1. December 25th 2016
Christmas Day

2. Prelude for Worship
Martha Short Kim Roudebush

3. Text “Welcome” to

4. Joy to the World
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5. Joy to the world The Lord is come Let earth receive her King
Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room
And heav’n and nature sing
And heav’n and heav’n
And nature sing 1

6. Joy to the earth The Savior reigns Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat Repeat the sounding joy 2

7. No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make
His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as far as the curse is found 3

8. And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness
He rules the world
With truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders wonders of His love 4
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9. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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10. Hark the herald angels sing Glory to the new born King
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled

11. Joyful all ye nations rise Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic hosts proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem

12. Hark the herald angels sing “Glory to the newborn King!”

13. Christ by highest heav’n adored Christ the everlasting Lord
Late in time behold him come
Offspring of a virgin’s womb

14. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see Hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased as man with men to dwell
Jesus our Emmanuel

15. Hark the herald angels sing “Glory to the newborn King!”

16. Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace Hail the Sun of Righteousness
Light and Life to all He brings
Risen with healing in His wings

17. Mild He lays His glory by Born that man no more may die
Born to raise the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth

18. Hark the herald angels sing “Glory to the newborn King!”
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19. O Come All Ye Faithful
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20. O come ye O come ye to Bethlehem
O come all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye O come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him
Born the king of angels

21. O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord

22. All glory in the highest
Sing choirs of angels
Sing in exultation
O sing all ye citizens
Of heaven above
Glory to God
All glory in the highest

23. O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord

24. Born this happy morning Jesus to Thee be all glory given
Yea Lord we greet Thee
Born this happy morning
Jesus to Thee be all glory given
Word of the Father
Now in flesh appearing

25. O come let us adore him Christ the Lord!
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26. Christ Was Born For This
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27. We Give Our Tithes and Offerings

28. Christmas Time Is Here
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29. Matt 1:17–25 (NASB)
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.

30. Matt 1:17–25 (NASB)
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

31. Matt 1:17–25 (NASB)
20 But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

32. Matt 1:17–25 (NASB)
21 She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

33. Matt 1:17–25 (NASB)
24 And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife, 25 but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.

34. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
Matt 1:17–25

35. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
Each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. (James 1:14–15)

36. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
Jesus can save you from your sins because 1) He comes in poverty, 2) He comes in power and purity, and 3) He comes personally.

37. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
1. Jesus comes in poverty.

38. Jesus comes in poverty
“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” - C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

39. Jesus comes in poverty
Jesus makes Himself poor by taking up our humanity. The Son of God rescues us by becoming like us.

40. Jesus comes in poverty
To understand the greatness of Jesus’ salvation, we must consider the greatness of His descent.

41. Jesus comes in poverty
“He was born of a woman. So, just like any other child, He came as a crying, cooing, bed-wetting baby boy It was a holy night, but it wasn’t silent. After all, whoever heard of a child coming out of the womb and staying quiet?...

42. Jesus comes in poverty
Jesus wasn’t born with a glowing halo around His head and a smile on His face; He was born like us” (Platt, 20).

43. Jesus comes in poverty
God grows for nine months in the darkness of Mary’s womb so that, on the third day, He could emerge victorious for mankind from the darkness of death’s tomb.

44. Jesus comes in poverty
Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Heb 2:14–15)

45. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
2. Jesus comes in power and purity.

46. Jesus comes in power and purity
It was before Mary and Joseph came together that she was found to be with child (18).

47. Jesus comes in power and purity
Joseph understood appearances sometimes matter – that even though we may have a freedom to do something, there are times that it is better that we don’t so the world can clearly see and wrestle with who Christ is.

48. Jesus comes in power and purity
Matthew wants us to know “when God makes a promise in His Word, He fulfills it in the world” (Platt, 25).

49. Jesus comes in power and purity
The spotless righteousness of Jesus is ensured not only by Joseph’s noble patience but also by the powerful way Jesus enters the world.

50. Jesus comes in power and purity
Jesus is born without sin because the Holy Spirit powerfully interrupts the cycle of sin’s transmission through Adam by conceiving Christ in Mary.

51. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
3. Jesus comes to us personally.

52. Jesus comes to us personally
This reality of His presence is communicated by His name – Immanuel (v. 23).

53. Jesus comes to us personally
“Matthew teaches that although God is transcendent over us, He is present with us. That is, in His glory, God is far above us, but in His grace, He is near to us” (Platt, 27).

54. Jesus comes to us personally
Who are the they who call Him Immanuel? Are you among the they?

55. Jesus comes to us personally
Jesus says, in John 10:27–28, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”

56. Jesus comes to us personally
We discover the lives we were made for when, in true humility, we give our lives to Christ who came down for us, and the Holy Spirit gives us a new heart that can know the nearness of God, God with us.

57. Jesus, The Gift of Christmas
Don’t let another Christmas go by without receiving Jesus, salvation from your sins, God for you and with you.
Jesus is the gift of Christmas.

58. O Little Town of Bethlehem
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59. O little town of Bethlehem How still we see Thee lie
Above Thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by

60. Yet in Thy dark streets shineth The hopes and fears of all the years
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in Thee tonight

61. For Christ is born of Mary And gathered all above
While mortals sleep the angels keep
Their watch of wond’ring love

62. O morning stars together Proclaim the Holy Birth
And praises sing to God the King
And peace to men on earth

63. How silently how silently The wondrous gift is giv’n
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heav’n

64. No ear may hear His coming The dear Christ enters in
But in this world of sin
Where meek souls
Will receive Him still
The dear Christ enters in

65. O holy Child of Bethlehem Cast out our sin and enter in
Descend to us we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born in us today

66. We hear the Christmas angels The great glad tidings tell
O come to us abide with us
Our Lord Emmanuel
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