Heaven, deaf, a soda, and heaven, deaf, a soda.

The ten-minute Bible-hour podcast.

Heaven, deaf, a soda, and heaven, deaf, a soda.

The ten-minute Bible-hour podcast.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt.

This is the ten-minute Bible Hour, and it is Christmas,

and you have things to do, and so I am going to be brief, but this is our last special bonus

advent episode, because now we're to the day that is the celebration. This is what we've been

anticipating, what we've been looking forward to, and there's this little chunk of the Christmas

story in Luke chapter 2. I'm not going to do all of the Christmas story, but this is one little bit

that I want to read. Starting in verse 9, it says, an angel of the Lord appeared to them then being

the shepherds, and the glory of the Lord shown around them, and they were terrified, which is

perfectly understandable. But the angel said to them, don't be afraid. I bring you good news of

great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David as Savior has been born to you,

he's Christ the Lord. This will be assigned to you. You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying

in a manger, and then suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with that angel,

praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favorite

and the angels go away and the shepherds go and find the holy family just as they had been told.

But how about that line that sums up really everything that the Bible is going for? All of this.

I mean, the reason why for everything, like the reason why for there being things instead of not

things, for there being existence instead of not existence, for it being this particular existence

instead of some other one that an infinite eternal deity could have imagined. The reason for all of

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