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The Perfect Christmas Gift!

This early Christmas morning we are going to think of people who saw baby Jesus for who he really was: Isaiah: The Shepherds and Jesus' mother Mary. Isaiah prophecied the coming of Jesus more than 700 yrs before his arrival - doesn't that blow you mind? In Isaiah 7 (not read this evening): Isaiah filled with God's Holy Spirit sees with his mind's eye a virgin who is impregnated with child giving birth to a son: Immanuel : GOD WITH US! Somehow within a tiny baby Isaiah sees and declares that the great God who flung billions of stars into space, the majestic God who created universe the planets, the earth, the skies the seas, the incredable God who created the animals and the plants .. the God who created you: - Isaiah saw this majestic all powerful great big God somehow becomingsmall (God incarnate! God made flesh! ) 700 yrs later John records this Gospel – this good news event like this: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. THro