GALATIANS 4:1-7 KJV

NOW I SAY, THAT THE HEIR, AS LONG

AS HE IS A CHILD, DIFFERETH

NOTHING FROM A SERVANT, THOUGH

HE BE LORD OF ALL;

2 BUT IS UNDER TUTORS AND

GOVERNORS UNTIL THE TIME

APPOINTED OF THE FATHER. 3 EVEN

SO WE, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN,

WERE IN BONDAGE UNDER THE

ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD:

4 BUT WHEN THE FULNESS OF THE

TIME WAS COME, GOD SENT FORTH

HIS SON, MADE OF A WOMAN, MADE

UNDER THE LAW, 5 TO REDEEM

THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW,

THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE

ADOPTION OF SONS.

6 AND BECAUSE YE ARE SONS, GOD

HATH SENT FORTH THE SPIRIT OF HIS

SON INTO YOUR HEARTS, CRYING, ABBA,

FATHER. 7 WHEREFORE THOU ART NO

MORE A SERVANT, BUT A SON; AND IF A

SON, THEN AN HEIR OF GOD THROUGH

CHRIST.

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE…..

WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTMAS

EVE? WHAT WAS GOD

DOING?

GENESIS 3:13-19 (KJV)

13 AND THE LORD GOD SAID UNTO

THE WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS THAT

THOU HAST DONE? AND THE

WOMAN SAID, THE SERPENT

BEGUILED ME, AND I DID EAT.

14 AND THE LORD GOD SAID UNTO THE

SERPENT, BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE

THIS, THOU ART CURSED ABOVE ALL

CATTLE, AND ABOVE EVERY BEAST OF

THE FIELD; UPON THY BELLY SHALT

THOU GO, AND DUST SHALT THOU EAT

ALL THE DAYS OF THY LIFE:

15 AND I WILL PUT ENMITY

BETWEEN THEE AND THE

WOMAN, AND BETWEEN THY

SEED AND HER SEED; IT SHALL

BRUISE THY HEAD, AND THOU

SHALT BRUISE HIS HEEL.

16 UNTO THE WOMAN HE SAID, I WILL

GREATLY MULTIPLY THY SORROW AND

THY CONCEPTION; IN SORROW THOU

SHALT BRING FORTH CHILDREN; AND

THY DESIRE SHALL BE TO THY

HUSBAND, AND HE SHALL RULE OVER

THEE.

17 AND UNTO ADAM HE SAID, BECAUSE

THOU HAST HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE

OF THY WIFE, AND HAST EATEN OF THE

TREE, OF WHICH I COMMANDED THEE,

SAYING, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT:

CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR THY SAKE; IN

SORROW SHALT THOU EAT OF IT ALL THE

DAYS OF THY LIFE;

18 THORNS ALSO AND

THISTLES SHALL IT BRING

FORTH TO THEE; AND THOU

SHALT EAT THE HERB OF THE

FIELD;

19 IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE SHALT

THOU EAT BREAD, TILL THOU RETURN

UNTO THE GROUND; FOR OUT OF IT

WAST THOU TAKEN: FOR DUST THOU

ART, AND UNTO DUST SHALT THOU

RETURN.

ROMANS 8:18-24 (NIV)

18 I CONSIDER THAT OUR PRESENT

SUFFERINGS ARE NOT WORTH COMPARING

WITH THE GLORY THAT WILL BE REVEALED

IN US. 19 FOR THE CREATION WAITS IN

EAGER EXPECTATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF

GOD TO BE REVEALED

20 FOR THE CREATION WAS SUBJECTED TO

FRUSTRATION, NOT BY ITS OWN CHOICE,

BUT BY THE WILL OF THE ONE WHO

SUBJECTED IT, IN HOPE 21 THAT THE

CREATION ITSELF WILL BE LIBERATED FROM

ITS BONDAGE TO DECAY AND BROUGHT

INTO THE FREEDOM AND GLORY OF THE

CHILDREN OF GOD.

22 WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE

CREATION HAS BEEN GROANING AS IN

THE PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH RIGHT UP

TO THE PRESENT TIME. 23 NOT ONLY

SO, BUT WE OURSELVES, WHO HAVE

THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT,

GROAN INWARDLY AS WE WAIT

EAGERLY FOR OUR ADOPTION TO

SON SHIP, THE REDEMPTION OF

OUR BODIES. 24 FOR IN THIS

HOPE WE WERE SAVED.

GENESIS 12:1-3 (NIV)

THE LORD HAD SAID TO ABRAM, “GO

FROM YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR PEOPLE

AND YOUR FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD TO

THE LAND I WILL SHOW YOU. 2 “I WILL

MAKE YOU INTO A GREAT NATION, AND I

WILL BLESS YOU;

I WILL MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT, AND

YOU WILL BE A BLESSING. 3 I WILL

BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU, AND

WHOEVER CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE;

AND ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE

BLESSED THROUGH YOU.”

ISAIAH 7:14-15

THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF

WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN.

A MIRACULOUS SIGN!

GALATIANS 4:4-7 (ESV)

4 BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF TIME HAD

COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN

OF WOMAN, BORN UNDER THE LAW, 5 TO

REDEEM THOSE WHO WERE UNDER THE

LAW, SO THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE

ADOPTION AS SONS.

6 AND BECAUSE YOU ARE SONS, GOD

HAS SENT THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON

INTO OUR HEARTS, CRYING, “ABBA!

FATHER!” 7 SO YOU ARE NO LONGER A

SLAVE, BUT A SON, AND IF A SON,

THEN AN HEIR THROUGH GOD.

ISAIAH 9:6-8 (KJV)

6 FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN,

UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN: AND THE

GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS

SHOULDER: AND HIS NAME SHALL BE

CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELLOR,

THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING

FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

7 OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT

AND PEACE THERE SHALL BE NO END,

UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID, AND UPON

HIS KINGDOM, TO ORDER IT, AND TO

ESTABLISH IT WITH JUDGMENT AND WITH

JUSTICE FROM HENCEFORTH EVEN FOR

EVER. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS

WILL PERFORM THIS.

HEBREWS 1:1-4 (ESV)

LONG AGO, AT MANY TIMES AND IN MANY

WAYS, GOD SPOKE TO OUR FATHERS BY THE

PROPHETS, 2 BUT IN THESE LAST DAYS HE HAS

SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE

APPOINTED THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS,

THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE CREATED

THE WORLD. 3 HE IS THE RADIANCE

OF THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE

EXACT IMPRINT OF HIS NATURE, AND

HE UPHOLDS THE UNIVERSE BY THE

WORD OF HIS POWER.

AFTER MAKING PURIFICATION FOR

SINS, HE SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND

OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH, 4 HAVING

BECOME AS MUCH SUPERIOR TO

ANGELS AS THE NAME HE HAS

INHERITED IS MORE EXCELLENT THAN

THEIRS.

THAT WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND!

ROMANS 5:20

MERRY CHRISTMAS!