The Gospel is not that Jesus Christ comes to earth, tells us how to live, we live a good life and then God owes us blessing. The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died, so when we believe in Him, we live a life of grateful joy for Him. If these things didn\u2019t happen, if they\u2019re just parables, what you are saying is that if you try hard enough, God will accept you.<\/p>\n
If Jesus didn\u2019t come, the story of Christmas is one more moral paradigm to crush you. If Jesus didn\u2019t come, I wouldn\u2019t want to be anywhere around these Christmas stories that say we need to be sacrificing, we need to be humble, we need to be loving. All that will do is crush you into the ground. Because if it isn\u2019t true that John saw Him, heard Him, felt Him, that Jesus really came to do these things, then Christmas is depressing.<\/p>\n
First John 1:3 says, \u201cOur fellowship is with the Father and with his Son.\u201d \u201cFellowship\u201d means that if Jesus Christ has come, if Christmas is true, then we\u2019ve got a basis for a personal relationship with God. God is no longer a remote idea or a force we cower before, but we can know Him personally. He\u2019s become graspable.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Isaiah 9:1-7 \u2014 Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) December 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\nThe people that walked in darkness
\nhas seen a great light;
\non those who live in a land of deep shadow
\na light has shone.
\nYou have made their gladness greater,
\nyou have made their joy increase;
\nthey rejoice in your presence
\nas men rejoice at harvest time
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