An Advent Christmas Reading

Merry Christmas! We hope you’re all enjoying Christmas day and spending time with your families. In this episode, Brody reads through some Scripture of Jesus’s coming. Let’s take time today to thank the Lord for sending His Son to the world to save us from our sins.

Resources:

• Matthew 1
• Luke 2 
• Matthew 2

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:09

Welcome to no Sanity Required from the Ministry of Snowbird Roaderness Outfitters. A podcast about the Bible, culture and stories from around the globe.

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Matthew, chapter one, beginning in verse 18. The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way After his mother, mary, had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit. So her husband, joseph, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly. But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. Now, all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet See, the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel, which is translated God is with us. When Joseph woke up, he did as the Lord's angel had commanded him. He married her, but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son, and he named him Jesus. Luke, chapter two, beginning in verse one.

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In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered. This first registration took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria, so everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David, to be registered, along with Mary, who was engaged to him and was pregnant. While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. Then she gave birth to her firstborn son and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them.

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In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock. Then an angel the Lord stood before them, and the Lord and his glory shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them Don't be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today, in the city of David, a Savior was born for you, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you. You will find a baby wrapped tightly in cloth and lying in a manger. Suddenly, there was a multitude of the heavenly hosts, with the angel praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest heaven and peace on earth to people he favors. When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherd said to one another let's go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened, which the Lord has made known to us. They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph and the baby who was lying in the manger. After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherd said to them. But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them. The shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things they had seen and heard, which were just as they had been told. When the eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived, and when the days of their purification according to the Law of Moses were finished, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. Just as it is written in the Law of the Lord, every firstborn male will be dedicated to the Lord and to offer a sacrifice according to what is stated in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons. Matthew, chapter 2, beginning in verse 1.

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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying who is he who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him. When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born. In Bethlehem of Judea, they told him, because this is what was written by the prophet, and you, bethlehem and the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, because out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people, israel. Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said go and search carefully for the child. When you find him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship him. After hearing the king, they went on their way and there it was, the star they had seen at its rising. It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overwhelmed with joy. Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary, his mother, and fall into their knees. They worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts gold, frankincense and myrrh and being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod. They returned to their own country by another route.

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After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying get up, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to kill him. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and escaped to Egypt. He stayed there until Herod's death so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled. Out of Egypt, I called my son.

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Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, and keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men. Then what was spoken through Jeremiah, the prophet, was fulfilled. A voice was heard in Rama weeping and great mourning, rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be consoled because they are no more.

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After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt saying get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel because those who intended to kill the child are dead. So he got up, took the child and his mother and entered the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father, herod, he was afraid to go there and, being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee. Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets that he would be called Nazarene. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

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