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Make Room (Luke 2:7) | Matt Daniel
The sermon encourages students to focus on the true meaning of Christmas by examining Luke 2:7, where Jesus is born and laid in a manger. Matt compares the crowded scene of Jesus' birth with modern distractions, using a personal anecdote from a crowded Formula One race to illustrate the point. The core message is to 'make room for Jesus' in our hearts during the busy holiday season, emphasizing the importance of understanding Jesus as God in human flesh, born of a virgin, and placed in a humble manger.
00:00 Introduction: Finding Focus in the Crowds
00:12 A Personal Experience at F1
01:23 The Crowded Scene in Luke 2:7
04:27 The Importance of Making Room for Jesus
06:46 Understanding Jesus as God in Human Flesh
09:44 The Miracle of Jesus' Birth
13:03 Jesus Laid in a Manger: Humility and Sacrifice
17:05 Consequences of Not Making Room for Jesus
24:10 Final Thoughts and Prayer
Transcript
We're going to look at a scene in this verse as you're turning to
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:Luke 2 7 where there's, there's a very
crowded area and there's going to be a
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:lot that's, that's going on that we got
to, we got to cut through the clutter and
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:focus on what's, what's really cool here.
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:And I had a bit of a similar
experience where I was at a place
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:where it was insanely crowded.
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:Um, in 2021, I got to go to
Circuit of the Americas, which is a
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:racetrack down in Austin, and they
were hosting a Formula One race.
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:Formula One is just basically one
of the coolest racing organizations
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:on the face of the planet.
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:And this was truly a once in
a lifetime experience for me.
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:It's miles of track.
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:There are only, there are over 750,
000 people there that, that weekend.
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:And it was an event that
spanned over, over three days.
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:And again, miles of track, but
throughout everything you've got
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:almost a million people just milling
about going to different areas
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:and seeing different exhibits and
getting different food and buying.
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:Merch from the place.
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:I mean, it was, I felt like I was in a, in
a pack of sardines or something like that.
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:Like it was, it was tight.
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:It took us over four hours to get out of
the parking lot after, after the race.
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:I mean, literally just sitting there
waiting for, waiting for cars to move.
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:And I was like, it wasn't even
getting back here to Dallas.
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:You know, that was another couple hours.
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:It was four hours trying to
get out of a parking lot.
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:Imagine doing that.
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:That was not that much fun.
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:Um, but again, we're going to look here
at Luke 2 7 for another scene that's,
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:that's very crowded and in, in the crowds
and in everything that was happening,
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:it's very easy to, to lose sight of
what's actually important, which is
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:we're, we're sitting in turn one, which
is where all the fun stuff happens.
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:We got a good seat, um, where we
set our stuff down on the hill
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:and we were like, all right, we're
just going to, we're going to camp
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:out, we're going to enjoy this.
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:We're not going to let how crowded
and how busy everything is distract
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:from what we came here to see.
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:I think we're going to find a
similar message in this passage.
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:So by way of that long
introduction, I'm hoping we've had
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:enough time to get to Luke 2 7.
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:And we're, like I said, we're
just looking at one verse tonight.
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:So Luke 2 7, you can read along with me.
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:It says,
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:And she gave birth to her firstborn
son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths
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:and laid him in a manger because there
was no place for them in the inn.
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:And this is, a Christmas sermon.
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:And most of this stuff that we're talking
about here with, there's the birth
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:of Jesus, and he's wrapped in these,
in a swaddle, and he gets put in a
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:manger, and there's no room in the inn.
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:We're all, we're all super familiar
with this story, I imagine.
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:And so that, that means that because of
our familiarity, we can really struggle
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:to wrap our minds around how important.
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:Hm.
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:All of this is here.
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:What's actually being said here,
because we just know about it.
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:We struggle to grasp how impactful
it is to us, and I think this is
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:really important because Christmas
is a season that's designed to
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:celebrate Jesus and to focus on him.
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:We're celebrating his birth and his,
his advent, as we say in Christianity,
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:as we're his, his first coming.
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:And the danger with having all
of this busyness is that if.
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:If you miss Jesus during Christmas,
if you're looking at all of the other
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:stuff that's going on, and you, like,
all the pomp and circumstance, and
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:all the fun things, and if you miss
Him during Christmas, it's gonna be
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:very easy for you to miss Him forever.
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:Again, in a season that's designed
to worship Him, and to celebrate Him,
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:and to focus on Him, if we let our
hearts get crowded with other things,
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:and we miss worshiping Him, it's going
to be very easy for us to not be able
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:to focus on Him when there's not a
holiday, when it's not exactly in season.
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:And so that's why I want in this
Christmas sermon to go over some of
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:these important things that we see in
this verse so that we can give special
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:attention to it because I don't want
us to miss Jesus during this season.
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:Again, I'm going to key in on a
specific phrase here that's going to
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:frame the entirety of this message.
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:And if you If you look here, it's
something that, again, you've heard
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:of before, but it's this phrase that
there's no place for them in the inn.
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:There's no room.
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:There's no space that they have.
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:And the idea that I want us to key in
on is, I don't want our hearts during
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:this season to look like Bethlehem,
or like the racetrack that I was at a
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:couple years ago, where it's so busy.
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:And has so much going on in it that
we can't actually focus on the main
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:thing, the super critical, super
important thing that's happening.
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:We got to make room for
that reality to take root.
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:And that's, that's point number one.
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:Again, I'm cheating because I got four
sub points, but there's only one main
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:point that I want you to have tonight.
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:And it's just this, make room
for Jesus, make room for Jesus.
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:If there's anything that you
remember about this sermon, it's
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:just this, make room for him.
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:And what do I mean by, by make room?
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:And we talk about there, there's, there's
no space, there's no room for them in,
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:in the inn for Jesus and his family.
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:I think the idea of making room, like
if you think about, like if you go
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:to a barbecue or something like that,
and you, you go to the front of the
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:line for like a buffet type thing,
they got all of the fix ins, and you
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:just like see the salad at the front.
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:And then you're like, no, I'm not
loading my plate up with that.
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:You know, like who even wants that?
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:And you go and use Mac and
cheese, baked beans, brisket ribs.
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:You just fill your plate up
with stuff that you love.
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:You fill your plate with
stuff you care about.
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:And then, you know, you
go, you eat all of it.
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:You come back for dessert and
you never touch the salad.
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:Right.
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:Cause like no one wants
salad on your, on your plate.
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:You're going to make room
for the stuff that you love.
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:You're going to make room for
the stuff that you really want,
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:that you really care about.
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:You're going to give
special attention to it.
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:And in this case, making room for Jesus,
there's that idea of giving special
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:attention to Him during this season, of
submitting to Him, of putting your faith
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:in Him, of entrusting yourself to Him.
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:There's a lot of different synonyms
for this that I can use, but that's
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:the core of what we're going for.
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:So let's take a look at a couple of the
ideas that are present in this passage
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:that I want us to keep track of, that
again, you're probably familiar with.
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:But I really want us to take time to
think about these realities and have
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:them make room in our hearts so that
they're not overcrowded and busy with
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:all of the other stuff that's going on.
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:Because we don't want to miss Jesus
during this season when he's celebrated.
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:So sub point A, when we're making
room for Jesus, we got to make
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:room for Jesus, God in human flesh.
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:Make room for Jesus, God in human flesh.
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:That's one of the things that's
going on in this passage.
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:So.
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:Go ahead and look back at it.
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:I'll put it up here on the screen
so it's easier for you to see.
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:And it says that she gave birth to
her firstborn son and wrapped him in
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:swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger.
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:Notice all the words that
I highlighted up here.
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:So, Mary, Jesus mom,
physically gives birth.
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:Jesus is a firstborn son.
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:She wraps him.
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:And then she lays him down.
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:You might be like, okay, we
know, we've heard this before.
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:Like, I get it.
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:It's obvious.
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:Like, you just basically
read the passage again.
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:But it's really important to think
about because if you've ever watched
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:Star Wars, have you ever seen this?
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:That Princess Leia, when she's
the holograms, help me Obi Wan
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:Kenobi, you're my only hope.
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:She's not like physically
embodied at this point.
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:It's a hologram of her.
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:You could swipe it and she'll go away.
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:Like, it's not anything of
physical substance, right?
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:And that's what's really important because
in this passage, we have to understand
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:that Jesus is actually a real person.
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:He's not a hologram.
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:He doesn't appear to be
having a physical body.
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:He doesn't just look like
he's living in space and time.
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:He just, he doesn't just look
like a baby that you were
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:looking like, Oh, is that a baby?
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:And then you like go swipe over him and
you're like, Oh, it's a hologram of Jesus.
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:Like.
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:It's God in human flesh,
that this is real.
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:Again, he's firstborn.
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:He's a son.
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:But the point is that this baby born
in a manger, though being totally
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:real, is not like everyone else.
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:He's truly God, and he's truly man.
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:He's not under the curse of sin,
and yet he's in this manger crying.
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:Thank you.
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:with the pangs of hunger
and of being tired.
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:He's reliant upon his mother and
his father to take care of him.
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:Again, we need to make room for this.
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:We need to understand that for God
to come in human flesh, to be the
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:one who walks the earth in our place.
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:As you've heard us talk about so much
in this ministry, the only one qualified
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:to take our place, to take on our
sins and our wrath has to be a real.
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:physical person, not a hologram,
not just an idea, but God in
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:human flesh, truly God, truly man.
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:We have to make room for this.
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:We need to really contemplate this.
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:Again, it's God in flesh crying
with the pangs of hunger and
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:tiredness, but not just that.
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:We need to make room for Jesus
born of a virgin as well.
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:We need to think about this as Jesus.
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:If you look back at the text, you'll
see it says, and she gave birth, right?
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:That's what we've, I've already read this,
but she being married, I think we're all
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:familiar with that, but she gave birth
like physically and really gave birth.
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:And you might be like, okay, cool.
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:What's so special about that?
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:Well, this is, this is a miracle.
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:This is very plainly
and obviously a miracle.
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:I mean, I think we make a lot of.
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:exceptions for what we
consider miracles today.
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:Like we just look at stuff
that's kind of cool that happens.
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:We're like, Whoa, that's such a miracle.
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:I don't know if you've ever seen
videos of like celebrities surprising
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:their fans and how they're all just
like, Whoa, like this is so awesome.
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:This is like so life changing.
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:This is so miraculous that I got to, I
got to meet Harry Potter or whatever.
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:You know, it's, I mean, if I can be
that excited seeing Harry Potter, that'd
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:be pretty sweet, but I don't know.
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:So.
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:We look at stuff that's kind of
common, and we can say that it's
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:super miraculous, but you know
what would actually be miraculous?
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:If you were like, actually,
you're gonna meet Beethoven.
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:You're gonna meet Kobe.
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:You're gonna meet these celebrities,
and you're like, um, problem with
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:that, they're not exactly alive.
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:That would be kind of tough if you were
gonna, if you were gonna meet them.
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:But if you said, no, I promise,
I've got them in the flesh, raised
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:from the dead, alive 100%, you're
like, that's an absolute miracle.
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:That would be life changing
to know someone that has come
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:back from the dead like this.
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:The nature of Christ's birth, that he's
born of a virgin, of someone that hasn't
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:had a relationship with a man to produce
a baby, that he's divinely given by God
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:into Mary's womb, this is a true miracle.
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:You see, Christ is born in these
miraculous circumstances as a
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:divine stamp of approval saying,
he's the one who's qualified.
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:He's God in flesh.
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:But it also shows us that there are no
lengths that God would not go to, to save
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:us and to love us and to care for us.
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:That he comes in flesh and he doesn't,
he doesn't say, nah, I'm too good to
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:be born to this probably teenage girl.
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:I'm too, I'm too good for that.
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:But he gets the stamp of approval.
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:We need to really consider what this
means that God will go to such extreme
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:lengths to solve our sin problem.
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:That this baby is born in miraculous
circumstances, and that he does
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:miraculous things, and ultimately
deals with our sin on the cross.
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:Again, Christ's birth being something
where he is born to walk a life of
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:suffering in our place, and then to
die in our place, and to rise again.
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:Amen.
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:We need to consider that His
miraculous origin shows the love of
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:God that He would be sent for us.
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:The next thing that we need to
see in this passage, that we need
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:to make room for, that we need to
ponder in our hearts, we need to
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:make room for Jesus laid in a manger.
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:Make room for Jesus laid in a manger.
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:So you can see here, you see
that there's a really genius
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:way of interpreting this text.
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:Like when you, when you look at
it, you see that it says, That
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:he was laid in a manger, you just
say, yeah, he was laid in a manger.
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:Like, it's just, it's just there.
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:Right?
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:It's not genius at all.
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:It's actually, I'm just reading
the, reading the passage, you know?
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:But I think this is really important
because, again, we've talked
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:about, okay, Jesus is God in flesh.
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:We've talked about, he's got this,
this divine stamp of approval.
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:That he's, he's the king
and all of this other stuff.
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:That he's born in a miraculous way.
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:But, this isn't a fairy tale birth.
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:This isn't like, okay, like sweet sound.
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:The trumpets, God is here.
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:This is so hype.
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:We're all so excited.
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:Like get, get everyone to
come in and, and celebrate.
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:The land is going to have
a feast for weeks on end.
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:No, there's no, there's
no fairy tale in this.
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:There's not pomp.
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:There's not circumstance,
but it's actually,
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:it's actually very humble.
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:It's not what we would
expect from someone.
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:with this type of royalty.
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:And I think we, you probably know
what a manger is, but I put a
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:picture on here just so we could
really, like, think about it.
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:Because I don't know about you, but
I would A, not want to sleep in that
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:myself, and B, I would definitely
not want to put my baby in one.
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:This is literally where pigs
and other animals, they just,
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:they just eat out of it.
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:You just pour a bunch of slop in there
and they're like, go eat that, you pigs.
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:And that's what they do.
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:And there's literally no room
for the son of God to lay his
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:head except for, for here.
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:And that's how he's
breaking into the world.
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:He's taking his first cries
as a human being among cattle.
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:And though, though he's laid in this
feeding trough as being truly God
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:born miraculously, we can see that.
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:from Jesus being laid in a manger
that he refused to exercise his
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:privileges for our good, right?
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:He could have been born to the daughter
of some elite businessman, right?
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:Maybe the high priest of, of, of
ancient Israel could have been
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:born to Caiaphas's daughter.
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:That would maybe make a lot more
sense for the son of God, right?
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:To be born to someone who's well
educated and well respected.
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:But we see that The Son of God is laid
in a manger that He associates with us
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:at our most humble and our most low.
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:I mean, I'm guessing none of you
have probably spent the night
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:in a manger, I'm just guessing.
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:And so in that sense, Christ is
identified with the poorest and the
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:most needy among us and shown that He is
gentle, that He is lowly, that He does
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:not despise those things, He doesn't
look down upon us in our weakness.
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:But that he has truly entered into
it, that he understands any of the
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:difficulties or the pains that we go
through suffering in this life because he
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:himself was born and suffered in this way.
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:Again, these are all things that
we need to make room for because
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:we don't, it's so hard to take
time during this season to actually
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:think about why this is important.
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:Again, I probably haven't said anything.
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:new to you tonight.
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:You probably haven't heard anything
where you're like, well, I've
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:actually never thought of that.
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:Or my parents have never told me that,
or I've never heard Pastor Rod say that.
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:But the point is not so much to give
you the knowledge, but to show you
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:that you need to make room for this.
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:You need to allow time for you
to think about this, to submit
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:to it, to worship God for it.
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:I think this is really important
because as we've said, um,
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:This is very hard to do.
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:And so I want to just think about
this as we get ready to close.
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:I want us to beware the consequences
of refusing to make room for Jesus.
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:I know that's a long point,
but that's the last sub point.
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:Beware the consequences of
refusing to make room for Jesus.
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:Again, we're And we're looking
at this, and we see that
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:Bethlehem is just bustling.
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:There's so much going on here.
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:But the divine Son of God
breaks into space and time.
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:That's what's going on in this
passage, that's the Christmas story,
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:but Bethlehem is too busy doing
whatever it is they have to do to
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:notice and to pay attention to this.
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:And sometimes we're too busy.
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:Or we don't care enough
to make room for Jesus.
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:We hear the word preached on Wednesday
nights, or we hear it on Sunday mornings
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:at church, but then we say, no, I, it's
cool for then, but, you know, I don't
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:really need to make room for that.
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:Like, I don't need to give
my heart space for that.
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:And sometimes, We think that we
can give Jesus our leftovers and
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:like, Oh, that's super generous.
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:Like, that's so generous of me.
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:I've just got so much fun stuff
going on during the holiday season.
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:I've got, I've got all
these fun parties at school.
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:I've got gifts to give.
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:All of these, all these great things.
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:I've got gifts to get too.
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:That's one of the most fun parts, right?
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:We're so busy with those things
and they fill up our hearts.
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:But it's not, it's not because our
hearts are so big and everything else is
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:just so wonderful that it's getting in.
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:It's It's oftentimes because we're too
easily contented, that we're cool with
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:all the stuff about Christmas until it's
like, okay, well, Jesus gets in my grill.
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:I don't really want to think about that.
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:That's, that's tough.
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:Again, it's not that we have,
it's not that we have big hearts.
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:It's that we have Grinch hearts, right?
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:The whole point of the Grinch, since
he's all mad all the time is because
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:he's got, he's got a heart that's
three sizes too small or whatever,
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:probably three, two, three, two.
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:Three would be worse, man.
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:That would be a, that would be a tough,
that would be a way different movie,
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:if it was even smaller than that.
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:I mean, it's, it's, we have these
Grinch hearts because we don't, we
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:don't want to bring Jesus into them.
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:We're content with too little.
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:Again, going to, going to F1 was a great
time, but let me tell you, that last
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:day, so they have the races on Sunday.
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:And we got there.
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:It was for sure still dark out.
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:It was probably like 4 30 in the
morning and we camped out on turn one.
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:Literally nobody around us.
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:Like I'm sunburnt to a crisp.
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:I looked like a lobster
from the day before.
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:I'm feeling terrible, but I'm
like, I gotta, I gotta enjoy this.
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:Like I can't, I can't miss the race.
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:And so me and all my buddies were
just hanging out there and it still
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:upsets me to think about this.
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:30 minutes before the race starts.
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:We've been there for like
7 hours at this point.
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:Literally sitting, occupying territory
on the hill like we're soldiers
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:trying to hold the fort down.
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:30 minutes before the race happens, a
guy shuffles through the crowd while
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:we're all standing at this point because
the race is going to start soon, and
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:he just stops right in front of me.
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:Just like, I could not see a single thing.
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:And I was so upset.
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:I literally, I typically wouldn't
do this, but I tapped him.
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:I was like, dude, can you move?
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:Like what is, what is happening?
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:And so, like a very nice man, he
scooched forward about that much.
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:So I tapped him again.
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:I'm like, dude, what are you doing?
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:Like, we've been here all day.
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:And he literally, he
literally looked at me.
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:I'll never forget this because he
looked at me Bro, we're all just
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:trying to do the best we can.
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:And I was like, what kind
of a sentence is that?
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:Like, you can, you can move forward.
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:Like, you're literally standing in front
of my, I'm like, I'm not trying to watch
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:the back of your head the whole time.
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:I'm trying to, I'm trying to
watch these guys take the turns.
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:And he barely moved.
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:I just asked him, just make
a little bit of room, please.
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:And he kind of refused.
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:You see, in this, in this season,
I feel like sometimes we're like,
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:we're like that guy when it comes to.
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:Christmas.
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:Like we've got the Christmas season.
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:We've got the month of December.
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:We've got Christmas music.
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:We've got all of this stuff, but we're not
going to show up to see the main event.
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:We're not going to show up to see
Jesus until right at the very end.
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:Like we'll roll up on Christmas
Eve and we're like, yeah, I'm ready
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:to, I'm ready to praise the Lord.
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:Like this is going to be great.
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:And we just, we show up at
Christmas Eve and we're like,
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:okay, now I give him Christmas.
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:And then like, boom, we're done.
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:We got gifts.
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:long for this.
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:We don't actually make room beforehand.
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:We don't get there and we don't
camp out in these realities.
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:We don't really consider them for an
extended period of time and we show
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we're supposed to celebrate this.
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like that guy who's going to show up to
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a half hour before, if we have that
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:mentality in Christmas and getting
ready to make room for Jesus, it's going
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us to just get caught up in all
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during Christmas, it's going to be
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:very easy for you to miss Him forever.
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:It's going to be so easy for
you to not dial into this.
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:Because the whole, the whole
point of going to the racetrack
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:It wasn't to go to all of the,
the merch stores that were,
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:Like when he's 200 for a
hoodie, like, what are we doing?
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:And the whole, the whole point wasn't
like, Oh, I'm going to go check that out.
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:And I'm going to, I'm going to see like
the, like the formula Z or whatever, like
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:the worst of the worst driving around the
track, like the Saturday, the day before
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:the actual race, like the whole point was
we're supposed to be there for the race.
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:That's the point is if, if this is
what we're meant to look at, And
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with all these other things.
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us to get Jesus when we're not
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:When we're not, when he's not
like the focus of the season,
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:he's not the focus of our lives.
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:And that's my, my main worry for us that
I hope that I've given you a couple of
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:points to start thinking through is if, if
we miss Jesus when he's supposed to be in
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:focus, how can, how can we be confident?
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:that will respond to the
gospel some other time.
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:The whole point is that at Christmas,
Christ is offered freely, and his
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:story is told in its fullness.
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:So if you miss him now, and if
you refuse to listen now, why
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:would you bank on another time?
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:The final thought that I want to
leave us with is this, that God
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:gives us holidays for a reason.
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:It's not just something that, you know, we
made up to make life a little bit better.
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:We see throughout the Old Testament
that God gives holidays to the people of
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:Israel where they remember the good things
that God has done and they celebrate
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:his character and his acts and his
faithfulness throughout all of history.
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:He gives us holidays so that we can
carve out time to reflect and to
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:align our hearts and minds with him.
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:He gives us time to dial back in,
to lose all of the clutter and just
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:focus on Him, to make room for Him.
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:And so I hope that you can take these
three points, these three sub points,
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bit, meditate on them a little bit.
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time leading up to Christmas so
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:that you can use this time wisely.
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:Because you never age out
of making room for Christ.
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:This is something that every single
Christian, regardless of their age,
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:is doing and is working on doing.
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:And maybe you need to make room for
Jesus for the first time this Christmas.
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:But with all that being said, my prayer
for you all is that you use this holiday
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:season to make room for the King of Kings.
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:Let's pray.
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:Our Father in Heaven, thank
you for sending Christ.
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:Thank you for giving us hope.
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:holidays that we can enjoy, and though
you've given us so many other components
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:and parts of life to enjoy with the
holidays, I pray that we wouldn't let
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:those overcrowd our hearts, that they
wouldn't be like Bethlehem, too busy to
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:notice what's going on, or the reason for
why any of this exists in the first place.
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:I pray that you would make our
minds attentive to your truth, that
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:it would be something that would.
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:Stir our affections that would change the
things that we care about, that they would
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:make its way down into our priorities.
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:All of that, God.
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:And I pray that we would be
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:weary or wary of the consequences of if we
get caught up in too much of those things.
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:I pray that we would give you the
space that you deserve, God, to sit
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:on the throne of our hearts this
Christmas season, and that we would
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:be worshipping you and adoring you.
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