The Birth That Changed Everything
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Grace changes everything.
I am walking through the gospels and recounting the stories that Jesus told and how He told them through the filter of grace.
The first story is the birth of Jesus... or really the story of Mary and Joseph.
Who was Mary? To those around her, to her culture, who was she?
She is a young teenager and is pregnant.
This child is not of the man she is supposed to marry.
Joseph is a good man, who has saved himself for marriage, but still decides to kick her to the curb.
I could go on and on but you get the picture and I want you to think for a minute on some of the names that she would be called. Think also on how she would be treated.
You can build the case against them, we all can - we do it every single day when we judge others.
but...
grace...
This story that the human eye sees as a story of unwed pregnancy, unfaithfulness, irresponsibility, a jilted groom-to-be, and immorality. ENTER GRACE and we have the beloved mother of Jesus. Grace enters the scene and we have a story of the earthly mother and father of our Lord Jesus.
Praise the Lord for this couple that we would have judged and mocked. Praise Him for grace.
I am walking through the gospels and recounting the stories that Jesus told and how He told them through the filter of grace.
The first story is the birth of Jesus... or really the story of Mary and Joseph.
Who was Mary? To those around her, to her culture, who was she?
She is a young teenager and is pregnant.
This child is not of the man she is supposed to marry.
Joseph is a good man, who has saved himself for marriage, but still decides to kick her to the curb.
I could go on and on but you get the picture and I want you to think for a minute on some of the names that she would be called. Think also on how she would be treated.
You can build the case against them, we all can - we do it every single day when we judge others.
but...
grace...
This story that the human eye sees as a story of unwed pregnancy, unfaithfulness, irresponsibility, a jilted groom-to-be, and immorality. ENTER GRACE and we have the beloved mother of Jesus. Grace enters the scene and we have a story of the earthly mother and father of our Lord Jesus.
Praise the Lord for this couple that we would have judged and mocked. Praise Him for grace.
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