This message is Part 1 of our 2016 Christmas message series “ADVENTure” by Pastor Chuck Bernal. In this message titled, "Why Jesus Came", Pastor Chuck explains what the word "ADVENT" means and how the coming of Christ changed everything. Using four key words: Anticipation, Preparation, Celebration & Declaration, Pastor Chuck explains how each of us can get ready for Christmas in our hearts just as the Christmas carol says, "Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room". This message was delivered at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX on Sunday, December 4, 2016

1. The Great
ADVENTure
Sunday 12/04/16
Pastor Chuck Bernal
ADVENT
From the Latin “Adventus” (Coming)
“The arrival of an important person, place of things”
“The approach of something”
For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to
bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. Pilate
said to him, “What is truth”? . . . Jesus said, “I amthe way, and the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 18:37-38/John
14:6 - ESV)
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Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are too little to be among the family groups of Judah.
But from you One will come who will rule for Me in Israel. His coming was planned
long ago, from the beginning. (Micah 5:2- NLV)
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She laid him in a manger, because
there was no place for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7 – ESV)
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not
know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all
who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God. (John 1:10-12 – ESV)
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As the shepherds returned to their sheep, they were praising God . . .
(Luke 2:22 - CEV)
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. . . and sayingwonderful things about him. Everything they had seen and heard
was just as the angel
had said. (Luke 2:22 -
CEV)

2. The Great ADVENTure
Sunday 12/04/16
Pastor Chuck Bernal
ADVENT
From the Latin “Adventus” (Coming)
“The arrival of an important person, place of things”
“The approach of something”
For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to
bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. Pilate
said to him, “What is truth”? . . . Jesus said, “I amthe way, and the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 18:37-38/John
14:6 - ESV)
_________________________________________________________
Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are too little to be among the family groups of Judah.
But from you One will come who will rule for Me in Israel. His coming was planned
long ago, from the beginning. (Micah 5:2- NLV)
_________________________________________________________
She laid him in a manger, because
there was no place for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7 – ESV)
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not
know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all
who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God. (John 1:10-12 – ESV)
_________________________________________________________
As the shepherds returned to their sheep, they were praising God . . .
(Luke 2:22 - CEV)
_________________________________________________________
. . . and sayingwonderful things about him. Everything they had seen and heard
was just as the angel had said. (Luke 2:22 - CEV)