Over the coming weeks you will probably hear a lot of mixed messages about Christmas. Some good, some Santa filled you might even read or hear something about elves, trolls, orcs, dwarves and knights wait that's not right. In Galatians chapters 2 and 3 it talks a lot about how we are slaves to sin and the law couldn't save us or give us a new life. I know people who think I keep the 10 commandments so I'm going to heaven. Guess what you can't keep them it's impossible and the law alone can't save us. Galatians 3:16 "Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ not by obeying the law and we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law." What I Zac would like you to get is the meaning behind Christmas this year. It's not about giving/receiving gifts, not about family, not about reindeer, sleet deer, snow deer, root beer or even yes dear. Christmas is about the greatest gift ever it's about the King of Kings sending his son to be born to die on a cross for you and me. Romans 3:23 "For everyone has sinned, we all fall short of God's glorious standard." Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." This is what Christmas is really about. Romans 5:8 "But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Christmas is also about a matter of timing God's timing to be exact, Galatians 4:4-7 "But when the right time came, God sent his son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his children, God has sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts prompting us to call out `Abba Father'. Now you are no longer a slave but God's own child. And since you are his child God has made you his heir." See Christmas like Easter finds it's meaning in cross and it ends with a wedding by a glassy sea. It's about the greatest love story rescue mission ever. Rejoice in the reason for Christmas this year because you are loved. "we are loved beyond our ability to comprehend."
let me know take you on a trip through the bible through music and we start with this
Christ was and remains to be the greatest paradigm shift Man has ever seen. Pre - crucifixion We needed the Law because Man required extrinsic factors to define who he is. Post - crucifixion we are now defined by The Spirit of God that dwells in us hence we intrinsically obey God's Laws.
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