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Christmas Presence [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, family, Good morning God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning Devo. A new week, a new day,
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  Speaker 1: a new start. Amen. And we're in the Christmas season
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  Speaker 1: from the time of this recording, a man, If that
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  Speaker 1: matters to anybody. A lot of people take Christmas season
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  Speaker 1: as pagan, ritualistic holiday season, but I take it as
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  Speaker 1: us a way to celebrate the Lord Jesus. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to give me a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate the Lord Jesus. We're gonna celebrate his birth right,
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  Speaker 1: his life, his death, and his resurrection. We're gonna celebrate
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  Speaker 1: that daily because he is the ultimate good, a man.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only one who is good. He is God alone,
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  Speaker 1: a man, and he is worthy of our honor, worship,
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  Speaker 1: and our praise. So it is what it is Christmas season. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Today I'm calling this one Christmas presence. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: presents like gifts. It's presence. P R E s E
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  Speaker 1: n c E. Amen, p R E s E n
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  Speaker 1: c E Christmas presence. So we know, right, we're in
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  Speaker 1: a time that a lot of hustle and bustle for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of families are stressed
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  Speaker 1: out during the season because of whatever reason. It could
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  Speaker 1: be of lack of finances, it could be maybe they
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  Speaker 1: don't have the holiday spirit in them, Amen, maybe they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand what Christmas really is all about. Or maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're just a scrooge like I sometimes get right because
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  Speaker 1: the commercialism of the season. But biblically, Amen, it's okay
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate the Lord Jesus and his birth. I know
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't say that we should celebrate his birthday or
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  Speaker 1: his birth, Amen. But the Lord himself Amen, is so
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  Speaker 1: good that he's worthy to be celebrated. He's worthy to
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  Speaker 1: be honored, He's worthy, worthy, worthy to be praised. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm dodging words here because it's early in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: But in the season filled with shopping lists, right, you
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  Speaker 1: might have a shopping lift if you're blessed enough amen,
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  Speaker 1: to have the financial you know, blessing to have a
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  Speaker 1: large shopping list. You have travel plans, if you're blessed
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  Speaker 1: enough to be traveling and wrapping paper, right, you want
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  Speaker 1: to wrap the gifts. We can easily chase the presence
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  Speaker 1: and miss the presence. And man, we can easily chase
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  Speaker 1: after the gifts and miss the presence of Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Miss the presence of God in the season. Miss the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Lord, the Christ of Christmas. Amen, Sis Jumaane,
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  Speaker 1: I see you. Good morning, God blessed your sister Joanne.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you in the morning, devo. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, let's go for it. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew chapter one, verse number twenty three. If you
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  Speaker 1: have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along
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  Speaker 1: There's a live chat there. There's an interactive Bible right
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  Speaker 1: to our podcast, a way to subscribe to our YouTube channel,
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  Speaker 1: those platforms as well. A man trying my best here.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for it. We're gonna pray first. After
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  Speaker 1: we pray with shit us out for like sixty seconds, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And on the other side of those sixty seconds, we'll
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  Speaker 1: hit up Matthew chapter one, verse number twenty three. You ready,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready. Let's go for it. Father. I think thank
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  Speaker 1: you that this is your season, this is your holiday.
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  Speaker 1: You deserve all the glory, you deserve, all the celebration,
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  Speaker 1: all the word, worthy of all the praise, honor, respect. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It is about you, Lord Jesus, not about a Christmas tree,
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  Speaker 1: not about the gifts, not about Santa Claus, none of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about your birth, your life, your death, and
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  Speaker 1: your resurrection. Amen. You are the message of good News.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospels all about you, and the prophets and the
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  Speaker 1: Old Covenant prophesied about what you were going to do
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  Speaker 1: when you were going to be born and what place
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  Speaker 1: you were going to be born, Amen, And that you
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  Speaker 1: completed those prophecies because you are the completion of Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God for your just your gift,
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  Speaker 1: and your presence that brings liberty, that brings freedom, that
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  Speaker 1: brings encouragement, that brings love, that brings grace, that brings mercy.
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  Speaker 1: That you're the only one that could save our souls
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  Speaker 1: and satisfy our souls and give us the abundant life
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  Speaker 1: to live on this side of eternity. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, we would serve you. I thank you, Lord
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  Speaker 1: God for the gift of service, for the gift of faith.
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  Speaker 1: And I pray, Lord God, I had your protection over us,
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  Speaker 1: for my brothers and sisters here in the country, in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, and all around the world. I pray
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  Speaker 1: had your protection over myself, my wife, our children, our
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  Speaker 1: grandchildren right now, our family members, my mom, my mother
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  Speaker 1: in law, those who are still alive as parents in
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  Speaker 1: our family, a man from the very oldest to the
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  Speaker 1: very youngest, and every single person in between. And I
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  Speaker 1: pray this very same prayer deadly for all those who
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  Speaker 1: are listening and watching right now, for every single person
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  Speaker 1: that's listening on the other side of this mic and
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  Speaker 1: watching and listening on the other side of the screen,
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  Speaker 1: and the powerful matchless the name above every name, name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray this by faith
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  Speaker 1: and those who agree, we say Amen to the Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Help me share this out. See seconds. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: We'll get right into today's Morning Devo. I'll be right
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  Speaker 1: back all right, Man, I got caught up sharing for
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  Speaker 1: those groups. Thank you for the groups. Allow me to
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  Speaker 1: share this out. We've got a lot of groups coming
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  Speaker 1: God bless you as well. Thank you for coming to
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. My friend, it's good to see you
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Devo. Amen. Thank you Team Jesus, Amen
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  Speaker 1: for allowing us to share this on your group. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Who got some more groups coming in? Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful for that. It helps out the cause
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  Speaker 1: of what we're trying to do. Basically, what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do here on the Morning Devo A man, we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to encourage people to get into the world of
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  Speaker 1: God for themselves, Amen, so that way they can experience
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  Speaker 1: the power of God's word that's alive act of sharpening
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  Speaker 1: at any double ed sword. The power of God's Word
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  Speaker 1: is able to transform and renew and restore and redeem.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a way of introduction to those who don't
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  Speaker 1: know the Lord Jesus. Amen. From Genesis to Revelation, the
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  Speaker 1: main main character, the main person is the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: so they will get an experience by way of Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you. That's the
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  Speaker 1: their page as well, So shout out to all the groups. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Smith's presence. That's what today's morning devo is called. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be in Matthew chapter number one, verse number twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get that ready for the screen. For those
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  Speaker 1: who are listening, no worries, no problems. I understand that
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  Speaker 1: you're just listening, Amen, audio. But we're gonna start watching.
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  Speaker 1: For those who are watching, Amen, we're gonna read a
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  Speaker 1: word for words so that way you won't miss out
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  Speaker 1: on anything that we're doing or anything that we're saying. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Christmas Presents. Amen, p R E S
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  Speaker 1: E n c E. Presence like the presence of the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Presence of the Lord. So let's go for it. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, verse twenty three. The Bible says, behold, the
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  Speaker 1: virgin shall be with child and give birth to a son,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means when
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  Speaker 1: it's translated, God with us. Amen. And of course this
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  Speaker 1: was prophesied in Isaiah chapter seven, verse number fourteen, the virgin.
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  Speaker 1: We know who that virgin is now marry, will be
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  Speaker 1: with child. We know who that child is now, right.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is a prophetic moment. This is a prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that did not happen, but was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Amen. And it wasn't a New Testament prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: It was a repeat of an Old Testament prophecy. A
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  Speaker 1: man a message from God's Angel, a man, a message
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  Speaker 1: from the prophetic power of God's powerful word. Amen, that
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  Speaker 1: this virgin married shall be with child. See be with
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  Speaker 1: child and give birth to a son, and they shall
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  Speaker 1: call his name, And they, meaning Joseph Mary shall call
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  Speaker 1: his name Emmanuel. Interesting, right, when translated means God with us.
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  Speaker 1: So God's word is honest. God's word is clear. God's
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  Speaker 1: word is prophetic, right, not pathetic, but prophetic and God's
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  Speaker 1: promises in God's ways, and God's tremendous love and grace
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  Speaker 1: for his people, for his children, for his creation. It
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  Speaker 1: is what it is according to God's powerful word. So
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  Speaker 1: we can trust in God's word. We can rely on
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  Speaker 1: God's word a man. We could add to Jesus by
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  Speaker 1: way of Holy Spirit to give us an understanding of
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  Speaker 1: his word during this Christmas season, because it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. I agree when people say, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not supposed to worship the things that God created, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's in the scripture. But we're supposed to worship the
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  Speaker 1: creates horror more than the creation a man. We're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to come together to unite and love and unify. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in unity for one purpose, one plan, one kingdom, one God,
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  Speaker 1: one faith. Amen. Because we are destined. Our destiny has
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  Speaker 1: been changed. We were on our way to a place
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  Speaker 1: separated from the Lord Jesus Christ for all eternity since birth.
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  Speaker 1: And then God gave us the opportunity to repent, to
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  Speaker 1: turn from our wicked ways. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't think this is fair. A lot of people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: say this is not well because we have to do
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  Speaker 1: this listen. Now, one person who is saved, that is
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  Speaker 1: honestly saved right, can say that they were forced into
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. None of us could say that
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  Speaker 1: God gave us an opportunity, a way to connect with
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  Speaker 1: Him and repentance, which means turning from our wicked ways
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  Speaker 1: right and changing our mind and turning to the righteous one.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus. Admitting that we need we are sinners,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to be forgiven for our sins, asks Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord who forgives sins, to forgive you. He will
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  Speaker 1: place his spirit to live inside of you, a man,
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  Speaker 1: holy spirit God, and then you will be confessing the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior. Everywhere
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  Speaker 1: you go, whether it's by doing what I'm doing right
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  Speaker 1: here on this platform, whether it's by gesture or hug,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's by preaching the Gospel in the streets, highways
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  Speaker 1: and byways. Amen, whether it's going to church and looking
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  Speaker 1: for unbelievers inside the church building. Yes, inside the church building,
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  Speaker 1: because we are the church. And to go ahead and evangelize, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: like I do a church. Amen, I look for people
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  Speaker 1: who are maybe disconnected when I try to come along
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  Speaker 1: them whether it's in silent prayer. Sometimes you know they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be close to anybody at that time. Amen. Physically,
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  Speaker 1: but the presence of the Lord, Amen, Holy Spirit. God
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  Speaker 1: will guide you to the people that need to hear
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  Speaker 1: His word, his message. Maybe you'll even get a prophetic message,
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  Speaker 1: word of knowledge for that person for that time, for
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  Speaker 1: that season, Amen, during this Christmas season, during this holiday season,
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  Speaker 1: it might be something that someone has been praying about,
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  Speaker 1: and God will be answering the prayer through you or
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  Speaker 1: through me, Amazing Amen. So Christmas presence. Christmas is just
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  Speaker 1: about the gifts under the tree, right, It's about the
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  Speaker 1: God who hung on a tree so he could be
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  Speaker 1: with us forever. So the symbolization of the Christmas tree
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  Speaker 1: a man, you could change your perception and you could
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  Speaker 1: change the idea of that symbol, and you can remind
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  Speaker 1: yourself that there was one a perfect gift, a man,
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  Speaker 1: perfect sacrifice, the perfect one was hung on a tree,
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  Speaker 1: a man of some wood. A man is a metaphor
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  Speaker 1: because he was placed on a wooden rugged cross an
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  Speaker 1: my Jehovah witness friends think he was placed on the
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  Speaker 1: steak with his wrists, you know, above his head. We
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  Speaker 1: as believers in Christ, Jesus, we think he was stretched out.
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  Speaker 1: Descripture more honestly says he was stretched on crucifixion, a
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  Speaker 1: crucified stretched out. But he is that Jesus Christ was
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  Speaker 1: hung on a tree to sacrifice his own life, to
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  Speaker 1: lay down his life for us, for we could forever
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  Speaker 1: be with him. A man, he bridged the gap between
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  Speaker 1: God and man. Right, he created a way for redemption,
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  Speaker 1: for us to get redeemed. A man. He created a
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  Speaker 1: way for us to be forgiven for our sins. A man.
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  Speaker 1: And he's the real true reason for Christmas. But Christmas
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  Speaker 1: presence like somebody that's presence, not presents under the tree,
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  Speaker 1: but presence a man. His presence is felt throughout the
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  Speaker 1: whole entire world. When you experience God a man, you
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  Speaker 1: know for sure that he is the one that's presenting himself.
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  Speaker 1: He is the one who is there, Jehovah Shamer, the
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  Speaker 1: God who is there. He is the one who is Love,
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  Speaker 1: the God of love, the God is love, right, God
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  Speaker 1: is love a man. You experience that so Jesus. We
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  Speaker 1: know because of the scripture was prophesied and the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Isaiah and other places throughout the scriptures from the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: But he was prophesied Amen to be the coming Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: the savior of the world, a man where he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be born, a man of the virgin birth.
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  Speaker 1: This was all prophesied before it happened. Isaiah. They say
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  Speaker 1: between seven hundred, eight hundred, maybe even nine hundred years
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  Speaker 1: before Jesus stepped on the scene. The prophet Isaiah was
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  Speaker 1: used by God to prophesied the coming Messiah. So we
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  Speaker 1: know that the virgin is married, and we know that
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  Speaker 1: she was conceived, that she conceived, will conceive, and she
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  Speaker 1: has conceived and gave birth to a son, and that
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  Speaker 1: son was named Emmanuel. Jesus God with us. So Jesus
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  Speaker 1: didn't come to bring a moment. He came to bring himself.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't come to bring a present for your Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 1: He came to bring himself. Not a temporary feeling, right,
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  Speaker 1: but a permanent promise. Right. It's not a temporary fix,
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  Speaker 1: it's a permanent right fix for our lives. Not a
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  Speaker 1: temporary feeling, but a permanent promise. Not a seasonal tradition.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is where people get stuck and hung
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  Speaker 1: up on. Well. The tradition. The traditions are man made,
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  Speaker 1: and traditions are pagan and this that and the third
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  Speaker 1: you know, and ba humbug and all that stuff. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I could get trapped into being a scrooge myself.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm realizing more and more that if I keep
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  Speaker 1: my focus in any holiday season on the purpose and
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  Speaker 1: the plan of God in my life and through my life,
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  Speaker 1: and for your life as well. Amen, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You start realizing that, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to celebrate our savior because we were saved
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  Speaker 1: because he saved us. It's okay to celebrate our eternal
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  Speaker 1: life because he's the one who offered it to us.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to celebrate his birth because if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for his birth and the way he was birthed into
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  Speaker 1: this world, Amen, we wouldn't have the Gospel message if
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't for his life, if it wasn't for his death,
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for his resurrection, we wouldn't have anything
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a value, right. But we have a
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  Speaker 1: risen savior, Amen, And during any season, it's okay to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the Lord Jesus Yeshi. Wahamashi. Amen. He is the
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  Speaker 1: anointed son of God. He is the completion of Jehovah,
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  Speaker 1: the completion of Yahweh. Amen. He is the one that
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  Speaker 1: was prophesied and fulfilled the prophecy when he showed up
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  Speaker 1: on a scene and on that cross. Theologians say that
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  Speaker 1: he completed over three hundred prophecies. I believe a man
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  Speaker 1: on the cross right then and there, and his prophecies
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  Speaker 1: yet to happen, a man in God's way of thinking,
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  Speaker 1: it already has happened. But in our way of seeing
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  Speaker 1: life in real time, as we're in this time that
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  Speaker 1: we're still waiting for the comeback. Amen. The Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: practiced open the sky and to come back for his church.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, less celebrate the fact that He is
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  Speaker 1: present in our hearts and in our minds and in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. Amen. In our families, it's not about what
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  Speaker 1: we have under the tree or what we don't have
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  Speaker 1: under the tree. During Christmas season, is about the one
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  Speaker 1: who is hung on the tree, the Promised Messiah, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the one who provides for every single one of our knees,
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  Speaker 1: Jehovah Jabra Amen. We don't want to miss that presence.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to miss his presence. Amen. So let's
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  Speaker 1: go for it. So this Christmas, just take it slow,
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  Speaker 1: slow down right, breathe, Remember, don't get into the hustle
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  Speaker 1: and bustle of I have to get all these things.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that it's a struggle for you right
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  Speaker 1: now financially or maybe you feel like, man, I just
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  Speaker 1: lost the loved one during the season. I need to
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  Speaker 1: just tone it down, amen. I don't want to overwhelm myself.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. People grieve differently, people you know, respond differently
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  Speaker 1: to certain situations in life. But I don't think God
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  Speaker 1: wants us to be stressed out during what it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a joyous season. He doesn't want to stressed
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  Speaker 1: out because we can't do x y Z. I used
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  Speaker 1: to go bonkers and be really guilty for not being
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  Speaker 1: able to get every single person in my family, especially
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  Speaker 1: the kids, something a gift. Amen. And I was creating
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  Speaker 1: scenarios in my mind about the parents telling me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't even give my kid XYZ and never had
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  Speaker 1: that conversation. Maybe those conversations are in their minds, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But I have a simple answer. I don't have it
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  Speaker 1: all I don't have it all financially, but I do
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  Speaker 1: have it all in Christ. Amen. So it shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: offensive to no one or anyone. If you can't do
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  Speaker 1: something as a gift, amen to someone else. But if
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  Speaker 1: they connect with you and contact you, or if you
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  Speaker 1: connect with the children, we have a gift, ultimate gift.
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  Speaker 1: They might not understand it, they might not like it
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  Speaker 1: at the time, but you have the gift of the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel to share with every single child in your family. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And that doesn't cost you anything, and God will bless
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  Speaker 1: you for that. Amen. I know I've been blessed for
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  Speaker 1: sharing the Gospel to the younger people in my family. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Whether they believe it or not sometimes yet to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: But the point is that we have a gift that
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  Speaker 1: keeps on giving. The purpose and promises of God. A
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  Speaker 1: man is evident in the life of all his children,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus Christ is the only one that gives us
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  Speaker 1: the right to be called sons of God. To the
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  Speaker 1: right to be called children of God is only because
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  Speaker 1: of what he did and his presence. When Jesus shows
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  Speaker 1: up by way of his spirit, when the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is in the building, when the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is in your home, in your workplace, in
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  Speaker 1: your school. There is power, there's liberty, there's love, there's grace,
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  Speaker 1: there's mercy. His presence outweighs any presence that you could
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  Speaker 1: put under the tree a man, or you could give
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  Speaker 1: to anybody physically a man. We have the power of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel that lives within us and through us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So this Christmas, just take it slow, slowed down, breathe
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  Speaker 1: and remember you don't have to earn God's presence. His
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  Speaker 1: presence like Jehovah Shaman. He is the God who is here.
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  Speaker 1: He is the God who is there. He is present. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to earn that. You can't earn it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You can't earn God's favor. You can't do enough good
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  Speaker 1: works to get into heaven. Amen. Perfect people will be
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. And you're gonna say I already hear it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's perfect, sam, So how to we get into heaven.
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  Speaker 1: It's called grace. God's riches at Christ's expense. It's called grace. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to find good people in heaven. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to find saved people in heaven. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to find imperfect people. In heaven. You're going to find
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  Speaker 1: perfect people in heaven. God's looking for his perfect people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Which when we're born again literally or supernaturally, we are
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  Speaker 1: being perfected. So that way when we get to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be perfect, just the way God planned it. Amen. Perfect,
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  Speaker 1: so perfect people will be in heaven. That's right. I
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  Speaker 1: said it. You could look it up in the scriptures. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not because of anything we could do. Is
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  Speaker 1: all because of God's grace. Sister Joanne says, sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: ask myself when I go into a store, I find
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  Speaker 1: a store empty. When I turn around, I see the
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  Speaker 1: store so full behind me. When I'm in line and
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  Speaker 1: people come and left and them right, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people say that I bring that I bring to
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  Speaker 1: people there. Amen. Maybe you do phraise the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever you go, Amen, the power of God goes. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe you are attracting people to those stories, so the
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  Speaker 1: stories could be blessed as well. Thank you for sharing that.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. So you don't have to search for God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: God's presence is within you if you're born again. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is, if you're not born again, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that means. That means you're saved by God's
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  Speaker 1: grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone a man. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't taken care of that, and you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the whole, you know Christian communities around you, Amen, celebrating
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  Speaker 1: this Lord, this Jesus, this Messiah, the Baby Jesus. You're
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  Speaker 1: seeing all of that happening, but yet you can't connect. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Care of that right now? Take care of that today. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Get into a personal relationship with the power of God
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  Speaker 1: through his spirit because of what the Son Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: on that cross a cavalry. Amen. So how do you
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  Speaker 1: do that? You just admit that you need to be
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  Speaker 1: forgiven for your sins. Just ad minute, go to the
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  Speaker 1: one who can forgive you, which is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He hears you, Amen, if you have an open, honest heart,
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  Speaker 1: he will hear you. Amen. He will not turn his
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  Speaker 1: back on you. He will welcome you into his presence,
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  Speaker 1: welcome you into His kingdom. Amen. And now you will
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  Speaker 1: be filled with His Holy Spirit. And then he will
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  Speaker 1: take it from there. You and Holy Spirit God, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of God, who leads you into all truth, just
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  Speaker 1: the way he leads me into all truth. And every
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  Speaker 1: single one of the believers right there in this world
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast, in this live Amen. People that are
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  Speaker 1: coming later to watch or listen, that are born again
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  Speaker 1: can testify that the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit God will
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  Speaker 1: lead us, Amen, into all truth. Never will the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit lead us since to sin. Never will the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit lie to us. Never will the Holy Spirit put
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  Speaker 1: us in darkness. Never will the Holy Spirit leave us
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  Speaker 1: in lack. Never will the Holy Spirit forget about His
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  Speaker 1: promises through his word for us, And he will remind
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  Speaker 1: us of what we need to know according to his word,
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  Speaker 1: his plan, his purpose for every single one of us, individually, corporately. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing, amazing God that we have. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to earn God's presence, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to search for it, you don't have to qualify for it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Who does the qualifications? God himself will qualify you, qualify
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  Speaker 1: me to do the works for His kingdom. A man
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  Speaker 1: to use us, to be with us, a man to
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  Speaker 1: be in us because of his presence. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Christmas presence, not presents like under the tree, not presence
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  Speaker 1: that you amen, and give to somebody. A man's talking
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  Speaker 1: about his presence when he shows up, Jehovah Shama, when
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  Speaker 1: God shows up, when he is here, When he's there,
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  Speaker 1: there's something that's going to happen in your life. There's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be changed. It's gonna be celebration, is gonna be grace,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be mercy. It's going to be joy during
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  Speaker 1: the season. Right, Joy to the world. Right. The joy
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is our strength. We have it so
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  Speaker 1: unwrapped the moment, because the moment we have right now
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  Speaker 1: is because of the gift that God has given us.
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  Speaker 1: So unwrap that moment, receive his peace. The world has
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  Speaker 1: this phony peace that the world offers, and it's always
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the world's way of offering peace,
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  Speaker 1: it always has to do with something materialistic, something that
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  Speaker 1: you have to do, something that you have to earn,
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  Speaker 1: something that you have to do to get. But God says,
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  Speaker 1: I already did all the doing, so now you do
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  Speaker 1: all the getting. We're blessed. Amen. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: Religion says you have to do do. The Gospel message
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  Speaker 1: says it's already done. Amen. So don't think about being qualified.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, that you have to do something to
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  Speaker 1: qualify God already has qualified you and me, because the
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  Speaker 1: greatest gift is already here, God with us, Emmanuel, God
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  Speaker 1: for us right on the cross, and God in us
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. So unwrap the moment, receive his peace, rest
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  Speaker 1: in his love, and carry His presence wherever you go. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the message that I'm trying to give you, Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: chapter one. Read the whole chapter for yourself. We hung
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  Speaker 1: out at verse number twenty three, but I'm out of
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  Speaker 1: time here. Amen, since the joys. Good morning, God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning devo, my sister and my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the blessing to the group and for
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  Speaker 1: this week. Amen. I receive that. Amen and Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all. Thank you so much for coming
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  Speaker 1: through to these morning DeVos. God bless you, God keep you,
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  Speaker 1: and remember always always remember this that God is good. Peace.