[00:00.08]Joy to the world the Lord is come
[00:08.53]Here was a man a man who was born in a small village
[00:13.09]The son of a peasant woman
[00:15.89]He grew up in another small village
[00:18.91]Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter
[00:23.29]Then for three years he was a traveling minister
[00:26.28]But he never traveled more than
[00:27.63]Two hundred miles from where he was born
[00:30.33]And where he did go he usually walked
[00:36.15]He never held political office
[00:37.94]He never wrote a book never bought a home
[00:40.37]Never had a family he never went to college
[00:43.59]And he never set foot inside a big city
[00:48.75]Yes here was a man
[00:51.03]Though he never did one on
[00:52.30]The things usually associated with greatness
[00:55.50]He had no credentials but himself
[00:58.09]He had nothing to do with this world
[00:59.71]Except through the devine purpose
[01:01.76]That brought him to this world
[01:07.29]While he was still a young man
[01:08.93]The tide of popular opinion turned against him
[01:12.23]Most of his friends ran away one of them denied him
[01:16.67]One of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies
[01:20.44]Then he went through the mockery of a trial
[01:22.57]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves
[01:25.60]And even while he was dying his executioners gambled
[01:29.60]For the only piece of property that he had in this world
[01:33.05]And that was his robe his purple robe
[01:39.91]When he was dead he was taken down from the cross
[01:43.37]And laid in a borrowed grave provided
[01:45.10]By compassionate friends
[01:50.32]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone
[01:52.51]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race
[01:56.33]Our leader in the column to human destiny
[02:00.35]I think I'm well within the mark
[02:01.98]When I say that all of the armies that ever marched
[02:05.82]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas
[02:08.69]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat
[02:11.88]And all of the kings that ever reigned
[02:14.58]All of them put together have not affected
[02:17.26]The life of man on this earth
[02:20.06]So powerfully as that one solitary cheery life
[02:26.59]Here was a man
[02:28.84]Joy to the world the Lord is come