The Birth of Jesus

Luke 2:1-7; Matthew 1:18-25

The King of Kings arrived in a feeding trough.

Caesar Augustus orders a census, and the entire Roman world moves to be registered. Joseph takes his pregnant wife Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem — David's city — because he's of David's line. When they arrive, the town is full. There's no room in the inn. Mary gives birth to her firstborn son and lays him in a manger — a feeding trough for animals. The God who spoke the universe into existence enters it as a helpless infant in a borrowed shelter in an overcrowded town, laid in a place meant for hay. No one in Bethlehem notices that the world has just changed forever.

• Humility
• Incarnation
• Promise Fulfilled
• Hope