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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So we see that there seems to be many myths around Christmas.
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- We see that Jesus actually might not have been born in a stable as many think.
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- He definitely probably wasn't born on December 25th. There were probably three wise men that came to visit him.
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- And they didn't visit him at his birth. With all these things, should we celebrate
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- Christmas? Well, it is good to set aside a day, even if it's just one day of the year, that we celebrate the fact that God Almighty, the
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- King of Kings, Creator of the Universe, left heaven and came into humanity as a human being for the explicit purpose that he would one day die a gruesome death.
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- Though he was sinless, he came that he might die a sinner's death, that you may have eternal life.
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- Though you and I are guilty, Jesus Christ, the Almighty God, came and died in our place that we could be set free.
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- Is it good to celebrate Christmas? Well, there's nothing special about December 25th. There's nothing special about much of the nativity things that many people think of when they think of Christmas.
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- Nat's not even getting into the other things that people think of with Christmas trees and all of that. But here's the important thing.
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- It is good that we celebrate a day that we worship God and thank
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- God for what he did on our behalf, that he became a punishment of death, a punishment of sin on our behalf, that he paid the eternal fine that we owe, that we could be his children.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
