1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Let us pray. Behold, a virgin shall be with child 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: Matthew one twenty three. I love the song, Oh, Come, O, 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: Come Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel. Thank you, Jesus for 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: paying the price to ransom me from death and destruction 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: with your life. I will forever be grateful for what 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: you did to be with me. You loved me so 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: much that you came into this world through a virgin birth. 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: You chose to strip yourself of all your regal majesty 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: and take on human form so I might know you 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: and relate to you. My sinful human nature can never 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: stand in light of your holiness, so you had to 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: first show me your holiness. You showed me that you 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: understood my fears, insecurities, and struggles. You endured all I 16 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: endure and more, and you raised above it God with us, 17 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: God for us, God abiding in us. What an honor 18 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: and privilege it is to know you desire to dwell 19 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: among us as your people. You brought me hope and 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: the pathway to the Father, Jesus, My Immanuel. I adore 21 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 1: you and embrace your kindness and your example of how 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: to live in a fallen world. What a joy it 23 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: is to know that you are not ashamed to call 24 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: me your own. You came to save those who were 25 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: lost and rejected by the world. Thank you, my precious 26 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for listening to 27 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: today's daily prayer for inspiration and an incredible message from 28 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: our feature pastor. Stay tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday service. 29 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 2: Hellohi everybody, thank you for listening to pray dot com Radio. 30 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: My name is Mike Kai, the senior pastor of Inspire 31 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: Church in Honolulu, Hawaii, and I'd love for you to 32 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: check out my channel here on pray dot Com. I'd 33 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 2: also like to invite you to come and visit us 34 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 2: at Inspire Church. We have multiple services online and in person. 35 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 2: For more information, head over to Mike Kai dot tv. 36 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 2: That's m I k E Kai dot tv and now 37 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: enjoy this message. Prophetic Christmas. Prophetic Christmas. There's so many 38 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: prophecies in the Old Testament to talk about the first 39 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I love 40 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: the prophecies because there is no major then there is 41 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: no crucifixion. If there is no virgin birth, then there 42 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: is no rising from the grave. I love Easter, but 43 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 2: I love Christmas. Christmas is powerful because Christmas sets up 44 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: Easter sets up everything else. And so when we look 45 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: at this story, I love it because God is doing 46 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: something prophetically, not just during that Christmas, but I believe 47 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 2: He's doing something prophetically in this Christmas, something prophetically in 48 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: your life. God is speaking into your future. God is 49 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 2: speaking into what he sees for your life and for 50 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 2: my life. And that nothing happens by coincidence or by 51 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 2: happen chance, that everything is designed by God to happen 52 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: the way that He caused it to happen, right on time. 53 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there are five hundred and 54 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: forty prophecies in the Old Testament that speak about Jesus' 55 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: first coming, five hundred and forty. There are twice as 56 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: many more talking about his second coming, and every single 57 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: one is right on time. Because God is always on time. 58 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: Somebody say, amen. And so when we look at your 59 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 2: life in my life, you can always rest assured that 60 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: even though he seems to be late, he's always on time. 61 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 2: He's on his time, he's not on my time. He's 62 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: on chronos. He's not on chronos, He's on chiros. Excuse me. 63 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: Chronos is chronological like the watch on my wrists. But 64 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: chiros is when God, in the fullness of time, makes 65 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 2: everything work the way that he wants it to work. 66 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 2: The Bible tells us in Galatians chapter four, the great 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: Apostle Paul writes that in the fullness of time had 68 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 2: come God sent forth his son, born of a woman. 69 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: So in the fullness of time, what does the fullness 70 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: of time mean? The fullness of time means at just 71 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 2: the right time, when it was God's time, when it 72 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 2: was the chiros time, kai r Os, chiros time, at 73 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: just the right time, in the fullness of time, when 74 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 2: everything was working the way that it needed to be. 75 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 2: Then God brought his son into the world. You know, 76 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: Jesus wasn't an afterthought. It wasn't like God was up 77 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 2: in heavens. So I think I need a son, So 78 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 2: let's find a virgin. No no, no, no no, it 79 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 2: was already planned. As a matter of fact, the Bible 80 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 2: tells us in Genesis that God has said, then let 81 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: us make man in our own image. So who's he 82 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: talking to? Let Us. Who's Us, the Triune God, the 83 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 2: Father of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is 84 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 2: the alpha of the Omega. Listen, he is the first 85 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: and the last. He's the uncreated one. He was already 86 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: in existence as a matter of fact, in the Old Testament, 87 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: which I love to preach from. Sometimes, I'm telling you, 88 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 2: you see a theophany. A theophany is a preincarnate version 89 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 2: of Christ who's come to Earth from Heaven before the 90 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: virgin birth. So let me give you an example. Gideon, 91 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 2: Gideon's threshing wheat and the bottom of a wine press, 92 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the Angel of the Lord appears. 93 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: Anytime you see the Angel of the Lord, you will 94 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: find that the Angel of the Lord is Jesus, a 95 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,559 Speaker 2: pre incarnate version of Him coming to planet Earth before 96 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 2: the virgin birth. So in the middle of this the 97 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: fullness of time, the fullness of time was the fullness 98 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 2: of time. The fullness of time is really between the 99 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: Old Testament and the New Testament, that period of time 100 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 2: between the Book of Malachi and the Book of Matthew 101 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 2: when I was a new Christian. Oh, what is that Malachi? 102 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 2: What is that book? Seriously, it's Malachai, Bro Malachai. Oh sorry. 103 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 2: So in between the book of Malachi and Matthew is 104 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 2: four hundred and forty years of what we are considering 105 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 2: of prophetic silence. There's no more prophet after Malachi. Maybe 106 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 2: there's another brother name, you know, whatever his name was 107 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 2: gonna be, But God said, no, there we are done. 108 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I covered it about two 109 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 2: weeks ago on the prophet Malachi and his last words, 110 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 2: and some of them really were judgment words that God 111 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 2: was about to bring judgment on the earth. And between 112 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: Malachi and Matthew is the fullness of time four hundred 113 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 2: or so years. Sometimes we think, because God might be silent, 114 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 2: that he's not working. It's not true, because in that 115 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 2: four hundred years, what does God do. I'm tired of 116 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 2: his room, taking a time out. I just need some meantime. No, no, no, no, no, 117 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 2: no no. He was still working. He was orchestrating things, 118 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 2: he was moving things around. As a matter of fact, 119 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 2: in Luke chapter one, it talks about during the Emperor, 120 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 2: the reign of Emperor the Emperor, which God like, it's 121 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 2: an emperor. Trust me, it's an emperor. I just read 122 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: it before I got up here, the Augustus. I know 123 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 2: that all along. It's just got a lot going on 124 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 2: in my head right now. And so during the reign 125 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 2: of Augustus, during the time of King Herod, during the 126 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: time where Herod was killing babies under the age of two, 127 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: the boys looking for all the boys, trying to find 128 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 2: all the boys in the city of Bethlehem, with the 129 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,559 Speaker 2: town of Bethlehem, because he's trying to get to Jesus. 130 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 2: Because the magi who came from the east, who were 131 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 2: wise men, so to speak, and who brought gold and 132 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: frankensin some mr we think it were only three kings 133 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: because gold frankensin s murd they could only carry one 134 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: gift each. Sorry, there's only three of us. No, there's 135 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 2: more of them, I'm sure. And they came in an entourage. 136 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 2: They came with military escort, because you don't travel with 137 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 2: all that gold without bows and arrows and speed years 138 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 2: and whatnot. So now, in the fullness of time, there's 139 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 2: four hundred years before Augustus, before Herod, and right here 140 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: on the screen we have the time of Alexander the Great. 141 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: Now Alexander the Great, if you heard of him, he 142 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: was hot for Cleopatra, and the two of them hooked 143 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 2: up and got on an app and met well anyway, 144 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 2: moving right along, and then that empire crumbled, and so 145 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 2: it's split into four different places. In the fullness of time. 146 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 2: The Maccabeians revolted against the rule over Israel during that 147 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 2: time because of the people of Israel, who already had 148 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: the land. Remember, God said, I give you the land. 149 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 2: He said, this is yours. To Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 150 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 2: He said, this land is for you and your for 151 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 2: your descendants. It's not for anybody else. But of course 152 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 2: we do know that they were disobedient to God. So 153 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 2: they got sent to the Assyrian kingdom. They got sent 154 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 2: to the Babylonians, but God still had a remnant there 155 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 2: and he sends his people back and now they repopulate 156 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 2: the place. But throughout all that convoluted history, they all 157 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: go to different ways, and now all of a sudden 158 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 2: they come back to reinhabit the land, and so they're 159 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 2: in people are inhabiting their land, and so now what 160 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 2: they gotta do is they got to revolt because they 161 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 2: don't want that government ruling over them. It was that 162 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: in that fullness of time, and it is in this 163 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: period that God is moving in that four hundred and 164 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 2: forty years. And sometimes you think that maybe God might 165 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 2: be silent in your life. I'm telling you God is 166 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: never silent. God is always working. Can I tell you 167 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 2: that God is always orchestrating pieces if you let him. 168 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: God is moving pieces along the chessboard of your life 169 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 2: called cairos, not chronos. It's in this fullness of time, 170 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 2: and it's in this fullness of time that the words 171 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 2: of Isaiah, the prophet, the one that Jesus loved to 172 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: quote the most. If I'm not mistaken, in the book 173 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 2: of Isaiah, he says in Isaiah chapter nine, he says, nevertheless, 174 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 2: talking about Jesus's birth, there will be no more gloom 175 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 2: for those who are in distress. In the past he 176 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 2: humbled the land of Zebulen and the land of Naftali. 177 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: But in the future he will honor Galo of the nations. 178 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: Zebulin and Naphtali were two of twelve tribes of Israel, 179 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: so singling out these two, these two tribes. But then 180 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 2: he says, but in the future he will honor Galilee 181 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 2: of the Nations. And Jesus was raised in Galilee, came 182 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,359 Speaker 2: from Galilee. They called him the Galilean Galileo and Galilean 183 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 2: by the way of the sea beyond the Jordan River. 184 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: And then verse two, the people walking in darkness, darkness 185 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 2: have seen a great light. Of those living in a 186 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 2: land of deep darkness, A light has dawned. Light, not 187 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 2: the kind of New age light, a new age philosophy. Light. Oh, 188 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 2: you have light within you. I like your aur online. 189 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 2: I love your aur Not that kind of light. Sorry, 190 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: I don't want that light. Light is God. See when 191 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: you look at the Old Testament and you find that 192 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: there was the presence of God, you know, a lot 193 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 2: of them had to do with light. When the pillar 194 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 2: of Fire, that was a light led the children out 195 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 2: of Egypt, out of slavery and into the Promised Land. 196 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 2: But of course they wandered for forty years. What led 197 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 2: them pillar of fire, right, pillar of cloud? By day, 198 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,719 Speaker 2: God moved them. As a matter of fact, when the 199 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 2: people of Israel were told by God to I want 200 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 2: you to worship me in the desert, and they set 201 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 2: up a tabernacle or a tent of worship, there was 202 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 2: a place called the tent of meeting. And then whenever 203 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 2: Moses would go into the tent of meeting, he would 204 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 2: meet with God one on one. And when he was 205 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 2: with him one on one, he'd come out of the 206 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 2: tent of meeting, and his face was so bright, so glowy, 207 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 2: because of the presence of God that was on the outside, 208 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 2: that were reflecting on his exterior. When he walked away, 209 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: people said, please, where a napkin. I can't stand the 210 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 2: look of your You're too bright, And they put a 211 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 2: napkin over his face. As a matter of fact, when 212 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: the priest and later on when King Solomon built the 213 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 2: temple in Jerusalem, a beautiful, magnificent piece of architecture, and 214 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: they built the temple, and the Holy of Holies was 215 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 2: in the most only place the presence of God was there, 216 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 2: and it was compared to the presence was the light. 217 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 2: He's not a light, he is light, okay. And so 218 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: now you've got the presence of God. But in Ezekiel 219 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 2: chapter ten, because the people turned their back on him, 220 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: because people no longer followed him, no longer worshiped him, 221 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 2: they brought in their own syncretism of different religions. And 222 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 2: they said, they like I said, they made a mister 223 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 2: potato head God. I put the head here, the ear 224 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 2: there in the mouth over there, and I put it 225 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: wherever I wanted. This is my God, this is what 226 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 2: I worshiped. That's sure God, this is my God. That's 227 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 2: your truth. This is my truth. You know what I'm 228 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 2: talking about. And then all of a sudden, God says, 229 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 2: I have no other gods before me, and so he said, 230 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 2: I'm out. And in Ezekiel ten, he leaves the temple. 231 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 2: Presence of God leaves the temple. In Ezekiel chapter eleven, 232 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 2: he actually leaves the city. And so when Isaiah says 233 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 2: a light has dawned, a light has goned, we are 234 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 2: thinking and we are talking about the fullness of time, 235 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: of the presence of God in the Christ child. Boom. Anyway, Wow, 236 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: I just want to whole myself. That's awesome what God 237 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 2: is doing. And so when we look at this Luke 238 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 2: chapter two, verse eight in your bible, and I'm gonna 239 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: read it from my ten font Bible, but I might 240 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: look at my fourteen font notes because my eyes are 241 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: getting older. Luke chapter two, verse eight, it said that night, everybody, 242 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 2: say that night, that's the night, the fullness of time, 243 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 2: everything's coming together. It's that night for you Christmas Eve 244 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: is that night, It's that day twenty twenty three where 245 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 2: God is bringing everything together. You're like, oh my gosh, 246 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,719 Speaker 2: You're like, you're you're blowing your mind because God is 247 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 2: in the fullness of time at just the right time. 248 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 2: God is bringing the pieces together for you. And now 249 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 2: you're looking at this going, oh my gosh, God is 250 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 2: so amazing. So that night, the Bible tells us that 251 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 2: there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding the 252 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 2: flocks of sheep, and suddenly an angel of the Lord 253 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord's glory 254 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 2: surrounded them. The light. The light was so strong. Is 255 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: an incredible LEDs more powerful than the lumens, any lumens 256 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 2: that you have, more bright than your lifted truck. Come on, somebody. 257 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: It is so strong that they were terrified, but the 258 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 2: angel reassured them, don't be afraid. He said, I bring 259 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 2: you good news that will bring great joy to all people. 260 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: Good news, great joy all people. Come Onhaman of you 261 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: are ready for some good news. I'm ready for some 262 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 2: good news. I've had some bad news. I'm some good 263 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 2: news sprinkled with some bad news. And sometimes the bad 264 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: news to us outweighs the good news. But I want 265 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 2: to tell you that God has got some good news 266 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 2: for you today in the name of Jesus. This is 267 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 2: not a feel good gospel. It's all good. I get 268 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 2: an amen that God's got something good for you. No 269 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 2: matter what twenty twenty three was like, no matter if 270 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 2: you had bad news, no matter if you got ghosted, 271 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: no matter if you got ignored, no matter if something 272 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 2: bad happened to you. I promise you, if you trust 273 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 2: in God, He's always got good news. Somebody say, amen, 274 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 2: I can go down the rabbit trail of my YouTube 275 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 2: that I like to watch, or the Instagram guys that 276 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 2: I like to follow, and they can take me down 277 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: to the bad news all the time. And sometimes that 278 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: stuff is reality. But I choose not only to look 279 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: at that. I choose more to look at the good 280 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 2: news because God has got good news. Come on, somebody, 281 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 2: not only does he have good news, he's got great joy. 282 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 2: Say great joy. He's got great joy. Do your joy? 283 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 2: Is joy is not temporary. Emotions come and go. As 284 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I can be I can. I 285 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: have got emotions like you've got emotions. Don't tell me 286 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 2: I'm an unemotional person. No, you have emotions. We only 287 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 2: got emotions and I got emos. I got emotions. I 288 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: cant get angry, I can get sad, I can get bummed, 289 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 2: I can get glad, I can I got all the 290 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: spec of my emotions. As a matter of fact, we're 291 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 2: all emotional people. But you know what the difference is, 292 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 2: We've got joy. Joy is a state of being versus 293 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 2: an emotion. In fact, we're more emotional than ever before. 294 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 2: I was just reading upstairs on Avis there. The more 295 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 2: emotional I am, the less intelligent I become. Who texts that? 296 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 2: Come on hashtag? That at my kai? That the more 297 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 2: emotional I am, the less intelligent I become. And so 298 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 2: when we become more emotional, we're in more emotional society 299 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 2: than ever before. That's why our phones have emojis. That's 300 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 2: what an emoji is. In emoji is an emotion, mind 301 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 2: blown angry, right, kisses all over your face. We have 302 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 2: emojis to express our emotions in text form. But joy 303 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: is different. God said, I came to bring you good news, 304 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 2: and it'll bring great joy. And it's a state of being. 305 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 2: And who's it fur not for a few it's for 306 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: all people. Good news, great joy all people. You know, 307 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 2: the angel didn't send this message all on his own, 308 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 2: like I think I'm gonna send the people a message. 309 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 2: I'll be read back gods it no, no, no, no, no, 310 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 2: come back here. The last time that happen. His name 311 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 2: is Lucifer, and then we called him Satan. Later on, 312 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 2: he said, you send my message. I've got good news 313 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 2: that brings great joy to all people. This is a 314 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 2: message from God. This is a message from the Lord, 315 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 2: not from an angel. The angel was just a herald. 316 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 2: He was a hear ye, hear ye of the seventeen 317 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 2: hundreds town crier in Philadelphia. That's all he was. He 318 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 2: was delivering a message, and the message is still today. 319 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 2: He's got good news that will bring great joy to 320 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: all people. I haven't even begun to give you any 321 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 2: points yet, but listen to this God. This is how 322 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 2: God is look good news, great joy all people. Why 323 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 2: because the Savior, Yes, the Messiah, the thing that you've 324 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 2: been waiting for for thousands of years, the one that 325 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 2: before we got one signed into the Book of Malachi. 326 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 2: All of that going on here, It is all happening 327 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 2: right here. The good news Messiah, the Savior of the world, 328 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: the Christ. Yes, he's born today in Bethlehem, in the 329 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 2: city of David, Bethlehem, beth Lehem. Anyway, you see the 330 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 2: word beth it means house, house, beth l house of 331 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: the Lord, beth Laham, house of bread. I was this 332 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: playing with you. Yes, his house of bread anway, moving 333 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: right along that part, I was playing with you. The 334 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 2: house of bread is giving birth to the bread of life. 335 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 2: I only saw the disservice like this, like this because 336 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: God was about to bring something that's gonna feed the people, 337 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: not fishes and loaves. He was gonna feed the people 338 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: that will never be hungry again. They wouldn't hunger for 339 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 2: the world again. They wouldn't hunger from society again. They 340 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 2: were hunger for what the culture was about to bring. 341 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 2: They were gonna hunger and thirst for righteousness, and they 342 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 2: were gonna hunger for God. He says, how will you 343 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 2: recognize him? You will recognize him by this sign. He'll 344 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 2: be in a very expensive stroller. No, remember the comedy strollers. 345 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: We said that was expensive. Somebody bought us one. Now 346 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 2: today I heard strollers cost like five hundred bucks away. 347 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 2: Crazy praise anyway, God bless you. Whatever whatever has to 348 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 2: push that baby, well, shock absorbers lift it. You might 349 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 2: as well lift it anyway. Listen, let's get serious online. 350 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 2: This is the online people always throwing me off here 351 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: it is. This is a sign you'll find their baby 352 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 2: wrapped snugly in strips of cloth and lying in a manger. 353 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 2: Two signs wrapped in grave clothes. That's the strips of 354 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 2: cloth and lying in a feeding trough. We'll talk about 355 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 2: being wrapped later. He will be in a feeding trough. 356 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 2: He will be put in places, and he doesn't deserve 357 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 2: Billy Graham said, yes, in some ways a palace would 358 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 2: have been more fitting, because Jesus is indeed a king. 359 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible tells us that he is even 360 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: greater than an earthly king, because he is the son 361 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 2: of God, the sovereign ruler of the universe. But instead, 362 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 2: Jesus was born in the humblest of places, immanageable, imaginable, 363 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 2: in an ordinary stable. After he was born, his mother 364 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 2: Mary had to place him in a feeding trough. And 365 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 2: can you imagine a less elegant birthplace for the son 366 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 2: of God. Philip Yancey in a book that I love 367 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 2: called The Jesus I never knew, and he should read 368 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 2: that book. Go download the book, Go buy that book. 369 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 2: The Jesus I never knew. Philip Yancey says, God's visit 370 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 2: to Earth took place in an animal shelter, with no 371 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: attendance present, and nor to they lay the newborn king 372 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 2: but a feed troth. Indeed, the event that divided history 373 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 2: and even our calendars into two parts may have had 374 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 2: more animal than human witnesses. But not only did Jesus 375 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 2: deserve better, but also the story that I love the 376 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 2: most continues on in verse thirteen. Verse thirteen says, suddenly 377 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 2: the angel was joined by a vast host of others, 378 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 2: the armies of Heaven, praising God and saying, the armies 379 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 2: of Heaven. The armies, not the choir of Heaven, not 380 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 2: the altold section of Heaven, not the tenors of Heaven. 381 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 2: The armies of Heaven and the armies. And why because 382 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 2: there's a spiritual war, and those angels are fighting the 383 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 2: other one third that rebelled on our behalf, and so 384 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 2: we got a war on the heavens, the two thirds 385 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 2: against the one third, and the two thirds are angels 386 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 2: that fight on our behalf. The one third, well, the 387 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: one third are fallen angels that are called demons. They're 388 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 2: Satan's people. And I'm telling you right now, so this 389 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 2: is not the choir section that come down from heaven. No, no, no, no, 390 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 2: this is the army of Heaven. And they come down 391 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 2: and they're not just singing go to God in the 392 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: Highest although it's worthy of singing. They are singing a 393 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 2: war chant hakka ha ha from heaven. That's what they're doing. 394 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 2: So then they begin to say glory to God in 395 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 2: the Highest Heaven and peace on earth to those with 396 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 2: whom God is pleased. And when the angels had returned 397 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 2: to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, let's go 398 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 2: to Bethlehem and let's see this thing that has happened 399 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 2: which the Lord has told us about. With the time 400 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 2: that I have with you, I want to tell you this. 401 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 2: I love this Spacies scripture. I love Christmas. I didn't 402 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 2: like Christmas before. In fact, I couldn't stand Christmas before. 403 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 2: I'll tell you later on. But here's why I love Christmas. 404 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 2: Because I love Christmas because out of all of the 405 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 2: things that God was moving in the pieces and the 406 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 2: fullness of time, what I love about it the most 407 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 2: is the shepherds. The shepherds. When God chose to announce 408 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 2: the birth of his son, he didn't go to the 409 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 2: religious elite. He didn't go to the dignitaries. He didn't 410 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 2: go to the Pharisees, the Sadducees. He didn't announce it 411 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 2: to the herods first. He didn't give it to the 412 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 2: people that we thought that you normally give it to. 413 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: He didn't give it to the credential, the qualified. All 414 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 2: who did you give it to give it to the shepherds. 415 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 2: The shepherds were the people that took care of the sheep, 416 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 2: that took care of the lambs. They had goats, and 417 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 2: shepherds were assault of the earth people, kind of the 418 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: lowest rung of society, just above widows, just above widows. 419 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: They were the people that had to handle the animals. 420 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 2: But they couldn't they couldn't offer the sacrifice on the 421 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 2: They were called unclean. It's interesting that we're taking care 422 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 2: of the sheep and the lambs in order for you 423 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 2: the sacrifice, but we can't go because we're unclean, because 424 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 2: we're doing this for you. Weird. And so it is 425 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 2: these people who are working the night shift. And when 426 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 2: you're working the night shift, you obviously have low seniority. 427 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 2: So it's a low seniority. People of the day who 428 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 2: are working the night shift get an extra fifty cents 429 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 2: a night. You know what I'm talking about, in order 430 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 2: to watch somebody else's sheep. It's not theirs. If you 431 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 2: lost the sheep, you have to pay for it. And 432 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 2: so now what would happened is the shepherds. I'm gonna 433 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 2: tell you, shepherds seems like an easy job. This, you know, shepherding. No, no, no, no, 434 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 2: shepherds are hard sheep. They don't listen. That's why God 435 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 2: says to me and to you. He says, we like sheep, 436 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 2: have gone astray. Each of us have gone on our 437 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 2: own way, and we are like sheep, we go straight. 438 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 2: And so when the sheep goes astray, what does the 439 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: shepherd do? The shepherd has to go leave the ninety 440 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 2: nine and go after the one. He has to leave 441 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: the ninety nine and go after the one. Because why 442 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 2: because God counts, and God counts. This means he's counted you. 443 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the Lord counts because the 444 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 2: Bible says when one sinner repents and comes to Jesus. 445 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 2: All of heaven rejoices one out of one. So when 446 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 2: ninety nine are good and the one has gone, that 447 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 2: means the shepherd has counted that he knows he's got 448 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 2: a hundred. He's like, oh, could if we'll find the 449 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 2: other two three later on. No, no, no, no, he 450 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: knows that he's accountable for every single sheep. And a 451 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,719 Speaker 2: lady that was moving to the mainland they have to move, 452 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 2: and she just said, I love the church. I don't 453 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 2: know why you do that altar call like that because 454 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 2: it sounds like a used car salesman. It's not excuse me, said, yeah, 455 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 2: you know, you go one, two, three, four, five, six, 456 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 2: seven eight. I said, yeah, but I'm not asking for 457 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 2: a higher bid. I'm just counting hands. I said. I 458 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 2: beg to differ. I'm not a used car sellman. I'm 459 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 2: a new car salesman anyway. So anyway, so people wonder 460 00:24:58,560 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 2: why do you count? Because you know why I come 461 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 2: Because God counts, And if God counts, then means I count, 462 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 2: and that means you count, you count to God. And 463 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: we are living in a society where people think they 464 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 2: don't matter anymore. We live in a society where the 465 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 2: enemy's telling us that you don't count anymore. You don't count. 466 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 2: And so Christmas in New Year's some of the darkest 467 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 2: times of people's lives because they think that they don't count, 468 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 2: and so they bounce from life. And I want you 469 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 2: to know that the good shepherd, Jesus said that shepherd 470 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 2: lays down his life for his sheep. That's why Jesus, 471 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 2: that's why God loved shepherds. Did you see who was 472 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 2: shepherds in the Old Testament? A lot of them, And 473 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 2: the first one is Abraham. Abraham was a shepherd. Not 474 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 2: only was Abraham a shepherd, the father of the father 475 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 2: of the nation of Israel, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but 476 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 2: they also Moses was a shepherd. He was shepherding sheep 477 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 2: on the back side of a desert. I don't know 478 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 2: what the front side is, but I heard the backside. 479 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 2: And he's on the backside of the desert and he's 480 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,479 Speaker 2: heard sheep, and all of a sudden he gets an 481 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 2: encounter with God at a burning bush another light. Not 482 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 2: the next person, Jacob. Jacob was a shepherd, and Jacob's 483 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 2: story is unique to him. And this is the grandson 484 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 2: of Abraham. But then the next one who I love 485 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 2: the most is David. David had a shepherd's heart. David 486 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: would write in Psalm twenty three, verse one, the Lord 487 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 2: is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. He's not 488 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 2: my boss, he's not my luna. He's my shepherd. The 489 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 2: Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Jesus said, 490 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 2: I am the good shepherd. In the Good Shepherd Discourse 491 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 2: in John chapter ten, he announces it to shepherd's Today, 492 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 2: who do we announce it to? We would announce how 493 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 2: would we announce it? We would do a reveal, you know, 494 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 2: with a pafa balloon and blue pink and great. I 495 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 2: love that if you did that. No, no, no, the 496 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 2: good good do it? I love that. Today we would 497 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 2: go to we'd pay for a spot on a halftime 498 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 2: show of Super Bowl. And by the way, cowboys an't 499 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 2: making it. I just want to let you know. Yeah, 500 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 2: yea yea yeah, yea yea yea yeah yeah sorry sorry 501 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 2: sorry sorry sorry, come back, come back, come back, come back, 502 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 2: come back, come back, come back, come back. I love you, guys. 503 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 2: I love you guys. I don't even care. Actually, I 504 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: just don't know who's gonna win. But anyway, we would 505 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 2: pay for a halftime spot. That's what we would do, 506 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 2: and then we would announce it at halftime. Oh, do 507 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: a great commercial about it. But no, When God makes 508 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: the announcement, what does he do. He goes to the 509 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 2: people who never got invited and he brings it to them, 510 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 2: and he tells him I've got good news. You count 511 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 2: there's great joy. Join your salvation. It's for everybody. It's 512 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 2: not just for a few, it's for all people. That 513 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 2: transformation that happens on Christmas, when the fullness of time, 514 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 2: when everything's coming together for you and for me, what happens. 515 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 2: Number one, A light that reveals a greater future. God's 516 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 2: got a light that reveals your word is a lamp 517 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 2: into my feet, a light unto my path. God's got light. 518 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 2: He's gonna light your path for you. He's gonna show 519 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 2: you the way. Because why an Angel of the Lord 520 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 2: appeared among them verse nine, and the radiance of the 521 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: Lord's glory surrounded them. The glory of the Lord is 522 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 2: the radiance of God. He is the light John eight 523 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 2: to twelve. Jesus said, I am the light of the world. 524 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 2: If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness. 525 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 2: It's so easy to think that we're okay. But then 526 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: God says, no, no, you are, You're in darkness. The 527 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 2: apostle pause, it you were once in darkness. I was one. 528 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 2: I'll never commit myself and say back in the day 529 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 2: that I would say like I was walking in darkness. 530 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 2: I was such a dark person in a dark place. No, 531 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: I just was confused. I didn't have God in my life. 532 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 2: That put me in a dark place. And so the 533 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 2: darkness is overcome by the light. John Chapter one, verse five, 534 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 2: Jesus's best friend wrote, this is the message which we 535 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 2: have heard from him, and declare to you that God 536 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,719 Speaker 2: is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. 537 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 2: He is light. He shines a light. He leaves the 538 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 2: porch light on. That's who he is. Every father in 539 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 2: this place, every mother in this place knows that if 540 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 2: your kid is out, they got a curfew whatever. That 541 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 2: prop ain't working. But we leave the porch light on. 542 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 2: Why don't we leave the light on? We leave the 543 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 2: light on because we want them to know we're expecting 544 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 2: them home. When you turn off the light, ain't nobody 545 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 2: else got to come into the house. Because everybody else's 546 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 2: supposed to be in the house. Is in the house. 547 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 2: That light's been on, and that light is on for 548 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 2: sons and daughters to come home to God. That's why 549 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: that light is on number one. It's a light that 550 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: reveals a greater future. Why because I was once in 551 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 2: a dark place. I don't know if you ever took 552 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 2: a dark path before. I don't know if you've ever 553 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 2: ever been never accepted the gift that God has for you. 554 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 2: Whatever you single one of us like, I'm gonna come down, 555 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 2: I'll gie you can I use use an example, honey? No, 556 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 2: all right, I'll use an example. So because you don't 557 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 2: want me to, I will. And so it would be 558 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 2: like this, don't open it now, okay, but but just 559 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 2: just play with me. Don't overstep your role. But here 560 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 2: it is staying. You're like, oh, I say, honey, here's 561 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 2: the gift. I have a gift for you. And she'd 562 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,719 Speaker 2: be like, oh, thank you so much. And I'd be like, oh, 563 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: you're welcome. Are you going to open it? No? Why not? 564 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 2: Not ready? I was like ready for what? Maybe by myself. 565 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: I'm not comfortable right now in front of you opening 566 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 2: the gift that you gave to me. I'm like, all right, whatever, 567 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 2: and I come back. Let's say, I come back, like, 568 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 2: I say, did you open the gift? Do you like it? 569 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 2: Do you like it? No? I didn't open it yet, 570 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 2: and stop asking me to open the gift. I said, wow, okay, 571 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 2: So I come back at Easter. You're obviously going to 572 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 2: open the gift today, right, I mean Christmas Easter? Like, yeah, 573 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 2: I'll go and look at the gift, but I don't 574 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 2: know if I'm going to open it right now. But 575 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 2: I thank you, thank you so much, and I'll be like, wow, okay. 576 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 2: So I come back and finally come back at Christmas 577 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 2: and next hit did you open the gift? No? I 578 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 2: was thinking about regifting it. I just I don't know 579 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 2: if I'm want it. And then I said, fine, you 580 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 2: should open it because if you open it, you would 581 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 2: see what's available to you. But the gift is nothing 582 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 2: until you unwrapped a gift. And when you unwrap the gift, 583 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 2: you'll see how good what's inside the gift. What happens 584 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 2: is we think that John three sixteen for God so 585 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: loved the world that he casually just handed out gifts 586 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 2: to people. No, no, no, he gifted you with this 587 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 2: gift that whoever believes in him will not perish but 588 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 2: have everlasting like and John chapter ten, verse ten said, Oh, 589 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 2: we got some chemistry going on here. I can tell 590 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 2: it's Christmas. Eve. Listen my wife, John chapter ten, verse ten. 591 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 2: The thief comes to steal, killing, destroyer. But God came. 592 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 2: Jesus came that you might have life, and have it abundantly. 593 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 2: You cannot go another Christmas without not opening the gift. 594 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 2: In the fullness of time. Well, everything has been orchestrated, 595 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 2: everything has been moved. You are in the perfect place 596 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 2: that you could be, in church, in church, church hearing 597 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 2: the gospel, the good news about how much God loves you. 598 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 2: He loves you so much. He's mad about you. He 599 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 2: ain't mad at you. He he he's mad about you, 600 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 2: and he loves you. And that window is open and 601 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 2: there is a period where that window will close. So 602 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 2: today in this room, except the gift. Number one, he 603 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 2: has a light, one A. He's got a gift. Here's 604 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 2: number two. Number two he has a word. God is 605 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 2: a word for you, good news, great joy all people. 606 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 2: That's the word. When you come back to church, should 607 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 2: always be praying before you get here. God, what's your 608 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 2: word for me today. God, you got to have a 609 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 2: prophetic word for me today. God, you have to have 610 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 2: a prophetic word for our year in twenty twenty four. 611 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 2: For myself, if you're a teenager, what does my ear 612 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 2: look like? If you're going to have to college, or 613 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 2: if you're a young adult. What's the word that God 614 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 2: is giving to me right? Could it be abundance? Could 615 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 2: it be revival? Could it be restoration? Could it be forgiveness? 616 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 2: What is it? Could it be faith? I don't know. 617 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 2: There's words. God's got more than one word. God wants 618 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 2: to drop the mic on your life. He wants to 619 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 2: drop it. It's called a revelation. It's the best way 620 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 2: I can put it. For this generation. He wants to 621 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 2: drop the mic. He wants to be like Wow. He 622 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 2: wants to mind blown emoji. That's what he wants to do. 623 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 2: That you'd find your mind blown by how much He 624 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 2: loves your First Corinthians two nine. Though eye has seen, 625 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 2: no ear has heard, no mind can comprehend the things 626 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 2: that God has for those who love it. Ifhesis three 627 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 2: twenty for God is able to do exceedingly abundantly more 628 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 2: than you could ever think or imagine, God wants to 629 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 2: blow your mind literally, but you got to come ready 630 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 2: for a word every day you come to church. And 631 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 2: you can't just make this your only word. Sunday is 632 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,239 Speaker 2: my word, but Monday two thirsty five, I don't get 633 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 2: into it. Then this is just candy. You're eating candy 634 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 2: on Sunday and it's gonna rot your teeth. So Pastor 635 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 2: Mike wants you to eat meat throughout the week. It's 636 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 2: some protein because God wants to bring you the word 637 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 2: every once in a while. I hate it. I'm not 638 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,760 Speaker 2: getting anything out of the sermons. Won't stop be me preaching? 639 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 2: Who's preaching? I can'tnot getting I'm just not getting fed. 640 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 2: What what stop me? It's hues. Can't be me, can't 641 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 2: be me because I'm bringing it every Sundays for you anyway, 642 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: And I sorry, I'm just playing. I'm just playing because 643 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 2: why Because God has a word for you. But it's 644 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 2: not just on Sunday, it's every day when you open 645 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 2: your Bible and you read it, He has a word 646 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 2: for you. Number three, He's got peace. He says, I 647 00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 2: have peace, and the worship team can come up and 648 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 2: he want to bring you a peace and the peace 649 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 2: that draws us closer to God. Look two fourteen says 650 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 2: glory to God in the highest the Angel said, and 651 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 2: peace on earth to whom God is peace. Sometimes when 652 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:18,399 Speaker 2: we think peace, this is what we're thinking. John Lennon's song, 653 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 2: imagine all the people. It's not gonna happen. It's not 654 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 2: gonna happen because we are heading towards a big spiritual 655 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 2: war and a physical one. So why is he called 656 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 2: the Prince of peace? Then? Because he is the Prince 657 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 2: of peace, because he has fought on his father's behalf 658 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 2: as the king with the sword in his hand, and 659 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 2: as a result of that we have peace. There is conflict, 660 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 2: and sometimes we think that, oh I want I just 661 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 2: want peace. Well, I get it. I want peace too. 662 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 2: On peace of mind that God's my heart and mind 663 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus, I want peace. But sometimes we think 664 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 2: peace with God or peace of God is like I 665 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 2: just want to eat in a Siah bowl with lucky 666 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,800 Speaker 2: charms all over it and granola in a green pasture 667 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:15,359 Speaker 2: filled with dandelions and whatever, and that's my peace. It's 668 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 2: not gonna happen. That's a delusion. Peace happens in the 669 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,719 Speaker 2: middle of conflict, and we live in a world filled 670 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 2: with conflict. Jesus said, in this life you will have 671 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 2: much tribulation. But take heart, for I have overcome the world, 672 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 2: and he has peace. He brings peace of mind. Yes 673 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 2: he does. If you're going through a depression or anxiety 674 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 2: or crazy thoughts, ask him for his peace. If you're 675 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,360 Speaker 2: going through a difficult time, you want his shalom in 676 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 2: the home. God, I've got chaos going on with my 677 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,360 Speaker 2: kids or my grandkids, or this happening with here with 678 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,320 Speaker 2: me and my spouse, and we just not on the 679 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,839 Speaker 2: same page. God, we pray for your peace on this house. Absolutely, 680 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 2: he wants to bring you peace. But he also wants 681 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 2: to give you It's a fourth one. It's added to this. 682 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,880 Speaker 2: See wants to give you a hope, hope that is 683 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 2: in this world and that is beyond this world. That 684 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 2: God has a hope for every single one of us. 685 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,239 Speaker 2: He is the hope for humanity. He is hope for 686 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 2: all people. Good news, great joy, all people in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, 687 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 2: She bob your heads with me. Please, God, we want 688 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 2: to thank you Father, thank you for this Christmas season. 689 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 2: Then you give us a revelation even more so of 690 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 2: who you are, and what you've done in our lives 691 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 2: and what's yet to come. We honor you today on 692 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,800 Speaker 2: this Christmas Eve, with our families or the tree, or 693 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,480 Speaker 2: not even a tree, or maybe just around a table, 694 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 2: or even alone by ourselves. We just want to say 695 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 2: thank you for sending your son Jesus into this world 696 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 2: to ultimately pay the price and die on the cross 697 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 2: for us, to give us the gift he gifted us, 698 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 2: the gift of forgiveness and everlasting life. We love you, Lord, 699 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 2: We bless you in Jesus name. And everybody said, hey, man, 700 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,360 Speaker 2: keep your eyes closing, headspout. I just need three more minutes, okay, 701 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 2: three more minutes without anybody standing up and getting to 702 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:14,839 Speaker 2: their cars already, because I know you've got a place 703 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,319 Speaker 2: to go, but I want you to remain still, because 704 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 2: some people about to open a gift, the most important 705 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,839 Speaker 2: gift they will ever receive in their life, and it's 706 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 2: a free gift of God. It's called salvation. So if 707 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,759 Speaker 2: that's you today, the front row, back row on the 708 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,240 Speaker 2: top left right, overflow room, in parents' room or online 709 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,239 Speaker 2: right now, I'm want to expedite this process just a 710 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 2: little bit more, just because I need you to know 711 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,319 Speaker 2: that today that you are in the right place. It's 712 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,440 Speaker 2: the fullness of time for your life. That God has 713 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 2: been working on you all this time. It's not your 714 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,840 Speaker 2: spouse working on you. Your husband hasn't been working on you. 715 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,839 Speaker 2: Your wife's not working on you, your kid's not work 716 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 2: God is working on you. Why because he loves you 717 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 2: so much that he's calling you home. The porch light 718 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,080 Speaker 2: is on for you, and he's calling you home this 719 00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:00,320 Speaker 2: Christmas and he wants you in his family, wants you 720 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 2: in his house. So if that's you today, from the 721 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 2: front row to the back row, to the left to 722 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 2: the right, if you want Jesus, if you want the 723 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,799 Speaker 2: forgiveness of sins, the gift of eternal life, if you're 724 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 2: ready to repent, head in the other direction. That's what 725 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,279 Speaker 2: repentance means. Repentance is not a guy shouting on a 726 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,399 Speaker 2: street corner with a sign saying repent or burn. That's 727 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,400 Speaker 2: a bad marketing strategy. What is Jesus doing. He is 728 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,800 Speaker 2: calling you right now, through his kindness and his goodness, 729 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 2: to come home to him. And you know what, I 730 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,359 Speaker 2: experienced it at the age of twenty one. I was homicidal, suicidal. 731 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 2: I was sad. I was broken hearted. I was all 732 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 2: those things, and I couldn't stand Christmas until finally someone 733 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 2: told me, you got to come to church with me. 734 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 2: And I came to a church that preached just like this, 735 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 2: and I walked into those doors, and instead of evaluating 736 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 2: what the pastor was wearing, looking at his air Jordans, 737 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,000 Speaker 2: he didn't have anything, I was looking at it. Well 738 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 2: you know what, you know what I was evaluating. God 739 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,839 Speaker 2: was evaluating my heart. And I realized that the wall 740 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,600 Speaker 2: had to come down so that the light could come in. 741 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 2: But the problem is my wall was up, my wall 742 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 2: of pride, my wall of self sufficiency, my wall of anger, 743 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,320 Speaker 2: and they'll the wall had to come down so the 744 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 2: light could get in. And I'm asking that you will 745 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,839 Speaker 2: drop that wall and allow that light to come into 746 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 2: your heart right now if you were anything like me, 747 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,319 Speaker 2: so get ready. On the cond of three, I'm gonna 748 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,680 Speaker 2: go one, two, three. When you hear me clap on 749 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 2: the con of three, I want you to raise your 750 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 2: head and I want you to give to God the 751 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,319 Speaker 2: greatest gift you can never give him, which is your 752 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 2: life back, because he's giving his great greatest gift, which 753 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 2: is his son Jesus, so get ready, get ready, Here 754 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 2: we go. One. He will never let you down. Two 755 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 2: for God so loved the world that he gave his 756 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 2: only son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish 757 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,919 Speaker 2: but have everlasting life. Here we go. One, two, one, two, three. 758 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 2: Put your hand up, if that's you. Put your hand up, 759 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,839 Speaker 2: if that's you, Put your hand up all over this room. 760 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,319 Speaker 2: Got one, two, three, four, five amen, and six right 761 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,600 Speaker 2: there and seven right there, God bless you. And eight 762 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 2: right here and nine right there, ten right here, and 763 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 2: come on, eleven and twelve and thirteen and fourteen and fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, 764 00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 2: right there, eighteen and nineteen right here in twenty two, 765 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,319 Speaker 2: tenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, right there, 766 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,359 Speaker 2: forty four, twenty five, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, 767 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,919 Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty thirty one, thirty two, thirty 768 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,319 Speaker 2: three in that corner, thirty four right there, thirty five, 769 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 2: thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, forty right there, 770 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 2: forty God bless you. I'm coming to my left. If 771 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 2: I miss you on my right, wave at me like this, 772 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 2: cause I think I got everybody I got that forty 773 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 2: one right there, forty one, forty two, forty two, forty 774 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 2: three right here, forty four, forty five, God bless you, 775 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,719 Speaker 2: forty six right there, forty seven and forty eight, forty nine, 776 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 2: fifty thirty one, ventty three, fifty four, fifty five against 777 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 2: that wall, fifty five, fifty six right here, fifty seven 778 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,719 Speaker 2: right there, fifty eight right there, fifty nine, sixty sixty one, 779 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 2: sixty two, sixty three, sixty four, sixty five right there, 780 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 2: sixty five, sixty five, sixty six right there, sixty seven, sweetheart, 781 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 2: sixty seven right there. Anybody else did I miss you? 782 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:48,960 Speaker 2: I think I got everybody got a sixty seven to 783 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 2: seventy people that have just raised their hands to receive 784 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,800 Speaker 2: Jesus and open that year. Let's give him my head, everybody. 785 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:03,120 Speaker 2: I want everybody to repeat after me this prayer. Chelsea's 786 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,759 Speaker 2: coming up right after this, Howard's coming up over. This 787 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,000 Speaker 2: is gonna be quick, and we're gonna get you out 788 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 2: of here to Christmas dinner or Christmas lunch in Jesus name. 789 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,640 Speaker 2: But this is important, So pray with me. Howard comes 790 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 2: stand next to me. Everybody say Jesus today. Oh I 791 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,719 Speaker 2: surrender and give you my life. Thank you for dying 792 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,240 Speaker 2: on the cross, shedding your blood that washes my sins 793 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,280 Speaker 2: as white as snow. I'm born again, the oldest past, 794 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 2: the newest begun on this Christmas Day, this Christmas, I 795 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,279 Speaker 2: give you my life. Thank you for the gift of life. 796 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,719 Speaker 3: If you gave me, smold me, shape me, leave me, 797 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,759 Speaker 3: guide me, fill me, use me, heal me, send me 798 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,440 Speaker 3: to fulfill the purpose. 799 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,239 Speaker 2: Of God that is on my life in the name 800 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 2: of Jesus. And everybody said, heymen, come on, everybody, just 801 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,600 Speaker 2: give them a head. 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