CHRISTMAS The Abiding Word圣诞节持久的话.ppt

Christmas: The Rest of the Story, Matthew to Revelation The boy Jesus, Luke 2:40-52 The carpenter, Mark 6:3 The teacher and Lord, John 13:13 The Sacrificial Lamb – Born to die, John 1:29 The Living King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Revelation 1:17-18; 17:14; 19:11-16 * Imagine If Jesus Had Not Come.I’m So Glad He Was Born as One of Us. The Gospel Writers Show Us the Real Jesus. We need to see Him as He Really is. He is so much more than a baby in a stable. Without His Birth There would be No Immanuel. Without His Life There Would be No Cross. With His Cross We would have NO HOPE! With JESUS we have EVERYTHING We Need, Romans 8:28-39. * Jesus Is All That We NeedRomans 8: 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. 31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-- how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? * Jesus: He Is Our Everything 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-- more than that, who was raised to life-- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. * 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the p