For a lot of people, Christmas is about the tree, decorations and gifts.

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Jesus was born to die and His legacy was a sum of what His death is worth. It was the saddest gift, but it’s the most precious gift!

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Christmas is about God's gift to us

Why is Christmas important?

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Jesus wants to be personal, be present, position us for eternity, and give us a greater purpose in life.

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HE is the reason for the season.

Part 1: The letter to the church of Ephesus

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The church of Ephesus had forsaken their first love.

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It is not about not loving Jesus, it is not loving Him first. God cannot be second.

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There will always be something that will challenge His place in our lives. The answer is to set our priorities right.

We constantly have conversations within ourselves. If these conversations within are unhealthy, it affects our lives.

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We know that words have the ability to destroy and save. We can make a choice of our words!

The work of God in the believer to make us like Christ and our character is formed under pressure.

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Our prayer and cry is to become like Christ and to operate in the right nature at the right time, which will bring glory, honour, and reverence to God.

A tree is known by its fruit and how do we know if it is a good fruit? By the nature of the fruit and its ability to reproduce.

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Investing in others is intentional. Let's be intentional in investing into the future generations!

All the troubles and trials can blind us from seeing what God is doing.

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In order to deal with those spiritual short-sightedness, there are 3 things we need: Faith, Future, Fuel

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Look forward to the great things ahead, be faithful to what God has revealed to us!

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The devil wants to mess up your priorities and authority. The devil cannot force us to sin but he can mess with our thought pattern.

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But we have to understand that satan has no hold on us because the work on the Cross has seen to that.

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Fix our eyes on Jesus!