L iving B eyond Y ourself Part 38 Christmas Words.

Living Beyond Yourself

Living Beyond Yourself

Part 38

Christmas Words

Ephesians 6:23, 24Ephesians 6:23, 2423 to the brothers, and with from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

23 to the brothers, and with from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

Peacelove faith

Grace

Jesus did not only come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.

Jesus did not only come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.

PeacePeace

1:2 – …peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

6:23 - Peace to the brothers . . .

1:2 – …peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

6:23 - Peace to the brothers . . .

Sin Separates Us From God

• Ephesians 2:1,3 - As for you, you were dead in your trans-gressions and sins… 3 Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

• Romans 3:17 - …and the way of peace they do not know."

Luke 2:13-14

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 14 "Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

“When Christ came into the world, peace was promised.

When he rose, peace was accomplished.”

Ephesians 2:14-18Ephesians 2:14-18

For he himself is our peace…For he himself is our peace…

Jesus did not only come to make God’s love possible,

but to make God’s love visible.

Colossians 1:19 - For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Romans 5:1-2

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.

Good Christian men, rejoice, with heart and soul and voice;Now ye need not fear the grave: Peace! Peace! Jesus Christ was born to save!Calls you one and calls you all, to gain His everlasting hall.Christ was born to save! Christ was born to save!

Hail the Heaven born Prince of Peace!

Hail the Son of righteousness!

Truly He taught us to love one another;

His law is love

and His Gospel is peace.

Love

6:23 love … from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love

6:23 love … from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:9,10

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. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

A Giving Love

Romans 5:8 - But God demon-strates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

A Giving Love

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in Him may not perish but have eternal life.

Silent Night, Holy Night

Son of God, love’s pure light

O come, let us adore Him,O come, let us adore Him,O come, let us adore Him,Christ the Lord.

Our ResponseA Patient LoveOur ResponseA Patient Love

Ephesians 4:2 - Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Ephesians 4:2 - Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Faith Faith

6:23 …love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

6:23 …love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith is resting in the

promises of God.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Romans 1:17Romans 1:17

For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteous-ness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written:

"The righteous will live by faith ."

For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteous-ness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written:

"The righteous will live by faith ."


For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.


Love makes life enjoyable.

Faith makes life meaningful.

O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem.Come and behold Him, born the King of angels;

GraceGrace24 - Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

24 - Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

Grace is when God gives us what we don’t deserve.

Mercy is when God doesn’t give us what we do deserve.

John 1:14-16

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth…. 16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

Ephesians 1:7,8 Ephesians 1:7,8

7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgive- ness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace 8 that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgive- ness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace 8 that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love; And wonders of His love; And wonders, wonders of His love.

Grace is not meant to be wasted

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