The Mission of Christmas

Luke 19:10

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • December 14, 2025

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1. We need rescue because we are fallen and lost.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 3:15–16 (NIV84)

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

Galatians 4:4–5 (NASB95)

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:1 (NASB95)

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

Isaiah 59:2 (NASB95)

2. We cannot save ourselves; We must be rescued.

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

Colossians 2:13 (NIV84)

3. Jesus alone can restore our broken relationship with God.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:6 (CSB)

For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,

1 Timothy 2:5 (CSB)

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.

Acts 4:12 (CSB)