Message Notes for Sunday, December 22, 2024 | Unwrapping the Gifts of Christmas: Jesus: The Greatest Gift the World Has Known
The Message of the Magi’s Gifts
Gold: Kingly Rule
Frankincense: Priestly Role
Myrrh: Costly Redemption
John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him
is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
1. You are supernaturally
.
John 3:16-17
1 John 4:9
*A. Supernatural I_ntensity_*
1 John 3:1
Romans 5:8
b. Supernatural
John 3:16
2. You are naturally
.
John 3:16-18
In the Bible, condemnation is the act of declaring someone guilty and sentencing them to
punishment. —Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology
John 3:18
John 3:17
Luke 19:10
3. You are personally
.
John 3:16-18
John 10:28
“Did it read, there is mercy for Richard Baxter, I am so vile, so sinful, that I would have thoughtit must have meant some other Richard Baxter; but this word ‘whosoever’ includes the worst ofall the Baxters that ever lived.” —Richard Baxter