Love Came Down at Christmas

Series: The Message of Christmas

December 19, 2021
Ron Burtz

Numerous songs and poems emphasize the fact that "Love came down at Christmas," but what kind of love is this? Why kind of love would motivate the Creator of the universe to become human Himself and go to a cross to suffer and die for the very creatures who had rebelled against Him? Agape love. That's what kind of love came at Christmas. Join us as we explore this wonderful Greek word and see how God's love is made manifest in the story of the incarnation of Christ.

Episode Notes

Series: The Message of Christmas

Title: Love Came Down

Text: (Various)

Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1-18

The message of Christmas in four words: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love

Matthew & Luke chapters 1 & 2: Where is the love?

Chapter 3 of Matthew, Luke and John: Love comes down. 

What love is this? Agape love.

The message of Christmas is that...

1. Love came down at Christmas...

2. ...and because it did the world will never be the same.

If Christ had not come...

Because Christ came...




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