Your life, your problems and your relationship with Jesus would be so much easier to figure out if it weren’t for the fact that you have an invisible enemy who lives to make everything more difficult for you. I mean, I know that you and I are sinful and polluted in ways we don’t even know and to depths we can’t even understand, but if the devil and all his cronies weren’t wreaking havoc on our minds and whispering discouraging lies into our ears all the time, we’d be way further down the road than we are right now. Satan is real. He is a jerk and he constantly spews out lies that hold us back, trip us up and take us out. He convinces us that we are worthless and that God doesn’t love us. He assaults our hope by feeding us our worst fears - even if they are complete fiction. Fortunately, Jesus has our back. In fact, Jesus is waging a battle campaign in direct opposition to our enemy. You may not know this, but Christmas is actually all about this fight. You’ve probably heard that the Old Testament is filled with prophecies about the first Christmas. We are told where the Messiah would be born and what He would be like. We learn that He would be born of a virgin and even what tribe and family He would come from. But the very first prophecy of Christmas wasn’t given to God’s people. It was given to His enemy. In Genesis 3, Christmas is not just a promise, it’s a threat. God tells Satan that the woman he tricked will have a descendant that will eventually crush his head. Jesus came to destroy the devil’s work.
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