From Olympic victory in Paris to missionary death in China.

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Well if you have a Bible and I hope you do it I invite you to open with me to

John chapter 3 and if you don't have a Bible let me encourage you to find somebody around you who does and look on with them or borrow their Bible, share.

I want you to see this text unfold today.

When I was thinking and praying through what we might study during this Christmas season in the

word.

My mind immediately went to sitting around the table with a group of Muslim men in the middle of the

Middle East.

And many of you heard me share this when I came back from the Middle East, just a couple of months

ago, sitting around that table in the middle of Ramadan and these Muslim men in a country where it would be a death sentence for any one of them to come to faith in Christ, for them to ask me what I believed about God and for

me to have the opportunity to begin to share who Jesus is and how Jesus revealed the character of God and to know

that the guys that were sitting at that table as good Muslims don't believe

Jesus is God in the flesh. In fact any claim like that would be

blasphemous that God would become a man like us. Like many beyond just Muslims would believe that Jesus is a good man and did good things,

but he isn't the son of God, he's not God in the flesh.

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