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much and that you know even before I ask
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today welcome Church to our Christmas
service today would you just rise on
your feet and can can you just greet the
one next to you and wish them a blessed
Christmas we’re going going to just
praise and honor our lord Jesus are you
ready
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Church
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angels to Worship You
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wise men come even as they seek you out
Lord but today we will come to you and
we will adore you for you alone are
worthy come on you just lift your hands
and worship
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praise Hallelujah the highest glory to
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God
oh little town of
bethle how still we see the
light above thy deep and
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the
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years are met in me
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all we feel your peace Lord in this
place and we welcome your your
presence
Jesus church in Matthew CH 1 verse 21-23
says and she will bear forth a son and
you will call his name Jesus for he will
save his people from their
sins so all this was done that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the
Lord through the
prophets he said behold the Virgin shall
be with child and bear a son and they
shall call his name
Emmanuel God With
Us and God is with us
today we just open your heart and
receive his love for
you Oh Come Oh Come
man
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hallelujah our god is a good god a God
who loves man amen please be seated in
this place my friend God bless you and
thank you for joining us for our
Christmas service
today during Christmas we celebrate the
birth of our Lord and SA Jesus Christ
the savior of the world during Christmas
we are reminded once again for God so
loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son that whosoever believes in
Him should not perish but have
everlasting life for God did not send
his son into the world to condemn the
world but that the world through him
might be saved God gave his son to save
you my my friend to save you from all
your sins from all your hurts from all
the challenges that you face in your
life and he is still the same today he’s
here to save you when Jesus was born it
was the greatest news for
humankind and what is interesting is
there were wise men from the East that
responded to the birth of Christ they
came to the Lord bringing with them
go frankincense and
myr go speaks of the Divinity of Christ
he is the Son of God mer speaks of his
suffering Death At The Cross he died for
you my friend and
frankincense speaks of his sweet
fragrance his is a sinless life perfect
in every way that he lives unto God when
God gave he gave his very best and man
can
respond when you love you give today we
know how much God Lov us for he gave his
only son his one and only the darling of
Heaven to die on the
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little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet
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dawn is
salvation beginning to break I love the
Lord Jesus Oh gift from above the king
of the heavens
forever with
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us
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oh I worship you Jesus for all of my
days the highest of
graes be unto your name my God and my
savior my king and my
friend yours is the
glory
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Merry Christmas
everyone what a beautiful
sight at least uh you know that uh you
are in the house of God Anything is
Possible
and everything is
possible not just because it’s Christmas
it’s because of his presence amen but
during this Christmas time we want to
take time to acknowledge the Lord
because he is the birthday boy
amen
amen and every time we come before
him we stop for a while and we think
that everything revolves around him
he is the one who’s been watching you
all these times in your
struggles he sees you with eyes of love
and he wants to come into your
life to touch those broken
areas to pour in the oil and the
wine and to give you his
healing and restore you to wholeness and
health that is his desire do you know
the Bible says God wishes for you I wish
above all
things that you
prosper and be in health even as your
souls
Prosper because we know it’s never God’s
will in the very beginning when God made
Adam and
Eve God never made
man to be sick to become weak to grow
old and to die
was never his plan then why all these
things Pastor Prince why why all these
things happening well man sin against
God and sin brought all these things can
you see the drama of
Redemption how Jesus had to come and
during this Christmas time we are
reminded of the savior of all that
came the Bible says great is the mystery
of
godliness God
incarnate in
flesh and I see
him going about doing good and healing
all that were oppressed of the devil if
you find yourself oppressed you can’t
even explain I mean the doctors can just
give you medicine for your
depression but you are depressed and you
know that your mind goes into all kinds
of
Darkness all kinds of obsess obsessive
compulsive thoughts you cannot
control and you’re always feeling
discouraged Jesus can set you
free cuz I see
him just like by
Galilee by
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Galilee
Manuel
W and to the
broken and
humble he
T in streams of
beautyy
men could not
see
angels of
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Glory watching
over
him love has come
down love has come
down here the
joyful
sound
love has come
down You
Went
Away back to your
home but you have
said
we will never never
be
alone you sent your
spir
down from
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above your
holy
spirit Spirit
of
love love has come
down love has come
down tell it
all
around love him has come
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down love has come
down love has come
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down here the
joyful
s Love Has Come
down hear the
joyful
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sound love
has come
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down and his name
is Jesus
praise the Lord
hallelujah during this
Christmas may you find this wonderful
Jesus the son of the
father
real in your
life amen let’s start with some
scripture reading from the portion of
Christmas that we always read
from Luke chap two you ready it’s all up
here and it came to pass in those days
that a decree went out from Caesar
Augustus that all the world should be
registered Caesar Augustus was the
emperor of Rome at that
time this census first took place while
cinius was governing Syria so all went
to be registered everyone to his own own
City Joseph also went up From Galilee
out of the city of Nazareth into Judea
to the city of David which is called
Bethlehem because he was of the house
and lineage of David to be registered
with Mary his betro wife who was with
child so it was that while they were
there the days were completed for her to
be
delivered and she brought forth her
firstborn son and wrapped him in
swaddling cloths and laid him in a
Manger because there was no room for
them in the
Inn there was no room for them in the
Inn you know it starts off by telling us
about an
emperor in Rome making a decree
throughout his domain throughout his
kingdom that has to be obeyed in those
days he was The
Sovereign and the Roman Empire at the
time based on the prophecy of Daniel
being the
last Roman Empire the revived Roman
Empire that’s yet to come and we see
everything is converging now on Europe
and the Bible talks about a revived
Roman Empire but during that
time
during that time there was an emperor
who knew nothing about a carpenter in
Nazareth and the carpenter in
Nazareth knows nothing about the emperor
in
Rome but God moved in
Rome to move the
Carpenter and his wife who was now with
child to leave Nazareth to make that
Journey Journey Down south All the Way
to
Bethlehem now this is a beautiful lovely
story where every time we think about
Christmas we think of the beautiful
story
of God’s love for us and here in this
portion we
see
sovereignty
mystery and lovely
humility how God moved in
Rome just to move
a carpenter in
Nazareth All the Way to Bethlehem you
see Joseph and Mary they were from the
tribe of Judah their lineage both of
them came all the way
from the line of David in other words
David had two sons from which if you
trace down it goes all the way to Mary
on one hand and Joseph on the other yet
we see this love humility how Jesus was
born to a a parents that were poor at
this time even though they are of the
royal lineage because the
kingdom came to an end at the time when
they were taken away to
Babylon there was no more king of Israel
at that time from that time
on there was a governor from the Royal
line from which Jesus came from the line
of David who name was zeru Babel by the
time he came back but he didn’t come
back to become
king So by now this royal family has
become poor I I doubt that even the
people of Nazareth might know about
their genealogy the fact that they are
royal family we hear so much from
history right you all know that uh down
through history there are
stories of the sons or the daughters of
Emperors and kings
they dwindled into poverty and they end
up as servants or or beggar even in the
street you now you start thinking that
well the Bible says Jesus though he was
rich yet be he became poor yeah
initially they were poor but later on
when the wise men came and brought gold
silver not silver gold frankincense and
myrr you can say that later on when they
had to flee to go to Alex RA in
Egypt the baby
sponsored the
trip when Jesus comes into your life get
ready for an uplifting amen get ready
for you to experience the good life and
I’m not referring to things as just
material okay yes he can bless you with
those things because the Good Shepherd
said the Lord is my shepherd I shall not
lack David himself said that that Royal
child said early in his life before he
became king the Lord is my shepherd I
shall not lack you will not lack for
anything but more than anything else the
biggest hindrance between us and God is
our sin we’ve all
sinned I said we’ve all sin and come
short of the glory of God but back to
this lovely story we see this
sovereignty of God
moving this family this royal family now
poor right and uh Mary was now pregnant
in advanced stage so what would what was
she thinking of you know and this what
what was Joseph thinking of moving all
the way from Nazareth to Bethlehem it’s
a long arduous Journey a journey of
about 65 miles
all the way from
Nazareth in the North of Israel all the
way down through Jerusalem is about 65
miles and then from Jerusalem All the
Way South even to Bethlehem about five
another five to six
miles it’ll take probably about 3 to
four days for
someone walking probably Joseph was
walking and
Mary very
advanced in a pregnancy sitting on the
Donkey it’ll take about three to 4 days
but very arduous Journey along the way
there are also Perils of robbers and all
that of course we know God will make
sure he’s Angels is watching over them
but they had to make their way all the
way to Bethlehem why why take this
journey people around will say why take
this journey when your wife is so
advanced in her
pregnancy well because of all that
prophets prophesy that the baby will be
born this ruler who will Shepherd his
people is Israel will come forth from
Bethlehem you see there are two
Bethlehem in Israel for those who do not
know just let you know that there’s one
in Galilee very near to their Hometown
Nazareth all right but that’s not the
one that’s prophesied that Galilee is uh
that that Bethlehem is called Bethlehem
Galilee so there’s one Bethlehem near to
gal Nazareth called Bethlehem galit in
Hebrew but that’s not the one prophesied
by the prophets in Micah it was
prophesied that Jesus will come out of
Bethlehem
Ephrata and that’s Bethlehem Judah the
prophet Michael says this you Bethlehem
Ephrata this was written years before
Jesus was born in the Old Testament all
right it was prophesied by Michael the
prophet you Bethlehem Ephrata so it
locates the place it’s Bethlehem Judah
the same Bethlehem that David came out
of the same Bethlehem you have the
beautiful love story of Boaz and
Ruth that’s the same Bethlehem Bethlehem
Ephrata or Bethlehem
Judah okay though you are little among
the thousands of Judah yet out of you
shall come forth to me the one to be
ruler in Israel notice this whose goings
forth are from of old from Everlasting
so this baby is no ordinary baby this
baby he’s going forth is of all from
Everlasting the Bible says in Isaiah
9 verse six it says For unto us a child
is born unto us a son is
given he was the
son before he was a
child can you understand that as the son
he always with the
father but as a child he was born that
speaks of of his
Humanity the sun given the sun cannot be
born because the sun is deity God
himself the son was given but the child
was
born very beautiful in the very first
line we see the prophecy of
Isaiah a child for unto us a child is
born the son is given unto us a son is
given I love it
it’s very
beautiful Sometimes some of the things
we don’t understand like the the Virgin
birth the Bible says she brought forth
her son look at Luke two again and um it
says she brought forth a firstborn son
and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes laid him in a Manger because
there was no room for them in the
Inn no room for them in the Inn I was
reading this one one day and I realized
it does not say there was no room in the
Inn it’s all used up because during this
time is the the Feast of Tabernacles and
it’s one of the major feasts of Israel
and people from all over Israel and even
outside Israel the Jewish
proales and uh also the Jewish uh I
should say Gentile proelite those were
not Jews they will come in because they
believe in the god of Israel and they
will converge on jerus Jerusalem so
Bethlehem is about 5 6 miles just south
you imagine all the the whole entire
region all the hotels are
filled right in those days they don’t
have hotels they have Gest houses and
there’s one in Bethlehem a caravan Sur
in in those days they travel in groups
for safety okay so when they travel they
they come to a a location where they
stop you know when you travel right now
when you drive long Journeys there it’s
always a rest stop what a blessing isn’t
it and your wife will tell you okay uh 3
kilomet more we got to go we got to go
we got to go amen your son says I got to
go you know what that means right
because if not he says I told you I had
to
go that’s too late amen so you thank God
for the rest stop amen you can relax
stretch your legs if you’re driving I
love driving when I’m when I’m abroad I
love driving
in those days they have a place called
they call it Caravan Sarai where they
will just come and bring their donkey
some of them horses and they’ll bring
all their goods they put it right in the
center usually it’s like a you shap and
then uh they will stay inside those who
are wealthy of course will have rooms in
those buildings it’s called Caravan s
what is interesting is that this Inn in
in Bethlehem I can show you from
scripture that originally uh it belonged
to David David was born there how how
came it that David the king was born
there now he was born there he wasn’t a
king yet he was just a Shepherd boy from
a from a a Shepherd
family he was born there because he was
the great great grandson of Boaz and rof
you know the story of Boaz and rof amen
Ruth was not a Jew but through believing
in the god of Israel she became
a Jewish
proelite and from her came the royal son
and from
David came Jesus Christ the greatest son
of David amen so it was their home in
Bethlehem and where did this story
happen you can read all about it in the
Old Testament in that lovely little
small book in fact it takes just uh less
than an hour to read it in one seting
just just a few chapters but a lovely
story of
how a redeemer is needed when you have
lost everything you need someone from
your own
family in those days among the Jewish
people they have a law that if you have
become bankrupt if if uh your land is
forfeited you can have someone from your
own family to redeem for you the land
provided he has the
means
provided he is willing very important
not all relatives are willing you know
they say wealth is
relative more wealth more
relatives okay and he must be from your
family Circle in those days why did God
gave this law and this law was there in
the Old Testament it’s all about Jesus
it’s all about how Jesus will come part
of the human family number one he has to
be among
your family to be a
redeemer to redeem you out of your lost
state to redeem you out of your
bondage Amen to redeem you of all that
you have forfeited through your own
foolishness through your own
sins he can redeem what is lost you see
even healing is nothing more than
redeeming what was
lost
amen so another thing that relative must
be willing is Jesus willing oh yes how
willing like this on the cross and
that’s why he said for God so love the
world that he gave his only begotten son
that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have everlasting life he must
be willing does he have the
means yes oh how he says all power is
given unto me in heaven and on Earth he
went about and and with all the power he
has you know some people with just some
Authority some power they abused it to
enrich themselves they step down on
others they use others that people use
people to love
money when we should be loving people
and using money to bless
them but Jesus with all the power that
he has how does he use that power he
used the power to cleanse the leper to
Open the Eyes of the
blind to heal the sick even to raise the
dead which goes to tell us when he did
this and he did this so often three4 of
his ministry is in healing restoring
cleansing
forgiving that tells us that it is God’s
will that something has gone wrong with
mankind man has sinned and sin has
brought in disease destruction
depression becoming decrepit and finally
deaf it was never part of God’s plan God
calls death an enemy hence we have the
story of Christmas it’s all planned by
God Amen now God didn’t plan for men to
sin man chose to sin then you say why
didn’t God just stop men in fact my son
he has come to the age where he’s asking
questions so one time I was driving him
just me and him we have some time
together a few weeks ago abroad
somewhere I’ll bring him somewhere where
the girls are out my wife and my
daughter out
shopping I must teach him not to be
addicted to
shopping he’s got to do a man stuff you
know what do men do we go to amusement
park amen we go to Amusement Center amen
so on the way there he asked me
questions like Bible questions why
didn’t God just God knew what was going
to happen why didn’t he just stop man I
say huh that’s the thing
Justin do you want me to force you you
have no choice I program into you
something
that you are just nothing more than an
AI
robot nowadays you have robots bringing
you food right in the
restaurant I mean they are so smart they
know which table to go to amen would you
like to marry one of
them they will always obey you always
bring food for you some of them know how
to make good
coffee yeah they are bars who are robots
now they say that one day they’ll take
over our
jobs no there’s no substitute for human
intelligence it was a human intelligence
that produced the artificial
intelligence if there’s an artificial
intelligence there’s a real
intelligence right so I said would you
like to be a robot obeying me I tell you
what to do you do amen you will never
disobey me I will never be
disappointed right but is that what I
want is that what God wants God gave man
what a free choice if God made Man a
robot I tell you this if God made man
like an AI okay with
intelligence right but to obey him no
choice but to obey him like a robot no
free choice we won’t be in the
fall there’ll be no sickness there be no
disease so I I say to him is because God
really respect man’s free choice when
God saw Adam reaching out for that fruit
if God stop him he God says stop it I
have all power I can stop you anytime I
want is that giving the man the free
choice he says no say however you cannot
choose the result of your
choice you cannot say for example I put
my finger Into the
Fire okay I choose put to put my finger
finger in the fire but I don’t choose
burn no no if you put your finger in the
fire you choose
burn you understand so God gave the
choice to man if you sin against me in
the day that you do it you will surely
die now Adam didn’t die immediately but
he died spiritually why because you are
not just a body you are a spirit you are
a soul you live in a body this body is
your
house so God says the day that you sin
you will surely die in fact Adam lived
nearly a thousand
years but in the day a thousand years a
thousand uh uh a thousand years is like
to God one year I say a thousand years
it’s like to God one
day amen God doesn’t measure time the
way we measure time God is outside
time
amen so if you look at what is happening
in the world today you cannot blame God
you know someone got knocked down in uh
the street down there it’s a child the
child is innocent the child got knocked
down you don’t go to the minister of
transport and say what are you
doing
right there are laws There Are Rules
governing the whole thing that that
there are parents who are supposed to
tell the child what to do and and what
is the red light all about and what is
the green light for and what is the
amber light there for or you know there
are
rules you cannot just say you know
forget about the law of gravity and just
step out from a 50 story
building thou shall be
crushed
amen you cannot choose the result you
can choose the step out you cannot
choose the CH the the result of your
choice so hence the story just to let
you all know how complicated I get when
I explain to my son all right
so I
believe that if we can see things in its
perspective we understand what’s going
on in the world we won’t see this world
that we are living in as a perfect world
it’s not a perfect
world hey come on it’s not a perfect
world and you look at the people today I
mean they have so many more conveniences
modern conveniences we have have a
smartphone we have uh uh uh uh you know
automat hair dryer in those days you
just got to let your hair dry you know
and mean we got all kinds of we got we
got a social media we got uh we can
watch television live you know just live
somewhere you know somewhere in the
world is happening right now I can see
it in my box right I can see how menu
got defeated yesterday really bad you
know and I can see all that right no I
didn’t see it I was
asleep no it was earlier so I was still
awake prep preparing the message for you
all amen but I couldn’t stay up of
course for
Liverpool so don’t tell me the result
okay cuz I was
sleeping the things you
sacrifice to serve the
[Laughter]
Lord so God gave men a choice and man
chose the wrong thing hence the story of
what the history of men is all about
everyone dies it’s not God’s plan for
men to die but man dies the wages of sin
is
death you like wages
right yeah but the wages of sin is death
the Bible says that now God cannot say
you know okay Adam sin okay it’s okay
boys will be boys no no God is a god of
his word if God say something there is a
devil out there to make sure that God
keeps his word amen or else you will
challenge
God so how can God now bring sinful man
back into his presence man that he loves
so much Jesus himself out of Jesus own
mouth Jesus says for God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son
that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have everlasting life so
Jesus said God so loved the world God so
love
you you might not know it you are loved
God loves you and this love doesn’t
change because of your behavior you
cannot turn off God’s love but how can
God receive sinful man into his holy
presence because God is
Holy right Heaven is
perfect in fact if you enter Heaven
right now you’ll be miserable because
everything in heaven is perfect and you
are not is not in syn you got to be born
again Amen to relish the heavenly things
am amen are you with me so far so back
to the story of that Inn the Caravan
Sarai it was originally the house of
Boaz and Ruth and then David their great
grand grandson Royal
grandson David and then from David David
actually gave it to bazel a man who was
very kind to David when he was wandering
FL
and that man the elderly man who was a
wealthy man he was very kind to David
David gave to his son called
kimam that in that his own house that
lat on became to be known in the Old
Testament you can find this it began to
be called on the Way to Bethlehem there
is a kimam
Inn that word there is Caravan sorai
later on it became the center in
Bethlehem where people who travel for
you know pilgrimage to Jerusalem they
will sto there so you think about it
Mary and Joseph from the line of David
actually they they had the right to have
the presidential suite
there am I right but there was no room
for them in the end doesn’t say there’s
no room there’s no room for
them they’re poor you know one look at
them and you know you think about if I
give up that room somebody else might
come was able to pay for it so there’s
no room for
them in the Inn did they fight it did
they say you know don’t you know who I
am no this a beautiful picture of
humility if I were to write the story of
the Christmas it’ll be like this all
right on a mountain that was
glowing there was lightning and
thunder and there was a crack of of a
loud sound and all of a sudden you see a
strong being shining bright with a sword
is littering and he steps down he has
six no eight
packs and it comes down with big biceps
amen he takes off his Royal rope and he
says I’ve come to be a
[Laughter]
man you CA him at
least to be born if you want to be born
born in a
palace
but Jesus was so kind even to
Children he
chose to be a child to come from the
very beginning of Mankind’s life he
didn’t come just drop down you know even
to become a man he can just become a
full grown man isn’t
it like Adam Adam was created a full
grown man the very first
man but Jesus came not like Adam he came
as a child I think that’s lovely
humility it’s lovely humility you know a
child might might thinking does Jesus
understand me every stage you are at
Jesus understands you you got a child at
6 years old you can tell him Jesus was
Once Upon a Time 6 years
old amen if you a child that’s 12 years
old you can say Jesus one time was 12
years old in fact there’s a story of the
in the Bible where he was when he was 12
years old
they were astounded at his understanding
and
answers amen Jesus came as a child to go
through all the vicissitudes of human
life amen to sit where we
sit amen but he could choose to be born
in a palace with gilded ceiling pillars
of marble but he chose to be
born
not in a guest house in his rightful
home at least his ancestor home
ancestral
home but they say that you know but you
know what saying that your wife is so
Advanced and all that we’ll give you
where the cows are and where the U they
put the horses and the and the
donkeys you can find some place that can
lay your child to Lay Your Child So the
Bible says
amongst that stable which was a cave
actually in those days nearby to where
he was most houses then was also in a
cave
Jesus was
born here’s another beautiful lovely
humility the Son of God became the son
of
Mary the Ancient of
Days became an infant in
time Heaven of Heavens cannot contain
him but here he lies in a
Manger you know Mary probably picked him
up from the ground after he was born and
put him in a Manger a Manger is a
feeding Trout the place where the
animals would feed literally the word
manger the original word there it
actually says it has the idea of
eating so it tells you the place where
the animals would eat this wonderful
child this is Beautiful Jesus
he himself said later
on I am the bread of life he that eats
me will never
die believe thou this Jesus didn’t come
to set an
example primarily that’s not the purpose
for which he came to give us an example
or teaching that we should adopt and
follow and patn ourselves after no he
came that you might eat
him he came to be the the bread of life
unless you feed on him unless you
appropriate him there’s no life in
you many of us we want to follow Jesus I
I I I like his teachings I want to
follow his teachings his teachings
following trying to follow his teachings
cannot save
you it is Death At The Cross and it’s
resurrection that saves you
amen
amen and since we are on that none of us
can follow his teachings you know he say
love your
enemies H we got problem loving our
relative so you go by his teaching to
justify yourself we are all done
for you know Jesus preached a Sermon on
the Mount thank God after he preached a
Sermon on the Mount he came down to
where the people were if he didn’t come
down we all
finished he came down so that one day he
knows he was going to come back to us by
his holy spirit live in us and live out
the sermon of the mount for us
us as we rest in him amen none of us can
do it none of
us and if you criticize me for saying
that there you go he says also in the
sermon of the mouth don’t criticize your
neighbor judge not that you be not
judged
amen so a child is born a son is
given you know there are
11 ways the Bible refers to Jesus as the
son the son has the idea of deity he’s
the son of
God he is the son of the
father 10 to 11 ways 11 ways the Bible
describes him as a son son of God Son of
the father son of the highest son of the
Blessed these four refers to his
Heavenly origin his deity he’s the son
of Mary son son of Joseph son of the
carpenter these three refers to his
manhood his
humility and then the son of Abraham the
son of David the son of man this refers
to his
royalty and then the son of his
love as a Son of God he’s the son of God
people the Son of God eternally he the
son of the Father relationally the Son
of the highest
uniquely he’s a son of the Blessed
morally son of Mary
miraculously son of Joseph legally son
of the carpenter practically son of
Abraham prophetically son of David
royally son of men
dispensation the son of his love
intimately unto us a son is
given and everything revolves around him
once upon a
time the astronomers
thought that the Earth was the
center of the
system so they did all their
calculations based on
that that in the solar system the Earth
is a center So based on the center being
the Earth they did all their
calculations and as you know all their
calculations fail all the calculations
did not add
up everything failed why they had the
center wrong now we know and later on
the astronomers discovered what we know
now it’s very it’s all very
simple Earth is not the center the sun
is the center and when the sun is the
center everything even the
calculations everything falls into
place the Bible says of Jesus that all
things were made by him Colossians
chapter 1 for through him God created
everything in the Heavenly Realms and on
Earth he made the things we can see and
the things we can’t see such as Thrones
kingdoms rulers and authorities in the
Unseen World everything was created
through him and for
him he he existed before anything else
and he holds all creation together
Christ is also the head of the church
which is his body he is the beginning
Supreme Over All Who rise from the dead
so he is first in everything all things
were created by Him you saw that let’s
look at the verse again for through him
God created everything all things were
made by
Christ and he goes on to say everything
was created through him and for him
not just that he holds all things
together look at this he existed existed
before anything else so before he was
the child that was born he’s a son
always dead with the
father and he holds all creation
together whenever I think of Mary
holding that baby close to her heart I
think of the one the helpless bab looks
so helpless Mary holds
him the one who holds all all things
together this is lovely humility we
don’t ask you to understand it we don’t
ask you to explain it we just ask you to
come and worship him we bow before this
beauty see I
I I don’t I don’t care whether you’re
talking about study of scripture
whether the arrangement of your life The
Ordering of your family your
home put Christ in the
center when the center is wrong nothing
Falls in place am nothing
prospers when Christ is the
center everything falls into
place he holds all things together
that’s why a marriage must have a thir
thir party the Lord Jesus
Christ amen every successful marriage
must have a third party if I take from
you I take from you and you take from me
you take from me we take from each other
we’re going to kill each
other if not
physically verbally in our hearts will
end up because we are not meant to live
without him being in the center of our
marriage or the center of our Lives you
know when when when when when uh they
use the word uh
integrated it means what everything is
in its place
integrated in Israel there’s a very
beautiful expression you will hear
people saying when they greet you they
say shalom and when they leave they say
shalom when they are really excited
they’ll say shalom shalom or they didn’t
see you for a long time they say shalom
shalom twice shalom in our words
wholeness is a beautiful picture of
Peace that’s how they say it in Hebrew
Jesus native tongue right they say it
Shalom say shalom shalom peace on Earth
shalom shalom means wholeness integrated
everything is in its place in other
words if your body is in Shalom there’s
no part sick there’s no part disease if
your mind your soul is in Shalom you
have peace of mind no part
depressed no no part is obsessed with
dark compuls sa thoughts and
imaginations shalom shalom shalom for
your outside Shalom for your
inside and if you know that
verse that says trust in the thou will
keep him in perfect peace whose mind is
stayed on Thee I us the wonder what the
word perfect peace peace I know is
Shalom what is perfect peace in the
Bible thou will keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on Thee Well
if you look at the original it says you
will keep him in perfect peace you will
keep him in shalom
Shalom to God that’s perfect peace would
you say so if you’re complete on the
outside and complete on the
Insight that’s what God God wants for
you only when we keep our mind on him
when our lives revolve around him what
about your life
today sovereignty his power can come
into your life and arrange that even
someone doesn’t know you can make
decisions that will influence you in
your humble
situation amen and there’s a
mystery a virgin shall be with
tri or we can discuss all about you know
the fact that well how can a virgin have
a child and not we’re not call us to
understand we’re
asked to just bow before
it today
even based on Modern discoveries and all
that they realize that the placenta of
the baby brings in the oxygen
nourishment from the mother amen into
the child and the child’s waves and all
that goes back through through the
placenta but never during that time does
the mother’s blood and the baby’s blood
mix we’ve discovered that but what a
beautiful picture that confirms that the
Blood of Mary that was sinful because
everyone sinned have
sinned but this
baby is called the holy Thing by the
angel he has no sin but if you think
that the placenta of Mary brought in sin
through her blood none of the blood
comes into the baby
Hallelujah all the blood in Jesus is in
him to be shed on the cross to wash away
your
sins his Royal Blood is Holy Blood can I
have a good amen no wonder the Apostle
Paul says to put him in the center he
says this at the end the climax of uh
Romans 11 he concludes like this for of
him and through him and to him are all
things to whom be glory forever amen for
of him that means the source must be
from him amen through him means the
channel is also through him and to him
is the object it’s all to him if you
leave your life like that you are living
your life the way God wants you to live
and you’ll find everything will fall
into place amen may you find the Son of
God real in your life during this time
don’t forget the reason why he died on
the cross the Bible says it’s as if God
was looking for this opportunity and I
close with this that at the culmination
of all the ages the age of the law the
age of dispensation of of Innocence the
dispensation of government everything
comes to an a a hit here in Hebrews 9 it
says but now once for all time Jesus has
appeared at the end of the age and this
word age here is in plural all the ages
combined came to the final
culmination why he appeared why at this
time to remove sin by his own death as a
sacrifice and just as each person is
destined to die hey hello 100 years from
now not a single person here still be
alive we can try not talk about it don’t
want to focus on
it Christmas Day you talk about death
but we need to we need to be reminder
because it’s a reminder of
Love prepare yourself for a Christian
the Bible use the word fall asleep they
don’t die and anyway we’re not looking
down for the believer the right the
right posture Bible posture to take is
not looking down to the Grave looking up
to the sky he’s coming back for us as we
shall see ly in this portion and just as
each person is destined to die once and
after that comes judgment so also Christ
was offered once for all time as a
sacrifice to take away the sins of many
people he will come again he will come
again he will come again not to deal
with our sins now his first coming was
to deal with our sins he died on the
cross that’s why he died on the cross
all right he bore all our sins so that
you and I can be forgiven you can you
and I can be justified by faith not by
our our performance or our
works amen but when it comes again it is
not to deal with our sins so many
Christians are so afraid that when Jesus
comes again you know I’m still not
perfect I’m not this I’m not that hey
he’s not come to deal with your
sins when he comes again he’s going to
come to be the ruler of
all amen after so many thousands of
years of man’s rule he’s going to show
us what the rule of the Son of God is
going to be
light amen so Al Christ was offered once
for all time as a sacrifice to take away
the sins of many people he will come
again not to deal with our sins but to
bring Salvation now this word salvation
is a bodily
salvation even our bodies will be saved
the Bible says when Jesus comes again
amen all of us will receive instantly
our brand new bodies a body that will
never grow old never become sick again
never feel bored never fall asleep when
the pastor is preaching and and a body
that will live forever and forever young
forever healthy Forever Strong forever
is quite a long time and whoever
believes this son of God says whoever
believes in him should not perish but
have everlasting life amen put Jesus in
the center of your life amen every hate
every eye closed just for a moment all
right just remain in your position just
for a moment pray this prayer with me
we’ll dismiss you a beautiful sound we
have a treat for you if you stay back I
promise you you’re going to see a treat
right in the midst of us okay
something’s going to
happen now if you have never put your
trust in Christ the Bible says believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall
be saved in your house your whole family
if you confess with your mouth Jesus
Christ is your lord accept him believe
on him and believe that God raised him
from the dead today if you go to Israel
there is an empty tomb Jesus rose from
the dead why I told you just now death
is an enemy so God also has a deal with
death and he conquered death that’s why
for a Christian there’s no death you may
fall asleep if Jesus Waits before he
comes again during our time there’ll
come a time we just fall
asleep that’s a that’s a term the Bible
use and we wake up in
heaven so Jesus rose from the dead if
you believe that the Bible says you
shall be safe pray this prayer with me
if that is you you want to put your
trust in Christ pray this prayer with me
from your heart say heavenly
father I thank
you Christ died for my sins
and you raised him from the
dead when I was
acquitted when I was
justified in him Jesus Christ is my Lord
and my savior now and forever fill me
now with your Holy
Spirit and give me the wonderful
Abundant Life in jesus’ name and all the
people said amen amen if you pred prayer
do a big wave yeah praise the Lord if
you pred prayer do a big wave praise God
praise God you just want me to see yeah
do a big wave okay I promise you a treat
okay okay the treat is we’re going to
sing you a Christmas song okay stand to
your
feet he your treat is still
coming Merry
Christmas
Merry Christmas to all of you Merry
Christmas everyone and I wish you um a
very blessed
2024 uh have a confident expectation of
good the Lord is faithful amen amen
amen like promise something is going to
happen okay don’t look around you
something’s going to happen Okay but we
wish you Amic
Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas
we wish you a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New
Year we wish you a Merry Christmas we
wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year we wish you a merry
Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas
we wish you a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New
Year and a
happy New
Year can you hear the
[Music]
bells
everybody likes to take a Hol
day everybody likes to take some
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rest spending time together with the
family sharing lots of love and
happiness come on ring those
Bell like the Christmas
tree Jesus is the
King born for you and
me come on ring those
bells everybody
say Jesus we remember this your
birthday celebration come because of
something good something celebrate
we love to
[Music]
recall Mary had a baby born in
[Applause]
Bethlehem great a celebration of them
all come on R those
Bell like the Christmas
tree Jesus is the
king Bor for you and me
come on rain those
bells everybody
say Jesus we remember this your birth
come on Rainbow’s Bell come on
rainbow around the Christmas
tree Jesus is the
King born for you and
me come on ring those Fair
everybody
say Jesus we remember this your
birthday Jesus we remember this your
[Music]
birthday he Here Comes Your
treat so I’m
dreaming of the white Christmas
just like the ones I never
knew
I’m
dreaming of a
wine
christas just like the ones I used to
know where the
tree t
listen and
children
listen to
hear slay bells in the snow once a
[Music]
year dreaming of the
wi
christma
with every Christmas car i
r may your days be
merry and
bright and may
all your
Christmases be one
[Music]
though your sins be as scalid they shall
be whiter than
snow
amen I’m so sorry some of you got it
really heavy on
you okay my son is telling me there’s
someone wearing a Liverpool
Jersey You’ll Never Walk
Alone Val’s na d
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[Music]
how want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas from the bottom of my heart I
want to wish you I want to wish you a
Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas from the bottom of my heart
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
is
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas I
want to wish you a Merry Christmas I
want to wish you a Merry Christmas from
the bottom of my
heart I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a merry
Christmas from the bottom of my
heart I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas from the bottom of my
[Applause]
heart amen God bless
you
Hallelujah the Lord Lord bless you and
the Lord keep you throughout this
week the Lord make his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you the Lord
lift up his countenance on you and Grant
to you and yours his Shalom
peace
amen amen I hope you enjoyed today’s
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