The Real Roots of Christmas- It's All About Jesus (TMF:SE27)

Thursday, December 21, 2017
Peace to Live By: The Real Roots of Christmas- It's All About Jesus (TMF:SE27) - Daniel Litton
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       Getting at the real roots of Christmas, then, we know that Christmas is all about Jesus. It’s about his birth into our world, some 2,000 years ago, in a little Jewish town called Bethlehem, over in Israel. You see, God had promised King David in 2 Samuel chapter 7, in the Old Testament, that he would establish an everlasting kingdom for the Israelites. Let’s review what God said to King David. 2 Samuel 7:12-14 states: “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son” (ESV). And it was some 1,000 years later that Christ was born into the world, and he was the fulfillment of the promise that God made to David. He is of the lineage of David, as both Matthew and Luke so clearly show us, and he is to reign on the earth as King (see Matthew 1 & Luke 3).