text: As we come to our last Advent sermon today, and before we gather around the Lord’s Table to proclaim Jesus’ death and resurrection, let us consider the question, Why should we celebrate Christmas? What have you and I done that would require such an act of God to save us? How can the work of Jesus Christ accomplished over 2000 thousand years ago help us today when we are tempted and tried? Why did God become a man, and what did the God-man accomplish? Why we should celebrate Christmas. This passage gives us five reasons: