THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST

BIBLE STUDY WRITTEN BY PASTOR JANICE L. WILLIAMS

  

BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23rd-30th, 2009

 REVIEW FOR WEEK OF WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15th-22nd, 2010

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LET'S LOOK AT SOME WORD DEFINITIONS FOR THIS BIBLE STUDY

• MANGER - eating trough for animals: a trough from which livestock eat
• SWADDLING - wrap baby up tightly: to wrap a baby tightly in soft material
• ESPOUSED - marry or give in marriage: to marry somebody or give somebody in marriage
• HARK - listen: to listen to something or somebody
  
• HERALDS - 1. bringer of news: somebody who brings or announces important news 2. official messenger: an official messenger and representative of a king or leader in former times
• WISE MEN - In the Bible * men who followed a star to Bethlehem to worship the young child JESUS. See Matthew 2:1 thru 12 KJV below. learned man: a scholar or a very learned man
• FRANKINCENSE - aromatic resin: an aromatic gum or resin, often burned as an incense, especially in religious ceremonies, and also used in perfumes. It is obtained from an African tree.
• MYRRH - aromatic resin: an aromatic resinous gum obtained from various trees and shrubs that are native to Africa and southern Asia, used in perfume, incense, and medicinal preparations
• CHRISTMAS - literally "MASS OF CHRIST" 1. or Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ: an annual Christian festival on December 25, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Modern customs of the holiday include church celebrations and gift giving.

GOD LOVED-GOD GAVE GIVING IS AN ACT OF SHOWING LOVE

• 2. secular holiday on December 25: a secular holiday on December 25 when people traditionally exchange presents and greetings. It is a public holiday in many countries. Also called Christmas Day

• 3. Christmas period: the period around December 25, or the church season extending from December 24 to January 6. Also called Christmastime.

THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST

MATTHEW 1:18 thru 25 KJV

18/ NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS ON THIS WISE: WHEN AS HIS MOTHER MARY WAS ESPOUSED TO JOSEPH, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, SHE WAS FOUND WITH CHILD OF THE HOLY GHOST. 19/ THEN JOSEPH HER HUSBAND, BEING A JUST MAN, AND NOT WILLING TO MAKE HER A PUBLICK EXAMPLE, WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY PRIVILY. 20/ BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM, SAYING, JOSEPH, THOU SON OF DAVID, FEAR NOT TO TAKE UNTO THEE MARY THY WIFE: FOR THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST. 21/ AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS; FOR HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. 22/ NOW ALL THIS WAS DONE, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN OF THE LORD BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, 23/ BEHOLD A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL, WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS GOD WITH US.

24/ THEN JOSEPH BEING RAISED FROM SLEEP DID AS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD HAD BIDDEN HIM, AND TOOK UNTO HIM HIS WIFE: 25/ AND KNEW HER NOT TILL SHE HAD BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON: AND HE CALLED HIS NAME JESUS.

LUKE 2:1 thru 21 KJV

1/ AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED. 2/ (AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA.) 3/ AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED, EVERYONE INTO HIS OWN CITY. 4/ AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, UNTO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM; (BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID:) 5/ TO BE TAXED WITH MARY HIS ESPOUSED WIFE, BEING GREAT WITH CHILD. 6/ AND SO IT WAS THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED. 7/ AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN. 8/ AND THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS

ABIDING IN THE FIELD, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. 9/ AND, LO, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE ROUND ABOUT THEM: AND THEY WERE AFRAID.

10/ AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT: FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY,

WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. 11/ FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD.

12/ AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU; YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, LYING IN A MANGER.
13/ AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD, AND SAYING, 14/ GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN.

15/ AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THE ANGELS WERE GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO HEAVEN, THE SHEPHERDS SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, LET US NOW GO EVEN UNTO BETHLEHEM, AND SEE THIS THING WHICH IS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE KNOWN UNTO US. 16/ AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE, AND FOUND MARY, AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYING IN A MANGER. 17/ AND WHEN THEY HAD SEEN IT, THEY MADE KNOWN ABROAD THE SAYING WHICH WAS TOLD THEM CONCERNING THIS CHILD.
18/ AND ALL THEY THAT HEARD IT WONDERED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TOLD THEM BY THE SHEPHERDS. 19/ BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS, AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART. 20/ AND THE SHEPHERDS RETURNED, GLORIFYING AND PRAISING GOD FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD HEARD AND SEEN, AS IT WAS TOLD UNTO THEM. 21/ AND WHEN EIGHT  DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE CIRCUMCISING OF THE CHILD, HIS NAME WAS CALLED JESUS, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB.

MATTHEW 2:1 thru 15 KJV 1/ NOW WHEN JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDAEA IN THE DAYS OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD, THERE CAME WISE MEN FROM THE EAST TO JERUSALEM, 2/ SAYING, WHERE IS HE THAT IS BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM. 3/ WHEN HEROD THE KING HAD HEARD THESE THINGS, HE WAS TROUBLED, AND ALL JERUSALEM WITH HIM. 4/ AND WHEN HE HAD GATHERED ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES OF THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, HE DEMANDED OF THEM WHERE CHRIST SHOULD BE BORN. 5/ AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDAEA: FOR THUS IT IS WRITTEN BY THE PROPHET, 6/ AND THOU BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, ART NOT THE LEAST AMONG THE PRINCES OF JUDAH: FOR OUT OF THEE SHALL COME A GOVERNER, THAT SHALL RULE MY PEOPLE ISRAEL. 7/ THEN HEROD, WHEN HE HAD PRIVILY CALLED THE WISE MEN, INQUIRED OF THEM DILIGENTLY WHAT TIME THE STAR APPEARED. 8/ AND HE SENT THEM TO BETHLEHEM, AND SAID, GO AND SEARCH DILIGENTLY FOR THE YOUNG CHILD; AND WHEN YE HAVE FOUND HIM, BRING ME WORD AGAIN, THAT I MAY COME AND WORSHIP HIM ALSO. 9/ WHEN THEY HEARD THE KING, THEY DEPARTED; AND LO, THE STAR, WHICH THEY SAW IN THE EAST, WENT BEFORE THEM, TILL IT CAME AND STOOD OVER WHERE THE YOUNG CHILD WAS.
10/ WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING GREAT JOY. 11/ AND WHEN THEY WERE COME INTO THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE YOUNG CHILD WITH MARY HIS MOTHER, AND FELL DOWN, AND WORSHIPPED HIM: AND WHEN THEY HAD OPENED THEIR TREASURES, THEY PRESENTED UNTO HIM GIFTS; GOLD AND FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH.

12/ AND BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN TO HEROD, THEY DEPARTED INTO THEIR OWN COUNTRY ANOTHER WAY. 13/ AND WHEN THEY WERE DEPARTED, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARETH TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM, SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND FLEE INTO EGYPT, AND BE THOU THERE UNTIL I BRING THEE WORD: FOR HEROD WILL SEEK THE YOUNG CHILD TO DESTROY HIM. 14/ WHEN HE AROSE, HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER BY NIGHT, AND DEPARTED INTO EGYPT: 15/ AND WAS THERE UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN OF THE LORD BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON.

MATTHEW 2:19 thru 23 KJV

19/ BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH IN EGYPT, 20/ SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL: FOR THEY ARE DEAD WHICH SOUGHT THE YOUNG CHILD'S LIFE. 21/ AND HE AROSE, AND TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 22/ BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN IN JUDAEA IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER HEROD, HE WAS AFRAID TO GO THITHER: NOT WITHSTANDING, BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM, HE TURNED ASIDE INTO PARTS OF GALILEE: 23/ AND HE CAME AND DWELT IN A TOWN CALLED NAZARETH: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS, HE SHALL BE CALLED A NAZARENE.

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