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So what I wanted to talk about is a gift and Our Heavenly Father has given us the greatest gift of all and you know Christmas is a very exciting time of year with presents family gatherings food deserts. And but it's so much more than that and all you guys here know that. But there was this one Christmas Eve a little girl went to church and she was so excited because. After the Christmas Eve service they all gathered around the tree every year and last year she had gotten a baby doll and. So she was so excited and anticipating. What she was going to get this year and she. Went out after the service and they gather around the tree and everyone she was the last one and there was one gift she was all excited went to open it in just tears started going down her face because it was empty there was nothing in the box. And so someone had played an awful trick on her and she just cried and cried and who would really do that and play a mean trick on her so each and every day we are actually from the world given gifts and they tell us that. Even though are the names and situations may be different the results are the same Usually it's just an empty box you know they promise wealth and fame happiness relationships. Pleasure success wealth and usually they have it wrapped up in a nice. Wrapped box with a beautiful bow on it and then usually what happens is we open it and we become very disappointed and it's usually false like we can't get at those things from the world and we have high expectations and we look inside and what do we find an empty box just like that little girl didn't. There's no hope no joy no life fame wealth relationship success or happiness in that box just huge tears of heartbreak running down our face over and over again from the world and the world does this to each and every one of us and have you guys ever opened a box like that and found that it was just empty and people tell you that they have this gift for you and it's really just not full of hope at all now over 10000 year 2000 years ago an angel from God appeared and said to several shepherds do not be afraid I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people today in the town of David a savior has been born to you he is Christ the Lord the birth of Jesus the Such good news and it was the good news that the that there is a much greater gift giver than anyone in the whole world and that is the ultimate present the greatest gift of all is Jesus. The gift is so precious because he lives and we don't have to be afraid the gift wasn't just for the shepherds about 2000 years ago it really is for us now. And you know how a diamond has many facets when you look at it there's so many different facets. And the gift of God is also full of just different facets so today we're to talk about 3 of them the clothes when the baby when he was born. Mary and Joseph just took shreds of cloth so you know in the movies in the. In the in shows they show that this nice. Cloth with this baby was wrapped up in this in a nice cloth and actually that's not how it was they actually took rags and to shreds just to protect him and keep him warm and protect him from the elements of the manger and it's actually interesting as Jesus was wrapped with all types of wrappings during his life at birth the use of swaddling clothes. And then at his death he was wrapped in thorns and then when he he was wrapped with a linen shrouded in a borrowed tomb and wrapped by a rock before it was rolled away his resurrection these rags of love represent the protection that he provides for us each and every day and Jesus as a cover for our very souls however before man can put on the Lord Jesus Christ he can be clothed in holiness he needs to take off his filthy cloaks and covers of wickedness and he must be stripped of his filthy rags that he may be cl...