Lead Pastor Tim Jacobs starts off the 2016 Christmas Season teaching that Jesus Christ is the best Gift ever given to us.

2. In Jesus, we have the gift of a
mediator.

3. Mediator: someone who reconciles
a dispute between two parties.

4. For there is one God, and there is one
mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 2:5
(ESV)

5. “None is righteous, no, not one; no one
understands; no one seeks for God. All have
turned aside; together they have become
worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
“Their throat is an open grave; they use
their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

6. “Their mouth is full of curses and
bitterness.”
“Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their
paths are ruin and misery, and the way of
peace they have not known.”
“There is no fear of God before their
eyes.”
“…for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God,”
- Romans 3:11-18, 23 (ESV)

7. Surely there is not a righteous man on earth
who does good and never sins.
- Ecc. 7:20 (ESV)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately sick; who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)

8. You may be the victim of other people’s sin, but
you are the perpetrator of your own.

9. The bad news is, you and I cannot make peace
with God. The good news is, God has made
peace with us.

10. “One was delivered from punishment by the
interposing of something between one’s sin
and God. God then saw the atoning sacrifice
rather than the sin. The covering of the sin
meant that the penalty no longer had to be
exacted from the sinner.”
– Millard Erickson, Christian Theology

11. “If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd,
he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall
bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting,
that he may be accepted before the LORD. He
shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt
offering, and it shall be accepted for him to
make atonement for him.”
- Leviticus 1:3-4
(ESV)

12. For since the law has but a shadow of the good
things to come instead of the true form of these
realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices
that are continually offered every year, make
perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would
they not have ceased to be offered, since the
worshipers, having once

13. been cleansed, would no longer have any
consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices
there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is
impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to
take away sins.
- Hebrews 10:1-4

14. been cleansed, would no longer have any
consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices
there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is
impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to
take away sins.
- Hebrews 10:1-4
(ESV)

15. Because of Jesus we have complete
confidence that our sins are forgiven
and that we have peace with God!

16. But when Christ appeared as a high priest of
the good things that have come, then through
the greater and more perfect tent (not made
with hands, that is, not of this creation) he
entered once for all into the holy places, not by
means of the blood of goats and calves but by
means of his own blood, thus securing an
eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats

17. and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons
with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the
purification of the flesh, how much more will the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without blemish to God, purify
our conscience from dead works to serve the
living God.
- Hebrews 10:11-14
(ESV)

18. Because of Jesus we have complete
confidence that our sins are forgiven
and that we have peace with God!

19. Because Jesus Is My Mediator:

20. Because Jesus Is My Mediator:
1) All My Sins Are Covered, Even “Big Ones”

21. For there is one God, and there is one
mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 2:5

22. Because Jesus Is My Mediator:
1) All My Sins Are Covered, Even “Big Ones”
2) Be Strong in His Grace!

23. You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is
in Christ Jesus.
- 2 Timothy 2:1 (NIV)