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God Is Always With Us - Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Would you open your Bible's please to Luke chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: Luke chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: Mark that with one finger, and in just a few
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  Speaker 1: moments we're going to be looking at John chapter one.
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  Speaker 2: So you might mark.
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  Speaker 1: Luke two and then in a few moments John chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: If your Bible is an iPhone, I do not know
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  Speaker 1: how to do that, but we'll figure that out. Luke
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  Speaker 1: chapter two will be turning two in.
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  Speaker 2: Just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray together, have mercy, please, Oh Lord, upon the
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  Speaker 1: one who speaks for his sins, or many may we
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  Speaker 1: see Christ and just Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So there you are in Macy's department store. The place
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  Speaker 1: is packed with people who have the same idea that
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  Speaker 1: you did, and that is to take advantage of a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday to get your Christmas shopping done early. But you're
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  Speaker 1: making good progress in spite of the crowd. You've already
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  Speaker 1: found the fleece for your son and the perfume for
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  Speaker 1: your niece, and you're inching your way into the jewelry
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  Speaker 1: department to look for those little pendants that your mom
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  Speaker 1: keeps talking about. When all of a sudden, the Macy's
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  Speaker 1: department store just explodes. In music, I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: somebody humming silent night behind you. I'm talking about an
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  Speaker 1: explosion of Handel's Messiah, not through the speakers.
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  Speaker 2: But through the shoppers.
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  Speaker 1: The guy to your right, who is just pushing the
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  Speaker 1: baby stroller, stops and he.
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  Speaker 2: Belts out the tenor part.
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  Speaker 1: And the ladies to your left, who were looking for
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  Speaker 1: pajamas carrying shopping bags, don't even set the bags down
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  Speaker 1: before they turn and they begin to sing toward the mezzanine.
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  Speaker 1: The place is full of music, and all of the
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  Speaker 1: store can be divided into two groups, those who are
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  Speaker 1: singing and those who are wondering what in the world
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  Speaker 1: is happening? Can you imagine such a sing in case
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  Speaker 1: you cannot turn your attention to the screen.
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  Speaker 4: For a minute.
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  Speaker 1: What a moment shoppers became worse, Mathy's became a sanctuary,
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  Speaker 1: and a common normal Saturday became a Christmas celebration. But
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  Speaker 1: what happened in Macy's last October is nothing. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: small potatoes compared to what happened in Bethlehem two thousand
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Here's how Luke described it, beginning in verse
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  Speaker 1: one of chapter two. And it came to pass in
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  Speaker 1: those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus and.
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  Speaker 2: That all the world should be registered.
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  Speaker 1: This census took place while Corinius was governing Syria, so
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  Speaker 1: all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph also went up.
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  Speaker 1: From Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judea,
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  Speaker 1: to this the city of David, which is called Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: because he was of the house and of the lineage
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  Speaker 1: of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife,
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  Speaker 1: who was with child. So it was that while they
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  Speaker 1: were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered,
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  Speaker 1: and she brought forth her first born son, wrapped him
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  Speaker 1: in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger because
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  Speaker 1: there was no room for them in the end. Now
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  Speaker 1: we know what happens next. We know about the shepherds
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  Speaker 1: and the angels. We know about the bright star and
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  Speaker 1: the arriving dignitaries, the wise Man. But did you notice,
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  Speaker 1: before any of that happens, the whole story of the
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  Speaker 1: birth of Jesus just drips with normalcy. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: could be shopping day at Macy's. It was just a normal,
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  Speaker 1: normal setting, a regular couple, Mary and Joseph, covered with
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  Speaker 1: row Dust arrive in a simple town of Bethlehem, facing
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  Speaker 1: the common problems a government census, a crowded hotel, no
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  Speaker 1: place to stay, and finally they end up in a
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  Speaker 1: common stable. The story of the birth of Jesus begins
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  Speaker 1: in such.
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  Speaker 2: Commonness.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't King Joseph, This isn't Queen Mary. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have a tax exemption. They don't get special dispensation from
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  Speaker 1: the government to stay home. Yes, God is within her belly,
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  Speaker 1: but she receives no special permission.
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  Speaker 2: She's so normal. Joseph is so normal.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't Joseph and Mary of the Bible. This is
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  Speaker 1: norm and Norma of Normal Nazareth.
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  Speaker 2: They're just normal.
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  Speaker 1: Normal has callouses like Joseph on his hands. Norma has
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  Speaker 1: stretch marks like Mary. They're just normal. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: a caravan to take them. They don't have banners, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have servants. They're just normal.
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  Speaker 2: Normal like.
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  Speaker 1: You, Normal like me. Norma sings off key. Normal has
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  Speaker 1: to get work, get to work early in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Norma has more than she can do, all the laundries
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  Speaker 1: piling up. Normal has a cranky boss who wants him
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  Speaker 1: to take one more trip before Christmas. Norman Norma have
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  Speaker 1: learned the life of being normal. Consequently, they don't receive
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  Speaker 1: a lot of special exemption, special treatment. They've even heard
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  Speaker 1: what Joseph and Mary heard when they arrived at the end.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're just a little crowded. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: room for you. Had that been King Joseph and Queen Mary,
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  Speaker 1: that might have heard a different response. And maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: heard that statement too. We don't have room for you.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have time for you, we don't have a
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  Speaker 1: job for you, we don't have an opportunity for you.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have space for you. And behind those words
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  Speaker 1: is the understanding. Because you're so normal, just normal, you
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  Speaker 1: dwell that common populace between rube and royalty, just common.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we this story.
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  Speaker 2: Because if Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Chose a normal setting and normal people through which to
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  Speaker 1: be born, dare we might, dare we assume? Dare we
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  Speaker 1: dream that he might do it again?
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  Speaker 2: You see, what if.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had in the womb of Joseph, and I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: in the womb of Mary, I know that much. What
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  Speaker 1: if Jesus in the womb of Mary had shown up
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  Speaker 1: with a bunch of pomp and circumstance.
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  Speaker 2: What if Joseph and Mary had been wearing.
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  Speaker 1: Furs and riding in a limousine a bunch of bling
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  Speaker 1: bling and and and muckety muck and and and celebration.
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  Speaker 1: What if God had turned Bethlehem into something that looked
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  Speaker 1: like Hollywood on Oscars night, and Joseph and Mary had
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  Speaker 1: arrived on a red carpet, and all of the angels
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  Speaker 1: had come and stepped down to interview Mary as she
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  Speaker 1: walked into Bethlehem, and they all said, Oh, Mary, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: you look just simply divine. That was a joke, divine.
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  Speaker 1: Had Jesus arrived encircled in pomp and circumstance, we would
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  Speaker 1: be reading his story thinking, my.
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  Speaker 2: What a wonderful way God entered the world.
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  Speaker 1: But since Jesus chose to enter the world cloaked in commonness,
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  Speaker 1: we commoners can read the story and think, my, might
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  Speaker 1: he be willing to do it again.
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  Speaker 4: Through us.
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  Speaker 1: And in us, this common folk. Sometimes I think that
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  Speaker 1: the real splendor of Christmas is the lack thereof John,
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  Speaker 1: when he describes the coming of Christ, comes at it
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  Speaker 1: from a different angle. Luke takes us ground level. We
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  Speaker 1: follow Joseph and Mary into Bethlehem. John, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: takes us up to heaven, and with the pin of
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  Speaker 1: a poet, he begins in John chapter one to describe
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  Speaker 1: the coming of Christ. I'm reading in verses one through
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  Speaker 1: three of John one, and then I'm going to jump
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  Speaker 1: down on the verse fourteen. He says, in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
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  Speaker 1: the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God,
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  Speaker 1: and all things were made through him, and without him
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  Speaker 1: nothing was made.
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  Speaker 2: That was made.
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  Speaker 1: And then verse fourteen, and the Word became flesh and
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  Speaker 1: dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory
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  Speaker 1: as of the only begotten Father, full of grace and truth.
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  Speaker 1: How does John begin his gospel the same way the
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  Speaker 1: author of Genesis began the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever.
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  Speaker 1: Noticed in the beginning, in the beginning, God created the
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  Speaker 1: heavens and the earth. Is this a coincidence or is
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  Speaker 1: this John's intended message? In the beginning. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: the one who Mary held the babe in Mary's arms,
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  Speaker 1: the baby in the manger, was in the beginning. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the beginning. In the beginning, was Jesus. In
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, was the word. The word was God, the
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  Speaker 1: word was with God. And then verse three, he says
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  Speaker 1: all things were made through him, All things were made
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  Speaker 1: through him, not by him.
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice there's a difference.
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  Speaker 1: If all things were made by him, then he would
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  Speaker 1: take things and assemble them pre existent things, assembled them
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  Speaker 1: into something. No, all things were made through him, which
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  Speaker 1: suggests he took nothing and made it into something. He
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  Speaker 1: became the very force in which things began to exist.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't just reassemble that which existed. He, by divining
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  Speaker 1: a fiat, called into existence something out of nothing. In
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  Speaker 1: the beginning was the word. This Jesus was in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and all things were made through him. He was we
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  Speaker 1: might call him the genesis word. Paul said, he was
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  Speaker 1: the first born over all creation. Paul said, he's the
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  Speaker 1: one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and
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  Speaker 1: through whom we have been given life. So here's the
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  Speaker 1: picture of Jesus, the one who was in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: the one through whom everything was made. And then John
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  Speaker 1: says that word became flesh. He became one of us.
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  Speaker 1: What no theologian could imagine, what no rabbi ever dreamed.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did God became flesh, and he dwelt among us.
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  Speaker 2: He became immenu.
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  Speaker 1: L God with us. Remember the promise of the Angel. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: the Virgin shall be with child and barrasn and they
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  Speaker 1: shall call his name what Emmanuel, which is translated God
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  Speaker 1: with us Imanu in Hebrew means with us l e
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  Speaker 1: l is abbreviated form of eloheen, the name for a
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  Speaker 1: name for God. So Jesus comes as the with us
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  Speaker 1: God eman U l the with us God, not the
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  Speaker 1: near us God, or the around us God, or somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the zip code God.
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  Speaker 2: But the with us God.
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  Speaker 1: The artist became a paint drop on his own canvas,
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  Speaker 1: The potter became mud on his own wheel. God became
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  Speaker 1: a fetus and placed himself in the most normal of circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: in the womb of a girl, covered himself in placenta,
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  Speaker 1: and descended through the birth canal into the calloused hands
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  Speaker 1: of a Jewish carpenter. Now, why is this important? Why
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  Speaker 1: is this important? Because if God would become flesh and
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  Speaker 1: dwell among them and be the Emmanuel, we can believe
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  Speaker 1: that God is with us even now, and that not
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, not for a moment, dare you think
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  Speaker 1: that you are too normal, too ordinary, too common to
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  Speaker 1: miss out on the presence of God, And that God
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  Speaker 1: has not chosen to limit his presence to sanctuaries and
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  Speaker 1: saints that are in a stained glass window, but that
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  Speaker 1: God has chosen to come among the normal people who
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  Speaker 1: are just crazy enough to believe he will.
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  Speaker 3: Normal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Joseph and Mary had the advantage that
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  Speaker 1: we parents have today, and that is the advantage of
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  Speaker 1: ultrasound technology. But many parents today, including Deanlon and me,
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  Speaker 1: when our three daughters were born, we wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: an advanced glimpse of our child and so we had
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  Speaker 1: an ultrasound taken.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that is. They get a picture of
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  Speaker 2: the baby.
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  Speaker 1: It's not much of a make sure but you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no waving and no smiling. It looks more like
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  Speaker 1: a Doppler radar storm forecast, which it may be. And
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  Speaker 1: if at least we had to have somebody, it's probably better. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this was years ago, the first two daughters born in Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: We had to have the doctor help us out and
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  Speaker 1: look at the picture and you know, get the interpretation.
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  Speaker 2: And he started pointing things out.
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  Speaker 1: He said, well, there's a leg, and oh there's another leg,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a hand, and there's a pierced nose, and
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  Speaker 1: oh no.
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  Speaker 2: That was a later photo. Sorry, get them confused.
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  Speaker 1: But the words we wanted to hear were the words
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  Speaker 1: he said.
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  Speaker 2: At the end.
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  Speaker 1: He backed away from the picture and he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: everything looks.
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  Speaker 2: Said the same thing to.
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  Speaker 1: You, normal, it looks normal. Allow this to hit you
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  Speaker 1: for just a moment. Had Joseph and Mary had an
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  Speaker 1: ultra sound conducted on Jesus, the Son of God, the
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  Speaker 1: doctor would have looked at everything and said head, torso,
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  Speaker 1: legs hand, well.
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  Speaker 2: Looks normal.
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  Speaker 1: Normal. A normal baby is going to be born. But
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  Speaker 1: you will call him Emmanuel, because wrapped in the cloak
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  Speaker 1: of commonness is God, and God is with us. He
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  Speaker 1: loves to come to normal people. He loves to come
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  Speaker 1: through normal circumstances. In fact, I dare say, if you
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  Speaker 1: will listen, you'll begin to hear the music around you.
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  Speaker 2: Of the with us God. Why would he do this?
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  Speaker 1: The only reason that makes sense to me is this one,
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  Speaker 1: and that is he must really think highly of you.
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  Speaker 1: He must think you're something special. I mean, he must
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  Speaker 1: really be fond of you.
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  Speaker 2: If he is so.
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  Speaker 1: Willing to come into your world, to talk to you,
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  Speaker 1: to be with you, to dress like you, to appear
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  Speaker 1: like you, to become flesh so that someday you can
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  Speaker 1: go into his world. He must really think highly.
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  Speaker 4: Of you.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about what that journey was like
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  Speaker 1: for God to become flesh? I know John reduces it
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  Speaker 1: down to a sentence. He says that the word became flesh.
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  Speaker 1: But that is an immense journey, isn't it. What would
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  Speaker 1: that be like for the God of creation to become
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  Speaker 1: a resident of Nazareth? In a carpenter's home on the
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  Speaker 1: campus of the Crownridge On the Crownridge campus of the
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  Speaker 1: Oak Hills Church, if you notice you might see some
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  Speaker 1: black tailed squirrels. There are quite a few families of
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  Speaker 1: them around here, so many that sometimes we include them
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  Speaker 1: in our weekend attendance figures. When my office was on
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  Speaker 1: this campus, I make good friends with a family of
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  Speaker 1: black tailed squirrels because right outside my office window they occupied,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess they still do. They occupied a tree,
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  Speaker 1: They made a home out of a tree, and I
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  Speaker 1: could anytime I looked out my window, it seemed there
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  Speaker 1: they were up and down that tree, up and down
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  Speaker 1: that tree, out and about, in and out, up and
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  Speaker 1: around that tree.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked those squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: We became good friends. Some days I watched them all
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  Speaker 1: day long. I didn't do any work. I just sat
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  Speaker 1: there and I just watched the squirrels up and down.
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  Speaker 1: One day, I think one of them winked at me.
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  Speaker 1: I winked back. We hadn't pet names for each other.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very kind and cordial relationship. We were
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  Speaker 1: good neighbors. But never once. You're gonna find this hard
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  Speaker 1: to believe. But never once did I consider or wish
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  Speaker 1: that I could become a squirrel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really like ACoM.
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  Speaker 1: But never once did I offer a prayer. God, make
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  Speaker 1: me a squirrel, give me a long, black furry tail,
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  Speaker 1: Make me little with tiny sharp teeth and claws. I
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  Speaker 1: never once prayed that. You know why, because I saw
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  Speaker 1: what squirrels ate. Do you know what squirrels eat. Squirrels
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  Speaker 1: never go to water burger, Squirrels never have stay. Squirrels
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  Speaker 1: don't know what bluebell ice cream is. They eat these dirty,
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  Speaker 1: yucky nuts and that's all they eat. It's pathetic.
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  Speaker 2: And do you know where squirrels live.
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  Speaker 1: They live in a hole in the tree. You think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give up what we get to live in
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  Speaker 1: for their world.
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  Speaker 2: You think for a second I'd give.
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  Speaker 1: Up the Texas sky or the Texas prairie, or I'd
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  Speaker 1: give up a chance to see Grand Ca or the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean and confine my life.
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  Speaker 2: To just a little hole in a tree. Heaven forbid.
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  Speaker 2: And they don't know what they think.
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  Speaker 1: The whole world is just about five hundred square yards
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  Speaker 1: between a parking lot and a sidewalk.
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  Speaker 2: They never go beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: I would ask them go venture out in life, explore things,
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  Speaker 1: see the world, And they look at me with these
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  Speaker 1: beady eyes, like there's no other world. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to become a squirrel? And how far of a journey
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  Speaker 1: would that be for me to become one of them?
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  Speaker 1: As soon as you find an answer to that question,
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  Speaker 1: multiply it by about a billion, and you'll have a
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  Speaker 1: fraction of what it meant for the Lord Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: become flesh and dwell among us, For he who was
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  Speaker 1: never bound by time, to suddenly live in a world
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  Speaker 1: that is marked by time, For he who could be
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  Speaker 1: anywhere at any time, to voluntarily reduce himself for thirty
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  Speaker 1: three years to as far as his feet would go.
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  Speaker 1: For he who is never tired to fall asleep, He
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  Speaker 1: who is never hungry to look for something to eat,
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  Speaker 1: to feel everything that you and I would feel, so
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  Speaker 1: that we would believe that he really is a Manuel.
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  Speaker 1: God with us. God with us. God is with us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure you're believing me. God is with us.
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  Speaker 1: He's with you in your sickness. He's with you in
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  Speaker 1: your finances. He's with you in your fears. And on
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  Speaker 1: those nights that you awaken and your heart is beating
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  Speaker 1: from some indiscernible fear, God is with you. And on
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  Speaker 1: those days that you're frustrated by the traffic or aggravated
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  Speaker 1: by the boss.
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  Speaker 2: God is with you. He is with you.
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  Speaker 1: The one who made the stars is with you. God
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  Speaker 1: is with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that is? That is present tense? Isn't
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  Speaker 2: it not?
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  Speaker 1: God was with you, or God will be with you,
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  Speaker 1: or God could be with you, or God would have
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  Speaker 1: been with you. If but God is with you, that's
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  Speaker 1: called present tense. That means God is present. So don't
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  Speaker 1: be tense. You can relax. God is with you, besides you,
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  Speaker 1: ahead of you, behind you, above you. Next week I'll
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  Speaker 1: show you how God is in you. God is in you,
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  Speaker 1: So are you normal? Congratulations. God comes to the world
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  Speaker 1: through people like you. And if you'll listen carefully, even
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  Speaker 1: in the most normal of moments, listen carefully, you might
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  Speaker 1: hear the music.
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  Speaker 2: And this God with us.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to talk to us, and he wants.
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  Speaker 4: To m hm m hm hm hm.
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  Speaker 1: Hm ne.
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  Speaker 5: Ne ne.
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  Speaker 4: Ne ne.
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  Speaker 1: Ne ne.
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  Speaker 6: At the same as them.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have the steak closs. As long as you're
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  Speaker 3: somewhere out there, that's enough for me.
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  Speaker 5: I don't need to hold you near me, don't need
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  Speaker 5: promises to keep just the thought that you are breathing
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  Speaker 5: somewhere in this world.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 7: Even if I'm not beside you, even if you never know,
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  Speaker 7: there's a quiet kind of comfort just.
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  Speaker 3: In knowing you still glow. I don't need forever. I
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  Speaker 3: just need you to exist.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have to stay with me, You don't have
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  Speaker 5: to feel the same.
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  Speaker 7: Just as long as your still out there, calling softly
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  Speaker 7: through mondays.
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  Speaker 6: You don't have to look my way.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to be my home. It's enough to
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  Speaker 3: know where you're living in the world. I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 8: I won't chase it through the distance won't disturb your
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  Speaker 8: chosen life.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just keep you in my silence, like.
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  Speaker 8: A star that shines at night, through the darkened, through
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  Speaker 8: the blue, I still think of you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to stay with me. You don't have
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: to feel the same.
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  Speaker 7: It's just as long as your still out there, calling
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  Speaker 7: softly through my days.
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  Speaker 6: You don't have to look my way.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to be in my home.
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  Speaker 5: It's enough to know you're living in a world.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to be your late. I don't need
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  Speaker 3: to cross your mind.
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  Speaker 2: All I need is just.
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  Speaker 3: The truth that you're somewhere, still alive.
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  Speaker 6: You don't have to stay with me, you don't have
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: to feel the same.
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  Speaker 7: Just as long as you're still after, calling softly.
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  Speaker 4: Through my days, you don't have to look my way.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to be my home.
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  Speaker 5: It's enough to know you're living.
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  Speaker 2: In the world.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not alone.