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Bro. Otis Fisher
I've missed so much and David has so many other things, and we're going to start with, I know, Chapter 1 is long, and he may have taught some of Chapter 2, but we're going to start with the first one.
And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus. I was talking 30 years ago. I'm sorry, I'm trying to find my place in my house. Luke 2, 1. When God... In those days, in essence, all the prophecies had to come together at the same time.
That's right. Before he could be born, because he wouldn't fulfill the prophecies. That's right. And all that, it all come to the head, those days. At this time? No. No. The word used here for war speaks of a reference to the civilized world of that day.
What? Empire. She had to go to fulfill the prophet too. And it's usually with her. Well, that's true, but... Okay. Yeah, I would want my husband. He didn't want to leave her alone. There you go. She was pregnant and about to be delivered, and he didn't want to leave her alone.
What's going to be special about the prophecies... I don't know that it occurred to them that they needed to go to Bethlehem so that the child could be born in Bethlehem. But they would have known the prophecy because that was there.
And so it was that while they were there, the Lord's Son had wrapped Him in a swaddling cloth and laid Him in a manger, and at that winter, not known in ancient times, the lids were projection... Proved that He was a human in addition to being God.
Why didn't they just want to see Him? Well, because they would... people would argue where He came from and His heritage and all those things. That's right. That's critical. There was enough argument about what it was.
He didn't just appear from some other country.
They wouldn't have believed at all. And how could He be tempted in all ways, as we were tempted, if He didn't go through the process of growing up?
Yes, it should be. See, in some ways, that's the most awesome thing about it all. Because He was 100 totally God. But He was also 100 totally man. And that meant that all of those things about being a man, He had to go through.
He had to go through birth, He had to go through death. He went through it all so that He was just as much a human as any human. That's right. And He was just as much of God as God the Father. We have to just accept that fact.
I believe it. I teach it. I understand the words. Every definition of that I understand. But to comprehend God and man. And spirit. And love. And spirit. Yes. He is all of each of those. And it's amazing.
But to see Him tempted with the choir of angels, and we must say surely this can be none other than the first day. And there were in the same country shepherds of I and V. He would watch over their flock.
He would ask them questions. Three o 'clock in the morning. They said, good women, what a crucifixion is. Thanksgiving that you've done for us. No, no.