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067 - Why Christmas?
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What is the reason we recognize Christmas? What's the purpose behind the peppermint? The why behind "White Christmas"? The source of our Celebration? Listen as Jarod encourages us to remember Jesus and the meaning of Christmas.
Merry Christmas! May God be praised and you be encouraged!
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Introduction to Jared & PreacherDad.com
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Well, hello everybody.
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Welcome to the Preacher Dad Podcast.
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My name is Jared and I am the Preacher Dad.
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And I blog over at PreacherDad.com where you can find information on everything from parenting to politics.
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I am the father of eight and the husband to one, but I am an expert of none.
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I'm not an expert on anything, but I know someone who is.
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And so it's my desire to
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Just encourage you a little bit, share a little bit with you about what the Lord Jesus says about everything from parenting to politics and everything in between.
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And so I just want to encourage you as I'm on the way home tonight.
Sponsor Acknowledgment: Cornerstone Fellowship
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I want to give you a little bit of a pick me up.
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Maybe you're on the way home from your regular job and you're listening to podcasts on the way home.
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I want to thank you for listening to this one.
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I want to remind you that this podcast episode is brought to you by Cornerstone Fellowship.
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Just a couple miles north of Tombsboro, Georgia is a little white country church where we love Jesus and we love people.
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And we would love for you to join us if you are able to.
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But we want to thank Cornerstone Fellowship for sponsoring this episode.
Reflecting on the Meaning of Christmas
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You know, this is Christmas time.
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And one thing that I frequently remember at Christmas is why we celebrate Christmas.
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And I remember it so much, I even preached about it on Sunday.
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But I thought maybe somebody out there might want to be reminded.
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It makes it easier to get into the Christmas spirit if you remember the reason that we do things.
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For instance, all those lights that you get annoyed with putting around the tree and hanging up on the buildings and all of the work involved with that.
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Why do we do lights at Christmas?
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Well, it's because the light of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ, came into the world.
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And the people that sat in darkness have seen a great light.
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That's in the scriptures.
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In fact, Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, declared, repeated that prophecy from Isaiah.
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And was exalting to know that... That...
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the Savior had come.
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And that's part of the reason we have lights.
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Why do we give presents to each other?
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Well, we give presents to each other because the greatest present in the history of mankind was Jesus Christ.
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He was a gift to mankind.
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He brought gifts with him, such as peace and hope and joy.
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He brought those things with Him and so we give gifts to one another in remembrance of Him.
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It's easy to let the materialism of Christmas and the desire for things overwhelm us when we're thinking about buying presents for everybody on our list, but
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Just remember the reason we exchanged those gifts is because we were given a great gift by God in heaven when he sent his son to die upon the cross.
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And ultimately that's the real reason for Christmas is Jesus.
Jesus' Purpose and the Significance of Family
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It is not just the fact that Jesus was born as a human being.
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but that he came in order to deliver us from sin.
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You see, if we leave sin out, if we leave the cross and the grave, the empty tomb, if we leave those things out of Christmas, we're sort of missing a big part of the reason he came.
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He didn't just come to make things nice and to spread love and peace and happiness all over.
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I mean, those things feel really good.
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And that's why people love Christmas, because it feels so good.
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But the fact of the matter is that Jesus came to die.
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That little baby in that manger was born so that he could die in our place for our sins, to bring redemption to you and me for our sins.
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And so that's important that we remember those things at Christmas time.
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We remember the reason that...
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that Jesus' birth was a time for such great rejoicing, and why the angels said, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.
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The reason that they said, Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all men, not just the Jewish people, but to all men, the reason that was glad tidings of great joy.
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was because Jesus came to deliver us from our sins, to die in our place, to suffer and die in our place.
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And because of that, we have hope.
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Because of His sacrifice upon the cross, we have joy.
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Because we have been given the opportunity to enter into a relationship with the Father in heaven through Jesus Christ.
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Why do you think family time is so important at the holidays, so important at Christmas time?
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Why do we care so much about families?
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Well, it's because we have been brought into the family of God.
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We have, uh, we have been, oh, my, my girls are, are playing dress up and, uh, I got to see them.
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So there you go.
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You get my, my trip home here.
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Um,
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So those are some of the reasons of Christmas.
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And, you know, that's that's very important that we remember those things that.
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Well, I was saying that that we celebrate families because we've been brought into the family of God through Jesus Christ.
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And, you know, that's because he loved us.
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Why do we celebrate Christmas?
Concluding Thoughts and Blog Invitation
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Because God the Father loved us enough to send his son to die upon the tree and be raised again the third day to bring us hope.
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So I just wanted to share that with you.
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I hope that encourages you.
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It's now time for me to go be a dad to my eight children and a husband to my wife and show them all the love that God has shown to me.
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So this short episode is...
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is over, and I hope to see you again next time.
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Thanks again so much, everybody.
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I hope to see you again next time on the Preacher Dad podcast.
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Don't forget to check us out at PreacherDad.com.
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If you have a suggestion, anything like that is great.
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So sure appreciate all of you out there.
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God bless you, and I'll see you again next time.
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Bye-bye.