World events are God events and not just a sinful society going mad.\u00a0 Yes it is the results of sinful man, but God still has a plan.\u00a0 God moved the heart of Caesar Augustus to bring Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem so that prophecy would be fulfilled.\u00a0 Prophecy is not fulfilled by the will of men but by the power of a living God who honors His Word.<\/p>\n
Jesus is born; the incarnation of Christ takes place.\u00a0 How wonderful is this event in your heart and in your mind?\u00a0 This is God, as part of the trinity, God\u2019s Son coming into His creation in order to save us from the fall caused by our own hand.\u00a0 This is the greatest act of love and the greatest pronouncement against the seriousness of our sins.\u00a0 There was no other way to reconcile our sins.\u00a0 The condemnation we were facing could only be changed by Jesus Christ coming in the flesh to live as the Lamb of God.\u00a0 To then sacrifice Himself on the cross for our sins.<\/p>\n
Joseph and Mary were a chosen couple to watch over the birth of this amazing King, our Lord.\u00a0 What a life changing privilege that took great sacrifice on their part.\u00a0 You and I need to wake up to the idea\u00a0that is\u00a0throughout all scripture:\u00a0God\u00a0is\u00a0to be glorified,\u00a0not\u00a0just\u00a0for us to\u00a0be\u00a0happy\u00a0(I get\u00a0all the toys).\u00a0 Joseph and Mary would never have a \u201cnormal life\u201d, but it was a life we are still talking about over 2000 years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Today you and I need to praise God for this wonderful sacrifice that brought us salvation.\u00a0 But also ask ourselves are we willing to give up anything or even everything for God\u2019s glory.\u00a0 As we did yesterday, \u00a0today and\u00a0tomorrow\u00a0(Wednesday) we are going to have a time of fasting and prayer.\u00a0 The goal is to seek God during the period of time when we open our homes with the gospel and to prepare our hearts for the amazing Easter season.\u00a0 Will you fast with us and join us\u00a0today at 6:30pm?\u00a0 There will be a light supper after the prayer time and we will be doing communion on tonight.\u00a0 Wednesday evening at\u00a06:30 we\u2019ll still have our regular prayer time when we go over the prayerlist, then our prayer service will be at\u00a07pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}