The Tragedy of Christmas - Jon Harkey
Join Jon Harkey as he helps us understand what we can learn from the Magi about pursuing Jesus. This baby born in Bethlehem evoked a response from the wise men that serves as an example of how we, too, should respond to the King of the universe.
Well in 1998, Yahoo, a pioneer of the early internet, was approached by an up-and-coming search engine with a funny name and a colorful logo. Any guesses? Google. And at the time, Yahoo was one of the largest internet companies in the world with a market capitalization of $23 billion. While Google, on the other hand, was a much smaller, meeker, newer company. And as the story goes, the day came when the owners of Google, ready to walk away from the internet business, approached the suits at Yahoo with an offer on the table for Yahoo to purchase Google for $1 million. You heard that right. Yahoo, would you like to buy Google for $1 million? And so the head execs at Yahoo, they thought it over, they considered it, but they ultimately declined. Because based on their valuations, to them, Google was not worth a million dollars. Today, 27 years later, Yahoo has all but fizzled out into obscurity and Google now has the third highest market capitalization of all companies on the globe, worth over three trillion, with a T, dollars. That's 12 zeros after the three, for anybody counting, I counted. That's three million times more than their original asking price.
Needless to say, Yahoo made a dramatically bad valuation. And that bad valuation informed a bad action, to say no to Google. Now, why do I share that? Because while it's tragic for Yahoo to have Google right in front of them and to pass, the tragedy for us this Christmas, and the great tragedy in life, is to have the greatest being, the greatest man, the greatest love right in front of us in the person of Jesus Christ, and to think, I'm gonna pass. I think I'm good. To have the God and Savior of all infinite worth and wealth right in front of you and think, ah, I'm okay. The great tragedy for us today isn't that we would just miss the reason for the season. It's that we would miss the reason we exist, miss the reason we're on this planet. See, the passage we're looking at today is really a tale of two valuations, two views of Christ. As the proverb goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure, or as the Grinch puts it, one man's toxic sludge is another man's poopery. To anyone who knows this Christmas story, we know that on the one hand, Herod sees Jesus as worth nothing. As Mr. Potter puts it in It's a Wonderful Life, he's worth more dead than alive. But on the other hand, we see that to the magi,
to the wise men, he's worth everything. And specifically, he's worth pursuing and he's worth worshiping. See, the wise men are interesting characters. Despite the fact that we have plenty of songs and TV specials, we don't have a lot of specifics about these men. We don't know a ton about who they were. We know they were called magi, or in the Greek, magoi. The best information we have is that they were sort of trained astronomer, astrologer types with some political influence, though probably not kings as the movies and songs propose, but we don't really know much beyond that. We don't really know who they were. We don't have specifics about where they came from. We just know they came from the east, likely Babylon or Persia, but we don't know. We don't have specifics on when they came. We just know that they came at some point in the year or two after the birth of Jesus. We don't even have specifics on how they got there. People like to propose there was three of them and obviously they rode camels because that's what the shows showed us. And so they were on camels and they went through the desert and that's how they got there. It's a good assumption, but we don't know how they got there. We just know they followed a star in the sky. And what's interesting about this story
is that culturally, we love to imagine and overanalyze the who, where, when, and how, when in reality, we don't know a ton about that. What we do know from the text, and what we do have plenty of, is detail on what this baby meant to them and why they came to find him. And that's what this story is about. It's about the fact that to these wise men, Jesus was worth pursuing and he was worth worshiping. That Jesus was and still is worth pursuing. pursuing and worth worshiping. And so we're gonna look in the text at four attributes of their pursuit, three attributes of their worship, and ultimately four attributes of any pursuit of Christ, three attributes of all worship of Christ. And as we look at their pursuit, it's gonna beg the same question in our hearts. What is he worth to me? And from the jump, the first attribute we see that jumps off the page is that their pursuit of Christ is initiated by the Lord. Starting again in verse one. Now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, where is he who has been born, king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.
Attribute number one of their pursuit is that a pursuit of Christ is initiated by the Lord. We saw the star, so we came. Do you see it? God initiated. Notice the order of events. So often we like to think and we assume that if I just do a good job, if I just do some good deeds towards God, then maybe he will move towards me. But the Bible is clear over and over again, story after story, that God chose to reveal himself to us. God is the one who chose to initiate. We love because we've first been loved. We pursue because we've been pursued. He initiates. I have this photo of my daughter, Raya. There she is. That's a pretty good snow angel, right? It's magnificent. We love Raya. She loves hide and seek, right? The only thing is she doesn't really fully understand how hide and seek works yet. And so on a pretty daily basis, and we have like a million babysitters that can attest to this. On a daily basis, she'll run up to me and go, daddy, let's play hide and seek.
I'm gotta hide in the kitchen and you're gotta count. Okay, so I go count 10 seconds and I find her, shock her, she's in the kitchen. So then she goes, okay, daddy, you're gotta hide on the stairs and I'm gotta count. Okay, so I go, I hide on the stairs. She finds me. She doesn't get the game yet. She wants me to find her. That's the game to her. And the bedrock truth about a pursuit of Christ in our text is that he wants us to find him. We don't know much about how that star in the sky worked, but we do know that it was put there by God. We don't know how they knew the significance of the star that led them on the journey. There's a lot of great guesses. Many would suggest that if these wise men were from Babylon, then we can look at the book of Daniel and see that Daniel was put in charge of the sorcerers and magicians and wise men of his day, and he would have assuredly passed down his knowledge of Torah, that he would have certainly passed down oracles like Numbers 24, 17, which says, I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. A star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. And perhaps these men in Daniel's day passed down oracles like this one,
and they were waiting signs like the star for generations. That's fine and even maybe a likely scenario, but we're not explicitly told. What is explicit is that through some combination of a star in the sky and a prophecy, God wanted these men to find his son, and that's still true today. God is not hiding from you. God is not playing hard to get. God wants you to pursue and find him more than you want to find him. That's why he reveals himself to us in nature. That's why he took on the form of a baby. That's why he's given us his word. That's why you're in the room right now. God wants you to know him. He wants to know you, and he wants you to know him. He's initiating here and now. This same reality underpins all of advertising, by the way. Starbucks doesn't go, come try our new peppermint whatever. It's okay, I guess. Just drink whatever coffee you want. No, they send you emails. They advertise during your football team's game. They send you push notifications straight to your phone while you're trying to focus, and it worked on me this week. They pursued me, so I went to them. They came after me. me, so I went to them. And so it is with Christ. He's the initiator, He draws us
near, and we get to decide what will we do. And I'd plead with you, if you sense Him initiating, just go on the journey, and pack up your things, and see where He'll lead you, and buckle up. Because the second attribute of their pursuit is that their pursuit of Christ doesn't happen overnight. The text says these men came from the east, which could really mean lots of things, but most commentators tend to agree that probably put their journey to Jerusalem somewhere between 500 to a thousand miles. This wasn't an overnighter. This wasn't a weekend trip. This was a, so babe, you know the star me and the guys have been talking about? Hear me out. It's probably like the star, like we've been talking, and we're pretty sure like it's the one. So would it be like totally crazy if like Tommy, and like Bill, and Mike, and like maybe Jack, if he's on his best behavior, like would it be crazy if we packed up tomorrow morning, and left for like, I don't know, two to four months. I mean if we move quick in the desert, and there's good weather, maybe we could do two months, but maybe we call it four months to be safe. Is that, is that okay, sweetie? And she's like, absolutely not. It's not okay. It's crazy! Unless they really were convinced he's the Messiah, the Savior of the world, the creator and sustainer of all existence, because if that's the case, it makes all the sense in the world. It's crazy to go 15 miles out of your way, because you really like the snacks at Shell. It's not crazy to go 15 miles out of your way, because you really like the snacks at Bucky's. It's different. It's worth it. It's worth the trip. And in the narrative, the actions of their pursuit are commensurate with the object they're pursuing. I'll say it again. Their actions of their pursuit are commensurate with the one they're pursuing. And the one they pursue is worth more than a brief detour. He's worth more than an overnight trip. See, adversely, so often we want an Advil spirituality. Listen to one sermon, one podcast, be consistent about reading your Bible for one week, and the Lord's gonna flip my life upside down. And to be clear, the Lord can do whatever he wants on whatever time frame he wants, but when he initiates a relationship with you, the response he's looking for isn't for an overnight spirituality. He's looking for a willingness to pursue him like we believe he really is who he says
he is. He's looking for a willingness to go on a journey. And listen to me, it may be weeks since you've sensed the Lord communing with you in your quiet time, but that doesn't mean you put the book down. It may be months since you've sensed the Lord's presence in worship in this house, but that doesn't mean you stop coming through the doors. It may feel like years since the Lord has answered one of your prayers, but you don't stop talking to him. He's worth the journey. If he is who he says he is, he's worth the 60 days in the desert. He's worth the silence. He's worth the inconvenience. He's worth the confusion. He's worth the pain. If he is who he says he is, he's worth your friends making fun of you because you decided to start going to church, or your family not understanding why you bought a Bible and you're reading it. He's worth it. He's worth the pursuit. It's not an overnight spirituality. It's a lifelong relationship. And these wise men weren't just looking for a quick fix. They set out on a journey to find the one their souls were made for. They're looking for something greater than this world can offer. They're looking for an object worthy of the weight of their worship. And as they roll up to Jerusalem after a long, long journey, the next attribute of their pursuit that we see is that the pursuit of Christ leads them to the Word of God. Did you notice that in the verses? Look at the text in verse 3. When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled in all Jerusalem with him. And assembling the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. And they told him, in Bethlehem of Judea. For so it is written by the prophet Micah, and you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah. For from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. See the Magi didn't fully know where they were going they were spiritually attentive They may have had some prophecies, and they had a star that they're following, but they didn't know all the details They just knew they were following a star to the king and it led them to Jerusalem and in their pursuit They are led to the Word of God They're given a prophecy out of Micah that they obviously didn't have when they started their journey I love how Alistair Begg explains these verses. He says whatever extraordinary uses
He may employ to draw you close stargazing you name it He will always bring us to his word in order that we might meet the Living Word his son If you want to pursue Jesus, he will always lead you here This isn't primarily a book of moral directives This is primarily a book of the self-revelation of God the Creator to us man finite in the image of Christ That's what this book is about any pursuit of him outside of this book is like trying to find an alligator walking the streets of DC You're not gonna find one. We just have rats big huge mean rats The pursuit of Christ will always lead you to the Word of God There's this awesome moment in the Jim Carrey Grinch that fires me up every year that we watch it sweet little Cindy Lou who she's down Bad, she's looking for Christmas. Where are you Christmas? Why can't I find you? She's on a pursuit and In a moment of clarity She decides to in front of the whole crowd of the whole town nominate the poor old Grinch as the holiday Cheermeister and the mayor Jeffrey Tambor replies to her dad. My my my what an altruistic daughter you have there, Lou And he proceeds to pull out the book of who with which he intends to shut down her pursuit But what he doesn't know is that she knows the book too And the mayor says the book of who says the award cannot go to the Grinch because sometimes things get lead pipe Cinch and she says no, it doesn't you made that up and he says no. No. No. No No, it's it does and without skipping a beat little Cindy Lou who says What page? In Every single time that preaches to me because there's so many voices in our lives on our phones in our minds that are telling you things that are not true about you and about God and about this world and when that Happens when that voice enters your head. The next thing you need to say is what page is that on? Because that's not in my book. I don't think that's in the book My Bible says I'm chosen and forgiven and loved and redeemed and restored and adopted by God That's what my word says. So when the voice comes You got to say what page?
What page is that coming from because if it's not in here, it's not gonna make it in here. I don't want it in here And for us a pursuit of Christ is Always gonna lead to this book Any good pursuit is gonna be informed by the Word of God and it's gonna live by the Word of God and Armed with a fresh word. They leave Jerusalem on the short journey to Bethlehem Where we see their fourth attribute of their pursuit Which is that their pursuit of Christ is greatly Rewarded look at verse 9 After listening to the king They went on their way and behold the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest Over the place where the child was when they saw the star they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy How that star worked we don't know plenty of books and articles may try to tell you but that's not what's plain here What's plain is that the star brings them to the house and their pursuit? Becomes their discovery and their discovery leads them to great joy Which is actually an understatement the Greek literally reads seeing now the star they rejoiced a joy great exceedingly I Love how one commentator put it Deliriously happy may be an overstatement, but it was something like that Then that translates it they shouted joyfully This wasn't a golf-clap situation. This wasn't a fist-bump situation. This was a tears in eyes Jumping up and down absolutely freaking out situation Why because they found the one they were looking for and the promise of a pursuit of Christ is that when you find him, you will be rewarded with great joy. We did our Christmas gifts as a family yesterday because we were gonna be on our way to Atlanta on Christmas and so we just decided to do it over the weekend
and I watched as Raya, our daughter, opened up gifts and each one, she's elated, she's excited, she loves it. But it didn't take two and a half hours for our little three-year-old to do exactly what I remember doing when I was a little kid, which is get a couple hours into your toys and start to realize this isn't bringing me all the joy and hope and fun I thought it would. It was great and now I feel like something's missing, something's lacking, it's just a toy, it's finite. But my soul is hungry for the infinite. And they're rejoicing in this moment. It's not superficial, it's real, it's lasting because the object is infinite and able to bear up underneath their infinite desire. The promise of the scriptures is if you pursue him, you will find him. Ask, it says, and it will be given. Knock and the door will be opened. And here the magi are. After hundreds of miles of journeying. And the text doesn't say they knocked, but I feel pretty good about the fact that they didn't jump through the window or break the door down. And so there they were with the star over their heads in the house of the Lord right in front of them. And all of a sudden the door is opened. And in verse 11, it says, going into the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary
and they fell down and worshiped him. He's not just worthy of their pursuit, he's worthy of their worship. And the first attribute of their worship is that their worship is a response. Going in, they saw. Seeing, they worshiped. It's in this moment that they make the jump from seeing evidence to seeing the boy. From hearing the oracles to hearing his voice. From following a star to falling before the king. The star led them there. God initiated and worship was their response. It wasn't what they did because they felt like that's what they should do in the moment. The text says when they saw the child, they fell down and worshiped. It was their natural knee-jerk reaction to beholding the glory of God in the face of Christ. When you've really seen him, you really can't help but respond this way. I love this C.S. Lewis quote on worship. I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment. It is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are. The delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author
and not be able to tell anyone how good he is. To come suddenly at the turn of a road and upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch. To hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. The Scotch Catechism says that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify him, God is inviting us to enjoy him. Worship is simply what happens when we behold him. Seeing the child, they fell down in worship. So brothers, sister, in Christ, if you sense that your life isn't as full of worship of Christ as you wish it would, the question to ask is simple, what am I beholding? What are you seeing? If you haven't got a hunger for the bread of life, perhaps it's because your soul is full of spiritual junk food. If you feel disconnected from Jesus, maybe it's because we've plugged hours and hours of our day into alternative sources and voices. What are we? Beholding, what are we putting in front of our eyeballs? We can't be surprised that our devotion to Jesus is waning when our devotion to TikTok is thriving.
We can't be surprised that our love of God and his word and his church and his presence feel shallow when our love of other words and other places is deep. Seeing the boy, they fell down and worshiped. He's worth our worship, which means he's worth asking yourself, what am I beholding? What am I putting in front of myself? And if we pursue him, and if we behold him, worship is the natural response, but it's more than just a response because the second attribute of their worship is that their worship is submissive. Verse 11 says, they fell down and worshiped him. That word for falling down gets translated for seed being thrown on the ground, for men falling down dead, for lightning falling from the sky. I love this scholarly definition of the Greek word, which reads, to move with relative rapidity in a downward direction. It wasn't a, ah, how pleasant, what a nice looking savior. I shall now take a knee. No, it was, I get low, fast, because I'm in the presence of God. I think for my own life, for our lives, we don't spend enough time just down here, knowing that God Almighty hears my voice because he's in the room. That God Almighty sees me because he's in the room.
They fall down fast. And the word says they worshiped, which could mean they sang, could mean they kissed his feet, could mean they venerated him with their words, but what that word for worship always means in the Greek is to express complete dependence on, or submission to, a high authority. Dependence and submission. This is real worship. You are greater than I. You are higher than I. You have a power that I lack. You have a beauty that I adore. You are in charge. You are ultimate. You are worthy. You are king. I am subject. You are big, I'm small. You're God, I'm man. You are holy. And quickly, I wanna get low to posture before you the external reality of the spiritual reality that you are ultimate. You are powerful, powerful. You have authority, not me. It is subsequently contradictory to say, I worship the Lord, when we don't depend on him or submit to him.
And if we wanna be people who with the magi can affirm, he's worthy of my worship, then we have to say that he's worthy of our dependence and submission. So where do you need to depend on him this Christmas? What problems at home, at work do you have? What anxiety or depression or struggles are you carrying on your own that you were never meant to carry on your own? What problems are you trying to solve in your own power that the Lord's saying, worship me by depending on me. Worship me by trusting I have the power to solve the problems in your life and I care enough to do it. This is real worship. And additionally, what areas of sin and rebellion are we holding on to? Because we think they'll give us life, but in reality, they're siphoning life from us. The Lord's saying, worship me by submitting to me. Hand those things over. Maybe you're feeling like, man, I have been living a life of my will be done and it's led me nowhere. It's helped me none. What's beautiful is our same word in the text for falling down on their faces is the word used of Jesus in Matthew 26 in the garden of Gethsemane. When he said, in going a little further,
he fell on his face and prayed, saying, my father, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. This is the posture he's calling us to follow. Not my ways, your ways. I trust you, I submit to you on my knees. Their worship is a response, it's submissive, and lastly, their worship is costly. The text goes on in verse 11. Going into the house, they saw the child with Mary. They fell down and worshiped him. Then opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. This is crazy, last night in the car on the way home, we asked our kids, what did the magi give to Jesus? And our daughter, she's three, she said gold. And then our son, who's like barely two, said frankincense. We were like, what the heck? You know like 100 words, how did you have frankincense in there? Anyways, they knew. But going in, they saw, seeing they fell down and worshiped, and opening their treasure, they offered him gifts. We could, again, spend undue time on the meaning of the gifts and their significance, gold, because he was a king, and myrrh to be used for his burial. But Matthew's less concerned with that than we often are. What's clear is that those gifts are expensive.
Their worship isn't all talk, it's costly. These weren't items you give away willy-nilly. These are valuables. If you're anything like me and our family, we have a Christmas budget. And I would guess, I would guess and hope, that for the married man in the room, that you're spending more money on your wife's gift than on your great aunt's brother-in-law, twice-removed gift. I mean, you can get that due to gift, I guess, but you're gonna spend less on that one than on the one for your wife. Why? Because our treasure follows our heart. Our money follows our heart. Our time follows our heart. Our resources follow our heart. What we treasure in here, we treasure out here. What we love in here, we will love out here. When Christ has got a hold of your heart, you'll know because he'll have a hold of your checking account and your schedule and your daydreaming. He'll have all of you because authentic worship is costly. And it begs the question, where is your treasure this Christmas? What do you think about, daydream about? What do you spend your money on? What gets your free time?
What do you enjoy the most to talk about? What do you treasure in action you first treasured in spirit? And like Ebenezer Scrooge, a heart that has been transformed by the love of God will always become hands delivering the prized turkey to the Cratchit family. Consider, consider this Christmas, here and now, what do I treasure? Is it my career, my power, being liked, autonomy, wealth, fashion, pleasure, leisure, ease, comfort? Your hands will follow your heart and your heart follows your eyes. Going in, they saw. Falling down, they worshiped. And then opening their chest, their treasure chest, the text says, they gifted. And as the story goes, they get warned to return back to their land another way and to not tell Herod who they had found. And they obey that voice, which just as a little mini point for free, their worship becomes obedience. They didn't just have a spiritual high at camp and then walk away unchanged. They wake up the next morning and even though they have to leave this beautiful moment in the house of the Lord, they walk away in obedience. Because worship isn't just about individual moments.
Worship is a lifestyle. But as they head on their way, never to be heard from again in the scriptures other than these verses we just read, we ultimately don't know everything that the magi knew about Jesus. We don't know what all they understood that night about what He came to do and how He would do it. But 2,000 years later, here's what we know about the boy who they fell on their faces before. That boy didn't come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. That boy didn't come to live a life of royalty and comfort. That boy left a life of royalty and comfort to take on poverty and suffering and grief. That boy didn't come to overthrow Rome. That boy came to die by the hands of his own people on a Roman cross. That boy didn't come to reign with an iron fist. He came to be crushed by one. And it was that boy of whom it was promised in Isaiah 53. Who has believed what he's heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at him. And no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men. A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces. He was despised. We esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. And upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace. And by his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. This is the Christ that's worthy of pursuit, worthy of worship. He loved you enough to suffer and die for you, to
pursue you, to take on death for you and for me, to forsake comfort for you and for me, to redeem us, to pay our debt, so that in his rising we could have a life with him forever. He came so that the words of the great hymn could be true. There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel, God with us, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. Sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Maybe you're a church kid. You've lived your whole life surrounded by the things of God. You're in Jerusalem. The star has been above your head for a while now. Let's let our text be a gentle reminder. Because the ones who were five miles away from Bethlehem totally miss it. Don't miss the Savior today. Don't be fine with the external trappings of religion and yet hold the Savior himself at arm's distance. Don't just be in the room physically but somewhere else spiritually. It's possible to sing the songs without really praising. It's possible to pray the prayers without actually approaching the Lord. It's possible to be in the house and miss the presence. Come in. All the way in. Fall down. Submit. Surrender. And then open up. Let him in. Let him sit on the throne of your heart. Let him have your treasure. And on the other hand, maybe you feel like you're in the 500 miles away from the Savior, pagan, you don't know where I've been and what I've done, club. Brother, sister, he has initiated and is initiating right now. He came to get you. When Jesus would preach, he would say, it's not the healthy who need a doctor. It's the sick. So if your soul feels sick and inadequate and broken and lost and far away from God, you are exactly who he came for. He's worthy of your pursuit because he's been pursuing you from before you were born. Respond to him today. Maybe you've been on that journey and you feel like you finally found yourself at the door. Just knock. The joy your soul will feel when you go in and behold him. Today's your day. Respond to him today. Come in. You've been welcomed into the house of God. Fall down like every... blind and sick and broken person in Jesus' ministry
that threw themselves at his feet. Fall down and open up. Hand over those false idols and false gods and false treasures and let him have your heart. He knows what to do with it. And he'll get your hands, your time, and your everything. You can do it for the first time ever this morning and you can do it every morning for the rest of your life. Come in, fall down, open up. Come in, fall down, open up. This is why we exist, to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. To fall on our knees and tell him that we're all his. And these are the days of grace. His word says, with no money, come and buy. Receive the free gift of the grace of God. He loves you with a love indescribable. He shed his blood for you. He gave his life for you. Don't miss the moment. Seek him while he can be found. These are the days of grace. Come home, receive the free gift. Like a father missing his child, he just wants you back home, safe in his arms. And the distance today isn't 500 or 1,000 miles. The distance is about 20, 30 inches. To come in, fall down, and open your heart. Come in, fall down, open up. And the distance today isn't 500 or 1,000 miles.
The distance is about 20, 30 inches. To come in, fall down, and open your heart. Come in, fall down, open up. And the distance today isn't 500 or 1,000 miles. The distance is about 20, 30 inches.
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