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He ordered the death of all Jewish boys under the age of two. Here\u2019s Bryan Loritts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan: <\/strong>Why does Herod kill all these babies? Because Herod has reached the conclusion: \u201cThere can\u2019t be two kings of the Jews at the same time. There\u2019s only room for one king.\u201d What do I say to that conclusion? \u201cYes! Herod, you are exactly right! There\u2019s no room for two kings; only one king. It has to be Jesus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, December 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Herod realized there could only be one king in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. Do we realize there can only be one king in our day as well? We\u2019ll hear more from Bryan Loritts about that today. Stay with us.<\/p>\n<p>And welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Monday edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, almost\u2014almost. Tomorrow is Christmas; but\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I know. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>I guess we\u2019ve been wishing people Merry Christmas for a few weeks now; haven\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We have; we have, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>We are going to dive, headlong, into the subject that Christmas is all about\u2014the subject of the incarnation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and \u201cWho\u2019s the king?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We have a good friend, who is giving the message today\u2014Bryan Loritts, who is pastor at Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Silicon Valley. What he does\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014is he gives a great message that is really one for all of us: \u201cWho\u2019s Your King?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Actually, the big idea of his message is\u2014Herod <em>knew<\/em> there could only be one king. Bryan says he got that right\u2014[Laughter]\u2014there can only be one king.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is good for us to be listening to and thinking about, here, on Christmas Eve. Let\u2019s dive right in as Bryan takes us to Matthew, Chapter 2, and reads to us from the account there of the birth of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>[Recorded Message]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, \u201cRise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked, Egypt is in Africa. Is that what you learned in geography?\u2014cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemain there until I tell you for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.\u201d And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014underline that phrase, because it points to the sovereignty of God\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014His hiding out as a fugitive\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, \u201cOut of Egypt I called my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.<\/p>\n<p>Just think of the hundreds, if not thousands, who are <em>dead<\/em>. Jerusalem is covered with their blood\u2014think of the injustice. Verse 17 causes us, though, to scratch our head:<\/p>\n<p>Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, \u201cA voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children. She refused to be comforted, because they are no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Injustice is happening. But when verse 17 says, \u201cThen was fulfilled\u2026\u201d that tells you God\u2019s not surprised by it. I just want you to understand that\u2014this text points to the sovereignty of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord,\u201d\u2014verse 19\u2014\u201cappeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, \u2018Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child\u2019s life are dead.\u2019 He rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee. He went and lived in the city\u201d\u2014underline it\u2014\u201ccalled Nazareth\u201d\u2014here\u2019s that phrase again\u2014\u201cso that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So, do you see it?\u2014His fleeing, where He ends up living, the injustice\u2014it\u2019s all a part of the sovereignty of God. Some of it is decreed; others of it is allowed.<\/p>\n<p>I can just come to your neighborhood and my neighborhood\u2014what I take from this text is: \u201c<em>Nothing<\/em> happens in our lives that God didn\u2019t already know about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>5:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.<\/p>\n<p>If there was a poster child for the word, \u201cordinary,\u201d or \u201caverage,\u201d it would be a man by the name of Eric S. Galt. There\u2019s nothing striking about him. If you saw him walking down the street, you wouldn\u2019t even stop to take a double-take. He was the <em>essence<\/em> of average and ordinary. His own personal physician says, \u201cNothing jumps out about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the prolific author and Memphian, Hampton Sides, who had this to say about Eric Galt: \u201cNearly everything about Eric Galt seemed bland and retiring, the details of his appearance falling somewhere in the statistic middle.\u201d Hear these words: \u201cAverage height, average weight, average build, average age. The cumulative effect of all these milk toast qualities\u201d\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014I love this phrasing\u2014\u201cmade him strangely forgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric Galt\u2014average, ordinary, strangely forgettable\u2014I know what you\u2019re thinking: \u201cSo why are you talking about him?\u201d The reason why I\u2019m talking about him is because, on April 4, 1968, this average person made history. Just down the street here, across from the Lorraine Motel, Eric Galt\u2014we know him as James Earl Ray\u2014pulled the trigger. This average man assassinated Dr. King\u2014he made history. The moral of the story is that ordinary, average, strangely-forgettable people <em>can<\/em> make history.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this more clearly seen than thousands of years before 1968 and that fateful April day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a man by the name of Jesus Christ. Isaiah is quick to describe Jesus as being an average, ordinary man. Isaiah 53, which was written 750 years before Jesus Christ comes to earth\u2014it says of Jesus that He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him. He was, at best, average-looking in form and appearance. Ladies, if you saw Jesus Christ walking down the street, you wouldn\u2019t think twice about Him. You wouldn\u2019t stop and look in His direction again. Average\/ordinary\u2014in form and appearance He was strangely forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>But not only is He strangely forgettable in His form and appearance, but where He grew up was also strangely forgettable. Our text tells us, right at the end, that He is a Nazarene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He grew up in a town called Nazareth, which is a little hamlet on the south side of Galilee, of which it was openly questioned, \u201cCan anything good come from Nazareth?\u201d Strangely forgettable in form and appearance, strangely forgettable in His upbringing, and He works a strangely forgettable job for much of his life. He\u2019s trained as a carpenter. His pedigree, as it just relates to his earthly dad and mom, is strangely forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>Feast on this: If Jesus\u2019s biological Father was the Holy Spirit, who ascended\u2014or descended, rather\u2014upon Mary, then where did He get His strangely forgettable looks?\u2014His mama! I don\u2019t mean this in any disrespectful way; but if Jesus is, at best, average-looking, His mama isn\u2019t winning any beauty contests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s Jesus\u2014strangely forgettable in form and appearance, strangely forgettable upbringing, strangely forgettable work, strangely forgettable parents in a lot of ways\u2014and yet, thousands of years later, thousands of churches across the world, on this day, we are talking about this strangely-forgettable man, who is, ironically, not strangely forgettable; because He is a history-maker. This average, ordinary-looking person hung and died on a cross, buried in a borrowed tomb, resurrected the third day, ascended on high, and is coming back again. Jesus Christ merely reiterates what we learn from Eric Galt\u2014that, here, you have an average person making history.<\/p>\n<p>If I can just come to your house really quickly, put my feet on your coffee table, and encourage someone right now: \u201cYou may look at your life and think: \u2018I\u2019m average; I\u2019m ordinary. I grew up average. I\u2019m strangely forgettable. Can God use me?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to tell you that God specializes in using average, ordinary people to do <em>extraordinary<\/em> things. I\u2019ll walk you through Scripture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s David\u2014his dad didn\u2019t even esteem him enough to bring him out on the A-team to introduce him to the Prophet Samuel, who\u2019s looking for a king. He\u2019s just an average, ordinary shepherd; and yet, he goes on to become one of the greatest kings to have ever reigned.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Mary: average, ordinary-looking woman that the angel shows up and says, \u201cGod\u2019s going to use you as His instrument to birth the Messiah.\u201d God specializes in using strangely-forgettable people to do <em>extraordinary<\/em> things.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, friends, I hope you believe that. If you\u2019re looking at your life\u2014you\u2019re thinking, \u201cI\u2019m a failure,\u201d\u2014you\u2019ve made huge mistakes\u2014or you\u2019re going, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing striking about [me],\u201d\u2014you are right in the crosshairs of the profile of the kind of person God has historically used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As our text wraps up, though, we learn something interesting. Here is Jesus, our text tells us, and He is living in Nazareth. Again, this is the place upon which it was openly wondered and queried, \u201cCan anything good come from Nazareth?\u201d A lot has been made of kind of the small-town vibe and the Podunk nature of Nazareth. Nazareth is just a cool place to rip on. But what you need to understand is a little-known fact that few scholars have begun to illumine; and that is, Nazareth, of all the hamlets and villages, had the best view of the world. Nazareth sat on the rolling hills of southern Galilee, and it overlooked the Mediterranean and the great Damascus Road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I imagine Jesus Christ, maybe as a young boy, sitting there on the side of one of these hills\u2014and maybe, as Luke tells us in Luke 2:52, as He is increasing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man\u2014that Jesus is looking out. To the east\u2014there, He sees the Mediterranean Sea, filled with ships\u2014and people upon people aboard these ships\u2014going to and fro across the then-known world. Down to the west, He looks; and there\u2019s the great Damascus Road. It was the preeminent road that connected the then-known world with Africa. There He sees businessmen peddling their wares, entering into trade and commerce with one another.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t be a stretch to say: \u201cHere is Jesus\u2014maybe at 15, 16, 20 years of age\u2014taking a break from His carpentry, sitting on the side of one of these hills, looking at a view of the world as never before and thinking to Himself:<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019I am going to die one day for those people on those ships. I am going to die one day for those businesspeople traveling back and forth from Africa.\u2019\u201d Nazareth gives us a view to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Jesus, as He\u2019s increasing in wisdom and stature\u2014Luke 2:52 tells us. Here is Jesus, having left the comforts of heaven\u2014Philippians, Chapter 2\u2014taking on the form of a servant, emptying Himself. The Greek word, <em>kineo<\/em> (\u03ba\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c9)\u2014from which we get such words as \u201ckinetic\u201d from. Here is Jesus, having left the privileges and comforts of heaven to disadvantage Himself to be mocked\/ridiculed; this Jesus, whom many deemed to be strangely forgettable, misunderstood\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>14:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014hanging out with lepers, dinners with tax collectors and sinners, feet kissed by prostitutes. This Jesus\u2014Matthew 25:31-46\u2014feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits the imprisoned. That is this Jesus\u2014enjoying the privilege and comfort of heaven\u2014but Philippians 2 tells us: \u201cHe did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Jesus\u2014all the privilege. Here\u2019s Jesus\u2014all the status. Here\u2019s Jesus\u2014all of that wonderful stuff. Never did He lose His status\u2014He just chose to not use His status for His own advantage, but He disadvantaged Himself for our advantage. Why does He do this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>15:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The preeminent figure in our text is a guy by the name of Herod. Herod, you need to understand, is king of Jerusalem. This gets very confusing in the first century world; because you\u2019re going: \u201cWait a minute. I thought Caesar was the emperor; I thought Rome was ruling. What\u2019s this about Herod, a Jew, king of Jerusalem?\u201d You need to understand, in general, the Romans were not very micro-managing. They would allow a modicum of power to their conquered nations. They allowed Herod a modicum of power. He was king, but he was not one who had ultimate authority. His sovereignty was under the purview of the sovereignty of Caesar (which was under the purview\/under the sovereignty of God).<\/p>\n<p>Here is Herod, allowed by the Romans to be king of Jerusalem, which means he\u2019s king of the Jews. Herod gets the news that the Messiah is born. He knows his Bible well enough to know that this Messiah would also be king of the Jews. And here is Herod\u2014he has sense enough to know\u2014I\u2019ll come back to this in just a few moments\u2014that there is not room for two kings. So what does he do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our text tells us that he goes on a killing spree. Instead of bowing to the lordship of Jesus Christ, he rejects the lordship of Jesus Christ; and not only that\u2014that sends him on this killing spree\u2014but please pay careful attention\u2014here is Herod, this man who doesn\u2019t know Jesus, who has rejected Jesus, who uses the structures and the systems of government to mete out <em>injustice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to hear this\u2014it is something we minorities already know\u2014but it is something majority culture, our white brothers, needs to understand. The word of God teaches it; you didn\u2019t learn it on the flannel board. This text is but one of many in the Bible that shows us that injustice is not just personal; it can also be systemic and structural. Herod uses the <em>government<\/em> to kill babies.<\/p>\n<p>If I could just stop by your neighborhood, let me just make this point: \u201cSin\u2014I think our text is teaching us\u2014is profoundly social.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sin is not just vertical\u2014it\u2019s not just something I do to break the heart of God, although that\u2019s first and foremost\u2014but sin\u201d\u2014a healthy, robust theology, or what theologians call hamartiology, which is the doctrine of sin, tells us that\u2014\u201csin is not just vertical; it is also profoundly horizontal. My sin affects my relationships with others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flip side of that is also true\u2014that righteousness <em>enhances<\/em> the relationships of others. Please understand this\u2014if you read your Bible \/ if you were to do a word search on the word, \u201crighteous,\u201d more times than not the righteous person is not just pictured as a person who reads their Bible all day long, who memorizes Scripture, who has a quiet time\u2014those things are important; I\u2019m not demeaning those\u2014but more times than not it is the righteous person, who <em>shares<\/em> his goods with the needy of the world\u2014<em>that\u2019s<\/em> the righteous person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact, this is exactly Jesus\u2019s point in Matthew 25:31-46 when He says that: \u201cIt was the righteous who visited Me in prison,\u201d \u201cIt was the righteous who fed Me,\u201d \u201cIt was the righteous who clothed me.\u201d They\u2019re not just at home reading their Bible; they\u2019re out there, sharing their goods with the needy.<\/p>\n<p>Sin is primarily social. We must never be surprised at the depravity that is in our brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 heart and the depravity that is in our own heart. When we reject Christ as King, the next domino to fall is we violate the <em>imago Dei<\/em>, people who have been made in the image of God.<\/p>\n<p>Sin has many faces, and one of those faces is racism. I\u2019m not here to cast judgment on what happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, or in New York City; but I also want you to see that sin is not only profoundly personal\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014but because flawed, depraved people make up systems and structures, they then, therefore, contaminate those systems and structures. Apartheid, Jim Crow, the systemic legalization of abortion\u2014all point to the fundamental nature of that we live in a world, not just a fallen people\u2014but because those people make up structures like government and other systems\u2014we live in a world of fallen, flawed structures; so we need not be surprised at the depravity of people and systems.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Herod kill all these babies?\u2014because Herod has reached the conclusion: \u201cThere can\u2019t be two kings of the Jews at the same time. There\u2019s only room for one king.\u201d What do I say to that conclusion?<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes! Herod, you are exactly right! There\u2019s no room for two kings; only one king, and it has to be Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dale Bruner, the scholar, writes: \u201cThe main point of Herod for the doctrine of human nature is this: \u2018Herod is not dead. Herod lives on in us, the people of God\u2014the exaggerated ambitions, pretensions, self-centeredness, grief for position, grudge against God, guile, and finally human cruelty and insensitivity. The fruit of our war with God must be contended with, even by Christians, until the last judgment. There are two kings at war in the world and in all of us: Herod and Christ. We know who will win; but meanwhile, the battle rages. Herod is here in Scripture partly as a warning to the Christian reader of who he or she, in no little measure, still is.\u201d What is Bruner saying?\u2014he\u2019s saying: \u201cHerod\u2019s not dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us are either submitting to Herod\u2019s lordship or Christ\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re here today, and you don\u2019t know Jesus Christ, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re here. I believe the same phrasing that we see in Matthew\u2014\u201cThis was done to fulfill\u2026\u2014is used of this moment with you right now. The same sovereign God\u2014who orchestrated where Jesus flees to: Egypt; where Jesus ends up: Nazareth\u2014is the same Jesus who has orchestrated the events of your life so that you would be here, at this moment, to hear this message.<\/p>\n<p>Christ is King. Stop worshipping Herod; stop living life on your own terms. Kneel to the lordship of Christ. He brought you here, if you\u2019re not a believer, to hear that fundamental message. Stop worshipping Herod; worship Christ\u2014He\u2019s King.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But for we, believers, every day poses a new challenge: \u201cWho\u2019s reigning in your life?\u201d\u2014Herod or Jesus? \u201cWho\u2019s reigning in your marriage?\u201d\u2014Herod or Jesus? \u201cWho\u2019s reigning in your finances?\u201d\u2014Herod or Jesus? Every day, you need to eulogize Herod\u2014every day, you need to have the funeral; every day, you need to pronounce the eulogy\u2014every day, you must decide, \u201cChrist, You will be King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>What a great reminder from our friend, Bryan Loritts, talking about the King who came and whose birthday we will celebrate this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He came for us to crown Him. Paul said basically this in Romans 12, verse 1:<\/p>\n<p><strong>23:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, on Christmas Eve, there is no greater act of worship than to surrender afresh to the King of kings, Lord of lords, who visited this planet and who we celebrate this Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Tomorrow, we\u2019re going to hear from Bryan, talking about why Jesus came as we celebrate the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Before we wrap up here today, just a reminder that New Year\u2019s is a week away. We\u2019re in the final days of asking our listeners to be a part of what God is doing through the ministry of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> by making a yearend donation and helping us take full advantage of our matching-gift opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And if you haven\u2019t given in 2018, this would be a good evening to do that\u2014on the eve before the greatest gift ever given to humankind\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>24:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014to help keep our boat floating, here, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and stand with us with a generous gift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. In fact, here on Christmas Eve, that\u2019s the best way to get in touch with us\u2014to make an online donation. 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He was right. Pastor Bryan Loritts talks about the sovereignty of God at work--even in the ugly parts of the Christmas story.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2018-12-24.pdf","transcript_content":"<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>When the magi told King Herod that the Messiah had been born, the one who was long-awaited and prophesied, King Herod went into a blind rage. He ordered the death of all Jewish boys under the age of two. Here\u2019s Bryan Loritts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan: <\/strong>Why does Herod kill all these babies? Because Herod has reached the conclusion: \u201cThere can\u2019t be two kings of the Jews at the same time. There\u2019s only room for one king.\u201d What do I say to that conclusion? \u201cYes! Herod, you are exactly right! There\u2019s no room for two kings; only one king. It has to be Jesus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, December 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Herod realized there could only be one king in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. Do we realize there can only be one king in our day as well? We\u2019ll hear more from Bryan Loritts about that today. Stay with us.<\/p>\n<p>And welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Monday edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, almost\u2014almost. Tomorrow is Christmas; but\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I know. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>I guess we\u2019ve been wishing people Merry Christmas for a few weeks now; haven\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We have; we have, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>We are going to dive, headlong, into the subject that Christmas is all about\u2014the subject of the incarnation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and \u201cWho\u2019s the king?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We have a good friend, who is giving the message today\u2014Bryan Loritts, who is pastor at Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Silicon Valley. What he does\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014is he gives a great message that is really one for all of us: \u201cWho\u2019s Your King?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Actually, the big idea of his message is\u2014Herod <em>knew<\/em> there could only be one king. Bryan says he got that right\u2014[Laughter]\u2014there can only be one king.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is good for us to be listening to and thinking about, here, on Christmas Eve. Let\u2019s dive right in as Bryan takes us to Matthew, Chapter 2, and reads to us from the account there of the birth of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>[Recorded Message]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, \u201cRise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked, Egypt is in Africa. Is that what you learned in geography?\u2014cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemain there until I tell you for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.\u201d And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014underline that phrase, because it points to the sovereignty of God\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014His hiding out as a fugitive\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, \u201cOut of Egypt I called my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.<\/p>\n<p>Just think of the hundreds, if not thousands, who are <em>dead<\/em>. Jerusalem is covered with their blood\u2014think of the injustice. Verse 17 causes us, though, to scratch our head:<\/p>\n<p>Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, \u201cA voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children. She refused to be comforted, because they are no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Injustice is happening. But when verse 17 says, \u201cThen was fulfilled\u2026\u201d that tells you God\u2019s not surprised by it. I just want you to understand that\u2014this text points to the sovereignty of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord,\u201d\u2014verse 19\u2014\u201cappeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, \u2018Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child\u2019s life are dead.\u2019 He rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee. He went and lived in the city\u201d\u2014underline it\u2014\u201ccalled Nazareth\u201d\u2014here\u2019s that phrase again\u2014\u201cso that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So, do you see it?\u2014His fleeing, where He ends up living, the injustice\u2014it\u2019s all a part of the sovereignty of God. Some of it is decreed; others of it is allowed.<\/p>\n<p>I can just come to your neighborhood and my neighborhood\u2014what I take from this text is: \u201c<em>Nothing<\/em> happens in our lives that God didn\u2019t already know about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>5:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.<\/p>\n<p>If there was a poster child for the word, \u201cordinary,\u201d or \u201caverage,\u201d it would be a man by the name of Eric S. Galt. There\u2019s nothing striking about him. If you saw him walking down the street, you wouldn\u2019t even stop to take a double-take. He was the <em>essence<\/em> of average and ordinary. His own personal physician says, \u201cNothing jumps out about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the prolific author and Memphian, Hampton Sides, who had this to say about Eric Galt: \u201cNearly everything about Eric Galt seemed bland and retiring, the details of his appearance falling somewhere in the statistic middle.\u201d Hear these words: \u201cAverage height, average weight, average build, average age. The cumulative effect of all these milk toast qualities\u201d\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014I love this phrasing\u2014\u201cmade him strangely forgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric Galt\u2014average, ordinary, strangely forgettable\u2014I know what you\u2019re thinking: \u201cSo why are you talking about him?\u201d The reason why I\u2019m talking about him is because, on April 4, 1968, this average person made history. Just down the street here, across from the Lorraine Motel, Eric Galt\u2014we know him as James Earl Ray\u2014pulled the trigger. This average man assassinated Dr. King\u2014he made history. The moral of the story is that ordinary, average, strangely-forgettable people <em>can<\/em> make history.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this more clearly seen than thousands of years before 1968 and that fateful April day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a man by the name of Jesus Christ. Isaiah is quick to describe Jesus as being an average, ordinary man. Isaiah 53, which was written 750 years before Jesus Christ comes to earth\u2014it says of Jesus that He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him. He was, at best, average-looking in form and appearance. Ladies, if you saw Jesus Christ walking down the street, you wouldn\u2019t think twice about Him. You wouldn\u2019t stop and look in His direction again. Average\/ordinary\u2014in form and appearance He was strangely forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>But not only is He strangely forgettable in His form and appearance, but where He grew up was also strangely forgettable. Our text tells us, right at the end, that He is a Nazarene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He grew up in a town called Nazareth, which is a little hamlet on the south side of Galilee, of which it was openly questioned, \u201cCan anything good come from Nazareth?\u201d Strangely forgettable in form and appearance, strangely forgettable in His upbringing, and He works a strangely forgettable job for much of his life. He\u2019s trained as a carpenter. His pedigree, as it just relates to his earthly dad and mom, is strangely forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>Feast on this: If Jesus\u2019s biological Father was the Holy Spirit, who ascended\u2014or descended, rather\u2014upon Mary, then where did He get His strangely forgettable looks?\u2014His mama! I don\u2019t mean this in any disrespectful way; but if Jesus is, at best, average-looking, His mama isn\u2019t winning any beauty contests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s Jesus\u2014strangely forgettable in form and appearance, strangely forgettable upbringing, strangely forgettable work, strangely forgettable parents in a lot of ways\u2014and yet, thousands of years later, thousands of churches across the world, on this day, we are talking about this strangely-forgettable man, who is, ironically, not strangely forgettable; because He is a history-maker. This average, ordinary-looking person hung and died on a cross, buried in a borrowed tomb, resurrected the third day, ascended on high, and is coming back again. Jesus Christ merely reiterates what we learn from Eric Galt\u2014that, here, you have an average person making history.<\/p>\n<p>If I can just come to your house really quickly, put my feet on your coffee table, and encourage someone right now: \u201cYou may look at your life and think: \u2018I\u2019m average; I\u2019m ordinary. I grew up average. I\u2019m strangely forgettable. Can God use me?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to tell you that God specializes in using average, ordinary people to do <em>extraordinary<\/em> things. I\u2019ll walk you through Scripture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s David\u2014his dad didn\u2019t even esteem him enough to bring him out on the A-team to introduce him to the Prophet Samuel, who\u2019s looking for a king. He\u2019s just an average, ordinary shepherd; and yet, he goes on to become one of the greatest kings to have ever reigned.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Mary: average, ordinary-looking woman that the angel shows up and says, \u201cGod\u2019s going to use you as His instrument to birth the Messiah.\u201d God specializes in using strangely-forgettable people to do <em>extraordinary<\/em> things.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, friends, I hope you believe that. If you\u2019re looking at your life\u2014you\u2019re thinking, \u201cI\u2019m a failure,\u201d\u2014you\u2019ve made huge mistakes\u2014or you\u2019re going, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing striking about [me],\u201d\u2014you are right in the crosshairs of the profile of the kind of person God has historically used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As our text wraps up, though, we learn something interesting. Here is Jesus, our text tells us, and He is living in Nazareth. Again, this is the place upon which it was openly wondered and queried, \u201cCan anything good come from Nazareth?\u201d A lot has been made of kind of the small-town vibe and the Podunk nature of Nazareth. Nazareth is just a cool place to rip on. But what you need to understand is a little-known fact that few scholars have begun to illumine; and that is, Nazareth, of all the hamlets and villages, had the best view of the world. Nazareth sat on the rolling hills of southern Galilee, and it overlooked the Mediterranean and the great Damascus Road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I imagine Jesus Christ, maybe as a young boy, sitting there on the side of one of these hills\u2014and maybe, as Luke tells us in Luke 2:52, as He is increasing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man\u2014that Jesus is looking out. To the east\u2014there, He sees the Mediterranean Sea, filled with ships\u2014and people upon people aboard these ships\u2014going to and fro across the then-known world. Down to the west, He looks; and there\u2019s the great Damascus Road. It was the preeminent road that connected the then-known world with Africa. There He sees businessmen peddling their wares, entering into trade and commerce with one another.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t be a stretch to say: \u201cHere is Jesus\u2014maybe at 15, 16, 20 years of age\u2014taking a break from His carpentry, sitting on the side of one of these hills, looking at a view of the world as never before and thinking to Himself:<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019I am going to die one day for those people on those ships. I am going to die one day for those businesspeople traveling back and forth from Africa.\u2019\u201d Nazareth gives us a view to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Jesus, as He\u2019s increasing in wisdom and stature\u2014Luke 2:52 tells us. Here is Jesus, having left the comforts of heaven\u2014Philippians, Chapter 2\u2014taking on the form of a servant, emptying Himself. The Greek word, <em>kineo<\/em> (\u03ba\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c9)\u2014from which we get such words as \u201ckinetic\u201d from. Here is Jesus, having left the privileges and comforts of heaven to disadvantage Himself to be mocked\/ridiculed; this Jesus, whom many deemed to be strangely forgettable, misunderstood\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>14:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014hanging out with lepers, dinners with tax collectors and sinners, feet kissed by prostitutes. This Jesus\u2014Matthew 25:31-46\u2014feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits the imprisoned. That is this Jesus\u2014enjoying the privilege and comfort of heaven\u2014but Philippians 2 tells us: \u201cHe did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Jesus\u2014all the privilege. Here\u2019s Jesus\u2014all the status. Here\u2019s Jesus\u2014all of that wonderful stuff. Never did He lose His status\u2014He just chose to not use His status for His own advantage, but He disadvantaged Himself for our advantage. Why does He do this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>15:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The preeminent figure in our text is a guy by the name of Herod. Herod, you need to understand, is king of Jerusalem. This gets very confusing in the first century world; because you\u2019re going: \u201cWait a minute. I thought Caesar was the emperor; I thought Rome was ruling. What\u2019s this about Herod, a Jew, king of Jerusalem?\u201d You need to understand, in general, the Romans were not very micro-managing. They would allow a modicum of power to their conquered nations. They allowed Herod a modicum of power. He was king, but he was not one who had ultimate authority. His sovereignty was under the purview of the sovereignty of Caesar (which was under the purview\/under the sovereignty of God).<\/p>\n<p>Here is Herod, allowed by the Romans to be king of Jerusalem, which means he\u2019s king of the Jews. Herod gets the news that the Messiah is born. He knows his Bible well enough to know that this Messiah would also be king of the Jews. And here is Herod\u2014he has sense enough to know\u2014I\u2019ll come back to this in just a few moments\u2014that there is not room for two kings. So what does he do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our text tells us that he goes on a killing spree. Instead of bowing to the lordship of Jesus Christ, he rejects the lordship of Jesus Christ; and not only that\u2014that sends him on this killing spree\u2014but please pay careful attention\u2014here is Herod, this man who doesn\u2019t know Jesus, who has rejected Jesus, who uses the structures and the systems of government to mete out <em>injustice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to hear this\u2014it is something we minorities already know\u2014but it is something majority culture, our white brothers, needs to understand. The word of God teaches it; you didn\u2019t learn it on the flannel board. This text is but one of many in the Bible that shows us that injustice is not just personal; it can also be systemic and structural. Herod uses the <em>government<\/em> to kill babies.<\/p>\n<p>If I could just stop by your neighborhood, let me just make this point: \u201cSin\u2014I think our text is teaching us\u2014is profoundly social.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sin is not just vertical\u2014it\u2019s not just something I do to break the heart of God, although that\u2019s first and foremost\u2014but sin\u201d\u2014a healthy, robust theology, or what theologians call hamartiology, which is the doctrine of sin, tells us that\u2014\u201csin is not just vertical; it is also profoundly horizontal. My sin affects my relationships with others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flip side of that is also true\u2014that righteousness <em>enhances<\/em> the relationships of others. Please understand this\u2014if you read your Bible \/ if you were to do a word search on the word, \u201crighteous,\u201d more times than not the righteous person is not just pictured as a person who reads their Bible all day long, who memorizes Scripture, who has a quiet time\u2014those things are important; I\u2019m not demeaning those\u2014but more times than not it is the righteous person, who <em>shares<\/em> his goods with the needy of the world\u2014<em>that\u2019s<\/em> the righteous person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact, this is exactly Jesus\u2019s point in Matthew 25:31-46 when He says that: \u201cIt was the righteous who visited Me in prison,\u201d \u201cIt was the righteous who fed Me,\u201d \u201cIt was the righteous who clothed me.\u201d They\u2019re not just at home reading their Bible; they\u2019re out there, sharing their goods with the needy.<\/p>\n<p>Sin is primarily social. We must never be surprised at the depravity that is in our brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 heart and the depravity that is in our own heart. When we reject Christ as King, the next domino to fall is we violate the <em>imago Dei<\/em>, people who have been made in the image of God.<\/p>\n<p>Sin has many faces, and one of those faces is racism. I\u2019m not here to cast judgment on what happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, or in New York City; but I also want you to see that sin is not only profoundly personal\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014but because flawed, depraved people make up systems and structures, they then, therefore, contaminate those systems and structures. Apartheid, Jim Crow, the systemic legalization of abortion\u2014all point to the fundamental nature of that we live in a world, not just a fallen people\u2014but because those people make up structures like government and other systems\u2014we live in a world of fallen, flawed structures; so we need not be surprised at the depravity of people and systems.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Herod kill all these babies?\u2014because Herod has reached the conclusion: \u201cThere can\u2019t be two kings of the Jews at the same time. There\u2019s only room for one king.\u201d What do I say to that conclusion?<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes! Herod, you are exactly right! There\u2019s no room for two kings; only one king, and it has to be Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dale Bruner, the scholar, writes: \u201cThe main point of Herod for the doctrine of human nature is this: \u2018Herod is not dead. Herod lives on in us, the people of God\u2014the exaggerated ambitions, pretensions, self-centeredness, grief for position, grudge against God, guile, and finally human cruelty and insensitivity. The fruit of our war with God must be contended with, even by Christians, until the last judgment. There are two kings at war in the world and in all of us: Herod and Christ. We know who will win; but meanwhile, the battle rages. Herod is here in Scripture partly as a warning to the Christian reader of who he or she, in no little measure, still is.\u201d What is Bruner saying?\u2014he\u2019s saying: \u201cHerod\u2019s not dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us are either submitting to Herod\u2019s lordship or Christ\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re here today, and you don\u2019t know Jesus Christ, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re here. I believe the same phrasing that we see in Matthew\u2014\u201cThis was done to fulfill\u2026\u2014is used of this moment with you right now. The same sovereign God\u2014who orchestrated where Jesus flees to: Egypt; where Jesus ends up: Nazareth\u2014is the same Jesus who has orchestrated the events of your life so that you would be here, at this moment, to hear this message.<\/p>\n<p>Christ is King. Stop worshipping Herod; stop living life on your own terms. Kneel to the lordship of Christ. He brought you here, if you\u2019re not a believer, to hear that fundamental message. Stop worshipping Herod; worship Christ\u2014He\u2019s King.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But for we, believers, every day poses a new challenge: \u201cWho\u2019s reigning in your life?\u201d\u2014Herod or Jesus? \u201cWho\u2019s reigning in your marriage?\u201d\u2014Herod or Jesus? \u201cWho\u2019s reigning in your finances?\u201d\u2014Herod or Jesus? Every day, you need to eulogize Herod\u2014every day, you need to have the funeral; every day, you need to pronounce the eulogy\u2014every day, you must decide, \u201cChrist, You will be King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>What a great reminder from our friend, Bryan Loritts, talking about the King who came and whose birthday we will celebrate this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He came for us to crown Him. Paul said basically this in Romans 12, verse 1:<\/p>\n<p><strong>23:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, on Christmas Eve, there is no greater act of worship than to surrender afresh to the King of kings, Lord of lords, who visited this planet and who we celebrate this Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Tomorrow, we\u2019re going to hear from Bryan, talking about why Jesus came as we celebrate the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Before we wrap up here today, just a reminder that New Year\u2019s is a week away. We\u2019re in the final days of asking our listeners to be a part of what God is doing through the ministry of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> by making a yearend donation and helping us take full advantage of our matching-gift opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And if you haven\u2019t given in 2018, this would be a good evening to do that\u2014on the eve before the greatest gift ever given to humankind\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>24:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014to help keep our boat floating, here, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and stand with us with a generous gift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob: <\/strong>You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. In fact, here on Christmas Eve, that\u2019s the best way to get in touch with us\u2014to make an online donation. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we hope to see you back, again, tomorrow as we consider why Jesus came.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. Have a great Christmas Eve. We\u2019ll see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?<\/p>\n<p>Copyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2018 FamilyLife. 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