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message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> Experience Hope eDevotional <edevotional@flc.org><br><b>Date:</b> December 10, 2021 at 7:02:59 AM EST<br><b>To:</b> Friend <toni.nye1953@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Christmas Joy</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Experience Hope eDevotional <edevotional@flc.org><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'></span> <o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#3A3634;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=bodyTable><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=bodyCell><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" 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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#4F697B;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt;min-width: 100% !important;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><h4 align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white;font-weight:normal'>What makes Christmas a joyful season for you? Sure, we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Christ child. It is a season of giving and celebration. People seem to be nicer to one another than any other time of year – at least we hope they are. But where does the joy of Christmas come from? <o:p></o:p></span></h4></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#BFAC9B;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=templateTopLayer><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 6.75pt 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td width=600 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break:break-word'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:150%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white'>Because of the joy awaiting him, [Jesus] endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.<br>─ Hebrews 12:2 NLT<br> <br>The motivation behind Christmas joy could be the joy of Christ himself. He came to earth to be a ransom for many before the world ever began. Why? Let’s look at three reasons – three joys of Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#BFAC9B;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=templateMiddleLayer><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 6.75pt 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 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style='color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>He came for the joy waiting for Him to be “seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.” <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>He came for the joy He found in His obedience to His Heavenly Father: <o:p></o:p></span></li><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span 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So I sacrifice my life for the sheep. The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded” (John 10:14-15, 17-18 NLT).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><li class=MsoNormal style='color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>He came for the joy He received in making a way for you to be with Him. <o:p></o:p></span></li><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>“In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” (John 14:2-3 ESV).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:27.0pt 13.5pt 27.0pt 13.5pt;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='border:none;border-top:dashed #94898B 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=264 style='width:2.75in;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=264 id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f9446ffd8ad2ed0d04e92362b/images/182a9945-8bfd-5a3d-e2cf-3c7bf42d573e.png"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=264 style='width:2.75in;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-size:21.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>Today’s One Thing </span></strong><span style='font-size:30.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white;letter-spacing:-.75pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white'>Think about the joy Christ has in you? 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