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LUKE 2:10-14- FEAR NOT, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY THAT WILL BE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE.  FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD.  AND THIS WILL BE A SIGN FOR YOU: YOU WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS AND LYING IN A MANGER.  AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD AND SAYING, GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE AMONG THOSE WITH WHOM HE IS PLEASED.  

Praise the Lord Jesus!

JOHN 10:2-18- HE WHO ENTERS BY THE DOORIS A SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP.  TO HIM THE DOORKEEPER OPENS, AND THE SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE, AND HE CALLS HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME AND LEADS THEM OUT.  WHEN HE PUTS FORTH ALL HIS OWN, HE GOES AHEAD OF THEM BECAUSE THEY KNOW HIS VOICE. A STRANGER THEY SIMPLY WILL NOT FOLLOW, BUT WILL FLEE FROM HIM, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW THE VOICE OF STRANGERS.  THIS IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH JESUS SPOKE TO THEM, BUT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE THINGS WERE WHICH HE HAD BEEN SAYING TO THEM.  SO JESUS SAID TO THEM AGAIN, TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, I AM  THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.  ALL WHO CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS, BUT THE SHEEP DID NOT HEAR THEM.  I AM THE DOOR; IF ANYONE ENTERS THROUGH ME, THEY WILL BE SAVED, AND GO IN AND OUT AND FIND PASTURE.  THE THIEF COMES ONLY TO STEAL AND KILL AND DESTROY; I CAME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT ABUNDANTLY.  I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD; THE GOOD SHEPHERD LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.  HE WHO IS A HIRED HAND, AND NOT A SHEPHERD, WHO IS NOT THE OWNER OF THE SHEEP, SEES THE WOLF COMING, AND LEAVES THE SHEEP AND FLEES, AND THE WOLF SNATCHES THEM AND SCATTERS THEM.  HE FLEES BECAUSE HE IS A HIRED HAND AND IS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE SHEEP.  I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND I KNOW MY OWN AND MY OWN KINOW ME, EVEN AS THE FATHER KNOWS ME AND I KNOW THE FATHER;  AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.  I HAVE OTHER SHEEP, WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD; I MUST BRING THEM ALSO, AND THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE; AND THEY WILL BECOME ONE FLOCK WITH ONE SHEPHERD.  FOR THIS REASON THE FATHER LOVES ME, BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY LIFE SO THAT I MAY TAKE IT AGAIN.  NO ONE HAS TAKEN IT AWAY FROM ME, BUT I LAY DOWN ON MY OWN INITIATIVE, I HAVE AUTHORITY TO LAY IT DOWN, AND I HAVE AUTHORITY TO TAKE IT UP AGAIN.  THIS COMMANDMENT I RECEIVED FROM MY FATHER.  

Glory be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ONE IS BORN AGAIN THEY CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD,  NICODEMUS SAID TO HIM, HOW CAN A HUMAN BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD?  CAN HE ENTER A SECOND TIME INTO THEIR MOTHER’S WOMB AND BE BORN?  JESUS ANSWERED, TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ONE IS BORN OF WATER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.  THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.  DO YOU MARVEL THAT I SAID TO YOU, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.  THE WIND BLOWS WHERE IT WISHES, AND YOU HEAR ITS SOUND, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM OR WHERE IT GOES.  SO IT IS WITH EVERYONE WHO IS BORN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.  NICODEMUS SAID TO HIM, HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE?  JESUS ANSWERED HIM, ARE YOU THE TEACHER OF ISRAEL AND YET YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS?  TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, WE SPEAK OF WHAT WE KNOW, AND BEAR WITNESS TO WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, BUT YOU DO NOT RECEIVE OUR TESTIMONY.  IF I HAVE TOLD YOU EARTHLY THINGS AND YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE IF I TELL YOU HEAVENLY THINGS?  NO ONE HAS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN EXCEPT HE WHO DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN, THE SON OF MAN.  AND AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS, SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.  JOHN 3:3-15

Welcome to the wonderful life with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

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