Pastor David Bell
Associate Pastor Andy Peters
Mottville Community Church
White Pigeon, MI

Pastor David Bell
“ Christmas is About God’s Love”
Matthew 1:18-25
December 19,2021 AM

4 Reasons Why Jesus Came for Christmas
1. Jesus came to save the people from their sins. Matthew 1:21
2. Jesus came to be with us! Matthew 1:22
3. Jesus came to have a relationship with you. John 15:15; Luke 10:27; Jeremiah 29:12-13
4. Jesus came because he loved us! John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:19

Matthew 1:21
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt
call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people
from their sins.

Matthew 1:22
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness;
and be content with such things as ye have: for
he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

John 15:15 
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant
knows not what his lord doeth: but I have called
you friends; for all things that I have heard of my
Father I have made known unto you.

Luke 10:27
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind;
and thy neighbour as thyself.

Jeremiah 29:12-13
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray
unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek
me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all
your heart.

John 3:16
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.

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.

Ephesians 3:18-19
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is
the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And
to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

1. How long is God‘s love?
2. How wide is God‘s love?
3. Jesus’ love is deep. Psalms 40:2
4. How high is Jesus is love?

Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit,
out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock,
and established my goings

Because this Christmas you have
1. Past forgiven
2. Purpose for living
3. Home in heaven
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness

Psalms 103:12
“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath
he removed our transgressions from us.”

Matthew 6:8
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father
Knows what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen.

2 Corinthians 5:8
“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be present with
the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 2:9
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

Psalm 37:25
I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I
not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed
begging bread.

Hebrews 9:27
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:”

Jeremiah 3:14-16
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am
married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and
two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Luke 15:10
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Luke 15:7
"I tell you that in the same way, there will be more
joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.”

Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee
great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.