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I know amen. You’ll please turn with me in your Bibles. Our first scripture reading this morning comes from the gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2, beginning at verse 13, continuing to the conclusion of the Christmas story.
Now when they departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.’
And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt, and remained there until the death