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Series B – First Sunday after Christmas – Sunday, December 27, 2020 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:23	The holy gospel according to saint luke
0:30	the second chapter [Music]
0:39	when the time came for their purification according to the law of moses mary and joseph brought Jesus up to
0:46	jerusalem to present him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord every male who first opens the womb
0:53	shall be called holy to the lord and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the lord
0:59	a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons now there was a man in jerusalem whose
1:04	name was simeon and this man was righteous and devout waiting for the consolation of israel
1:10	and the holy spirit was upon him and it had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he would not see death before he
1:16	had seen the lord’s Christ and he came in the spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in
1:21	the child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law he took him up in his arms and he
1:27	blessed god and said lord now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word
1:33	for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples a light for revelation to the gentiles
1:40	and for the glory of your people israel and his father and mother marveled at what was said about him
1:46	and simeon blessed them and said to mary his mother behold this child is appointed for the fall and the rising of
1:51	many in israel and for a sign that is opposed and a sword will pierce through your own soul
1:57	also so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed and there was a prophetess anna the
2:03	daughter of fanuelle of the tribe of asher she was advanced in years having lived with her husband seven
2:08	years from when she was a virgin and then as a widow until she was 84. she did not depart from the temple
2:14	worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day and coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to god and to speak
2:20	of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of israel and when they had performed everything according to the law of the lord they
2:26	returned into galilee to their own town of nazareth and the child grew and became
2:32	strong filled with wisdom and the favor of god was upon him this is the gospel of the lord in the
2:38	name of Jesus so Christ is born we’ve heard the angel
2:44	proclaim the great news that unto you is born a savior but in today’s gospel text
2:51	there is how do they put it in one of the disney theme parks there is an error of foreboding ah yeah you’ll
2:58	you’ll note that that’s part of what’s going on here and so to understand theologically the
3:04	what it is exactly that is going on in our gospel text we look at our epistle text this is a
3:10	kind of a good rule of thumb and that is is that oftentimes the narrative
3:15	doesn’t give us the theology sometimes it hints at it so when we have a historical narrative
3:22	text oftentimes we need to rely on clear passages oftentimes found in the epistles that will lay out the
3:28	theology of what’s going on so here again our epistle text when the fullness of time had come
3:34	god sent forth his son born of woman born under the law to redeem those who were
3:39	under the law and so when we talk about obedience to god’s law we make a careful distinction we
3:46	recognize that Christ not had not only had to obey god’s law actively
3:51	and he did there are parts of god’s law that you can only obey passively and you’ll note that he
3:59	did his parents did it for him that’s kind of the interesting thing if mary and joseph had not been people of faith uh
4:07	well then Christ would not have been able to fulfill the passive requirements of god’s law you’ll note at this point
4:14	in our narrative we’ve fast forward a little bit and Jesus is five and a half weeks old
4:21	now have you ever noticed that young parents you know when they have an infant for the first time they do this really obnoxious thing and
4:27	i did it too my wife did it we’re over it but they always refer to the age of their children in weeks
4:33	okay i’d like to see you figure out how many weeks old your 12 year old is you know how old’s your baby oh he’s 16 weeks old
4:41	you’re sitting there going and i don’t do math so it’s like ugh just tell me how many you know give me something a little bit that i can
4:46	understand but you’ll note that at five and a half weeks old infants can only do
4:51	several important activities they can eat they can fill diapers and they can sleep
4:58	there’s crying involved too but i just sometimes wonder if it’s right to think about Jesus as crying a lot as an infant
5:04	i just don’t see him colicky you get what i’m saying so well for Jesus we’ll say that he eats he fills diapers
5:11	and he sleeps rinse wash repeat so there’s not much that he’s able to do
5:17	except for those things so that being the case the requirements of the law require that he be presented in the
5:22	temple and you’ll note that in our narrative that the offering that was given by mary and
5:28	joseph was the poverty offering that is uh allowed by the mosaic covenant and
5:33	that’s an important bit because we recognize through this that while mary and joseph are far from rich
5:39	they are not people of means at all in fact they can’t even afford a lamb
5:44	but when Christ is presented in the temple we noted on Christmas eve that it was as if the angels could not
5:51	be quiet you know the son of god has been born in bethlehem and we are steeped in sin and darkness and so it’s
5:58	like the angels couldn’t keep quiet so they had to just let the information out of the bag and praise
6:06	god in the process and now on the presentation of our lord we see that well the holy spirit can’t keep quiet
6:12	now so he sends two prophets in these are two of the last prophets of the old
6:18	testament you’ll note that there’s a 400-year silence in scripture there were no prophets in
6:24	israel from the close of the prophet malachi all the way up to simeon and anna
6:33	kind of an interesting thing the holy spirit is silent and now that Christ the son of god the promised one
6:39	the one prophesied in the prophets is appeared now two of the last prophets of the old
6:45	testament the final final one being john the baptist he’s the last of the old testament prophets and the first of the
6:50	evangelists it kind of has kind of one foot in each each of the old testament old testament
6:55	and new testament but all that being said it’s the prophet simeon we’re going to focus a little bit more on today than
7:01	anna and you’ll note that simeon he gives an amazing thing a prophecy regarding Christ an
7:08	amazing blessing and then there’s this dark era foreboding
7:13	word that he gives as well and i would note that we’re all familiar with the fact especially if you’ve had children
7:20	that when you take an infant out in public like you know it’s time to do some grocery shopping and things like
7:25	this there are a lot of people who are complete strangers who want to see the baby all right this this is a normal
7:32	thing this is a normal thing and so many people they come out of the woodwork and they will say things oh
7:38	what a cute little baby how old is the baby oh what a precious little thing and i
7:44	gotta admit that at that time i was a little bit nervous but not for the reason that she would think i was
7:50	never really worried that somebody was gonna you know take my infant child and run away i wasn’t worried about that in fact i
7:57	was it was a little bit more practical think of it this way the transition from being
8:02	a young single male to being a married man big transition
8:10	less than a year later first child shows up that is a huger transition because
8:16	babies require a lot of work and here’s the thing your life goes from being single being
8:24	able to do whatever you want to now have to considering the needs and desires of your wife to now you have well a child that can’t
8:32	keep things down your life is filled 24 7 with bodily fluids
8:37	and oftentimes they don’t smell very well okay there’s spewy rags there’s diapers
8:44	you get what i’m saying and so i was always worried that when some stranger would come up
8:49	and say oh let me see the baby my fear was that my infant child would spew all over them and i would have
8:56	the in glorious task of helping to clean up a perfect stranger because my child has left lunch on their
9:03	clothes and so whenever we had an encounter with a stranger i was always thrilled when they got away without being harmed
9:10	in any way thinking dodged a bullet there okay so you get the idea so this is this is the age that
9:17	Christ is but i’ll say this i’ve never heard anybody say anything even remotely
9:23	approaching what we hear simeon say of Jesus so we’ll pick up in chapter
9:29	chapter 2 verse 25 here’s what it says there was a man in jerusalem whose name was simeon this man was
9:36	righteous and he was devout now real quick to be declared righteous by god that only happens by faith
9:43	so we recognize that his devotion in his piety is due to the fact that he is a man of
9:49	faith whose sins are forgiven he is one who has the same faith as abraham and his life then shows also in his
9:57	pious devotion that’s the idea the two go together where you have pious devotion without
10:03	faith that is works righteousness and self-righteousness and that is not the kind of righteousness that god recognizes or
10:10	requires so we’ll note that by scripture saying that he was righteous and devout we can see his faith by his works so he
10:18	was waiting for the consolation of israel and we’ll note that we have something in common
10:23	with simeon we are not presently waiting for the consolation of israel that was accomplished by Christ on the cross
10:30	instead we are waiting for the consummation of israel the second advent of Christ in his
10:36	glorious appearing and for Christ who once and for all put an end to sin death the devil and the rain
10:44	and tyranny of the dragon you get the idea here so the holy spirit was upon him the text
10:51	says and he had it had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he would not see death before he
10:57	had seen the lord’s Christ so he came in the spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the
11:03	child to do for him according to the custom of the law again note they are doing these things required Christ is passively obeying the
11:10	law here he took him up in his arms and he blessed god and he said now lord you are letting your servant
11:18	depart in peace according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have
11:23	prepared in the presence of all people a light for revelation to the gentiles and for the glory of your people israel
11:29	amazing words if you consider it here he is saying that his own eyes have seen his salvation
11:35	that this child is a light he is the light of darkness and that this light will shine even for revelation
11:42	to the gentiles who are steeped in idolatry and in the darkness of sin and that he
11:47	himself this infant that looks just like every other five and a half week old infant
11:53	is the actual glory of the people of israel nobody has ever said that of any of my
12:00	infants in in fact strangers usually say things like oh look at how
12:05	what strong hands he has he might grow up to be a boxer there’s no boxers in my family i don’t know what you’re talking about oh look
12:12	at look at those strong legs that he has i bet he’s going to play football we don’t let our kids play football we want them to not get a neck injury
12:18	we’re prone to accidents you know they say things like this but this is something totally different over the
12:24	top if you would one that we might want to consider the very sign here that is for us and
12:31	you know these words are so vital they get wrapped up into our liturgy into the words of the noctimidis that
12:38	Jesus Christ even though he is an infant he is our very salvation and although we
12:44	have not seen him with our eyes we have seen him with the eyes of our faith
12:50	which are which some lutheran theologians like to say are firmly plugged into our ears your faith comes by hearing hearing by
12:56	the word of Christ in other words seeing is not believing hearing is believing and so here the holy spirit has proclaimed who
13:02	Christ is but remember scripture says in order for something to be established it has to be established by the testimony of two or more
13:10	witnesses that’s where anna will come in just a little bit later so he is our salvation
13:15	he is the light in the darkness even for the revelation of god to the gentiles and the very glory of the people of
13:21	israel and now the prophecy takes a little bit of a darker turn and so his father and his mother they
13:28	marveled at what was said about Jesus and then simeon blessed them and he said to mary his mother
13:35	behold this child is appointed for the fall and the rising of many in israel
13:42	and for a sign that is opposed
13:48	well so much for glory to god in the highest and peace on earth good will towards men
13:53	a sign that is to be opposed and we’re going to note here we’ll do a little bit of work on this that here the prophet simeon
14:02	the holy spirit is having him highlight some of the more well stern warnings
14:09	given regarding this child that are found in scripture for instance in the prophet
14:15	isaiah we are all familiar with those two prophecies one in isaiah 7 and 1 and isaiah 9.
14:21	one talking about the fact that the messiah would be born of the virgin the other that he would be well that
14:27	unto us a child was born it would be born in government would be upon his shoulders but in chapter 8 isaiah gives us
14:36	a prophecy that’s between those two very famous Christmas prophecies one that i think is being invoked here
14:42	in this prophecy of simeon and here’s what it says isaiah chapter 8 verse 14
14:48	he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to
14:54	both houses of israel a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of jerusalem
15:00	and many shall stumble on it and they shall fall and be broken and they shall be snared
15:06	and taken what does that
15:13	mean we’ve all heard the phrase that Christ is the cornerstone that was rejected and that he
15:21	is the one on which men would stumble and here’s where we have to pay careful attention to what other passages
15:28	of scripture reveal regarding the fact that well that Christ is a sign that is a sign of
15:36	offense and that will cause people to stumble because what is lurking behind this what is
15:43	lurking behind this warning is kind of twofold if you would one is that you
15:49	are going to be offended by the fact that god has sent us salvation
15:54	starting off in a tiny little baby who needs one of those they’re totally
16:00	dependent and what we really need is a hero but then you’ll note that Christ’s life
16:06	is not exemplified by comparing him to a warrior he is not
16:11	a man who wields a sword well he does not know the best karate on planet earth he is
16:19	not like the heroes that we exemplify and we glorify he is the farthest thing
16:24	from a marvel comic hero instead Christ wins
16:32	and defeats evil by losing by dying by suffering in our place
16:40	it doesn’t seem practical at all and everybody when they’re in the middle
16:46	of an awful circumstance oftentimes come up with solutions that
16:51	they think will get them out of the problem that they are in well have you ever noticed that all of
16:57	the solutions presented to solve the problem of the world you know because
17:02	what’s happening in the world well we’ve got poverty we have sickness we have
17:09	inequality among the economic classes i’m speaking like a communist at the
17:14	moment um and also you’ll you’ll note then that you have people of different races and
17:20	colors who are not able to have access to the world’s resources like other people in the western nations
17:26	and so there is discontent there is disharmony there is hatred there is discord and
17:32	what is the solution oftentimes presented well the socialists and the communists would say what we need to do
17:38	is blow apart all of these clash distinctions and equally distribute the world’s resources so that everybody
17:46	can share equally how’s that work out it never works out well it’s a bad
17:52	solution and not only is that a bad solution because basically it’s a breaking of the commandment thou shalt not steal under
17:58	the guise of governmental control it never works out that way because the
18:03	solution is not inequality the the problem is not inequality the problem is
18:09	sin these are all the different consequences of sin and so over and again when we see
18:14	people try to tinker and come up with their own solutions oftentimes along with those solutions will come really
18:20	horrific costs well in order to build this new society where everybody will live peacefully
18:28	prosperously we’ve got to get rid of this one and anybody who’s holding on to this one we’re just going to have to round them
18:34	up and shoot them or gas them it never works out well
18:40	right these are horrible solutions and so what happens is when you think you can
18:46	solve these problems the solution you come up with you’re going to defend that solution
18:52	jealously idolatrously and as a result of that when god
19:00	presents his solution which is that his son would
19:07	leave the throne of god humble himself and be found in the form
19:14	of a slave a servant an infant a child and that this is god’s solution
19:20	you’re going to basically say this is nuts and you’re going to reject it
19:27	but in so rejecting you’ve proven a couple of things number one and you’ll see this in scripture the text that i bring up next
19:35	in rejecting this solution you have proven that you are not a person of faith you despise the word of god
19:42	and number two you desire evil that despite all of your claims to
19:49	caring only about having a better world for everybody what you’re really trying to do is make
19:54	a better world for yourself that’s really what it boils down to
20:00	here’s our cross-references for this by the way in the book of first corinthians chapter
20:05	10 we read and this is one of those passages that helps us recognize
20:11	how the old testament that these are prototypes types and shadows that we are to pay attention to that
20:17	point us to Christ in first corinthians chapter 10 it says i don’t want you to be unaware brothers
20:22	that our fathers were all under the cloud all passed through the sea all were baptized into moses in the cloud and the
20:29	sea all ate the same spiritual food all drank the same spiritual drink
20:34	for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them and the rock was Christ
20:41	so here we see that well the crossing of the red sea that’s baptism that took place and oh by
20:47	the way that really happened it’s not some legend and that the that the spiritual food that they ate you
20:54	know the manna what is it from heaven that’s a type and shadow of the lord’s
21:00	supper and that baptism here is also kind of referenced in the water that
21:06	came from the split rock at horeb and it says in the text that the rock was Christ and you sit there and go how is
21:13	that even possible how can Jesus be a rock well that’s what the text
21:19	says and so you’ll note that there’s a warning then associated with this concept of Christ being the rock because
21:25	whenever Christ is mentioned as a rock there’s always the offense then of the cross lurking just behind the illusion
21:32	nevertheless with most of them it says god was not pleased and they were overthrown in the wilderness
21:37	and now these things took place as examples for us that we might not desire evil as
21:44	they did do not be idolaters of s as some of them were as it is written
21:50	the people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up and play we must not indulge in sexual immorality
21:56	as some of them did and 23 000 fell in a single day we must not put Christ to the test as
22:03	some of them did and were destroyed by serpents or grumble as some of them did and were destroyed by the destroyer
22:10	you’re kind of getting the picture here so one of the ways in which well Christ is a rock of offense is due to the fact
22:16	that we desire evil and you sit there and go but wait a second pastor didn’t we just confess our sins
22:22	at the beginning of the service yes we did and so we recognize then that when it
22:28	comes to recognizing the desire for evil it is best for us to not focus on the folks
22:33	out there it’s best for us to focus on all the different ways in which each of us still to this day
22:39	desire evil because we have a sinful nature and that sinful nature really is not
22:45	keen on Christ keen on god’s solution and really
22:50	is going to help you stumble over Christ if you keep listening to it rather than
22:57	to god and his word and this is a warning here for us
23:02	and so we recognize then that we have this proclivity to water down to justify
23:10	to make light of our own sinful desires but you’ll note that here our
23:17	own sinful desires are brought up in very large detail here and the warning here is that Christ
23:24	is the stumbling block for those who pursue and desire evil
23:29	but have no faith and do not recognize that those desires in and of themselves are sinful that
23:35	need to be forgiven the other text then in this regard is found in first peter chapter 2.
23:41	and here in this section of scripture peter writes to us under the inspiration of the holy spirit
23:47	he says put away all malice all deceit hypocrisy envy and all slander
23:54	and like newborn infants long for the pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up into
24:00	salvation if indeed you have tasted that the lord is good as you come to him a living stone
24:07	rejected by men but in the sight of god chosen and precious and so here now Christ the ob the sign
24:15	to be opposed is mentioned again the stone that was rejected by men
24:21	you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer
24:28	sacrifices that are acceptable to god through Jesus Christ for it stands in
24:33	scripture behold i am laying in zion a stone a cornerstone chosen and
24:40	precious and here are the words that comfort us whoever believes in him will not be put
24:45	to shame that’s you me anybody so the honor is for you who believe
24:53	but for those who do not believe the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone
24:59	and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense and so here we see
25:06	what is it that causes people to stumble is well the text says they stumble because they disobey the word as they
25:12	were destined to do and we would pay close attention then that there are many deceivers who have
25:17	gone out into the world that would lead us to believe that god winks at or doesn’t care about sin
25:23	anymore that all of the commandments found in the scriptures regarding idolatry regarding sexual piccadillos at
25:31	least that’s how they describe them in order to dilute them that all of these people claim that we’re in a new era and that god is just
25:37	love love love love love love love well god truly is love
25:44	but you’ll note that this Jesus Christ he took our sins upon himself in order to redeem us and to reconcile
25:52	us to god to god so that we can be forgiven to deny that sin is sin
25:59	to somehow pursue sin and disobey the word all under the pretense of being a
26:04	Christian well you have stumbled over the stumbling stone
26:10	because the stumbling stone says to you to renounce your sin to repent of it and to be forgiven of it
26:16	this is why everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame but people who disobey the word who
26:22	pursue evil and try to justify it they take the word of god cast it behind them as if it
26:28	doesn’t matter today and go on and just give lip service to Christ
26:33	but by doing so they have committed idolatry and they have pursued evil and they
26:39	themselves have rejected the cornerstone
26:45	well that sounds very narrow indeed it
26:50	is prophecy then continues
26:56	behold this child is appointed for the fall in the rising of many in israel a sign that is opposed and then he says
27:03	to mary and a sword will pierce you through through your own soul also so that the
27:08	thoughts from many hearts may be revealed i think this is a direct reference to
27:13	the fact that mary herself the holy spirit warned her in advance that she would be at the foot of cro
27:20	at the cross while her son was bleeding and dying for her sins for my sins and for your sins and i
27:26	think one of the most breathtakingly awful and beautiful pieces of artwork in western civilization
27:32	is called the pieta it is a depiction in marble of mary
27:40	holding the corpse of Christ at the foot of the cross and every time i see that piece of
27:45	artwork i i struggle and i can hear again that hymn that we sang on Christmas eve nails
27:52	spears will pierce them through the cross he bore for me for you hail hail the word made flesh
27:59	the babe the son of mary can’t help but hear it and so here this is the warning for her
28:05	because mary like you and i she’s a sinner she needs to be redeemed
28:12	i know that rome says that she was sinless when she conceived Christ
28:18	this is this is not what the scriptures teach she died just like the rest of us and
28:24	that proves that she is a sinner and she needed to be bled for and died for and
28:30	she was given the privilege of watching the awful affair of what it costs to have your
28:38	sins placed on Christ and for him to be the victim rather than you
28:44	and so a sword definitely did pierce her through she witnessed our salvation she
28:49	witnessed this babe of hers grow into a man and then she witnessed as the religious leaders of
28:57	israel refused to believe in him slanderously accused him of blasphemy
29:03	and then crucified him on the cross she witnessed it all and yet
29:10	that sword piercing her through i’m sure left her desire for sin
29:17	to be well no longer quite the same and it should also do the same for us
29:25	and so note then Christ has bled and died for us and this
29:30	is what our epistle text was getting at talking about the passive obedience of Christ
29:36	again when the fullness of time had come god sent forth his son born of the woman born of the virgin mary
29:41	under the law in order to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive the adoption as sons
29:48	each and every one of us under the dominion of darkness slaves to sin death and the devil Christ has come and redeemed us paid the purchase price
29:55	to set us free from slavery to these things and god has not just set us free he has adopted us written in us written
30:02	us into the will and because of this he has sent the holy spirit into our hearts in the waters of baptism
30:08	and that holy spirit within us cries to god abba father in fact Christ taught us to
30:14	pray our father who art in heaven and only those who have been forgiven
30:19	and granted eternal life dare pray that god is their father all of this given as a gift and so paul
30:25	then writes you are no longer a slave but you are a son and if you are a son then you are an heir through god
30:31	but the text continues then in the gospel the prophetess anna is there this is a woman who is the of
30:37	the daughter of phanuel an interesting note of the tribe of asher wait a second huh
30:43	asher wasn’t that one of the ten tribes of israel that got scraped out of the northern kingdom and
30:49	dispersed off into the world interesting that the tribe of
30:55	asher is mentioned here because technically she shouldn’t be there
31:02	she i think prophetically points to the fact that god is gathering up the lost sheep the
31:07	dispersed sheep of israel and she’s kind of the first fruits of the 10 tribes that have been lost
31:13	in order to proclaim the grace and the mercy the wonders of god she was advanced in years so she’s an
31:19	octogenarian 84 years old from the time and she had only been married to her husband for seven years
31:25	and she was a widow she did not depart from the temple worshiping and fasting with prayer day and night she was a regular at
31:32	church everybody knew her she knew everybody and so she was the one who was very well
31:38	connected and coming up at that very hour having seen Christ
31:45	she began to give thanks to god and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the
31:50	redemption of jerusalem and she knew who they were i’ve seen him
31:56	i’ve seen him you’re waiting for the redemption of israel he’s here the messiah is here she’s out proclaiming the wonders of god and sitting there
32:01	scratching their head going where where is he is he wearing armor what’s he wearing diapers he’s wearing diapers what
32:09	[Laughter] right that’s the point this is established then by two witnesses
32:15	and it’s origin the church father who notes the fact that because both a male prophet and the female
32:21	prophet here proclaim Christ when he’s presented in the temple that that proves definitively
32:29	that god has sent his son for both men and women all of us to redeem us all
32:35	from sin and to save us and so the text then continues and concludes so when they had performed
32:40	everything according to the law of the Lord Christ kept the law perfectly for us actively and passively they then
32:47	returned to galilee to their own town of nazareth and the child grew became strong
32:53	filled with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him and indeed it was because Christ never deviated from obeying the
33:00	God the law he was tempted in every way that you and i have been tempted and yet is without sin and the favor of God remained upon him
33:07	and thou that favor of God is granted to us by grace through faith because the
33:14	savior that we were not looking for the solution that we could not even possibly imagine the right one was given to us by God in
33:22	sending us a baby an infant who would grow bleed and die for us so that rather than
33:28	receive the wrath of god by grace through faith because of God’s grace mercy and love
33:34	we instead receive from God his favor as well all because the stumbling stone
33:42	has been born he will be rejected but he has become the cornerstone so do
33:48	not be offended that God has sent you an infant it’s the infant that you need in the
33:55	name of Jesus amen

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