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b'When Jesus was born, He didn\\u2019t even have a crib. He was born where the\\nanimals were kept and laid in a manger.\\n.\\nWhen Jesus was growing up, He was a carpenter\\u2019s son. He wasn\\u2019t rich. He\\ndidn\\u2019t live in a castle or have nice, expensive things. He had a humble\\nlife.\\n.\\nWhen Jesus became an adult and started preaching, sometimes He spoke in the\\nsynagogues or in the temple courts, but He also taught people in a lot of\\nother places too. Crowds followed Him to the countryside. One time when\\nJesus was teaching by a lake, the crowds were so large that Jesus got into\\na boat so He could be heard by those on the shore (Mark 4:1-2). He didn\\u2019t\\nhave a fancy church building or some nice place to preach in, but He met\\nHis audience where they were and didn\\u2019t mind where that was.\\n.\\nJesus wasn\\u2019t ashamed to sit down with sinners. He knew that we all needed\\nsaving. He was humble in every way from the time of His birth to His death.\\n.\\nWhen Jesus was beaten and told to carry the cross, He could have refused.\\nWhen He was nailed to that cross and left to die, no one could have forced\\nHim to give up His life for ours, but He chose to (Matthew 26:39, 53).\\n.\\nJesus came humbly to the earth because of His love for us. God took\\non human flesh. He was born to the virgin Mary and raised as her and\\nthe carpenter Joseph\\u2019s son. Jesus was humble His whole time on earth, and\\nHe lived and died to take away our sins. When He rose from the dead, He\\ndefeated sin and death forever. Now everyone who comes to Him, the humble\\nSavior, will be saved. \\u2022 Bethany Acker\\n.\\n\\u2022 When you look at Jesus\\u2019s life on earth, what strikes you about how humble\\nHe was? How might knowing He endured so much, because of His great love for\\nyou, give you hope?\\n.\\n\\u2022 Jesus entered people\\u2019s everyday lives and invited them to follow Him.\\nWhat might it look like for us to follow Jesus in humility, knowing that He\\nHimself is humble? (Hint: read Philippians 2:1-18. If you want to dig even\\ndeeper, read Matthew 11:28-30; 21:5; John 13:1-17; and Hebrews 12:2.)\\n.\\nAnd being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the\\npoint of death, yes, the death of the cross. Philippians 2:8 (WEB)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nLuke.2.1-Luke.2.7|Phil.2.5-Phil.2.8'