Peace be to you.

These next few lessons will be treating the creed.

It is to be noted that the creed almost summarizes a life.

How quickly it passes over the public life of our Lord.

He was born, he suffered, was buried, he rose, and then he sat at the right hand of the Father

in glory.

This is destined to be the summary of every human life.

Note to how it was divided, the life of our Lord.

Thirty years obeying, three years teaching, three hours redeeming.

First we begin with his birth.

Caesar Augustus, the master bookkeeper of the world, First we begin with his birth.

Caesar Augustus, the master bookkeeper of the world,

was seated at his desk at the tiber in Rome,

and before him was a map.

It was labeled Orbis Terrarum Imperium Romanum. Because he was master of the world, he was going to take a senses of the world, for all that civilized nations of the world were subject to Rome.

There was only one capital in the world. It was Rome, there was only one official

language, Latin, and there was one ruler, Caesar. So to every outpost, to every satrap, to every

governor, the order went out. Every Roman must be enrolled in his own city.

On the fringe of the empire, in the little village of Nazareth, soldiers tacked up on the wall

the order for all citizens to register

in the towns of their family origins.

Joseph, a carpenter, a very obscure descendant of the great King David, was obliged by

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