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Welcome to the program. This is Rick Renner.
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Today we're returning to Christmas, The Rest of the Story.
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And you'll see on the screen behind me, Egypt, the pyramids
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of Giza and the Holy Family walking along the Nile. You say
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My friend
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today we're gonna consider the flight into Egypt,
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the slaughter of the innocence, and the death of Herod.
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It's gonna really be good.
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So stay with me all the way to the end.
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But we're going to begin in Matthew 2:11,
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which describes what happened when the Magi came
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to the Holy Family's house in Nazareth.
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It says that when they
were come into the house,
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they saw the young child
with Mary, his mother,
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and fell down and worshiped him.
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And when they had opened their treasures,
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they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense
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and myrrh. If you miss yesterday's program, please go back
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to the archives to watch it so you will understand
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what was the value of all these gifts that the Magi brought
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to the Holy Family.
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But notice particularly it
says they brought treasures,
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which in Greek is plural.
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It really depicts a
storehouse of treasures
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or cargo filled with treasures.
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The word gifts is also plural.
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So here we find there
were many, many treasures,
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many many gifts.
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And after the Magi lavishly
poured out there gifts upon
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Jesus, the Bible says in Matthew 2:12,
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And being warned of God in a dream that they
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that is the Magi - should not return to Herod,
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they departed unto their own country another way.
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And here we see God knows how
to speak to every one of us.
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These were Magi
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and they were professionals at interpreting dreams.
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And so since their business was dreams, God spoke
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to them in a dream; God knows how
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to individualize his message to every single one of us.
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But when we continue, we find out God was speaking
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to somebody else in dreams as well.
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Look at Matthew 2:13.
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And when they - the Magi were departed, behold - there's
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that word, behold, again. It could be translated,
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Wow! isn't it amazing?
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The angel of the Lord appeared
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to a Joseph in a dream saying, arise
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and take the young child and
his mother and flee into Egypt
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and be thou there until I bring the word
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for Herod will seek the
young child to destroy him.
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But this word flee is really important
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because the Greek word means to flee
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or to take flight to
run as fast as possible.
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It is the very word which
could be translated escape.
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It depicts one's feet flying
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as he runs from a situation.
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And the angel said, do
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So Joseph arose, took his family
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and they moved as fast as they could
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because the angel said, Herod
will seek the young child
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to destroy him.
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The words will seek, mean will pursue,
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will seek or will earnestly search for. It
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pictures one so intent on getting his own way
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that he will search, seek
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and investigate, never giving
up in his pursuit to get
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what he wants.
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And Herod's intention was to destroy him: a form
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of the Greek word, apollumi,
which means to destroy,
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to ruin, to devastate.
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And it pictures total devastation.
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Herod wanted to destroy the Christ child.
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So the angel urgently told Joseph, get up,
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evacuate your family from Nazareth
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and flee as fast as possible
to the land of Egypt.
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And Joseph's prompt obedience is recorded in Matthew
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2:14.
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And he arose, notice he
didn't even question,
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he just obeyed.
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God is looking for people
that are prompt to obey.
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And he arose and took the young child
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and his mother by night
and departed into Egypt.
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But Herod in the meantime
flew into a murderous rampage.
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We find in Luke 2:16,
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that when Herod did not hear back from the Magi,
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he felt mocked by them.
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And the word mocked means to
be outwitted, to be made fun
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of to be ridiculed or to be mocked.
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And after treating the magi so royally,
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he was deeply offended that
they didn't come back to him
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and bring him the
information that he wanted.
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And Matthew 2:16 says - He was exceedingly wroth.
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That word, wroth, describes one that is enraged,
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absolutely livid, one that
cannot control his anger.
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And it goes on to say
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that Herod in Matthew 2:15, sent forth
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and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem
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and in all the coasts there of from 2-years old
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and under, according
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to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men
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or of the Magi. The word slew
means to take away the life
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of another, to slay, to
kill, or to brutally murder.
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And you have to remember that he had interrogated the Magi
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as to when the star first appeared
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and ascertained that it appeared about 2-years earlier.
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He had also interrogated
the scribes and the lawyers,
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and he had asked them where
the Christ should be born.
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They said that he would
be born in Bethlehem.
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So he's thinking the Christ
child is still in Bethlehem,
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he thinks based on his
interrogation of the Magi,
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the child is about 2-years old,
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and now he is sending his
troops, his army, his killers
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to Bethlehem to kill all the babies there
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that are two years old and under based on
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what he had learned from the
scribes and from the wise men.
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Interesting that the devil
could not identify Jesus.
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Hmm, isn't that interesting?
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The devil is not as smart as we think.
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And because Herod could not identify exactly which baby was
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the Christ child who he thought was in Bethlehem,
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he just said, kill all of them
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that are two years old and under.
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And then we'll be sure that
in the middle of all of them,
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we've killed him as well.
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He just did not understand that Jesus
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and his parents had already
been gone for two years.
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They had been safely living in Nazareth.
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But this is called - The Slaughter of the Innocence.
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And Matthew is the only
gospel writer to record it.
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And strangely, this event was
not even recorded by Josephus,
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the great Jewish historian
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who recorded the very brutal acts of Herod
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but here's the reason why. Herod did a lot of brutal things,
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but the numbers of babies
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that he killed in Bethlehem didn't rate
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to make it in the great chronology of all
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of his brutal acts.
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Now, the killing of one baby is terrible,
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but he killed very few babies.
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Most people think that he
killed thousands of babies,
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and I'm gonna cover that right now.
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Herod thought the Christ
child was in Bethlehem.
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He did not know that Jesus
was already in Nazareth,
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so he just gave the order, kill them all.
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If we kill them all somewhere
in the middle of all
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of them, get the one.
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But most people believe
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that maybe Herod killed about 14,000 boys.
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One record says possibly he killed 64,000 boys.
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And of course this would truly be an atrocity.
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But there's a big problem with these numbers
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because Bethlehem, at its largest estimate,
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had no more than 480 people.
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So it wasn't possible for her
to have slaughtered 14,000
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or 64,000 babies.
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That's all based on paintings
which were painted in the
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Middle Ages, not on historical fact.
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And on the basis of the population of Bethlehem at
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that time, scholars estimate the real number
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of baby boys he slaughtered was probably fewer than 20. Some
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bring the figure down to 15: others, say 10 or 12,
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and some speculate it was about 6 boys
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that were killed at that time.
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And again, the killing of any child is horrific.
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But the point is, the number
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that were slaughtered in Bethlehem was much smaller than
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most people have imagined.
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But Herod would have eventually figured out
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that he missed the Christ child
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and that the Christ child was living in Nazareth.
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And to help the Holy Family
escape Herod's brutal attack,
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the angel showed up and said - Get up.
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get out as fast as you can get to the land of Egypt.
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This reminds us that if
we'll listen to the Lord,
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he'll tell us what to do to be protected.
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And if we will obey him, we
will live in his protection.
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But let me ask you a question.
How expensive was Egypt?
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Well, Egypt was one
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of the most luxurious nations
on the earth at that time.
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And as a foreigner,
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Joseph would've had no
legal right to work there.
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Plus the Holy family was in flight the entire time
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they were there for about 3-years.
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So he never would've had an opportunity to get a job.
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And because Egypt was so expensive, a foreigner living there
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and constantly being on the move, it would've been very,
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very expensive.
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Plus they weren't living
in one single location.
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They were packing up and moving
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and using all kinds of transport.
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My friends, this was going to
be a very expensive endeavor.
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And God knew all of this in advance,
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and he supernaturally orchestrated the arrival
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of the Magi with all their money
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and all their gifts just in time
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to deliver the financial resources needed
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to meet his sons need while the Holy Family was in
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flight in Egypt.
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The timing of God is just amazing.
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I like to say that the Holy family experienced Philippians
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4:19, which says in the King James Version,
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But my God shall supply all your needs according
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to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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The word supply means to
make full, to fill completely
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or to be filled to the
point of satisfaction.
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It was the very word
used to describe any kind
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of container filled and packed
to the point of overflowing.
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The word needs in this
verse depicts any deficit
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or any need that must be met.
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The word riches is a Greek word which describes wealth
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so great, it cannot be tabulated.
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And here is the RIV of Philippians 4:19,
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listen to this - But my God will supply your needs
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so completely that he will eliminate all your deficiencies.
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He will meet all your physical
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and tangible needs until you're so full,
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you have no more capacity to hold anything else.
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He will supply all your needs
until you're totally filled,
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packed full and overflowing to the point
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of bursting at the seams and spilling over.
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And that's what happened with the Holy Family.
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They experienced Philippians 4:19.
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Now, we don't know how much money Joseph
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and the Holy Family took
with them into Egypt,
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but the question often arises -
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so what happened to the rest of the money?
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If the Magi brought treasures
and treasures and treasures
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and treasures, they
couldn't have carried all
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of it with them into Egypt.
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So what happened to the rest of the money?
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And that's a very good question;
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and you have to understand that when Joseph and Mary
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and Jesus were in Egypt,
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they were there approximately 3-years.
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They traveled more than 1200 miles on foot by animal,
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by ship that carried them up the Nile,
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and it was gonna take a lot of money,
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but they couldn't carry
all those funds into Egypt.
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But nearby to Nazareth was the big beautiful city
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of Sepphoris, which was the banking center
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of the Middle East.
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And it is likely that all the funds
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and all the treasures were deposited there.
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And later in life,
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after Joseph died, Jesus became the inheritor of all
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of those resources.
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And that may explain
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where there's no record anywhere in the gospels
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that Jesus ever took up an offering for his ministry.
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God fully funded his son's life
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and his son's ministry from the very, very beginning.
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But how did the Holy Family get to Egypt?
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And there were 2-ways for them to get
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to Egypt from Nazareth - 2-ways.
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The 1st and the easiest route was on a well-known highway,
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which was called the Via Maris,
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which means the highway of the sea.
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It traverse from Damascus along the Sea of Galilee.
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It meandered through Israel
around the Mediterranean sea,
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and finally it came to Egypt.
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But most scholars believe
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that the Holy Family took
the alternative route
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through the desert, which was barren
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and very, very difficult,
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and took about 14 days to reach Egypt.
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And the reason they believe
that the Holy Family took
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that alternative route is
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because it would've been more difficult
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for Herod's spies to find them there.
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But eventually they reached the land of Egypt.
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And the oldest records from the Egyptian Coptic Church
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suggests the Holy Family indeed fled by the desert route,
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which took about 14 days,
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but finally they got there.
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But once Herod realized Christ had escaped,
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he dispatched spies into
the land of Egypt to look
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for the Christ.
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And that is why the Holy
Family was in movement the
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entire time they were there.
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And that is why it is
traditionally called the
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Flight through Egypt.
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They were literally on
the move all the time.
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And the Egyptian Coptic Church
is very proud of the fact
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that the Holy Family lived in
Egypt for a period of time.
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And from the earliest ages,
they documented all the places
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where the Holy Family stopped
while they were in flight.
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And my son, Joel and I have been to many of those locations.
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You can really still visit
those places today if you have
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the time and the resources to do so.
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It's kind of difficult,
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but you really can get
to all of those places.
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But they were very proud of the fact
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that the Holy Family was in Egypt.
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So scholars in the earliest years
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of the Egyptian Coptic Church
documented all those places.
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And I'm going to give you a condensed list
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of about 30 places where the Holy Family was
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during the 3-years that they were in Egypt.
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I'm gonna read it to you
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and please be patient with me
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as I read these Egyptian names.
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Upon first arriving in Egypt, the Holy Family came
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to the Nile Delta
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where they briefly stayed at a village about 72 miles
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northeast of Old Cairo.
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From there, they fled south to
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Mostorod about 7-miles from Old Cairo.
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From there, they fled temporarily to Belbeis.
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From there, they fled onward to Meniet Samanoud,
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where records showed that the
local population showed them
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hospitality for the time they were there.
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And from there, they fled to the ancient city of Burullus.
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From there, they fled across the Rosetta branch
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of the Nile River to Wadi El-Natrun,
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which is located in the
western desert of Egypt.
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When Egyptian Christianity
later began to flourish,
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monasteries were built in
this region as a tribute
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to the Holy Family's
short term stay there.
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But from there, they fled
south across the Eastern Bank
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of the Nile River to the cities of Matareya and Ain Shams.
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From there, they fled to the famous Egyptian city
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of Heliopolis.
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And from Heliopolis, they fled to Old Cairo
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where they would have seen the Sphinx, the Pyramids of Giza
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and other Egyptian monuments.
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From there, they fled again to Maady, which was a city
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that in pharaonic times was a district of Memphis,
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which was the capital of Egypt.
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And while in Maady, the Coptic Church documents show
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that Joseph befriended sailors who worked on boats
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and ships that floated on the Nile River.
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And due to his friendship with them, soon,
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the Holy Family fled by a ship south by the River Nile
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to Deir El_Garnous
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and then to Ashnein El-Nasara.
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And from there they fled by the Nile River
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to Ashnein El-Nasara.
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And though we don't know how long they stayed there,
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Al-Bahnasa was so associated with the holy family
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that it later was called the Egyptian home town of Jesus.
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And from there, they fled to Samalout.
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And from there they fled across the Nile River
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to the Eastern Bank,
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where Coptic documents say they briefly stayed
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at Gabal al-Tair.
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From there they fled a path along the Nile River
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to Nazlet Ebeid.
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And from there they fled south
back across the Western Bank
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of the Nile River to dwell temporarily in Al-Ashmounein.
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And from there they fled to Dairout Al-Sharif, also named
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by the Greek name Philes.
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And from there they fled to Qussqam.
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And from there they fled approximately 7-miles to Meir
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where they found a hospitable community who welcomed them.
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And from there they fled again to Gabal Qussqam,
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an ancient city where an altar had been built
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to the Lord in the land of Egypt.
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And it seems the Holy Family lived there
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for approximately 6-months.
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But then in Matthew 2:20, the Bible says -
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That the angels spoke to Joseph and said - Arise
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and take the young child and his mother
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and go into the land of Israel for they're dead
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which sought the young child's life.
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Scholars generally agree,
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the entire flight throughout the land
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of Egypt lasted approximately three years.
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And the Holy Family traveled
more than 1200 miles by foot,
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by animal, and by ship along
the waters of the Nile.
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It was a massive financial undertaking,
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but God supplied everything they needed for it just on time,
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just like he'll do for you.
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But then we come to Matthew 2:19 to 20,
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which says, But when Herod was dead, behold an angel
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of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
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saying arise and take the young child and his mother
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and go into the land of Israel for they're dead,
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which sought the young child's life.
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And Matthew 2:21 says, and he arose and took the young child
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and his mother and came into the land of Israel. Verse 22:
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And when he, Joseph, heard
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that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father,
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Herod, he was afraid
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to go the thither
notwithstanding being warned
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of God in a dream, he turned aside into parts of Galilee
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verse 23 - and he came
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and dwelt in this city called Nazareth
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that it might be fulfilled,
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which was spoken by the prophets -
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He shall be called a Nazarene.
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Notice every word of prophetic
scripture was fulfilled
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concerning Jesus.
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But God marvelously
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provided everything they needed
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for everything he ever asked them to do.
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And that's what God will do for you to.
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Philippians 4:19 is yours to claim.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Friends, my name is Rick Renner,
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and somebody has asked a very good question -
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How did the Virgin Mary supernaturally
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conceive Jesus?
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Well, to answer that question, we have to go
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to Luke 1, where we find in verse 30,
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the angel said, unto Mary, fear
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or not, Mary thou has found with God.
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Then in verse 31,
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and behold, thou shall
conceive in thy womb
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and thou shall bring forth a son
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and shall call his name
Jesus and he shall be great
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and shall be called
the son of the highest.
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And the Lord God shall
give unto him the throne
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of his Father, David.
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Then when you come to verse 34,
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you find Mary said unto the angel,
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how shall this be seeing
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I know not a man.? She didn't say, this can't be.
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She simply asked for clarification, and the angel answered
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and said, the power of the
highest shall overshadow thee,
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and that holy thing, which
shall be born of thee,
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shall be called the Son of God.
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And in that moment, the power
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of the Holy Spirit came upon Mary
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and she conceived the Son of God.
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Do you really know the story of Christmas?
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Is there more to the story about the birth
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of our Savior than what you've been told? In this
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series, Christmas -
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The Rest of the Story, Rick Renner dives deep into the parts
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of the Christmas story that
most people have never heard.
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Rick says, I've studied
this story for decades
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and I found fabulous treasures
no one ever shared with me.
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In this series, we explore the Bible, history,
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historical writings, and so much more
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so we can really understand all the events
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that took place surrounding
the birth of Jesus.
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Rick answers questions like -
Why did God choose Mary?
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Was Joseph really a carpenter?
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Why was Herod so troubled by Jesus' birth?
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Who were the Magi
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and what was the estimated value of their gifts?
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This 15-part documentary type series is available in digital
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or physical format, starting at just $24.
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And we are excited to also
offer you Rick's stunning new
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book, Christmas, The Rest of the Story.
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It's a book you'll want
to share with friends
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and family at this time of the year.
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This hardcover 300 page fully
illustrated book is a keepsake
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that friends and family will
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Don't miss this special offer: the series, Christmas -
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The Rest of the Story,
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and the beautiful book Christmas, The Rest of the Story.
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It's the perfect time to invest in your spiritual growth
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or bless someone you love.
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Hey, have you learned
something new today?
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We've been talking about
the Holy Family's flight
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through Egypt.
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It is amazing to me what the
early church fathers wrote
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that agrees with the writings
of the New Testament.
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There is so much to this story
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that I'm sure you've never heard before,
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and that's why I want you to
have the entire new series,
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which is called Christmas,
The Rest of the Story.
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The subtitle says, Amazing insights.
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Would you agree this series is filled
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with some amazing insights
about Christmas you've
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never heard before?
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That's why I really want you to have this.
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Please order it by going
online or by giving us a call,
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and it comes with a study guide.
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And today and tomorrow is the last day,
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which we're offering my book
by the same title, Christmas -
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The Rest of the Story.
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Don't miss this opportunity
to get yours now.
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Just give us a call or go online, but I wanna pray for you.
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Put your hand on your heart - Father, I thank you
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that Philippians 4:19 belongs
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to us just like it belonged to the Holy Family.
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And just like you met their needs, according to your riches
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and glory, you want to meet our needs too.
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We reach out by faith to take hold
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of your supernatural provision.
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I speak it to me.
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I speak it to my friend, in
the precious name of Jesus.
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Amen, Amen.
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Well, tomorrow we're gonna
conclude with the real purpose
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of Christmas.
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Don't miss it. But hey, I want you
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to remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 which says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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Now is the time for you
to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord for
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the rest of my life - Amen.