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All right, well, if you've got a Bible,

go to the Gospel of Luke, and as we are preparing for the holiday season,

it's amazing, the whole world is leaning in to the birthday party for

one person you think of all the people that have lived in the history of the world

whose birthday would be the most celebrated well it's the the birthday of the Lord Jesus Christ and this is so

significant that history actually hinges around his entrance into history that's why

our calendar is BC before Christ, AD,

Anno Domini, the year of our Lord that everything literally transitions with the

birth of this man Jesus Christ. And it's curious because he never traveled more than a few hundred miles from his home.

He never married, he never had children, he never held a political office,

he was not a man of influence and of great financial prosperity. He was in fact

born in a rural town to teenage peasant parents. He would have grown up in a home that was about the size of one of our

parking stalls where we put a car and he lived a very simple humble life but in his

wake more people know about him more songs have been written regarding him more

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