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b'Did you know that the Christmas promise\\u2014the promise of a coming Messiah\\u2014was first made thousands of years before Jesus Christ\\u2019s birth? If we miss this, we risk missing the whole point of Christmas. Christmas is about an incredible promise God made to Adam and Eve that took thousands of years to be fulfilled. It\\u2019s about that promise...and then waiting a very long time. Don\\u2019t get me wrong. At the right time, Jesus Christ was born. The Lord added scores of prophecies to His original one, telling His people precisely when, and where, and why, Jesus Christ would be born. The miracle isn\\u2019t that a handful of shepherds and wise men came to worship the newborn King of kings...but that many others didn\\u2019t flock to Bethlehem to greet His entrance into the world. The Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 11 and 12, tells us that Jesus came to \\u201chis own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.\\u201d What about you? Have you received Jesus? Have you believed in His name? If not, please pray and do so today. Don\\u2019t delay. Today, receive God\\u2019s greatest gift of all. This is Andrew Palau.'