Speaker 1: Now, the whole purpose of Christmas is summed up in
Speaker 1: the most famous verse in the Bible. It's a verse
Speaker 1: that we've all heard many times. John three, verse sixteen,
Speaker 1: and it says this God so loved the world that
Speaker 1: he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him
Speaker 1: should not perish, but have everlasting life. That's the whole
Speaker 1: purpose of Christmas. God so loved the world. By the way,
Speaker 1: it all starts with love that he gave. You can
Speaker 1: give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. God
Speaker 1: so loved the world that he gave the very first
Speaker 1: Christmas gift. The whole reason that we give gifts at
Speaker 1: Christmas is because God started this whole tradition by giving
Speaker 1: the first Christmas gift. And the first Christmas gift was
Speaker 1: God's gift of his son to you.
Speaker 2: It's the first gift.
Speaker 1: It's the most expensive gift you'll ever get, and it's
Speaker 1: the greatest gift you're ever going to receive. Now, follow
Speaker 1: the logic of the Bible. Romans Chapter eight says this
Speaker 1: on your outline. Since God did not spare his own son,
Speaker 1: but he gave him up for us all, then can
Speaker 1: we not expect that with him God will freely give
Speaker 1: us all his gifts. He says, If God so loved
Speaker 1: us so much that he gave his only son, can
Speaker 1: we not expect him to give us freely all his
Speaker 1: other gifts. Circle the phrase with him. Notice with him.
Speaker 1: With God's gift of Jesus, you get many other gifts
Speaker 1: at the same time. Have you ever received a gift
Speaker 1: inside of a gift? Sure you have, you know. You
Speaker 1: get a box, You open it up, there's a box inside.
Speaker 2: You open it up. There's a box inside that.
Speaker 1: You open up, there's a box inside that, and inside
Speaker 1: one gift is a bunch of other little gifts. At Christmas,
Speaker 1: God's gift to you is Jesus Christ. That's the big gift.
Speaker 1: That's the big box that God gives you. God so
Speaker 1: loved you that he gave his only son to die
Speaker 1: for you. That's the big gift. But inside the big
Speaker 1: box are many other smaller gifts. I want you to
Speaker 1: write this down in your outline. All of God's gifts
Speaker 1: are wrapped in Jesus. And when you get Jesus, you
Speaker 1: get all the other gifts that He wants to give you.
Speaker 1: I once did a study of this, and I made
Speaker 1: a list of all the gifts that God wants to
Speaker 1: give you because of Jesus, and in the New Testament
Speaker 1: they're over fifty, over fifty. In fact, the word gift
Speaker 1: in gifts is you sixty six times in the New Testament.
Speaker 1: It's one of the major themes of the Bible today.
Speaker 1: I want us to just look at four four of
Speaker 1: the Christmas gifts God wants to give you when you
Speaker 1: receive the big gift of Jesus Christ. Now you've heard
Speaker 1: people say the phrase the spirit of Christmas is what giving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the spirit of Christmas is giving. Well, I don't want
Speaker 1: to shock you, but that's wrong. It's wrong. The spirit
Speaker 1: of Christmas is not giving. Yes, giving is a subset,
Speaker 1: it's an application, but the spirit of Christmas is not
Speaker 1: actually giving. The spirit of Christmas is actually receiving God's
Speaker 1: gift to you. You don't have anything to give until
Speaker 1: you've been given what God gave to you, the very
Speaker 1: first Christmas gift. Christmas is all about receiving God's gifts
Speaker 1: to you. So let's get right into it. Four things
Speaker 1: God wants to give you this Christmas. Number one, when
Speaker 1: I accept Jesus Christ, the big gift God. So loved
Speaker 1: me that he gave his son. When I accept the
Speaker 1: big gift, God gives me number one a new identity.
Speaker 1: He gives me a new identity. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: a very personal question. Where do you get your identity.
Speaker 2: On? Who you think you are?
Speaker 1: On? What do you base who you think you are?
Speaker 1: Most people get their identity from one to three things,
Speaker 1: from their work, from their relationships, or from things from work.
Speaker 2: You say to my people, who are you? What are you?
Speaker 1: They'll say, I'm an accountant, I'm a plumber, I'm a
Speaker 1: truck driver, I'm a homemaker.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: No, that's what you do. That's not who you are.
Speaker 1: That's not your identity. Some people try to get their
Speaker 1: identity from relationships. I'm a mom, I'm a mother, I'm
Speaker 1: a dad, I'm a father, I'm a husband, I'm an uncle,
Speaker 1: i'm a grandparent, I'm a boss. Some people try to
Speaker 1: find their identity through what they have. This is my house,
Speaker 1: this is my bank account. These are the things that
Speaker 1: I collect and I find my identity and my hobby.
Speaker 1: Let me give you some very important advice. As a
Speaker 1: pastor who loves you and who cares about you, never,
Speaker 1: never ever, ever base your identity on something you can lose.
Speaker 2: Never, if you build.
Speaker 1: Your identity on something that can be taken from you,
Speaker 1: you're going to lose.
Speaker 2: It's not your true identity. What am I saying.
Speaker 1: The only thing that cannot be taken away from you
Speaker 1: is this God's unconditional love for you. And so if
Speaker 1: you want to have your true identity and your new
Speaker 1: identity and your permanent identity, you must receive it from
Speaker 1: God and build it on the fact that you are
Speaker 1: loved by God unconditionally, and nobody can take that from you.
Speaker 1: Here's what the Bible says Tewod Corinthians chapter five. When
Speaker 1: someone accepts Christ, that's the big gift. I accept the
Speaker 1: big gift. God so loved the world that he gave
Speaker 1: his son. When someone accepts Christ, he becomes a brand
Speaker 1: new person. And inside circle that brand new person, new identity,
Speaker 1: he's not the same anymore. A new life has begun.
Speaker 1: Jesus called it being born again. He said, it's like
Speaker 1: getting a fresh start. It's like starting over. It's like
Speaker 1: not turn over new leaf. You get a whole new life.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: When you accept the big gift of Christmas, God's love
Speaker 1: for you, God's son. He says, you get a whole
Speaker 1: new idea. And what does it mean. Does that mean
Speaker 1: that now you're perfect, That now you never sin, that now.
Speaker 2: You never struggle. Of course not.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that at all. It just means you're
Speaker 1: not identified with your sin. You're not identified with your struggle,
Speaker 1: You're not identified with your past. You have a new identity.
Speaker 1: I'm a child of God. You need to get your
Speaker 1: id from God. Here's what Jesus said in John chapter eight.
Speaker 1: He said, if you follow my words, you will know
Speaker 1: the truth, and the truth will what.
Speaker 2: Set you free.
Speaker 1: Everybody in America knows the last part of that phrase,
Speaker 1: the truth will set you free. Almost nobody in America
Speaker 1: knows the first part of the sentence, which says, if
Speaker 1: you listen to me, says Jesus, if you follow my words,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna know the truth, and then the truth
Speaker 1: will such you're free.
Speaker 2: Truth.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna learn truth from television. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: learn truth from magazines. You're gonna learn truth from your friends.
Speaker 1: They don't know the truth about you. God knows the
Speaker 1: truth about you. Romans twelve, verse two. Let God transform
Speaker 1: you by changing you into a new person. Let God
Speaker 1: transform you into new person by changing the way you think.
Speaker 1: It starts by the way you see yourself. You've got
Speaker 1: to get a new id, a true id, a permanent idea.
Speaker 1: Then you'll know what God wants you to do his good,
Speaker 1: pleasing and perfect will for your life. God has a
Speaker 1: purpose for your life. It's good, it's pleasing, and it's perfect.
Speaker 1: God has a plan for your life. It's good, it's pleasing,
Speaker 1: and it's perfect. God has a will for your life.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's pleasing. That means you'll enjoy it, and
Speaker 1: it's perfect. It fits you. It's custom made. But you're
Speaker 1: not gonna know it until you get a new idea.
Speaker 1: And that comes in the big package of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: So the first thing I need for transformation is the truth,
Speaker 1: a new identity. But then I need more than that.
Speaker 1: I need power to change. And that's the second gift
Speaker 1: God asks for you, and that is God gives me
Speaker 1: a new ability, not just a new identity. God gives
Speaker 1: me a new ability. He gives me a new power,
Speaker 1: a new energy, a new strength, a new capacity. See,
Speaker 1: I'm not just depending on willpower anymore to change. You
Speaker 1: have tried to change things in your life so many
Speaker 1: times and it doesn't work. And you have set New
Speaker 1: Year's gold and they last about a week, maybe a month,
Speaker 1: may at the most three months.
Speaker 2: Why Because willpower doesn't work.
Speaker 1: You eventually get tired of doing what you're trying to
Speaker 1: do and you give up. You don't need willpower, you
Speaker 1: need God power. And God says, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you a new ability, and it's a new ability inside
Speaker 1: of you. I'm going to not just be around you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put my spirit inside you. Look at
Speaker 1: this verse. The Bible says in Romans chapter five, God
Speaker 1: has poured out his love. Notice it's all about love.
Speaker 1: God has poured out his love into our hearts by
Speaker 1: means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to you.
Speaker 1: Circle God's gift to you. God's Spirit is his second gift.
Speaker 1: He says, I'm not only going to help you. I'm
Speaker 1: not only going to be around you. I'm not only
Speaker 1: going to be with you. I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: working on you. I'm going to be working in you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put my spirit inside of you. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you receive the gift of God's Christmas
Speaker 1: gift Jesus Christ. I'm going to put God's spirit in you.
Speaker 1: The next verse says this in the Bible. Now now
Speaker 1: that you have God's spirit in you, Now God works
Speaker 1: in you, not just with you, for you and around you.
Speaker 1: In you by giving you both the desire and the
Speaker 1: ability to fulfill is good purpose for you. You know
Speaker 1: what the problem is with you and with me. We
Speaker 1: know the right things to do. We know the changes
Speaker 1: we want to make in our lives. We know how
Speaker 1: we'd like to be different at the end of this year.
Speaker 1: We have the desire to improve our lives. Everybody does
Speaker 1: has a desire to improve their lives.
Speaker 2: We have the desire, we don't have the ability.
Speaker 1: And yet God says, I'm going to give you the
Speaker 1: desire and the ability to do my purpose for your life.
Speaker 1: And how am I going to get it by putting
Speaker 1: my spirit inside of you.
Speaker 2: Love is what changes us.
Speaker 1: And the more I'm filled with God's love, the more
Speaker 1: power I have to change. Look at the next verse
Speaker 1: two Timothy one to seven. For God does not give
Speaker 1: us a spirit of fear, but instead he fills us
Speaker 1: with power and love and self discipline and circle.
Speaker 2: Those three things. Power, love, and self discipline.
Speaker 1: Would you like more power yes, more love yes, more
Speaker 1: self discipline yes. Then you need to get God's spirit
Speaker 1: in your life inside you, God says, I don't fill
Speaker 1: you with a spirit of fear. I give you the
Speaker 1: three ingredients you have to have to transform your life. Hi,
Speaker 1: this is Rick, and thanks for joining me today. You
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Speaker 1: of Christmas. I wrote this book to help you come
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Speaker 1: explaining the three purposes of Christmas that were announced by
Speaker 1: the Angel at the birth of Jesus. The Angel announced
Speaker 1: the time of celebration. I bring you good news of
Speaker 1: great joy, salvation for unto you is born this day
Speaker 1: in the City of David, a savior who is Christ
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Speaker 1: If you want to change your life this next year,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need truth. That's a new identity about you.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need power. That's a new ability that God
Speaker 1: gives you, and you're gonna need The third thing is
Speaker 1: you're gonna need support. That's love. You're gonna need love,
Speaker 1: love and support. And so that's the third gift God
Speaker 1: gives you. God says, I want to give you a
Speaker 1: new identity, a new ability, a number three.
Speaker 2: I want to give you a new community.
Speaker 1: This is the third gift wrapped up in the big
Speaker 1: box of Jesus community. God says, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you a family, a spiritual family to support you in
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. You see, you weren't meant to
Speaker 1: go through life all alone. You never were. You were
Speaker 1: meant to know God, and you were meant to have
Speaker 1: a family around you that supports you. We always change
Speaker 1: better in a group than we do on our own.
Speaker 1: So why most diets and most personal self health plans
Speaker 1: don't work because it's all about you and you.
Speaker 2: Don't have any spiritual family to support you.
Speaker 1: The Bible says God created an entire universe because he
Speaker 1: wanted a family. Look at this verse Ephesians, chapter one.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, because of his love. Remember, it all
Speaker 1: comes back to God's love. God so loved that he
Speaker 1: gave because of his love. God's unchanging plan has always
Speaker 1: been to adopt us into his own family by bringing
Speaker 1: us to himself through Jesus Christ. God says, I don't
Speaker 1: want you to just believe in me. I want you
Speaker 1: to belong to my family. I I'm going to say
Speaker 1: it again. If you don't get anything else, I say,
Speaker 1: I get this. It's not just enough to believe in Jesus.
Speaker 1: You need to belong to his family because you need
Speaker 1: that support.
Speaker 2: Now. Is everybody in the family of God?
Speaker 1: No, not everybody is in the family You've got to
Speaker 1: be adopted into it. Is everybody a child of God? No,
Speaker 1: not everybody is a child. Everybody is loved by God.
Speaker 1: God has never made a person he doesn't love. Everybody
Speaker 1: is created by God. God has never made a person
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a plan for God does memory in person.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want in heaven. God has never made a person.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't die for God has never made a person.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to know him personally. But the only
Speaker 1: way you get in God's family is by choosing. It's
Speaker 1: a decision. See when I was born physically, I automatically
Speaker 1: became a part of the human race. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a choice when I was born. I became a part
Speaker 1: of the human race. But I didn't become a part
Speaker 1: of a family until somebody chose to take me home
Speaker 1: from the hospital.
Speaker 2: Then I became a part of it.
Speaker 1: Somebody made a choice. I want that kid. God says,
Speaker 1: I want you and my family. Then you've got to
Speaker 1: choose to be in his family. And God says, I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you not just identity new identity, not
Speaker 1: just a new ability. I'm going to give you a
Speaker 1: new community, a family around you to help you change.
Speaker 1: What is that family. We'll look at what the Bible
Speaker 1: says Fir Timothy chapter three. That family is the Church
Speaker 1: of the Living God, the support and foundation of the
Speaker 1: Truth Circle.
Speaker 2: Support and foundation.
Speaker 1: You need support, and you need a foundation for your life.
Speaker 2: If you don't have a foundation for.
Speaker 1: Your life, and you don't have the spiritual support of
Speaker 1: a family, you are not going to become what God
Speaker 1: wants you to be. Next verse a different spiritual gift.
Speaker 1: There's that word gift again. A different spiritual gift is
Speaker 1: given to each of us in God's family so we
Speaker 1: can help each other for the common good. In other words,
Speaker 1: I have some gifts and abilities and talents. They help you.
Speaker 1: You have gifts and abilities, talents. They help the person
Speaker 1: next to you. They have some gifts and abilities talents
Speaker 1: that help me, And on and on. We help each other.
Speaker 1: That's what the family's for. That's what the community is for.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Galatians three. In Christ family, there
Speaker 1: are no divisions. In other words, no distinctions, no distinctions
Speaker 1: between Jew and non Jew, or between slave and free,
Speaker 1: or between male and female. Instead, we're all equal in
Speaker 1: a common relationship with Jesus Christ. God didn't come to
Speaker 1: give you a religion at Christmas. He came to give
Speaker 1: you a relationship to Jesus Christ, one of love. Now
Speaker 1: there's one other gift that's wrapped up in the big gift.
Speaker 1: There's this gift of Jesus, God so loved the world
Speaker 1: that he gave the first Christmas gift gave his son
Speaker 1: and wrapped up in the big box is a new identity,
Speaker 1: a new ability, and a new community. But there's one more,
Speaker 1: and this one's going to outlast everything. It is a
Speaker 1: new destiny. God gives me when I accept Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: in my life, a new destiny. Now, this gift means
Speaker 1: the most to me out of all of them. And
Speaker 1: the Bible says this first Peter, God has reserved for
Speaker 1: his children the priceless gift. There's that word, the priceless
Speaker 1: gift of eternal life. It is kept in heaven for you,
Speaker 1: pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
Speaker 1: And in Romans chapter six we're told this, the free
Speaker 1: gift of God is eternal life.
Speaker 2: That's the new destiny.
Speaker 1: Eternal life to Christ, Jesus our Lord, in the package
Speaker 1: of Jesus, the free gift. You don't earn your way
Speaker 1: to heaven. You don't buy your way to heaven. You
Speaker 1: don't bribe your way to heaven. You don't bargain your
Speaker 1: way to heaven. You're never going to be good enough
Speaker 1: to get into heaven. You can't talk your way into heaven.
Speaker 1: It's simply a free gift. When you receive the big gift,
Speaker 1: it's inside, it's part of the package. Look at what
Speaker 1: Jesus has to say about this the next verse here
Speaker 1: on the screen, Matthew seven to eleven. If you, though
Speaker 1: imperfect and sinful, know how to give good gifts to
Speaker 1: your children, how much more will your father in heaven
Speaker 1: give good gifts to those who ask him. Everything in
Speaker 1: your life is a gift from God. The air you breathe,
Speaker 1: the son, your brain, your own life. Everything you have
Speaker 1: is a gift from God. But there are some gifts
Speaker 1: you have to ask for. And you say, I want
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ in my life. Summarize God says, I sent
Speaker 1: the first Christmas gift, my son to die for you
Speaker 1: so you could go to heaven. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you a new identity. I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: a new ability to change the things you want to change.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a new community called my
Speaker 1: church family to support you through life. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you a new destiny in eternity. Who else
Speaker 1: you're going to get that?
Speaker 2: Nowhere?
Speaker 1: Nowhere else That's why I called it the greatest gifts
Speaker 1: you'll ever receive. Now, what do I do with these
Speaker 1: gifts of Jesus Christ. I humbly and I gratefully accept them.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this, Look at this verse. Thanks be
Speaker 1: to God for his indescribable gift. There is no better
Speaker 1: gift than what I just talked about. And here's the offer.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this. It makes no difference who you
Speaker 1: are or where you're from. If you want God and
Speaker 1: you're ready to do as he says, the door is open.
Speaker 2: He just got asked.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine somebody giving you a million dollar gift
Speaker 1: and you never open it? That would be stupid. But
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who God's given this
Speaker 1: gift you. They've never opened the package. And what's crazy
Speaker 1: is they celebrate Christmas. How is it possible to celebrate
Speaker 1: Christmas year after year after year after year after year
Speaker 1: after year your entire life.
Speaker 2: And never open the gift. Hello, what do you think?
Speaker 2: It's all about?
Speaker 1: God so loved that he gave his son for you.
Speaker 1: You need to open the gift. You need to receive
Speaker 1: the gift. This gift is for you. Ephesians, chapter three
Speaker 1: says this, I pray, I pray that Christ will be
Speaker 1: more and more at home in your hearts as you
Speaker 1: trust him. May your roots go down deep into the
Speaker 1: soil of God's marvelous love.
Speaker 2: And I pray.
Speaker 1: That you will be able to feel, not just know,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to feel and understand how long, how wide,
Speaker 1: how deep, how high God's love for you really is.
Speaker 1: And you experience this love for yourself. That's my prayer
Speaker 1: for you, though it is so great you'll never fully
Speaker 1: understand it. That's bower heads.
Speaker 2: This is your moment. Before you were born.
Speaker 1: God knew that you would be at this point in
Speaker 1: this day hearing this, so he could say this to you.
Speaker 1: You matter to me, and I've offered you this gift.
Speaker 1: God so loved the world, God so loved you that
Speaker 1: he gave a son, and in his son are a
Speaker 1: new ability and a new identity, and a new community
Speaker 1: and a new destiny. Would you pray this prayer, just
Speaker 1: say it that the words really don't matter. What matters
Speaker 1: You have to have the right attitude. And the right
Speaker 1: attitude is you must be humble. You must humble yourself
Speaker 1: before God. God is God, and.
Speaker 2: You're not.
Speaker 1: And you need to put away pride and arrogance and
Speaker 1: say this just in your heart. Dear God, Dear Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: thank you for the Christmas gift of yourself. Thank you
Speaker 1: that you love me so much came to die for me.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it all, but today I'm saying yes
Speaker 1: to you. I receive the Christmas gift of Jesus, and
Speaker 1: I want my roots to go deep into your love.
Speaker 1: And I'm asking you to give me my true identity.
Speaker 1: Not what everybody else has told me I am, but
Speaker 1: Dear God, you made me.
Speaker 2: Help me to see what you made me to be.
Speaker 2: Give me my true.
Speaker 1: Identity, Give me a new ability I can't change on
Speaker 1: my own. I need your power in my life and
Speaker 1: I want to have this new community. I don't want
Speaker 1: to go through life without the support and foundation you've prepared.
Speaker 1: And I'm humbly asking for a new destiny that one
Speaker 1: day you will accept me into your place in heaven,
Speaker 1: not because I deserve it, because I don't. I have
Speaker 1: received your son and your Savior, and I pray this
Speaker 1: prayer humbly saying I want to learn to love you
Speaker 1: and trust you in the days ahead. In your name,
Speaker 1: I asked this, Amen, Hi, everybody, this is Pastor Rick.
Speaker 1: I would like to thank you. Thank you for being
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