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Robert Jeffress - Back To Bethlehem (Part 2)

December 5, 2024 | S24:E4905

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Back To Bethlehem (Part 2) | December 5, 2024

♪ music ♪
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[announcer] from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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God has a long history of working in
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Unexpected ways.
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When the jews anticipated a powerful king
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To save them from the romans,
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God sent a child in the manger
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To save them from their sin.
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And today we'll step back in time to the place
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Where god broke onto the human stage
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As a little baby.
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It was an unlikely village
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Where history was changed forever.
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My message is titled "back to bethlehem."
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory,"
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♪ the first noel ♪
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♪ the angel did say ♪
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♪ was to certain poor shepherds ♪
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♪ in fields as they lay ♪
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♪ in fields where they lay keeping their sheep ♪
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♪ on a cold winter's night that was so deep ♪
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♪ noel, noel, noel, noel ♪
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♪ born is the king of israel ♪
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♪ o come, all ye faithful ♪
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♪ joyful and triumphant ♪
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♪ o come ye, o come ye to bethlehem ♪
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♪ o come and behold him ♪
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♪ born the king of angels ♪
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♪ o come, let us adore him ♪
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♪ o come, let us adore him ♪
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♪ o come, let us adore him ♪
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♪ the lord ♪
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♪ the lord ♪
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(audience applauding)
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[announcer] the celebration of jesus birth
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When god's radiant hope entered our world.
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With others.
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With the light of god's word
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♪ music ♪
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Max lucado says it this way.
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"stepping from the throne,
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God removed his robe of light,
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And wrapped himself in skin,
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Pigmented human skin.
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The light of the world entered a dark wet womb.
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He whom angels worship,
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Nestled himself in the placenta of a peasant.
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Was birthed into a cold night,
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And then slept on cow's hay."
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An interviewer once asked the famed designer,
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Versace if he believed in god.
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Versace responded, "yes, i believe in god,
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But i'm not the kind of religious person
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Who goes to church,
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Who believes in the fairytale of jesus,
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Born in the stable with a donkey.
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I'm not stupid.
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I can't believe that god with all the power
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That he has,
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Would have to have himself born in a stable.
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It wouldn't have been comfortable."
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But that's the whole point, isn't it?
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That god was willing to give up
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The comfort of heaven.
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He and the person of his son,
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Jesus was willing to come
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To earth to be born
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In the most humble circumstances.
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And he came not to be worshiped,
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Not at the beginning anyway.
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He came to be sacrificed for our sins.
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Paul said it this way in philippians 2,
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An talking about jesus christ,
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"although he existed in the form of god,
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He did not regard his equality with god,
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A thing to be grasped, but he emptied himself,
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Taking the form of a bond servant,
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And being made in the likeness of men,
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And being found in the appearance as a man,
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He humbled himself
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By becoming obedient to the point
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Of death, even death on a cross."
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The final act of this play,
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Occurs on a hill outside of bethlehem.
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Look at verse 8.
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"and in the same region,
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There were some shepherds staying out
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In the fields,
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And keeping watch over their flock by night.
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They were not, as some children say,
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Washing their socks by night.
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They were keeping watch over their flock
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By night."
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Many of us have been to this place,
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Shepherds field where this occurred.
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The shepherds were tending their sheep.
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Now, most people don't realize,
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This story probably did not take place
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In december.
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It was probably very close to passover time,
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And it's very probable
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That these shepherds were taking care of sheep
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That would soon become the passover lambs
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That would be used as a representative
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Of the coming savior.
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Now, you have to know something
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About shepherds to appreciate
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What is going on here.
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Shepherds represented the lowest
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Rung in the jewish culture.
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Shepherds took care of dirty and smelly sheep,
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And because they did so,
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They were dirty and smelly themselves.
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There was no sure deodorant back then
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To take the stench away.
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So if you are going to have a party,
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Guess who you would never invite to your party?
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They never made it to any a-list parties,
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The shepherds.
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They were the outcast of jewish society.
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Isn't it interesting
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That god chose to make his announcement
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Of the savior's birth
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Not to the political leaders in rome,
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Not to the jewish leaders in jerusalem,
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He chose to make this announcement
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To these smelly dirty shepherds.
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Look at how it came about.
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Verse 9.
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"and the angel of the lord
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Suddenly stood before them,
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And the glory of the lord shone around them,
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And they were terribly frightened."
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I would think so.
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Imagine out there in the darkness
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When suddenly gabriel appears,
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And gabriel said to them,
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"do not be afraid."
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Notice how that's his entering line.
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Every time he runs into somebody,
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Don't be afraid.
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They had every right to be afraid.
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"for behold,
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I bring you good news of a great joy
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What shall be for all the people.
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For today in the city of david,
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There has been born for you
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A savior who is christ the lord.
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Well, there were many babies
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Probably born that night in jerusalem,
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In all of israel.
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So to be more specific,
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He gave the sign, verse 12.
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"and this will be a sign for you.
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You will find a baby wrapped in cloths,
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And lying in a manger.
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And suddenly the single voice of gabriel
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Gave way to a multitude.
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Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands
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Of angels in the heaven saying, verse 14.
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"glory to god in the highest,
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And on earth, peace."
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Now, if you have the king james version,
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It says "peace, goodwill toward men."
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That's a very unfortunate translation,
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Even though it's a translation we're used to,
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And we see plastered
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On christmas cards everywhere.
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"peace, goodwill toward men."
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That makes it sound like
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God is simply given a generic
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Blessing to everybody.
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"peace, you all.
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Goodwill to everybody."
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That's not what the text says.
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What the text really says
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Is what the new american standard translates it.
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"peace among men with whom god is pleased."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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The only people who are at peace
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With god and peace with themselves
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Are those who have accepted the forgiveness
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That christ comes to offer.
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Romans 5:1 says,
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"therefore, having been justified by faith,
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We have peace with god
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Through our lord jesus christ."
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The only one who enjoys peace with himself,
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And more importantly, peace with god
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Are those whose sins had been forgiven
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By christ jesus.
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Verse 15 says,
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"and it came about when the angels
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Had gone away from them into heaven,
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That the shepherds began saying
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To one another,
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"let us go straight to bethlehem then,
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And see this thing which had happened,
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Which the lord has made known to us."
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Isn't it ironic to you
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That when the religious leaders in jerusalem
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Heard the news, how did they respond?
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(mouth yawning)
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Tell me something exciting.
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They stayed right where they were.
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But when the shepherds,
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The lowest rung of heard it,
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They went with haste.
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This is the first instance
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Of a christmas rush in history.
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They went quickly to see this thing.
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Verse 16.
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They came in haste,
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And they found their way to mary and joseph,
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And the baby as he lay in the manger."
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Look at verse 17.
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And when they had seen this,
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They made known the statement
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Which had been told to them about the child.
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Verse 20.
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And the shepherds went back glorifying,
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And praising god for all that they had seen
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And heard just as had been told them.
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You know, there is so much
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I could say about this,
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But i want you to go back to verses 10,
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And 11 for just a moment.
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Look at the announcement of gabriel.
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"and the angel said to the them,
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"do not be afraid for behold,
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I bring you good news of a great joy,
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Which shall be for all the people.
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For today in the city of david,
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There has been born for you a savior."
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Underline that.
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"a savior who is christ the lord."
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Someone has said,
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"if man's greatest need had been instruction,
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God would've sent a teacher.
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If our greatest need had been for a law,
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God would've sent a legislator.
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If our greatest need had been for money,
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God would've sent an economist.
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But our greatest need is for forgiveness,
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And that's why god sent a savior."
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For unto you is born this day a savior.
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A savior.
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Remember what the angel said?
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"you shall call his name jesus."
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For he shall what?
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Save his people from their sins.
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Jesus came to be our savior.
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He didn't come to save us from ourselves
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Or save us from the hostility of this world.
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He came to save us from our sin,
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And the consequences of our sin
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The eternal separation from god.
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That's why christ came.
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And on this what gabriel said about this news,
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He said, "this is good news."
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Don't let anybody fool you.
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The gospel is not bad news.
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It's not a message of hate,
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It's a message of hope.
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This is good news of great joy.
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And guess who it's for?
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It's for all the people.
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The good news didn't come just to the jews
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Or gentiles.
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It's not just for baptist or catholics.
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It is for everyone.
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Hindus, buddhists, muslims,
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Atheists, anyone and everyone
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Who trust in christ can be forgiven
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Of his sins.
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"i bring you good news of great joy,
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Which shall be for all the people."
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You know just as gabriel's good news
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Broke the darkness of that night,
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The gospel does the same for you and me.
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It doesn't matter how dark your situation
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Is right now, some of you feel like
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You're in a hopeless situation,
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You feel like there is no way out.
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No matter how dark and bleak your situation is,
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The good news of jesus forgiveness
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Bursts through like light,
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And dispels the darkness forever.
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Paul said,
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"when we were lost without hope in this world
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Or the next world,
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That's when god sent christ for us."
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God demonstrated his love toward us,
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And that while we were yet sinners,
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He sent christ to die for us.
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You know, paul had that experience himself.
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Remember he was a murderer, a blasphemer of god,
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But when he was on that road to damascus,
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The light of jesus christ burst into his life,
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And he was the never the same again.
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And when he talked about that experience
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Until the day he died,
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He said it this way in 2 corinthians 2:15,
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"thanks be to god for his indescribable gift."
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Paul actually made up that greek word,
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Indescribable is how it's translated.
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He just made up his own superlative.
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Thanks be to god for that incomparable,
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Indescribable beyond description.
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That gift of jesus christ.
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What is it that makes
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The gift of jesus indescribable?
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Whereas one translation says,
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Far too wonderful for words,
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And more importantly, how are you,
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And i to respond to that story?
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I want suggest in closing the day, two principles
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That i think 2,000 years later
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Inform us of what our response
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To god's indescribable gift of christ should be.
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First of all, god's gift is to be acknowledged,
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Not ignored.
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God's gift is to be acknowledged and not ignored.
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Just imagine.
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These shepherds out there
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In the middle of the night,
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They see the spectacular sight,
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Thousands of angels praising god,
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Announcing the birth of the savior.
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The angels go back to heaven
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The day he turns back tonight.
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The shepherds look at one another and say,
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Boy, that was really something.
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Let's get back to our sheep now.
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You wouldn't have imagined such a thing.
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Such an announcement demanded
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A response from the shepherds,
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And it demands a response from us as well.
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You can't ignore what happened 2,000 years
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In bethlehem.
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You just can't ignore it.
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You can't say,
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"well, i know that happened,
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But it doesn't change my life."
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No, you can't ignore the facts.
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The facts are jesus was born in bethlehem
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Of a virgin.
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You can't ignore that.
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You can't ignore that he died on the cross.
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You can't ignore that three days later,
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He was raised from the dead,
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And after that, in 40 days,
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500 people eyewitnesses saw him.
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You can't ignore that.
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You can't ignore the fact that
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Millions of people have given their very life
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For their belief
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That jesus is real and he's alive today.
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You can't ignore the fact
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That hundreds of millions of people
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Throughout history say that their lives
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Have been transformed
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By this resurrected jesus christ.
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You can't ignore that anymore
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Than those shepherds could have
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Ignored the angels.
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We have to respond to what happened
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2,000 years ago.
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Somebody says, "well, you know.
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I believe in jesus.
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I believe he was a good moral teacher
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Like aristotle or plato or confucius
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Or buddha, muhammad.
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He was a good teacher.
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That's my response.
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I appreciate jesus,
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And a lot of the good things he did."
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The problem with that is,
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Jesus doesn't allow you to make
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That kind of response.
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Because you see, he himself claimed to be god.
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He claimed to be the messiah.
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He said, "i and the father are one.
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He who has seen me, has seen the father."
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Remember when he stood before caiaphas,
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The high priest who was enraged by his claims
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And caiaphas said, "are you the son of god?"
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He said, "i am."
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And one day you're going to see me
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Descending from heaven."
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You can't ignore that.
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You can't just say he was a good man.
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And that's what led c.s. lewis
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To develop what we call the trilemma.
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You know what a dilemma is?
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It is two choices.
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When you have two choices to make, a or b.
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A trilemma is three choices.
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He says,
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"in light of who jesus claimed to be,
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More than a mere teacher,
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But the son of god,
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We have one of three choices
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Of what to call jesus.
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We can call him a liar.
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I mean, maybe jesus just claimed to be god,
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And he knew he wasn't.
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He was a liar.
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He was a religious charlatan.
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Does anybody want to stand up here today,
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And say, "jesus christ is a liar."
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Nobody is going to say that.
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Secondly, some people say,
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"well, he was just mistaken.
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He thought he was god.
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He thought he was a god.
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He was just out of his mind.
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He was a lunatic.
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Does anybody really think jesus christ
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Is a lunatic that should have been
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Committed to an insane asylum?
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Does jesus think...
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Do people think today jesus was stark raving mad?
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"he was either a liar.
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He claimed
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To be god when he knew he wasn't.
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He was a lunatic.
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He thought he was god when he wasn't.
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The only reasonable third alternative
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Is he is lord."
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He's exactly who he claimed to be,
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And that's a response we have to make
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Is jesus who he claimed to be.
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You can't ignore that any longer.
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God's indescribable gift
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Has to be acknowledged rather than being ignored,
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And that leads to a second truth.
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God's gift is to be shared and not kept.
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Look at verse 17 for a moment.
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"and when they had seen this,
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They made known the statement
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Which had been told them about this child,
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And all who heard it wondered at the things
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Which were told them
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By the shepherds and the shepherds
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Went back glorifying
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And praising god for all that they had heard,
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And seen just as been told them."
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You know, in recent weeks there's been
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A lot of discussion about the word evangelical.
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Have you seen some of the discussion of the news?
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What does it mean to be an evangelical?
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People are talking about evangelicals
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Voting this way.
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A lot of people wondering,
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"what does that mean, an evangelical?"
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Well, the word evangelical
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Comes from the root word evangel.
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And the word evangel
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Is actually a transliteration
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Of a greek word evangel, that means good news.
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It's the word that is used in verse 10.
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When gabriel said,
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"i bring you good news of a great joy."
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So if evangel means good news,
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An evangelist or an evangelical
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Or an evangelist
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Is someone who shares the good news.
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Now, isn't it interesting
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That the very first evangelists
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In the entire bible were not prophets,
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They weren't priests,
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They weren't pastors,
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But they were smelly, dirty shepherds.
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They were the first ones.
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As soon as they heard about the birth of jesus,
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Went away as quickly as they could
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To tell others what they had heard.
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I mean, that's what an evangelist does.
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He shares the good news.
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I mean, think about it.
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If you have discovered the cure for cancer,
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If somebody discovered the cure for cancer,
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Would you just keep that to yourself?
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Of course not.
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You would share that with anyone and everyone.
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Ladies and gentlemen, do you realize
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You and i have discovered the cure
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To something far more serious than cancer?
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We have been given the cure
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To man's greatest problem.
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His sin sickness has alienation from god,
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And you and i have been entrusted
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With that good news to share with other people
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About not one way,
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But the only way to find god's forgiveness.
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Remember what jesus said in luke 19:10
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About himself?
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He said, "for the son of man
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Has come to do what?
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To seek and to save those who are lost."
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He came on a search and save mission.
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And if we are jesus disciples,
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Listen to this.
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If we really claim to be his followers,
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We're going to have the same heart.
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To share this news
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Just like the shepherds did
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With as many people as possible.
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You know one writer said it this way,
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"jesus not only calls us to come to him,
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But to go for him.
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Go into all the world and make disciples."
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Did you know jesus issued
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That imperative five different times?
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Go and make disciples.
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We call that the what?
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The great commission.
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It's not the great suggestion.
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The one thing,
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The only thing you and i
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Were left on earth to do,
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And that is to share the good news
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Of jesus christ
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With as many people as possible
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Before he returns.
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God's message is to be shared and not kept.
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Jesus said "to go into all the world,
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And make disciples".
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Is never complete.
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Jesus said in matthew 5,
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"you are the light of the world.
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Let your light shine before men."
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Robert Jeffress - Back To Bethlehem (Part 2)

December 5, 2024 | S24:E4905

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