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Coming Home For Christmas - Week 1

SPEAKER: Pastor Charlie Riley
December 6, 2025

Message Notes

The Distinguishing Fact Of Christianity – Prophecy

There Are No Prophecies Foretelling
Muhammad (Islam)
Joseph Smith (Mormonism)
David Koresh (Branch Davidians)
Charles Taze Russell (Jehovah’s Witnesses)
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddhism)

There Are Approximately 4,000 Old Testament Bible Prophecies

340+ Dealing With Jesus’ First Coming

First Bible Prophecy Was Spoken To Satan

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
Genesis 3:15

Greatest Bible Prophecy

Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God With Us).
Isaiah 7:14

Favorite Christmas Prophecy

For unto us a Child is born (Man’s View), Unto us a Son is given (God’s View); And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6

Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Isaiah 9:7

The Lotto In California

“I determined that the odds for chance, error-free fulfillment of these prophecies would be less than one in ten followed by a mind-boggling string of zeros, a number far greater than ~ 1 in 101,000.”

“Reason To Believe” Hugh Ross
March 25, 2024

“To visualize this tiny probability, just imagine winning the California lottery ten consecutive times with the purchase of just one ticket each time. That chance is about 1 in 1080. One chance in 101000 is equivalent to the probability of winning the California lottery 125 consecutive times purchasing just one ticket each time, a probability that is practically indistinguishable from winning the California lottery 125 consecutive times without purchasing a single ticket! – Hugh Ross

Impractical Facts

A 65 Year Old’s Life Span Of Hair – 1.5 Million

All The Hair That Has Ever Been 161,404,061,686,500,00 (1.61404 To The 17th)

Number of Heartbeats In A 65 Year Old 2,275,000,000 (2.275 Billion)

Heartbeats To 20th Century 244,796,160,224,525,000,000 (2.45 To The 20th)

Number Of Snowflakes That Have Fallen – 1 To The 35th

Hair + Heartbeats + Number Of Snowflakes 3.95 To The 72th Power

All Hair x All Heart x All Snow
1.56112 To The 145th Power

1 Man, Jesus, Fulfilling 1 Of 48 Prophecies
10 To The 157th Power

1 Person Fulfilling 4000 Prophecies
Is A Mathematical Impossibility Without God!!!!

Bible Prophecies About Christ’s Life Are 100% Accurate Without One Error

Jesus Would Enter Into Jerusalem On A Donkey
Zechariah 9:9 – Matthew 21:4-10

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.

He Would Be Betrayed By A Friend
Psalms 41:9 – John 13:18

Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.

Betrayed For 30 Pieces Of Silver
Zechariah 11:12 – Matthew 26:15

Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

Money Used to Purchase A Potter’s Field
Zechariah 11:13 – Matthew 27:3-10

And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.

Die A Sacrificial Death
Daniel 9:26, Isaiah 53:8 – Matthew 27:50,
2 Corinthians 5:21

He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

He Would Die With Criminals, Be Buried With The Wealthy
Isaiah 53:9 – Matthew 27:57-60, Luke 23:33

And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

He Would Speak Certain Words On The Cross

He Would Be Mocked And People Would Cast Lots For His Clothes
Psalm 22:1, 8, 18 – Matt. 27:46, 39, 35

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?

He Would Be Raised From The Dead Winning The Ultimate Victory
Psalm 16:8-10, Isaiah 53:10

I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

What Does This Mean For Us?

If God Is 100% Accurate, I Can Be 100% Confident In What He Said!

“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Numbers 23:19

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-16

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18

If God Predicted Events Through The Bible With 100% Accuracy, He Holds Our Future With 100% Certainty

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”
John 10:27

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
John 14:1-4