I will fear not

Contentment, a good Pauline word, is, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.”

Jordan says about the word, “It means I can boldly say, 'The Lord is my helper'! No matter what the situation, 'I’m in! I will not fear what man should do unto me.' ”

Luke says, “We’re going to start back here and we’re going to get the details of His nativity down; we’re going to understand this thing."

Jordan says, “And he lingers and he labors, really, over giving you all these details about the birth and the things that led up to, and all the family relations.

"When you read the first couple of chapters of Luke you’re taken into the hearts and the homes and the hopes of simple people, godly people, likable people. You can’t help but like—at Ieast I can’t—Zacharias and Elisabeth.

“I look at what happened to them and I chuckle over it. I think, ‘Man, here’s somebody I can relate to!’

"And you see Joseph and Mary, a husband and a young expectant mother with her first child, and having to travel away into a strange city to have birth, and to have to have the birth under the circumstances that it was. You must know the anxiety of Joseph as he looked over them.

“And they were a very poor couple. Then they go to the temple and there’s Anna, and there’s Simeon, and you can’t help but, the Lord’s told him . . . The Holy Spirit’s told him, ‘Simeon, you’re not going to die until you’ve seen the Messiah,’ and, boy, you just see his heart beat fast as the Lord brings him in and the shows him, ‘This is it!’ You get all this human interest. This is just normal people! Normal believers!”