The Bethlehem Promise
Max Lucado Daily Devotional
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | A remarkable gift can arrive in an unremarkable package, one did in Bethlehem. |
| 0:05.8 | This is Max Lakato. |
| 0:07.6 | We don't often think of Paul in our Christmas reflections, yet we should. |
| 0:12.7 | His words in Philippians 2, 5 through 11 are the Bible's most eloquent summary of the Bethlehem promise. |
| 0:20.3 | Who, being in very nature, God, did not consider |
| 0:23.4 | equality with God, but rather made himself nothing by taking the very form of a servant, |
| 0:30.3 | being made in human likeness, and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself |
| 0:35.8 | by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. |
| 0:40.6 | Therefore, God called him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, |
| 0:46.8 | that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ |
| 0:52.3 | is Lord to the glory of God the Father. |
| 0:56.1 | This is Max Lakato. |
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