What kind of reputation do you have? If we were to ask your friends or people who know you, what kind of reputation would they say you have? Reputation can be based on fact or fallacy or a bit of both mixed together. Your reputation can also change. Galilee and Nazareth both had a reputation depending on who you talked to. Joseph and Mary also developed reputations. Joseph had one opinion about Mary, which changed when he found out she was pregnant, and then it changed again when he found out the truth about how it happened. It’s possible that some still held an erroneous reputation about them for many years. But the real truth is centered around the fact that Mary was the chosen vessel by which God would enter this world as an infant. He is the one of whom the angel said would save His people from their sins. You can believe what you want about Jesus, but the truth is found in the Word of God. He is our hope of salvation.
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