{"id":2952,"date":"2017-12-20T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2017-12-20T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:00:36","slug":"sermon-synopsis-december-24th-one-extraordinary-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis December 24th: \u201cOne Extraordinary Announcement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"yiv5400833430ydp1f1a9334yiv8509036079yqt0000149880\" id=\"yiv5400833430ydp1f1a9334yiv8509036079yqtfd80856\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv5400833430ydped3c4385mol-para-with-font\"><a xlink=\"href\">At the heart of Christmas is a birth.\u00a0<i>\u201cReally Bob? Didn\u2019t know that.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u201cHold on. Stay with me.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>Sometimes in the grasp of the obvious, we fail to see the magnitude of the import. Think about this: If Jesus had been born in the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, then Martin Luther, in informing the religious community, may have nailed this birth announcement to the church door at Wittenberg U.:\u00a0<i>\u201cThe Long-anticipated Messiah was born 6 weeks ago in Bethlehem, Israel, to Joseph &amp; Mary Davidson.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If Jesus had been born in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, Samuel Morse, in communicating to the rationalist community, may have telegraphed this birth announcement:\u00a0<i>\u201cThe Davidson\u2019s of Bethlehem, Israel, announce the birth of their firstborn, a son, under very suspicious circumstances. Stop.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If Jesus had been born today, Twitter, in its real-time news-feed to our politically-correct communities around the globe would\u2019ve tweeted,\u00a0<i>\u201cIsrael poured more fuel onto its longtime conflagration with its Arab neighbors when the Knesset announced the birth of a purported Messiah late last night in one of Jerusalem\u2019s more obscure bedroom communities, the little village of Bethlehem. Some of the more-fringe Israelis further agitated even their fellow Jews, and most other people groups too, by insisting that this newborn is not merely its long-awaited king, but He is the King of all kings.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now given this improbable array of varying scenarios, I\u2019m wondering if this may just provide the credible reason why God chose the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century for Jesus\u2019 birth; and why He employed the services of His elite PR team, His angels, to announce the Good News to that motley crew of shunned shepherds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What I can say with conviction is that God doesn\u2019t make mistakes. So, the Deity-Persons of the Father and the Spirit birthed the Deity-Person of the Son at the exact right time. Why not come this Christmas Eve Sunday morning to learn more about that\u00a0<i>\u201cOne Extraordinary Announcement?\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of Christmas is a birth.\u00a0\u201cReally Bob? Didn\u2019t know that. \u00a0 \u201cHold on. Stay with me.\u201d\u00a0Sometimes in the grasp of the obvious, we fail to see the magnitude of the import. Think about this: If Jesus had been born in the 16th\u00a0century, then Martin Luther, in informing the religious community, may have nailed &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=2952\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-2952","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-pastors-desk","9":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/birth-of-jesus-1150128_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}