Christmas

An introduction

1. Christmas for Grown-Ups

• Why did God create the universe and what does that have to do with Christmas? - a brief stage-setting

• The Two Stories of Christmas - big-picture overview of the whole sweep of spiritual meaning of the Christmas story as applied to our lives

The Story's Components:

Prophecy

• The Uses of Messianic Prophecy
• The Messianic Prophecy and Its Fulfillment
• Being Called Out of Egypt

Location

• Why the Lord was Born in Bethlehem
• The City of David
• Bethlehem Ephratah
• Why There Was No Room in the Inn

Annunciation

• Shepherds Keeping Watch
• Good News
• The Star in the East
• The Evening and the Morning Stars
• The Angel Gabriel

The Birth

• Link to The Virgin Birth
• The Immaculate Conception
• The Lord’s State at Birth
• Call His Name "Jesus"
• What "No Room at the Inn" Really Means
• And Myrrh
• Why we are given pictures of the Lord’s conception and birth
• "And the Word Was Made Flesh"

What the Hallelujah Chorus Really Means

• The Kingdom of Jesus Christ

Relation to the Second Coming

• Two Advents: One Divine Process

2. Christmas for Children (of all ages!)

• Why Did the Angels Say "Fear Not" ?
• Why Did They Find Him in a Manger?
• Why Does Christmas Make Us Happy?
• How Was God Born as Jesus?
• What the Wise Men Knew
• The Darkness of Christmas
• How We Know About the Lord and His Coming
• Why Did the Star Disappear?
• Why Didn’t the Wise Men Go Straight to Bethlehem?
• Our Own Christmas Star
• Seeing the Lord in His Coming

3.  Advanced Study

• Thoughts Concerning the Conception, Birth and Glorification of Jesus Christ
• The Comings of the Lord
• In Swaddling Clothes, Lying in a Manger
• Born of Jehovah
• The Virgin Birth and the Angel Gabriel
• The Lord’s Temptations
• The Genealogies of the Lord

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