What Christmas Is All About

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 24 December 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Before it rings the bell of family, or charity, or gift-giving, or Saint Nick, Christmas sounds the trumpet of God’s salvation for sinners.

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0:00.0	Is there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
0:09.3	Charlie Brown with the million dollar question.
0:12.1	Who can tell us what Christmas is all about?
0:14.8	Today on the Aspester John Podcast, we find someone who knows what Christmas is all about.
0:19.4	An angel.
0:20.4	An angel whose priceless words are recorded for us in the Bible in Luke 1-26-38.
0:26.7	On Christmas Day 2005 at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, John Piper preached
0:31.3	a sermon on this text.
0:32.6	He titled it, The Child to Be Born, What Be Called Holy, The Son of God.
0:37.2	Here's a clip of what he said.
0:40.1	In the sixth month, that is the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy with John the Baptist,
0:46.6	the angel Gabriel was sent from God.
0:51.7	I think that's the most fundamental thing you can say about the meaning of Christmas,
0:57.4	that it originates with God, starts with God, has to do with God, God sent this angel,
1:05.0	God got this thing started.
1:08.1	There is a meaning of Christmas without God.
1:12.3	There's no biblical meaning of Christmas without God, and there's no historical meaning
1:16.5	of Christmas without God, but there's an American meaning of Christmas without God.
1:21.0	And there's a European meaning of Christmas without God, and I got an email this week that
1:24.7	informed me that there's a Buddhist meaning of Christmas in Bangkok with all the frills
1:29.4	minus God.
1:31.0	That's a remarkable thing, but there is no biblical, true, historical meaning of Christmas without
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