It's Friday, December 22nd, 2023. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing.

A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, Christmas is just a matter of a couple of days away,

and Christmas Eve is coming this Lord's Day.

And I first want to begin by simply conveying Merry Christmas to all.

And on this Friday before we go into the weekend with Christmas coming so quickly about to explode on the calendar and as Christians

are gathered together and so many families even right now are in transit and as

all of this demands so much of our attention We thought we do a special Christmas mailbox

edition because listeners send in so many questions about Christmas. So the

timing just seems to be perfect. So here we go. The first question is from a four-year-old little boy, Judah.

The question is, why did Jesus have to come as a baby?

Why couldn't he have come as a man?

Why was Jesus born in a manger?

Okay, three questions.

Judah, I love the questions.

And the last one I'm going to say

is that Jesus wasn't born in a major.

He was born and then he was put in a manger.

So that's an important thing to say. So after Jesus was born when his mother was holding him, when she put him down like we would put down a baby in a crib or something very much like a crib she put him down in a manger which is a food

trough for animals and soft and small it would contain him and keep him from falling out and

probably had straw in it to serve as kind of a cushion.

So it's a very sweet thing, but it shows how humble Jesus was to be born as a baby, not put on a throne or in a royal crib, but instead simply

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