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Thank you.

Father, we begin by coming to you in prayer, asking that you would help us to understand

why Jesus came to the earth, why he came into human history.

And God, for that to happen, we're asking that the Holy Spirit would come and illuminate

the scriptures which he inspired to be written so that we might understand the person in

work of Jesus.

And Jesus, as we look at your words and your works today, we ask that you would reveal

yourself to us as prophet who speaks and prays to serves and king who rules.

And so we ask that our time would accomplish those objectives as we seek to get to know

you better and we ask this in your good name and man.

Well, as we get into it, like I said, as we enter into the Christmas season, we are celebrating

the coming of Jesus into human history.

And the question that we will seek to answer today is, well, why did Jesus come into human

history?

And to answer that, we'll start with some words of Jesus from John's gospel where he is

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