348: Joseph: sacrificing personal comfort for the sake of fulfilling god’s purpose (Matthew 1:18-25) || The Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 16 December 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Matthew 1:18-25
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ[e] took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed[f] to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | It is time for the morning mindset edition of the Libill Change Podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | Once again, my name is Carrie Green and we've been looking at the Christmas story as a means to helping us get our minds |
| 0:15.6 | on track for the day. And the Christmas story has all kinds of personalities, real |
| 0:22.2 | individuals who are just like us, who we can learn from in terms |
| 0:26.6 | of their response to God's work in their lives because God is working every day in our lives and is beneficial for us to think in terms of how |
| 0:37.5 | would I have responded had I been in that circumstance. |
| 0:42.1 | And yesterday we introduced the account of Joseph, a man who apparently, seemingly from all |
| 0:48.8 | we can tell, was a righteous man. |
| 0:51.4 | He truly cared about Mary. He truly cared about what was right in this situation. |
| 0:58.6 | And when he discovers that Mary is pregnant and yet the two of them have not consummated their marriage |
| 1:05.1 | through sexual union yet. He's alarmed. He's concerned naturally and it says |
| 1:10.9 | he's a just man so that means he wants to do what's right in this situation. |
| 1:17.2 | But he also appears to be very compassionate because he wants to put Mary away quietly which means he wants to put Mary away quietly, which means he wants to remove her from the public eye. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't know how he intended to do that. |
| 1:30.0 | But he wanted to remove her from the stigma and the shame of it somehow. |
| 1:34.0 | He didn't want to make a big deal about this situation. |
| 1:38.8 | And that is when the angel of God comes to Joseph in a dream and he verifies Mary's story for Joseph's sake to enable |
| 1:48.8 | Joseph to believe what Mary has undoubtedly told him that she is pregnant by the hand of God. There's |
| 1:57.8 | something God has done to make her pregnant and it is with the very son of God. |
| 2:04.9 | In Joseph's response is so instructive for us, |
| 2:08.3 | Joseph believes what God's |
| 2:16.0 | Joseph understands this is God's work. This is beyond my comprehension, |
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