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[3516.02 --> 3516.74] explain that
[3516.74 --> 3517.12] away,
[3517.36 --> 3518.00] don't just
[3518.00 --> 3518.62] bury your head
[3518.62 --> 3519.20] in the sand
[3519.20 --> 3520.10] and feign some
[3520.10 --> 3520.74] sense of
[3520.74 --> 3521.52] piety,
[3522.24 --> 3522.88] assuming that
[3522.88 --> 3523.34] you know
[3523.34 --> 3524.18] best.
[3526.52 --> 3526.72] Right?
[3526.76 --> 3527.16] The virgin
[3527.16 --> 3528.46] birth is
[3528.46 --> 3530.26] an impossibility
[3530.26 --> 3531.66] made possible
[3531.66 --> 3532.36] at Christmas.
[3532.52 --> 3533.08] Don't miss
[3533.08 --> 3533.42] that.
[3533.88 --> 3534.58] Instead,
[3535.58 --> 3536.72] marvel at
[3536.72 --> 3536.94] it.
[3538.16 --> 3539.28] But that's
[3539.28 --> 3539.80] not the
[3539.80 --> 3540.32] impossible
[3540.32 --> 3540.92] Christmas
[3540.92 --> 3541.68] that I'm
[3541.68 --> 3542.22] talking about.
[3543.60 --> 3544.52] That's just
[3544.52 --> 3545.00] step one.
[3546.32 --> 3547.22] To get
[3547.22 --> 3547.40] there,
[3547.50 --> 3548.08] let's read
[3548.08 --> 3549.86] Matthew 1,
[3550.20 --> 3551.36] 18 to
[3551.36 --> 3551.90] 23
[3551.90 --> 3553.06] together.
[3555.66 --> 3556.42] This
[3556.42 --> 3557.38] is how
[3557.38 --> 3557.84] the birth
[3557.84 --> 3558.40] of Jesus,
[3558.56 --> 3559.04] the Messiah,
[3559.18 --> 3559.64] came about.
[3559.64 --> 3561.70] his mother
[3561.70 --> 3562.40] Mary was
[3562.40 --> 3563.04] pledged to
[3563.04 --> 3563.50] be married
[3563.50 --> 3564.12] to Joseph,
[3564.12 --> 3565.08] but before
[3565.08 --> 3565.66] they came
[3565.66 --> 3566.18] together,
[3566.58 --> 3566.94] she was
[3566.94 --> 3567.38] found to
[3567.38 --> 3567.86] be pregnant
[3567.86 --> 3568.30] through the
[3568.30 --> 3568.98] Holy Spirit.
[3569.86 --> 3570.36] Because
[3570.36 --> 3570.80] Joseph,
[3570.92 --> 3571.36] her husband,
[3571.48 --> 3572.06] was faithful
[3572.06 --> 3572.72] to the law
[3572.72 --> 3573.36] and yet did
[3573.36 --> 3573.90] not want to
[3573.90 --> 3574.72] expose her to
[3574.72 --> 3575.60] public disgrace,
[3575.98 --> 3576.68] he had in
[3576.68 --> 3577.28] mind to
[3577.28 --> 3577.92] divorce her
[3577.92 --> 3578.34] quietly.
[3578.34 --> 3580.30] But after
[3580.30 --> 3580.64] he had
[3580.64 --> 3581.02] considered
[3581.02 --> 3581.42] this,
[3581.50 --> 3582.00] an angel
[3582.00 --> 3582.30] of the
[3582.30 --> 3582.92] Lord appeared
[3582.92 --> 3583.30] to him
[3583.30 --> 3583.82] in a dream
[3583.82 --> 3584.24] and said,
[3584.38 --> 3584.70] Joseph,
[3585.18 --> 3585.86] son of
[3585.86 --> 3586.22] David,
[3586.38 --> 3587.00] do not be
[3587.00 --> 3587.66] afraid to
[3587.66 --> 3588.20] take Mary
[3588.20 --> 3588.76] home as
[3588.76 --> 3589.16] your wife,
[3589.52 --> 3590.06] because what
[3590.06 --> 3590.72] is conceived
[3590.72 --> 3591.86] in her is
[3591.86 --> 3592.40] from the
[3592.40 --> 3593.16] Holy Spirit.
[3593.72 --> 3594.20] She will
[3594.20 --> 3594.72] give birth
[3594.72 --> 3595.44] to a son
[3595.44 --> 3595.96] and you
[3595.96 --> 3596.38] are to
[3596.38 --> 3596.80] give him
[3596.80 --> 3597.30] the name
[3597.30 --> 3597.90] Jesus,