[Applause] hey welcome to today's word of encouragement from our daily bread the reading for today titled Jesus our rescuer was written by Marvin Williams what began as a normal cable car ride across a Pakistani Valley turned into a frightful ordeal shortly after the ride began two supporting cables snapped leaving eight passengers including school children suspended hundreds of feet in the air the situation sparked an arduous 12-hour rescue operation by the Pakistani military who used zip lines helicopters and more to rescue the passengers those well-trained Rescuers are to be commended but their work pales in comparison
to the Eternal work of Jesus whose mission was to save and rest rescue us from sin and death in Matthew chapter 1 prior to Christ's birth an angel instructed Joseph to take Mary home because her pregnancy was from the Holy Spirit Joseph was also told to name his son Jesus because he would save his people from their sins yet while this name was common in the first century only this child was qualified to be the SA savior Christ came at the right time to seal and secure the Eternal salvation of all who repent and believe
in him we were all trapped in the cable car of sin and death suspended over the valley of Eternal separation from God but in his love and grace Jesus came to rescue us and bring us safely home to our Heavenly Father Praise Him [Music] today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Matthew chapter 1 veres 18- 2 this is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about his mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph but before they came together she was found to be pregnant through the holy spirit because Joseph her
husband was faithful to the law and yet did not want to expose her to Public Disgrace he had in mind to divorce her quietly but after he had consider this an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit she will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins all this took place to
fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet the Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel which means god with us when Joseph woke up he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife but he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son and he gave him the name Jesus [Music] let's pray Heavenly Father we stand in awe of your love and the lengths you went to in order to save us from our sin and
we thank you that through Christ's sacrifice we can be brought safely home to your Eternal presence and it's in Jesus name that we pray amen thanks for listening today my name is Wes Ward and today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread Ministries
