June 23

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/1757S0623.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Download</a></p> <!-- END 794 Download Link --> <p>Luke 2:1-3:19 We are celebrating the birth of our Savior in the Christ Stream. Christmas in June! We are reading from The Message this week. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Stream | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></span> <span style="font-size: 1rem;">Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</span></p> <blockquote>The Savior is born today!  Thank you Lord for caring so much to send the best of heaven and the whole universe; for sending yourself, so that we may know You, follow You, and be saved.   Amen.</blockquote> <div>2 - The time had come for Mary to deliver the Savior and the political circumstances required Joseph/Mary to go to Bethlehem. Notice that they <em>went up</em> to Bethlehem from Nazareth in Galilee.  It was a 90-100 mile walk with a 1300 foot rise. The KJV says that Mary was "great with child"; the Greek actually words it to read "Mary had a 'mega-tummy' " - it's true folks.</div> <div>-The first outsiders invited to see the newborn king were shepherds. The significance of this as told by Luke is that Luke is writing this gospel with the intent of evangelizing the Greek speaking world. Greeks LOVE sheep/mutton (mutton gyros)/wool/lamb-skin-leather; this whole culture of shepherding. And God tells shepherds --> first!  And He does so by an astonishing sign in the sky -  God's angel speaking to them. Light, a message, then a choir that filled the sky, good heavens, It was overwhelming!  Another way this pierces to the heart of a Greek citizen is that they had in their legends that Alexander-the-Great was born and the arrival was announced by the greatest lightning storm that ever struck upon earth in history. So a Greek mind would read this and think, "oh my! this is even greater than when Alexander was born!"  Luke is s