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Devotional-Immanuel God With Us · The Father's Business Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this devotional.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign.
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  Speaker 1: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel Isaiah 7, 14.
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  Speaker 1: What's your favorite characteristic or name of God?
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Isaiah 7, 14.
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  Speaker 1: What's your favorite characteristic or name of God?
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  Speaker 1: It's an almost impossible question to answer because there are so many attributes of God I adore, but if I'm pressed to pick just one, it would be Emmanuel, God with us.
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  Speaker 1: And that one simple name is the depth that is beyond our comprehension, a mixture of majesty and intimacy that is unmatched.
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  Speaker 1: The majesty of Emmanuel is described this way in John 1, 1-5.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
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  Speaker 1: He was with God in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Through Him, all things were made.
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  Speaker 1: Without Him, nothing was made.
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  Speaker 1: That has been made In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
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  Speaker 1: The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it All.
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  Speaker 1: That majesty chose to become intimately acquainted with us by humbling himself into the confines of a human body so that he could dwell among, spend nine months in the womb of one of his creations.
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  Speaker 1: He then spent 33 years experiencing the human experience.
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  Speaker 1: Scripture records that he was hungry, thirsty, tired.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus experienced every emotion that we have had great joy and also great sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus could have miraculously appeared on the earth in any way he chose, but he chose to fully know our human experience.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 1: So that we might know God fully.
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  Speaker 1: He came to be a living, breathing expression of the Father.
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  Speaker 1: This is the gift of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: His life, everything he did and said was designed to speak of the Father's extravagant love and heart for his people.
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  Speaker 1: You may often wish that you could have met Jesus when he walked this earth.
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  Speaker 1: How amazing would that have been to look into his eyes and see him smile at you.
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  Speaker 1: While we may not have that privilege, Jesus is still Emmanuel.
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  Speaker 1: He's still with us.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of what this Christmas brings you, whether it is sorrow or joy, Jesus knows and, more importantly, he cares.
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  Speaker 1: He is still the active expression of the extravagant love that God, your Father, has for you.
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  Speaker 1: He is still here for you this Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: May you drink deeply of the truest gift you have ever received.
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  Speaker 1: God loves you so much that he will go to any lengths necessary to show you that he is Emmanuel, God, with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this devotional.
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  Speaker 1: You can find an archive of devotionals and other podcasts on our website, wwwTheFathersBusinesscom.
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