GREATER GLORY OF GOD   Presents  Advent Special  JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM   Birthday of Jesus, the Son of God  - Incarnation  - Great ex-change “God became man that man might become God,” is from the church father Athanasius (ca 298–373)    - Jesus Christ did not have His beginning in Bethlehem.   - John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word (Jesus). And the Word was with God, and the Word was God."   - That little baby in a manger is the great God Who created the universe.  - The little baby of Luke two is the great God of Genesis one. God became flesh. The Virgin Birth  - In Genesis 3:15, God warned the serpent that enmity would exist between EVE'S SEED and his.  Luke 1:34  - Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” 35 The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.   - The Word Incarnate has no human father and the Son of God in eternity has no Mother    John 1:1-18   The Word Became Flesh  - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.   - He was in the beginning with God.   - All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.   - What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.  - The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.  - He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.   - He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.   - But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,   - who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.  - And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.   - From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.   - No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.   Hebrews 1:1-6  God Has Spoken by His Son  - Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets  - but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things through whom he also created the worlds   - He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being  - And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,  - “Let all God’s angels worship him.”