EP. 71: Christ as a Baby

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

At Christmastime, we bring out the nativity sets to decorate our homes and we talk about Jesus as a baby . . . but do we really grasp the idea of what that looked like in that time and culture? Not to mention the fact that God humbled Himself to become human. On this episode of God Hears Her, Elisa and Eryn talk about the story of Jesus, focusing on the reality of His conception, birth, and being a baby. They also focus on what it meant for His mother Mary and how this birth changed everything then, just like it does today. Join us.

Notes and Quotes:

“The God of the universe scrunched Himself into the womb of a woman and began to grow.”
“He’s my protector. He’s my guide, my guardian . . . and so for me to imagine Him in a fragile state is just kind of a weird concept in my mind.”
The purpose of women during the New Testament period was to have babies.
“30–35% of newborns didn’t survive their first month [in New Testament times].”
“Why are we so uncomfortable imagining God to be weak, or being fragile as a child?”
“We are so black and white that we only see God as a baby, or as the resurrected Christ.”
“Anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Luke 18:17 NIV
“We have the tendency to be so self-aware, but not Christ-aware.”
“His expression of vulnerability begins in the womb and at birth and as baby Jesus. And then we watch His public ministry when truly He is God and He could speak a word and blow fire over all of the naysayers. But He instead humbles Himself to death on a cross.”

Scripture:

John 1:14

Matthew 1:23

Luke 1:39-45

Philippians 2:5

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Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.
Get your copy of God Hears Her: A Joyful Christmas: https://www.godhearsher.org/joyfulchristmas
Listen to the series When God Was a Child on Discover the Word: https://discovertheword.org/series/when-god-was-a-child/
Elisa’s Instagram: @elisamorganauthor
Eryn’s Instagram: @eryneddy

Transcript

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0:00.0	You know, Jesus himself humbled himself into the likeness, the reality, the fullness of a child in a mother's womb.
0:10.0	God scrunched, munched, you know, into a womb, and then wriggling out and then screaming and being slapped for air and then nursing and then needing diapers and then needing the love and the
0:27.4	care of being held in a blanket and kept warm and protected by his mom and dad from the craziness of
0:33.9	Herod who wanted to murder all the male children and then toddling and falling
0:38.3	and running and falling and getting back up and growing.
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:43.3	You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for Women, where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you.
0:53.3	He sees you, and he loves you
0:55.1	because you are his. Find out how these realities free you today on God hears her.
1:02.1	Welcome to God hears her. I'm Alisa Morgan. And I'm Erin Eddy. Today, Alisa and I want to talk
1:08.9	about the story of Jesus, but not in the way we tend to talk about him.
1:13.3	No, today we're talking about baby Jesus, the infant in Mary's womb.
1:18.8	We want to focus on him being born back in that time.
1:23.0	What was it like for Mary?
1:24.6	And what does it say about this in scripture? Let's dive right into this conversation
1:30.4	on this episode of God hears her. Erin, do you have a nativity scene that you bring out like year to year?
1:41.1	Or maybe did your family? Growing up, it was always, we bring all the Christmas decorations out, all of the ornaments
1:49.0	from when we were little to like, you know, then these like fancy looking ones.
1:53.6	And like the egg carton crate ones all the way to that.
1:57.8	Ones that were like, you know, when we got them, like our first ornament as a little baby.
2:02.7	Okay, so back to the nativity.
2:04.7	Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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