally ignorant of this fact would embrace the day and the essence of the day would be achieved. Some say it’s not biblical. But I ask is Jesus glorified? YES!.

5# 5

you are a son of god

JOHN 1:12To them that received him, to them he gave

power to become the sons of God

God wants you and I to actually become sons (in the eye of God we are all the same sex) of God. The path was made open at Christmas.

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