"The Birth of Jesus Christ: 'Good Tidings of Great Joy'"

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith

https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-joseph-fielding-smith/chapter-25-the-birth-of-jesus-christ-good-tidings-of-great-joy?lang=eng

 I have always heard and read about the birth of Jesus Christ.  Right now I am reading the New Testament to learn more about the life of Jesus.  I was doing my personal study the other day and I loved what I read.  I had never really thought about it the same way as I read it.
"Our Savior was a God before he was born into this world, and he brought with him that same status when he came here. He was as much a God when he was born into the world as he was before. But as far as this life is concerned it appears that he had to start just as all other children do and gain his knowledge line upon line. Luke says he “increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.” [Luke 2:52.] John records that “he received not of the fulness at the first,” but had to progress “from grace to grace, until he received a fulness.” [D&C 93:13.] …
Evidently, before he was 12 years old—for then he astonished the doctors and wise men in the temple—he had learned a great deal about his Father’s business [see Luke 2:46–49]. This knowledge could come to him by revelation, by the visitation of angels, or in some other way. But his knowledge, so far as this life was concerned, had to come line upon line and precept upon precept. Without question he was in communication, from time to time, with his Heavenly Father."
"Without doubt, Jesus came into the world subject to the same condition as was required of each of us—he forgot everything, and he had to grow from grace to grace. His forgetting, or having his former knowledge taken away, would be requisite just as it is in the case of each of us, to complete the present temporal existence."
"Although he was a God, even the Son of God, with power and authority to create this earth and other earths, yet there were some things lacking which he did not receive until after his resurrection. In other words he had not received the fulness until he got a resurrected body.^6"