“To all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His
name, [Jesus] gave the right to become children of God…” (John 1:12 NIV)
The Child in Bethlehem would grow up to be a friend of
sinners, not a friend of Rome. He would spend His life with the ordinary and
the unimpressive. He would pay deep attention to lepers and cripples, to the
blind and the beggar, to prostitutes and fishermen, to women and children. He
would announce the availability of a kingdom different from Herod’s, a kingdom
where blessing -- of full value and worth with God -- was now conferred on the
poor in spirit and the meek and the persecuted.
-- John Ortberg in Who
Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
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