Hi, I'm Rick Warren and Merry Christmas. You're listening to Daily Hope. Welcome back to

Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. We are so glad that you're here with us to help us celebrate this

season. You know, on the very first Christmas when Mary was just about ready to give birth to Jesus,

she and Joseph were turned away by the innkeeper because

there was no room. Well, today, Pastor Rick is going to continue his Christmas series,

Will I Make Room for Jesus? And he shows us how just like the innkeeper we can miss out on being

part of God's greatest plans if we don't make room for Jesus in our

everyday lives.

Well, let's get right to Rick for part one of a message called What Gift will I bring to Jesus?

Now, this week, we're going to look at the wise men's question.

And the wise men, to me, are the most fascinating people in the Christmas story. Who were

these guys anyway? Well, the answer is we don't know. We don't really know who the wise men

were. The Bible word calls them Magi. And Magi were kind of a combination of philosopher,

scientist, and astronomer.

They were quite wealthy.

They were the magi of that day were wealthy,

they were well educated, they were the Socrates,

the Plato's, the Aristotle's.

Those were magi.

Kind of a combination, scientists, philosopher, intellectual, astronomer, they're kind of a combination scientist philosopher intellectual astronomer they

kind of Renaissance people so that's really about all we know about it where did they

come from we don't know the Bible says they came a long way from the East maybe

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