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The GB News Advent Calendar, Day 9
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Hi there, my name is the Reverend Pat Allerton and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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You know, one of the most extraordinary things about the Christian story for me
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is the remarkable humility of God that it displays. There's a scripture in the book of Isaiah that says
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The Lord himself will give you a sign. The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel
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I say humility because if the Christian story is true, then it means nothing less than that God himself, the creator of it all
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chose to become a human being and be born of a virgin
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In other words, that Jesus Christ, who is himself God, did not consider it beneath him to take on our flesh
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to become a baby in his mother womb and to be born as one of us and in a stable of all places Such humility that God would stoop so low taking us to himself embracing our fragile human nature And you know that should
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change how we see ourselves. It should change how we see one another because it tells us that there
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aren't two different classes of people, some of whom are to be accepted and others to be rejected
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but rather that everyone is precious in God's sight. Everyone is made in his image. Therefore
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everyone is worthy of love, compassion and respect. So let me ask you, how can you humble
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yourself this Christmas time and lift others up around you
