WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.270 (MUSIC) 00:05.270 --> 00:05.293 MERRY CHRISTMAS CHURCH GET UP ON 00:05.293 --> 00:11.807 YOUR FEET LET'S GIVE OUR KING SOME PRAISE 00:11.807 --> 01:04.296 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 01:04.296 --> 01:09.569 HALLELUJAH, LORD GOD IN HEAVEN. WE WORSHIP YOU. THANK YOU LORD. 01:09.569 --> 01:13.260 WE BLESS YOU HEAVENLY FATHER. AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE 01:13.260 --> 01:18.269 GREATEST GIFT THAT WAS EVER GIVEN. WHEN YOU GAVE US JESUS 01:18.269 --> 01:23.969 AND WHEN JESUS CAME HE AGREED TO BE THE BABY BORN IN THE MANGER, 01:23.969 --> 01:28.349 ONLY TO DIE FOR US ALL. WE LOVE YOU. WE HONOR YOU. AND ALL THOSE 01:28.349 --> 01:33.930 THAT REALLY LOVE GOD SAID, AMEN! THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD. 01:33.930 --> 01:38.099 NOW, HERE'S THE THING THOUGH. I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM UP IN 01:38.099 --> 01:42.030 THE RAFTERS. I DIDN'T HEAR, NO, SERIOUSLY, I DIDN'T HEAR 01:42.030 --> 01:45.930 ANYTHING. RAFTER SECTION, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING. SO I TRIED 01:45.930 --> 01:51.269 AGAIN. ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE GOD SAID, AMEN! MAN, NOW I HEARD 01:51.269 --> 01:55.081 IT. YOU GUYS ARE KIND OF LIKE THE SUBWOOFER, YOU KNOW? OH, 01:55.081 --> 01:58.109 THAT'S FUNNY. YEAH, I CAN HEAR IT. ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY'S GOT 01:58.109 --> 02:02.909 THEIR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DONE? YES, SIR. YOU DO? ONLY LIKE 02:02.909 --> 02:05.370 THREE PEOPLE HERE. HOW MANY OF YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR SHOPPING 02:05.370 --> 02:09.210 DONE YET? THAT'S A LOT. OH, NO. LOOK AT ALL THESE HANDS. THAT'S 02:09.210 --> 02:18.120 A LOT. SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? FIGHT THE CROWDS. DO YOU ALL 02:18.120 --> 02:20.610 HAVE PLANS? I THINK IT'S TOO LATE FOR AN AMAZON ORDER. OH, 02:20.610 --> 02:24.479 REALLY? I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S A FEW OVERNIGHT 02:24.479 --> 02:28.139 ONES, MAYBE. LISTEN, THERE'S A FAMOUS MOVIE I REALLY LIKE. IT'S 02:28.139 --> 02:29.759 "JINGLE ALL THE WAY." HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN THAT 02:29.759 --> 02:33.449 MOVIE? AND LET THAT BE A HINT TO ALL OF YOU WHO DON'T HAVE YOUR 02:33.449 --> 02:36.060 CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DONE, YOU KNOW. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU 02:36.060 --> 02:40.560 GET YOUR ITEMS, SO. WELL, WE GOT OUR BOYS OVER HERE. COME OVER 02:40.560 --> 02:46.650 HERE, GUYS. WE FOUND THESE GUYS IN THE ALLEY. COME ON OUT. MATT, 02:46.650 --> 02:50.819 YOU CAN GO ON MAMA'S SIDE THERE. AND HE BROUGHT WHO'D YOU BRING? 02:50.819 --> 02:56.669 HEY, JONATHAN. BROUGHT THE LITTLE MAN. HI, PAKI. HOW ARE 02:56.669 --> 02:59.969 YA? ARE YOU GONNA SAY HI TO EVERYBODY? IT'S CHRISTMAS. WE 02:59.969 --> 03:03.270 SHOULD'VE BROUGHT OUR DOGS. BUT THEN, I DID ONE YEAR, AND 03:03.270 --> 03:06.870 SOMEBODY SAID, "OH, YOU SHOULD KEEP DOGS OUT OF YOU KNOW, 03:06.870 --> 03:09.569 ANIMALS NO, ANIMALS OUT OF THE CHURCH." AND I THOUGHT, "WELL, 03:09.569 --> 03:11.639 EVERY CHRISTMAS PLAY, THE PEOPLE BRING CAMELS 03:11.639 --> 03:15.389 AND STUFF." RIGHT. AND I BROUGHT THIS ANIMAL, SO I GUESS, YOU 03:15.389 --> 03:20.430 KNOW, WE GOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING? SO, HE OKAY, I GOT TO 03:20.430 --> 03:23.819 SAY, THIS IS THE BEST SMELLING DOG I'VE EVER 03:23.819 --> 03:26.639 (LAUGHTER) 03:26.639 --> 03:31.076 SO, WHAT'S HIS NAME, MATT? HE SMELLS LIKE HIGH END COLOGNE. 03:31.080 --> 03:34.919 WHAT'S HIS NAME, MATT? HIS NAME IS PACKER. 03:34.919 --> 03:38.610 WHY PACKER? WELL, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, BUT YOU 03:38.610 --> 03:42.120 KNOW. FROM LAST NIGHT. YEAH, HE'S A BETTER PACKER THAN THE 03:42.120 --> 03:45.810 OTHER ONES. YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. GOOD POINT. ANYTHING YOU WANT TO 03:45.810 --> 03:50.490 SAY? WELL, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY, AND JUST BLESSINGS TO 03:50.490 --> 03:55.289 EVERYBODY, AND EVERYBODY THAT I'M SURE TRAVELED INTO FOR THE 03:55.289 --> 03:59.759 CHRISTMAS SEASON AND SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY AND STUFF. SO I 03:59.759 --> 04:03.081 SEE MY GUY MARQUISE OUT THERE AND PASTOR ANTHONY. YOU GUYS ARE 04:03.081 --> 04:06.629 FRESHY, FRESHY. I LIKE THAT. GOOD. AWESOME. SO MERRY 04:06.629 --> 04:11.819 CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY. AND YOU KNOW, JOHN, I ALREADY KNOW YOU 04:11.819 --> 04:16.470 AND DAD ARE PUTTING THAT PUZZLE TOGETHER, SO AIN'T GETTING DONE. 04:16.470 --> 04:19.560 WELL, LET'S GO AHEAD AND SO LET'S BRING JOHN HE HAS 04:19.560 --> 04:21.367 SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT PUZZLE. HE CAME IN ALL THE WAY 04:21.367 --> 04:24.000 WHAT WAS JOHN WAS GOING TO RESPOND ABOUT THE PUZZLE? I JUST 04:24.000 --> 04:25.860 SAID, WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO PUT IT AWAY, I THINK. IT'S TOO 04:25.860 --> 04:29.641 HARD. SO HE BROUGHT ME THIS WAIT, IT'S FINALLY TOO HARD. IT 04:29.641 --> 04:32.100 IS, IT IS. LET ME DO THIS, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE'RE 04:32.100 --> 04:36.329 MISSING OUR FAMILY HERE. SO I JUST WANT TO BRING ALL OF YOU 04:36.329 --> 04:40.019 THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD. WE'RE SO HONORED THAT YOU 04:40.019 --> 04:44.555 JOINED US TODAY AS OUR FAMILY. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU. AGAIN, I 04:44.555 --> 04:47.642 FOUND THESE GUYS IN THE ALLEY AND OFFERED THEM FREE LUNCH AND 04:47.642 --> 04:51.689 THEY DECIDED TO COME IN. BUT THESE ARE OUR BOYS. THIS IS 04:51.689 --> 04:54.089 PACKER. I WAS GOING TO BRING MY DOGS, BUT 04:54.089 --> 04:57.600 ANYWAY. BY THE WAY, TALKING ABOUT DOGS, I GOT, 04:57.600 --> 05:00.750 BRENDA GOT HERBIE THIS LITTLE IGLOO THING, OUR LITTLE SHIH TZU 05:00.750 --> 05:03.480 GUY. HE LIKES THAT. YEAH, PACKER CAME OVER LAST NIGHT AND TRIED 05:03.480 --> 05:07.769 TO OWN IT. HE DID. ALL RIGHT. SO, JOHN, BIG MAN, YOU'RE HERE, 05:07.769 --> 05:11.129 YOUR FRIEND, KYLIE, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AS WELL. GOD 05:11.129 --> 05:14.879 BLESS YOU. NOW TELL US ABOUT THIS PUZZLE BECAUSE EVERY YEAR 05:14.879 --> 05:17.160 OUR TRADITION IS WE GET A PUZZLE. ANYBODY HAVE A 05:17.160 --> 05:21.540 TRADITION? AND THIS YEAR HE DECIDED TO BRING THIS PUZZLE 05:21.540 --> 05:24.269 THAT HAS A LITTLE TRAIN ON IT, LIKE IN THE MOUNTAIN. AND WE'RE 05:24.269 --> 05:26.759 GONNA DO A LITTLE TRAIN. I THINK YOU WERE ON THAT TRAIN. IT IS SO 05:26.759 --> 05:32.189 HARD. IT IS GONNA TAKE A YEAR. SO WHAT'S OUR PLAN? I THINK 05:32.189 --> 05:39.105 WE'RE GONNA PUT IT AWAY. PUT IT AWAY. WE'RE PUZZLED BY IT, YOU 05:39.120 --> 05:44.160 KNOW. MATT AND I, DO WE DO PUZZLES? NO. NO. NO. WE WERE 05:44.160 --> 05:47.339 PRETTY DISTRACTED. YEAH, NO, I KNOW. WE WERE THROWING SHOES AT 05:47.339 --> 05:51.540 THE TV. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MICAH PARSONS TEARS HIS ACL. 05:52.800 --> 05:56.233 ANYBODY FROM OUT OF TOWN? I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO GREET YOU. 05:56.233 --> 06:01.170 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? AND DON'T SAY IOWA, YOU KNOW. SOMEBODY 06:01.170 --> 06:06.389 FROM OUT OF TOWN? SOUTH DAKOTA. ALL RIGHT, YAY, THAT'S AWESOME. 06:06.389 --> 06:14.670 ANYBODY ELSE? KANSAS CITY, WELCOME. WELCOME. ANYBODY ELSE 06:14.670 --> 06:18.651 IN THE RAFTERS? GOT MORE OVER THERE. WHERE? OH, I SEE. WHERE 06:18.651 --> 06:22.589 ARE YOU FROM? NORTHERN IOWA. OKAY, THAT'LL WORK. THAT'S FAR 06:22.589 --> 06:27.870 AWAY. DES MOINES? ALL RIGHT, DES MOINES. THAT'S A COUPLE HOURS 06:27.870 --> 06:30.779 AWAY. ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY IN THE RAFTER SECTION? WE'RE TRYING 06:30.779 --> 06:34.216 TO SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE. BETHLEHEM? ANYBODY FROM 06:34.216 --> 06:39.839 BETHLEHEM? WHERE ARE YOU FROM? RIGHT THERE. OHIO. OHIO. 06:39.839 --> 06:43.980 WELCOME. WOW. ANYBODY ELSE? WELCOME. NOW, I GOT TO SAY THIS. 06:43.980 --> 06:46.680 I GOT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO SOMEBODY. MARK, WHERE ARE YOU 06:46.680 --> 06:51.480 AT? VAN WILLEN, WHERE ARE YOU AT? MARK, ARE YOU IN THE RAFTER 06:51.480 --> 06:57.959 SECTION? WHERE ARE YOU AT? SO BRENDA, THIS IS A WOW! GOOD TO 06:57.959 --> 07:02.490 SEE YOU. SO WAY BACK WHEN I GOT SING, HE WAS PART OF A BAND, 07:02.490 --> 07:10.529 ALIEN. IS THAT RIGHT? AND YOU GUYS NEVER ASKED ME TO SING. BUT 07:10.529 --> 07:13.319 I USED TO REMEMBER I DID THE COMEDY STUFF. REMEMBER THAT? 07:17.370 --> 07:19.769 YEAH, HE WROTE A COMIC STRIP CALLED MUTZVI. YEAH, I WROTE I 07:19.769 --> 07:23.670 DID MUTZVI BACK THEN. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS. DID YOU KNOW 07:23.670 --> 07:28.166 THAT? NO. THANKS FOR COMING BY, MAN. THAT WAS LIKE I GOT SAVED 07:28.166 --> 07:33.209 IN '84, AND THESE WERE THE GUYS THAT WERE INFLUENTIAL IN MY WALK 07:33.209 --> 07:36.420 WITH GOD. AND THEIR BAND WAS LIKE PETRA. Y'ALL REMEMBER 07:36.420 --> 07:42.720 PETRA? DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? ARE YOU STILL A ROCKER? NO, DON'T 07:42.720 --> 07:45.194 TELL ME YOU'RE SITTING ON A ROCKER NOW. 07:45.194 --> 07:46.865 (LAUGHING) 07:46.865 --> 07:50.141 ALWAYS A ROCKER. ALL RIGHT, ANYWAY, GREAT TO SEE YOU. ALL 07:50.141 --> 07:52.615 RIGHT, I THINK WE NEED TO WORSHIP THE LORD. ANY CLOSING 07:52.620 --> 07:57.149 COMMENTS FROM THE BOYS? I JUST THINK MAYBE FOR CHRISTMAS, WE 07:57.149 --> 08:00.413 NEED TO LOOK AT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR Y'ALL. YEAH, I DO TOO. WELL, 08:00.413 --> 08:03.810 I DO HAVE ONE, BUT I DON'T THINK I SHOULD PUT IT TOGETHER. AN 08:03.810 --> 08:07.829 EASIER ONE, IT'S ALL GOOD. ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE PUZZLED 08:07.829 --> 08:12.180 OUT. WE'RE PUZZLED OUT. BUT KEEP PRAYING FOR JOHN. GIVE US ONE 08:12.180 --> 08:16.529 QUICK UPDATE. UFC, HOW'S THAT GOING? I'M HOPING EARLY NEXT 08:16.529 --> 08:20.009 YEAR I'LL GET A CALL. SO JUST STAYING READY FOR WHATEVER 08:20.009 --> 08:23.910 HAPPENS. THAT'S REALLY EXCITING. OK. WE GOT THE KIDDOS THAT ARE 08:23.910 --> 08:25.920 GOING TO SING TO US. YOU THINK WE SHOULD INTERVIEW THEM THIS 08:25.920 --> 08:28.649 YEAR? YES. I THINK WE SHOULD INTERVIEW THEM. 100%. MATT, 08:28.649 --> 08:32.100 WOULD YOU PRAY OVER THE SERVICE? YEAH. DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE 08:32.100 --> 08:35.038 JUST THANK YOU, LORD, FOR TODAY, LORD, AND THIS BEAUTIFUL 08:35.038 --> 08:37.558 SERVICE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, LORD. WE THANK 08:37.558 --> 08:43.200 YOU, LORD, FOR YOU, LORD, WHO IS THE GREATEST BIRTH OF ALL TIME, 08:43.200 --> 08:47.159 LORD. AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU CAME, LORD, AS A BABY 08:47.159 --> 08:50.789 IN A MANGER, AND YOU DIED FOR OUR SINS, AND YOU ROSE AGAIN, 08:50.789 --> 08:54.419 AND NOW YOU'RE SEATED NEXT TO YOUR FATHER AT THE RIGHT HAND, 08:54.419 --> 08:57.960 LORD. AND SO NOW WE CAN JOIN YOU IN HEAVEN, LORD, BECAUSE OF THAT 08:57.960 --> 09:01.529 ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, LORD. SO WE CELEBRATE YOU THIS SEASON, LORD, 09:01.529 --> 09:04.409 AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THE BLESSINGS AND FAVOR THAT COMES 09:04.409 --> 09:07.409 UPON EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IN THIS ROOM AND WATCHING ONLINE, 09:07.409 --> 09:10.817 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. ALL RIGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO? LIFT THOSE 09:10.817 --> 09:16.855 HANDS TO HEAVEN. SAY, "LORD, IT'S CHRISTMAS." AND THAT MEANS 09:16.855 --> 09:23.929 I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU MY VERY BEST PRAISE. COME ON, LET'S 09:23.929 --> 09:28.934 SHOUT LIKE WE BELIEVE IT AND PRAISE THE LORD. MERRY 09:28.934 --> 09:33.206 CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY. ANYBODY GRATEFUL FOR JESUS? I SAID, IS 09:33.206 --> 09:37.076 ANYBODY GRATEFUL FOR JESUS THIS MORNING? LET'S LIFT UP THE NAME, 09:37.076 --> 09:41.880 EH? PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER. 09:41.880 --> 10:55.422 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 10:55.422 --> 10:57.041 CAN YOU SING, "HEY, HEARD TELL"? 10:57.041 --> 11:59.519 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 11:59.519 --> 12:04.001 WE THANK YOU FOR JESUS. HEY. 12:04.001 --> 15:00.966 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 15:00.966 --> 15:04.370 COME ON YOU, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW EMMANUEL IS HERE 15:04.370 --> 22:35.031 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 25:18.351 --> 25:37.170 JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. 25:37.170 --> 25:41.641 HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY. 25:41.641 --> 25:46.880 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 25:46.880 --> 25:51.217 HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY. 25:51.217 --> 25:56.088 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 25:56.088 --> 26:00.479 HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY. 26:00.479 --> 26:06.398 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 26:06.398 --> 26:47.272 JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. 26:47.272 --> 26:50.809 HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES 26:50.809 --> 26:56.897 AWAY. JESUS IS HERE. HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM 26:56.897 --> 27:09.996 TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. 27:09.996 --> 27:20.006 YOU’VE COME, YOU'VE COME EMMANUEL. 27:20.006 --> 27:27.713 AND RANSOMED CAPTIVE ISRAEL. 27:27.713 --> 27:38.791 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 27:38.798 --> 27:41.126 COME ON, GIVE HIM SOME GLORY THIS MORNING 27:41.126 --> 30:34.267 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 30:34.267 --> 30:38.011 WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. COME ON. WE WORSHIP YOU ALL OVER 30:38.017 --> 30:43.537 THE WORLD. LET'S ADORE JESUS. EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US. WE 30:43.537 --> 30:48.633 WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE'VE COME TO ADORE YOU. WE'VE 30:48.633 --> 30:51.217 COME TO ADORE YOU. WE’VE COME TO MAGNIFY YOUR NAME, KING OF 30:51.217 --> 30:55.747 KINGS, LORD OF LORDS. WE'VE COME. WE'VE COME TO ADORE YOU. 30:55.747 --> 30:59.916 COME ON. LET'S SING IT AGAIN ALL OVER THE WORLD. IMAGINE THE WISE 30:59.916 --> 31:03.727 MEN AS THEY CAME AND THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES AND THEY 31:03.727 --> 31:14.346 WORSHIPED THIS KING. COME ON. WORSHIP. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE GIVE 31:14.346 --> 31:19.686 YOU ALL THE GLORY. YOU'RE CHRIST THE LORD. COME ON, OPEN YOUR 31:19.686 --> 31:23.883 HEART AND TELL YOUR KING. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE 31:23.883 --> 31:34.928 WORSHIP YOU. WE ADORE YOU. WE ADORE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. WE 31:34.929 --> 31:42.037 ADORE YOUR BEAUTY, YOUR SACRIFICE, YOUR LOVE. WE WORSHIP 31:42.037 --> 31:58.957 YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU, MASTER. COME ON, FROM YOUR HEART, 31:58.957 --> 32:04.116 WORSHIP HIM. IF YOU'RE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIA, WORSHIP HIM. 32:04.116 --> 32:12.277 RUSSIA, WHATEVER STATE, CITY, NATION. WORSHIP HIM. WE WORSHIP 32:12.277 --> 32:21.247 YOU, JESUS. WE ADORE YOU AND WE HONOR YOU TODAY. I WANT YOU TO 32:21.247 --> 32:26.586 SAY THIS, SAY, "LORD, I OPEN MY HEART TO YOU FOR YOU TO BE MY 32:26.586 --> 32:37.326 LORD, MY GOD, MY FRIEND. I GIVE YOU MY HEART, MY LIFE, AND IN 32:37.326 --> 32:45.186 RETURN I WILL HONOR YOU. I WILL SERVE YOU. I WILL OBEY YOU. I 32:45.186 --> 32:52.866 WILL LOVE YOU. AND I WILL TELL OTHERS OF HOW GREAT YOU ARE. AND 32:52.866 --> 32:58.656 IF YOU LOVE GOD, TELL HIM. JUST TELL HIM. SAY, "GOD, I LOVE YOU. 33:00.576 --> 33:11.527 I LOVE YOU, GOD. I LOVE YOU, GOD. I LOVE YOU, YESHUA, JESUS, 33:11.527 --> 33:21.217 MY LORD. AND I LOVE YOU, MY WONDERFUL FATHER." AND I LOVE 33:21.217 --> 33:31.777 YOU, HOLY SPIRIT. I BLESS YOU. AND I'VE COME HERE TODAY TO 33:31.777 --> 33:39.426 ADORE YOU. I THINK WE SHOULD SAY ONE OTHER THING TO HIM. WE 33:39.426 --> 33:43.926 SHOULD SAY, THANK YOU. THERE'S NOTHING GREATER, I THINK, THAN 33:43.926 --> 33:46.987 PROBABLY DELIGHTS THE HEART OF GOD BESIDES TELLING HIM THAT YOU 33:46.987 --> 33:51.968 LOVE HIM. BUT I THINK HE REALLY, REALLY LIKES IT WHEN WE COME 33:51.968 --> 33:56.510 WITH A GRATEFUL HEART, A THANKFUL HEART. HOW MANY OF YOU 33:56.510 --> 34:01.086 EVER GIVEN A GIFT AT CHRISTMAS AND THE PERSON THAT IS RECEIVING 34:01.086 --> 34:07.207 IT, THEY'RE NOT GRATEFUL? IT JUST MAKES WHAT YOU GAVE JUST 34:07.207 --> 34:15.876 SEEMS SO UNAPPRECIATIVE. GOD GAVE EVERYTHING TO US WHEN HE 34:15.876 --> 34:21.186 GAVE US JESUS. AND I THINK THE LEAST THING WE COULD DO IS SAY 34:21.186 --> 34:24.036 THANK YOU. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD, I 34:24.036 --> 34:29.257 WANT YOU TO DO THE SAME. SAY, "LORD, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM 34:29.257 --> 34:34.836 OF MY HEART. AMEN." WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS? NOW, YOU CAN 34:34.836 --> 34:40.507 GIVE HIM ONE MORE WORSHIP OF HONOR AND THANKSGIVING. WELL, I 34:40.507 --> 34:44.286 WANT YOU TO GREET ONE ANOTHER, AND THEN I WANT YOU TO, WHEN YOU 34:44.286 --> 34:47.257 GREET THEM, ASK THEM THEIR NAME. IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW IT, 34:47.257 --> 34:51.427 AND THEY JUST SAY, "I BET I KNOW." I BET I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE 34:51.427 --> 34:55.567 GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS, AND SEE IF YOU CAN BE IN THE RANGE, 34:55.567 --> 34:59.527 OKAY? WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. 34:59.527 --> 35:01.416 MAYBE PUT IN THE COMMENTS WHAT YOU THINK 35:01.416 --> 35:04.206 YOU'RE GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS. MAYBE YOU'RE GETTING A HORSE. 35:05.376 --> 35:07.387 BUT WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND WE'RE SO HONORED 35:07.387 --> 35:10.476 THAT YOU JOINED US WITH THIS SERVICE TODAY. 35:10.476 --> 36:02.561 (MUSIC) 36:02.561 --> 36:11.275 WELL, GOOD MORNING AND MERRY CHRISTMAS. I KNOW IT'S, YOU 36:11.277 --> 36:13.717 KNOW, STILL A FEW DAYS AWAY, SO IF YOU GOT SOME LAST MINUTE 36:13.717 --> 36:17.677 SHOPPING TO DO, YOU HAVE A FEW DAYS TO DO THAT. HOWEVER, THIS 36:17.677 --> 36:22.657 IS THE LAST SERVICE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, SO MERRY CHRISTMAS TO 36:22.657 --> 36:27.547 YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND ALL OF YOU ONLINE AS WELL. IF THIS IS 36:27.547 --> 36:30.427 YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING WITH US, WE WANNA MAKE YOU FEEL 36:30.427 --> 36:34.686 WELCOME. I ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVED A BLUE GIFT BAG. IF 36:34.686 --> 36:36.876 YOU DID NOT, PLEASE WAVE YOUR HAND AND I'M SURE THEY HAVE 36:36.876 --> 36:40.206 THOSE AVAILABLE FOR YOU. INSIDE THE BLUE GIFT BAG, THERE'S SOME 36:40.206 --> 36:43.507 GOODIES WE'VE TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU, AS WELL AS A GUEST 36:43.507 --> 36:46.206 REGISTRY PACKET. IT HAS A PICTURE OF THE STAGE ON THE 36:46.206 --> 36:48.996 FRONT OF IT, SO PLEASE PULL THAT OUT AT THIS TIME IF YOU CAN. 36:48.996 --> 36:52.327 BECAUSE INSIDE THAT, THERE'S SOME INFORMATION WE WANT TO SEND 36:52.327 --> 36:56.016 HOME WITH YOU, AS WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE "STAY CONNECTED" 36:56.016 --> 36:58.987 CARD ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE. GO AHEAD AND TEAR THAT OFF. FILL IT 36:58.987 --> 37:01.536 OUT, DROP IT IN THE OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY IN JUST 37:01.536 --> 37:03.996 A FEW MOMENTS. I JUST WANTED TO SEND YOU A THANK YOU FOR COMING 37:03.996 --> 37:07.237 TO SEE US THIS MORNING, AND MAKE SURE YOU STAY CONNECTED WITH 37:07.237 --> 37:15.036 EVERYTHING WE HAVE GOING ON AT THE CHURCH IN 2026. BECAUSE WE 37:15.036 --> 37:19.387 ARE, NEXT YEAR, NO, WE HAVE ONE MORE EVENT THAT STARTS IN THIS 37:19.387 --> 37:22.746 YEAR. THAT IS THE NEW YEAR'S EVE SERVICE, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO 37:22.746 --> 37:28.567 MISS OUT ON THAT EITHER, RIGHT? SO BE HERE FOR THAT, BE HERE 37:28.567 --> 37:31.896 ONLINE FOR THAT AS WELL. IF YOU ARE WATCHING ONLINE, WE THANK 37:31.896 --> 37:36.007 YOU FOR WATCHING, AND MAKE SURE YOU GET CONNECTED TO ONE OF OUR 37:36.007 --> 37:40.536 GREAT PLATFORMS, BUT NAMELY, OUR MAIN PLATFORM IS ONEVOICETV, 37:40.536 --> 37:44.856 ONEVOICETV.NET, OR DOWNLOAD THE ONE VOICE TV APP TO YOUR 37:44.856 --> 37:48.396 DEVICES. THEY'RE ALL RIGHT THERE THAT YOU CAN CONNECT ON, SO BE 37:48.396 --> 37:52.597 SURE TO GET CONNECTED THERE, AND YOU CAN GET BLESSED BY LOTS OF 37:52.597 --> 37:54.996 GREAT CONTENT. GET REAL WITH HANK, DAY OF THE DECREE, GAME 37:54.996 --> 37:59.646 CHANGERS, LOTS OF OTHER PARTNER PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE 37:59.646 --> 38:01.686 AS WELL, SO PLEASE GET CONNECTED. YOU CAN WATCH 38:01.686 --> 38:04.836 SERVICES LIVE AND ARCHIVED AS WELL, SO PLEASE GET OUT THERE, 38:04.836 --> 38:08.706 GET SET UP. YOU CAN CHAT WITH PEOPLE OUT THERE NOW, BOTH ON 38:08.706 --> 38:15.786 THE APP AND ON OVTV.NET. SO GO TO ONEVOICETV.NET OR DOWNLOAD 38:15.786 --> 38:20.166 THE APP TO YOUR DEVICES, AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED BY IT, AMEN? I 38:20.166 --> 38:22.507 HOPE YOU GIVE ALL OF OUR GUESTS HERE AN ONLINE HAND. 38:22.507 --> 38:25.867 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 38:25.867 --> 38:31.626 AS PASTOR BRENDA COMES. SHE WASN'T QUITE PAYING ATTENTION. 38:31.626 --> 38:34.956 YOU DISTRACTED ME. HERE'S PASTOR BRENDA. PRAISE THE LORD, ALL 38:34.956 --> 38:39.097 RIGHT, AMEN AND AMEN AND AMEN. I DO WANNA MENTION ABOUT THE NEW 38:39.097 --> 38:43.327 YEAR'S EVE SERVICE. IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED A PRAYER REQUEST, 38:43.327 --> 38:47.137 GO TO HANKANDBRENDA.ORG, SUBMIT THAT, AND WE ARE GONNA HAVE ALL 38:47.137 --> 38:51.396 OF THOSE, OF COURSE, UP HERE ON THE PLATFORM. SO YOU STILL HAVE 38:51.396 --> 38:54.817 TIME TO SUBMIT THOSE. PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW, THERE MAY BE A 38:54.817 --> 39:00.277 LITTLE TIGHT ON THE MAIL AT THIS POINT, BUT YOU CAN SURELY SUBMIT 39:00.277 --> 39:03.097 THOSE ELECTRONICALLY. WE'LL GET 'EM PRINTED HERE, AND WE'RE 39:03.097 --> 39:05.916 GONNA BRING ALL THOSE OUT, AND ALL THE STAFF, WE'RE GONNA PRAY 39:05.916 --> 39:09.936 OVER THOSE, AND JUST BELIEVE GOD WITH YOU FOR YOUR 2026 TO BE AN 39:09.936 --> 39:14.233 AMAZING YEAR, RIGHT? AND IF YOU HAD SOME HARDSHIP IN 2025, DON'T 39:14.233 --> 39:17.976 LOOK ON THE PAST, RIGHT? LET'S PRESS TOWARD THE FUTURE. I THINK 39:17.976 --> 39:21.456 THAT IS SO KEY. AMEN TO THAT. HOW MANY OF YOU AGREE WITH THAT? 39:21.456 --> 39:23.556 PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, I WANNA GET RIGHT INTO THE OFFERING 39:23.556 --> 39:26.407 'CAUSE WE WANNA GIVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR OUR KIDS TO COME OUT 39:26.407 --> 39:29.106 AND THEY'RE GONNA MINISTER TO US POWERFULLY. HOW MANY OF YOU 39:29.106 --> 39:32.376 ENJOY THAT EVERY YEAR? SO EXCITED. THEY DO SUCH A GOOD 39:32.376 --> 39:35.916 JOB. AND BY THE WAY, KUDOS TO OUR CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT WHO 39:35.916 --> 39:40.536 YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE. THEY DO SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THE 39:40.536 --> 39:43.717 YOUNG PEOPLE. SO, BUT LET ME, I'M JUST GONNA PUT UP OUR 39:43.717 --> 39:47.137 OFFERING SCRIPTURE. I'LL BE BRIEF TODAY. AND OF COURSE, THIS 39:47.137 --> 39:50.916 JUST GOES ALONG WITH CHRISTMAS. MATTHEW 2, CHAPTER 2, TALKING 39:50.916 --> 39:57.306 ABOUT THE MAGI. YOU KNOW, GOD EVEN WOVE GIVING INTO CHRISTMAS. 39:57.306 --> 40:01.387 THINK ABOUT THAT. AND BECAUSE GIVING IS A PRIORITY, IT IS SO 40:01.387 --> 40:06.067 IMPORTANT. IT'S JESUS GAVE, RIGHT? SO GIVING IS JUST A PART 40:06.067 --> 40:09.306 OF EVERYTHING WE SEE IN THE BIBLE, OUR FINANCES, OUR TIME, 40:09.306 --> 40:13.177 OUR HEARTS. GOD DESERVES OUR BEST. AND I ALWAYS SAY IT LIKE 40:13.177 --> 40:16.952 THIS. IF THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH, WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE TO 40:16.952 --> 40:21.063 JESUS? WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM? AND THAT IS THE MOST 40:21.063 --> 40:28.202 IMPORTANT THING. MATTHEW 2:2 SAYING, THIS WAS THE MAGI. THEY 40:28.202 --> 40:32.222 SAID, WHERE IS HE THAT'S BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE HAVE 40:32.222 --> 40:38.103 SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST. NOW, I'M NOT A HISTORIAN BY ANY 40:38.103 --> 40:43.742 STRETCH, BUT THERE IS SOME STUDY THAT SAYS, FIRST OF ALL, THAT 40:43.742 --> 40:50.523 THESE WISE MEN TRAVELED PROBABLY ABOUT 800 OR 900 MILES TO GET TO 40:50.523 --> 40:53.463 WHERE JESUS WAS. NOW, BACK IN THAT DAY, THEY WERE LIKE GOING 40:53.463 --> 40:59.373 ON FOOT, AND WITH CAMELS AND DONKEYS AND WHATEVER. YOU KNOW, 40:59.373 --> 41:05.793 SO I DID A LITTLE LOOK. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE. BUT, YOU KNOW, 41:05.793 --> 41:11.163 THAT DISTANCE IS PROBABLY FROM LIKE SOUTH DAKOTA TO DALLAS. YOU 41:11.163 --> 41:14.612 THINK ABOUT WALKING THAT ON FOOT. AND SO THEN I HAD TO LOOK 41:14.612 --> 41:19.592 UP. I JUST HAD TO KNOW HOW MANY HOURS WOULD IT TAKE YOU TO WALK 41:19.592 --> 41:23.492 FROM SOUTH DAKOTA TO DALLAS. WELL, YOU COULDN'T WALK 24 41:23.492 --> 41:29.702 HOURS. IT SAID ABOUT 300 HOURS OF WALKING. BUT IF YOU DID 10, 8 41:29.702 --> 41:32.612 HOURS A DAY MAYBE, THEY'VE GOT TO STOP AND FEED THEIR ANIMALS, 41:32.612 --> 41:36.032 ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU KNOW, THE PRACTICAL THINGS. AND I 41:36.032 --> 41:38.972 THOUGHT, THAT WOULD TAKE THEM ABOUT A MONTH. YOU THINK ABOUT 41:38.972 --> 41:45.873 THAT. AND THEN JUST GETTING READY FOR THE TRIP, THEY HAD TO 41:45.873 --> 41:48.693 PLAN. NOW RICK RENNER, HOW MANY OF YOU EVER READ SOME OF HIS 41:48.693 --> 41:52.802 STUFF ON CHRISTMAS? HE TALKS ABOUT HOW OBVIOUSLY MANY 41:52.802 --> 41:57.273 HISTORIANS HAVE SAID IT WASN'T JUST THREE MAGI. IT WAS A WHOLE 41:57.273 --> 42:03.242 PROCESSION OF PEOPLE THAT CAME IN VAST NUMBER. THAT'S WHY HEROD 42:03.242 --> 42:05.972 FELT SO THREATENED. IT WASN'T JUST A COUPLE LITTLE GUYS THAT 42:05.972 --> 42:10.862 CAME. AND OF COURSE, WE KNOW THE BIBLE INDICATES RIGHT HERE, EVEN 42:10.862 --> 42:18.543 IN MATTHEW, THAT THE MAGI DIDN'T COME TO THE STABLE. IT SAYS THAT 42:18.543 --> 42:22.652 HEROD HAD CALCULATED FROM THE TIME THAT THE STAR APPEARED. AND 42:22.652 --> 42:24.985 THAT'S WHY HE KILLED ALL THE CHILDREN UNDER TWO YEARS OLD. 42:26.253 --> 42:29.103 BUT THE FUNNY THING IS, YOU THINK ABOUT FOR A MINUTE THE 42:29.103 --> 42:33.902 PREPARATION THAT IT TOOK FOR THIS PROCESSION TO COME, FOR 42:33.902 --> 42:37.443 THEM TO PLAN THEIR TREASURES. AND BY THE WAY, HISTORY TELLS US 42:37.443 --> 42:42.032 IT WASN'T LIKE THREE LITTLE BULLS OF A LITTLE GOLD. IT WAS 42:42.032 --> 42:47.342 ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN THE ENTIRE MINISTRY OF JESUS THROUGH HIS 42:47.342 --> 42:51.603 ALL THE WAY TO HIS CRUCIFIXION, THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH WEALTH. WE 42:51.603 --> 42:55.083 KNOW JESUS HAD A TREASURY. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT. HE HAD A 42:55.083 --> 42:59.463 TREASURER THAT WAS STEALING FROM THE BAG. JUDAS, RIGHT? AND SO 42:59.463 --> 43:03.452 THERE HAD TO BE ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BAG FOR IT NOT TO BE THAT 43:03.452 --> 43:08.612 NOTICEABLE IF HE WAS TAKING A LITTLE BIT OUT ALL THE TIME. 43:08.612 --> 43:12.572 JUDAS, RIGHT? SO THERE WAS WEALTH. THEY AT ONE POINT HAD 43:12.572 --> 43:18.693 OFFERED TO GO AND PURCHASE FOR THE MULTITUDE FOOD. SO YOU THINK 43:18.693 --> 43:24.813 ABOUT THOSE SCRIPTURES. SO THIS WAS A THE MAGI COMING WAS A 43:24.813 --> 43:31.742 MAJOR PLANNED EVENT. AND IT TOOK THEM PROBABLY WEEKS, MAYBE 43:31.742 --> 43:36.632 MONTHS, OF SEEING THE STAR AND GOING AND TRAVELING THAT WHOLE 43:36.632 --> 43:40.742 MONTH WITH ALL OF THE TREASURES THAT THEY BROUGHT. IMAGINE THE 43:40.742 --> 43:43.773 PREPARATION IT TOOK FOR THAT. I MEAN, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR OUR 43:43.773 --> 43:47.733 KIDS SING HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. AND I THINK ABOUT HOW 43:47.733 --> 43:51.632 MUCH PRACTICE THEY PUT, OR OUR FLAGGERS THAT WERE UP HERE 43:51.632 --> 43:54.753 TODAY, THEY PRACTICED. BY THE WAY, THE WORSHIP TEAM TODAY, 43:54.753 --> 44:00.422 AMAZING JOB FROM THEM. AND ALL THAT PREPARATION. SO IT JUST 44:00.422 --> 44:05.432 REMINDS ME THAT THESE MAGI PREPARED. THEY PLANNED. THEY 44:05.432 --> 44:09.452 PACKED UP THINGS. AND IN FACT, VERSE 11, IT SAYS IN THE NEW 44:09.452 --> 44:13.443 LIVING OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, IT SAYS THAT THEY OPENED THEIR 44:13.443 --> 44:17.222 TREASURE CHESTS. SO THAT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, NOT LITTLE 44:17.222 --> 44:21.362 BOXES. THEY HAD BIG TREASURE CHESTS. AND THE REASON I SAY ALL 44:21.362 --> 44:24.932 THAT, IT JUST REMINDS US THAT WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING, WE 44:24.932 --> 44:29.432 SHOULDN'T, AND AS WE GO INTO 2026, BE HAPHAZARD ABOUT THAT. 44:29.432 --> 44:33.516 THEY PLANNED, THEY PREPARED. SO MY ENCOURAGEMENT ON THIS 44:33.516 --> 44:38.253 CHRISTMAS TO YOU ON YOUR OFFERINGS, YOUR TITHES, IS PLAN. 44:38.253 --> 44:41.733 PLAN HOW YOU WANT TO GIVE TO GOD. DON'T JUST, YOU KNOW, 44:41.733 --> 44:44.822 HAPHAZARD, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE DEVIL, THE 44:44.822 --> 44:49.802 ENEMY, LIFE'S ISSUES ARE ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO TAKE FROM YOU 44:49.802 --> 44:55.443 YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS. SO THIS IS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO US TO PLAN 44:55.443 --> 44:59.043 AHEAD. PLAN YOUR 2026. DON'T JUST PLAN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO 44:59.043 --> 45:03.813 PAY YOUR CAR OFF, RIGHT? PLAN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE TO GOD. 45:03.813 --> 45:07.112 AND THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT OF THAT IF WE WOULD 45:07.112 --> 45:11.583 PLAN THOSE THINGS, JUST LIKE THE MAGI DID. AND SO TO ME, THAT'S 45:11.583 --> 45:14.342 THE MESSAGE OF WHAT THEY BROUGHT. THEY PLANNED. THEY 45:14.342 --> 45:19.503 PREPARED. THEY THOUGHT AHEAD. AND SO AS WE LOOK AT 2026, THIS 45:19.503 --> 45:24.273 CHRISTMAS, LET THE MESSAGE OF THE MAGI REMIND US. LET'S PLAN 45:24.273 --> 45:28.532 AND PREPARE. AND YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THEY GOT THIRSTY AND HUNGRY 45:28.532 --> 45:31.443 ALONG THE WAY. YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE LIKE HUMAN NATURE, THERE 45:31.443 --> 45:33.842 MIGHT'VE BEEN TIMES THAT THEY THOUGHT, LET'S JUST TURN BACK, 45:33.842 --> 45:37.713 RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE WEATHER'S NOT COOPERATING, 45:37.713 --> 45:41.072 THINGS AREN'T GOING RIGHT, AND THEY WANTED TO JUST GO BACK AND 45:41.072 --> 45:45.123 QUIT. AND MAYBE THAT WAS, I MEAN, THE BIBLE DOESN'T TELL US 45:45.123 --> 45:47.793 THAT, BUT MAYBE THAT WAS THE CASE. I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE 45:47.793 --> 45:51.572 YOU, DON'T LET LIFE KEEP YOU FROM SERVING GOD WITH YOUR WHOLE 45:51.572 --> 45:55.143 HEART, NUMBER ONE, IN 2026. NUMBER TWO, DON'T LET IT KEEP 45:55.143 --> 45:58.893 YOU FROM PREPARING HOW YOU WANT TO HONOR GOD IN YOUR GIVING, AND 45:58.893 --> 46:02.492 ESPECIALLY FINANCIALLY. BUT ALL THE AREAS OF OUR LIFE IS SO 46:02.492 --> 46:05.793 IMPORTANT. AMEN? AMEN? ALL RIGHT, ARE YOU READY TO GIVE 46:05.793 --> 46:08.402 THIS MORNING? ALL RIGHT, THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THAT GIVING 46:08.402 --> 46:12.422 INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN AND ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO GIVE. 46:12.422 --> 46:14.672 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE BUILDING FUND. AND IF YOU WANT 46:14.672 --> 46:18.842 TO GET YOUR LAST OFFERINGS OF 2025, SOME OF YOU ARE TRYING TO 46:18.842 --> 46:22.563 GET THOSE IN BEFORE THE YEAR CLOSES, AND YOU ARE MAILING, IT 46:22.563 --> 46:27.722 JUST NEEDS TO BE IN THE MAIL BY THE 31ST. SO GET THAT POSTMARKED 46:27.722 --> 46:32.253 ON TIME. AND THEN BY MIDNIGHT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, THOSE NEED TO 46:32.253 --> 46:36.003 ALL BE SUBMITTED TO GET ON YOUR 2025 GIVING RECORD. SO I ALWAYS 46:36.003 --> 46:39.003 LIKE TO MAKE MENTION OF THAT. AND BY THE WAY, OUR FIRST FRUITS 46:39.003 --> 46:41.733 OFFERING IS AVAILABLE. SO IF YOU'RE WANTING TO SOW THOSE 46:41.733 --> 46:45.403 FIRST FRUITS INTO 20, THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO PREPARE, RIGHT? LET 46:45.403 --> 46:49.083 YOUR GIVING GO BEFORE YOU. THAT FUND IS OUT THERE SO YOU CAN 46:49.083 --> 46:53.822 LOOK FOR THE FIRST FRUITS 2026 AND YOU CAN GIVE INTO THAT AS 46:53.822 --> 46:57.063 WELL. AND BY THE WAY, AS THE USHERS ARE SERVING YOU, I WILL 46:57.063 --> 47:00.782 JUST SAY, AND THEY'RE GIVING YOU YOUR OFFERING ENVELOPES. I WILL 47:00.782 --> 47:04.833 JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING FAITHFUL IN 2025 FROM PASTOR AND 47:04.833 --> 47:08.882 MYSELF. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR FAMILY. THANK YOU FOR 47:08.882 --> 47:11.943 ALL YOU DO FOR THE TABERNACLE, FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE KINGDOM 47:11.943 --> 47:15.003 OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. YOU ARE THE BEST PEOPLE. 47:15.003 --> 47:17.882 INTERNET, IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU WE'RE ABLE TO BUILD THIS 47:17.882 --> 47:21.753 BEAUTIFUL TABERNACLE TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER. PASTOR 47:21.753 --> 47:25.893 AND I, WE GET UP EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES SO GRATEFUL, SO 47:25.893 --> 47:30.213 THANKFUL, AND SO HONORING OF GOD AND WHAT HE DID THROUGH YOU. SO 47:30.213 --> 47:33.393 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A GREAT YEAR. GOD BLESS YOU. WELL, IF 47:33.393 --> 47:36.512 YOU HAVE YOUR GIVING, LET'S GET READY, LET'S STAND. EVERYBODY 47:36.512 --> 47:40.143 STAND. AND IF YOU'RE USING YOUR PHONE, YOU CAN GET YOUR PHONE 47:40.143 --> 47:44.163 OUT, HOLD IT UP HIGH, HOLD UP YOUR ENVELOPE. YOU CAN DO THAT 47:44.163 --> 47:49.172 AS WELL. JUST HOLD IT UP, TREAT IT LIKE THIS IS YOUR STATEMENT. 47:49.172 --> 47:52.983 THIS IS YOUR PREPARATION FOR A BRAND NEW YEAR, AMEN? FATHER, I 47:52.983 --> 47:56.282 THANK YOU FOR EVERY PERSON HERE AND ONLINE THAT IS GIVING. 47:56.282 --> 48:00.782 FATHER, THAT IS PREPARING FOR 2026, JUST LIKE THE MAGI DID. 48:00.782 --> 48:03.213 THEY ARE PREPARING, THEY'RE GIVING, THEIR OFFERINGS, THEIR 48:03.213 --> 48:07.052 TITHES. AND FATHER, WE JUST WANNA SAY YOU ARE SO DESERVING. 48:07.052 --> 48:10.532 YOU DESERVE OUR BEST, JUST LIKE THEY GAVE. AND SO GOD, THAT'S 48:10.532 --> 48:13.382 WHAT WE'RE HERE AND WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TODAY, TO GIVE YOU OUR 48:13.382 --> 48:17.103 BEST. AND WE JUST SAY, THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU FOR 48:17.103 --> 48:20.253 COMING. THANK YOU FOR GIVING YOUR LIVES SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE 48:20.253 --> 48:24.992 TO GO TO HELL. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WE WANNA SAY THANK YOU. AND 48:24.992 --> 48:29.793 WE HONOR YOU WITH OUR GIVING TODAY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN AND 48:29.793 --> 48:33.932 AMEN. CAN WE DO OUR FINAL DECREE OF THIS YEAR? YOU WANNA DO THAT 48:33.932 --> 48:36.842 TOGETHER? ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO QUICKLY SO WE CAN GET THE KIDS 48:36.842 --> 48:40.532 UP HERE. SAY IT WITH ME. WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND MINISTRY 48:40.532 --> 48:44.523 OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, EXPANDED AND DEBT 48:44.523 --> 48:49.268 FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY THAT WE 48:49.268 --> 48:52.592 HAVE TO EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT BE BUILT UP AND 48:52.592 --> 48:56.583 FINISHED. WE SAY THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED FOR THE 48:56.583 --> 49:01.773 LORD IS BUILDING THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH EXCESS AND 49:01.773 --> 49:05.702 OVERFLOW. LORD, YOU ARE PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE 49:05.702 --> 49:10.112 CALL UPON YOU, LORD OF HOSTS, TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE 49:10.112 --> 49:13.713 AND RAISE UP MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE 49:13.713 --> 49:17.253 ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL 49:17.253 --> 49:22.202 QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THAT WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE 49:22.202 --> 49:26.253 DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE DECREE MINISTRY AND 49:26.253 --> 49:30.610 CAMPUS BE EXPANDED NOW. HALLELUJAH. GIVE GOD A PRAISE 49:30.610 --> 49:33.123 AS YOU GIVE. AND WHILE THE USHERS BEGIN TO 49:33.123 --> 49:36.775 SERVE YOU, LET'S WELCOME OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. 49:36.775 --> 50:40.239 (MUSIC) 50:42.242 --> 50:48.519 LONG AGO, ONE QUIET NIGHT, ALL OF CREATION BEGAN TO STIR. NOT 50:48.523 --> 50:53.143 JUST THE STARS, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE, BUT EVEN THE ANIMALS 50:53.143 --> 50:58.123 TOO. YOU SEE, THEY KNEW A VERY SPECIAL BABY WAS ABOUT TO BE 50:58.123 --> 51:04.902 BORN. AND NOT JUST ANY BABY, THE MESSIAH, THE KING, THE SAVIOR OF 51:04.902 --> 51:09.583 THE WORLD. AND SO THE ANIMALS BEGAN TO PREPARE. ALL RIGHT 51:09.583 --> 51:12.552 TEAM, WE GOT A BIG JOB. THE MESSIAH WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING 51:12.552 --> 51:15.882 FOR IS BEING BORN AT BETHLEHEM. AND WE'VE GOT TO GET THERE. OUR 51:15.882 --> 51:19.362 SAVIOR, OUR KING, A ROYAL BABY WITH TEENY TINY TOES, I MUST 51:19.362 --> 51:23.132 SIMPLY SEE THIS. THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE BORN? 51:23.132 --> 51:33.012 WELL, OF COURSE, ONLY THE PROPHESIED IT FOR 400 YEARS. OH, 51:33.012 --> 51:36.313 HI. I WALKED ALL THE WAY FROM THE DESERT. MY FEET HURT, MY 51:36.313 --> 51:40.512 BACK HURTS, AND SOMEONE PUT GRANOLA IN MY HUMP. ARE Y'ALL ON 51:40.512 --> 51:44.353 YOUR WAY TO SEE THE MESSIAH? WE SURE ARE. I'M SO EXCITED TO MEET 51:44.353 --> 51:47.322 THE KING OF KINGS. CAN YOU BELIEVE GOD IS COMING TO BE WITH 51:47.322 --> 51:52.362 US? CAN I COME ALONG WITH YOU? WELL, OF COURSE, THE MORE THE 51:52.362 --> 51:59.503 MERRIER. OK, DID EVERYONE BRING THEIR SNACKS? I BROUGHT A SOCK. 51:59.503 --> 52:04.333 WAIT, NO. OH, YEP. JUST A SOCK. WAIT, DO WE EAT SOCKS NOW? 52:07.422 --> 52:11.802 ENOUGH CHATTER. WE NEED TO MOVE. WE GOT A KING TO MEET. LA LA LA, 52:11.802 --> 52:17.652 IT'S CHRISTMAS. VINNY, IS THAT YOU? CARL? VINNY, MY LONG LOST 52:17.652 --> 52:23.483 COUSIN. ARE YOU ON YOUR WAY TO MEET THE MESSIAH? I SURE AM. CAN 52:23.483 --> 52:27.222 YOU BELIEVE IT? JESUS, THE MESSIAH, IS COMING TO SAVE US. I 52:27.222 --> 52:34.302 KNOW. I'M SO JOYFUL. ME TOO. HEY, GRANDMA AND GRANDMA ARE ON 52:34.302 --> 52:37.722 THEIR WAY. UNCLE HENRY AND AUNT MIDGET ARE FLYING IN FROM 52:37.722 --> 52:41.836 JERICHO. COUSIN NERO, THE TURTLE, IS ON HIS WAY FROM 52:41.836 --> 52:46.050 NATHURISH. IT'S GOING TO BE A GRAND PARTY FULL OF SO MUCH JOY. 52:47.652 --> 52:50.682 LET'S NOT BE LATE. THE STARS ARE OUT, THE ANGELS ARE SINGING, AND 52:50.682 --> 52:56.963 I'VE REACHED MY HALLELUJAH POSE. THIS IS IT, TEAM. 52:56.963 --> 52:59.996 ALL CREATION HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THIS 52:59.996 --> 53:02.646 MOMENT. THE ONE WHO WILL BRING PEACE. THE ONE 53:02.646 --> 53:06.193 WHO WILL LIKE MY SOCK. THE ONE WHO BRINGS LIGHT IN THE 53:06.193 --> 53:11.742 DARKNESS. ONE THAT SEES LITTLE CREATURES JUST LIKE ME. EVERYONE 53:11.742 --> 53:16.512 READY? ALL CREATURES HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT. AS 53:16.512 --> 53:19.693 READY AS I'LL EVER BE. LET'S GO WORSHIP THE NEWBORN KING AND 53:19.693 --> 53:28.632 MAYBE SIT DOWN AFTERWARD. I BROUGHT A GIFT. IT'S THIS SOCK. 53:28.632 --> 53:33.012 OH, STEPHEN, HE DOESN'T NEED A GIFT. HE JUST WANTS US. AND SO 53:33.012 --> 53:36.882 WITH EXCITEMENT, LAUGHTER, AND JOY IN THEIR HEARTS, THE ANIMALS 53:36.882 --> 53:41.052 MADE THEIR WAY TO THE STABLE, AND NOT TO SEE A THRONE OR A 53:41.052 --> 53:51.552 PALACE, BUT TO SEE GOD WRAPPED IN CLOTH, LYING IN A MANGER. SO, 53:51.552 --> 53:53.233 IN MANY WAYS, JESUS, GOD PROMISED HE'D SEND A SAVIOR, AND 53:53.233 --> 53:57.793 HE'S HERE. FA LA LA LA IT'S CHRISTMAS. LONG AGO IN 53:57.793 --> 54:03.733 BETHLEHEM'S NIGHT A BABY WAS BORN A SHINING LIGHT. NOT JUST 54:03.733 --> 54:09.282 PEOPLE, STARS AND SHEEP, WAITING FOR THE KING IN A MANGER DEEP. 54:10.603 --> 54:18.313 DONKEYS DANCING, THE FLEW HIGH AS SAVIOR WAS COMING FROM THE 54:18.313 --> 54:24.432 SKY. EVEN CAMELS FROM FAR AWAY HURRIED TO SEE THE KING THAT 54:24.432 --> 54:30.612 DAY. CREATION CHEERED, THE WAY IT WAS DONE, GOD HAS SENT HIS 54:30.612 --> 54:35.802 ONLY SON. NOT IN A CASTLE, BUT SOFT AND SMALL, JESUS CAME TO 54:35.802 --> 54:44.322 SAVE US ALL. NO CROWN OF GOLD, NO ROYAL BED, JUST A TINY HEAD. 54:44.322 --> 54:47.083 YET ALL THE EARTH BEGAN TO SING FOR JESUS CHRIST, 54:47.083 --> 54:51.552 OUR NEWBORN KING. PEACE HAD COME AND LOVE WAS NEAR, 54:51.552 --> 54:57.313 THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD WAS HERE. SO LET US SHOUT AND 54:57.313 --> 55:03.561 SING TODAY, FA-LA-LA-ELUJAH, CHRIST IS BORN. HOORAY! 55:03.561 --> 55:07.574 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 55:07.574 --> 55:12.478 ONE NIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS. ONE STAR SHINING THE BRIGHTEST. 55:12.478 --> 55:18.251 HEAVEN COULDN’T CONTAIN THE GREATEST NEWS. SHEPHERDS 55:18.251 --> 55:23.155 COULDN’T BELIEVER IT, WISEMEN WANTED TO SEE IT, GOD WAS 55:23.155 --> 55:31.463 SENDING HHIS ONLY SON TO EARTH. CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND THE 55:31.463 --> 55:40.340 ANGELS SINGING OUT. JOY, SING AND SHOUT IT. TELL ALL THE WORLD 55:40.340 --> 55:47.681 ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH US, GOD IS WITH US! JOY, THIS IS THE 55:47.681 --> 55:54.221 SEASON, NOW WE HAVE A REASON. GOD IS WITH US AND THIS IS 55:54.221 --> 55:58.458 CHRISTMAS! FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- 55:58.458 --> 56:03.829 LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS 56:03.829 --> 56:11.704 CHRISTMAS! JESUS BORN IN A MANGER, JESUS HE IS A SAVIOR HE 56:11.704 --> 56:16.009 IS SHOWING THE WORLD THE LOVE OF GOD. 56:16.009 --> 56:27.152 CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND. THE ANGELS SINGING OUT! JOY, SING 56:27.152 --> 56:32.826 AND SHOUT IT. TELL THE ALL WORLD ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH US, SING 56:32.826 --> 56:39.932 GOD IS WITH US. JOY, THIS IS THE SEASON. NOW WE HAVE A REASON. 56:39.932 --> 56:44.838 GOD IS WITH US AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS. 56:44.838 --> 56:49.773 FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH 56:49.773 --> 56:55.181 FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS! TELL ALL YOUR 56:55.181 --> 57:01.588 FRIENDS, TELL EVERYONE, EVERYONE. COME CELEBRATE. IT’S 57:01.588 --> 57:06.326 JUST BEGUN, JUST BEGUN. PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR CAUSE IT’S 57:06.326 --> 57:13.599 CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE. GET READY TO MOVE CAUSE WE KNOW IT’S TRUE! 57:13.599 --> 57:19.873 JOY! SING AND SHOUT IT TELL ALL THE WORLD ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH 57:19.873 --> 57:27.260 US, SING GOD IS WITH US. JOY, THIS IS THE SEASON. NOW WE HAVE 57:27.260 --> 57:32.952 A REASON. GOD IS WITH US. AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS! 57:32.952 --> 57:37.657 FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH 57:37.657 --> 57:42.329 FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS! 57:42.329 --> 57:47.266 FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH 57:47.266 --> 57:52.639 FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS! 57:52.639 --> 58:06.085 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 58:06.085 --> 58:10.994 WE NEED TO GIVE THESE GUYS A BIG HAND CLAP. I THINK YOU GUYS NEED 58:11.023 --> 58:14.762 TO BOW. WATCH YOU, LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT, YOU GUYS 58:14.762 --> 58:22.693 ARE FAMOUS. WOW. HOW DO YOU FEEL BEING ALL OVER THE 58:22.693 --> 58:28.722 WORLD, LIVE TELEVISION, A MOVIE STAR NOW? AWESOME. YEAH, YEAH. 58:28.722 --> 58:31.932 IS THERE A WAY WE COULD GET YOUR AUTOGRAPH? NO. 58:31.932 --> 58:33.791 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 58:33.791 --> 58:38.083 HOW ABOUT YOU? NO. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WE CAN JUST GET 58:38.083 --> 58:40.273 YOUR AUTOGRAPH? YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE YOUR 58:40.273 --> 58:43.123 NAME. THAT'S WHAT IT IS. I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE 58:43.123 --> 58:46.242 YOUR NAME. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO WRITE YOUR NAME? YES. YES. YES, 58:46.242 --> 58:49.422 ALL RIGHT, BUT HERE'S THE THING, GUYS. SO AS I WAS OVER THERE ON 58:49.422 --> 58:55.452 THE FRONT ROW, I WAS THINKING, SOON AS THE CHRISTMAS SINGING IS 58:55.452 --> 58:59.862 DONE, YOU ALL WILL FORGET YOUR MOVES. 'CAUSE SOME OF YOU HAD 58:59.862 --> 59:05.472 SOME LIKE DANCE MOVES. YEAH, YEAH. COME ON, YOU, SHOW US, YOU 59:05.472 --> 59:07.842 KNOW, YOU GOTTA BACK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT. SHOW US YOUR DANCE 59:07.842 --> 59:17.682 MOVE. WHOA, LOOK AT THAT. ALL RIGHT, LOOK AT THAT. NOW, I WANT 59:17.682 --> 59:21.282 TO YOU GUYS WANT ME TO TEACH YOU ONE? ALL RIGHT, IT GOES LIKE 59:21.282 --> 59:28.003 THIS. READY? ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY DO THAT. READY? I 59:28.003 --> 59:33.733 MEAN, LOOK AT THIS. WELL, WHERE'S YOUR DANCE MOVE? ARE YOU 59:33.733 --> 59:39.132 DOING A DANCE MOVE? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DANCE? WHO CAN DO A 59:39.132 --> 59:43.693 REALLY COOL MOVE? YOU ALREADY DID? OH, YOU ALREADY DID YOUR... 59:43.693 --> 59:47.862 SO YOU'RE RETIRED AS A MOVIE STAR NOW? HOW ABOUT YOU? SHOW US 59:47.862 --> 59:53.052 WHAT YOU GOT. NO. NO? HOW ABOUT YOU? YES. OKAY, GO FOR IT. LET'S 59:53.052 --> 01:00:00.474 SEE YOUR MOVE. OH MY GOODNESS, BREAK IT DOWN! YOU LOOK 01:00:00.474 --> 01:00:04.003 LIKE YOU GOT SOME MOVES, MAN. NO, I DON'T. YOU 01:00:04.003 --> 01:00:07.333 DON'T HAVE ANY MOVES? WERE YOU BORN WITHOUT ANY MOVES? 01:00:07.333 --> 01:00:08.934 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 01:00:08.934 --> 01:00:13.543 HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? ALL RIGHT, READY? TRY THIS ONE. WANNA TRY 01:00:13.543 --> 01:00:16.693 THAT ONE? YOU DON'T WANNA TRY THAT ONE? ALL RIGHT, WHO'S GOT 01:00:16.693 --> 01:00:20.643 SOME MOVES? I GOT IT. YOU, OH, OH, WHAT DO YOU GOT? 01:00:24.938 --> 01:00:27.818 THAT IS, I'VE SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE. IS THAT CALLED 01:00:27.818 --> 01:00:31.358 THE RABBIT? NO, IT'S THE FROG. OH, IT'S THE FROG. HOW ABOUT 01:00:31.358 --> 01:00:34.028 YOU? LET ME SEE YOUR DANCE MOVE. COME ON UP HERE. ALL RIGHT. OH, 01:00:34.028 --> 01:00:38.858 LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THIS. OH, MY GOODNESS. WOW, DO YOU WORK 01:00:38.858 --> 01:00:43.748 THAT HARD TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM? NAH, YOU DON'T CLEAN YOUR ROOM. 01:00:43.748 --> 01:00:46.478 OH, YOU WANT ME TO BACK UP? NOW, HERE, YOU GOT TO BACK UP, 01:00:46.478 --> 01:00:49.719 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO FALL DOWN THERE. OK, DO YOUR COOLEST 01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:56.679 MOVE. WOW, LOOK AT THAT. OH, HIS SHOE FELL OFF. OH, MY GOODNESS. 01:00:56.679 --> 01:00:58.298 YOU GOT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER, YOU GOT TO MAKE SURE YOU GOT THE 01:00:58.298 --> 01:01:02.108 SHOE. THAT'S OK. LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR THE SHOELESS DANCE GUY. 01:01:02.108 --> 01:01:06.969 ALL RIGHT, ONE MORE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DANCE LIKE? OK, NOW 01:01:06.969 --> 01:01:11.228 YOU GOT TO BACK UP. OK, HERE WE GO. READY, ONE WAIT, LET ME 01:01:11.228 --> 01:01:15.009 COUNT TO LIKE LET ME COUNT TO ONE MILLION. OK, I'M GOING TO 01:01:15.009 --> 01:01:19.389 START. 1, 2 THEN YOU COULD DANCE AT THE 1 OH, SHOULD I JUST MAKE 01:01:19.389 --> 01:01:24.398 IT LIKE 10? OK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. OK, GO. OH, MY 01:01:24.398 --> 01:01:31.418 GOODNESS. OH, THAT IS, ARE YOU LIKE A BALLERINA, A GYMNAST? NO, 01:01:31.418 --> 01:01:35.588 DON'T TRY IT, YOU MIGHT SPLIT YOUR PANTS THERE, BUDDY. OKAY, 01:01:35.588 --> 01:01:39.608 WELL, THAT'S OKAY, ALL RIGHT. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK PASTOR 01:01:39.608 --> 01:01:51.009 HANK SHOULD TRY THAT? YEAH! GO ASK YOUR PARENTS TO, I DON'T 01:01:51.009 --> 01:01:53.889 KNOW, I BETTER NOT. ALL RIGHT, WELL LET ME ASK YOU GUYS THIS 01:01:53.889 --> 01:01:57.668 BEFORE WE LET YOU GO. WHERE'S CARL THE CAMEL? COME ON UP HERE, 01:01:57.668 --> 01:02:00.427 CARL. I GOTTA ASK YOU A QUESTION. HOW MANY OF YOU, NOW 01:02:00.427 --> 01:02:02.739 LOOK, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING ALL OVER THE WORLD RIGHT 01:02:02.739 --> 01:02:06.608 HERE, CARL, AND THEY ARE WONDERING IF YOU REALLY DO HAVE 01:02:06.608 --> 01:02:10.958 GRANOLA IN THAT BACKPACK. DID THAT GET BY THE OFFICERS? DID 01:02:10.958 --> 01:02:14.889 THAT GET BY SECURITY? I MEAN DO YOU WANNA SHOW US WHAT'S IN 01:02:14.889 --> 01:02:16.958 THERE? WOULD YOU RATHER NOT? I GUESS SO. WHAT IS IT, YOUR 01:02:16.958 --> 01:02:23.139 PAJAMAS? CLEAN SOCKS? I DON'T KNOW, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, MAKE 01:02:23.139 --> 01:02:25.628 SURE, WAIT, WAIT, MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK FIRST, THINK THERE'S 01:02:25.628 --> 01:02:30.699 AN ANIMAL IN THERE. WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU GOT AN OLD STEEL 01:02:30.699 --> 01:02:38.635 SANDWICH IN THERE. WHAT IS THAT? BED SHEET. BED SHEET? YEAH. 01:02:38.635 --> 01:02:41.409 YEAH, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST KEEP THE ZIPPER ON THAT. THAT'S JUST 01:02:41.409 --> 01:02:46.958 GONNA KEEP THAT. WOW, WHERE'S THE GUY WITH THE SOCK? ALL 01:02:46.958 --> 01:02:53.498 RIGHT, SEE, THE PLAY'S OVER AND YOU LOST YOUR SOCKS. OH YEAH, 01:02:53.498 --> 01:02:56.498 MAN, YOU THINK IF THE PLAY'S STILL ON, YOU SHOULD GO GET YOUR 01:02:56.498 --> 01:03:00.969 SOCK, MAYBE? YEAH, MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO GET YOUR SOCK. YEAH, 01:03:00.969 --> 01:03:03.773 GO AHEAD AND GET YOUR SOCK, BRING IT UP HERE. LET ME SEE IT, 01:03:03.773 --> 01:03:09.789 WHAT'S INSIDE OF THIS? MAN, DID YOU WASH THAT THING? IS THIS 01:03:09.789 --> 01:03:13.838 JONATHAN, MY SON'S SOCKS? THIS SMELLS EXACTLY THE WAY HIS SOCKS 01:03:13.838 --> 01:03:22.119 ARE, YOU KNOW? HOW MANY KNOW? YEP, THAT'S JOHN'S SOCKS. WHAT 01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:27.548 ARE YOU GONNA GET FOR CHRISTMAS? LEGOS. LEGOS, OH, I COULD GO 01:03:27.548 --> 01:03:31.358 FOR, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA GET CASH? CASH, OH, 01:03:31.358 --> 01:03:34.478 LOOK AT ALL THE MONEY GIFTS. WELL, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK 01:03:34.478 --> 01:03:39.608 YOU'RE GONNA GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE ASKED FOR? OOH, WHAT DID 01:03:39.608 --> 01:03:46.329 YOU ASK FOR? A MILLION, I WANT TO GET A MILLION. THAT'S GREAT, 01:03:46.329 --> 01:03:50.139 WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU GOT? A MILLION LEGO SETS. HOW ABOUT 01:03:50.139 --> 01:03:55.108 YOU? I THINK I GOT SOMETHING SONIC Y. SOMETHING THAT INCLUDES 01:03:55.108 --> 01:04:03.458 SONIC. HOW ABOUT YOU? LIKE, I DON'T REALLY WANT TO SAY THIS, 01:04:03.458 --> 01:04:05.679 BUT OKAY, THEN DON'T SAY IT, OKAY, 'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOUR 01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:08.588 PARENTS ARE WATCHING, WE WANT 'EM TO COME BACK NEXT WEEK, 01:04:08.588 --> 01:04:16.719 OKAY. WHAT DID YOU GET? I ASKED FOR LEGOS. LEGOS, OKAY. IS THAT 01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:19.748 LIKE THE WAFFLES LEGO, MY EGGO, REMEMBER THAT? OKAY, WHAT'D YOU 01:04:19.748 --> 01:04:26.469 GET? I DON'T KNOW. YOU DON'T KNOW? YOU GOT YOUR HAND UP. I 01:04:26.469 --> 01:04:30.188 GOT A THING THAT HAS A REAL MICROPHONE ON IT. OH, A REAL 01:04:30.188 --> 01:04:33.338 MICROPHONE, LIKE MAYBE A REAL MICROPHONE THING? OH, I KNOW THE 01:04:33.338 --> 01:04:37.119 REAL MICROPHONE THING. I WANTED THAT REAL MICROPHONE THING TOO. 01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:40.298 WHAT'D YOU GET? I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I GOT, BUT I WON A 01:04:40.298 --> 01:04:47.570 GRAND PIANO. OH YEAH, AND I WON A HORSE. NO, YOU CAN'T SAY IT 01:04:47.570 --> 01:04:54.219 BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK I GOT A LEGO SET. WOW. OKAY, I SEE 01:04:54.219 --> 01:04:59.349 YOUR HAND. I GOT LIKE A GIANT CAT LUNA THAT'S LIKE ABOUT LIKE 01:04:59.349 --> 01:05:02.438 RIGHT HERE. OH, YEAH, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED WHATEVER THAT WAS. 01:05:04.059 --> 01:05:07.389 I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE WHAT I GOT YET, BUT I DO WANT A RECORD 01:05:07.389 --> 01:05:10.809 PLAYER. OH ALL RIGHT. WELL, LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR OUR KIDS 01:05:10.809 --> 01:05:13.418 TODAY. HOPEFULLY YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANTED. 01:05:13.418 --> 01:05:18.489 LET'S DO ONE MORE DANCE MOVE FOR THE AUDIENCE WITH PASTOR HANK. 01:05:18.489 --> 01:05:26.858 READY? ONE, TWO, THREE, GO. ONE, TWO, THREE, GO. DANCE, MOVE. 01:05:26.858 --> 01:05:29.798 WHAT, YOU GUYS ARE JUST STANDING THERE. COME ON, HELP ME OUT. YOU 01:05:29.798 --> 01:05:32.978 GOTTA FACE THAT WAY. READY? EVERYBODY DO THE MOVES. DO YOUR 01:05:32.978 --> 01:05:36.579 OWN MOVES. READY, ONE, TWO, THREE. JOY OF CHRISTMAS, MOVE. 01:05:36.579 --> 01:05:45.039 YEAH. DON'T LEAVE ME UP HERE BY MYSELF. ALL RIGHT, GUYS. OKAY, 01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:48.338 ALL RIGHT, THAT'S REALLY GOOD. I'M GONNA HAVE THESE GUYS NEXT 01:05:48.338 --> 01:05:50.708 YEAR. EVERYBODY ELSE, YOU GOTTA PRACTICE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GIVE 01:05:50.708 --> 01:05:55.599 IT UP FOR THE KIDS. GREAT JOB. I HOPE YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU 01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:59.528 WANTED AND MORE, ESPECIALLY THE CASH STUFF, RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, 01:05:59.528 --> 01:06:04.688 WE'LL SEE YA. YOU'RE LOOKING SHARP, MAN. YEAH, YOU LOOK 01:06:04.688 --> 01:06:08.978 REALLY SHARP. YOU RUNNING FOR WHAT, CITY COUNCIL? NOTHING LIKE 01:06:08.978 --> 01:06:14.978 THAT? SCHOOL BOARD? I DON'T KNOW, FIFTH GRADE? OKAY, ANYWAY, 01:06:14.978 --> 01:06:21.938 NICE TO MEET YA. THANK YOU. OKAY, YOU GOT MY VOTE. IT'S 01:06:21.938 --> 01:06:24.278 ALWAYS GREAT TO INTERVIEW 'EM, ISN'T IT? HEY, GREAT BRAIN, I'M 01:06:24.278 --> 01:06:31.628 GONNA GIVE THIS TO YOU REAL QUICK. ALL RIGHT. ISN'T THAT 01:06:31.628 --> 01:06:34.719 FUN? THAT'S A LOT OF FUN. I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY OF 'EM 01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:38.228 COULD ACTUALLY DANCE, MAN. 'CAUSE I WATCH YOU GUYS OUT 01:06:38.228 --> 01:06:41.168 THERE, AND YOU DON'T HAVE IT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY GET 01:06:41.168 --> 01:06:46.418 THEIR DANCE MOVES. OH, STOP, OH, STOP, YOU KNOW. BUT BOY, I TELL 01:06:46.418 --> 01:06:49.958 YOU, THE BEST PART OF THAT WAS JOHN, HOW DID I JUST GOT TO ASK, 01:06:49.958 --> 01:06:53.438 JONATHAN, HOW DID YOU GET YOUR SOCK UP HERE THAT STUNK SO BAD? 01:06:53.438 --> 01:06:56.768 THAT WAS REALLY THANK YOU FOR HELPING OUT WITH THE CHRISTMAS 01:06:56.768 --> 01:06:59.559 PLAY THIS YEAR BY YOUR STINKY, DIRTY SOCK THERE, JOHN. 01:06:59.559 --> 01:07:02.889 SO IT'S AMAZING. WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE 01:07:02.889 --> 01:07:06.188 COULD DEADLIFT ALMOST 900 POUNDS. BUT THE LAUNDRY 01:07:06.188 --> 01:07:08.978 BASKET, HE JUST COULD NEVER GET UP TO HIS... 01:07:08.978 --> 01:07:11.528 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 01:07:11.528 --> 01:07:13.748 HE KNOWS I'M ONLY MESSING WITH HIM, BUT IT'S GREAT TO HAVE MY 01:07:13.748 --> 01:07:17.829 BOYS HERE, AND I LOVE 'EM. WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF FUN. MAMA'S 01:07:17.829 --> 01:07:21.639 GONNA DO A LOT OF COOKING, ISN'T SHE? SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE FUN. 01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:25.748 WE'RE GONNA GO DOWN AND DO A GAMING THING, AND WHEN I PLAY 01:07:25.748 --> 01:07:31.838 MATTHEW, LIKE, WHAT IS IT, LIKE, MADDEN, THEY CALL IT? THEY CALL 01:07:31.838 --> 01:07:36.789 IT MAD BECAUSE YOU GET MAD. HE BEATS ME LIKE 180 TO LIKE THREE. 01:07:36.789 --> 01:07:41.978 BUT TAKE IT EASY ON ME THIS YEAR, MATT. ALL RIGHT, WELL, 01:07:41.978 --> 01:07:44.378 BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I JUST WANNA REMIND YOU, YOU STILL HAVE 01:07:44.378 --> 01:07:49.028 TIME TO GET YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS. I WANNA SHOW YOU THIS, MY 01:07:49.028 --> 01:07:54.789 CHILDREN'S BOOKS. WE HAVE SOME NEW ONES THAT HAD COME OUT. MY 01:07:54.789 --> 01:07:59.108 P.I. GUS SERIES, THAT'S THE PIG THERE. AND THEN MUTT'S FEE AND 01:07:59.108 --> 01:08:01.838 HELP WANTED, I THINK THAT'S LIKE THE SIXTH OR SEVENTH ONE, 01:08:01.838 --> 01:08:05.128 RACHEL, IN THE SERIES. AND THEN WE'VE GOT MY NEW CAPTAIN ZEPTO, 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:10.389 FAST FOOD SLOWDOWN. THESE ARE REALLY, REALLY HILARIOUS. AND 01:08:10.389 --> 01:08:12.909 THEN THOSE ARE ALL THE CHARACTERS THAT I CREATED. AND 01:08:12.909 --> 01:08:16.118 ACTUALLY, JACOB, ARE YOU IN HERE, JACOB BLACKBURN? HEY, 01:08:16.118 --> 01:08:18.256 THERE HE IS, HE'S RUNNING THE CAMERA. SO I SAID, JACOB, IS 01:08:18.256 --> 01:08:21.878 THERE ANY WAY, YOU HAVE A 3D PRINTER, COULD YOU PRINT THOSE 01:08:21.878 --> 01:08:25.328 OFF 3D? SO HE GOT THEM LIKE TWO INCHES, I'VE BEEN PAINTING THEM. 01:08:25.328 --> 01:08:29.439 AND I WANNA SHOW YOU BECAUSE I THINK WE SHOULD RALLY TOGETHER 01:08:29.439 --> 01:08:33.338 AND PUT THESE IN TOYS FOR KIDS, LIKE LITTLE FIGURINES. SO I'M 01:08:33.338 --> 01:08:37.988 KINDA, YEAH, I HAVE THIS LITTLE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? MY 01:08:37.988 --> 01:08:40.509 MAGNIFYING GLASS THING AND I'VE BEEN PAINTING THEM. AND SO IF 01:08:40.509 --> 01:08:43.537 I'M LOOKING AT YOU LIKE THIS TODAY, IT'S 'CAUSE, YEAH, THAT'S 01:08:43.537 --> 01:08:48.548 THE REASON, THAT IS THE REASON. SO ANYWAY, WELL, WANNA MAKE SURE 01:08:48.548 --> 01:08:52.029 THAT YOU GET ALL OF THOSE. WELL, LET'S BEGIN MY MESSAGE TODAY. I 01:08:52.029 --> 01:08:54.488 DO WANNA CHECK, I KNOW SHE MENTIONED SHE MIGHT COME OR 01:08:54.488 --> 01:08:58.958 WATCH ONLINE, BUT I MET SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY AT ONE OF THE 01:08:58.958 --> 01:09:01.537 PLACES OF BUSINESS THAT I WAS AT. NORMA, IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY 01:09:01.537 --> 01:09:04.779 TODAY. IS NORMA HERE OR IS SHE WATCHING ONLINE? NORMA, IF 01:09:04.779 --> 01:09:08.559 YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AND IF YOU'RE HERE AND 01:09:08.559 --> 01:09:12.037 I DON'T SEE YOUR HAND, WE WOULD LOVE TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO 01:09:12.037 --> 01:09:15.939 YOU. WHOSE BIRTHDAY, ANYBODY'S BIRTHDAY TODAY BESIDES GOD? 01:09:15.939 --> 01:09:21.519 HAPPY BIRTHDAY. WE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I'M NOT GONNA SING, 01:09:21.519 --> 01:09:24.698 OTHERWISE WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE LEAVE. BUT ALL RIGHT, BEFORE WE 01:09:24.698 --> 01:09:29.378 GET STARTED THOUGH, I DO WANNA MENTION, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A 01:09:29.378 --> 01:09:32.738 BOARD MEETING AT ONE OF THE CHRISTMAS SERVICES. THE PASTOR 01:09:32.738 --> 01:09:38.229 GOT UP AND HE BEGAN TO SAY, "AFTER THE SERVICE, IMMEDIATELY, 01:09:38.229 --> 01:09:42.668 "THERE WILL BE A BOARD MEETING IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH." AND 01:09:42.668 --> 01:09:47.168 SO THE SERVICE WENT ON FOR QUITE A WHILE, AND FINALLY IT WAS 01:09:47.168 --> 01:09:51.309 OVER. THE PASTOR FINISHED HIS MESSAGE AFTER SIX CLOSINGS. YOU 01:09:51.309 --> 01:09:56.139 KNOW PASTOR BRENDA, RIGHT? AND SO THEY BEGAN TO GATHER FOR 01:09:56.139 --> 01:09:59.918 THEIR BOARD MEETING, AND THERE WAS THIS GUY THAT SHOWED UP, AND 01:09:59.918 --> 01:10:04.059 HE'S STANDING THERE. AND THEY'RE ALL THERE AT THE MEETING LOOKING 01:10:04.059 --> 01:10:07.628 AT HIM 'CAUSE HE WAS A VISITOR, AND THEY SAID, "SIR," THE 01:10:07.628 --> 01:10:11.979 PASTOR SAID, "SIR, WE KNOW IT'S YOUR FIRST SUNDAY HERE, "BUT 01:10:11.979 --> 01:10:16.658 THIS IS A BOARD MEETING." HE SAID, "OH YEAH, FROM 01:10:16.658 --> 01:10:20.078 THE TIME YOUR SERMON STARTED "TO THE TIME IT ENDED, 01:10:20.078 --> 01:10:23.198 I WAS AS BORED AS THEY COME, "SO I THOUGHT I WOULD." 01:10:23.198 --> 01:10:25.613 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:10:25.613 --> 01:10:30.113 WAS THAT A GOOD ONE? YOU LIKE THAT? OKAY, ONLINE, IF YOU LIKED 01:10:30.113 --> 01:10:33.144 IT BETTER THAN THEY JUST REACTED IN HERE, PUT YOUR HAND UP AND 01:10:33.144 --> 01:10:38.003 WAVE. IF YOU DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GOOD, SAY, "JOHN, WASH YOUR 01:10:38.003 --> 01:10:41.514 SOCKS," AND THAT'LL BE THE MESSAGE, ALL RIGHT, THE CODE. 01:10:41.514 --> 01:10:46.854 ALL RIGHT, I WANT US TO TALK TODAY ABOUT CHRISTMAS, MAYBE IN 01:10:46.854 --> 01:10:51.024 A TOPIC THAT PERHAPS YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT. AND WE'RE GONNA 01:10:51.024 --> 01:10:54.413 TALK TODAY ABOUT CHRISTMAS PRESERVATION OR CHRISTMAS 01:10:54.413 --> 01:10:58.944 PROTECTION. YOU KNOW, THIS TIME OF YEAR, IT'S AMAZING HOW 01:10:58.944 --> 01:11:02.753 SOMETIMES PEOPLE, THEY GET INTO FEAR, RIGHT, GETTING THEIR 01:11:02.753 --> 01:11:05.904 SHOPPING DONE, OR MAYBE THEY'RE HEARING THE LATEST NEWS THAT ARE 01:11:05.904 --> 01:11:11.213 GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD, AND PEOPLE TEND TO SLIDE INTO FEAR. 01:11:11.213 --> 01:11:14.423 AND WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A JOYOUS TIME OF YEAR, PEOPLE ARE 01:11:14.423 --> 01:11:17.423 NOT HAPPY, THEY'RE AFRAID, THEY'RE UPTIGHT. BUT I WANNA 01:11:17.423 --> 01:11:20.184 TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE, BUT WHAT I THOUGHT I 01:11:20.184 --> 01:11:25.734 WOULD DO IS LET YOU HEAR THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS BY ONE OF 01:11:25.734 --> 01:11:30.623 THE GREATEST CLIPS THAT FOREVER PUT A MARK ON MY LIFE GROWING 01:11:30.623 --> 01:11:34.944 UP. ARE YOU READY? LET'S PLAY THE VIDEO. IS THERE ANYONE WHO 01:11:34.944 --> 01:11:39.083 KNOWS WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT? SURE, CHARLIE BROWN, I 01:11:39.083 --> 01:11:52.163 CAN TELL YOU WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT. LIGHTS, PLEASE. AND 01:11:52.163 --> 01:11:55.944 THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS, ABIDING IN THE FIELD, 01:11:55.944 --> 01:11:59.453 KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. AND LO, THE ANGEL OF 01:11:59.453 --> 01:12:03.113 THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE ROUND 01:12:03.113 --> 01:12:06.713 ABOUT THEM. AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID, AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO 01:12:06.713 --> 01:12:11.634 THEM, FEAR NOT; FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, 01:12:11.634 --> 01:12:15.323 WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN 01:12:15.323 --> 01:12:20.094 THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD. AND 01:12:20.094 --> 01:12:23.663 THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU. YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED 01:12:23.663 --> 01:12:27.804 IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, LYING IN A MANGER. AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS 01:12:27.804 --> 01:12:32.184 WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD, 01:12:32.184 --> 01:12:36.923 AND SAYING, "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, AND 01:12:36.923 --> 01:12:50.094 GOODWILL TOWARD MEN." THAT'S WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT, 01:12:50.094 --> 01:12:53.573 CHARLIE BROWN. ALL RIGHT, I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU'D LIKE THAT. 01:12:53.573 --> 01:12:57.323 THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT TO HAVE WHOLESOME CARTOONS AGAIN. THAT 01:12:57.323 --> 01:13:00.474 IS A CLASSIC. HOW MANY OF YOU DID THAT MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR 01:13:00.474 --> 01:13:03.743 LIFE GROWING UP? AND IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE. 01:13:03.743 --> 01:13:06.113 MAYBE YOU WATCHED IT RECENTLY. BUT I WANT TO DRAW OUR ATTENTION 01:13:06.113 --> 01:13:09.743 TO LUKE CHAPTER TWO, AND I WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT LINUS WAS 01:13:09.743 --> 01:13:12.503 QUOTING. THE ANGELS OF THE LORD, THE BIBLE SAID THE HOST OF 01:13:12.503 --> 01:13:16.703 HEAVEN, SHOWED UP THAT DAY IN FRONT OF THE SHEPHERDS. AND I 01:13:16.703 --> 01:13:19.644 WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT WASN'T JUST A BUNCH OF ANGELS. 01:13:19.644 --> 01:13:23.783 THESE WERE THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN. AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE'S 01:13:23.783 --> 01:13:27.264 A POWERFUL VERSE IN THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH THAT SAYS, "IT'S NOT 01:13:27.264 --> 01:13:31.613 BY OUR MIGHT, IT'S NOT BY OUR POWER, BUT IT'S BY MY SPIRIT, 01:13:31.613 --> 01:13:34.913 SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS." AND THE WORD "LORD OF HOSTS" IS THE 01:13:34.913 --> 01:13:40.163 LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES. THAT'S WHAT ONE OF GOD'S NAME IS 01:13:40.163 --> 01:13:43.554 DEFINED AS, "LORD OF HOSTS," THE LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES. SO THESE 01:13:43.554 --> 01:13:49.194 THAT SHOWED UP, THE HOSTS WERE PART OF THE ANGELIC ARMIES OF 01:13:49.194 --> 01:13:52.913 HEAVEN. THESE WERE POWERFUL WARRIORS. THESE WERE POWERFUL 01:13:52.913 --> 01:13:56.694 SOLDIERS IN GOD'S HEAVENLY ARMY THAT SHOWED UP TO MAKE THIS 01:13:56.694 --> 01:14:00.774 ANNOUNCEMENT. BUT LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER TWO, AND I WANT US TO 01:14:00.774 --> 01:14:04.583 LOOK AT THIS IN VERSE 13, THAT LINUS QUOTED, "AND SUDDENLY 01:14:04.583 --> 01:14:08.184 THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL "A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOSTS 01:14:08.184 --> 01:14:12.203 PRAISING GOD. "AND THEY BEGAN TO SAY, 'GLORY TO GOD IN THE 01:14:12.203 --> 01:14:17.484 HIGHEST "'AND ON EARTH, PEACE, NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN, 01:14:17.484 --> 01:14:20.993 "'AND GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN.'" NOW I WANT US TO UNDERSTAND 01:14:20.993 --> 01:14:23.123 SOMETHING, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, THAT THAT 01:14:23.123 --> 01:14:26.154 MESSAGE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN, HASN'T 01:14:26.154 --> 01:14:29.363 CHANGED. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE 01:14:29.363 --> 01:14:32.844 PEACE BETWEEN NATIONS, PEACE BETWEEN PEOPLE. WHAT IT 01:14:32.844 --> 01:14:37.253 LITERALLY MEANS IS THAT WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD BECAUSE OF JESUS. 01:14:38.333 --> 01:14:41.184 AND THEN SOME OF US, AS WE'RE READING THIS TODAY, YOU NEED TO 01:14:41.184 --> 01:14:44.573 ASK YOURSELF, ARE YOU AT PEACE WITH GOD? ARE THINGS RIGHT IN 01:14:44.573 --> 01:14:48.264 YOUR LIFE? ARE THINGS RIGHT IN YOUR HEART? BECAUSE HAVING PEACE 01:14:48.264 --> 01:14:51.413 WITH GOD, YOU'RE GONNA FIND, IS ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING, 01:14:51.413 --> 01:14:55.014 GRATIFYING THINGS THAT YOU CAN HAVE IN YOUR LIFE. AND ONLY 01:14:55.014 --> 01:15:00.054 JESUS CAN BRING THAT PEACE, BUT PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS 01:15:00.054 --> 01:15:03.984 MEN. BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE IT IN CONTEXT OF DIVINE PRESERVATION 01:15:03.984 --> 01:15:06.743 OR PROTECTION. NOW YOU MIGHT BE ASKING, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:15:06.743 --> 01:15:11.304 WATCHING, WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF PRESERVATION? THE DEFINITION 01:15:11.304 --> 01:15:15.743 OF PRESERVATION IS TO KEEP SAFE, TO KEEP FROM INJURY, TO KEEP 01:15:15.743 --> 01:15:20.243 FROM HARM, TO KEEP FROM DESTRUCTION, TO PROTECT, TO KEEP 01:15:20.243 --> 01:15:24.623 ALIVE, TO KEEP SOMETHING INTACT. AND SO I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT 01:15:24.623 --> 01:15:29.033 PART OF THE MESSAGE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN, WAS 01:15:29.033 --> 01:15:34.884 A MESSAGE THAT WHEN GOD HAS INJECTED HIMSELF IN THE EARTH 01:15:34.884 --> 01:15:40.073 THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THAT OUR PROMISE AND OUR BENEFITS THEN IS 01:15:40.073 --> 01:15:45.354 WE HAVE PRESERVATION, WE HAVE PROTECTION. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 01:15:45.354 --> 01:15:50.423 THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. OFTENTIMES 01:15:50.423 --> 01:15:53.213 AT CHRISTMAS TIME, WE EXCHANGE GIFTS. HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE 01:15:53.213 --> 01:15:57.381 RECEIVING GIFTS? THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO 01:15:57.381 --> 01:15:59.814 RECEIVE, BUT BOY, I LIKE RECEIVING GIFTS. HOW MANY OF YOU 01:15:59.814 --> 01:16:03.203 LIKE RECEIVING GIFTS? NOW REALLY THOUGH, THE OLDER YOU GET, I 01:16:03.203 --> 01:16:07.344 DON'T KNOW IF I LIKE RECEIVING THEM AS MUCH BECAUSE REALLY, 01:16:07.344 --> 01:16:10.583 WHAT DO PEOPLE GET YOU WHEN YOU GET MY AGE, RIGHT? ANOTHER 01:16:10.583 --> 01:16:14.573 COFFEE CUP, ANOTHER PAIR OF SOCKS, RIGHT? A TIE THAT YOU 01:16:14.573 --> 01:16:19.373 DON'T WEAR. IT'S JUST HARDER. HOW MANY OF YOU FIND IT HARD TO 01:16:19.373 --> 01:16:23.274 SHOP FOR YOUR PARENTS OR FOR PEOPLE, YOUR SPOUSE, THE OLDER 01:16:23.274 --> 01:16:27.713 YOU GET? JUST YOU RUN OUT OF OPTIONS, RIGHT? BUT ONE THING 01:16:27.713 --> 01:16:32.634 THAT GOD DID IS HE GAVE US A GIFT AND HE GAVE US A GIFT IN 01:16:32.634 --> 01:16:36.024 JESUS CHRIST. AND WHEN HE WAS BORN IN THAT MANGER AND THEN 01:16:36.024 --> 01:16:40.014 LATER ON JESUS DIED ON THAT CROSS, I WANNA SHOW YOU THE GIFT 01:16:40.014 --> 01:16:43.524 PACKAGE THAT HAS PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION IN IT. I WANT YOU 01:16:43.524 --> 01:16:46.344 TO LOOK AT PSALM 103. IN FACT, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, 01:16:46.344 --> 01:16:49.524 THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE NOT TO FORGET THIS GIFT PACKAGE. SO YOU 01:16:49.524 --> 01:16:52.793 COULD SAY THIS, WHEN YOU ASK JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART, 01:16:52.793 --> 01:16:57.234 THIS IS WHAT THE CONTENTS OF THAT PACKAGE IS. PSALM 103, 01:16:57.234 --> 01:17:01.224 VERSE 1, IT SAYS, BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL, BLESS THE LORD, 01:17:01.224 --> 01:17:05.783 O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT THE GIFTS. FORGET NOT THAT PACKAGE 01:17:05.783 --> 01:17:09.984 THAT YOU GOT. WE CALL IT CHRISTMAS DAY, BUT WATCH THIS. 01:17:09.984 --> 01:17:13.463 BLESS HIS HOLY NAME AND DON'T FORGET HIS BENEFITS, VERSE THREE 01:17:13.463 --> 01:17:18.533 TELLS US WHAT THEY ARE. GOD HAS FORGIVEN US OF ALL OUR SINS, ALL 01:17:18.533 --> 01:17:21.323 OUR INIQUITIES. IT USES THE WORD INIQUITIES BECAUSE WHAT THAT 01:17:21.323 --> 01:17:25.314 MEANS IS PURPOSEFUL SIN, STUFF THAT WE'VE DONE INTENTIONALLY ON 01:17:25.314 --> 01:17:28.703 PURPOSE. BUT NOTICE THE OTHER THING, HE HEALS ALL OF OUR 01:17:28.703 --> 01:17:31.823 DISEASES. WE DON'T HAVE TO BE SICK, WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE A 01:17:31.823 --> 01:17:35.274 LIFE FILLED WITH DISEASE. WHO'S REDEEMED OUR LIFE, NOW LOOK AT 01:17:35.274 --> 01:17:39.054 THIS, THIS IS PROTECTION, THIS IS PRESERVATION, THAT IS PART OF 01:17:39.054 --> 01:17:42.234 YOUR CHRISTMAS PACKAGE. HE'S REDEEMED OUR LIFE FROM 01:17:42.234 --> 01:17:46.043 DESTRUCTION. THAT'S ACCIDENTS, THAT'S INJURIES, THAT'S 01:17:46.043 --> 01:17:50.243 TRAGEDIES, THAT'S CALAMITIES, THAT'S TURMOIL, THAT'S TRAUMA. 01:17:50.243 --> 01:17:55.163 YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE A LIFE OF THOSE THINGS. HE'S CROWNED YOU 01:17:55.163 --> 01:17:58.823 WITH LOVING KINDNESS. THAT WORD CROWN IS LIKE, HE'S SURROUNDED 01:17:58.823 --> 01:18:01.613 YOU. YOU TALK ABOUT PRESERVATION, TO KEEP YOU FROM 01:18:01.613 --> 01:18:05.274 INJURY, TO KEEP YOU FROM HARM, TO KEEP YOU INTACT. THAT'S 01:18:05.274 --> 01:18:08.814 EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CROWNED WITH HIS TENDER MERCY 01:18:08.814 --> 01:18:12.054 AND HIS LOVING KINDNESS. NOTICE THE NEXT THING. HE SAID HE 01:18:12.054 --> 01:18:17.724 SATISFIES YOUR MOUTH WITH GOOD THINGS, M&MS, GELATO, AND A LOT 01:18:17.724 --> 01:18:21.774 OF OTHER THINGS, SO THAT YOUR YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE. 01:18:21.774 --> 01:18:24.533 IN OTHER WORDS, AS YOU GET OLDER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BENT 01:18:24.533 --> 01:18:28.524 OVER AND WALK LIKE, REMEMBER TIM CONWAY, I'M A COMING, REMEMBER, 01:18:28.524 --> 01:18:32.154 HE COULD BARELY GET THERE? YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT IN 01:18:32.154 --> 01:18:36.743 OLD AGE. YOU CAN HAVE RENEWED YOUTH. SO THIS IS OUR BENEFIT 01:18:36.743 --> 01:18:39.833 PACKAGE. NOW, ONE THING, THOUGH, THAT HE DIDN'T SAY THAT WE ARE 01:18:39.833 --> 01:18:44.634 PROTECTED OR PRESERVED FROM, ARE YOU READY, IS PERSECUTION. JESUS 01:18:44.634 --> 01:18:48.564 SAID PERSECUTION WOULD COME, BUT ONE THING THAT HE SAID HE'S 01:18:48.564 --> 01:18:52.823 PRESERVED OUR LIFE FROM IS FROM EVIL, FROM SICKNESS, FROM 01:18:52.823 --> 01:18:56.573 DISEASE, FROM THINGS THAT ARE COMING IN A DESTRUCTIVE MANNER 01:18:56.573 --> 01:19:00.144 TO STEAL AND KILL AND DESTROY. SO I WANT YOU TO THINK 01:19:00.144 --> 01:19:04.314 DIFFERENTLY THIS CHRISTMAS THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED A GIFT FROM GOD. 01:19:04.314 --> 01:19:08.993 YOU'VE RECEIVED PRESERVATION. YOU'VE RECEIVED PROTECTION. YOU 01:19:08.993 --> 01:19:12.054 SAY, WELL, HOW DO I KNOW THAT? LOOK AT ISAIAH CHAPTER SEVEN. 01:19:12.054 --> 01:19:15.113 WHEN THE PROPHETS CAME TO THE EARTH, THEY BEGAN TO PROPHESY. 01:19:15.113 --> 01:19:19.673 AND THEY BEGAN TO DECLARE OUT OF THEIR MOUTH CONTINUAL PROPHETIC 01:19:19.673 --> 01:19:24.623 WORDS THAT WERE SIGNS THAT WOULD POINT TO THIS PERSON, THIS 01:19:24.623 --> 01:19:30.323 MESSIAH, GOD COMING IN HUMAN FORM, GOD COMING IN THE FLESH, 01:19:30.323 --> 01:19:35.694 HIS SON COMING TO BE BORN IN A WOMB OF A VIRGIN, AND THEN TO BE 01:19:35.694 --> 01:19:39.984 PLACED INTO A MANGER, AND THEN LATER ON TO DIE ON A CROSS, AND 01:19:39.984 --> 01:19:44.333 THEN THREE DAYS LATER TO RISE AGAIN. THIS PROPHET ISAIAH BEGAN 01:19:44.333 --> 01:19:47.423 TO SPEAK, AND NOTICE THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. HE SAID, 01:19:47.423 --> 01:19:50.993 "THE LORD HIMSELF IS GONNA GIVE YOU A SIGN, "AND YOU'RE GONNA 01:19:50.993 --> 01:19:56.184 KNOW WHEN GOD HAS COME INTO THE EARTH "WITH HIS GIFT. "BEHOLD, A 01:19:56.184 --> 01:20:00.923 VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE, AND SHE WILL BEAR A SON." NOW NOTICE THE 01:20:00.923 --> 01:20:06.623 NAME WE SANG ABOUT THIS TODAY. "SHE'LL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL." 01:20:06.623 --> 01:20:10.463 YOU SAY, "WELL, IS THAT A NAME OF A CHURCH?" NO, CHURCHES NAME 01:20:10.463 --> 01:20:15.384 THEMSELVES AFTER THIS WORD, EMMANUEL. IT MEANS GOD WITH US. 01:20:15.384 --> 01:20:19.884 YOU TALK ABOUT PRESERVATION, IF GOD IS WITH YOU. YOU TALK ABOUT 01:20:19.884 --> 01:20:24.533 PROTECTION, IF GOD IS WITH YOU, THEN THE BIBLE SAYS WHO CAN BE 01:20:24.533 --> 01:20:27.609 AGAINST YOU? LOOK AT THIS SCRIPTURE IN ROMANS CHAPTER 01:20:27.609 --> 01:20:32.770 EIGHT. HE'S EMMANUEL, HE'S GOD, OUR PROTECTOR. HE'S GOD, THE ONE 01:20:32.770 --> 01:20:40.000 WHO BRINGS PRESERVATION. GOD IS THE BIG GUY, RIGHT? HOW MANY OF 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:43.180 YOU, WHEN YOU EVER GOT IN A FIGHT, MAYBE NOT JONATHAN, HE 01:20:43.180 --> 01:20:45.489 WOULD SAY, I'M GONNA GO GET MY DAD. JOHN WOULD JUST TAKE CARE 01:20:45.489 --> 01:20:48.579 OF IT HIMSELF, BUT HERE'S THE POINT. ANYBODY SAY, I'M GONNA GO 01:20:48.579 --> 01:20:52.060 GET MY DAD? DID YOU EVER USE THAT? YOU HAVE GOD ON YOUR SIDE. 01:20:52.060 --> 01:20:55.180 YOU HAVE PRESERVATION, YOU HAVE PROTECTION. ROMANS CHAPTER 01:20:55.180 --> 01:20:58.869 EIGHT, PUT THAT SCRIPTURE UP. LOOK AT EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US. 01:20:58.869 --> 01:21:03.430 THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS, BUT IT SAYS, WHAT SHALL WE SAY IF GOD 01:21:03.430 --> 01:21:10.180 BE FOR US, WHO OR WHAT CAN BE AGAINST US? I WANT YOU TO LOOK 01:21:10.180 --> 01:21:15.130 UP TO HEAVEN AND SAY, THANK YOU, EMMANUEL. I RECEIVE PROTECTION. 01:21:15.130 --> 01:21:21.399 I RECEIVE PRESERVATION. THAT MEANS NO HARM, NO EVIL, NO 01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:28.090 PLAGUE, NOTHING OF EVIL CAN COME NEAR ME. I HAVE CHRISTMAS 01:21:28.090 --> 01:21:35.079 PRESERVATION YEAR ROUND, EVERY DAY, ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. 01:21:35.079 --> 01:21:38.890 THAT'S YOUR PROMISE. NOW NOTICE THIS ONE, THIS IS SO POWERFUL. 01:21:38.890 --> 01:21:44.590 LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2, IN VERSE 10. THE ANGELS SHOW UP AND 01:21:44.590 --> 01:21:52.180 NOTICE WHAT THEY SAID. "DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR I BRING YOU GOOD 01:21:52.180 --> 01:21:59.770 NEWS "THAT WILL CAUSE GREAT JOY FOR ALL PEOPLE." NOW, ONE OF THE 01:21:59.770 --> 01:22:04.899 THINGS THAT WE CAN SEE HERE IS THE MESSAGE REGARDING DON'T 01:22:04.899 --> 01:22:08.979 FEAR. I TALKED TO YOU JUST A MINUTE AGO, AND I TALKED ABOUT 01:22:08.979 --> 01:22:14.829 HOW SO MANY PEOPLE THIS TIME OF YEAR ARE AFRAID. IF YOU 01:22:14.829 --> 01:22:20.350 UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS EMMANUEL, WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? IF YOU 01:22:20.350 --> 01:22:23.319 UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS WITH YOU WHEN YOU SAY, "JESUS, COME INTO 01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:27.850 MY HEART," AND YOU RECEIVE THAT GIFT THAT HE GAVE OF HIS LIFE, 01:22:27.850 --> 01:22:32.859 THERE'S A PROTECTION PACKAGE, A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY, A 01:22:32.859 --> 01:22:38.140 HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE THAT GOES, A HEALTH PLAN FOR ALL YOUR 01:22:38.140 --> 01:22:42.100 FLESH, YOUR CHILDREN, EVERYTHING THAT CONCERNS YOU IS PART OF 01:22:42.100 --> 01:22:45.340 THIS PRESERVATION AND THIS PROTECTION. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 01:22:45.340 --> 01:22:47.979 1 VERSE 31 AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THE 01:22:47.979 --> 01:22:53.170 ANGEL SAID. NOTICE ANOTHER PROPHETIC WORD. THE ANGEL OF THE 01:22:53.170 --> 01:22:59.289 LORD SHOWS UP IN LUKE CHAPTER 1 VERSE 31 AND SAYS TO MARY, "YOU 01:22:59.289 --> 01:23:04.810 WILL CONCEIVE "AND YOU'LL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON." AND NOTICE THE 01:23:04.810 --> 01:23:09.729 NAME FROM HEAVEN, THE INTEL THAT CAME FROM HEAVEN. YOU ARE GOING 01:23:09.729 --> 01:23:16.869 TO CALL THIS SON, THIS CHILD, JESUS. WHAT DOES THE NAME JESUS 01:23:16.869 --> 01:23:22.449 MEAN, ANYBODY KNOW? YESHUA, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? MEANS SALVATION. 01:23:23.500 --> 01:23:29.350 WELL, TO SAVE YOU FROM WHAT? FROM YOURSELF. HOW MANY OF YOU 01:23:29.350 --> 01:23:32.229 NEEDED TO BE SAVED FROM YOURSELF? 'CAUSE YOU WERE GOING 01:23:32.229 --> 01:23:36.130 ON A HIGHWAY FAST TO HELL. YOU WERE GOING ON A HIGHWAY FAST TO 01:23:36.130 --> 01:23:40.510 NOWHERE. I TELL YOU, BEFORE I MET JESUS, I GOT SAVED. I GAVE 01:23:40.510 --> 01:23:46.180 MY HEART TO JESUS AT 18, MY LIFE WAS GOING NOWHERE. BUT SOON AS I 01:23:46.180 --> 01:23:49.060 ACCEPTED JESUS, IT SEEMED LIKE FOR A WHILE IT WASN'T GOING 01:23:49.060 --> 01:23:52.840 ANYWHERE EITHER, BUT THEN SALVATION, JESUS STEPPED IN AND 01:23:52.840 --> 01:23:56.050 BEGAN TO DIRECT MY LIFE. BUT THINK ABOUT JUST HIS NAME, 01:23:56.050 --> 01:24:00.010 EMMANUEL, GOD WITH ME, GOD FOR ME, BUT NOW HIS NAME IS JESUS' 01:24:00.010 --> 01:24:02.770 SALVATION. IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S COME TO SAVE YOU FROM WHAT? 01:24:02.770 --> 01:24:10.899 SICKNESS, DISEASE, TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES, DESTRUCTION. 01:24:10.899 --> 01:24:13.899 REMEMBER YOUR GIFT PACKAGE, YOUR BENEFITS I JUST SHOWED YOU IN 01:24:13.899 --> 01:24:19.539 PSALM 103? JESUS HAS COME AND HE'S PURCHASED FOR YOU 01:24:19.539 --> 01:24:24.579 PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, LONG LIFE AND HEALTH AND BLESSING. 01:24:24.579 --> 01:24:29.470 IT'S ALL PART OF YOUR SALVATION GIFT. MY QUESTION IS, DO WE 01:24:29.470 --> 01:24:35.829 REALLY KNOW WHAT WE GOT FOR CHRISTMAS? I REMEMBER, MY KIDS 01:24:35.829 --> 01:24:38.079 PROBABLY WON'T MIND ME SAYING THIS, BUT I REMEMBER EVERY YEAR, 01:24:38.079 --> 01:24:40.600 WE WOULD JUST GIVE 'EM CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AFTER CHRISTMAS 01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:42.880 PRESENTS AFTER CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. AND THEY'D OPEN 'EM 01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:45.939 ALL UP, THEY LOVED TO OPEN UP CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. BUT THERE 01:24:45.939 --> 01:24:50.260 WAS ALWAYS ONE OR TWO THAT THEY WOULD JUST GRAVITATE TO, AND THE 01:24:50.260 --> 01:24:54.760 OTHER ONES WOULD STAY RIGHT THERE BY THE CHRISTMAS TREE. AND 01:24:54.760 --> 01:24:57.039 WE'D HAVE TO TELL 'EM, "HEY, YOU STILL GOT OTHER PRESENTS HERE." 01:24:57.039 --> 01:25:01.149 AND THEN ALL YEAR LONG, THOSE PRESENTS WOULD STILL NOT BE AS 01:25:01.149 --> 01:25:05.289 WONDERFUL AS MAYBE TWO THAT THEY RECEIVED. WELL, WE DON'T WANNA 01:25:05.289 --> 01:25:08.560 DO THAT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SALVATION PACKAGE, OUR 01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:12.430 PRESERVATION PACKAGE. WE DON'T WANNA JUST PUT IT ASIDE, FORGET 01:25:12.430 --> 01:25:16.510 ABOUT IT, RIGHT? BE INTERESTED IN JUST, HEY MAN, I'M GETTING A 01:25:16.510 --> 01:25:21.279 MANSION IN HEAVEN SIDE, RIGHT? I'M GETTING ETERNAL LIFE. I HAVE 01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:23.380 FORGIVENESS OF SIN. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, BUT THERE'S STILL 01:25:23.380 --> 01:25:28.899 SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH. AND WHAT YOU HAVE 01:25:28.899 --> 01:25:33.939 IS YOU HAVE A CHRISTMAS PACKAGE OF EVERYTHING THAT INCLUDED WHAT 01:25:33.939 --> 01:25:37.239 I SHOWED YOU AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING IN PSALM 103. 01:25:37.239 --> 01:25:42.399 FORGIVENESS OF SIN, HEALTH AND HEALING. YOU'RE PROTECTED, 01:25:42.399 --> 01:25:47.020 YOU'RE PRESERVED. AND LET'S GO BACK TO THE BOOK OF LUKE. AND 01:25:47.020 --> 01:25:50.079 LET'S LOOK ABOUT THIS FEAR, BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE GET INTO 01:25:50.079 --> 01:25:57.250 FEAR, THEY BEGIN TO OPEN UP A DOOR THAT BEGINS TO GIVE ACCESS 01:25:57.250 --> 01:26:01.630 TO THE ENEMY, THE DEVIL, TO TRY TO GET AT YOUR PRESERVATION, TO 01:26:01.630 --> 01:26:04.899 GET AT YOUR PEACE, TO GET AT THE GOODWILL OF GOD THAT HAS BEEN 01:26:04.899 --> 01:26:09.130 PAID FOR, TO TRY TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE, TO TRY TO MAKE 01:26:09.130 --> 01:26:13.060 YOUR LIFE A STRUGGLE, TO BRING YOU FROM ONE HARDSHIP TO ANOTHER 01:26:13.060 --> 01:26:16.449 HARDSHIP, TO WHERE ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S JUST ONE CYCLE AFTER 01:26:16.449 --> 01:26:19.659 ANOTHER THAT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE AND MORE SPINNING OUT OF 01:26:19.659 --> 01:26:26.050 CONTROL. BUT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT FEAR IS NOT OF GOD, GOD IS 01:26:26.050 --> 01:26:31.270 A FAITH GOD, HE'S NOT A FEAR GOD. FEAR IS OF THE DEVIL. 01:26:31.270 --> 01:26:35.710 SPIRITS OF FEAR, DEMONIC ENTITIES LOVE TO GET YOU OUT OF 01:26:35.710 --> 01:26:39.069 FAITH, TO GET YOU IN A PLACE WHERE YOU SAY THINGS LIKE, OH, 01:26:39.069 --> 01:26:42.640 I'M AFRAID OF THAT, I DON'T WANNA DO THAT, I'M NOT GONNA DO 01:26:42.640 --> 01:26:45.430 THAT. YOU LISTEN TO SOMETHING ON THE NEWS AND THE NEXT THING YOU 01:26:45.430 --> 01:26:48.819 KNOW WHAT, YOU EXPECT SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN TO YOU, YOUR 01:26:48.819 --> 01:26:51.310 HOUSE, YOUR BODY, THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I MEAN, JUST 01:26:51.310 --> 01:26:54.430 LISTEN TO THE COMMERCIALS THAT ARE ON. I MEAN, YOU CAN'T EVEN 01:26:54.430 --> 01:26:57.819 WATCH ANYTHING ANYMORE WITHOUT ABOUT, WHAT, 20 DIFFERENT 01:26:57.819 --> 01:27:01.689 COMMERCIALS THAT ALL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ALL THEIR MEDICATIONS 01:27:01.689 --> 01:27:04.630 AND THINGS THAT IS THE LATEST, GREATEST, YOU EVER NOTICE IT'S 01:27:04.630 --> 01:27:12.609 THE LATEST, GREATEST ANSWER AND CURE TO YOUR PROBLEM, RIGHT? AND 01:27:12.609 --> 01:27:18.489 THEN FIVE MINUTES OF WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE IT. IF YOU TAKE 01:27:18.489 --> 01:27:22.630 ACCELERATION, OR IF YOU TAKE ACCELERATE, I'LL JUST MAKE A 01:27:22.630 --> 01:27:29.560 NOTE, IF YOU TAKE ACCELERATE, IT'LL HELP YOUR RASH. AND THEN 01:27:29.560 --> 01:27:33.010 LATER ON, HERE'S WHAT YOU HEAR, BUT PLEASE REMEMBER, IF YOU TAKE 01:27:33.010 --> 01:27:38.199 ACCELERATE, YOU MAY HAVE SUDDEN URGES TO BARK LIKE A DOG. YOU 01:27:38.199 --> 01:27:41.710 MAY HAVE URGES TO GO OUT INTO YOUR GARAGE AND SPEND HOURS WITH 01:27:41.710 --> 01:27:45.699 YOUR GARAGE DOOR, OPENING AND CLOSING YOUR GARAGE DOOR. YOU 01:27:45.699 --> 01:27:52.055 MAY YELL AT YOUR NEIGHBORS AND EVEN, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE LIKE, 01:27:52.055 --> 01:27:57.926 WHY WOULD I WANT TO TAKE THAT? THINK I'LL KEEP THE RASH, RIGHT? 01:28:00.010 --> 01:28:03.340 BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THINGS IF YOU LISTEN TO IT AFTER A WHILE, YOU 01:28:03.340 --> 01:28:07.119 WATCH THE NEWS AND YOU HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON, PEOPLE LOSING 01:28:07.119 --> 01:28:11.770 THEIR LIVES, NATIONS AT WAR, PEOPLE AT WAR, LOONIES THAT ARE 01:28:11.770 --> 01:28:16.180 TRYING TO PRESS THEIR AGENDA. IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU CAN GET 01:28:16.180 --> 01:28:19.149 INTO FEAR AND THINK THAT THERE'S NOTHING GOOD THAT'S GOING TO 01:28:19.149 --> 01:28:22.899 HAPPEN AT ANY TIME SOON OR AT ALL. I MEAN, I KNOW PEOPLE, 01:28:22.899 --> 01:28:25.479 THEY'RE ALL LIKE, "WELL, I'M JUST WAITING FOR JESUS TO COME 01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:30.279 AGAIN BECAUSE THE EARTH IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND-BASKET.” WELL, 01:28:30.279 --> 01:28:32.800 YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND CLIMB IN THAT HAND-BASKET, BUT I'M NOT 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:36.729 GOING TO. I DON'T SEE THINGS THAT WAY. I HAVE A PRESERVATION 01:28:36.729 --> 01:28:40.659 PACKAGE FROM GOD. AND AS LONG AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN THE 01:28:40.659 --> 01:28:46.449 EARTH BEFORE JESUS RETURNS, I HAVE A COVENANT RIGHT BY 01:28:46.449 --> 01:28:51.670 BLOODSHED FOR PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION. AND SO DO YOU. THE 01:28:51.670 --> 01:28:54.310 ONLY THING, LIKE I SAID, THAT YOU DON'T HAVE IS YOU DON'T HAVE 01:28:54.310 --> 01:28:59.710 PROTECTION FROM PERSECUTION. PERSECUTION WILL COME, JESUS 01:28:59.710 --> 01:29:03.970 SAID, FOR THE WORD'S SAKE. NOW WATCH LUKE CHAPTER 1, LOOK AT 01:29:03.970 --> 01:29:07.989 MARY. THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SHOWS UP AND SAYS, "FEAR NOT, 01:29:07.989 --> 01:29:14.050 MARY, FOR YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD." NOW STOP RIGHT THERE. 01:29:14.050 --> 01:29:17.680 WHAT IS THERE TO FEAR IF YOU HAVE IMMANUEL? WHAT IS THERE TO 01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:21.310 FEAR IF YOU'VE REALLY ASKED AND ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST INTO YOUR 01:29:21.310 --> 01:29:26.694 HEART? YOU HAVE FAVOR WITH GOD. GOD IS FOR YOU. THEN DO WE 01:29:26.694 --> 01:29:31.390 REALLY NEED TO BE AFRAID THAT WE'RE NEVER GONNA MAKE IT? OR DO 01:29:31.390 --> 01:29:34.149 WE REALLY NEED TO BE AFRAID THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME GREAT 01:29:34.149 --> 01:29:37.840 CALAMITY'S GONNA HAPPEN AND GOD IS GONNA SOMEHOW FORGET ABOUT 01:29:37.840 --> 01:29:44.560 ME? WE HAVE TO GO GET A CAVE, GET THAT FOOD WHERE YOU ADD 01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:50.470 WATER. IT'S A SPONGE, BUT THEY PUT EGG POWDER ON IT, WAFFLE MIX 01:29:50.470 --> 01:29:54.819 POWDER ON IT, RIGHT? AND PEOPLE ARE EATING, YOU KNOW, SPONGES. 01:29:54.819 --> 01:29:58.600 AND THEN WHEN THEY, YOU KNOW, SPONGE CAKE AND ALL THAT. AND 01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:01.420 THEN WHEN THEY EAT IT, IT EXPANDS IN THEIR STOMACH AND 01:30:01.420 --> 01:30:04.149 IT'S SUPPOSED TO KEEP YOU FROM HAVING HUNGER WHEN YOU'RE OUT 01:30:04.149 --> 01:30:10.840 HIDING IN A CAVE. AND NOBODY'S TO KNOW WHERE YOU'RE AT AS YOU 01:30:10.840 --> 01:30:13.600 MAKE YOUR CELL PHONE CALLS FROM THE CAVE. 01:30:13.600 --> 01:30:15.909 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:30:15.909 --> 01:30:18.399 BUT THINK ABOUT WHEN THE ANGEL CAME TO MARY AND SAID, "MARY, 01:30:18.399 --> 01:30:23.560 HEY, DON'T FEAR. YOU FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD." CAN YOU IMAGINE? THE 01:30:23.560 --> 01:30:29.649 WOMEN AND THE YOUNG GIRLS THERE IN ISRAEL, THEY ALL DREAMT ABOUT 01:30:29.649 --> 01:30:34.239 BEING THE ONE THAT WOULD BE THE VIRGIN THAT WOULD CONCEIVE, 01:30:34.239 --> 01:30:38.119 CARRYING THE MESSIAH. AND NOW IT'S HER. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN 01:30:38.119 --> 01:30:46.579 SHE'S LIKE, "OKAY, HOW IS THIS GONNA WORK ON SOCIAL MEDIA? HOW 01:30:46.579 --> 01:30:50.630 IS THIS GONNA WORK IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE? TELLING EVERYBODY, 01:30:50.630 --> 01:31:00.560 "YEAH, THIS BUMP IS, YEAH, THERE WAS NO MAN INVOLVED." TRY THAT. 01:31:00.560 --> 01:31:07.279 "I DIDN'T DO IT." "MM HMM." "NO, REALLY, HONESTLY. ME AND JOSEPH, 01:31:07.279 --> 01:31:13.760 WE'VE BEEN BEHAVING." "MM HMM." NO, NONE ON YOUR LIFE. THINK 01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:18.529 ABOUT THE PUBLIC SCRUTINY SHE WAS ABOUT TO RECEIVE. JOSEPH, 01:31:18.529 --> 01:31:21.679 LOOK AT THE MESSAGE TO HIM, AND IT'S THE MESSAGE TO YOU AS WELL. 01:31:21.679 --> 01:31:26.359 WHY AM I SHARING THIS? BECAUSE IF GOD SENT THIS MESSAGE TO MARY 01:31:26.359 --> 01:31:29.658 AND JOSEPH, AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE SHEPHERDS, IT'S BECAUSE FEAR 01:31:29.658 --> 01:31:32.840 IS THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT WILL TRY TO GET AT YOUR GIFT 01:31:32.840 --> 01:31:38.510 PACKAGE AND TAKE YOUR PRESERVATION RIGHTS, YOUR 01:31:38.510 --> 01:31:42.260 PROTECTIVE RIGHTS FROM YOU. BECAUSE YOU'LL START DOUBTING, 01:31:42.260 --> 01:31:44.923 YOU'LL START THINKING THAT GOD ISN'T FOR YOU OR HE'S NOT GONNA 01:31:44.923 --> 01:31:47.960 COME THROUGH. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSES 19 THROUGH 20. 01:31:47.960 --> 01:31:51.859 THEN JOSEPH, HER HUSBAND, BEING A JUST MAN AND NOT WILLING TO 01:31:51.859 --> 01:31:55.039 MAKE HER A PUBLIC EXAMPLE, WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY 01:31:55.039 --> 01:31:58.969 PRIVATELY. BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE 01:31:58.969 --> 01:32:02.420 ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM. NOTICE, "JOSEPH, 01:32:02.420 --> 01:32:06.619 SON OF DAVID, DON'T YOU DARE FEAR TO TAKE MARY TO BE YOUR 01:32:06.619 --> 01:32:10.039 WIFE, FOR THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS BY THE HOLY 01:32:10.039 --> 01:32:13.670 GHOST." LOOK AT THE SHEPHERDS. NOW, HERE'S WHAT'S AMAZING. YOU 01:32:13.670 --> 01:32:17.359 KNOW, THE SHEPHERDS WERE OUT THERE ON THEIR HILLSIDE, AND 01:32:17.359 --> 01:32:29.810 THEY WERE LISTENING TO "OOH" TIDE CAROLS. OOH, OR YOU, OR 01:32:29.810 --> 01:32:33.900 OOH. THEY CALL 'EM AN OOH. I DON'T THINK YOU'D LIKE THAT. 01:32:36.079 --> 01:32:38.658 WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT MARY AND JOSEPH, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE 01:32:38.658 --> 01:32:45.948 ANGEL APPEARED, AND THEY WENT TO THE MANGER, IT WAS TO CAUSE THEM 01:32:45.948 --> 01:32:49.789 TO HAVE A STABLE RELATIONSHIP. SO I JUST THOUGHT I WOULD THROW 01:32:49.789 --> 01:32:57.536 THAT OUT THERE FOR YOU THAT ARE WANTING TO. YOU ARE ALL IN A 01:32:57.536 --> 01:33:01.819 CHRISTMAS MOOD. NOTHING I'M SAYING IS GOING OVER, JUST OKAY. 01:33:01.819 --> 01:33:05.929 LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER TWO. DON'T BE AFRAID. THE ANGEL SAID, "I 01:33:05.929 --> 01:33:09.560 BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY "THAT WILL BE FOR ALL PEOPLE." 01:33:09.560 --> 01:33:12.020 NOW, I WANNA SAY THIS BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS 01:33:12.020 --> 01:33:17.179 IMPORTANT IS THE MESSAGE THAT WAS GIVEN. NOTICE, LET'S 01:33:17.179 --> 01:33:21.198 CONTINUE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSES 10 THROUGH 12. MAYBE 01:33:21.198 --> 01:33:24.560 YOU HAVEN'T CONSIDERED THIS. THE ANGEL BEGINS TO SAY, "DON'T 01:33:24.560 --> 01:33:29.000 FEAR." BUT THEN I WANT YOU TO SEE HE PUTS SOMETHING IN THE 01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:33.319 MESSAGE FROM GOD THAT SHOULD GIVE ALL OF US A SENSE OF 01:33:33.319 --> 01:33:37.639 COMFORT, A SENSE OF PEACE, A SENSE OF KNOWING, A SENSE OF 01:33:37.639 --> 01:33:41.818 FAITH. LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD, YOU ARE PROTECTING ME. I GET IN 01:33:41.818 --> 01:33:47.899 MY CAR, I HAVE THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT OF PRESERVATION. GOD, WHEN 01:33:47.899 --> 01:33:51.301 I'M AT MY HOUSE, I HAVE PRESERVATION. WHEN I'M GOING 01:33:51.301 --> 01:33:54.198 ABOUT MY DAY, I HAVE PRESERVATION. NOTICE WHAT THE 01:33:54.198 --> 01:33:57.079 ANGEL SAID, LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. AND THE ANGEL SAID, "FEAR 01:33:57.079 --> 01:33:59.960 NOT, "I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, "WHICH SHALL BE TO 01:33:59.960 --> 01:34:02.238 ALL PEOPLE." NOW WATCH THIS, "FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY 01:34:02.238 --> 01:34:05.960 "IN THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD, "AND THIS SHALL 01:34:05.960 --> 01:34:09.649 BE A SIGN UNTO YOU." NOW THERE'S ANOTHER SIGN. NOTICE THIS, MAYBE 01:34:09.649 --> 01:34:12.500 YOU'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF IT IN THIS CONTEXT OF PRESERVATION OR 01:34:12.500 --> 01:34:16.670 PROTECTION, BUT NOTICE WHAT THE ANGEL SAID. YOU'RE GONNA FIND A 01:34:16.670 --> 01:34:21.529 BABE, YOU'RE GONNA FIND A LITTLE BABY WRAPPED IN SWADDLING 01:34:21.529 --> 01:34:26.029 CLOTHES, UNDERLINE THAT, LYING IN A MANGER. NOW YOU SAY, WHAT 01:34:26.029 --> 01:34:29.689 DOES SWADDLING CLOTHES HAVE TO DO WITH PRESERVATION OR 01:34:29.689 --> 01:34:33.139 PROTECTION? GOD FROM THE BEGINNING WAS TRYING TO SAY, 01:34:33.139 --> 01:34:37.819 LOOK, I'M COMING TO GIVE YOU THIS CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT 01:34:37.819 --> 01:34:43.460 THAT'LL TAKE 33 YEARS BEFORE YOU CAN OPEN IT. IT'S GOT A DIE ON 01:34:43.460 --> 01:34:48.408 THE CROSS, JESUS, AND THEN AFTER THAT YOU GET THIS FULL PACKAGE 01:34:48.408 --> 01:34:51.710 AND YOU GET PRESERVATION BUT HE'S TRYING TO GIVE US A HINT. 01:34:51.710 --> 01:34:54.274 SWADDLING CLOTHES, WHY WOULD THEY PUT A LITTLE BABY IN 01:34:54.274 --> 01:34:56.869 SWADDLING CLOTHES? WHY WOULD THEY WRAP THAT CHILD IN 01:34:56.869 --> 01:35:00.198 SWADDLING CLOTHES? IT WAS TO BRING PRESERVATION, IT WAS TO 01:35:00.198 --> 01:35:04.340 BRING PROTECTION BECAUSE WITHOUT THE SWADDLING OF THOSE CLOTHING 01:35:04.340 --> 01:35:08.060 AROUND THAT CHILD, THAT CHILD IS VERY VULNERABLE. WHAT'S THE 01:35:08.060 --> 01:35:11.300 FIRST THING, COME ON, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GIVEN BIRTH? HOW 01:35:11.300 --> 01:35:14.479 MANY HUSBANDS WERE THERE WHEN THEY GAVE BIRTH? THE FIRST THING 01:35:14.479 --> 01:35:18.649 THEY DO IS CLEAN THAT BABY UP AND IMMEDIATELY WRAP THAT CHILD 01:35:18.649 --> 01:35:24.500 IN SWADDLING CLOTHES AS A SIGN OF PRESERVATION, PROTECTION. SO 01:35:24.500 --> 01:35:29.270 YOU HAVE, WATCH THIS, OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE LITERAL BODY 01:35:29.270 --> 01:35:34.698 OF JESUS, HE HAD A WRAPPING, A SWADDLING AROUND HIM. AT HIS 01:35:34.698 --> 01:35:41.810 DEATH IN THE GRAVE, THEY WRAPPED HIM AGAIN SO THAT YOU, THE BODY 01:35:41.810 --> 01:35:46.488 OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH, YOU ARE HIS BODY, RIGHT? THOSE OF YOU 01:35:46.488 --> 01:35:52.552 THAT ARE WATCHING. YOU ARE ALSO SWADDLED NOW. YOU ARE WRAPPED IN 01:35:52.552 --> 01:35:58.250 THE COVENANT OF HIS PROTECTION, OF HIS PEACE, OF HIS MERCY, OF 01:35:58.250 --> 01:36:03.234 HIS FORGIVENESS, OF HIS HEALING. HOW MANY OF YOU SEE THAT? LET ME 01:36:03.234 --> 01:36:06.050 GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF SWADDLING. SWADDLING CLOTHES 01:36:06.050 --> 01:36:09.408 WERE FOR LAMBS AND BABIES, WHICH SYMBOLIZED BOTH THE BABY'S 01:36:09.408 --> 01:36:13.039 VULNERABILITY THAT NEEDED PHYSICAL PROTECTION, BUT IT WAS 01:36:13.039 --> 01:36:17.179 AROUND THE BODY OF THE BABY OR THE BODY OF CHRIST. IN THE SAME 01:36:17.179 --> 01:36:20.060 WAY, THE CHURCH OR THE BODY OF CHRIST, WE ARE SWADDLED IN THE 01:36:20.060 --> 01:36:23.899 BLESSING OF OUR SALVATION. WE ARE PROTECTED THROUGH JESUS' 01:36:23.899 --> 01:36:28.250 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. LOOK AT PSALM 91, 9 THROUGH 10. TALK 01:36:28.250 --> 01:36:32.149 ABOUT THESE SWADDLING VERSES. PSALM 91, LOOK AT WHAT IT SAYS. 01:36:32.149 --> 01:36:35.359 THIS IS PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION, SWADDLING. BECAUSE 01:36:35.359 --> 01:36:40.698 THOU HAS MADE THE LORD, WHICH IS MY REFUGE, EVEN THE MOST HIGH IS 01:36:40.698 --> 01:36:44.869 MY HABITATION. VERSE 10, HERE'S THE SWADDLING. NO EVIL CAN COME 01:36:44.869 --> 01:36:48.439 NEAR YOU. THAT'S PRESERVATION, THAT'S PROTECTION. AND NEITHER 01:36:48.439 --> 01:36:52.939 SHALL ANY SICKNESS, DISEASE, COVID VARIANT NUMBER 16, 01:36:52.939 --> 01:36:57.590 WHATEVER IT IS, IT CANNOT COME NEAR YOU OR YOUR HOUSE. LOOK AT 01:36:57.590 --> 01:37:01.670 ANOTHER ONE. PSALM 23, VERSE 1, "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. "I 01:37:01.670 --> 01:37:04.908 SHALL NOT WANT," AND IT BEGINS TO TALK ABOUT, EVEN THOUGH YOU 01:37:04.908 --> 01:37:08.090 WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, EVEN THOUGH 01:37:08.090 --> 01:37:12.859 THERE'S SOME FRIGHTENING THINGS, SOME FEARFUL THINGS, I AM WITH 01:37:12.859 --> 01:37:17.389 YOU, THAT'S PART OF PRESERVATION THAT HE GIVES TO YOU AS THE GOOD 01:37:17.389 --> 01:37:21.920 SHEPHERD. PSALM 103, WE ALREADY QUOTED IT, LOOK AT VERSE 4. PART 01:37:21.920 --> 01:37:24.439 OF THE SWADDLING THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR YOU IS YOUR 01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:29.600 CHRISTMAS GIFT. PSALM 103, VERSE 4, HE'S REDEEMED, HE'S PAID FOR 01:37:29.600 --> 01:37:34.819 IT THROUGH HIS BLOOD. YOUR LIFE IS FREE FROM DESTRUCTION, 01:37:34.819 --> 01:37:38.300 TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES, COME ON, HIGH WINDS WHEN THEY COME INTO 01:37:38.300 --> 01:37:42.439 YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, INTO YOUR CITY, INTO YOUR STATE, INTO YOUR 01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:45.829 NATION. HE'S REDEEMED YOUR LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION AND HE'S 01:37:45.829 --> 01:37:50.179 SWADDLED YOU AS HE SURROUNDED YOU, WRAPPED YOU WITH LOVING 01:37:50.179 --> 01:37:53.927 KINDNESS AND TENDER MERCY. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 10, VERSE 9, 01:37:53.927 --> 01:37:57.560 JESUS OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH SAID, "LISTEN, I'VE GIVEN YOU 01:37:57.560 --> 01:38:00.770 AUTHORITY "TO TREAD UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS "AND OVER 01:38:00.770 --> 01:38:03.738 ALL THE POWERS OF THE DEVIL. "THE DEVIL IS NOT ALL THAT 01:38:03.738 --> 01:38:08.029 POWERFUL. "AND BY NO MEANS, BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN SWALLOWED," 01:38:09.079 --> 01:38:17.179 LUKE 10:19, "BECAUSE OF THAT, NO HARM CAN COME NEAR YOU. "NOTHING 01:38:17.179 --> 01:38:20.600 CAN HARM OR INJURE YOU." THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS. PUT IT 01:38:20.600 --> 01:38:24.319 UP AGAIN, "BEHOLD, PAY ATTENTION, "I GIVE YOU POWER TO 01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:27.109 TREAD UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS "OVER ALL THE POWERS 01:38:27.109 --> 01:38:30.439 OF THE ENEMY, "BECAUSE YOU'RE SWADDLED, "JUST LIKE THE BODY OF 01:38:30.439 --> 01:38:34.520 CHRIST WAS. "YOU AS MY BODY, YOU'RE SWADDLED, "AND BY NO 01:38:34.520 --> 01:38:40.729 MEANS SHALL ANYTHING HURT YOU." AMEN. JONATHAN, I PRAY SOMEBODY 01:38:40.729 --> 01:38:44.060 DOESN'T PRAY THAT WHEN YOU GO IN THE RING WITH THEM. BY NO MEANS 01:38:44.060 --> 01:38:48.560 SHALL ANYTHING HURT ME. I AM UFC SWADDLE MAN. 01:38:48.560 --> 01:38:49.969 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:38:49.969 --> 01:38:53.179 JUST BE CAREFUL, JOHN, ALL RIGHT? I WANNA SHOW YOU ANOTHER 01:38:53.179 --> 01:38:56.210 ONE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 1, VERSE 35. THIS ONE IS SO 01:38:56.210 --> 01:38:59.929 POWERFUL. LOOK AT THE MESSAGE. IT CONTINUES FROM THE ANGEL. AND 01:38:59.929 --> 01:39:04.219 IN VERSE 35, NOTICE WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS TO MARY. I WANT YOU 01:39:04.219 --> 01:39:08.569 TO SEE THIS SWADDLING. AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, "THE HOLY 01:39:08.569 --> 01:39:12.139 GHOST SHALL COME UPON YOU." AND NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THESE 01:39:12.139 --> 01:39:19.729 WORDS. "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST." OKAY, MOUNT EVEREST IS 01:39:19.729 --> 01:39:26.960 WHAT? IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. GOD IS THE HIGHEST THERE IS. 01:39:26.960 --> 01:39:31.279 THERE IS NOTHING AND NO ONE HIGHER THAN GOD. AND SO NOTICE 01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:36.260 WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS. "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST, THE MOST HIGH, 01:39:36.260 --> 01:39:40.819 "SHALL WHAT? SWADDLE YOU, SHALL OVERSHADOW YOU." JUST LIKE THE 01:39:40.819 --> 01:39:44.029 LITTLE BABY THAT YOU'RE GONNA WRAP IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, 01:39:44.029 --> 01:39:47.329 YOU'RE GONNA PLACE HIM IN THE MANGER, GOD IS GONNA PLACE YOU 01:39:47.329 --> 01:39:50.810 IN THE MANGER OF BLESSING, THE MANGER OF COVENANT, AND YOU'RE 01:39:50.810 --> 01:39:54.859 GONNA BE SWADDLED. YOU ARE GOING TO BE OVERSHADOWED. NOW NOTICE A 01:39:54.859 --> 01:39:59.238 SHADOW, THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THERE IS NO GREATER 01:39:59.238 --> 01:40:03.529 POWER, THERE'S NO GREATER ENTITY THAN GOD IS GONNA OVERSHADOW THE 01:40:03.529 --> 01:40:10.039 VERY BODY OF CHRIST IN THE WHAT? WOMB OF MARY. YOU SAY, WELL, 01:40:10.039 --> 01:40:13.069 THAT WAS JUST FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS CATHOLIC. 01:40:13.069 --> 01:40:15.469 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:40:15.469 --> 01:40:19.550 RIGHT? NO, IT'S THE SAME PROMISE FOR YOU. NOW, I WANT YOU TO PUT 01:40:19.550 --> 01:40:22.279 THAT VERSE BACK UP. THIS IS POWERFUL. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT 01:40:22.279 --> 01:40:26.630 LITERALLY MEANS? THE SHADOW OF THE HIGHEST? IT LITERALLY MEANS 01:40:26.630 --> 01:40:29.899 THIS, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, BECAUSE IT'S THE 01:40:29.899 --> 01:40:35.210 SHADOW OF THE HIGHEST, IT IS THE MOST POWER AVAILABLE, GREATER 01:40:35.210 --> 01:40:41.250 THAN ALL NUCLEAR POWER, ATOMIC POWER. IT IS THE GREATEST POWER 01:40:41.250 --> 01:40:46.229 AVAILABLE, GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE CALL NUCLEAR, ATOMIC, 01:40:46.229 --> 01:40:52.948 WHATEVER. IT IS THE GREATEST POWER AVAILABLE, CONTAINED IN 01:40:52.948 --> 01:40:59.340 THE EARTH WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. THAT'S HOW MUCH SWADDLING OF THE 01:40:59.340 --> 01:41:03.390 PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE'S LIKE, I AM COMING TO WATCH 01:41:03.390 --> 01:41:07.590 OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST, LITERALLY, AND IT'S SO MUCH 01:41:07.590 --> 01:41:10.859 POWER, IF I DON'T CONTAIN IT, IT'LL BLOW UP THE WORLD. AND 01:41:10.859 --> 01:41:13.829 IT'S GREATER THAN ATOMIC, IT'S GREATER THAN NUCLEAR, 'CAUSE WHO 01:41:13.829 --> 01:41:21.654 MADE NUCLEAR POWER? GOD DID. WE TAPPED INTO THE SCIENCE OF IT, 01:41:21.654 --> 01:41:25.409 BUT GOD MADE IT. AND HE'S SAYING MY SHADOW, MY SWADDLING, OVER 01:41:25.409 --> 01:41:31.050 THE LITERAL BODY OF CHRIST IS THE MOST CONTAINED POWER 01:41:31.050 --> 01:41:34.948 AVAILABLE IN EARTH WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. SO IF MARY HAD 01:41:34.948 --> 01:41:40.519 THIS OVER HER WOMB, PREGNANT WOMEN, THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT A 01:41:40.519 --> 01:41:43.350 CHILD, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE CHILDREN, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:41:43.350 --> 01:41:49.079 MARRIED, YOU NEED TO PRAY THIS. GOD, I PRAY FOR THAT SAME 01:41:49.079 --> 01:41:54.270 OVERSHADOWING, THAT SAME SWADDLING TO BE OVER MY CHILD, 01:41:54.270 --> 01:41:58.439 OVER MY BABY, OVER MY SPOUSE, OVER MY CAR, OVER MY HOME. 01:41:58.439 --> 01:42:02.488 YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, CAN I DO THAT? LOOK AT PSALM 91. THERE IS 01:42:02.488 --> 01:42:06.210 THIS SHADOW. LOOK AT PSALM 91, VERSE ONE THROUGH TWO. IT'S PART 01:42:06.210 --> 01:42:10.050 OF YOUR COVENANT PACKAGE. HE THAT DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE 01:42:10.050 --> 01:42:14.279 OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL, NOTICE HE'S THE MOST HIGH, AND IF HE'S 01:42:14.279 --> 01:42:18.210 THE MOST HIGH, HIS SHADOW IS THE MOST HIGH'S SHADOW. IT'S THE 01:42:18.210 --> 01:42:25.140 MOST CONTAINED POWER AVAILABLE THAT RESTRAINS THE DEVIL THAT HE 01:42:25.140 --> 01:42:29.670 WOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT TRYING TO VIOLATE IT. THAT'S THE KIND 01:42:29.670 --> 01:42:33.659 OF PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION YOU HAVE. IT SAYS THE SECRET 01:42:33.659 --> 01:42:37.198 PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW, THE 01:42:37.198 --> 01:42:41.250 PRESENCE, THE OVERSHADOWING OF GOD. VERSE TWO, LOOK AT VERSE 01:42:41.250 --> 01:42:44.399 TWO. AND I'LL SAY TO THE LORD, HE'S MY REFUGE, HE'S MY GOD, 01:42:44.399 --> 01:42:47.819 HE'S EMMANUEL. I'LL PUT MY TRUST THERE AND I WON'T EVEN BE 01:42:47.819 --> 01:42:51.750 AFRAID. LOOK AT ACTS CHAPTER FIVE, SAME WORD. YOU THINK, WELL 01:42:51.750 --> 01:42:56.520 THAT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, MARY, SHE WAS CATHOLIC. AND NO, LOOK AT 01:42:56.520 --> 01:43:01.319 THE APOSTLE PAUL, ACTS CHAPTER 5. THIS SAYS IN VERSE 15, IN SO 01:43:01.319 --> 01:43:05.969 MUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK IN THE STREETS, THEY LAID 01:43:05.969 --> 01:43:10.134 THE SICK ON THE BEDS, THEY LAID THE SICK ON COUCHES, THAT THE 01:43:10.134 --> 01:43:14.729 SHADOW, WHICH WAS THE PRESENCE OF THE MOST HIGH, THAT WORD 01:43:14.729 --> 01:43:19.738 SHADOW IS THE SAME WORD THAT THE ANGEL SAID WOULD OVERSHADOW 01:43:19.738 --> 01:43:23.698 MARY'S WOMB, IS NOW THE SAME WORD, THE SAME SHADOW OF THE 01:43:23.698 --> 01:43:28.140 HIGHEST, THE SAME MOST CONTAINED POWER AVAILABLE IN THE EARTH 01:43:28.140 --> 01:43:33.060 WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP, WAS UPON PETER AND OVERSHADOWED THEM. AND 01:43:33.060 --> 01:43:37.349 NOTICE THE NEXT VERSE, THEY GOT HEALED. SO WHEN YOU SAY THE 01:43:37.349 --> 01:43:41.579 SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, THAT IS NO JOKE. THAT SHOULDN'T 01:43:41.579 --> 01:43:46.229 BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. WHEN YOU WALK ABOUT YOUR DAY AND YOU KNOW THAT 01:43:46.229 --> 01:43:51.210 YOU HAVE GOD ON THE INSIDE OF YOU AND GOD UPON YOU, YOU NEED 01:43:51.210 --> 01:43:54.029 TO UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A PRESERVATION PACKAGE. YOU HAVE 01:43:54.029 --> 01:43:58.469 GOD OVERSHADOWING YOU. WHAT CAN MEN DO UNTO ME, THE SCRIPTURE 01:43:58.469 --> 01:44:03.719 SAYS. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 17, JESUS. 01:44:03.719 --> 01:44:07.920 HE'S NOW UP IN VERSE FIVE, HE'S BEING TRANSFIGURED, HE'S BEING 01:44:07.920 --> 01:44:12.202 CHANGED, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT SAYS THERE BEGAN TO BE AN 01:44:12.202 --> 01:44:16.560 OVERSHADOWING, A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM. SAME WORD, 01:44:16.560 --> 01:44:21.960 SAME PRINCIPLE, THE MOST CONTAINED POWER IN EXISTENCE 01:44:21.960 --> 01:44:28.260 AVAILABLE TO MAN WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. AND NOTICE VERSE SIX, HOW 01:44:28.260 --> 01:44:32.729 THE DISCIPLES RESPONDED. MAN, THEY WERE SO AFRAID. THEY FELL 01:44:32.729 --> 01:44:35.909 ON THEIR FACE, THEY WERE SO AFRAID. THIS POWER IS NOTHING TO 01:44:35.909 --> 01:44:39.689 MESS WITH. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID OUT OF HIS MOUTH, "YOU HAVE SO 01:44:39.689 --> 01:44:42.960 MUCH POWER AND AUTHORITY THAT I'M GIVING TO YOU "THAT BY NO 01:44:42.960 --> 01:44:45.569 MEANS SHALL ANYTHING HARM OR INJURE YOU." YOU NEED TO START 01:44:45.569 --> 01:44:51.899 BEING ABSOLUTELY A PERSON WHO KNOWS YOUR GIFT PACKAGE. WHAT 01:44:51.899 --> 01:44:55.710 WAS GIVEN TO YOU AS WE SAY ON THAT CHRISTMAS DAY, WHATEVER DAY 01:44:55.710 --> 01:45:04.409 THAT WAS? YOU HAVE PRESERVATION. YOU'RE TO HAVE A LIFE OF 01:45:04.409 --> 01:45:08.369 GOODWILL FROM GOD AND PEACE BECAUSE IT'S PART OF YOUR 01:45:08.369 --> 01:45:11.488 BENEFITS. I'M GONNA WRAP THIS UP. IF THEY COULD START COMING, 01:45:11.488 --> 01:45:15.689 PASTOR DOUG, AND YOU CAN COME TO THE PIANO. LOOK AT THIS ONE. THE 01:45:15.689 --> 01:45:20.426 NEXT ONE IS ANGELS. HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANGEL? JUST 01:45:20.426 --> 01:45:23.430 LOOK OVER AT BRENDA. YOU CAN SEE AN ANGEL RIGHT THERE. THERE'S 01:45:23.430 --> 01:45:27.359 WHAT AN ANGEL LOOKS LIKE. SEE AN ANGEL, THAT'S WHAT SHE LOOKS 01:45:27.359 --> 01:45:30.960 LIKE. BUT HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANGEL OF THE ANGEL KIND? 01:45:30.960 --> 01:45:35.069 LIKE, YOU KNOW, RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'VE SEEN AN ANGEL. NO, 01:45:35.069 --> 01:45:38.159 RAISE YOUR HAND, I WANNA SEE IT. OH, WOW, THAT'S GREAT. THOSE OF 01:45:38.159 --> 01:45:42.149 YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU COULD PUT LIKE A HAND UP, I'D LOVE TO 01:45:42.149 --> 01:45:45.869 KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN AN ANGEL. I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAS MAKING, 01:45:46.920 --> 01:45:51.988 I HAD OREO COOKIES AND MILK, AND I WAS CREATING A BOWL AND I HAD 01:45:51.988 --> 01:45:55.738 MILK AND I WAS WALKING OUT, WE HAD A CEILING AT A HOUSE THAT WE 01:45:55.738 --> 01:45:58.770 USED TO LIVE IN YEARS AGO, IT WAS ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW, 14 FOOT 01:45:58.770 --> 01:46:02.880 HIGH, BRENDA, AND I WAS WALKING OUT WITH THE MILK AND WITH THE 01:46:02.880 --> 01:46:07.109 OREOS, AND I LOOKED OVER AS I WALKED OUT AND THERE WAS, AS 01:46:07.109 --> 01:46:11.579 TALL AS THE 14 FOOT HIGH CEILING WAS THIS ANGEL. I MEAN, HE WAS 01:46:11.579 --> 01:46:15.359 ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP AND HIS SHOULDERS WERE VERY, VERY 01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:20.130 WIDE. AND AS SOON AS I SAW HIM, I WAS STARTLED. I WENT LIKE THIS 01:46:20.130 --> 01:46:26.257 AND I SPILLED EVERYTHING. I'VE SEEN ANGELS. AND I TELL YOU, 01:46:26.257 --> 01:46:31.020 THEY'RE NOTHING TO MESS WITH. AMEN? I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE WITH A 01:46:31.020 --> 01:46:34.800 LITTLE HEART AND A LITTLE NAKED BABY BOTTOM. I'VE NEVER SEEN 01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:38.880 THOSE. AND THAT DOESN'T LOOK VERY DANGEROUS TO ME. I LIKE THE 01:46:38.880 --> 01:46:42.659 ONES THAT LOOK DANGEROUS, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, I LIKE WHAT ONE GUY 01:46:42.659 --> 01:46:46.289 SAID. HE MET HIS ANGELS AND THEY WERE, I THINK THEIR NAMES WERE 01:46:46.289 --> 01:46:55.319 SPIKE AND FANG. I THINK HE MADE THAT UP. ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? 01:46:55.319 --> 01:46:57.869 ARE YOU ALL HERE TODAY OR IS IT JUST YOU GOT SHOPPING TO DO? ALL 01:46:57.869 --> 01:47:02.340 RIGHT. I LOVE ANGELS AND YOU KNOW, BY THE WAY, I FOUND OUT 01:47:02.340 --> 01:47:09.479 ANGELS REALLY, REALLY ARE GREAT AT GIFT WRAPPING. DO YOU KNOW 01:47:09.479 --> 01:47:13.380 ANGELS ARE GREAT AT GIFT WRAPPING? WELL, IT'S EASY WHEN 01:47:13.380 --> 01:47:19.770 YOU HAVE DIVINE PRESENCE. BUT IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE DIVINE 01:47:19.770 --> 01:47:22.319 PRESENCE TO HELP THEM IN THEIR CHRISTMAS WRAPPING, THEN THEY 01:47:22.319 --> 01:47:26.250 JUST WING IT. YOU KNOW, SO WE'LL JUST KIND OF KEEP THAT ONE AS WE 01:47:26.250 --> 01:47:30.539 GO ON. BUT I WANT YOU TO LOOK HERE AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2. JOHN, 01:47:30.539 --> 01:47:36.689 DID YOU EVEN SMIRK AT THAT? OKAY. MATTHEW CHAPTER 2:13 01:47:36.689 --> 01:47:39.960 THROUGH 15, AND 19 THROUGH 21 AS WE GET READY TO CLOSE. LOOK AT 01:47:39.960 --> 01:47:43.500 THIS. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2. "AND WHEN THEY DEPARTED, BEHOLD, 01:47:43.500 --> 01:47:46.350 THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM." AND BY 01:47:46.350 --> 01:47:50.159 THE WAY, GOD DOES USE DREAMS TO PROTECT YOU. HOW MANY HAVE EVER 01:47:50.159 --> 01:47:53.369 HAD A DREAM WHERE YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT MEANT, BUT 01:47:53.369 --> 01:47:56.189 YOU WERE GONNA DO SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA BUY 01:47:56.189 --> 01:47:59.640 SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA TAKE A JOB, YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE 01:47:59.640 --> 01:48:01.859 TO TAKE THE JOB, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HAD A DREAM, AND IN 01:48:01.859 --> 01:48:04.140 THE DREAM YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE JOB, YOU WEREN'T 01:48:04.140 --> 01:48:06.719 SUPPOSED TO BUY THAT HOUSE, YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO MARRY THAT 01:48:06.719 --> 01:48:09.630 PERSON, RIGHT? YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO STAY HOME, BUT YOU 01:48:09.630 --> 01:48:12.390 WERE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO GO TO CHURCH THAT SUNDAY. YOU KNOW, 01:48:13.469 --> 01:48:19.409 STUFF LIKE THAT, RIGHT? RIGHT. YOU WERE NOT TO GET A CAT, 01:48:19.409 --> 01:48:21.988 THEY'RE DEMONIC. YOU WERE TO GET A DOG, YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF 01:48:21.988 --> 01:48:25.170 DREAMS. YEAH, YOU KNOW WHICH ONES I'M TALKING ABOUT. YEAH, 01:48:25.170 --> 01:48:28.170 OKAY, YOU CAN WOO ALL DAY LONG, WE'RE ALMOST DONE. NOW HERE'S 01:48:28.170 --> 01:48:33.000 THE THING. DREAMS, GOD GAVE DREAMS TO THE WISE MEN. YOU EVER 01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:35.729 READ THAT IN MATTHEW 2? LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, LOOK AT VERSE 01:48:35.729 --> 01:48:38.159 10. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING TO ME, I 01:48:38.159 --> 01:48:42.000 WAS READING THIS. AND IT'S JUST A THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT THAT YOU 01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:45.539 COULD THEOLOGICALLY THINK ABOUT THEOLOGICALLY. DOES THAT MAKE 01:48:45.539 --> 01:48:49.050 SENSE? AND WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED WITH GREAT 01:48:49.050 --> 01:48:52.529 SEED AND GREAT JOY. VERSE 11, WATCH THIS. WHEN THEY WERE 01:48:52.529 --> 01:48:57.448 COMING TO THE HOUSE, NOTICE THIS WAS LIKE 2 YEARS OR SO BEYOND 01:48:57.448 --> 01:49:00.359 THE MANGER 'CAUSE THEY WERE NOW IN THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE YOUNG 01:49:00.359 --> 01:49:03.359 CHILD. BEFORE IN THE MANGER, HE WAS A BABY. AND THEY WORSHIPED 01:49:03.359 --> 01:49:06.000 HIM, THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES, PRESENTED UNTO HIM 01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:09.390 GIFTS, NOTICE PLURAL, GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. LOOK AT 01:49:09.390 --> 01:49:11.909 VERSE 12. NOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, LOOK AT THIS. AND 01:49:11.909 --> 01:49:16.319 BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A WHAT? IN A DREAM, THAT'S PRESERVATION. 01:49:16.319 --> 01:49:19.890 THAT'S PROTECTION. SEE, ALL THROUGH THE CHRISTMAS STORY IS 01:49:19.890 --> 01:49:23.520 PRESERVATION, PROTECTION. AND SAID, THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN TO 01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:26.640 HEROD. THEY DEPARTED INTO THEIR OWN COUNTRY. NOW KEEP THAT UP 01:49:26.640 --> 01:49:30.448 THERE. BUT IT SAYS BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM. HOW MANY WAS 01:49:30.448 --> 01:49:34.590 WARNED IN A DREAM? THAT'S MY THEOLOGICAL QUESTION. IT DIDN'T 01:49:34.590 --> 01:49:40.079 SAY ONE OF THE GUYS, MURR OR FRANK, WAS WARNED IN A DREAM. 01:49:40.079 --> 01:49:45.448 NO, IT SAYS, AND BEING WARNED OF GOD. WHAT, ALL OF THEM? DON'T 01:49:45.448 --> 01:49:54.029 THINK THAT GOD CAN'T GET A MESSAGE TO YOU IF NEEDED. WE 01:49:54.029 --> 01:49:56.488 GOTTA QUIT DOUBTING, QUIT GETTING IN FEAR, QUIT GETTING 01:49:56.488 --> 01:50:01.289 FRUSTRATED, NEGATIVE. SAY, GOD, I NEED DIRECTION. EXPECT IT. IF 01:50:01.289 --> 01:50:04.948 GOD CAN DO THIS IN A DREAM, WHAT CAN HE DO FOR YOU? LOOK AT VERSE 01:50:04.948 --> 01:50:09.039 13 AGAIN, BEING WARNED IN A DREAM. JOSEPH SAID, "TAKE THE 01:50:09.039 --> 01:50:13.738 CHILD AND FLEE INTO EGYPT." LOOK AT VERSE 19 NOW AGAIN, NOTICE 01:50:13.738 --> 01:50:17.760 THE ANGELS SHOW UP. "AND WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL 01:50:17.760 --> 01:50:21.600 OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM AGAIN TO JOSEPH." SO GOD USES 01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:24.840 ANGELS. YOU SAY, WELL, THAT'S JUST THEM. LOOK AT PSALM 91, 01:50:24.840 --> 01:50:29.130 VERSE 11, PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION PACKAGE IS YOU HAVE 01:50:29.130 --> 01:50:33.000 A GIFT IN THAT GIFT, IN THAT PACKAGE THAT WAS GIVEN, THE 01:50:33.000 --> 01:50:38.550 SWADDLING CLOTHES OF THE CHILD THAT WOULD NOW BE WRAPPED IN THE 01:50:38.550 --> 01:50:46.100 TOMB IS SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT AVAILABLE. 01:50:47.301 --> 01:50:51.470 AND IT'S THROUGH SALVATION. FOR HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE 01:50:51.470 --> 01:50:56.930 OVER YOU. AND WHAT ARE THOSE ANGELS SUPPOSED TO DO? PROTECT 01:50:56.930 --> 01:51:02.449 YOU, KEEP YOU IN SOME OF YOUR WAYS. ALL YOUR WAYS. NOW, ONE 01:51:02.449 --> 01:51:05.510 THING I WOULDN'T DO IS PROVOKE MY ANGEL TO WRATH, THE BIBLE 01:51:05.510 --> 01:51:08.480 SAID. DON'T DO THINGS LIKE SINNING AND THEN EXPECT THE 01:51:08.480 --> 01:51:13.190 ANGEL TO PROTECT YOU. RIGHT, DON'T GO OUT AND DO WICKED 01:51:13.190 --> 01:51:15.944 THINGS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, ANGEL, I'M ABOUT TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW, 01:51:15.944 --> 01:51:20.720 SO I NEED YOU TO BACK ME UP. OKAY, NO, ANGELS AREN'T GONNA BE 01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:22.820 IN THE GETAWAY CAR WHILE YOU HOLD SOMETHING UP. 01:51:22.820 --> 01:51:27.140 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:51:27.140 --> 01:51:33.980 PART OF THE ACCESSORIES TO THE CRIME. RIGHT? SO ALL YOUR WAYS, 01:51:33.980 --> 01:51:39.140 EXCEPT YOU GOTTA NOT PROVOKE HIM TO WRATH. LET'S MAKE SURE THAT 01:51:39.140 --> 01:51:42.079 WE DO THINGS RIGHT. LOOK AT HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, PART OF YOUR 01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:50.631 INHERITANCE. PART OF YOUR LEGAL RIGHT. PART OF WHAT WAS LEFT TO 01:51:50.631 --> 01:51:56.390 YOU FROM YOUR FATHER AND YOUR ELDER BROTHER, JESUS. HEBREWS 01:51:56.390 --> 01:52:01.400 CHAPTER 1, LOOK AT VERSE 14. HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, ARE THEY 01:52:01.400 --> 01:52:04.789 NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS, ANGELS? AND NOTICE WHAT THEY'RE 01:52:04.789 --> 01:52:09.051 SENT FOR, TO MINISTER FOR THEM. EVERY TIME YOU GUYS ARE OUT 01:52:09.051 --> 01:52:11.510 MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, YOU NEED TO BE PRAYING, "FATHER, THANK YOU 01:52:11.510 --> 01:52:14.360 FOR YOUR ANGELS." EVERY TIME YOU GET IN THE CAR, "FATHER, THANK 01:52:14.360 --> 01:52:18.500 YOU FOR YOUR ANGELS." EVERY TIME YOUR WIFE ASKS IF YOU COULD DO 01:52:18.500 --> 01:52:20.900 THE DISHES, SAY, "HONEY, THE ANGELS GOT IT." 01:52:20.900 --> 01:52:22.070 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:52:22.070 --> 01:52:29.150 RIGHT? YEAH, I MIGHT TRY THAT IN 2026. I'LL LET YOU KNOW NEXT 01:52:29.150 --> 01:52:31.730 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE HOW THAT WORKED. BRENDA, I DON'T THINK I 01:52:31.730 --> 01:52:36.680 CAN DO THAT TODAY. LET THE ANGELS HANDLE IT. I'M COMING UP 01:52:36.680 --> 01:52:42.470 WITH GREAT STUFF TODAY, AND YOU ARE BARELY WITH ME. OK, LAST ONE 01:52:42.470 --> 01:52:45.110 I WANT TO SHOW YOU BEFORE PASTOR DOUG COMES AND CLOSES OUR 01:52:45.110 --> 01:52:49.310 SERVICE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. MAYBE YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT 01:52:49.310 --> 01:52:52.940 THIS. YOU'VE GOT THE SWADDLING OF THE CLOTHES. YOU'VE GOT THE 01:52:52.940 --> 01:52:56.780 MESSAGE, DON'T FEAR. YOU'VE GOT THE MESSAGE, EMMANUEL, GOD IS 01:52:56.780 --> 01:53:00.289 WITH YOU AND FOR YOU. YOU HAVE HIS NAME. HIS NAME IS JESUS. 01:53:00.289 --> 01:53:04.220 THERE'S NO GREATER NAME. YOU HAVE ANGELS AND DREAMS. COME ON, 01:53:04.220 --> 01:53:10.832 MAN. WHY CAN WE HAVE THIS? LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. I WANT YOU TO 01:53:10.832 --> 01:53:15.140 STAND TO YOUR FEET. LAST SCRIPTURE I READ. AND WHEN 8 01:53:15.140 --> 01:53:20.900 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED NOTICE THE WORD 8 DAYS. 8 IS A VERY 01:53:20.900 --> 01:53:29.329 INTERESTING NUMBER IN SCRIPTURE. 8 IS A HUNGER WORD. 8, THEY ATE. 01:53:29.329 --> 01:53:32.270 NEVERMIND, NO IT ISN'T. I JUST MADE THAT UP. THAT WAS, I SAID A 01:53:32.270 --> 01:53:34.850 BAD ONE TO SEE IF YOU WOULD LIKE IT MORE THAN ALL THE GREAT ONES 01:53:34.850 --> 01:53:38.091 THAT I SAID. BUT WHEN 8 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED, 8 IS THE 01:53:38.091 --> 01:53:41.211 NUMBER OF RESURRECTION, 8 IS THE NUMBER OF NEW BEGINNINGS, 8 IS 01:53:41.211 --> 01:53:45.199 THE NUMBER OF COVENANT. NOW WATCH THIS, WHY DID THEY DO 01:53:45.199 --> 01:53:49.430 THIS? AND I WAS READING THIS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT KEPT SPEAKING TO 01:53:49.430 --> 01:53:51.860 ME SAYING, "HANK, YOU'RE READING OVER SOMETHING." AND I'M LIKE, 01:53:51.860 --> 01:53:54.470 "OKAY, WHAT'S UP?" I READ EACH WORD AGAIN AND I BEGAN TO LOOK 01:53:54.470 --> 01:53:57.591 AT IT. WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT LUKE 21 THROUGH 24 VERY QUICKLY. WHEN 01:53:57.591 --> 01:54:01.461 8 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED, NOTICE UNDERLINED THE CIRCUMCISING OF 01:54:01.461 --> 01:54:06.020 THE CHILD. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO CIRCUMCISE THE CHILD? BECAUSE IT 01:54:06.020 --> 01:54:11.900 HAD TO DO WITH COVENANT, RIGHT? AND ALL THE BLESSINGS OF 01:54:11.900 --> 01:54:16.070 ABRAHAM, THAT GOD PROMISED TO ABRAHAM. AND PART OF WHAT GOD 01:54:16.070 --> 01:54:21.381 PROMISED TO ABRAHAM WAS FAVOR, PROTECTION. GENESIS 15:15 WAS 01:54:21.381 --> 01:54:24.801 PRESERVATION. HE SAID, "LOOK, ABRAHAM, YOU'RE GONNA GO IN 01:54:24.801 --> 01:54:28.100 PEACE "WHEN YOU DIE." THAT MEANS NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN. 01:54:28.100 --> 01:54:31.671 AND BY THE WAY, ABRAHAM, WHEN YOU DO DIE, IT'S GONNA BE IN 01:54:31.671 --> 01:54:35.510 PEACE, NOT IN THE JAWS OF DEATH OR SICKNESS, DISEASE, OR RESULT 01:54:35.510 --> 01:54:38.539 OF A TRAGEDY, CALAMITY, ACCIDENT. YOU'RE GONNA GO IN 01:54:38.539 --> 01:54:42.230 PEACE, GENESIS 15:15, ABRAHAM, AND YOU'RE GONNA GO IN A GOOD 01:54:42.230 --> 01:54:45.350 OLD AGE. AND THEN IF YOU FLIP OVER TO 10 CHAPTERS LATER, IN 01:54:45.350 --> 01:54:48.020 GENESIS 25, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, IT SAYS THAT 01:54:48.020 --> 01:54:52.610 ABRAHAM DIED AN OLD MAN AND WAS BURIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE IN HIS 01:54:52.610 --> 01:54:57.260 GRAVE. IT WAS FULFILLED, ALL BECAUSE OF COVENANT. SO HERE 01:54:57.260 --> 01:55:01.190 THEY HAVE THIS BABY. THEY PUT HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES. THE 01:55:01.190 --> 01:55:05.720 HOLY SPIRIT OVERSHADOWS THE CHILD, AND YET THEY UNDERSTAND 01:55:05.720 --> 01:55:10.010 IF THEY ARE GOING TO REALLY MAINTAIN THIS AND HAVE LEGAL 01:55:10.010 --> 01:55:18.560 AUTHORITY BACKED BY GOD THAT THE ENEMY CANNOT EXACT UPON, THEY 01:55:18.560 --> 01:55:22.671 NEED TO GET UNDER COVENANT. THEY NEED TO PUT THIS CHILD UNDER THE 01:55:22.671 --> 01:55:25.909 COVENANT. YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR BODY UNDER THE COVENANT. YOU 01:55:25.909 --> 01:55:28.640 NEED TO PUT YOUR CHILDREN UNDER THE COVENANT. YOU NEED TO OPEN 01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:30.530 YOUR BIBLE UP WHEN YOU HAVE A PRODIGAL AND SAY, NO, NO, NO, 01:55:30.530 --> 01:55:35.270 NO, GOD, I'M IN COVENANT WITH YOU. AND THE BIBLE SAYS, MY 01:55:35.270 --> 01:55:38.659 COVENANT THAT MY CHILDREN SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD, TEACH MY 01:55:38.659 --> 01:55:42.440 KIDS. YOU START GETTING THE SNIFFLES, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, 01:55:42.440 --> 01:55:49.940 NO, NO, NO, I HAVE A COVENANT. ISAIAH 53 SAYS, I'M ALREADY 01:55:49.940 --> 01:55:55.310 HEALED. FIRST PETER 2:24 SAYS, BY THE WHIPS THAT WERE ON JESUS' 01:55:55.310 --> 01:56:01.970 BACK, WE ARE OR WE WERE HEALED. WHEN YOU HAVE BILLS COMING, 01:56:01.970 --> 01:56:05.930 NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. MY COVENANT IS A COVENANT OF PROVISION, 01:56:05.930 --> 01:56:09.260 EPHESIANS 3:20. GOD, YOU ALWAYS DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY BEYOND 01:56:09.260 --> 01:56:14.060 ALL I COULD ASK OR THINK. COME ON. SO NOTICE WHAT THEY DID, 01:56:14.060 --> 01:56:17.329 LUKE 2, VERSE 21, WE'RE GONNA END WITH THIS. EIGHT DAYS WERE 01:56:17.329 --> 01:56:22.310 ACCOMPLISHED AND THEY CIRCUMCISED THE YOUNG CHILD, 01:56:22.310 --> 01:56:25.640 BRINGING HIM UNDER THE COVENANT OF ABRAHAM. HIS NAME WAS CALLED 01:56:25.640 --> 01:56:28.730 JESUS. THERE IT IS AGAIN, SALVATION, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF 01:56:28.730 --> 01:56:31.610 THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB. SO THE 01:56:31.610 --> 01:56:34.881 ANGEL BROUGHT FORTH THE NAME, VERSE 22, AND WHEN THE DAYS OF 01:56:34.881 --> 01:56:37.881 THE PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES, UNDERLINE 01:56:37.881 --> 01:56:40.369 THAT. THIS IS WHAT GOD KEPT SAYING TO ME. NOTICE HOW MANY 01:56:40.369 --> 01:56:45.381 TIMES IT SAYS THE LAW OF MOSES. IT WAS TO SHOW THE READER THAT 01:56:45.381 --> 01:56:50.091 THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING TO, IN THOSE DAYS, YOU COULD SAY, 01:56:50.091 --> 01:56:57.079 WALK IN THE WORD. OBEY THE BIBLE, OBEY THE COVENANT, OBEY 01:56:57.079 --> 01:57:00.680 THE COMMAND OF GOD. SO NOTICE IT SAYS IT THE FIRST TIME. 01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:04.250 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, ACCORDING TO THE LAW, MOSES WAS 01:57:04.250 --> 01:57:06.650 ACCOMPLISHED. THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM TO PRESENT HIM TO 01:57:06.650 --> 01:57:11.600 THE LORD. VERSE 23, "AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD, 01:57:11.600 --> 01:57:15.829 "EVERY MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB "SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE 01:57:15.829 --> 01:57:20.510 LORD." NOW LOOK AT VERSE 24. "AND TO OFFER A SACRIFICE 01:57:20.510 --> 01:57:24.440 ACCORDING TO THAT "WHICH IS SAID IN THE LAW OF THE LORD." THEY 01:57:24.440 --> 01:57:31.280 WERE WORD, BIBLE THUMPERS, YOU COULD SAY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTOOD, 01:57:31.280 --> 01:57:35.087 MAN. THEY'VE GOT AN OVERSHADOWING. THEY'VE GOT A 01:57:35.087 --> 01:57:38.421 PACKAGE. THEY'VE GOTTA TAKE CARE OF THIS CHILD. THEY'VE GOT A 01:57:38.421 --> 01:57:41.841 RESPONSIBILITY, SO WE BETTER WALK IN THE WORD. WE BETTER WALK 01:57:41.841 --> 01:57:46.430 ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT OF GOD. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? JESUS 01:57:46.430 --> 01:57:51.020 PROVIDED ALL OF THIS. YOU HAVE A COVENANT WITH GOD, AND WE HAVE 01:57:51.020 --> 01:57:55.671 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BELONGS TO US. REMEMBER, HE'S FORGIVEN YOU 01:57:57.289 --> 01:58:00.289 OF EVERY AND ALL SIN AND INIQUITY. HE'S HEALED YOU OF 01:58:00.289 --> 01:58:04.579 EVERY DISEASE, PSALM 103. HE'S REDEEMED YOU, PROTECTED YOU, 01:58:04.579 --> 01:58:10.070 PRESERVED YOU FROM DESTRUCTIONS AND TRAGEDIES AND CALAMITIES. 01:58:10.070 --> 01:58:13.400 HE'S CROWNED YOU BY PRESERVING YOU, SWADDLING YOU, 01:58:13.400 --> 01:58:17.060 OVERSHADOWING YOU WITH LOVING KINDNESS AND TENDER MERCIES. 01:58:17.060 --> 01:58:20.631 WHEN YOU EAT SOMETHING, HE SATISFIED YOUR MOUTH WITH GOOD 01:58:20.631 --> 01:58:26.600 THINGS. AND AS YOU AGE AND EVERY DAY, YOU HAVE YOUTHFULNESS LIKE 01:58:26.600 --> 01:58:30.739 THE EAGLE. IT'S ALL PART OF YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT JESUS PAID 01:58:30.739 --> 01:58:34.489 FOR. LET'S PRAY. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT 01:58:34.489 --> 01:58:38.900 WAS GIVEN, THAT YOU LOVED THIS WORLD, YOU LOVED US, THAT YOU 01:58:38.900 --> 01:58:43.190 GAVE THAT GIFT, JESUS CHRIST, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES UPON HIM 01:58:43.190 --> 01:58:47.869 WOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. AND WE THANK 01:58:47.869 --> 01:58:51.980 YOU THAT THE GREATEST GIFT EVER WAS JESUS COMING. BORN IN A 01:58:51.980 --> 01:58:56.930 MANGER BUT ALSO CAME TO DIE. THAT WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME 01:58:56.930 --> 01:59:02.659 OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. LORD, WE RECEIVE OF THAT PACKAGE 01:59:02.659 --> 01:59:06.980 TODAY. AND IF WE ARE ALREADY BORN AGAIN, WE'VE ALREADY 01:59:06.980 --> 01:59:11.449 ACCEPTED JESUS AND WE'RE NOT USING OR THANKING YOU OR 01:59:11.449 --> 01:59:16.070 STANDING FIRM IN OUR PRESERVATION RIGHTS THAT WERE 01:59:16.070 --> 01:59:20.570 PROVIDED TO US AND FOR US. I ASK YOU TO SHOW US THE WAY, GOD, 01:59:20.570 --> 01:59:23.600 THAT WE'LL BEGIN TO DO IT. NOW, WITH EVERY HEAD BOWED AND EVERY 01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:26.750 EYE CLOSED, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, THOSE OF YOU 01:59:26.750 --> 01:59:30.381 THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM, I WANNA TALK VERY SERIOUSLY TO YOU. ONE 01:59:30.381 --> 01:59:33.770 OF THE GREATEST THINGS THAT YOU ARE PRESERVED FROM IS ETERNAL 01:59:33.770 --> 01:59:41.480 DAMNATION. GOD DOES NOT SEND ANYONE TO HELL. IN FACT, JESUS 01:59:41.480 --> 01:59:45.711 EVEN MADE IT CLEAR THAT HELL WAS CREATED, NOT FOR US, THAT WAS 01:59:45.711 --> 01:59:49.789 NOT WHY IT WAS THERE. IT WAS CREATED FOR THE DEVIL AND ALL 01:59:49.789 --> 01:59:59.091 THE FALLEN ANGELS, DEMONS. BUT SIN CANNOT BE IN THE PRESENCE OF 01:59:59.091 --> 02:00:05.100 GOD. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE A 02:00:05.100 --> 02:00:11.720 PRESERVATION PACKAGE OF ETERNAL LIFE, IT COMES BY ASKING JESUS 02:00:11.720 --> 02:00:16.131 TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS AND TO COME INTO YOUR HEART. I WANT YOU TO 02:00:16.131 --> 02:00:20.449 DO SOMETHING VERY BOLD. THIS IS PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION 02:00:20.449 --> 02:00:24.921 PACKAGE NOW. YOU'RE UNWRAPPING YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT WAS 02:00:24.921 --> 02:00:29.841 GIVEN BY GOD HIMSELF AS EMMANUEL. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY 02:00:29.841 --> 02:00:32.539 OR YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, YOU COULD PUT YOUR HAND UP. IF 02:00:32.539 --> 02:00:35.989 YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU SAY, "PREACHER, PRAY FOR ME." I WANT 02:00:35.989 --> 02:00:40.100 TO RECEIVE THAT FREE GIFT OF GOD. I WANT TO ACCEPT JESUS 02:00:40.100 --> 02:00:45.320 CHRIST IN MY HEART. I WANT THAT FORGIVENESS OF SIN AND ETERNAL 02:00:45.320 --> 02:00:49.176 LIFE. ARE YOU HERE TODAY? ANYBODY HERE? PUT YOUR HAND UP 02:00:49.176 --> 02:00:51.996 IF THAT'S YOU. I DON'T SEE ANY HANDS. PUT IT UP HIGH SO I CAN 02:00:51.996 --> 02:00:56.166 SEE. THERE'S ONE HAND. GOD BLESS YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. ANYBODY 02:00:56.166 --> 02:01:01.145 ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE ONLINE? 02:01:01.145 --> 02:01:04.326 PASTOR DOUG, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO COME, AND I'M GONNA ASK YOU 02:01:04.326 --> 02:01:08.855 TO LEAD THEM IN A PRAYER OF ASKING JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR 02:01:08.855 --> 02:01:11.195 HEART. NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU, BEFORE HE PRAYS, YOU COULD 02:01:11.195 --> 02:01:15.395 HONESTLY SAY, I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY? HOW MANY OF YOU 02:01:15.395 --> 02:01:19.746 LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE SWADDLED AS THE BODY OF CHRIST? 02:01:19.746 --> 02:01:22.716 THE OVERSHADOWING OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. SO VERY 02:01:22.716 --> 02:01:25.145 QUICKLY, PASTOR DOUG'S GONNA GIVE YOU INSTRUCTION ON WHAT TO 02:01:25.145 --> 02:01:29.496 DO REGARDING JESUS CHRIST AND SALVATION. GO AHEAD, PASTOR. 02:01:29.496 --> 02:01:32.676 AMEN. ALTAR TEAM, IF YOU RUN UP HERE QUICKLY, WE'RE GONNA PRAY 02:01:32.676 --> 02:01:36.515 TODAY, AND THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ONLINE, WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, YOU 02:01:36.515 --> 02:01:40.055 CAN PRAY RIGHT ALONG WITH ME. JESUS HEARS YOU WHEREVER YOU'RE 02:01:40.055 --> 02:01:45.395 AT. YOU CAN HAVE HIM BECOME THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE TODAY RIGHT 02:01:45.395 --> 02:01:50.225 WHERE YOU'RE AT. EVERY WEEK THAT HAPPENS, PEOPLE RECEIVE JESUS 02:01:50.225 --> 02:01:54.576 CHRIST ACROSS THIS NATION JUST BY PRAYING THIS PRAYER, AND YOU 02:01:54.576 --> 02:01:57.395 CAN JOIN IN WITH US. THE ONE THAT RAISED YOUR HAND TODAY, IF 02:01:57.395 --> 02:02:01.445 YOU'LL COME UP HERE QUICKLY, OUR ALTAR TEAM HAS SOME INFORMATION 02:02:01.445 --> 02:02:04.655 FOR YOU. THEY'LL GIVE YOU THAT AND MINISTER TO YOU AND MAKE 02:02:04.655 --> 02:02:08.136 SURE THAT YOU HAVE INFORMATION THAT WOULD HELP YOU IN YOUR WALK 02:02:08.136 --> 02:02:11.286 WITH THE LORD, AND YOU CAN CALL OUR PRAYER LINE ALSO. BUT LET'S 02:02:11.286 --> 02:02:14.046 PRAY TODAY. I'M GONNA ASK EVERYONE TO BOW YOUR HEADS AND 02:02:14.046 --> 02:02:18.605 JUST PRAY OUT LOUD AND MEAN IT WITH YOUR HEART. JESUS WILL COME 02:02:18.605 --> 02:02:21.636 INTO YOUR HEART AND BE YOUR SAVIOR TODAY, JUST LIKE THIS ONE 02:02:21.636 --> 02:02:24.456 THAT'S COMING UP HERE. JUST REPEAT AFTER ME, FATHER IN 02:02:24.456 --> 02:02:30.275 HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS. THANK YOU THAT HE CAME 02:02:30.275 --> 02:02:38.256 NOT ONLY AS A BABY, BUT HE GREW UP AND HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO 02:02:38.256 --> 02:02:44.796 REDEEM US FROM THE SIN AND CURSE THAT WE WERE UNDER ON THIS 02:02:44.796 --> 02:02:52.296 EARTH. THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR COMING TO SAVE ME. I REPENT OF 02:02:52.296 --> 02:03:01.746 MY SIN. I ASK YOU TO BE THE LORD AND SAVIOR OF MY LIFE. I WANT TO 02:03:01.746 --> 02:03:11.586 SPEND ETERNITY WITH YOU IN HEAVEN. I NOW SAY, LORD, I WILL 02:03:11.586 --> 02:03:17.076 SERVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, IN DILIGENCE, THROUGHOUT THE 02:03:17.076 --> 02:03:22.086 REMAINDER OF MY LIFE, AND SOMEDAY I'LL BE IN HEAVEN WITH 02:03:22.086 --> 02:03:27.365 YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS. AMEN. IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY, 02:03:27.365 --> 02:03:30.395 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO CALL OUR PRAYER LINE, 855 777 7907. 02:03:33.695 --> 02:03:36.246 THEY'LL SEND YOU THE SAME INFORMATION THAT THIS LADY IS 02:03:36.246 --> 02:03:40.506 RECEIVING UP HERE TODAY, AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR THAT. ONE MORE 02:03:40.506 --> 02:03:44.826 QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE I LET YOU GO. IT'S ONLY 11:03. WE'RE 02:03:44.826 --> 02:03:47.376 DOING GOOD TODAY, SO YOU'VE GOT LOTS OF TIME. WASN'T THAT A 02:03:47.376 --> 02:03:53.225 GREAT MESSAGE ON PRESERVATION? THAT'S ONE WORTH WATCHING OVER 02:03:53.225 --> 02:03:58.475 AND OVER. JUST A COUPLE THINGS. REMEMBER THAT MIDWEEK RECHARGE 02:03:58.475 --> 02:04:03.036 THIS WEEK IS ONLINE ONLY. THERE'LL BE NO IN HOUSE SERVICES 02:04:03.036 --> 02:04:06.666 THIS WEEK ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. TUNE IN ONLINE FOR OUR HEART TO 02:04:06.666 --> 02:04:10.865 YOUR HOME FOR OUR MIDWEEK RECHARGE PROGRAM. AND THEN, JUST 02:04:10.865 --> 02:04:14.555 AS ANOTHER REMINDER, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, PASTOR HANK WILL 02:04:14.555 --> 02:04:18.395 BE DOING A SPECIAL FLASHPOINT BROADCAST, SO YOU CAN TUNE IN TO 02:04:18.395 --> 02:04:24.065 FLASHPOINT LIVE, 7 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, AND SEE PASTOR HANK 02:04:24.065 --> 02:04:26.105 AND THE OTHER GUESTS ON THAT. WELL, GOD BLESS YOU, 02:04:26.105 --> 02:04:28.716 THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY. HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS. 02:04:28.716 --> 02:04:30.456 WE'LL SEE YOU BACK IN THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY. 02:04:30.456 --> 02:04:36.576 (MUSIC)