Are You Making Room for Jesus? | The PursueGOD Truth Podcast

The innkeeper missed an opportunity to welcome the Savior - not because he was unwilling, but because he was unaware. What about YOU?<br />
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Intro<br />
New Series starting today! <br />
The Christmas Story from People Who Were Actually There<br />
The Innkeeper (today)<br />
The Shepherds<br />
The Wise Men<br />
King Herod<br />
Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve<br />
Every week we’ll be digging deep on stuff you didn’t know<br />
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But I just want to take a few moments to ask you, Q. Are you making room for Jesus in your life?<br />
Maybe you think it’s hard to be focused at Christmas, after all there are:<br />
Projects to finish at work, budgets to set for next year, proposals to submit before the end of the year.<br />
Family vacations to plan, parties to throw, presents to buy, and kids’ schedules to keep up with. <br />
In fact, life can get so busy in December that it’s pretty easy to push Christ out of Christmas.<br />
We can spend so much time focusing on all the stuff around Christmas that we fail to make room for Jesus.<br />
But here’s what’s amazing, the same thing happened on the very first Christmas.<br />
Let me show you what I mean:<br />
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Luke 2:1, 4-5 (NLT) 1 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire…. 4 And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. 5 He took with him Mary, to whom he was engaged, who was now expecting a child.<br />
Describe craziness of census<br />
Connect to the busyness of travel during the holidays<br />
Check out these stats from AAA<br />
Nearly 80 Million Americans Expected to Travel over Thanksgiving (new record)<br />
72 million by car<br />
6 million by air<br />
2 million by “other” (joke)<br />
Can you imagine the stress of Joseph and Mary? <br />
She was VERY pregnant, worst time to travel<br />
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Luke 2:6-7 (NLT) 6 And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. 7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.<br />
(ESV) because there was no place for them in the inn.<br />
This, of course, refers to the famous point in the Christmas story where Mary and Joseph were shooed away by an uncaring, busy, and inattentive innkeeper. As a result, they were forced to find a barn or cave which is where baby Jesus was born.<br />
Although this is how the story is typically told, the real story of the first Christmas might have actually been a bit different.<br />
The word “inn” is a tricky word to translate.<br />
It can refer to a hotel as in the traditional understanding of the story.<br />
Or, it can refer to a finished guest room in a home. <br />
For example, the same...<br />
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