Unwrap Your Christmas Gift

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• Unwrap Your Christmas Gift
• Luke 126-38 and Selected

Pastor Dave Martin, Cross Creek Community Church,
December 7, 2003
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This Christmas Do you find yourself...

• Wrestling with a lack of Peace, Fear or Doubt?
• Lacking Confidence and Assurance about your
  future?
• Struggling over a problem or trial youre going
  through?
• Unable to experience Spiritual Victory in your
  Life?

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Imagine getting a Christmas gift this year that
will literally change your life forever! 2000
years ago God gave us a Christmas Gift, His Son!

• Marys Life was changed forever!

Yours can be too!
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Mary...

• 1. KNEW personally the Eternal,
• Pre-Existent Christ!
• Luke 146-47 And Mary said "My soul glorifies
  the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior

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Long, Long Before...

• You and I came into existence.
• The earth and the universe were created.
• Stars and galaxies were hung in their spaces.

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There was Jesus...

• Forever existed with God.
• In communion with yet distinct from God.
• Identical in essence with God.
• Made flesh to die for my sin at Calvary.

John 11 In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. John
114 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of
the One and Only, who came from the Father, full
of grace and truth.
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Mary...

• 2. BELIEVED God fulfills His Promises!
• Luke 145 Blessed is she who has believed that
  what the Lord has said to her will be
  accomplished!"

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Gods Word...

• Hundreds of O.T. prophecies concerning the
  Messiah.
• We can fully rely upon Gods written Word.
  Isaiah 96 For to us a child is born, to us a
  son is given, and the government will be on his
  shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful
  Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
  of Peace.
• 400 Silent Years from Malachi to Luke 111.
  Malachi 31 "See, I will send my messenger, who
  will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the
  Lord you are seeking will come to his temple the
  messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will
  come," says the Lord Almighty.
• God was working...Govts, language, roads, kings,
  taxes
• Unlikely couple named Mary and Joseph of Nazareth

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Mary...

• 3. TRUSTED God to do the Impossible!
• Luke 137 For nothing is impossible with God.

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Barriers in doing the Impossible...

• Lack of Faith v29
• Love for Sin v28
• Limits we Set v34

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Mary...

• 4. SUBMITTED Humbly to Gods Will!
• Luke 138 "I am the Lord's servant," Mary
  answered. "May it be to me as you have said."
  Then the angel left her.

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Open your Christmas Gift, Change Your Life...

• Know Jesus!
• Believe His Word!
• Trust in God!
• Submit Your Heart!

Watch your life change forever!
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