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My daughter, she asked me, she said, would you just read the Christmas story, Dad?

And I was like, what you mean? You just want me to get up there and read? She was like, like, read it, but then remix it how you be remixing it. And I said, for real, this was Bella and A, but last night in the bed, they was like, just read it and then be re-discid, remix it. And I said, so I'm going to do that. So today I want us to go to Matthew chapter 1, verse 18.

And I want us to read the story of how we got the greatest gift in history.

It says in Matthew chapter 1 verse 18, this is how Jesus the Messiah was born.

His mother Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph.

But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Whoa.

Questions after question after question.

Joseph, to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man. And so he didn't want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. As he considered this, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.

Joseph, son of David, the angel said,

do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife.

For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

And she will have a son.

And you, Joseph, are to name him, his name Jesus for he will save his people from their sins

all of this occurred to fulfill the Lord's message through the prophet look the virgin will conceive a child

she will give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel, which means help me,

God is with us. When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary

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