Message Notes

Understanding Christmas wk3
December 21st, 2025

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the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem.
Luke 2:10-11

I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. 11The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today.

When the angels had returned to heaven,
the shepherds said…
Luke 2:15

Let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.
Luke 2:15

[Nativity scene, with angel]

[Nativity scene, without an angel]

They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger.
Luke 2:16

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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking,

Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.
Matthew 2:1-2

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the Child was.
Matthew 2:9

[Nativity Pic with STAR checked]

On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him.
Matthew 2:11

[Nativity pic with STAR X’d out]

[Nativity pic with one wise men X’d out]
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Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
Matthew 2:16

[Nativity Scene pic with X’s on Magi]

This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!
Luke 15:2

Teacher, they said to Jesus, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?
John 8:4

Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.
John 8:7

Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you? No lord, she says. Neither do I. Go and sin no more.
John 8:10-11

Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you? No lord, she says. Neither do I. Go and sin no more.
John 8:10-11