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Date: December 25, 2022 Title: The Price of the Gift Speaker: Bob Corbin Sermon Note Sheet (PDF) Download Audio Watch it on

* Over the past four weeks of the Advent Season, we have considered The Prophecy of His Coming, The Place of His Coming, The Proclamation of His, The Paradox of His Coming, and last night - The Purpose of His Coming. * As a whole throughout those reflections, we have seen that the Incarnation of the Messiah was a Planned Event! In fact, as we saw at the beginning of our study of Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians the plan existed before the creation of the world! * For many, Christmas has been associated - since childhood - with getting presents. Yet, when you become an adult (or generally, old enough to begin giving the presents) you begin to realize that there is another association that is to be made at this time ... the cost of giving the presents! * This whole tradition of gift-giving was meant to remind us of the special gift that we were given two-thousand years ago. Yet, our materialistic, greedy minds have overshadowed the true meaning of this special day - a day when God presented us with an unequaled, eternal gift. * Yet, this special gift did not come without a cost. Rather, it is when you consider the price that was paid in order for you to have this gift that you begin to truly place the value upon it that it rightly deserves!