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• In his Christmas sermons, Luther stripped away legendary additions.

• Mary was a simple maid.

• Mary was probably doing the chores when Gabriel arrived.
• That Mary believed Gabriel's message is a great wonder.
• Mary went and did maid service for Elizabeth.
• Nobody helped the couple, and we wouldn't have done better had we been there.
• Along with Mary and Joseph, we should look with wonder at this gift of God.
• The shepherds were doing what was assigned them when the angels came.

• The angels celebrated and yet didn't give Mary a hand.
• The witnesses to the angelic celebration were shepherds not kings.
• God sent a weak baby to crush the power of hell, sin, and death.
• The shepherds worshipped and then returned to their work.
• The wisemen came to worship and brought gifts.
• Herod responded by killing the infants in Bethlehem.
• Jesus escaped because his time was not yet come.

• Jesus came into this world to lay down his life for our salvation.