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How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Love
December 22, 2024
Matt Roe
1 John 4:7-12
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This
is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live
through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
The Grinch’s
1 John 4:7-8 Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love
does not know God, because God is love.
The Grinch’s
The Grinch’s moment of transformation: The
1 John 4:9 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us.
The Grinch’s
Luke 2:1-7 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken
throughout the Roman Empire. (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of
Syria.) All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. And because Joseph
was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He
traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. He took with him Mary, to whom he was
engaged, who was now expecting a child. And while they were there, the time came for her baby
to be born. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid
him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.