PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS December 21 - December 25

At this point in the story, the long awaited Savior, Redeemer, and Messiah has come! Jesus, who was in the family of King David, was humbly born in Bethlehem, and all of the angels and the heavenly hosts rejoiced at his coming! God made sure that Jesus was safely delivered and protected from King Herod and now this little child was to grow up in the city of Nazareth. God has faithfully kept all of His promises and nothing was going to stop Jesus from coming to the earth and being born exactly as it was promised in God’s Word.In this Christmas season, we celebrate the birth of Jesus as the King of the world who will set his people free from sin. But the story doesn’t end at his birth; Jesus will grow up into a toddler, a teenager, and eventually an adult, living a relatively ordinary life on earth. But then the time came for Jesus to continue to fulfill the plan that God had all along- the plan he had been slowly unraveling from Adam and Eve all the way to John the Baptist. Jesus would soon shake the world with his life, ministry, and teaching. Jesus did not simply come to live among us- he came to die for us, to take our place, and to save us from our sins. This week, we will consider the importance of what happens after Jesus was born. Why exactly is Jesus here on earth? What is he here to do and accomplish?www.aletheiatampa.com/advent