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Christmas and Making Room for Christ
Christmas is the celebration of God’s revelation of Himself in and through Jesus Christ. God reveals Himself in many ways—in historical events, in nature, through the Bible, through persons and supremely through Jesus Christ.
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yes, we have all sinned and are deserving of the death sentence as the wages of sin is death. God took the wrath and punishment we deserve on himself so our slate would be wiped clean. Yes, we need to give him room in our hearts but we don’t only give him some room, we give him all of our rooms or all of ourselves and surrender fully to him , otherwise he can not come in. If we don’t put him on the throne of our hearts, and not just a section of our hearts, then he can not reign over us. Full surrender and repentance (realizing we have sinned and deserve eternal separation from a God and turning away from sin and turning to Christ instead) is needed to receive his precious gift. Not by being good or doing good things can we earn our way to heaven. We receive the gift in repentance and faith so that we can have his Holy Spirit and be forgiven . After truly making him Lord of our lives, along with being our savior, we can be born again from His spirit and the Bible says we then become a new creation with a new heart that actually loves him and wants to please him. Faith produces works, and no works of our own can justify us before God. Only the faith of his finished work on the cross saves us.