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Meditations on That Holy Night | Pastor Daniel Batarseh | Christmas Eve · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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We're bundle together tonight. We're here because of one
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reason, and that is to Worship the Lord on this Saturday
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evening. I'm so glad that we can do that,
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and it seems appropriate even when the dimness of this room
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and the Blackness outside of these windows to turn our
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attention to the very night where Christ, and when Christ
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was born and the Holy Spirit, does not give us the precise
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date of when the Messiah entered into our World.
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But in God's wisdom, he has provided detailed accounts
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surrounding that glorious event and in God's mind it's suffice
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is for us to know just that so that we can worship Him and Obey
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him accordingly. And one of those accounts that
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have been given by the Lord pertaining to the birth of our
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savior deals with the Angelic announcement of Christ being
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born on the very night that he did arrive.
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I've and I want us to see what happened here because the
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essence of the Angels message to an unsuspecting group of
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shepherds can be beautifully. Summarized in one verse and
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that's in Luke 2, verse 11. For unto you is Born This Day in
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the city of David, a savior who is Christ.
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The Lord For unto you is Born This Day in the city of David, a
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savior who is Christ. The lord a savior is born not a,
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not a social reformer. Not a philosopher who had
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proposed some ethical framework to provide Humanity.
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Some guidance in life, not a charity worker.
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Who would give us some examples of how to treat the
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marginalized? Not even a prophet.
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Who would merely perform some Miracles?
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What the angel said is loud. And clear.
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A savior is born. And what a title.
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What is significant purpose given to a child?
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And the fact that this child would be a savior implies that
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there is someone or there is something that needs to be
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rescued. Meditating on this verse should
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cause us to ask a very simple question.
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Who is it that the Savior will seek to deliver?
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And what is it that he will save from exactly.
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And all we need to do is have a simple surface level survey of
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the Bible to get a clear idea. Of what it is.
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Exactly that the Savior came to do.
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You know the Bible doesn't blush about its truths, it doesn't
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shrink it isn't Veil, anything it is clear and the Bible and
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frantically declares that the very object of the savior's
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saving is Humanity itself. Humanity is in need of saving.
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And what do they need to be saved from?
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Exactly what do we need to be saved from?
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God himself. We need to be saved from God and
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God would save us from God. I know that seems strange, but
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it makes sense. When you understand that.
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The problem Humanity faces now and faced, ever since the
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beginning is that God is Holy God is good.
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God is just he is perfect. There is no one like him.
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We try to make him like us to comfort our conscience, but you
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will never be able to challenge the heights.
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That the scriptures places this God in, he is so above and
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beyond what we can even create in our imagination or with these
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hands or with our own words with our own ideas.
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He is Holy and this God created us.
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And when he created us he created us with the intention of
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glorifying himself and also fellowshipping with his
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creation, not because he was lonely, not because he was in
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need of anything. But out of pure delight, being
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the creator of all things, he created us in His image and he
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gave us one simple instruction. Just don't eat of One Tree.
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I'm gonna plant you in a garden and you can Feast on an array of
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vegetation and you can enjoy Paradise.
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But there's just one thing that I'm asking you not to do.
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And some would say, why would God even give the option and I
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say, because God is love. And because God is love, he
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gives you a choice to love him in return.
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And our first parents Adam and Eve who are our Representatives,
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the federal head of mankind failed and they made their
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choice to not love God. But to love their own desire,
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their own wishes, their own plans and to satisfy their own
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desires and ever since that happened.
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The world has been fractured. Humanity has been broken and
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only the Bible listen to me. If you're skeptic in this place
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I welcome you and I hope you leave here with answers and more
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importantly, I hope you leave here with the savior in your
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heart. I've been meditating these past
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two weeks. About how no other book, no
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other text, no other historical document.
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Gives us many answers as the Bible does when we think about
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the universal Universal element of death and the universal
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element of sin there is not one part of the world that it can
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escape it. There's not one portion of
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history that has evaded it, no matter where you go, no matter
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what corner of the globe, you tuck yourself in sin, has
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contaminated it, no matter what you do to yourself, and no
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matter how much we advance in our technology and our science.
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We We still die. Why how do we explain this?
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Where do we find answers for this mystery?
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And it's right here in this book that I am preaching from no
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other person, no other belief system, gives the detailed
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answers and the clarity that God's word does.
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Ever since our first parents sinned against God, judgment has
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been hanging over the human race. and it it has been ready
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and it will soon be poured out on Adams descendants Because we
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have all like, Adam like Eve turned, our backs to God and
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I've made a willful decision to satisfy our wishes at the
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expense of disobeying God. And here's here's the thing.
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God is not a cosmic, teddy bear. He's a moral lawgiver.
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And when law is broken as a just judge, he must penalize and he
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must summon the subjects who have broken his law into
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account, and that is all of us. And you might hear that this
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evening and think, to yourself. Well, if we are all in trouble,
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if we have all fallen short of the standard of God's holy law,
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because in giving this law, he expect he expects his creation
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to abide by that law and to imitate and reflect his
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character by upholding that law. If we have all fallen short,
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then surely we must do something to save.
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Ourselves. Surely there must be something
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that we can do to appease this, God to satisfy this God.
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But again, as I said earlier this, God is just We can't do
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anything to save ourselves, just like a criminal who has created
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a great crime cannot stand before a judge and try to
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convince him that he can do enough Community work to escape
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any price that has been laid on him for his crime.
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God does not just brush our sins beneath this Universal rug.
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Somebody has to pay. We have to pay.
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And there's nothing that we can do, there's no arm to twist.
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There is no good deeds that you can Heap up that will ever
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satisfy the Perfection that God demands from us because he
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himself is perfect. So what does God do?
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Well, if the story ends there, then we're all doomed.
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And we might as well eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow.
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We die. But God is love.
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And his love is so great that he comes up with a plan even before
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all things happen. Because he knew what would
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happen and he threw the Eternal son willingly entered into our
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world. So that through his life, death
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and Resurrection Would provide an atonement that would satisfy
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the justice of God and would cancel the record of our heaping
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rebellious record of sin forever.
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He comes to save. And the effect of his saving
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work by taking on flesh. Yes.
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We look at Jesus as a baby and we sing about it, but he didn't
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stay as a baby. He entered in as a baby so that
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he can become a man. And as a man, he took on a whole
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life of obeying, the law of God perfectly on our behalf and then
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to Die, the death that we all deserved and the effect of that,
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the effect of that is not merely eternal.
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There are byproducts of that wonderful Act of Grace that you
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and I can enjoy today and that is seen in verse 10.
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I read to you verse 11 but the angel began with something else.
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He said in verse 10 and the angel said to them fear, not for
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behold I bring you good news of great joy.
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Fear not for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will
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be for all the people. That will be for all the people.
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So remember this Angel appears to this group of Shepherds?
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And they are supervising their flock in the night. and by
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surprise, here comes the celestial messenger, who breaks
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open the black midnight sky, and appears out of nowhere before
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these ordinary men Blue Collar Folk, And as this Angel comes,
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the first thing he says to them is fear not.
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And I'm telling you the reason why he tries to comfort them is
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far beyond the element of surprise.
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When you read verse nine, we not only see that the angel appears
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out of nowhere, kind of like that.
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The angel, not only appears out of nowhere, but we're told that
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the glory of the Lord Shone around them.
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And so, there is something of This brilliant Supernatural
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light. These Shepherds have seen like
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they've seen sunlight. They've seen Moonlight, they've
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seen Starlight, they've seen man-made light, but this kind of
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a light, it was Indescribable and it caused them to be in
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great fear. And I wonder if these Shepherds
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with a basic understanding of the word of God, we're able to
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put the pieces together. Together of what was taking
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place in those few seconds here, is this heavenly messenger?
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Who is coming with This? Brilliant light.
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Surely this is the glory of God appearing before us.
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And if you just had a basic understanding of the Old
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Testament, which is the Hebrew scriptures, then any Jew would
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have understood that for God, to appear in his glory is a death
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sentence, you're doomed. by virtue of his nature being so
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pure and so perfect that like the sun will consume anything
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in, close proximity, simply because of the Brilliance of his
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Holiness and the sinfulness that we are all corrupted with And so
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in the Old Testament, even when God's glory had appeared at
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different portions of Redemptive history, there was great caution
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given and there is Specific Instructions.
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Given if anybody would even come a step toward the glory of God,
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And here are these men who are given no notice.
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No heads up no preparation. Like the Israelites at Mount
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Sinai who were told to cleanse themselves days before the glory
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of God would show up on the top of that mountain, just suddenly
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This light comes and consumes the scene and underneath them,
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and behind them, and around them, is this light.
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And perhaps, with that light before them flash to their own
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lives. Here we go.
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God has come to kill us. God has come to consume us.
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And the angel instead reassures them.
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Fear not. Fear not.
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This is good news. Yeah.
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What you are seeing is the glory of the Lord.
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But God is not come to destroy you, he's come to save you.
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And just like the shepherd's we too.
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Can be delivered from Fear because of this good news.
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You and I do not have to stand and Terror before this, God, not
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now and not when you will stand before him at the end of your
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life. The gospel that we preach.
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When it is believed on when it is responded to with faith.
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Eradicates fear, all kinds of fear.
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But let me tell you the fear that we need to be most Fearful
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of, if I can say. The fear of God. not because
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he's a tyrant not because he is this bully in the sky, who takes
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the light in our punishment, who is sadistic because she's
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holding, we're not It's a good kind of fear. and it's a fear
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that I won't everyone should have if they are uncertain of
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where they stand with God, But the angel says fear.
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Not you can, it's almost like a foreshadowing.
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You can stand in the glory of God.
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Now you can be face-to-face with this.
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Yes, even in God's moral majesty, and all of his
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goodness. You don't have to fear.
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Matthew tells us that he has come to save us from our sins
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and later on, we are told that he has come to save us that we
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might serve him without fear without fear.
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So, what Jesus does because he, he lives on our behalf and he
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dies in our behalf and he takes his righteousness, and he
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imputes it into your account, what that does is it evaporates
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any concern that God will change his mind about your verdict.
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And there never has to be a sleepless night.
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And there, never has to be a thought that runs through your
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conscience that says, am I safe. Before this holy God.
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Willie abandoned me in this life.
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Will he will? He destroy me?
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Will he punish me? Will he disowned me?
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Will he will? He remove my name from that
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record? That guarantees that I am a
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citizen of Heaven, all of that disappears on the Merit of what
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Jesus has done. Fear is gone, when you're truly
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born again. Yes.
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You can be tempted with fear, but let me tell you what, one of
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the joys of of knowing Jesus is your free.
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You are free. What do I mean by free?
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At free from sin but you're free from Fear. you know, last night,
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our family received unfortunate news, our grandfather passed
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away unsuspectedly We knew he was sick.
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We knew that time would come, but it happened very quickly.
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And so, my father FaceTime me last night, as I was meditating
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on these truths to prepare to speak to you tonight.
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And he was in the room with the rest of my family who were able
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to make it my mother. Her siblings, some of the
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cousins. There was my grandfather laying
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there. And I can tell he was on the
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threshold of Eternity. And many things ran through my
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mind, looking at that and praying at the same time.
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Thinking about him. Thinking about his wife, my
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grandmother thinking about my mom, his daughter, her siblings.
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And then finally, throughout the night.
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And even today, Pulling back and thinking about.
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The whole experience. What I saw in a scripture says
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better to go to the house of mourning than the house of
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feasting. There is wisdom to be learn when
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you're faced with the death of another.
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And I looked at that and his face from that blurry FaceTime.
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Episode. Stirred, my heart.
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To think this is it. This is this is the fate of all
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of us. For all of you.
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For me. And in one FaceTime call that
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ended within a few minutes of text came he passed on.
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In just a few moments in one breath.
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You're there surrounded by your loved ones who are holding onto
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you crying over you. From there, surrounded by the
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warmth of love and support. You're in the presence of the
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glory of God. One breath.
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One text message. With the news that somebody has
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crossed through the veil of this universe into a world.
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That is more real than this one. And you don't want to ask
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myself. Are you ready?
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Are you ready to stand in the glory of God?
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For some, that is a dreadful thought for thought for some,
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that is a fearful fearful thing to even, meditate on for a
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moment. But for the Christian Dare I say
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it can be exciting. You can think about such a thing
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and actually know a blanket of comfort over your soul.
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Because what Jesus Christ does is enable you to know a peace
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with God. So that when you meet with God
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there there doesn't need to be an ounce of concern that he will
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expel you from his presence or consume you in his presence.
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You know what happens because of Jesus his glory becomes your
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home. That's what happens.
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And the very light that cause these Shepherds to fear and
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rightfully fear for the moment. Is a light that you and I will
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enjoy for all of eternity. Because of Christ.
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You may have a lot of answers or you think you do about this
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life. Where are your answers for the
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next one? come tomorrow and you'll get
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some There is no dread in Christ.
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There is no fear. What we see here in verse 10 is
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more than just fear. Not look at this for behold.
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I bring you good news of great joy so here's what happens.
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The good news is not just erasing fear, all kinds of fear
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in the most important fear, whether whether or not you're in
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right standing with God. Now we actually know great joy.
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The angel was so specific he could have said Joy, But he said
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great joy. You know what the Greek word for
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great is you know, it Mega I love it because I look at it
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this way, I bring you good news of great.
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Joy I bring you good news of Mega.
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Joy mountain is Joy. Overwhelming joy, all-consuming?
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Joy. A joy that surpasses all
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happiness. All the little things that you
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try to thread all the little things that you try to create,
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try to bring some kind of purpose and gratification.
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No, this is Mega joy and mega Joy can only come from Christ.
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Joy. Joy is so profound that, those
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who trust in this, good news and open their lives up to the
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reality of, it will be able to testify.
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There is nothing else that compares, there is nothing else
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that can come close to what I feel in here.
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How can it be? That I can be so full with
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something that I can't see. How can it be that I can be so
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secure and satisfied with something that I can't tangibly
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perceive. You see this message is so real
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and its implications are so obvious that it makes this
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impact on you in a way that moves you.
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And this is why a weekend like this is so significant.
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This is why on a Saturday night you're choosing to be here.
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And to listen to what I'm saying is because this message revives
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our joy when we lose fuel in it, You know, you have a lot of
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Christians, that that, that make it their mission to look at
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things like Christmas and Easter and the timing of it, a matter
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of great controversy and they become apologists for the Faith
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by, you know, just being controversial.
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I personally have no issue with celebrating Christmas.
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As long as those who celebrate it.
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Celebrated the way, the Bible would tell you to celebrate,
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there's no day that there is, no, there's no call to remember
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the birth of Christ per se were called to remember the death of
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Christ. But I have no issue to take
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advantage of what's Happening year after year to allow the
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message of the Gospel to revive us again.
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You know why a weekend like this is important.
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We can take advantage of it because even the most faithful
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followers of Jesus Christ can lose perspective on the joy that
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is reserved within this good news alone you and I can lose
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sight of it so quickly and you and I can get involved in little
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things, not that little things and little projects and things
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in this life and events should not be enjoyed by then we try to
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make it the substance of what. We are.
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And I'm telling you, the closest followers of Jesus can fall into
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that trap, and I'll prove it to you.
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After this baby becomes a man and he starts his ministry and
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he has disciples. He sends out many of them on a
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preaching Crusade and he gives them Authority.
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And this Authority was not just to preach with conviction and
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power, but to heal the sick and to cast out devils, And after
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the little campaign, they come back and they have a debrief
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with their lord and they are related.
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They are overwhelmed by the authority of the name of Jesus
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and they tell Jesus, even demons are subject to us in your name.
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The Lord hears them and he understands where they're coming
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from. But then he issues some
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instruction and light of their happiness of their service, to
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God and Luke 10 20, you don't have to turn there but listen to
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what the Lord says nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the
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spirits are subject to you, but Rejoice, that your names are
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written in heaven. He says listen he's not trying
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to deflate their excitement of seeing the miraculous or seeing
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the joys that come with serving God he's not trying to erase
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that from them. He's not trying to take that
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from them but he wants to teach them a valuable lesson.
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Don't have more excitement about what you do for God, you better
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Anchor, your join what God has done for you.
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Learn that stay there. Relish in that truth over and
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over, let that be the heartbeat of your joy of your Glee of your
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pleasure. When I thought about it, how
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does a future event not even future.
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How does something after I die? Benefit me now how does that
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translate to me? Experiencing a joy?
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That should be greater than any other thing that I can rejoice
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in? And it's very simple if you
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think about it, it's clear whatever you gain in this life.
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No matter what you accomplish, it will never ever come close to
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the privilege that you have and having a citizenship in heaven
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and listen what Never you lose in this life and you will lose
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much in this life, whatever slips through your hands.
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No matter who is taken from you, no matter what heartbreak, no
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matter what failures you experience, even the failures
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outside of your control, know that, in light of this
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imperishable and guarded assurance, you have no reason to
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frown. You have no reason to be
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overwhelmed. And for Christians, the reason
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why we sing the reason why you're happy the reason why.
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You navigate through this life, much differently than others is
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not because of what you do for him.
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It's because what he's already accomplished.
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And you rest there. And you allow that to shower
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over you. You know, you think about the
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Apostle Paul in the book of Acts, how he was able to utilize
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his, Roman citizenship to avoid many problems, right?
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you have this citizenship in glory, I mean, this world is the
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closest thing to hell. You will experience Christian
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and for the person who is not in Christ, this world is the
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closest thing to Heaven. They will ever know and I find
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that pretty pathetic. This Joy was so real.
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That the Angels themselves could not help.
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Could not help but join in, on the song, there are many
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instances and I'm closing here where an angel appears on the
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scene in this world to deliver something.
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From the throne room of God, many instances, sometimes of
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judgment and sometimes of glad tidings.
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But what this Angel does, and what happens with this Angel is
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unprecedented. You don't find it in any other
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place. When he arrives to deliver this
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message, he is accompanied with a Heavenly Choir.
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And Luke. You see it in the same chapter
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verse 13 of chapter chapter 2 and suddenly there was with the
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angel, a multitude of the Heavenly Host, praising God,
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praising God, and saying, glory to God in the highest, and on
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Earth, peace among those with whom he is pleased.
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You can't find one other place in all of the Bible where you
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have this heavenly host appearing in.
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In this world in this way, you can see Angels praising God in
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heaven. You see that throughout the Book
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of Revelation, but I'm talking about a choir from Heaven,
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invading into this world and celebrating an event that is
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taking place right there and then you can't find it.
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And do you know why you can't find it very simple because
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there is no greater message in this world that can demand such
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a response. There is nothing in this world,
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there's nothing that this world has ever produced.
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That would ever demand such a response from heaven.
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The Eternal Son of God. when these angels stood in the
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presence of And these angels sang, too.
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From these angels, new far beyond you and I can imagine.
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Are now seeing him become a baby?
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That's glorious. They gloried in his humiliation,
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they rejoiced in his love. They could not help.
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But break out in song as they realized they deserve Wrath.
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They are wicked. They have rebelled against the
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Holy One. and you would perhaps disagree with me on this, but if
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God had chosen to judge the world, Instead of saving it.
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I'm sure the Angels would have sang.
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The Praises of God, nonetheless, because he is Holy but instead,
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they They had a new song to sing.
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One, that would be unexpected. Perhaps.
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And that is this. God has now come.
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To abide in the womb of a virgin, girl.
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To become so vulnerable. So helpless, so exposed.
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The one in whom we could not even be hold with.
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Our eyes is now hanging from A woman's breast.
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And he will learn how to walk. And he will have a first word.
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And he will know the tensions and The Temptations of this
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life. For one purpose.
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So that he can develop hands, that would be nailed.
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Feet, that would be pierced. Aside to be penetrated.
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A beautiful head to be crushed with thorns.
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A beard to be pulled. Eyes and a nose and lips to be
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spat upon. To save.
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A savior has been born. And this savior who was born.
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He still saving today? Are you saved?
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I'm offering you a gift. It's free.
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You probably have things wrapped underneath the tree.
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Maybe you're excited to discover what it is that your wife got
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you? Your husband got you, your kids
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got you. It's going to turn to rust.
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God forbid, a thief. Might steal it.
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One thing's for certain. Huh, get as tight as you want.
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On your breasts on your dying moment.
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Somebody's going to take away that thing Stitch you up, put
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some makeup on you stuff you in a casket.
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And bury you. While you yeah, you the real you
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that you that's not just this flesh will be standing in the
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glory of God. That could be an exciting thing.
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I could be a terrifying thing. I want it to be an exciting
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thing and how you translate from Terror to treasure is you
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acknowledging, you need to be saved.
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God is Not demanding for a righteous performance between
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now and that final breath. He's demanding for you to humble
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yourself and the presence of God.
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Even now to say, I don't know why I'm here.
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Maybe you saw pamphlet on your doorknob this past week, maybe
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you're invited by a friend or family, but I'm here.
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And I'm here and I heard a message.
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That demands a choice. God, I ask that you forgive me.
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I see what my son has done. I know that if I were to die
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today, I would not be standing and right.
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Would you wash me clean? If you did come to save, save
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me, rescue me, and let my name be written among the righteous
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so that I would have no more fear and I want that great joy
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that Mega joy that that preacher talked about Would you do it in
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my heart? I want to tell you that savior,
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the Savior that I preached, the Savior that I am not ashamed of
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By the authority of God's word, he will save you and you'll know
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it how will I know you'll know it how the same way if you had
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100 pounds riding on your back and all for a sudden somebody
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just cut the rope for it to be loose and you feel this
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lightness? And you feel this burden?
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Just disappear. That's how you'll know you
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Christians know what I'm talking about.
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And so as we sing in closing, you have every right to speak to
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this God who is alive? And well, and it was ordained
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this moment for you to hear this message so that you would be
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saved. And although I pray that you
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would be saved a savior has been born.
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Let's Stand Together. Would you pray with me?
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My prayer is going to be geared towards a person and this place
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who might not be saved. And also a prayer for the save
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to have their Joy revived in the fact that their names have been
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written in heaven. Lord, in this place as we are
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ready to go back to our homes, We ask Lord if there is even one
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in here, who does not truly know you. that their hearts would,
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would not shake off conviction or the tug of the holy spirit
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that they might be experiencing at this very moment.
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Oh Lord, we pray on behalf of those who might not know you.
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And that Lord, you would manifest your great glory to
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them in the gospel in the cross, so that they could see clearly
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your great love for them and Lord for us who know you.
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Over time have become very familiar with this message.
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We pray for a fresh touch to realize the reality of Eternity.
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And that everything because of Jesus has been taken care of, we
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are going home. And there is no one who can
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condemn us because it is God, who justifies, Lord, we worship
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you. And we ask that you would be
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blessed by our praise in light of what we heard.
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We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.