H is for Higher Taxes and I is for Insist

Today's study is FYI (For your information)... but isn't it amazing how God works His plan around what man's plans are...

In Luke 2:1 & 2, the Bible tells us that a census was decreed by Caesar Augustus, the first census while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

A census is a counting of the people. Our country is getting ready to take a census in 2010.

Caesar Augustus ordered the census for 3 reasons:
1. To see if his world was growing
2. To tax people
3. To keep track of how many males were available for service in the army.

Each person had to return to their family's home to be counted.

And this was not if you felt like it... You had to do it!!!