1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Well, friends, welcome back to How to Study 2 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: the Bible. I'm so glad to be with you. It 3 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: is Christmas week. We are coming to the end of 4 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: our series, and I'm so excited to end here because 5 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: we're going to be as you heard on the intro 6 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: talking about Oh Come all you Faithful, which is just 7 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: such a triumphant song and a perfect place for us 8 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: to end this little mini series on Christmas hymns. So 9 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: thank you for being here with me. If this podcast 10 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: has been meaningful to you, a quick rate or review 11 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: really does help people find, especially these Christmas episodes, so 12 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: I'm grateful for you for taking the time to do that. 13 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: Thank you. And before we dive in, I just want 14 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: to remind you that I've also created a free Christmas 15 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: Eve liturgy that you can use with family, you can 16 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: use with your roommates, whoever's around with you at this season. 17 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: It includes scripture and prayers and just a simple candle 18 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: lighting moment. I really tried to make this accessible for 19 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: kids of all ages, including the inner kid, and all 20 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: of us, and really just helps us remember what we're 21 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: doing at the Christmas season, but in a very simple, 22 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: very informal way. So You can download that liturgy for 23 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: free at Nicole Yunis dot com slash Christmas. So here's 24 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: my opening thought today, particularly as we come into this song, 25 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: think about invitations that you receive at Christmas, maybe a 26 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: really fun invitation that you've received at Christmas. There's something 27 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: about Christmas that isn't just announcing the good news, as 28 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: we've seen over the last few songs that have really 29 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: had this rich theology that have given us really the 30 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: story of Jesus, why he came, what he did, what 31 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: it means for us. But today we're really looking at 32 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: an invitation that there is a response that is requested 33 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: of us when it comes to Christmas. And this one, 34 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: Oh Come all you Faithful, is really a pure invitation 35 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: over and over again. It's about coming, it's about beholding 36 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: and kneeling and adoring and worshiping. So let's talk a 37 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 1: little bit about what illusions we have actually in this song. 38 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: So the first one, just the opening line, oh Come 39 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: all you faithful, joyful and triumphant. This comes straight from 40 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: Psalm one hundred. It says this shout with joy to 41 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: the Lord, all the earth, worship the Lord with gladness, 42 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: come before him. Singing with joy. Now, joy is a 43 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: posture of worship. That's exactly what Scripture tells us. Joy 44 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: does not have to mean an emotional happiness. You can 45 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: decide to come before him singing with joy, even if 46 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: you don't feel it. Sometimes the feelings follow. Afterwards. We 47 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: set our mind and our will towards worship with gladness, 48 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: and then we discover that we're happy. That's some of 49 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: the way that it works when we allow our souls 50 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: to be healed and lifted by the spirit of God. So, Oh, 51 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: come all you faithful, joyful, and triumphant. Next line is oh, 52 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: come to Bethlehem. In mic of five. This is the 53 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: Old Testament Micah five, verse two. It actually prophesied about Bethlehem, 54 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: about a savior being born in Bethlehem, and it says, 55 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: but you, o, Bethlehem, are only a small village among 56 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel 57 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: whose origins are in the distant past, will come from 58 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: you on my behalf. You see, Bethlehem was not just 59 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: the location of Jesus's birth, It was a prophetic destination. 60 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: It was actually prophesied that this leader, this ruler with 61 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: a distant past, how mysterious will come from Bethlehem. And 62 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: then the scripture goes on and says, come and behold him. 63 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: This is what the lyric is Born, the King of Angels, 64 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,479 Speaker 1: And this whole concept helps us place angels properly. We 65 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: actually talked about this in the Daniel series, how we 66 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: can understand angels. And it says in Matthew two that 67 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: when the shepherd saw the star, they were filled with joy, 68 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: and they entered the house, and the saw the child, 69 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: and they bowed down and worshiped him. And this is very, 70 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: very important because it's widely understood that obviously in the 71 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: Jewish faith the Ten Commandments say you shall have no 72 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: God but Me right, so that you shall not bow 73 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: down and worship anything. And so the fact that sprinkled 74 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,799 Speaker 1: all through the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, we see 75 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: that worship is acceptable with Jesus, that when they saw 76 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: the child here they worship. That people worship Jesus in 77 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: different times. If Jesus was just simply a prophet, if 78 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: Jesus was a righteous rabbi, he would never allow worship. 79 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: That would be the highest form of blasphemy to allow worship. 80 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: And so this just gives us that little clue that 81 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: Jesus is not just another prophet, he's not just another teacher, 82 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: he's not just a righteous spiritual person, that he is 83 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: God himself, and that even from the beginning, worship was 84 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: how people respond to who Jesus to behold. Jesus is 85 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: always meant to lead us to worship. The scripture goes 86 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: on and says, oh, come, let us adore him. So 87 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: now we're getting that invitation again. It involves movement and response. 88 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: It's like, come and do this thing. And in Luke two, 89 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: this is a shepherds who say to each other, let's 90 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: go to Bethlehem, let's see what's happened. They find Mary 91 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: and Joseph there in the village, they find Jesus lying 92 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: in the manger. They go to find him. The lyrics 93 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: go on and talk about the angels singing. And this 94 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: is truly a place that we see from Daniel through Luke, 95 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: through Revelation, when we got to kick back to Daniel 96 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: that in Revelation at the end of times, we know 97 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: that there are multitudes of angels worshiping at the throne, 98 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: and we kind of see Heaven breakthrough to earth here 99 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: in this moment of Jesus's birth. In Luke chapter two, 100 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: it says that the first angel was joined by a 101 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: host of other angels, the armies of Heaven. Can you 102 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: imagine seeing that? Can just being out in the field 103 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: doing your normal work, just on the night shift, just 104 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: a regular night, and then having this incredible spiritual experience 105 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: where the veil is pulled back between Heaven and Earth 106 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: and you actually see with your eyes what is actually 107 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: happening in the spiritual realm. And it's not just one angel, 108 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: as if that wouldn't be enough, as if you would 109 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: not fall down in absolute fear by one angel, but 110 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: that actually God pulls the curtain back to show the 111 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: armies of Heaven, praising this moment as Jesus comes to 112 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: Earth and saying glory to God in the highest Heaven 113 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased. 114 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: Truly the greatest gift the universe has ever received. And 115 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,679 Speaker 1: we have this one moment where you see that that's true. 116 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: And then I love this line. It says, word of 117 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: the Father. Okay, that's kind of an interesting phrase. Word 118 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: of the Father now in flesh appears, and this is 119 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: kind of capturing what we read about in John chapter one, 120 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: where it says that in the beginning was the Word, 121 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: and the word was with God, and the word was God. 122 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: And when I say word, I mean capital W word. 123 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: And it goes on. It says in John one fourteen 124 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: that the word this is in the New Living translation, 125 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: by the way, the Word became human and made his 126 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: home among us. That he was full of unfailing love 127 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: and faithfulness. This idea of the word means like the 128 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: ability to speak into existence everything that is. This is 129 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: what we know about Jesus. That through him all things 130 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: were made, is what it says in Colossians. And without 131 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: him nothing was made. We begin to touch into the 132 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: mystery of the divinity of Jesus. That he was not created, 133 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 1: that he has always been, but that he actually laid 134 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: down his divinity, He laid down his rights to his 135 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: full glory, to come to earth in the flesh. He 136 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: was both fully divine and fully human. That he became 137 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: human and made his home among us. He experienced human 138 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: existence so that he might usher us back into the 139 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: presence of God through his sacrifice. And so then the 140 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: lyric says, so let us adore him Christ the Lord 141 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: and This is where we kick back to revelation that 142 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: we were talking about a minute ago, when we see 143 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: the army of angels again singing on the throne. Worthy 144 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: is the lamb who is slaughtered to receive power and 145 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. 146 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: This adoration is the response to understanding who Jesus is 147 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: and what it means to worship him. We just we 148 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: respond because we recognize that he is the ultimate, that 149 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: he is the King of Kings, that he is the 150 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: Lord of lords, that he is the definition of love, 151 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: and that through him we can experience the life that 152 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: He's promised us. And that's why we adore him. That's 153 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: why we worship. And worship is where our hurts fully 154 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: all line with who we were made to be. We 155 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: were made as creatures to worship God, and so when 156 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: we worship God, we feel fully at home. This is 157 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: the place where we understand and actually a lyric speaks 158 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: about this concept of Christ, true God of true God, 159 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: light from light eternal, that's expanded. We don't always sing 160 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: that verse in regular like Christmas Eve services, but that 161 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: was one of the original lines. True God of True God, 162 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: light from light eternal. That is where we're talking about 163 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: this idea of Christ being the visible image of the 164 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: invisible God, that he existed before anything was created, that 165 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: he's supreme over all creation. We read about this theology 166 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: in Colossians. But a very important concept, a very important 167 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: part of our understanding of Jesus is that he is 168 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: not just like the best human that ever lived. That 169 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: we don't worship him because he was the smartest and 170 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: best human that ever lived. We worshiped him because he 171 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: is God. He is God come to the flesh. And 172 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: so when we understand these things, we move towards Christ 173 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: and understand that Jesus is not just a part of 174 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: the Christmas story. He is the center of the story. 175 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: That God is now with us, e Manuel, God with us, 176 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: not above us, not asking us to come reach him, 177 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: but coming down to us on a rescue mission, so 178 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:45,119 Speaker 1: that we might be in relationship with God. What a beautiful, 179 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: beautiful truth we find when we sing, Oh, come all 180 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: ye faithful. Now you might be asking, I don't know 181 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: if I'm faithful. I think about my own life and 182 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: all the mistakes I've made in all the ways that 183 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: I fall away from God. Every single day, and I'm like, 184 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: oh am, I faithful, though, oh come all ye faithful. Well, 185 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: faithful is just continuing to practice. It's for all those 186 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: who continue to try. It's the ones who just continue 187 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: to walk forward. It's not about how good you are 188 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: at any one thing. It's not about how great you 189 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: are at keeping the commandments, or how holy you've been 190 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: this year, or how much money you've given away or 191 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: all these other actions that, of course do come out 192 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: of our love for Christ. But to be faithful is 193 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: simply to continue to accept his love, to continue to 194 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: receive his love, to wake up each morning and say, 195 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, but I'm going to try again to 196 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: enter into life believing that Jesus is God's Son, and 197 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: that the greatest thing that ever happened on this earth 198 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: is the day that Jesus interrupted the earth and came 199 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: to us so that he might show us what it 200 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: looks like to live a life with God, and that 201 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: we are now in into the Kingdom of God because 202 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: of him. What a beautiful truth that we have in 203 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: this song and in all the songs that we've explored 204 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: together over the last few weeks. I want to close 205 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: with a quote from C. S. Lewis one of my favorites. 206 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: And he says Christianity, if false, is of no importance. 207 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: But if Christianity is true, it is of infinite importance. 208 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: The one thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important. Jesus 209 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: can't just be a great spiritual teacher, can't just be 210 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: a great rabbi, because he wouldn't have done the things 211 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: that he did. And so the question is Christianity true 212 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: or false? And if it is true, and if all 213 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: the things that we've talked about happened, it is the 214 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 1: most important thing that you can know in your life. 215 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: So this week, I just want to invite you to 216 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: choose one intentional way that you might come and behold Him. 217 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: Whatever that looks like for you. Maybe that's sitting for 218 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: a moment and looking at your Christmas Maybe that's putting 219 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: some hymns on in your home. Maybe it's kneeling. If 220 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: you don't normally kneel in prayer, maybe you kneel in prayer, 221 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: or sing out loud, or read the Christmas story out loud. 222 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: Just find a way to come and behold him. Not 223 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: to do anything except to actually allow yourself to worship 224 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: and ask yourself, am I observing Christmas? Or am I participating? 225 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: Am I actually coming and responding to Christ this season? 226 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: Because when you do, your heart will be so full, 227 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: your soul will be at rest, and you will experience 228 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: the true joy that the angels sung about when they 229 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: said Christ is here. So if you'd like a simple, 230 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: meaningful way to practice this kind of worship with the 231 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: people in your life, you can download that free Christmas 232 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: Eve liturgy I have for you. It's at nicole Yunis 233 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: dot com slash Christmas. It's just there to help you 234 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: come and behold and adore right where you are, right 235 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: at your kitchen table. So let's not just sing the 236 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: invitation of Oh come while you faithful, Well, let's actually 237 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: answer the invitation and truly come into worship this season. 238 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: All right, everyone, I hope you have an amazing, beautiful, peaceful, 239 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: merry Christmas, and I'll be back next week as we 240 00:15:12,440 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: wrap up the year together. Hey, listeners, thanks for listening 241 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: to this special Advent episode of How to Study the Bible. 242 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: We wanted you to know that Nicole has put together 243 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: a great resource for you this Christmas, a Christmas Eve 244 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: Family Liturgy. It's a free resource and a simple way 245 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: to bring the message of Christ into your family celebration. 246 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: You can find Nicole's Christmas Eve family liturgy by going 247 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: to her website Nicoleunice dot com slash Christmas. We also 248 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: put a link in the show notes. Thanks and from 249 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: our team to yours. Merry Christmas.