When Your Days Aren't Merry and Bright

Introduction

Three Realities to Remember When My Days Aren't All Merry and Bright

1. Christmas is not firstly about your days being merry and bright, but rather about the incarnation of the Son of God.

• Incarnation - John 1:14; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 2:14

• How should we understand this?

• Why does this matter?

2. The incarnation was not all merry and bright either, but rather mixed with sorrow and fright.

• Announcing his birth - Luke 1:26-33; Matthew 1:18-21

• Around his birth - Luke 2:4-7; Matthew 2:13-15

• After his birth - Luke 2:34-35; Matthew 4:1-4

3. The purpose of the incarnation was not ultimately to give us merry and bright days once a year, but rather to give us salvation from our sins forever.

• Matthew 1:21-23

• Luke 2:10-11

• 1 John 4:9-14

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