Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - A Gift Too Wonderful For Words

November 30, 2025 | 29:0

Dr. Robert Jeffress explores the significance of Christmas gifts, focusing on the ultimate gift of Jesus Christ. He delves into the elaborate preparation, the humble appearance, and the unparalleled love that surrounded the birth of Christ. Through biblical insights and personal anecdotes, Dr. Jeffress reveals the true essence of God's indescribable gift, urging listeners to receive the gift of salvation. The episode also highlights a matching challenge to double donations towards spreading the gospel, emphasizing the importance of sharing the hope of Christ with the world.

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - A Gift Too Wonderful For Words | November 30, 2025

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From the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Some christians argue that the tradition
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Of giving gifts at christmas is worldly and superficial.
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They contend it's nothing more
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Than a result of the commercialism
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That sweeps our nation every holiday season.
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But according to scripture, christmas really is about gifts,
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Specifically the indescribable gift
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That god offers to each of us.
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My message is titled, a gift too wonderful for words,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ the first noel ♪
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♪ the angels did say ♪
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♪ was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay ♪
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What is the best christmas present you ever received?
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For some of you,
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It may be a gift that had a lot of monetary value to it.
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I understand some people,
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Some families give expensive gifts like jewelry,
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Or fine automobiles, or a hoard of cash.
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I've never been a part of a family like that,
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But i hear they're out there somewhere.
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For the others of you,
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It might be a gift that didn't have a lot of monetary value,
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But sentimental value, because of who gave it.
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Every parent knows the joy
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Of receiving a homemade christmas craft,
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Or a handmade christmas card with the words,
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"i love you" scrawled in crayon.
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Of course, those gifts tend to mean a lot more
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If they come from your five-year-old child
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Rather than your 35-year-old child,
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But it's the sentiment that counts.
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Other people would say, "you know,
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The best gift i got was one that was practical in nature.
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It's something i really needed."
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A few years ago i did a funeral service
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For a 84-year-old friend,
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And his daughter-in-law had written a tribute
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To her father-in-law about a special christmas present
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He had purchased for his wife.
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She wrote,
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"it was boxed and meticulously wrapped by dad himself.
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It was undoubtedly
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One of the most precious gifts i've ever seen.
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Not diamonds, pearls, or a fur coat,
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It was a year's supply of all of mom's preferred toiletries,
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Multiple cans of hairspray, talcum powder,
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Lotions, and so forth.
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To me, it was a beautiful expression of a mature love
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That said, 'i know you better and love you more
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Than anyone else on the face of the earth,
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And i know what you need
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And use every single day of the year,
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And i'm going to make sure you have it.'"
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The daughter-in-law said, "i still get misty eyed,
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Thinking of dad going up and down the aisle at sam's,
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Lovingly shopping for those precious gifts
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For his beloved wife."
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But i think most of you would agree
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That the very best gift of all
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Was one that had all three characteristics.
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It was a gift of great value,
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It was a gift given by somebody who's important to you,
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And it's a gift that meets a very real need.
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And of course, the best example of that gift
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Is the gift of jesus christ.
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You know, in second corinthians, chapter nine,
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Paul was writing to the corinthian church
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About their need to give
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To a special offering he was collecting,
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And he was trying to motivate them to give, and he used
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The greatest example of giving he could think of,
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God giving his only son.
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And he climaxed that chapter in verse 15
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By writing these words,
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"thanks be to god for his indescribable gift."
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The living bible says, "a gift far too wonderful for words."
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God's indescribable gift,
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What is it that made this gift so indescribable?
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In the few minutes we have today,
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I just want you to jot down three characteristics
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Of god's indescribable gift.
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First of all, god's indescribable gift
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Was preceded by elaborate preparation.
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You know, the bigger the gift, the more important the gift,
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The more preparation it requires.
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Many of you know my sister jennifer and her husband matthew,
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Who teaches our sunburst class.
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Matthew and jennifer lived in tyler for a number of years
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Where matthew pastored,
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And their eldest daughter, my niece,
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Was a gifted concert pianist,
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And when she was a little girl,
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More than anything for christmas,
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She wanted a baby grand piano.
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And so they went around to the different music stores
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And she found the one she really wanted.
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And about two weeks before christmas,
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Jennifer and matthew had to break the news to her.
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Jennifer said, "caroline we'd love to give this to you,
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But we just can't afford it right now.
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All we can afford is an upright piano.
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Maybe someday we can give you this piano."
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And caroline was disappointed,
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But she had a good attitude about it.
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Now, what caroline didn't know about her mother
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Is something i've known for a long time,
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And that is jennifer is a great liar.
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One of the most gifted i've ever met.
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(congregation laughs)
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She and matthew actually had purchased that baby grand piano
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And they made an elaborate preparation that on christmas day
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While they were out for breakfast,
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The music store would deliver the grand piano.
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And so when they came back from breakfast
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And opened the door,
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There was that beautiful baby grand piano
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With a ribbon on it.
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It was a gift with elaborate preparation.
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I'll tell you, even more elaborate preparation
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Came with god's indescribable gift.
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In galatians 4:4, paul said,
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"but when the set time had fully come,
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God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law."
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Again, the living bible says, "at just the right time,
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God sent forth his son."
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There were over 150 specific prophecies in the old testament
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About the coming of christ,
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Some of them hundreds, a few of them 1000 years old,
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That gave every detail about his birth.
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Let me just give you one example.
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This prophecy was made 700 years before christ was born.
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It's found in micah 5:2.
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Remember what micah said,
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"but is for you bethlehem ephrathah,
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Too little to be among the clans of judah,
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From you one will go forth for me to be the ruler in israel.
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His goings forth are from long ago,
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From the days of eternity."
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Mary and joseph, the couple,
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Are expecting the birth of the miraculous child.
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The only problem is,
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They're not in bethlehem where micah predicted.
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They're up north, 90 miles north in nazareth.
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So how in the world does god get this couple
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From nazareth down to bethlehem?
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Well, we find the answer
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In the first verse of luke chapter two.
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Now, in those days,
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A decree went out from caesar augustus octavian
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That a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.
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While mary and joseph were in nazareth
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Contemplating the birth of this miraculous child,
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A half a continent away, in the center of power, rome,
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The emperor and his advisors are meeting together,
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And you know what they're talking about?
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A government shutdown because of a lack of funding.
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So they were saying, "how are we going to make up
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For the shortfall of this lack of revenue?"
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And somebody comes up with a brilliant idea,
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"let's tax the people, again."
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(chuckles) some things never change, do they?
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The only problem was, unlike the irs today,
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That has computers that can track you down wherever you are
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And knows every amount of income you have,
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There was no way to track people down.
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So what did octavian do?
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He made an order that everyone had to go to his hometown
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To register for a census that would lead to the taxation.
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Look at verse three,
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"and everyone was on his way to register for the census,
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Each to his own city.
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Joseph also went from galilee, the city of nazareth,
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To judea, to the city of david,
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Which is called bethlehem,
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Because he was of the house and family of david."
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Think about it, the most powerful man in the world,
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Octavian, signed a decree, an order.
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Little did he know when he signed that command
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That it would cause a couple he had never met,
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Named joseph and mary,
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To travel to a village he had never heard of,
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Named bethlehem, to give birth to the savior of the world.
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Now, that's just one example of the elaborate preparation
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That preceded god's indescribable gift.
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Secondly, god's indescribable gift
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Was not only preceded by elaborate preparation,
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It was actually missed because of its simple appearance.
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Look at verses six and seven.
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"while they were there in bethlehem,
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The days were accomplished for her to give birth,
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And so she gave birth to her firstborn son,
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And she wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger
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Because there was no room for them in the inn."
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You know the main reason most people
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Missed god's indescribable gift?
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It's because of the wrapping in which that gift came.
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The jews believed that the greatest need they had
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Was for liberation from the romans.
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They wanted to be free from being underneath the roman boot.
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They wanted liberation from rome,
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But what they really needed was liberation from their sins,
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And the consequences of their sin.
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They were looking for a political deliverer,
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And that's why they missed the coming of the messiah.
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They expected, when the messiah came,
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He would come dressed in regal robes,
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Like a king ought to be, instead of these simple cloths.
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The same thing is true today.
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You know, most people you talk to,
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If you ask what's the greatest gift god could give you?
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Most people would answer, "boy, what i really need
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Is an infusion of cash into my bank account."
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Or, "i need healing in my body
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Or the body of somebody i love.
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I need reconciliation in a relationship that's gone south.
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That's my greatest need."
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Those are all legitimate needs,
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But our greatest need is for god's forgiveness.
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And i think that explains
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Why this announcement of christ's birth
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Came to the group it did.
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It didn't come to the religious leaders.
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It came to the most unlikely group,
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Verse eight of chapter two,
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"and in the same region,
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There were some shepherds staying out in the fields
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And keeping watch over their flock by night."
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Now, you have to understand, in the first century,
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You didn't get any lower (laughs)
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On the socioeconomic ladder than shepherds.
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They were the bottom rung.
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Nobody wanted to be around shepherds.
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They never got invited to the a-list parties,
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Partly because of how they dressed,
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And probably because of how they smelled
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After being with the sheep.
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They were outcasts, which explains
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Why they were the first to hear the news of the gospel.
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They understood their need,
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And that's why the angels said it, verse nine through 11,
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"the angels suddenly stood before them
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And the glory of the lord shone around them,
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And they were terribly frightened.
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But the angels said to them, 'do not be afraid,
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For behold, i bring you good news of great joy,
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Which shall be for all the people.
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For today, in the city of david,
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There has been born for you,'" a what?
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A savior, who is christ the lord.
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Somebody has said,
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If man's greatest need had been for an education,
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God would've sent us a teacher.
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If our greatest need had been for money,
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God would've sent us an economist.
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But our greatest need was for forgiveness
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And that's why god sent us a savior.
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"for unto you is born this day, a savior,
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Who is christ the lord."
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And by the way, will you notice,
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That is good news of great joy for all the people.
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All the people, not just some of the people.
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Christ's coming is good news for all people.
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Did you know that?
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The message, the good news of christians,
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It's for baptist, it's for catholics, it's for jews,
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It's for muslims, it's for atheists.
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"whosoever will may come
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And take the water of life without cost."
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God said, "jesus is for everyone, not just for some people."
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That's the good news we have to share.
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Christ's coming is good news for everyone.
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How did the shepherds react to that news? look at verse 15.
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"when the angels had gone away from them into heaven,
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The shepherds began saying to one another,
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'let us go straight immediately to bethlehem then,
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And see this thing which has happened,
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Which the lord has made known to us.'"
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They couldn't get to bethlehem quickly enough.
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God's indescribable gift was missed by many
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Because of its simple appearance.
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Thirdly, why is god's gift indescribable?
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Because it was occasioned by unparalleled love.
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Look at verses 13 and 14.
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"and suddenly, there appeared with the angel,
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A multitude of the heavenly host,
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Praising god and saying, 'glory to god in the highest,
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And on earth, peace among men with whom god is pleased.'"
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It was god's love that occasioned this indescribable gift.
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J.b. phillips was a pastor, an anglican pastor in london,
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And the bible translator who wrote that phillips paraphrase
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Of the new testament, many of us enjoy.
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In one of his writings, j.b. phillips describes
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What the first christmas must have looked like
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From the angel's point of view.
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Listen to this.
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"a senior angel is showing a very young angel
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Around the splendors of the universe.
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They view whirling galaxies and blazing suns,
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And then flit across the infinite distances of space,
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Until at last they enter one particular galaxy,
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Containing 500 billion stars.
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As the two angels drew nearer to the star,
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Which we call our sun, and to its circling planets,
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The senior angel pointed to a small
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And rather insignificant sphere
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Turning very slowly on its axis.
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It looked as dull as a dirty tennis ball
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To the little angel whose mind was filled
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With the size and glory of what he had just seen.
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'i want you to watch that planet particularly,'
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Said the senior angel, pointing with his finger.
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'well, it looks very small and rather dirty to me,'
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Said the little angel, 'what's so special about that one?'
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He listened in stunned disbelief
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As the senior angel told him that this planet,
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Small and insignificant, and not overly cleaned,
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Was the renowned visited planet.
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'do you mean that our great and glorious prince
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Went down in person to that fifth-rate little ball?
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Why should he do such a thing as that?'
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The little angel's face wrinkled in disgusted.
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He continued, 'do you mean to tell me that he stooped so low
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As to become one of those creeping, crawling creatures
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Of that floating ball?'
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'i do,' said the senior angel,
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'and i don't think he would like you to call them
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Creeping, crawling creatures in that tone of voice.
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For strange as it may seem to us, he loves them.
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He went down to visit them,
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To lift them up to become like him.'
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The little angel looked blank.
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Such a thought was almost beyond comprehension."
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Such a thought was beyond paul's comprehension too,
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Which is why he said, "thanks be to god
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For his indescribable gift,
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A gift far too wonderful for worries."
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A gift is wonderful, as elaborate as it is,
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Isn't a gift unless it's received.
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To those, he gave the right to become the children of god,
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Even to those who believe on his name."
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And today, i hope you have received
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God's indescribable gift to you.
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Well, in our troubled world,
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Many wonder if evil is triumphing over good.
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But next time, we'll explore how jesus,
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The light of the world,
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Will ultimately overcome all darkness.
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On "pathway to victory."
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You see, there's a real tension in the christmas story.
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The light of christ coming, people thought,
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Would erase forever the darkness.
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But it hasn't done that.
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Many of you right now
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Are still experiencing the darkness of this world.
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Is light the best representation of christ
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Considering the darkness we're experiencing now?
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When darkness overcomes the light,
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God causes all things to work together for the good
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That is to make you like christ.
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Robert Jeffress - A Gift Too Wonderful For Words

November 30, 2025 | 29:0

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