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Jesus, The
Greatest Present of All
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(Ephesians
2:8)
For
it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God--
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It will be Christmas
after a few days.
Say to your friends, "Merry Christmas!!"
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On Christmas Day, you
will expect good Christmas presents.
Some will want nice clothes and some will want
good toys.
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And some of you may
think that Santa Clause will come and give you gifts.
At Christmas time, you may even hang up stockings
on your fireplace.
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However, do you know
that you and I have already gotten the greatest present ever? We have received the most precious present that could never be compared to
beautiful clothes or wonderful toys.
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This present had been
prepared in advance for a very long time. Its value is priceless.
God, the king of the universe directly granted this present.
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Adam and Eve, the
first humans on earth broke the promise with God and committed the first sin.
So, we lost the chance to be with God eternally in
heaven because of that sin and could not meet with God any longer.
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Seeing us, God's
heart was broken.
Therefore, God planned to recover the relationship between Himself and
humankind.
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However, there was
only one way to solve this problem. God should send Jesus, the only Son of
God on the earth. Jesus is God but He had to come down as a human like us.
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God sent Jesus
through the virgin Mary.
God gave us the greatest present of all, Himself
in the flesh.
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On Christmas Day,
Jesus became the present and came to us.
Because God loves and has great compassion for us, He sent Jesus to save us.
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Jesus, the king of
the universe came to the lowest place as a gift for us.
It means that God does not differentiate people's
position; he gave us the gift of salvation.
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After a few days, we
will celebrate Christmas. On Christmas Day, people give Christmas cards to
each other. It will also be a good method of evangelism to friends who want
to tell about Jesus while delivering Christmas cards.
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It is a good custom
to exchange gifts with each other. It is like following the custom of gift
giving as with the Magi in bringing gold, incense, and myrrh to celebrate
Jesus' birth.
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Some of you give good
gifts to friends on Valentine's Day or other special days. However, God may
be more pleased when you give to your friends a small heartfelt gift to tell
them about Jesus' birth on Christmas Day.
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On this Christmas
Day, you should think of Jesus, the Son of God who has saved us. You should spend your time well in doing something
that would make Jesus pleased.
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