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Joseph Prince - What It Means That Jesus Became One Of Us

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Joseph prince: dear friend, as this year draws to a close,
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I want to speak to you straight from my heart.
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It's been a year filled with so much noise,
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Change, and uncertainty.
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And maybe for you, it's been a year
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Of deep personal challenges too.
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But in the midst of it all, here's what i want you
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To hold on to.
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The lord jesus has not changed and neither has our calling
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To bring his life-saving, heart-healing,
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Peace-giving gospel to a world
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That desperately needs him.
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After all these years, by god's grace
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And with your faithful support,
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This ministry has endeavored to lift up the name of jesus
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Through our broadcasts, digital outreach,
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And every open door the lord provides.
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And even though the world keeps shifting,
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One thing remains true: people still need jesus.
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They need to know there is a savior who still heals,
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Still restores, still provides, and still protects.
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So as we step into 2026, i invite you
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To shine that light with us.
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Let's believe bigger, let's build together.
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Your generosity helps someone else experience
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The same jesus who changed your life.
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So i pray that you will give as the lord puts in your heart.
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Wendy and i are praying you will walk into the new year
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With fresh grace, peace, and every good thing
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The lord has in store for you.
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God bless you and your family always.
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Joseph prince: but jesus was so kind, even to children.
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He chose to be a child, to come from the very beginning
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Of mankind's life.
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He didn't come, just drop down, you know, even to become a man.
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He can just become a full grown man, isn't it?
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Like adam.
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Adam was created a full grown man,
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The very first man.
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But jesus came, not like adam, he came as a child.
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I think that's lovely humility.
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It's lovely humility.
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You know, a child might be thinking,
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"does jesus understand me?"
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Every stage you are at, jesus understands you.
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You got a child at 6 years old, you can tell him,
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"jesus was once upon a time, 6 years old," amen?
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If you have a child that's 12 years old, you can say,
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"jesus one time was 12 years old."
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In fact, there's a story in the bible where he was--
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When he was 12 years old, they were astounded
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At his understanding and answers, amen.
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Jesus came as a child to go through
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All the vicissitudes of human life.
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Announcer: blessed christmas from our ministry
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To your family.
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This week, let's slow down and enjoy the peace
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Jesus came to bring.
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In today's message, joseph shows us the real reason
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For the season and how god gave us
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The greatest gift of all: his son.
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This week, let's slow down and enjoy the peace
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Jesus came to bring.
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Inspire your every day and your every tomorrow
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With more grace-filled truths.
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And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: praise the lord, hallelujah.
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During this christmas, may you find
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This wonderful jesus, the son of the father,
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Real in your lifetime, amen.
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Let's start with some scripture reading from the portion
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Of christmas that we always read from, luke chapter 2.
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Are you ready?
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It's all up here.
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"and it came to pass in those days that a decree went out
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From caesar augustus that all the world
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Should be registered."
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Caesar augustus was the emperor of rome at that time.
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"this census first took place while quirinius
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Was governing syria.
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So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
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Joseph also went up from galilee,
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Out of the city of nazareth,
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Into judea, to the city of david,
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Which is called bethlehem,
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Because he was of the house and lineage
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Of david, to be registered with mary,
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His betrothed wife, who was with child.
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So it was that while they were there,
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The days were completed for her to be delivered.
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And she brought forth her firstborn son,
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And wrapped him in swaddling cloths,
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And laid him in a manger,
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Because there was no room for them in the inn."
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There was no room for them in the inn.
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You know, it starts off by telling us about
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An emperor in rome making a decree
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Throughout his domain, throughout his kingdom,
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That has to be obeyed.
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In those days, he was the sovereign.
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And the roman empire at the time,
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Based on the prophecy of daniel
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Being the last roman empire, the revived roman empire
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That is yet to come.
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But during that time, there was an emperor who knew nothing
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About a carpenter in nazareth.
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And the carpenter in nazareth knows nothing about
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The emperor in rome.
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But god moved in rome to move the carpenter and his wife,
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Who was now with child, to leave nazareth to make that journey
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Down south all the way to bethlehem.
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Now this is a beautiful, lovely story
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Where every time we think about christmas,
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We think of the beautiful story of god's love for us.
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And here in this portion, we see sovereignty, mystery,
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And lovely humility.
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How god moved in rome just to move a carpenter
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In nazareth all the way to bethlehem.
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You see, joseph and mary,
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They were from the tribe of judah.
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Their lineage, both of them, came all the way
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From the line of david.
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In other words, david had two sons from which,
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If you trace down, it goes all the way to mary
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On one hand and joseph on the other.
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Yet we see this lovely humility, how jesus was born to a--
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Parents that were poor at this time.
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Even though they are of the royal lineage,
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Because the kingdom came to an end.
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At the time when they were taken away to babylon,
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There was no more king of israel at that time.
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From that time on, there was a governor from the royal line
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From which jesus came, from the line of david
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Whose name was zerubbabel
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By the time he came back, but he didn't come back
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To become king.
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So by now, this royal family has become poor.
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I doubt that even the people of nazareth might know about
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Their genealogy, the fact that they are a royal family.
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We hear so much from history, right?
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You all know that down through history,
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There are stories of the sons
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Or the daughters of emperors and kings that dwindle into poverty
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And they end up as servants or beggars even in the street.
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Now you start thinking that, "well, the bible says jesus,
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Though he was rich, yet he became poor."
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Yeah, initially they were poor.
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But later on when the wise men came and brought gold,
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Silver--not silver.
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Gold, frankincense and myrrh, you can say that later on
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When they had to flee to go to alexandria in egypt,
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The baby sponsored that trip.
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But back to this lovely story, we see this sovereignty of god
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Moving this family, this royal family, now poor, right?
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And mary was now pregnant in the advanced stage.
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So what was she thinking of, you know?
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And what was joseph thinking of?
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Moving all the way from nazareth to bethlehem.
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It's a long, arduous journey, a journey of about 65 miles.
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All the way from nazareth in the north of israel,
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All the way down through jerusalem is about 65 miles.
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And then from jerusalem, all the way south
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Even to bethlehem, about 5--
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Another 5 to 6 miles.
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It will take probably about 3 to 4 days for someone walking.
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Probably joseph was walking and mary, very advanced
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In her pregnancy, sitting on the donkey.
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It would take about 3 to 4 days.
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But a very arduous journey.
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And along the way, there are also perils of robbers
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And all that.
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Of course, we know god will make sure his angels
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Is watching over them.
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But they had to make their way all the way to bethlehem.
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Why? why take this journey?
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People around will say, "why take this journey
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When your wife is so advanced in her pregnancy?"
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Well, because of all that prophets prophesied
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That the baby will be born, this ruler who was shepherd,
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His people israel will come forth from bethlehem.
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You see there are two bethlehems in israel,
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For those who don't know.
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Just let you know that there's one in galilee,
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Very near to their hometown, nazareth, all right?
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But that's not the one that's prophesied.
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That galilee is--that bethlehem is called bethlehem galilee.
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So there's one bethlehem near to nazareth
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Called beit lehem haglilit in hebrew.
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But that's not the one prophesied by the prophets.
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In micah, it was prophesied that jesus
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Will come out of bethlehem ephrathah.
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And that's bethlehem judah.
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The prophet micah says this: "you, bethlehem ephrathah."
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This was written years before jesus was born,
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In the old testament, all right?
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It was prophesied by micah the prophet.
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"you, bethlehem ephrathah."
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So it locates the place.
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It's bethlehem judah, the same bethlehem
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That david came out of.
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The same bethlehem you have the beautiful love story
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Of boaz and ruth.
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That's the same bethlehem.
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Bethlehem ephrathah or bethlehem judah, okay?
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"though you are little among the thousands of judah,
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Yet out of you shall come forth to me
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The one to be ruler in israel," notice this,
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"whose goings forth are from of old,
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From everlasting."
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So this baby is no ordinary baby.
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This baby, he's going forth, is of old, from everlasting.
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The bible says in isaiah 9, verse 6, it says:
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"for unto us a child is born,
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And unto us a son is given."
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He was the son before he was a child.
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Can you understand that?
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As the son, he is always with the father.
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But as a child, he was born.
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That speaks of his humanity.
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The son given.
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The son cannot be born because the son is deity, god himself.
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The son was given, but the child was born.
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Very beautiful.
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In the very first line, we see the prophecy of isaiah:
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"a child--for unto us a child is born,"
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The son is given, "unto us a son is given."
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I love it.
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It's very beautiful.
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Sometimes, some of the things we don't understand,
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Like the virgin birth.
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The bible says: "she brought forth her son."
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Look at luke 2 again.
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And it says: "she brought forth her firstborn son,
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And wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
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Laid him in a manger, because there was no room
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For them in the inn."
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No room for them in the inn.
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I was reading this one day
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And i realized it does not say
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There was no room in the inn, it's all used up.
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Because during this time, it's the feast of tabernacles.
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And it's one of the major feasts of israel.
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And people from all over israel and even outside israel,
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The jewish proselytes and also the jewish,
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I should say, gentile proselytes,
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Those who were not jews, they will come in
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Because they believe in the god of israel,
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And they will converge on jerusalem.
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So bethlehem is about 5, 6 miles just south.
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So you can imagine, the whole entire region,
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All the hotels are filled, right?
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In those days, they don't have hotels.
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They have guest houses.
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And there's one in bethlehem, a caravanserais.
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In those days, they traveled in groups for safety, okay?
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So when they travel, they come to a location where they stop.
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You know, when you travel right now, when you drive
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Long journeys, there's always a rest stop.
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What is interesting is that this inn in bethlehem,
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I can show you from scripture that originally,
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It belonged to david.
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David was born there.
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How came it that david the king was born there?
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Now he was born there, he wasn't a king yet.
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He was just a shepherd boy from a shepherd family.
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He was born there because he was the great-great-grandson
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Of boaz and ruth.
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You know the story of boaz and ruth, amen.
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Ruth was not a jew.
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But through believing in the god of israel,
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She became a jewish proselyte.
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And from her came the royal son.
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And from david came jesus christ,
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The greatest son of david, amen?
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So it was their home in bethlehem.
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Where did this story happen?
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You can read all about it in the old testament,
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In that lovely little small book.
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In fact, it takes just less than an hour to read it
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In one sitting.
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Just a few chapters.
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But a lovely story of how a redeemer is needed.
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When you have lost everything, you need someone
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From your own family.
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In those days, among the jewish people,
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They have a law that if you have
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Become bankrupt, if your land is forfeited,
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You can have someone from your own family
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To redeem for you the land.
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Provided he has the means.
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Provided he is willing.
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Very important.
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Not all relatives are willing.
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You know, they say wealth is relative.
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More wealth, more relatives, okay?
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And he must be from your family circle in those days.
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Why did god give this law?
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And this law was there in the old testament.
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It's all about jesus.
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It's all about how jesus will come--part of the human family,
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Number one.
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He has to be among your family to be a redeemer.
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To redeem you out of your lost state.
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To redeem you out of your bondage, amen?
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To redeem you of all that you have forfeited
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Through your own foolishness,
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Through your own sins, he can redeem
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What is lost.
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You see, even healing is nothing more than redeeming
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What was lost, amen?
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So another thing, that relative must be willing.
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Is jesus willing?
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Oh yes, how willing?
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Like this on the cross.
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And that's why he said, "for god so loved the world that he gave
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His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him
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Should not perish but have everlasting life."
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He must be willing.
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Does he have the means?
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Jesus with all the power that he has,
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How does he use that power?
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He used the power to cleanse the leper, to open the eyes
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Of the blind, to heal the sick, even to raise the dead.
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Which goes to tell us when he did this,
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And he did this so often,
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Three-fourths of his ministry is in healing,
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Restoring, cleansing, forgiving.
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That tells us that it is god's will,
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That something has gone wrong
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With mankind, man has sinned and sin has brought in disease,
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Destruction, depression, becoming decrepit,
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And finally death.
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It was never part of god's plan.
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God calls death an enemy.
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Hence we have the story of christmas.
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It's all planned by god.
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So back to the story of that inn, the caravanserais.
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It was originally the house of boaz and ruth,
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And then david,
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Their great grandson, royal grandson, david.
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And then from david, david actually gave it
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To barzillai, a man who was very kind to david
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When he was wandering, fleeing.
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And that man, the elderly man, who was a wealthy man,
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He was very kind to david.
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David gave to his son called chimham that inn,
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His own house, that later on
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Became to be known-- in the old testament,
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You can find this.
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It began to be called, on the way to bethlehem,
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There is a chimham inn.
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That word there is caravanserais.
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Later on, it became the center in bethlehem
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Where people who traveled for,
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You know, pilgrimage to jerusalem,
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They will stop there.
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So you think about it.
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Mary and joseph from the line of david,
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Actually they had the right to have
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The presidential suite there.
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Am i right?
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But there was no room for them in the inn.
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It doesn't say there's no room.
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There's no room for them.
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They're poor.
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You know, one look at them and, you know, you think about,
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If i give up that room, somebody else might come
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Who is able to pay for it.
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So there's no room for them in the inn.
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Did they fight it?
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Did they say, you know, "don't you know who i am?"
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No, that's a beautiful picture of humility.
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If i were to write the story of the christmas,
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It would be like this, all right?
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On a mountain that was glowing, there was lightning and thunder,
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And there was a crack of a loud sound
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And all of a sudden you see a strong being
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Shining bright with a sword glittering
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And he steps down.
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He has six, no, eightpacks and he comes down
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With big biceps, amen.
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And he takes off his royal robe,
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And he says, "i've come to be a man."
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You would cause him at least to be born,
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If you want him to be born, born in a palace.
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But jesus was so kind even to children,
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He chose to be a child,
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To come from the very beginning of mankind's life.
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He didn't come, just drop down, you know.
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Even to become a man, he can just become a full grown man,
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Isn't it?
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Like adam.
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Adam was created a full grown man,
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The very first man.
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But jesus came, not like adam, he came as a child.
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I think there's lovely humility.
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There's lovely humility.
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You know, a child might be thinking,
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"does jesus understand me?"
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Every stage you are at, jesus understands you.
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You got a child at 6 years old, you can tell him,
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"jesus was once upon a time, 6 years old," amen?
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If you have a child that's 12 years old, you can say,
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"jesus one time was 12 years old."
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In fact, there's a story in the bible where he was--
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When he was 12 years old, they were astounded
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At his understanding and answers, amen.
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Jesus came as a child to go through
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All the vicissitudes of human life, amen.
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To sit where we sit, amen.
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But he could choose to be born in a palace with gilded ceiling,
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Pillars of marble.
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But he chose to be born not in a guest house,
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In his rightful home, at least his ancestral home.
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But they say that, "you know what?
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Seeing that your wife is so advanced and all that,
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We'll give you where the cows are
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And where they put the horses and the donkeys.
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You can find some place there can lay your child--
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To lay your child."
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So the bible says among that stable,
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Which was a cave actually in those days,
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Nearby to where he was.
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Most houses then was also in a cave.
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Jesus was born.
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Here's another beautiful, lovely humility.
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The son of god became the son of mary.
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The ancient of days became an infant in time.
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Heaven of heavens cannot contain him,
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But here he lies in a manger.
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You know there are 11 ways the bible refers to jesus
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As the son?
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The son has the idea of deity.
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He is the son of god.
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He is the son of the father.
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Ten to 11 ways.
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Eleven ways, the bible describes him as a son.
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Son of god, son of the father, son of the highest,
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Son of the blessed.
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These four refers to his heavenly origin,
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His deity.
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He is the son of mary, son of joseph,
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Son of the carpenter.
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These three refers to his manhood, his humility.
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And then the son of abraham, the son of david,
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The son of man.
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This refers to his royalty.
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And then the son of his love.
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As the son of god.
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He's the son of god, people.
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The son of god eternally.
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He's the son of the father relationally.
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The son of the highest uniquely.
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He's the son of the blessed morally.
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Son of mary miraculously, son of joseph legally,
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Son of the carpenter practically.
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Son of abraham prophetically, son of david royally,
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Son of man dispensationally.
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The son of his love, intimately.
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"unto us a son is given."
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And everything revolves around him.
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Whenever i think of mary holding that baby
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Close to her heart,
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I think of the one, the helpless baby.
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He looks so helpless.
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Mary holds him, the one who holds all things together.
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This is lovely humility.
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We don't ask you to understand it.
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We don't ask you to explain it.
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We just ask you to come and worship him.
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We bow before this beauty.
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See, i don't care whether you're talking about
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Study of scripture, whether the arrangement
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Of your life, the ordering of your family,
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Your home, put christ in the center.
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When the center is wrong, nothing falls in place.
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Nothing prospers.
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When christ is the center, everything falls into place.
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And the lord keep you throughout this week.
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The lord make his face to shine upon you
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And be gracious to you.
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The lord lift up his countenance on you and grant to you
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And yours, his shalom, peace, amen.
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Joseph Prince - What It Means That Jesus Became One Of Us

December 22, 2025 | 29:45

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