You're a Part of God's Family | Advent | John 1:6-13

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What were your parents like? What kind of family did you come from? In today's episode, Patrick shares what it's like to be a part of Jesus's family, as told in John 1:6-13. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: John 1:6-13 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.5	I'm Patrick Miller. I don't know why but I've always found the phrase
0:15.3	born-again Christian a bit weird. I mean what's it even mean to be born again? I guess
0:20.7	I'm a little like Nicodemus when Jesus told Nicodemus that he had to be born again,
0:25.0	he responds with this kind of graphic question.
0:28.0	It's something to this effect.
0:30.0	How am I, an old man, supposed to clamber back up into my mom's womb.
0:34.6	Okay, maybe he missed the point.
0:36.6	John doesn't open up his gospel with the normal Christmas stories about Mary and Joseph
0:41.6	and the angels and the magi.
0:43.4	Instead, he gives a magisterial description
0:46.2	of who Jesus was before creation
0:48.6	and what he accomplished by entering
0:50.3	into the world that he created as a human.
0:53.2	Amongst those accomplishments is an invitation.
0:56.2	Jesus came to invite every human to be born again,
1:00.0	to be a member of God's family as one of his children.
1:03.6	John 1.9.
1:04.8	The true light, that's Jesus, which gives light to everyone,
1:08.0	was coming into the world.
1:09.6	He was in the world and the world was made through him.
1:12.4	Yet the world did not know him he came to his own people and his own people did not receive him but to all who did receive him who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God who were born
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