December 24, 2025 
Christmas Eve 
The Gift of God 
2 Corinthians 9:15 (NIV) 
 
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! 
 
John 3:16 (KJV) 
 
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 
 
1. God made us to love us 
 
Ephesians 1:4 (NLT) 
 
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 
 
1 John 4:9-10 (NIV) 
 
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 
 
1. God made us to love us 
2. God made us to Live 
 
 
Genesis 2:7 (NIV) 
 
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 
 
Romans 3:23 (NIV) 
 
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 
 
1. God made us to love us 
2. God made us to Live 
3. Sin robs us of the ability to live 
 
John 10:10 (NIV) 
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 
 
Isaiah 59:2 (NIV) 
 
But your iniquities have separated 
you from your God; 
your sins have hidden his face from you, 
so that he will not hear. 
 
Romans 6:23 (NIV) 
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
 
Matthew 1:21 (NIV) 
 
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. 
 
Ephesians 2:8 (NIV) 
 
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God --