Open your Bible is with me if you will to Luke the second chapter and in your notes you'll see three specific texts. We're going to look at a lot of scripture this morning.

But Luke chapter 2, Micah, Chapter 5, and then Matthew Chapter 2 as well. You can

hold the Micah and the Matthew chapters, and we'll get to those in just a few moments.

In the days before anti-discrimination laws,

there was a young woman named Miss Rosenberg

who was traveling through Cape Cod, Massachusetts,

found herself caught in a winter snowstorm, a blizzard.

And so decided to pull off and rest that night and not try to drive through the storm.

She found a hotel at the very first exit, walked in and requested a room and the clerk working there,

put the appropriate paperwork on the counter and she filled it out.

But when he came back and he read her name his face went blank and he said ma'am I'm sorry to tell you but we're

out of rooms for tonight and she, sir, the sign outside says vacancy.

And he stammered and they argued for a few minutes until finally he said look ma'am the truth is we

don't take Jews here you're gonna have to find another hotel. Well she said I'll have

you know that I've converted to your religion.

And he said, well then let me give you a test.

Tell me about the birth of Jesus.

She said, born in Bethlehem. He said, tell me more. She said,

his earthly father was Joseph born of the Virgin Mary and he said where did they lay him first and she

said in a manger and he said why did they lay him in a manger?

And by this time she had had enough.

And she said, because the doofus at the counter refused to give a nice Jewish girl a room for the night.

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