Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress and I'm glad to serve as your Bible teacher every day on this great radio station on today's edition of Pathway to Victory.

Who is this child that was born in the feeding trough in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago? Was he just another tiny baby or was he more?

Well, the best answer to what child is this that was born in Bethlehem is found not in Luke chapter 2, the traditional activity account, but it's found in Colossians chapter 1.

Welcome to Pathway to Victory with author and pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress. When you picture Jesus Christ, what image comes to your mind, a tiny baby in a feeding trough, how about a grown man teaching the multitudes, or maybe a powerful monarch seated on a throne?

Today on Pathway to Victory, Dr. Robert Jeffress looks at an unexpected passage from the New Testament that reveals the identity of Christ.

Now here's our Bible teacher to introduce today's message. Dr. Jeffress?

Thanks David and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. Many months ago I sat down with our creative team at Pathway to Victory and carefully mapped out our teaching schedule for December.

And so we put our very favorite messages into this teaching series called Celebrate the Savior. And we added some of our favorite Christmas music as well.

At the end of today's program, David will explain how you can receive the entire teaching series on both CD and DVD with the added bonus of receiving a one-of-a-kind music CD too.

This music CD contains some of my all-time favorite praise music, and you'll be listening to this CD in your car and home for many years to come.

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I'm going to say more about the Matching Challenge and the Daily Devotional following today's message, but right now, let's give our full attention to the subject at hand.

I titled today's message with a question. What child is this?

It's always risky for a pastor to use a movie as a sermon, the illustration.

So, I try not to mention titles of movies, and I'm not going to do that today. I've got an illustration. It's a great illustration.

I'm not going to tell you the name of the movie. It is a mega hit comedy from about 10 years ago that many of you saw, you're not going to admit that you saw it, but you did see it.

A lot of you saw it. And in one memorable scene in this movie, the family is seated around the dinner table, and the father is going to leave grace for the family before the meal.

Has everybody bow their head, and he begins, dear baby Jesus, and he keeps going, dear baby Jesus, tiny baby Jesus, baby Jesus, baby Jesus, and the wife interrupts the prayer, and she says, honey, you do know that he grew up, don't you?

And the husband said, yeah, but I like tiny baby Jesus. I like the tiny baby Jesus better than the adult Jesus. That's the one I want to pray to.

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