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Hey kids, welcome to Junior's for Jesus.
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Go grab your Bibles.
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We're gonna be digging in
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and learning some really exciting stories.
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We're continuing our study of Jesus's entrance
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He was delight at last.
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Today we're gonna learn about the forerunner
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Do you know what his name was?
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Well, there's a pretty interesting story
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about how he got his name.
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And we'll learn that together today
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after we say our memory verse.
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That verse is Isaiah, chapter nine, verse six.
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For unto us a child is born.
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Unto us a son is given.
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And the government will be upon his shoulder.
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And his name will be called
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Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
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Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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Isaiah, chapter nine, verse six.
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Wednesday, John is born.
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Matthew 1, 18 to 25, and Luke 156 to 25.
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Mary stayed with Zacharias and Elizabeth
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Maybe she was there when the baby was born.
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But there was a great rejoicing
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when their relatives and neighbors
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heard that they'd had a son in their old age.
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Eight days later, when these same people
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came to name the baby,
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Elizabeth said that he was to be called John.
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But they wanted him to call him by his father's name.
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So when they asked Zacharias
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when he wanted to name the baby, what happened?
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Verses 59 to 64, tell us.
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He was insistent that the baby's name was John.
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The news about baby John spread fast
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and soon people all over the part of the country
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were talking about this miracle birth.
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They knew that he would grow up to become
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somebody very special.
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They also remembered the prophecy
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that the Holy Spirit had given Zacharias
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about the Messiah and about John's work.
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And you, child, will be called the prophet of the highest.
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For you will go before the face of the Lord
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to prepare his ways,
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to give knowledge of salvation to his people
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by the remissions of their sins
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through the tender mercies of our God
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with which the day springs from on high as visited us,
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to give light to those who sit in darkness
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and the shadow of the,
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to guide our feet in the way of peace.
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Mary had gone back to her home in Nazareth.
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And we don't know when she told Joseph
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about Gabriel's telling her that she was
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to be the mother of the Messiah.
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And we do know she was already pregnant,
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even though she and Joseph weren't married yet.
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How could he believe her story about the angel's visit?
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Would other people believe her?
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Joseph loved God and wanted to do God's will.
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But what was God's will?
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How relieved he must have been
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when an angel told him in a dream exactly what to do?
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He told him to go ahead with his plan to marry Mary
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and to give the special baby the name Jesus.
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That special baby would be born in just a few months.
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The prophecy said that he would be born in Bethlehem.
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And Joseph and Mary were living in Nazareth,
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more than 60 miles north of Bethlehem.
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But God's plan would take them there
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just at the right time to fulfill the prophecy
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of Micah, chapter five, verse two.
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But you Bethlehem Ephraath,
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though you are little among thousands of Judah,
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yet out of you shall come forth to me.
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The one to be a ruler in Israel
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who's going forth are from, of old, from everlasting.
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Now a little while before Jesus was born,
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the Roman Emperor ordered people to go to the birthplaces
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of their ancestors and to register their names.
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King David was an ancestor of both Joseph and Mary.
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And he was to be born in Bethlehem.
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Therefore, they had to go to Bethlehem to register.
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Luke chapter two, verses four and five read.
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Joseph also went up from Galilee
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out of the city of Nazareth into Judea
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to the city of David,
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which is called Bethlehem because he was
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of the lineage of David.
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To be registered with Mary,
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his bithering of the wife was with child.
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So now, let's apply it.
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If God could so easily send Joseph and Mary
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to where they should be,
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don't you think he can do the same for us?
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