{"id":423,"date":"2011-08-02T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:42","slug":"gods-preparation-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Preparation for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hosea 6:3,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cor. 2 4:6,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 2:1-20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: Men Prepare for Christmas.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The business world prepares.<br \/>\n2. Families prepare.<br \/>\n3. Lovers prepare.<br \/>\n4. The Christian World is moved to a faster pace. (14 more days to shop).<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: God&#8217;s Preparation.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Before the Foundation of the World.<br \/>\n2. Prepared Adam &amp; Eve to look for that 1st Christmas.<br \/>\n3. Noah was taught about that day.<br \/>\n4. Abraham and his preparation.<br \/>\n5. Israel and the Nation.<br \/>\n6. Rome was preparing Law and Order.<br \/>\n8. Taxes were made to prepare the way.<br \/>\n9. Joseph and Mary were prepared.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: Jesus Prepared.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Heavens glory laid aside.<br \/>\n2. Worship of angels traded for the Slander of men.<br \/>\n3. He who knew no sin prepared to become the sin bearer.<br \/>\n4. He was rich, yet for your sake he became poor. Cor 2 8:9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are we truly prepared for Christmas? Have we forgotten anyone or anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shepherds praised the Savior. Luke 2:20<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Wise Men praised the King. Matt 2:11<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sermon praised the light of the World. Luke 2:31-32<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Elizabeth celebrated happiness. Luke 1:41<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mary celebrated mercy. Luke 1:54<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Anna celebrated redemption. Luke 2:38<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosea 6:3,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cor. 2 4:6,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 2:1-20 I: Men Prepare for Christmas. 1. The business world prepares. 2. Families prepare. 3. Lovers prepare. 4. The Christian World is moved to a faster pace. (14 more days to shop). II: God&#8217;s Preparation. 1. Before the Foundation of the World. 2. Prepared Adam &amp; Eve to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}