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At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus, but what was the Son of God doing

before He was born? On Troop for Life Weekend we'll examine that question and

more as Alistair Begg teaches a message titled The Incarnation Explained by Jesus.

John chapter 6 and verse 35. Here in this little section that begins at

35 and goes to 40 we have a wonderful summary statement that Jesus provides.

You know when you read the gospel accounts in Matthew and in Luke and you read

the prologue of John's gospel you find yourself saying I wonder what Jesus

has to say about all of this. I wonder what his perspective is and you have to

wait for a little while but eventually you find him explaining just exactly

why it is that he has come and in verse 38 here Jesus gives us a summary

statement for I have come down from heaven he says not to do my will but to do

the will of him who sent me and this is the will of him who sent me that I

shall lose none of all that he has given me but raise them up at the last day.

The temptation this morning is that and it's a temptation primarily for myself

but it is that I take as light a pass as I possibly can over the material of

the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. Reasoning something like this well these are

dear people and they came to church therefore reward them by saying hardly

anything and make it as easy as possible for them to listen and get on with

their lives after all their faithful souls and there's no reason that you should

take it out on them in any way by making them think unduly most of them have not

been thinking for a number of hours now and it's unlikely that they will be

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