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Title of my sermon today is the father of choice. So coming back to this, Matthew 1, 18 through 25. It says this,

now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph,

but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph,

her husband to be, was a righteous man,

and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.

And when he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,

Joseph, son of David, do not be, do not be afraid to take

Mary as your wife because your child, because the child conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

She will give birth to a son and your name, birth to a son and you will name him Jesus because he will save his people

from their sins. This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be

fulfilled. Look, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will name him Emmanuel,

which means God with us.

Verse 24, when Joseph awoke from sleep, he did what the angel of the Lord told him.

He took his wife, but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son who he named Jesus.

So we see here, Joseph, he's getting ready to get married to Mary.

And he finds out in the process, uh-oh, she's pregnant.

Now, I want to put you, I just want you to realize Joseph here, he has a dilemma.

Joseph has a dilemma because the woman that he is engaged to is having a son that is not his.

He's got something that's happening in his life, a circumstance that is very difficult.

Many of us here would see this as a crisis.

I know I would if I was put in a position and the woman that I thought I was going to marry,

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