{"id":416,"date":"2011-08-02T16:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:43","slug":"when-jesus-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"When Jesus Came"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Eternal Son of God Arrived in a Manger!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 2:1-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: God&#8217;s Announcement of His arrival.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Announced thru the Prophets. Isa. 9:6.<br \/>\n2. Announced to Zachariah.<br \/>\n3. Announced to Mary.<br \/>\n4. Announced to the Shepherds.<br \/>\n5. Announced to Wise Men of the East.<br \/>\n6. Announced to Simeon.<br \/>\n7. Announced to Anna.<br \/>\n8. God&#8217;s announcements were sent in simple language to dedicated people.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: What we Read about Him.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God&#8230; All things were made by Him.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John 1:1-3<br \/>\n2. &#8220;For thou lovest me before the Foundation of the World.&#8221; John 17:24.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Hath in these last days spoken to us by His son, whom he hath appointed their of all things by whom also he made the World.&#8221; Heb. 1:2<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: How He could have been Announced.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The baby you see wrapped in swaddling cloth, made clouds and thick darkness a swaddling band for the sea!<br \/>\n2. He is the one that measured the Waters and metered out the Heavens, counted the Dust, and weighed the Mountains.<br \/>\n3. He laid the Earths foundations.<br \/>\n4. He will some day rule all the Universe. He will cause War to cease, the Desert to blossom like a rose, the Lion to lay down with the lamb. He will build a city where there will be no death, no sorrow, no crying, no pain, no night.<br \/>\n5. He will pay man&#8217;s ransom and make a way home.<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV: When Jesus Came.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Ordinary people busy with every day things, but wonder glory was there. Little glamor found in that 1st Christmas.<br \/>\n2. They let him be born in a manger.<br \/>\n3. Most of the world could care less.<br \/>\n4. How much room does he have in your life and mine?<br \/>\n5. A few seeking sages, some shepherds, and others simple people had insight to see it.<\/p>\n<p><strong> How much room do we make for Him in our lives, our homes, and business?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eternal Son of God Arrived in a Manger!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 2:1-18 I: God&#8217;s Announcement of His arrival. 1. Announced thru the Prophets. Isa. 9:6. 2. Announced to Zachariah. 3. Announced to Mary. 4. Announced to the Shepherds. 5. Announced to Wise Men of the East. 6. Announced to Simeon. 7. Announced to Anna. 8. God&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}