Who is This Baby Born In Bethlehem

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Who is This Baby Born In Bethlehem?

• John 11-9,14 Philippians 26-8

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Christmas Quiz

• 1. When Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem, how
  did they get there?
• a. They walked
• b. Joseph walked Mary rode a donkey
• c. They took a chariot
• d. We dont really know.

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Christmas Quiz

• 2. How many angels spoke to the shepherds?
• a. A multitude.
• b. Two Gabriel and Michael
• c. One
• d. Not sure

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Christmas Quiz

• 3. What song did the angels sing?
• a. O Little Town of Bethlehem
• b. Joy to the World
• c. Glory to God in the Highest
• d. None of the above

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Christmas Quiz

• 4. What animals were present at Jesus birth?
• a. Cows, sheep and camels
• b. Horses, sheep and donkeys
• c. Lions and tigers and bears
• d. None of the above

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Christmas Quiz

• 5. In what books of the Bible can you find the
  Christmas story?
• a. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
• b. Matthew and Luke
• c. Mark and Matthew
• d. Matthew, Mark and Luke

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The Real Stumbling Block

• The really staggering Christian claim is that
  Jesus of Nazareth was God made man that the
  second person of the Godhead became the second
  man (1 Corinthians 1547), determining human
  destiny, the second representative head of the
  race, and that he took humanity without loss of
  deity, so that Jesus of Nazareth was as truly and
  fully divine as he was human.
• - J.I. Packer

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The Child Born at Bethlehemwas God.

• The infant was infinite, (John 11-2).
• John 858 Truly, truly I say to you, before
  Abraham was I am.
• parallels Genesis 11 In the beginning God
• Logos
• Revelation 18 Jesus declares that He is the
  Alpha and the Omega
• John 118 No one has ever seen God the only
  God, who is at the Fathers side, he has made him
  known.
• Colossians 115 He is the image of the
  invisible God

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The Child Born at Bethlehemwas God.

• Christ is the Creator, (John 13)
• Weve seen earlier in Colossians this truth about
  Jesus For by him all things were created, in
  heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
  whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
  authorities all things were created through him
  and for him. And he is before all things, and in
  him all things hold together, (Colossians
  116-17, ESV).

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The Child Born at Bethlehemwas God.

• The Lord is Life and Light
• The Bible begins with physical darkness in
  Genesis 1.
• Spiritual darkness came with the Fall in Genesis
  3.
• John 16-8 role of John the Baptist
• John 319-20, (pg. 1130)

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The Child Born at Bethlehemwas God made Man

• 100 God, 100 Man, (John 114)
• Made Himself Nothing, (Philippians 26-7).
• Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do
  nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees
  the Father doing. For whatever the Father does,
  that the Son does likewise. I can do nothing on
  my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is
  just, because I seek not my own will but the will
  of him who sent me, (John 519, 30, ESV).

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The Child Born at Bethlehemwas God made Man

• Made nothing by being a human.
• A servant.
• emptied Himself kenosis
• John 175 the glory I had with you before the
  world began
• Baby designed for a Roman cross, (Philippians
  28).
• Luke 1250 I have a baptism to be baptized
  with, and how great is my distress until it is
  accomplished.
• The Garden
• You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he
  became poor, so that you through His poverty
  might become rich, (2 Corinthians 89).