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JOHN 3:16-17: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.www.aletheiatampa.com/advent

1 TIMOTHY 2:5-6: For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. www.aletheiatampa.com/advent

LUKE 24:44-48: Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.You are witnesses of these things.www.aletheiatampa.com/advent

JOHN 1:29: The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”www.aletheiatampa.com/advent

MARK 10:45: For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.www.aletheiatampa.com/advent

At this point in the story, the long awaited Savior, Redeemer, and Messiah has come! Jesus, who was in the family of King David, was humbly born in Bethlehem, and all of the angels and the heavenly hosts rejoiced at his coming! God made sure that Jesus was safely delivered and protected from King Herod and now this little child was to grow up in the city of Nazareth. God has faithfully kept all of His promises and nothing was going to stop Jesus from coming to the earth and being born exactly as it was promised in God’s Word.In this Christmas season, we celebrate the birth of Jesus as the King of the world who will set his people free from sin. But the story doesn’t end at his birth; Jesus will grow up into a toddler, a teenager, and eventually an adult, living a relatively ordinary life on earth. But then the time came for Jesus to continue to fulfill the plan that God had all along- the plan he had been slowly unraveling from Adam and Eve all the way to John the Baptist. Jesus would soon shake the world with his life, ministry, and teaching. Jesus did not simply come to live among us- he came to die for us, to take our place, and to save us from our sins. This week, we will consider the importance of what happens after Jesus was born. Why exactly is Jesus here on earth? What is he here to do and accomplish?www.aletheiatampa.com/advent