Has 2020 gone like you originally planned? Have you had any missed expectations around Christmas? As we celebrate Christmas, JP teaches through the Christmas story in Luke 2 and Matthew 2, showing us the many missed expectations of the first Christmas ever.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
-Your greatest disappointments in life come from missed expectations.
-Maybe 2020–in the midst of many missed expectations—is helping us return to the basics of Christianity.
-There are many similarities between the first Christmas and this one.
-The first Christmas was full of missed expectations.
-Good people do not go to Heaven, and bad people do not go to hell.
-Jesus gave us the vaccine for eternal punishment and separation from Him forever.
-When you believe Jesus died on the cross for your sins and God raised Him from the dead, everything changes.
-God may not give you what you are asking for, but He has a purpose for it.
-There are two types of people: those that are on mission or those that are the mission.
MENTIONED OR RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
-Suggested Scripture Study: Luke 2:1-7; Matthew 2:1-3; Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1:32-33;
-Sermon: The Greatest Apologetic