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• Illustration: Events that changed recent history include Tienanmen Square, Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, and the Civil Rights movement.
• The greatest event that changed human history was the Incarnation.
• John 1: the "heavenly version" of the Christmas story.

• Jesus designed, created and built heaven, his eternal home.
• The Christmas journey brought him from heaven to here.
  -Illustration: The Manila city dump, where families live and scavenge, also is home to American missionaries who chose to live there.
• Jesus made that journey from the ultimate "affluence" to our own dump—Earth.

• Jesus was with God in "the beginning"—he has always lived, eternally.
• Jesus stepped out of eternity into our time—to be caged by our calendars, clocks, and schedules.
• Jesus became part of human history at exactly the right time.
• Jesus came, in a sense, to reset our time; calendars were reset by his coming.

• Before the Incarnation, Jesus was a spirit, and only a spirit.
• At the Incarnation, he took on a human body and a very common name: Jesus.
  -Illustration: There are 20 pages of Andersons in the Minneapolis phone book, it's such a common name; the name "Jesus" was just about as common in Bethlehem or Nazareth 2,000 years ago.
• Jesus not only took on a body, but became a microscopic human embryo.
• Jesus took on a body not temporarily, but eternally; he'll bodily return someday.

• He was 100 percent God and 100 percent man.
• He had human organs, human emotions, human thoughts, but was no less God.
• 100% God + 100% man x infinity = the ability to pay for all our sin.