Latest / LOH Church Archive / 12/21/25 Christmas Service
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- 0:00(MUSIC)
- 0:05MERRY CHRISTMAS CHURCH GET UP ON
- 0:05YOUR FEET LET'S GIVE OUR KING SOME PRAISE
- 0:11(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 1:04HALLELUJAH, LORD GOD IN HEAVEN. WE WORSHIP YOU. THANK YOU LORD.
- 1:09WE BLESS YOU HEAVENLY FATHER. AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE
- 1:13GREATEST GIFT THAT WAS EVER GIVEN. WHEN YOU GAVE US JESUS
- 1:18AND WHEN JESUS CAME HE AGREED TO BE THE BABY BORN IN THE MANGER,
- 1:23ONLY TO DIE FOR US ALL. WE LOVE YOU. WE HONOR YOU. AND ALL THOSE
- 1:28THAT REALLY LOVE GOD SAID, AMEN! THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD.
- 1:33NOW, HERE'S THE THING THOUGH. I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM UP IN
- 1:38THE RAFTERS. I DIDN'T HEAR, NO, SERIOUSLY, I DIDN'T HEAR
- 1:42ANYTHING. RAFTER SECTION, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING. SO I TRIED
- 1:45AGAIN. ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE GOD SAID, AMEN! MAN, NOW I HEARD
- 1:51IT. YOU GUYS ARE KIND OF LIKE THE SUBWOOFER, YOU KNOW? OH,
- 1:55THAT'S FUNNY. YEAH, I CAN HEAR IT. ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY'S GOT
- 1:58THEIR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DONE? YES, SIR. YOU DO? ONLY LIKE
- 2:02THREE PEOPLE HERE. HOW MANY OF YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR SHOPPING
- 2:05DONE YET? THAT'S A LOT. OH, NO. LOOK AT ALL THESE HANDS. THAT'S
- 2:09A LOT. SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? FIGHT THE CROWDS. DO YOU ALL
- 2:18HAVE PLANS? I THINK IT'S TOO LATE FOR AN AMAZON ORDER. OH,
- 2:20REALLY? I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S A FEW OVERNIGHT
- 2:24ONES, MAYBE. LISTEN, THERE'S A FAMOUS MOVIE I REALLY LIKE. IT'S
- 2:28"JINGLE ALL THE WAY." HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN THAT
- 2:29MOVIE? AND LET THAT BE A HINT TO ALL OF YOU WHO DON'T HAVE YOUR
- 2:33CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DONE, YOU KNOW. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU
- 2:36GET YOUR ITEMS, SO. WELL, WE GOT OUR BOYS OVER HERE. COME OVER
- 2:40HERE, GUYS. WE FOUND THESE GUYS IN THE ALLEY. COME ON OUT. MATT,
- 2:46YOU CAN GO ON MAMA'S SIDE THERE. AND HE BROUGHT WHO'D YOU BRING?
- 2:50HEY, JONATHAN. BROUGHT THE LITTLE MAN. HI, PAKI. HOW ARE
- 2:56YA? ARE YOU GONNA SAY HI TO EVERYBODY? IT'S CHRISTMAS. WE
- 2:59SHOULD'VE BROUGHT OUR DOGS. BUT THEN, I DID ONE YEAR, AND
- 3:03SOMEBODY SAID, "OH, YOU SHOULD KEEP DOGS OUT OF YOU KNOW,
- 3:06ANIMALS NO, ANIMALS OUT OF THE CHURCH." AND I THOUGHT, "WELL,
- 3:09EVERY CHRISTMAS PLAY, THE PEOPLE BRING CAMELS
- 3:11AND STUFF." RIGHT. AND I BROUGHT THIS ANIMAL, SO I GUESS, YOU
- 3:15KNOW, WE GOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING? SO, HE OKAY, I GOT TO
- 3:20SAY, THIS IS THE BEST SMELLING DOG I'VE EVER
- 3:23(LAUGHTER)
- 3:26SO, WHAT'S HIS NAME, MATT? HE SMELLS LIKE HIGH END COLOGNE.
- 3:31WHAT'S HIS NAME, MATT? HIS NAME IS PACKER.
- 3:34WHY PACKER? WELL, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, BUT YOU
- 3:38KNOW. FROM LAST NIGHT. YEAH, HE'S A BETTER PACKER THAN THE
- 3:42OTHER ONES. YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. GOOD POINT. ANYTHING YOU WANT TO
- 3:45SAY? WELL, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY, AND JUST BLESSINGS TO
- 3:50EVERYBODY, AND EVERYBODY THAT I'M SURE TRAVELED INTO FOR THE
- 3:55CHRISTMAS SEASON AND SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY AND STUFF. SO I
- 3:59SEE MY GUY MARQUISE OUT THERE AND PASTOR ANTHONY. YOU GUYS ARE
- 4:03FRESHY, FRESHY. I LIKE THAT. GOOD. AWESOME. SO MERRY
- 4:06CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY. AND YOU KNOW, JOHN, I ALREADY KNOW YOU
- 4:11AND DAD ARE PUTTING THAT PUZZLE TOGETHER, SO AIN'T GETTING DONE.
- 4:16WELL, LET'S GO AHEAD AND SO LET'S BRING JOHN HE HAS
- 4:19SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT PUZZLE. HE CAME IN ALL THE WAY
- 4:21WHAT WAS JOHN WAS GOING TO RESPOND ABOUT THE PUZZLE? I JUST
- 4:24SAID, WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO PUT IT AWAY, I THINK. IT'S TOO
- 4:25HARD. SO HE BROUGHT ME THIS WAIT, IT'S FINALLY TOO HARD. IT
- 4:29IS, IT IS. LET ME DO THIS, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE'RE
- 4:32MISSING OUR FAMILY HERE. SO I JUST WANT TO BRING ALL OF YOU
- 4:36THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD. WE'RE SO HONORED THAT YOU
- 4:40JOINED US TODAY AS OUR FAMILY. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU. AGAIN, I
- 4:44FOUND THESE GUYS IN THE ALLEY AND OFFERED THEM FREE LUNCH AND
- 4:47THEY DECIDED TO COME IN. BUT THESE ARE OUR BOYS. THIS IS
- 4:51PACKER. I WAS GOING TO BRING MY DOGS, BUT
- 4:54ANYWAY. BY THE WAY, TALKING ABOUT DOGS, I GOT,
- 4:57BRENDA GOT HERBIE THIS LITTLE IGLOO THING, OUR LITTLE SHIH TZU
- 5:00GUY. HE LIKES THAT. YEAH, PACKER CAME OVER LAST NIGHT AND TRIED
- 5:03TO OWN IT. HE DID. ALL RIGHT. SO, JOHN, BIG MAN, YOU'RE HERE,
- 5:07YOUR FRIEND, KYLIE, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AS WELL. GOD
- 5:11BLESS YOU. NOW TELL US ABOUT THIS PUZZLE BECAUSE EVERY YEAR
- 5:14OUR TRADITION IS WE GET A PUZZLE. ANYBODY HAVE A
- 5:17TRADITION? AND THIS YEAR HE DECIDED TO BRING THIS PUZZLE
- 5:21THAT HAS A LITTLE TRAIN ON IT, LIKE IN THE MOUNTAIN. AND WE'RE
- 5:24GONNA DO A LITTLE TRAIN. I THINK YOU WERE ON THAT TRAIN. IT IS SO
- 5:26HARD. IT IS GONNA TAKE A YEAR. SO WHAT'S OUR PLAN? I THINK
- 5:32WE'RE GONNA PUT IT AWAY. PUT IT AWAY. WE'RE PUZZLED BY IT, YOU
- 5:39KNOW. MATT AND I, DO WE DO PUZZLES? NO. NO. NO. WE WERE
- 5:44PRETTY DISTRACTED. YEAH, NO, I KNOW. WE WERE THROWING SHOES AT
- 5:47THE TV. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MICAH PARSONS TEARS HIS ACL.
- 5:52ANYBODY FROM OUT OF TOWN? I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO GREET YOU.
- 5:56WHERE ARE YOU FROM? AND DON'T SAY IOWA, YOU KNOW. SOMEBODY
- 6:01FROM OUT OF TOWN? SOUTH DAKOTA. ALL RIGHT, YAY, THAT'S AWESOME.
- 6:06ANYBODY ELSE? KANSAS CITY, WELCOME. WELCOME. ANYBODY ELSE
- 6:14IN THE RAFTERS? GOT MORE OVER THERE. WHERE? OH, I SEE. WHERE
- 6:18ARE YOU FROM? NORTHERN IOWA. OKAY, THAT'LL WORK. THAT'S FAR
- 6:22AWAY. DES MOINES? ALL RIGHT, DES MOINES. THAT'S A COUPLE HOURS
- 6:27AWAY. ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY IN THE RAFTER SECTION? WE'RE TRYING
- 6:30TO SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE. BETHLEHEM? ANYBODY FROM
- 6:34BETHLEHEM? WHERE ARE YOU FROM? RIGHT THERE. OHIO. OHIO.
- 6:39WELCOME. WOW. ANYBODY ELSE? WELCOME. NOW, I GOT TO SAY THIS.
- 6:43I GOT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO SOMEBODY. MARK, WHERE ARE YOU
- 6:46AT? VAN WILLEN, WHERE ARE YOU AT? MARK, ARE YOU IN THE RAFTER
- 6:51SECTION? WHERE ARE YOU AT? SO BRENDA, THIS IS A WOW! GOOD TO
- 6:57SEE YOU. SO WAY BACK WHEN I GOT SING, HE WAS PART OF A BAND,
- 7:02ALIEN. IS THAT RIGHT? AND YOU GUYS NEVER ASKED ME TO SING. BUT
- 7:10I USED TO REMEMBER I DID THE COMEDY STUFF. REMEMBER THAT?
- 7:17YEAH, HE WROTE A COMIC STRIP CALLED MUTZVI. YEAH, I WROTE I
- 7:19DID MUTZVI BACK THEN. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS. DID YOU KNOW
- 7:23THAT? NO. THANKS FOR COMING BY, MAN. THAT WAS LIKE I GOT SAVED
- 7:28IN '84, AND THESE WERE THE GUYS THAT WERE INFLUENTIAL IN MY WALK
- 7:33WITH GOD. AND THEIR BAND WAS LIKE PETRA. Y'ALL REMEMBER
- 7:36PETRA? DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? ARE YOU STILL A ROCKER? NO, DON'T
- 7:42TELL ME YOU'RE SITTING ON A ROCKER NOW.
- 7:45(LAUGHING)
- 7:46ALWAYS A ROCKER. ALL RIGHT, ANYWAY, GREAT TO SEE YOU. ALL
- 7:50RIGHT, I THINK WE NEED TO WORSHIP THE LORD. ANY CLOSING
- 7:52COMMENTS FROM THE BOYS? I JUST THINK MAYBE FOR CHRISTMAS, WE
- 7:57NEED TO LOOK AT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR Y'ALL. YEAH, I DO TOO. WELL,
- 8:00I DO HAVE ONE, BUT I DON'T THINK I SHOULD PUT IT TOGETHER. AN
- 8:03EASIER ONE, IT'S ALL GOOD. ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE PUZZLED
- 8:07OUT. WE'RE PUZZLED OUT. BUT KEEP PRAYING FOR JOHN. GIVE US ONE
- 8:12QUICK UPDATE. UFC, HOW'S THAT GOING? I'M HOPING EARLY NEXT
- 8:16YEAR I'LL GET A CALL. SO JUST STAYING READY FOR WHATEVER
- 8:20HAPPENS. THAT'S REALLY EXCITING. OK. WE GOT THE KIDDOS THAT ARE
- 8:23GOING TO SING TO US. YOU THINK WE SHOULD INTERVIEW THEM THIS
- 8:25YEAR? YES. I THINK WE SHOULD INTERVIEW THEM. 100%. MATT,
- 8:28WOULD YOU PRAY OVER THE SERVICE? YEAH. DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE
- 8:32JUST THANK YOU, LORD, FOR TODAY, LORD, AND THIS BEAUTIFUL
- 8:35SERVICE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, LORD. WE THANK
- 8:37YOU, LORD, FOR YOU, LORD, WHO IS THE GREATEST BIRTH OF ALL TIME,
- 8:43LORD. AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU CAME, LORD, AS A BABY
- 8:47IN A MANGER, AND YOU DIED FOR OUR SINS, AND YOU ROSE AGAIN,
- 8:50AND NOW YOU'RE SEATED NEXT TO YOUR FATHER AT THE RIGHT HAND,
- 8:54LORD. AND SO NOW WE CAN JOIN YOU IN HEAVEN, LORD, BECAUSE OF THAT
- 8:57ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, LORD. SO WE CELEBRATE YOU THIS SEASON, LORD,
- 9:01AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THE BLESSINGS AND FAVOR THAT COMES
- 9:04UPON EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IN THIS ROOM AND WATCHING ONLINE,
- 9:07IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. ALL RIGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO? LIFT THOSE
- 9:10HANDS TO HEAVEN. SAY, "LORD, IT'S CHRISTMAS." AND THAT MEANS
- 9:16I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU MY VERY BEST PRAISE. COME ON, LET'S
- 9:23SHOUT LIKE WE BELIEVE IT AND PRAISE THE LORD. MERRY
- 9:28CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY. ANYBODY GRATEFUL FOR JESUS? I SAID, IS
- 9:33ANYBODY GRATEFUL FOR JESUS THIS MORNING? LET'S LIFT UP THE NAME,
- 9:37EH? PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER.
- 9:41(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 10:55CAN YOU SING, "HEY, HEARD TELL"?
- 10:57(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 11:59WE THANK YOU FOR JESUS. HEY.
- 12:04(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 15:00COME ON YOU, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW EMMANUEL IS HERE
- 15:04(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 25:18JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE.
- 25:37HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY.
- 25:41(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 25:46HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY.
- 25:51(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 25:56HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY.
- 26:00(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 26:06JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE.
- 26:47HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES
- 26:50AWAY. JESUS IS HERE. HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM
- 26:56TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE.
- 27:09YOU’VE COME, YOU'VE COME EMMANUEL.
- 27:20AND RANSOMED CAPTIVE ISRAEL.
- 27:27(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 27:38COME ON, GIVE HIM SOME GLORY THIS MORNING
- 27:41(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 30:34WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. COME ON. WE WORSHIP YOU ALL OVER
- 30:38THE WORLD. LET'S ADORE JESUS. EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US. WE
- 30:43WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE'VE COME TO ADORE YOU. WE'VE
- 30:48COME TO ADORE YOU. WE’VE COME TO MAGNIFY YOUR NAME, KING OF
- 30:51KINGS, LORD OF LORDS. WE'VE COME. WE'VE COME TO ADORE YOU.
- 30:55COME ON. LET'S SING IT AGAIN ALL OVER THE WORLD. IMAGINE THE WISE
- 30:59MEN AS THEY CAME AND THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES AND THEY
- 31:03WORSHIPED THIS KING. COME ON. WORSHIP. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE GIVE
- 31:14YOU ALL THE GLORY. YOU'RE CHRIST THE LORD. COME ON, OPEN YOUR
- 31:19HEART AND TELL YOUR KING. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE
- 31:23WORSHIP YOU. WE ADORE YOU. WE ADORE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. WE
- 31:34ADORE YOUR BEAUTY, YOUR SACRIFICE, YOUR LOVE. WE WORSHIP
- 31:42YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU, MASTER. COME ON, FROM YOUR HEART,
- 31:58WORSHIP HIM. IF YOU'RE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIA, WORSHIP HIM.
- 32:04RUSSIA, WHATEVER STATE, CITY, NATION. WORSHIP HIM. WE WORSHIP
- 32:12YOU, JESUS. WE ADORE YOU AND WE HONOR YOU TODAY. I WANT YOU TO
- 32:21SAY THIS, SAY, "LORD, I OPEN MY HEART TO YOU FOR YOU TO BE MY
- 32:26LORD, MY GOD, MY FRIEND. I GIVE YOU MY HEART, MY LIFE, AND IN
- 32:37RETURN I WILL HONOR YOU. I WILL SERVE YOU. I WILL OBEY YOU. I
- 32:45WILL LOVE YOU. AND I WILL TELL OTHERS OF HOW GREAT YOU ARE. AND
- 32:52IF YOU LOVE GOD, TELL HIM. JUST TELL HIM. SAY, "GOD, I LOVE YOU.
- 33:00I LOVE YOU, GOD. I LOVE YOU, GOD. I LOVE YOU, YESHUA, JESUS,
- 33:11MY LORD. AND I LOVE YOU, MY WONDERFUL FATHER." AND I LOVE
- 33:21YOU, HOLY SPIRIT. I BLESS YOU. AND I'VE COME HERE TODAY TO
- 33:31ADORE YOU. I THINK WE SHOULD SAY ONE OTHER THING TO HIM. WE
- 33:39SHOULD SAY, THANK YOU. THERE'S NOTHING GREATER, I THINK, THAN
- 33:43PROBABLY DELIGHTS THE HEART OF GOD BESIDES TELLING HIM THAT YOU
- 33:46LOVE HIM. BUT I THINK HE REALLY, REALLY LIKES IT WHEN WE COME
- 33:51WITH A GRATEFUL HEART, A THANKFUL HEART. HOW MANY OF YOU
- 33:56EVER GIVEN A GIFT AT CHRISTMAS AND THE PERSON THAT IS RECEIVING
- 34:01IT, THEY'RE NOT GRATEFUL? IT JUST MAKES WHAT YOU GAVE JUST
- 34:07SEEMS SO UNAPPRECIATIVE. GOD GAVE EVERYTHING TO US WHEN HE
- 34:15GAVE US JESUS. AND I THINK THE LEAST THING WE COULD DO IS SAY
- 34:21THANK YOU. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD, I
- 34:24WANT YOU TO DO THE SAME. SAY, "LORD, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM
- 34:29OF MY HEART. AMEN." WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS? NOW, YOU CAN
- 34:34GIVE HIM ONE MORE WORSHIP OF HONOR AND THANKSGIVING. WELL, I
- 34:40WANT YOU TO GREET ONE ANOTHER, AND THEN I WANT YOU TO, WHEN YOU
- 34:44GREET THEM, ASK THEM THEIR NAME. IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW IT,
- 34:47AND THEY JUST SAY, "I BET I KNOW." I BET I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
- 34:51GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS, AND SEE IF YOU CAN BE IN THE RANGE,
- 34:55OKAY? WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING.
- 34:59MAYBE PUT IN THE COMMENTS WHAT YOU THINK
- 35:01YOU'RE GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS. MAYBE YOU'RE GETTING A HORSE.
- 35:05BUT WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND WE'RE SO HONORED
- 35:07THAT YOU JOINED US WITH THIS SERVICE TODAY.
- 35:10(MUSIC)
- 36:02WELL, GOOD MORNING AND MERRY CHRISTMAS. I KNOW IT'S, YOU
- 36:11KNOW, STILL A FEW DAYS AWAY, SO IF YOU GOT SOME LAST MINUTE
- 36:13SHOPPING TO DO, YOU HAVE A FEW DAYS TO DO THAT. HOWEVER, THIS
- 36:17IS THE LAST SERVICE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, SO MERRY CHRISTMAS TO
- 36:22YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND ALL OF YOU ONLINE AS WELL. IF THIS IS
- 36:27YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING WITH US, WE WANNA MAKE YOU FEEL
- 36:30WELCOME. I ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVED A BLUE GIFT BAG. IF
- 36:34YOU DID NOT, PLEASE WAVE YOUR HAND AND I'M SURE THEY HAVE
- 36:36THOSE AVAILABLE FOR YOU. INSIDE THE BLUE GIFT BAG, THERE'S SOME
- 36:40GOODIES WE'VE TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU, AS WELL AS A GUEST
- 36:43REGISTRY PACKET. IT HAS A PICTURE OF THE STAGE ON THE
- 36:46FRONT OF IT, SO PLEASE PULL THAT OUT AT THIS TIME IF YOU CAN.
- 36:48BECAUSE INSIDE THAT, THERE'S SOME INFORMATION WE WANT TO SEND
- 36:52HOME WITH YOU, AS WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE "STAY CONNECTED"
- 36:56CARD ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE. GO AHEAD AND TEAR THAT OFF. FILL IT
- 36:58OUT, DROP IT IN THE OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY IN JUST
- 37:01A FEW MOMENTS. I JUST WANTED TO SEND YOU A THANK YOU FOR COMING
- 37:03TO SEE US THIS MORNING, AND MAKE SURE YOU STAY CONNECTED WITH
- 37:07EVERYTHING WE HAVE GOING ON AT THE CHURCH IN 2026. BECAUSE WE
- 37:15ARE, NEXT YEAR, NO, WE HAVE ONE MORE EVENT THAT STARTS IN THIS
- 37:19YEAR. THAT IS THE NEW YEAR'S EVE SERVICE, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO
- 37:22MISS OUT ON THAT EITHER, RIGHT? SO BE HERE FOR THAT, BE HERE
- 37:28ONLINE FOR THAT AS WELL. IF YOU ARE WATCHING ONLINE, WE THANK
- 37:31YOU FOR WATCHING, AND MAKE SURE YOU GET CONNECTED TO ONE OF OUR
- 37:36GREAT PLATFORMS, BUT NAMELY, OUR MAIN PLATFORM IS ONEVOICETV,
- 37:40ONEVOICETV.NET, OR DOWNLOAD THE ONE VOICE TV APP TO YOUR
- 37:44DEVICES. THEY'RE ALL RIGHT THERE THAT YOU CAN CONNECT ON, SO BE
- 37:48SURE TO GET CONNECTED THERE, AND YOU CAN GET BLESSED BY LOTS OF
- 37:52GREAT CONTENT. GET REAL WITH HANK, DAY OF THE DECREE, GAME
- 37:54CHANGERS, LOTS OF OTHER PARTNER PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE
- 37:59AS WELL, SO PLEASE GET CONNECTED. YOU CAN WATCH
- 38:01SERVICES LIVE AND ARCHIVED AS WELL, SO PLEASE GET OUT THERE,
- 38:04GET SET UP. YOU CAN CHAT WITH PEOPLE OUT THERE NOW, BOTH ON
- 38:08THE APP AND ON OVTV.NET. SO GO TO ONEVOICETV.NET OR DOWNLOAD
- 38:15THE APP TO YOUR DEVICES, AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED BY IT, AMEN? I
- 38:20HOPE YOU GIVE ALL OF OUR GUESTS HERE AN ONLINE HAND.
- 38:22(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
- 38:25AS PASTOR BRENDA COMES. SHE WASN'T QUITE PAYING ATTENTION.
- 38:31YOU DISTRACTED ME. HERE'S PASTOR BRENDA. PRAISE THE LORD, ALL
- 38:34RIGHT, AMEN AND AMEN AND AMEN. I DO WANNA MENTION ABOUT THE NEW
- 38:39YEAR'S EVE SERVICE. IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED A PRAYER REQUEST,
- 38:43GO TO HANKANDBRENDA.ORG, SUBMIT THAT, AND WE ARE GONNA HAVE ALL
- 38:47OF THOSE, OF COURSE, UP HERE ON THE PLATFORM. SO YOU STILL HAVE
- 38:51TIME TO SUBMIT THOSE. PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW, THERE MAY BE A
- 38:54LITTLE TIGHT ON THE MAIL AT THIS POINT, BUT YOU CAN SURELY SUBMIT
- 39:00THOSE ELECTRONICALLY. WE'LL GET 'EM PRINTED HERE, AND WE'RE
- 39:03GONNA BRING ALL THOSE OUT, AND ALL THE STAFF, WE'RE GONNA PRAY
- 39:05OVER THOSE, AND JUST BELIEVE GOD WITH YOU FOR YOUR 2026 TO BE AN
- 39:09AMAZING YEAR, RIGHT? AND IF YOU HAD SOME HARDSHIP IN 2025, DON'T
- 39:14LOOK ON THE PAST, RIGHT? LET'S PRESS TOWARD THE FUTURE. I THINK
- 39:17THAT IS SO KEY. AMEN TO THAT. HOW MANY OF YOU AGREE WITH THAT?
- 39:21PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, I WANNA GET RIGHT INTO THE OFFERING
- 39:23'CAUSE WE WANNA GIVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR OUR KIDS TO COME OUT
- 39:26AND THEY'RE GONNA MINISTER TO US POWERFULLY. HOW MANY OF YOU
- 39:29ENJOY THAT EVERY YEAR? SO EXCITED. THEY DO SUCH A GOOD
- 39:32JOB. AND BY THE WAY, KUDOS TO OUR CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT WHO
- 39:35YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE. THEY DO SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THE
- 39:40YOUNG PEOPLE. SO, BUT LET ME, I'M JUST GONNA PUT UP OUR
- 39:43OFFERING SCRIPTURE. I'LL BE BRIEF TODAY. AND OF COURSE, THIS
- 39:47JUST GOES ALONG WITH CHRISTMAS. MATTHEW 2, CHAPTER 2, TALKING
- 39:50ABOUT THE MAGI. YOU KNOW, GOD EVEN WOVE GIVING INTO CHRISTMAS.
- 39:57THINK ABOUT THAT. AND BECAUSE GIVING IS A PRIORITY, IT IS SO
- 40:01IMPORTANT. IT'S JESUS GAVE, RIGHT? SO GIVING IS JUST A PART
- 40:06OF EVERYTHING WE SEE IN THE BIBLE, OUR FINANCES, OUR TIME,
- 40:09OUR HEARTS. GOD DESERVES OUR BEST. AND I ALWAYS SAY IT LIKE
- 40:13THIS. IF THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH, WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE TO
- 40:16JESUS? WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM? AND THAT IS THE MOST
- 40:21IMPORTANT THING. MATTHEW 2:2 SAYING, THIS WAS THE MAGI. THEY
- 40:28SAID, WHERE IS HE THAT'S BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE HAVE
- 40:32SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST. NOW, I'M NOT A HISTORIAN BY ANY
- 40:38STRETCH, BUT THERE IS SOME STUDY THAT SAYS, FIRST OF ALL, THAT
- 40:43THESE WISE MEN TRAVELED PROBABLY ABOUT 800 OR 900 MILES TO GET TO
- 40:50WHERE JESUS WAS. NOW, BACK IN THAT DAY, THEY WERE LIKE GOING
- 40:53ON FOOT, AND WITH CAMELS AND DONKEYS AND WHATEVER. YOU KNOW,
- 40:59SO I DID A LITTLE LOOK. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE. BUT, YOU KNOW,
- 41:05THAT DISTANCE IS PROBABLY FROM LIKE SOUTH DAKOTA TO DALLAS. YOU
- 41:11THINK ABOUT WALKING THAT ON FOOT. AND SO THEN I HAD TO LOOK
- 41:14UP. I JUST HAD TO KNOW HOW MANY HOURS WOULD IT TAKE YOU TO WALK
- 41:19FROM SOUTH DAKOTA TO DALLAS. WELL, YOU COULDN'T WALK 24
- 41:23HOURS. IT SAID ABOUT 300 HOURS OF WALKING. BUT IF YOU DID 10, 8
- 41:29HOURS A DAY MAYBE, THEY'VE GOT TO STOP AND FEED THEIR ANIMALS,
- 41:32ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU KNOW, THE PRACTICAL THINGS. AND I
- 41:36THOUGHT, THAT WOULD TAKE THEM ABOUT A MONTH. YOU THINK ABOUT
- 41:38THAT. AND THEN JUST GETTING READY FOR THE TRIP, THEY HAD TO
- 41:45PLAN. NOW RICK RENNER, HOW MANY OF YOU EVER READ SOME OF HIS
- 41:48STUFF ON CHRISTMAS? HE TALKS ABOUT HOW OBVIOUSLY MANY
- 41:52HISTORIANS HAVE SAID IT WASN'T JUST THREE MAGI. IT WAS A WHOLE
- 41:57PROCESSION OF PEOPLE THAT CAME IN VAST NUMBER. THAT'S WHY HEROD
- 42:03FELT SO THREATENED. IT WASN'T JUST A COUPLE LITTLE GUYS THAT
- 42:05CAME. AND OF COURSE, WE KNOW THE BIBLE INDICATES RIGHT HERE, EVEN
- 42:10IN MATTHEW, THAT THE MAGI DIDN'T COME TO THE STABLE. IT SAYS THAT
- 42:18HEROD HAD CALCULATED FROM THE TIME THAT THE STAR APPEARED. AND
- 42:22THAT'S WHY HE KILLED ALL THE CHILDREN UNDER TWO YEARS OLD.
- 42:26BUT THE FUNNY THING IS, YOU THINK ABOUT FOR A MINUTE THE
- 42:29PREPARATION THAT IT TOOK FOR THIS PROCESSION TO COME, FOR
- 42:33THEM TO PLAN THEIR TREASURES. AND BY THE WAY, HISTORY TELLS US
- 42:37IT WASN'T LIKE THREE LITTLE BULLS OF A LITTLE GOLD. IT WAS
- 42:42ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN THE ENTIRE MINISTRY OF JESUS THROUGH HIS
- 42:47ALL THE WAY TO HIS CRUCIFIXION, THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH WEALTH. WE
- 42:51KNOW JESUS HAD A TREASURY. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT. HE HAD A
- 42:55TREASURER THAT WAS STEALING FROM THE BAG. JUDAS, RIGHT? AND SO
- 42:59THERE HAD TO BE ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BAG FOR IT NOT TO BE THAT
- 43:03NOTICEABLE IF HE WAS TAKING A LITTLE BIT OUT ALL THE TIME.
- 43:08JUDAS, RIGHT? SO THERE WAS WEALTH. THEY AT ONE POINT HAD
- 43:12OFFERED TO GO AND PURCHASE FOR THE MULTITUDE FOOD. SO YOU THINK
- 43:18ABOUT THOSE SCRIPTURES. SO THIS WAS A THE MAGI COMING WAS A
- 43:24MAJOR PLANNED EVENT. AND IT TOOK THEM PROBABLY WEEKS, MAYBE
- 43:31MONTHS, OF SEEING THE STAR AND GOING AND TRAVELING THAT WHOLE
- 43:36MONTH WITH ALL OF THE TREASURES THAT THEY BROUGHT. IMAGINE THE
- 43:40PREPARATION IT TOOK FOR THAT. I MEAN, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR OUR
- 43:43KIDS SING HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. AND I THINK ABOUT HOW
- 43:47MUCH PRACTICE THEY PUT, OR OUR FLAGGERS THAT WERE UP HERE
- 43:51TODAY, THEY PRACTICED. BY THE WAY, THE WORSHIP TEAM TODAY,
- 43:54AMAZING JOB FROM THEM. AND ALL THAT PREPARATION. SO IT JUST
- 44:00REMINDS ME THAT THESE MAGI PREPARED. THEY PLANNED. THEY
- 44:05PACKED UP THINGS. AND IN FACT, VERSE 11, IT SAYS IN THE NEW
- 44:09LIVING OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, IT SAYS THAT THEY OPENED THEIR
- 44:13TREASURE CHESTS. SO THAT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, NOT LITTLE
- 44:17BOXES. THEY HAD BIG TREASURE CHESTS. AND THE REASON I SAY ALL
- 44:21THAT, IT JUST REMINDS US THAT WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING, WE
- 44:24SHOULDN'T, AND AS WE GO INTO 2026, BE HAPHAZARD ABOUT THAT.
- 44:29THEY PLANNED, THEY PREPARED. SO MY ENCOURAGEMENT ON THIS
- 44:33CHRISTMAS TO YOU ON YOUR OFFERINGS, YOUR TITHES, IS PLAN.
- 44:38PLAN HOW YOU WANT TO GIVE TO GOD. DON'T JUST, YOU KNOW,
- 44:41HAPHAZARD, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE DEVIL, THE
- 44:44ENEMY, LIFE'S ISSUES ARE ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO TAKE FROM YOU
- 44:49YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS. SO THIS IS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO US TO PLAN
- 44:55AHEAD. PLAN YOUR 2026. DON'T JUST PLAN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO
- 44:59PAY YOUR CAR OFF, RIGHT? PLAN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE TO GOD.
- 45:03AND THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT OF THAT IF WE WOULD
- 45:07PLAN THOSE THINGS, JUST LIKE THE MAGI DID. AND SO TO ME, THAT'S
- 45:11THE MESSAGE OF WHAT THEY BROUGHT. THEY PLANNED. THEY
- 45:14PREPARED. THEY THOUGHT AHEAD. AND SO AS WE LOOK AT 2026, THIS
- 45:19CHRISTMAS, LET THE MESSAGE OF THE MAGI REMIND US. LET'S PLAN
- 45:24AND PREPARE. AND YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THEY GOT THIRSTY AND HUNGRY
- 45:28ALONG THE WAY. YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE LIKE HUMAN NATURE, THERE
- 45:31MIGHT'VE BEEN TIMES THAT THEY THOUGHT, LET'S JUST TURN BACK,
- 45:33RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE WEATHER'S NOT COOPERATING,
- 45:37THINGS AREN'T GOING RIGHT, AND THEY WANTED TO JUST GO BACK AND
- 45:41QUIT. AND MAYBE THAT WAS, I MEAN, THE BIBLE DOESN'T TELL US
- 45:45THAT, BUT MAYBE THAT WAS THE CASE. I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE
- 45:47YOU, DON'T LET LIFE KEEP YOU FROM SERVING GOD WITH YOUR WHOLE
- 45:51HEART, NUMBER ONE, IN 2026. NUMBER TWO, DON'T LET IT KEEP
- 45:55YOU FROM PREPARING HOW YOU WANT TO HONOR GOD IN YOUR GIVING, AND
- 45:58ESPECIALLY FINANCIALLY. BUT ALL THE AREAS OF OUR LIFE IS SO
- 46:02IMPORTANT. AMEN? AMEN? ALL RIGHT, ARE YOU READY TO GIVE
- 46:05THIS MORNING? ALL RIGHT, THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THAT GIVING
- 46:08INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN AND ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO GIVE.
- 46:12THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE BUILDING FUND. AND IF YOU WANT
- 46:14TO GET YOUR LAST OFFERINGS OF 2025, SOME OF YOU ARE TRYING TO
- 46:18GET THOSE IN BEFORE THE YEAR CLOSES, AND YOU ARE MAILING, IT
- 46:22JUST NEEDS TO BE IN THE MAIL BY THE 31ST. SO GET THAT POSTMARKED
- 46:27ON TIME. AND THEN BY MIDNIGHT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, THOSE NEED TO
- 46:32ALL BE SUBMITTED TO GET ON YOUR 2025 GIVING RECORD. SO I ALWAYS
- 46:36LIKE TO MAKE MENTION OF THAT. AND BY THE WAY, OUR FIRST FRUITS
- 46:39OFFERING IS AVAILABLE. SO IF YOU'RE WANTING TO SOW THOSE
- 46:41FIRST FRUITS INTO 20, THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO PREPARE, RIGHT? LET
- 46:45YOUR GIVING GO BEFORE YOU. THAT FUND IS OUT THERE SO YOU CAN
- 46:49LOOK FOR THE FIRST FRUITS 2026 AND YOU CAN GIVE INTO THAT AS
- 46:53WELL. AND BY THE WAY, AS THE USHERS ARE SERVING YOU, I WILL
- 46:57JUST SAY, AND THEY'RE GIVING YOU YOUR OFFERING ENVELOPES. I WILL
- 47:00JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING FAITHFUL IN 2025 FROM PASTOR AND
- 47:04MYSELF. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR FAMILY. THANK YOU FOR
- 47:08ALL YOU DO FOR THE TABERNACLE, FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE KINGDOM
- 47:11OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. YOU ARE THE BEST PEOPLE.
- 47:15INTERNET, IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU WE'RE ABLE TO BUILD THIS
- 47:17BEAUTIFUL TABERNACLE TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER. PASTOR
- 47:21AND I, WE GET UP EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES SO GRATEFUL, SO
- 47:25THANKFUL, AND SO HONORING OF GOD AND WHAT HE DID THROUGH YOU. SO
- 47:30THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A GREAT YEAR. GOD BLESS YOU. WELL, IF
- 47:33YOU HAVE YOUR GIVING, LET'S GET READY, LET'S STAND. EVERYBODY
- 47:36STAND. AND IF YOU'RE USING YOUR PHONE, YOU CAN GET YOUR PHONE
- 47:40OUT, HOLD IT UP HIGH, HOLD UP YOUR ENVELOPE. YOU CAN DO THAT
- 47:44AS WELL. JUST HOLD IT UP, TREAT IT LIKE THIS IS YOUR STATEMENT.
- 47:49THIS IS YOUR PREPARATION FOR A BRAND NEW YEAR, AMEN? FATHER, I
- 47:52THANK YOU FOR EVERY PERSON HERE AND ONLINE THAT IS GIVING.
- 47:56FATHER, THAT IS PREPARING FOR 2026, JUST LIKE THE MAGI DID.
- 48:00THEY ARE PREPARING, THEY'RE GIVING, THEIR OFFERINGS, THEIR
- 48:03TITHES. AND FATHER, WE JUST WANNA SAY YOU ARE SO DESERVING.
- 48:07YOU DESERVE OUR BEST, JUST LIKE THEY GAVE. AND SO GOD, THAT'S
- 48:10WHAT WE'RE HERE AND WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TODAY, TO GIVE YOU OUR
- 48:13BEST. AND WE JUST SAY, THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU FOR
- 48:17COMING. THANK YOU FOR GIVING YOUR LIVES SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE
- 48:20TO GO TO HELL. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WE WANNA SAY THANK YOU. AND
- 48:24WE HONOR YOU WITH OUR GIVING TODAY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN AND
- 48:29AMEN. CAN WE DO OUR FINAL DECREE OF THIS YEAR? YOU WANNA DO THAT
- 48:33TOGETHER? ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO QUICKLY SO WE CAN GET THE KIDS
- 48:36UP HERE. SAY IT WITH ME. WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND MINISTRY
- 48:40OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, EXPANDED AND DEBT
- 48:44FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY THAT WE
- 48:49HAVE TO EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT BE BUILT UP AND
- 48:52FINISHED. WE SAY THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED FOR THE
- 48:56LORD IS BUILDING THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH EXCESS AND
- 49:01OVERFLOW. LORD, YOU ARE PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE
- 49:05CALL UPON YOU, LORD OF HOSTS, TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE
- 49:10AND RAISE UP MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE
- 49:13ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL
- 49:17QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THAT WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE
- 49:22DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE DECREE MINISTRY AND
- 49:26CAMPUS BE EXPANDED NOW. HALLELUJAH. GIVE GOD A PRAISE
- 49:30AS YOU GIVE. AND WHILE THE USHERS BEGIN TO
- 49:33SERVE YOU, LET'S WELCOME OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
- 49:36(MUSIC)
- 50:42LONG AGO, ONE QUIET NIGHT, ALL OF CREATION BEGAN TO STIR. NOT
- 50:48JUST THE STARS, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE, BUT EVEN THE ANIMALS
- 50:53TOO. YOU SEE, THEY KNEW A VERY SPECIAL BABY WAS ABOUT TO BE
- 50:58BORN. AND NOT JUST ANY BABY, THE MESSIAH, THE KING, THE SAVIOR OF
- 51:04THE WORLD. AND SO THE ANIMALS BEGAN TO PREPARE. ALL RIGHT
- 51:09TEAM, WE GOT A BIG JOB. THE MESSIAH WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING
- 51:12FOR IS BEING BORN AT BETHLEHEM. AND WE'VE GOT TO GET THERE. OUR
- 51:15SAVIOR, OUR KING, A ROYAL BABY WITH TEENY TINY TOES, I MUST
- 51:19SIMPLY SEE THIS. THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE BORN?
- 51:23WELL, OF COURSE, ONLY THE PROPHESIED IT FOR 400 YEARS. OH,
- 51:33HI. I WALKED ALL THE WAY FROM THE DESERT. MY FEET HURT, MY
- 51:36BACK HURTS, AND SOMEONE PUT GRANOLA IN MY HUMP. ARE Y'ALL ON
- 51:40YOUR WAY TO SEE THE MESSIAH? WE SURE ARE. I'M SO EXCITED TO MEET
- 51:44THE KING OF KINGS. CAN YOU BELIEVE GOD IS COMING TO BE WITH
- 51:47US? CAN I COME ALONG WITH YOU? WELL, OF COURSE, THE MORE THE
- 51:52MERRIER. OK, DID EVERYONE BRING THEIR SNACKS? I BROUGHT A SOCK.
- 51:59WAIT, NO. OH, YEP. JUST A SOCK. WAIT, DO WE EAT SOCKS NOW?
- 52:07ENOUGH CHATTER. WE NEED TO MOVE. WE GOT A KING TO MEET. LA LA LA,
- 52:11IT'S CHRISTMAS. VINNY, IS THAT YOU? CARL? VINNY, MY LONG LOST
- 52:17COUSIN. ARE YOU ON YOUR WAY TO MEET THE MESSIAH? I SURE AM. CAN
- 52:23YOU BELIEVE IT? JESUS, THE MESSIAH, IS COMING TO SAVE US. I
- 52:27KNOW. I'M SO JOYFUL. ME TOO. HEY, GRANDMA AND GRANDMA ARE ON
- 52:34THEIR WAY. UNCLE HENRY AND AUNT MIDGET ARE FLYING IN FROM
- 52:37JERICHO. COUSIN NERO, THE TURTLE, IS ON HIS WAY FROM
- 52:41NATHURISH. IT'S GOING TO BE A GRAND PARTY FULL OF SO MUCH JOY.
- 52:47LET'S NOT BE LATE. THE STARS ARE OUT, THE ANGELS ARE SINGING, AND
- 52:50I'VE REACHED MY HALLELUJAH POSE. THIS IS IT, TEAM.
- 52:56ALL CREATION HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
- 52:59MOMENT. THE ONE WHO WILL BRING PEACE. THE ONE
- 53:02WHO WILL LIKE MY SOCK. THE ONE WHO BRINGS LIGHT IN THE
- 53:06DARKNESS. ONE THAT SEES LITTLE CREATURES JUST LIKE ME. EVERYONE
- 53:11READY? ALL CREATURES HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT. AS
- 53:16READY AS I'LL EVER BE. LET'S GO WORSHIP THE NEWBORN KING AND
- 53:19MAYBE SIT DOWN AFTERWARD. I BROUGHT A GIFT. IT'S THIS SOCK.
- 53:28OH, STEPHEN, HE DOESN'T NEED A GIFT. HE JUST WANTS US. AND SO
- 53:33WITH EXCITEMENT, LAUGHTER, AND JOY IN THEIR HEARTS, THE ANIMALS
- 53:36MADE THEIR WAY TO THE STABLE, AND NOT TO SEE A THRONE OR A
- 53:41PALACE, BUT TO SEE GOD WRAPPED IN CLOTH, LYING IN A MANGER. SO,
- 53:51IN MANY WAYS, JESUS, GOD PROMISED HE'D SEND A SAVIOR, AND
- 53:53HE'S HERE. FA LA LA LA IT'S CHRISTMAS. LONG AGO IN
- 53:57BETHLEHEM'S NIGHT A BABY WAS BORN A SHINING LIGHT. NOT JUST
- 54:03PEOPLE, STARS AND SHEEP, WAITING FOR THE KING IN A MANGER DEEP.
- 54:10DONKEYS DANCING, THE FLEW HIGH AS SAVIOR WAS COMING FROM THE
- 54:18SKY. EVEN CAMELS FROM FAR AWAY HURRIED TO SEE THE KING THAT
- 54:24DAY. CREATION CHEERED, THE WAY IT WAS DONE, GOD HAS SENT HIS
- 54:30ONLY SON. NOT IN A CASTLE, BUT SOFT AND SMALL, JESUS CAME TO
- 54:35SAVE US ALL. NO CROWN OF GOLD, NO ROYAL BED, JUST A TINY HEAD.
- 54:44YET ALL THE EARTH BEGAN TO SING FOR JESUS CHRIST,
- 54:47OUR NEWBORN KING. PEACE HAD COME AND LOVE WAS NEAR,
- 54:51THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD WAS HERE. SO LET US SHOUT AND
- 54:57SING TODAY, FA-LA-LA-ELUJAH, CHRIST IS BORN. HOORAY!
- 55:03(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
- 55:07ONE NIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS. ONE STAR SHINING THE BRIGHTEST.
- 55:12HEAVEN COULDN’T CONTAIN THE GREATEST NEWS. SHEPHERDS
- 55:18COULDN’T BELIEVER IT, WISEMEN WANTED TO SEE IT, GOD WAS
- 55:23SENDING HHIS ONLY SON TO EARTH. CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND THE
- 55:31ANGELS SINGING OUT. JOY, SING AND SHOUT IT. TELL ALL THE WORLD
- 55:40ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH US, GOD IS WITH US! JOY, THIS IS THE
- 55:47SEASON, NOW WE HAVE A REASON. GOD IS WITH US AND THIS IS
- 55:54CHRISTMAS! FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA-
- 55:58LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS
- 56:03CHRISTMAS! JESUS BORN IN A MANGER, JESUS HE IS A SAVIOR HE
- 56:11IS SHOWING THE WORLD THE LOVE OF GOD.
- 56:16CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND. THE ANGELS SINGING OUT! JOY, SING
- 56:27AND SHOUT IT. TELL THE ALL WORLD ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH US, SING
- 56:32GOD IS WITH US. JOY, THIS IS THE SEASON. NOW WE HAVE A REASON.
- 56:39GOD IS WITH US AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS.
- 56:44FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH
- 56:49FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS! TELL ALL YOUR
- 56:55FRIENDS, TELL EVERYONE, EVERYONE. COME CELEBRATE. IT’S
- 57:01JUST BEGUN, JUST BEGUN. PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR CAUSE IT’S
- 57:06CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE. GET READY TO MOVE CAUSE WE KNOW IT’S TRUE!
- 57:13JOY! SING AND SHOUT IT TELL ALL THE WORLD ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH
- 57:19US, SING GOD IS WITH US. JOY, THIS IS THE SEASON. NOW WE HAVE
- 57:27A REASON. GOD IS WITH US. AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS!
- 57:32FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH
- 57:37FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS!
- 57:42FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH
- 57:47FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS!
- 57:52(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
- 58:06WE NEED TO GIVE THESE GUYS A BIG HAND CLAP. I THINK YOU GUYS NEED
- 58:11TO BOW. WATCH YOU, LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT, YOU GUYS
- 58:14ARE FAMOUS. WOW. HOW DO YOU FEEL BEING ALL OVER THE
- 58:22WORLD, LIVE TELEVISION, A MOVIE STAR NOW? AWESOME. YEAH, YEAH.
- 58:28IS THERE A WAY WE COULD GET YOUR AUTOGRAPH? NO.
- 58:31(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
- 58:33HOW ABOUT YOU? NO. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WE CAN JUST GET
- 58:38YOUR AUTOGRAPH? YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE YOUR
- 58:40NAME. THAT'S WHAT IT IS. I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE
- 58:43YOUR NAME. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO WRITE YOUR NAME? YES. YES. YES,
- 58:46ALL RIGHT, BUT HERE'S THE THING, GUYS. SO AS I WAS OVER THERE ON
- 58:49THE FRONT ROW, I WAS THINKING, SOON AS THE CHRISTMAS SINGING IS
- 58:55DONE, YOU ALL WILL FORGET YOUR MOVES. 'CAUSE SOME OF YOU HAD
- 58:59SOME LIKE DANCE MOVES. YEAH, YEAH. COME ON, YOU, SHOW US, YOU
- 59:05KNOW, YOU GOTTA BACK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT. SHOW US YOUR DANCE
- 59:07MOVE. WHOA, LOOK AT THAT. ALL RIGHT, LOOK AT THAT. NOW, I WANT
- 59:17TO YOU GUYS WANT ME TO TEACH YOU ONE? ALL RIGHT, IT GOES LIKE
- 59:21THIS. READY? ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY DO THAT. READY? I
- 59:28MEAN, LOOK AT THIS. WELL, WHERE'S YOUR DANCE MOVE? ARE YOU
- 59:33DOING A DANCE MOVE? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DANCE? WHO CAN DO A
- 59:39REALLY COOL MOVE? YOU ALREADY DID? OH, YOU ALREADY DID YOUR...
- 59:43SO YOU'RE RETIRED AS A MOVIE STAR NOW? HOW ABOUT YOU? SHOW US
- 59:47WHAT YOU GOT. NO. NO? HOW ABOUT YOU? YES. OKAY, GO FOR IT. LET'S
- 59:53SEE YOUR MOVE. OH MY GOODNESS, BREAK IT DOWN! YOU LOOK
- 1:00:00LIKE YOU GOT SOME MOVES, MAN. NO, I DON'T. YOU
- 1:00:04DON'T HAVE ANY MOVES? WERE YOU BORN WITHOUT ANY MOVES?
- 1:00:07(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
- 1:00:08HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? ALL RIGHT, READY? TRY THIS ONE. WANNA TRY
- 1:00:13THAT ONE? YOU DON'T WANNA TRY THAT ONE? ALL RIGHT, WHO'S GOT
- 1:00:16SOME MOVES? I GOT IT. YOU, OH, OH, WHAT DO YOU GOT?
- 1:00:24THAT IS, I'VE SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE. IS THAT CALLED
- 1:00:27THE RABBIT? NO, IT'S THE FROG. OH, IT'S THE FROG. HOW ABOUT
- 1:00:31YOU? LET ME SEE YOUR DANCE MOVE. COME ON UP HERE. ALL RIGHT. OH,
- 1:00:34LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THIS. OH, MY GOODNESS. WOW, DO YOU WORK
- 1:00:38THAT HARD TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM? NAH, YOU DON'T CLEAN YOUR ROOM.
- 1:00:43OH, YOU WANT ME TO BACK UP? NOW, HERE, YOU GOT TO BACK UP,
- 1:00:46BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO FALL DOWN THERE. OK, DO YOUR COOLEST
- 1:00:49MOVE. WOW, LOOK AT THAT. OH, HIS SHOE FELL OFF. OH, MY GOODNESS.
- 1:00:56YOU GOT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER, YOU GOT TO MAKE SURE YOU GOT THE
- 1:00:58SHOE. THAT'S OK. LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR THE SHOELESS DANCE GUY.
- 1:01:02ALL RIGHT, ONE MORE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DANCE LIKE? OK, NOW
- 1:01:06YOU GOT TO BACK UP. OK, HERE WE GO. READY, ONE WAIT, LET ME
- 1:01:11COUNT TO LIKE LET ME COUNT TO ONE MILLION. OK, I'M GOING TO
- 1:01:15START. 1, 2 THEN YOU COULD DANCE AT THE 1 OH, SHOULD I JUST MAKE
- 1:01:19IT LIKE 10? OK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. OK, GO. OH, MY
- 1:01:24GOODNESS. OH, THAT IS, ARE YOU LIKE A BALLERINA, A GYMNAST? NO,
- 1:01:31DON'T TRY IT, YOU MIGHT SPLIT YOUR PANTS THERE, BUDDY. OKAY,
- 1:01:35WELL, THAT'S OKAY, ALL RIGHT. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK PASTOR
- 1:01:39HANK SHOULD TRY THAT? YEAH! GO ASK YOUR PARENTS TO, I DON'T
- 1:01:51KNOW, I BETTER NOT. ALL RIGHT, WELL LET ME ASK YOU GUYS THIS
- 1:01:53BEFORE WE LET YOU GO. WHERE'S CARL THE CAMEL? COME ON UP HERE,
- 1:01:57CARL. I GOTTA ASK YOU A QUESTION. HOW MANY OF YOU, NOW
- 1:02:00LOOK, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING ALL OVER THE WORLD RIGHT
- 1:02:02HERE, CARL, AND THEY ARE WONDERING IF YOU REALLY DO HAVE
- 1:02:06GRANOLA IN THAT BACKPACK. DID THAT GET BY THE OFFICERS? DID
- 1:02:10THAT GET BY SECURITY? I MEAN DO YOU WANNA SHOW US WHAT'S IN
- 1:02:14THERE? WOULD YOU RATHER NOT? I GUESS SO. WHAT IS IT, YOUR
- 1:02:16PAJAMAS? CLEAN SOCKS? I DON'T KNOW, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, MAKE
- 1:02:23SURE, WAIT, WAIT, MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK FIRST, THINK THERE'S
- 1:02:25AN ANIMAL IN THERE. WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU GOT AN OLD STEEL
- 1:02:30SANDWICH IN THERE. WHAT IS THAT? BED SHEET. BED SHEET? YEAH.
- 1:02:38YEAH, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST KEEP THE ZIPPER ON THAT. THAT'S JUST
- 1:02:41GONNA KEEP THAT. WOW, WHERE'S THE GUY WITH THE SOCK? ALL
- 1:02:46RIGHT, SEE, THE PLAY'S OVER AND YOU LOST YOUR SOCKS. OH YEAH,
- 1:02:53MAN, YOU THINK IF THE PLAY'S STILL ON, YOU SHOULD GO GET YOUR
- 1:02:56SOCK, MAYBE? YEAH, MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO GET YOUR SOCK. YEAH,
- 1:03:00GO AHEAD AND GET YOUR SOCK, BRING IT UP HERE. LET ME SEE IT,
- 1:03:03WHAT'S INSIDE OF THIS? MAN, DID YOU WASH THAT THING? IS THIS
- 1:03:09JONATHAN, MY SON'S SOCKS? THIS SMELLS EXACTLY THE WAY HIS SOCKS
- 1:03:13ARE, YOU KNOW? HOW MANY KNOW? YEP, THAT'S JOHN'S SOCKS. WHAT
- 1:03:22ARE YOU GONNA GET FOR CHRISTMAS? LEGOS. LEGOS, OH, I COULD GO
- 1:03:27FOR, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA GET CASH? CASH, OH,
- 1:03:31LOOK AT ALL THE MONEY GIFTS. WELL, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK
- 1:03:34YOU'RE GONNA GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE ASKED FOR? OOH, WHAT DID
- 1:03:39YOU ASK FOR? A MILLION, I WANT TO GET A MILLION. THAT'S GREAT,
- 1:03:46WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU GOT? A MILLION LEGO SETS. HOW ABOUT
- 1:03:50YOU? I THINK I GOT SOMETHING SONIC Y. SOMETHING THAT INCLUDES
- 1:03:55SONIC. HOW ABOUT YOU? LIKE, I DON'T REALLY WANT TO SAY THIS,
- 1:04:03BUT OKAY, THEN DON'T SAY IT, OKAY, 'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOUR
- 1:04:05PARENTS ARE WATCHING, WE WANT 'EM TO COME BACK NEXT WEEK,
- 1:04:08OKAY. WHAT DID YOU GET? I ASKED FOR LEGOS. LEGOS, OKAY. IS THAT
- 1:04:16LIKE THE WAFFLES LEGO, MY EGGO, REMEMBER THAT? OKAY, WHAT'D YOU
- 1:04:19GET? I DON'T KNOW. YOU DON'T KNOW? YOU GOT YOUR HAND UP. I
- 1:04:26GOT A THING THAT HAS A REAL MICROPHONE ON IT. OH, A REAL
- 1:04:30MICROPHONE, LIKE MAYBE A REAL MICROPHONE THING? OH, I KNOW THE
- 1:04:33REAL MICROPHONE THING. I WANTED THAT REAL MICROPHONE THING TOO.
- 1:04:37WHAT'D YOU GET? I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I GOT, BUT I WON A
- 1:04:40GRAND PIANO. OH YEAH, AND I WON A HORSE. NO, YOU CAN'T SAY IT
- 1:04:47BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK I GOT A LEGO SET. WOW. OKAY, I SEE
- 1:04:54YOUR HAND. I GOT LIKE A GIANT CAT LUNA THAT'S LIKE ABOUT LIKE
- 1:04:59RIGHT HERE. OH, YEAH, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED WHATEVER THAT WAS.
- 1:05:04I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE WHAT I GOT YET, BUT I DO WANT A RECORD
- 1:05:07PLAYER. OH ALL RIGHT. WELL, LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR OUR KIDS
- 1:05:10TODAY. HOPEFULLY YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANTED.
- 1:05:13LET'S DO ONE MORE DANCE MOVE FOR THE AUDIENCE WITH PASTOR HANK.
- 1:05:18READY? ONE, TWO, THREE, GO. ONE, TWO, THREE, GO. DANCE, MOVE.
- 1:05:26WHAT, YOU GUYS ARE JUST STANDING THERE. COME ON, HELP ME OUT. YOU
- 1:05:29GOTTA FACE THAT WAY. READY? EVERYBODY DO THE MOVES. DO YOUR
- 1:05:32OWN MOVES. READY, ONE, TWO, THREE. JOY OF CHRISTMAS, MOVE.
- 1:05:36YEAH. DON'T LEAVE ME UP HERE BY MYSELF. ALL RIGHT, GUYS. OKAY,
- 1:05:45ALL RIGHT, THAT'S REALLY GOOD. I'M GONNA HAVE THESE GUYS NEXT
- 1:05:48YEAR. EVERYBODY ELSE, YOU GOTTA PRACTICE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GIVE
- 1:05:50IT UP FOR THE KIDS. GREAT JOB. I HOPE YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU
- 1:05:55WANTED AND MORE, ESPECIALLY THE CASH STUFF, RIGHT? ALL RIGHT,
- 1:05:59WE'LL SEE YA. YOU'RE LOOKING SHARP, MAN. YEAH, YOU LOOK
- 1:06:04REALLY SHARP. YOU RUNNING FOR WHAT, CITY COUNCIL? NOTHING LIKE
- 1:06:08THAT? SCHOOL BOARD? I DON'T KNOW, FIFTH GRADE? OKAY, ANYWAY,
- 1:06:14NICE TO MEET YA. THANK YOU. OKAY, YOU GOT MY VOTE. IT'S
- 1:06:21ALWAYS GREAT TO INTERVIEW 'EM, ISN'T IT? HEY, GREAT BRAIN, I'M
- 1:06:24GONNA GIVE THIS TO YOU REAL QUICK. ALL RIGHT. ISN'T THAT
- 1:06:31FUN? THAT'S A LOT OF FUN. I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY OF 'EM
- 1:06:34COULD ACTUALLY DANCE, MAN. 'CAUSE I WATCH YOU GUYS OUT
- 1:06:38THERE, AND YOU DON'T HAVE IT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY GET
- 1:06:41THEIR DANCE MOVES. OH, STOP, OH, STOP, YOU KNOW. BUT BOY, I TELL
- 1:06:46YOU, THE BEST PART OF THAT WAS JOHN, HOW DID I JUST GOT TO ASK,
- 1:06:49JONATHAN, HOW DID YOU GET YOUR SOCK UP HERE THAT STUNK SO BAD?
- 1:06:53THAT WAS REALLY THANK YOU FOR HELPING OUT WITH THE CHRISTMAS
- 1:06:56PLAY THIS YEAR BY YOUR STINKY, DIRTY SOCK THERE, JOHN.
- 1:06:59SO IT'S AMAZING. WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE
- 1:07:02COULD DEADLIFT ALMOST 900 POUNDS. BUT THE LAUNDRY
- 1:07:06BASKET, HE JUST COULD NEVER GET UP TO HIS...
- 1:07:08(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
- 1:07:11HE KNOWS I'M ONLY MESSING WITH HIM, BUT IT'S GREAT TO HAVE MY
- 1:07:13BOYS HERE, AND I LOVE 'EM. WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF FUN. MAMA'S
- 1:07:17GONNA DO A LOT OF COOKING, ISN'T SHE? SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE FUN.
- 1:07:21WE'RE GONNA GO DOWN AND DO A GAMING THING, AND WHEN I PLAY
- 1:07:25MATTHEW, LIKE, WHAT IS IT, LIKE, MADDEN, THEY CALL IT? THEY CALL
- 1:07:31IT MAD BECAUSE YOU GET MAD. HE BEATS ME LIKE 180 TO LIKE THREE.
- 1:07:36BUT TAKE IT EASY ON ME THIS YEAR, MATT. ALL RIGHT, WELL,
- 1:07:41BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I JUST WANNA REMIND YOU, YOU STILL HAVE
- 1:07:44TIME TO GET YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS. I WANNA SHOW YOU THIS, MY
- 1:07:49CHILDREN'S BOOKS. WE HAVE SOME NEW ONES THAT HAD COME OUT. MY
- 1:07:54P.I. GUS SERIES, THAT'S THE PIG THERE. AND THEN MUTT'S FEE AND
- 1:07:59HELP WANTED, I THINK THAT'S LIKE THE SIXTH OR SEVENTH ONE,
- 1:08:01RACHEL, IN THE SERIES. AND THEN WE'VE GOT MY NEW CAPTAIN ZEPTO,
- 1:08:06FAST FOOD SLOWDOWN. THESE ARE REALLY, REALLY HILARIOUS. AND
- 1:08:10THEN THOSE ARE ALL THE CHARACTERS THAT I CREATED. AND
- 1:08:12ACTUALLY, JACOB, ARE YOU IN HERE, JACOB BLACKBURN? HEY,
- 1:08:16THERE HE IS, HE'S RUNNING THE CAMERA. SO I SAID, JACOB, IS
- 1:08:18THERE ANY WAY, YOU HAVE A 3D PRINTER, COULD YOU PRINT THOSE
- 1:08:21OFF 3D? SO HE GOT THEM LIKE TWO INCHES, I'VE BEEN PAINTING THEM.
- 1:08:25AND I WANNA SHOW YOU BECAUSE I THINK WE SHOULD RALLY TOGETHER
- 1:08:29AND PUT THESE IN TOYS FOR KIDS, LIKE LITTLE FIGURINES. SO I'M
- 1:08:33KINDA, YEAH, I HAVE THIS LITTLE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? MY
- 1:08:37MAGNIFYING GLASS THING AND I'VE BEEN PAINTING THEM. AND SO IF
- 1:08:40I'M LOOKING AT YOU LIKE THIS TODAY, IT'S 'CAUSE, YEAH, THAT'S
- 1:08:43THE REASON, THAT IS THE REASON. SO ANYWAY, WELL, WANNA MAKE SURE
- 1:08:48THAT YOU GET ALL OF THOSE. WELL, LET'S BEGIN MY MESSAGE TODAY. I
- 1:08:52DO WANNA CHECK, I KNOW SHE MENTIONED SHE MIGHT COME OR
- 1:08:54WATCH ONLINE, BUT I MET SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY AT ONE OF THE
- 1:08:58PLACES OF BUSINESS THAT I WAS AT. NORMA, IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY
- 1:09:01TODAY. IS NORMA HERE OR IS SHE WATCHING ONLINE? NORMA, IF
- 1:09:04YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AND IF YOU'RE HERE AND
- 1:09:08I DON'T SEE YOUR HAND, WE WOULD LOVE TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
- 1:09:12YOU. WHOSE BIRTHDAY, ANYBODY'S BIRTHDAY TODAY BESIDES GOD?
- 1:09:15HAPPY BIRTHDAY. WE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I'M NOT GONNA SING,
- 1:09:21OTHERWISE WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE LEAVE. BUT ALL RIGHT, BEFORE WE
- 1:09:24GET STARTED THOUGH, I DO WANNA MENTION, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A
- 1:09:29BOARD MEETING AT ONE OF THE CHRISTMAS SERVICES. THE PASTOR
- 1:09:32GOT UP AND HE BEGAN TO SAY, "AFTER THE SERVICE, IMMEDIATELY,
- 1:09:38"THERE WILL BE A BOARD MEETING IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH." AND
- 1:09:42SO THE SERVICE WENT ON FOR QUITE A WHILE, AND FINALLY IT WAS
- 1:09:47OVER. THE PASTOR FINISHED HIS MESSAGE AFTER SIX CLOSINGS. YOU
- 1:09:51KNOW PASTOR BRENDA, RIGHT? AND SO THEY BEGAN TO GATHER FOR
- 1:09:56THEIR BOARD MEETING, AND THERE WAS THIS GUY THAT SHOWED UP, AND
- 1:09:59HE'S STANDING THERE. AND THEY'RE ALL THERE AT THE MEETING LOOKING
- 1:10:04AT HIM 'CAUSE HE WAS A VISITOR, AND THEY SAID, "SIR," THE
- 1:10:07PASTOR SAID, "SIR, WE KNOW IT'S YOUR FIRST SUNDAY HERE, "BUT
- 1:10:11THIS IS A BOARD MEETING." HE SAID, "OH YEAH, FROM
- 1:10:16THE TIME YOUR SERMON STARTED "TO THE TIME IT ENDED,
- 1:10:20I WAS AS BORED AS THEY COME, "SO I THOUGHT I WOULD."
- 1:10:23(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:10:25WAS THAT A GOOD ONE? YOU LIKE THAT? OKAY, ONLINE, IF YOU LIKED
- 1:10:30IT BETTER THAN THEY JUST REACTED IN HERE, PUT YOUR HAND UP AND
- 1:10:33WAVE. IF YOU DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GOOD, SAY, "JOHN, WASH YOUR
- 1:10:38SOCKS," AND THAT'LL BE THE MESSAGE, ALL RIGHT, THE CODE.
- 1:10:41ALL RIGHT, I WANT US TO TALK TODAY ABOUT CHRISTMAS, MAYBE IN
- 1:10:46A TOPIC THAT PERHAPS YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT. AND WE'RE GONNA
- 1:10:51TALK TODAY ABOUT CHRISTMAS PRESERVATION OR CHRISTMAS
- 1:10:54PROTECTION. YOU KNOW, THIS TIME OF YEAR, IT'S AMAZING HOW
- 1:10:58SOMETIMES PEOPLE, THEY GET INTO FEAR, RIGHT, GETTING THEIR
- 1:11:02SHOPPING DONE, OR MAYBE THEY'RE HEARING THE LATEST NEWS THAT ARE
- 1:11:05GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD, AND PEOPLE TEND TO SLIDE INTO FEAR.
- 1:11:11AND WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A JOYOUS TIME OF YEAR, PEOPLE ARE
- 1:11:14NOT HAPPY, THEY'RE AFRAID, THEY'RE UPTIGHT. BUT I WANNA
- 1:11:17TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE, BUT WHAT I THOUGHT I
- 1:11:20WOULD DO IS LET YOU HEAR THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS BY ONE OF
- 1:11:25THE GREATEST CLIPS THAT FOREVER PUT A MARK ON MY LIFE GROWING
- 1:11:30UP. ARE YOU READY? LET'S PLAY THE VIDEO. IS THERE ANYONE WHO
- 1:11:34KNOWS WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT? SURE, CHARLIE BROWN, I
- 1:11:39CAN TELL YOU WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT. LIGHTS, PLEASE. AND
- 1:11:52THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS, ABIDING IN THE FIELD,
- 1:11:55KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. AND LO, THE ANGEL OF
- 1:11:59THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE ROUND
- 1:12:03ABOUT THEM. AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID, AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO
- 1:12:06THEM, FEAR NOT; FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY,
- 1:12:11WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN
- 1:12:15THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD. AND
- 1:12:20THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU. YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED
- 1:12:23IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, LYING IN A MANGER. AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS
- 1:12:27WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD,
- 1:12:32AND SAYING, "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, AND
- 1:12:36GOODWILL TOWARD MEN." THAT'S WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT,
- 1:12:50CHARLIE BROWN. ALL RIGHT, I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU'D LIKE THAT.
- 1:12:53THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT TO HAVE WHOLESOME CARTOONS AGAIN. THAT
- 1:12:57IS A CLASSIC. HOW MANY OF YOU DID THAT MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR
- 1:13:00LIFE GROWING UP? AND IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE.
- 1:13:03MAYBE YOU WATCHED IT RECENTLY. BUT I WANT TO DRAW OUR ATTENTION
- 1:13:06TO LUKE CHAPTER TWO, AND I WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT LINUS WAS
- 1:13:09QUOTING. THE ANGELS OF THE LORD, THE BIBLE SAID THE HOST OF
- 1:13:12HEAVEN, SHOWED UP THAT DAY IN FRONT OF THE SHEPHERDS. AND I
- 1:13:16WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT WASN'T JUST A BUNCH OF ANGELS.
- 1:13:19THESE WERE THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN. AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE'S
- 1:13:23A POWERFUL VERSE IN THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH THAT SAYS, "IT'S NOT
- 1:13:27BY OUR MIGHT, IT'S NOT BY OUR POWER, BUT IT'S BY MY SPIRIT,
- 1:13:31SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS." AND THE WORD "LORD OF HOSTS" IS THE
- 1:13:34LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES. THAT'S WHAT ONE OF GOD'S NAME IS
- 1:13:40DEFINED AS, "LORD OF HOSTS," THE LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES. SO THESE
- 1:13:43THAT SHOWED UP, THE HOSTS WERE PART OF THE ANGELIC ARMIES OF
- 1:13:49HEAVEN. THESE WERE POWERFUL WARRIORS. THESE WERE POWERFUL
- 1:13:52SOLDIERS IN GOD'S HEAVENLY ARMY THAT SHOWED UP TO MAKE THIS
- 1:13:56ANNOUNCEMENT. BUT LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER TWO, AND I WANT US TO
- 1:14:00LOOK AT THIS IN VERSE 13, THAT LINUS QUOTED, "AND SUDDENLY
- 1:14:04THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL "A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOSTS
- 1:14:08PRAISING GOD. "AND THEY BEGAN TO SAY, 'GLORY TO GOD IN THE
- 1:14:12HIGHEST "'AND ON EARTH, PEACE, NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN,
- 1:14:17"'AND GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN.'" NOW I WANT US TO UNDERSTAND
- 1:14:20SOMETHING, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, THAT THAT
- 1:14:23MESSAGE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN, HASN'T
- 1:14:26CHANGED. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE
- 1:14:29PEACE BETWEEN NATIONS, PEACE BETWEEN PEOPLE. WHAT IT
- 1:14:32LITERALLY MEANS IS THAT WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD BECAUSE OF JESUS.
- 1:14:38AND THEN SOME OF US, AS WE'RE READING THIS TODAY, YOU NEED TO
- 1:14:41ASK YOURSELF, ARE YOU AT PEACE WITH GOD? ARE THINGS RIGHT IN
- 1:14:44YOUR LIFE? ARE THINGS RIGHT IN YOUR HEART? BECAUSE HAVING PEACE
- 1:14:48WITH GOD, YOU'RE GONNA FIND, IS ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING,
- 1:14:51GRATIFYING THINGS THAT YOU CAN HAVE IN YOUR LIFE. AND ONLY
- 1:14:55JESUS CAN BRING THAT PEACE, BUT PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS
- 1:15:00MEN. BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE IT IN CONTEXT OF DIVINE PRESERVATION
- 1:15:03OR PROTECTION. NOW YOU MIGHT BE ASKING, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE
- 1:15:06WATCHING, WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF PRESERVATION? THE DEFINITION
- 1:15:11OF PRESERVATION IS TO KEEP SAFE, TO KEEP FROM INJURY, TO KEEP
- 1:15:15FROM HARM, TO KEEP FROM DESTRUCTION, TO PROTECT, TO KEEP
- 1:15:20ALIVE, TO KEEP SOMETHING INTACT. AND SO I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT
- 1:15:24PART OF THE MESSAGE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN, WAS
- 1:15:29A MESSAGE THAT WHEN GOD HAS INJECTED HIMSELF IN THE EARTH
- 1:15:34THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THAT OUR PROMISE AND OUR BENEFITS THEN IS
- 1:15:40WE HAVE PRESERVATION, WE HAVE PROTECTION. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
- 1:15:45THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. OFTENTIMES
- 1:15:50AT CHRISTMAS TIME, WE EXCHANGE GIFTS. HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE
- 1:15:53RECEIVING GIFTS? THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO
- 1:15:57RECEIVE, BUT BOY, I LIKE RECEIVING GIFTS. HOW MANY OF YOU
- 1:15:59LIKE RECEIVING GIFTS? NOW REALLY THOUGH, THE OLDER YOU GET, I
- 1:16:03DON'T KNOW IF I LIKE RECEIVING THEM AS MUCH BECAUSE REALLY,
- 1:16:07WHAT DO PEOPLE GET YOU WHEN YOU GET MY AGE, RIGHT? ANOTHER
- 1:16:10COFFEE CUP, ANOTHER PAIR OF SOCKS, RIGHT? A TIE THAT YOU
- 1:16:14DON'T WEAR. IT'S JUST HARDER. HOW MANY OF YOU FIND IT HARD TO
- 1:16:19SHOP FOR YOUR PARENTS OR FOR PEOPLE, YOUR SPOUSE, THE OLDER
- 1:16:23YOU GET? JUST YOU RUN OUT OF OPTIONS, RIGHT? BUT ONE THING
- 1:16:27THAT GOD DID IS HE GAVE US A GIFT AND HE GAVE US A GIFT IN
- 1:16:32JESUS CHRIST. AND WHEN HE WAS BORN IN THAT MANGER AND THEN
- 1:16:36LATER ON JESUS DIED ON THAT CROSS, I WANNA SHOW YOU THE GIFT
- 1:16:40PACKAGE THAT HAS PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION IN IT. I WANT YOU
- 1:16:43TO LOOK AT PSALM 103. IN FACT, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING,
- 1:16:46THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE NOT TO FORGET THIS GIFT PACKAGE. SO YOU
- 1:16:49COULD SAY THIS, WHEN YOU ASK JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART,
- 1:16:52THIS IS WHAT THE CONTENTS OF THAT PACKAGE IS. PSALM 103,
- 1:16:57VERSE 1, IT SAYS, BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL, BLESS THE LORD,
- 1:17:01O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT THE GIFTS. FORGET NOT THAT PACKAGE
- 1:17:05THAT YOU GOT. WE CALL IT CHRISTMAS DAY, BUT WATCH THIS.
- 1:17:09BLESS HIS HOLY NAME AND DON'T FORGET HIS BENEFITS, VERSE THREE
- 1:17:13TELLS US WHAT THEY ARE. GOD HAS FORGIVEN US OF ALL OUR SINS, ALL
- 1:17:18OUR INIQUITIES. IT USES THE WORD INIQUITIES BECAUSE WHAT THAT
- 1:17:21MEANS IS PURPOSEFUL SIN, STUFF THAT WE'VE DONE INTENTIONALLY ON
- 1:17:25PURPOSE. BUT NOTICE THE OTHER THING, HE HEALS ALL OF OUR
- 1:17:28DISEASES. WE DON'T HAVE TO BE SICK, WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE A
- 1:17:31LIFE FILLED WITH DISEASE. WHO'S REDEEMED OUR LIFE, NOW LOOK AT
- 1:17:35THIS, THIS IS PROTECTION, THIS IS PRESERVATION, THAT IS PART OF
- 1:17:39YOUR CHRISTMAS PACKAGE. HE'S REDEEMED OUR LIFE FROM
- 1:17:42DESTRUCTION. THAT'S ACCIDENTS, THAT'S INJURIES, THAT'S
- 1:17:46TRAGEDIES, THAT'S CALAMITIES, THAT'S TURMOIL, THAT'S TRAUMA.
- 1:17:50YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE A LIFE OF THOSE THINGS. HE'S CROWNED YOU
- 1:17:55WITH LOVING KINDNESS. THAT WORD CROWN IS LIKE, HE'S SURROUNDED
- 1:17:58YOU. YOU TALK ABOUT PRESERVATION, TO KEEP YOU FROM
- 1:18:01INJURY, TO KEEP YOU FROM HARM, TO KEEP YOU INTACT. THAT'S
- 1:18:05EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CROWNED WITH HIS TENDER MERCY
- 1:18:08AND HIS LOVING KINDNESS. NOTICE THE NEXT THING. HE SAID HE
- 1:18:12SATISFIES YOUR MOUTH WITH GOOD THINGS, M&MS, GELATO, AND A LOT
- 1:18:17OF OTHER THINGS, SO THAT YOUR YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE.
- 1:18:21IN OTHER WORDS, AS YOU GET OLDER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BENT
- 1:18:24OVER AND WALK LIKE, REMEMBER TIM CONWAY, I'M A COMING, REMEMBER,
- 1:18:28HE COULD BARELY GET THERE? YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT IN
- 1:18:32OLD AGE. YOU CAN HAVE RENEWED YOUTH. SO THIS IS OUR BENEFIT
- 1:18:36PACKAGE. NOW, ONE THING, THOUGH, THAT HE DIDN'T SAY THAT WE ARE
- 1:18:39PROTECTED OR PRESERVED FROM, ARE YOU READY, IS PERSECUTION. JESUS
- 1:18:44SAID PERSECUTION WOULD COME, BUT ONE THING THAT HE SAID HE'S
- 1:18:48PRESERVED OUR LIFE FROM IS FROM EVIL, FROM SICKNESS, FROM
- 1:18:52DISEASE, FROM THINGS THAT ARE COMING IN A DESTRUCTIVE MANNER
- 1:18:56TO STEAL AND KILL AND DESTROY. SO I WANT YOU TO THINK
- 1:19:00DIFFERENTLY THIS CHRISTMAS THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED A GIFT FROM GOD.
- 1:19:04YOU'VE RECEIVED PRESERVATION. YOU'VE RECEIVED PROTECTION. YOU
- 1:19:08SAY, WELL, HOW DO I KNOW THAT? LOOK AT ISAIAH CHAPTER SEVEN.
- 1:19:12WHEN THE PROPHETS CAME TO THE EARTH, THEY BEGAN TO PROPHESY.
- 1:19:15AND THEY BEGAN TO DECLARE OUT OF THEIR MOUTH CONTINUAL PROPHETIC
- 1:19:19WORDS THAT WERE SIGNS THAT WOULD POINT TO THIS PERSON, THIS
- 1:19:24MESSIAH, GOD COMING IN HUMAN FORM, GOD COMING IN THE FLESH,
- 1:19:30HIS SON COMING TO BE BORN IN A WOMB OF A VIRGIN, AND THEN TO BE
- 1:19:35PLACED INTO A MANGER, AND THEN LATER ON TO DIE ON A CROSS, AND
- 1:19:39THEN THREE DAYS LATER TO RISE AGAIN. THIS PROPHET ISAIAH BEGAN
- 1:19:44TO SPEAK, AND NOTICE THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. HE SAID,
- 1:19:47"THE LORD HIMSELF IS GONNA GIVE YOU A SIGN, "AND YOU'RE GONNA
- 1:19:50KNOW WHEN GOD HAS COME INTO THE EARTH "WITH HIS GIFT. "BEHOLD, A
- 1:19:56VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE, AND SHE WILL BEAR A SON." NOW NOTICE THE
- 1:20:00NAME WE SANG ABOUT THIS TODAY. "SHE'LL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL."
- 1:20:06YOU SAY, "WELL, IS THAT A NAME OF A CHURCH?" NO, CHURCHES NAME
- 1:20:10THEMSELVES AFTER THIS WORD, EMMANUEL. IT MEANS GOD WITH US.
- 1:20:15YOU TALK ABOUT PRESERVATION, IF GOD IS WITH YOU. YOU TALK ABOUT
- 1:20:19PROTECTION, IF GOD IS WITH YOU, THEN THE BIBLE SAYS WHO CAN BE
- 1:20:24AGAINST YOU? LOOK AT THIS SCRIPTURE IN ROMANS CHAPTER
- 1:20:27EIGHT. HE'S EMMANUEL, HE'S GOD, OUR PROTECTOR. HE'S GOD, THE ONE
- 1:20:32WHO BRINGS PRESERVATION. GOD IS THE BIG GUY, RIGHT? HOW MANY OF
- 1:20:40YOU, WHEN YOU EVER GOT IN A FIGHT, MAYBE NOT JONATHAN, HE
- 1:20:43WOULD SAY, I'M GONNA GO GET MY DAD. JOHN WOULD JUST TAKE CARE
- 1:20:45OF IT HIMSELF, BUT HERE'S THE POINT. ANYBODY SAY, I'M GONNA GO
- 1:20:48GET MY DAD? DID YOU EVER USE THAT? YOU HAVE GOD ON YOUR SIDE.
- 1:20:52YOU HAVE PRESERVATION, YOU HAVE PROTECTION. ROMANS CHAPTER
- 1:20:55EIGHT, PUT THAT SCRIPTURE UP. LOOK AT EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.
- 1:20:58THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS, BUT IT SAYS, WHAT SHALL WE SAY IF GOD
- 1:21:03BE FOR US, WHO OR WHAT CAN BE AGAINST US? I WANT YOU TO LOOK
- 1:21:10UP TO HEAVEN AND SAY, THANK YOU, EMMANUEL. I RECEIVE PROTECTION.
- 1:21:15I RECEIVE PRESERVATION. THAT MEANS NO HARM, NO EVIL, NO
- 1:21:21PLAGUE, NOTHING OF EVIL CAN COME NEAR ME. I HAVE CHRISTMAS
- 1:21:28PRESERVATION YEAR ROUND, EVERY DAY, ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.
- 1:21:35THAT'S YOUR PROMISE. NOW NOTICE THIS ONE, THIS IS SO POWERFUL.
- 1:21:38LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2, IN VERSE 10. THE ANGELS SHOW UP AND
- 1:21:44NOTICE WHAT THEY SAID. "DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR I BRING YOU GOOD
- 1:21:52NEWS "THAT WILL CAUSE GREAT JOY FOR ALL PEOPLE." NOW, ONE OF THE
- 1:21:59THINGS THAT WE CAN SEE HERE IS THE MESSAGE REGARDING DON'T
- 1:22:04FEAR. I TALKED TO YOU JUST A MINUTE AGO, AND I TALKED ABOUT
- 1:22:08HOW SO MANY PEOPLE THIS TIME OF YEAR ARE AFRAID. IF YOU
- 1:22:14UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS EMMANUEL, WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? IF YOU
- 1:22:20UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS WITH YOU WHEN YOU SAY, "JESUS, COME INTO
- 1:22:23MY HEART," AND YOU RECEIVE THAT GIFT THAT HE GAVE OF HIS LIFE,
- 1:22:27THERE'S A PROTECTION PACKAGE, A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY, A
- 1:22:32HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE THAT GOES, A HEALTH PLAN FOR ALL YOUR
- 1:22:38FLESH, YOUR CHILDREN, EVERYTHING THAT CONCERNS YOU IS PART OF
- 1:22:42THIS PRESERVATION AND THIS PROTECTION. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER
- 1:22:451 VERSE 31 AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THE
- 1:22:47ANGEL SAID. NOTICE ANOTHER PROPHETIC WORD. THE ANGEL OF THE
- 1:22:53LORD SHOWS UP IN LUKE CHAPTER 1 VERSE 31 AND SAYS TO MARY, "YOU
- 1:22:59WILL CONCEIVE "AND YOU'LL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON." AND NOTICE THE
- 1:23:04NAME FROM HEAVEN, THE INTEL THAT CAME FROM HEAVEN. YOU ARE GOING
- 1:23:09TO CALL THIS SON, THIS CHILD, JESUS. WHAT DOES THE NAME JESUS
- 1:23:16MEAN, ANYBODY KNOW? YESHUA, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? MEANS SALVATION.
- 1:23:23WELL, TO SAVE YOU FROM WHAT? FROM YOURSELF. HOW MANY OF YOU
- 1:23:29NEEDED TO BE SAVED FROM YOURSELF? 'CAUSE YOU WERE GOING
- 1:23:32ON A HIGHWAY FAST TO HELL. YOU WERE GOING ON A HIGHWAY FAST TO
- 1:23:36NOWHERE. I TELL YOU, BEFORE I MET JESUS, I GOT SAVED. I GAVE
- 1:23:40MY HEART TO JESUS AT 18, MY LIFE WAS GOING NOWHERE. BUT SOON AS I
- 1:23:46ACCEPTED JESUS, IT SEEMED LIKE FOR A WHILE IT WASN'T GOING
- 1:23:49ANYWHERE EITHER, BUT THEN SALVATION, JESUS STEPPED IN AND
- 1:23:52BEGAN TO DIRECT MY LIFE. BUT THINK ABOUT JUST HIS NAME,
- 1:23:56EMMANUEL, GOD WITH ME, GOD FOR ME, BUT NOW HIS NAME IS JESUS'
- 1:24:00SALVATION. IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S COME TO SAVE YOU FROM WHAT?
- 1:24:02SICKNESS, DISEASE, TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES, DESTRUCTION.
- 1:24:10REMEMBER YOUR GIFT PACKAGE, YOUR BENEFITS I JUST SHOWED YOU IN
- 1:24:13PSALM 103? JESUS HAS COME AND HE'S PURCHASED FOR YOU
- 1:24:19PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, LONG LIFE AND HEALTH AND BLESSING.
- 1:24:24IT'S ALL PART OF YOUR SALVATION GIFT. MY QUESTION IS, DO WE
- 1:24:29REALLY KNOW WHAT WE GOT FOR CHRISTMAS? I REMEMBER, MY KIDS
- 1:24:35PROBABLY WON'T MIND ME SAYING THIS, BUT I REMEMBER EVERY YEAR,
- 1:24:38WE WOULD JUST GIVE 'EM CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AFTER CHRISTMAS
- 1:24:40PRESENTS AFTER CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. AND THEY'D OPEN 'EM
- 1:24:42ALL UP, THEY LOVED TO OPEN UP CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. BUT THERE
- 1:24:45WAS ALWAYS ONE OR TWO THAT THEY WOULD JUST GRAVITATE TO, AND THE
- 1:24:50OTHER ONES WOULD STAY RIGHT THERE BY THE CHRISTMAS TREE. AND
- 1:24:54WE'D HAVE TO TELL 'EM, "HEY, YOU STILL GOT OTHER PRESENTS HERE."
- 1:24:57AND THEN ALL YEAR LONG, THOSE PRESENTS WOULD STILL NOT BE AS
- 1:25:01WONDERFUL AS MAYBE TWO THAT THEY RECEIVED. WELL, WE DON'T WANNA
- 1:25:05DO THAT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SALVATION PACKAGE, OUR
- 1:25:08PRESERVATION PACKAGE. WE DON'T WANNA JUST PUT IT ASIDE, FORGET
- 1:25:12ABOUT IT, RIGHT? BE INTERESTED IN JUST, HEY MAN, I'M GETTING A
- 1:25:16MANSION IN HEAVEN SIDE, RIGHT? I'M GETTING ETERNAL LIFE. I HAVE
- 1:25:21FORGIVENESS OF SIN. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, BUT THERE'S STILL
- 1:25:23SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH. AND WHAT YOU HAVE
- 1:25:28IS YOU HAVE A CHRISTMAS PACKAGE OF EVERYTHING THAT INCLUDED WHAT
- 1:25:33I SHOWED YOU AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING IN PSALM 103.
- 1:25:37FORGIVENESS OF SIN, HEALTH AND HEALING. YOU'RE PROTECTED,
- 1:25:42YOU'RE PRESERVED. AND LET'S GO BACK TO THE BOOK OF LUKE. AND
- 1:25:47LET'S LOOK ABOUT THIS FEAR, BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE GET INTO
- 1:25:50FEAR, THEY BEGIN TO OPEN UP A DOOR THAT BEGINS TO GIVE ACCESS
- 1:25:57TO THE ENEMY, THE DEVIL, TO TRY TO GET AT YOUR PRESERVATION, TO
- 1:26:01GET AT YOUR PEACE, TO GET AT THE GOODWILL OF GOD THAT HAS BEEN
- 1:26:04PAID FOR, TO TRY TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE, TO TRY TO MAKE
- 1:26:09YOUR LIFE A STRUGGLE, TO BRING YOU FROM ONE HARDSHIP TO ANOTHER
- 1:26:13HARDSHIP, TO WHERE ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S JUST ONE CYCLE AFTER
- 1:26:16ANOTHER THAT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE AND MORE SPINNING OUT OF
- 1:26:19CONTROL. BUT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT FEAR IS NOT OF GOD, GOD IS
- 1:26:26A FAITH GOD, HE'S NOT A FEAR GOD. FEAR IS OF THE DEVIL.
- 1:26:31SPIRITS OF FEAR, DEMONIC ENTITIES LOVE TO GET YOU OUT OF
- 1:26:35FAITH, TO GET YOU IN A PLACE WHERE YOU SAY THINGS LIKE, OH,
- 1:26:39I'M AFRAID OF THAT, I DON'T WANNA DO THAT, I'M NOT GONNA DO
- 1:26:42THAT. YOU LISTEN TO SOMETHING ON THE NEWS AND THE NEXT THING YOU
- 1:26:45KNOW WHAT, YOU EXPECT SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN TO YOU, YOUR
- 1:26:48HOUSE, YOUR BODY, THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I MEAN, JUST
- 1:26:51LISTEN TO THE COMMERCIALS THAT ARE ON. I MEAN, YOU CAN'T EVEN
- 1:26:54WATCH ANYTHING ANYMORE WITHOUT ABOUT, WHAT, 20 DIFFERENT
- 1:26:57COMMERCIALS THAT ALL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ALL THEIR MEDICATIONS
- 1:27:01AND THINGS THAT IS THE LATEST, GREATEST, YOU EVER NOTICE IT'S
- 1:27:04THE LATEST, GREATEST ANSWER AND CURE TO YOUR PROBLEM, RIGHT? AND
- 1:27:12THEN FIVE MINUTES OF WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE IT. IF YOU TAKE
- 1:27:18ACCELERATION, OR IF YOU TAKE ACCELERATE, I'LL JUST MAKE A
- 1:27:22NOTE, IF YOU TAKE ACCELERATE, IT'LL HELP YOUR RASH. AND THEN
- 1:27:29LATER ON, HERE'S WHAT YOU HEAR, BUT PLEASE REMEMBER, IF YOU TAKE
- 1:27:33ACCELERATE, YOU MAY HAVE SUDDEN URGES TO BARK LIKE A DOG. YOU
- 1:27:38MAY HAVE URGES TO GO OUT INTO YOUR GARAGE AND SPEND HOURS WITH
- 1:27:41YOUR GARAGE DOOR, OPENING AND CLOSING YOUR GARAGE DOOR. YOU
- 1:27:45MAY YELL AT YOUR NEIGHBORS AND EVEN, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE LIKE,
- 1:27:52WHY WOULD I WANT TO TAKE THAT? THINK I'LL KEEP THE RASH, RIGHT?
- 1:28:00BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THINGS IF YOU LISTEN TO IT AFTER A WHILE, YOU
- 1:28:03WATCH THE NEWS AND YOU HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON, PEOPLE LOSING
- 1:28:07THEIR LIVES, NATIONS AT WAR, PEOPLE AT WAR, LOONIES THAT ARE
- 1:28:11TRYING TO PRESS THEIR AGENDA. IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU CAN GET
- 1:28:16INTO FEAR AND THINK THAT THERE'S NOTHING GOOD THAT'S GOING TO
- 1:28:19HAPPEN AT ANY TIME SOON OR AT ALL. I MEAN, I KNOW PEOPLE,
- 1:28:22THEY'RE ALL LIKE, "WELL, I'M JUST WAITING FOR JESUS TO COME
- 1:28:25AGAIN BECAUSE THE EARTH IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND-BASKET.” WELL,
- 1:28:30YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND CLIMB IN THAT HAND-BASKET, BUT I'M NOT
- 1:28:32GOING TO. I DON'T SEE THINGS THAT WAY. I HAVE A PRESERVATION
- 1:28:36PACKAGE FROM GOD. AND AS LONG AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN THE
- 1:28:40EARTH BEFORE JESUS RETURNS, I HAVE A COVENANT RIGHT BY
- 1:28:46BLOODSHED FOR PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION. AND SO DO YOU. THE
- 1:28:51ONLY THING, LIKE I SAID, THAT YOU DON'T HAVE IS YOU DON'T HAVE
- 1:28:54PROTECTION FROM PERSECUTION. PERSECUTION WILL COME, JESUS
- 1:28:59SAID, FOR THE WORD'S SAKE. NOW WATCH LUKE CHAPTER 1, LOOK AT
- 1:29:03MARY. THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SHOWS UP AND SAYS, "FEAR NOT,
- 1:29:07MARY, FOR YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD." NOW STOP RIGHT THERE.
- 1:29:14WHAT IS THERE TO FEAR IF YOU HAVE IMMANUEL? WHAT IS THERE TO
- 1:29:17FEAR IF YOU'VE REALLY ASKED AND ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST INTO YOUR
- 1:29:21HEART? YOU HAVE FAVOR WITH GOD. GOD IS FOR YOU. THEN DO WE
- 1:29:26REALLY NEED TO BE AFRAID THAT WE'RE NEVER GONNA MAKE IT? OR DO
- 1:29:31WE REALLY NEED TO BE AFRAID THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME GREAT
- 1:29:34CALAMITY'S GONNA HAPPEN AND GOD IS GONNA SOMEHOW FORGET ABOUT
- 1:29:37ME? WE HAVE TO GO GET A CAVE, GET THAT FOOD WHERE YOU ADD
- 1:29:44WATER. IT'S A SPONGE, BUT THEY PUT EGG POWDER ON IT, WAFFLE MIX
- 1:29:50POWDER ON IT, RIGHT? AND PEOPLE ARE EATING, YOU KNOW, SPONGES.
- 1:29:54AND THEN WHEN THEY, YOU KNOW, SPONGE CAKE AND ALL THAT. AND
- 1:29:58THEN WHEN THEY EAT IT, IT EXPANDS IN THEIR STOMACH AND
- 1:30:01IT'S SUPPOSED TO KEEP YOU FROM HAVING HUNGER WHEN YOU'RE OUT
- 1:30:04HIDING IN A CAVE. AND NOBODY'S TO KNOW WHERE YOU'RE AT AS YOU
- 1:30:10MAKE YOUR CELL PHONE CALLS FROM THE CAVE.
- 1:30:13(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:30:15BUT THINK ABOUT WHEN THE ANGEL CAME TO MARY AND SAID, "MARY,
- 1:30:18HEY, DON'T FEAR. YOU FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD." CAN YOU IMAGINE? THE
- 1:30:23WOMEN AND THE YOUNG GIRLS THERE IN ISRAEL, THEY ALL DREAMT ABOUT
- 1:30:29BEING THE ONE THAT WOULD BE THE VIRGIN THAT WOULD CONCEIVE,
- 1:30:34CARRYING THE MESSIAH. AND NOW IT'S HER. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
- 1:30:38SHE'S LIKE, "OKAY, HOW IS THIS GONNA WORK ON SOCIAL MEDIA? HOW
- 1:30:46IS THIS GONNA WORK IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE? TELLING EVERYBODY,
- 1:30:50"YEAH, THIS BUMP IS, YEAH, THERE WAS NO MAN INVOLVED." TRY THAT.
- 1:31:00"I DIDN'T DO IT." "MM HMM." "NO, REALLY, HONESTLY. ME AND JOSEPH,
- 1:31:07WE'VE BEEN BEHAVING." "MM HMM." NO, NONE ON YOUR LIFE. THINK
- 1:31:13ABOUT THE PUBLIC SCRUTINY SHE WAS ABOUT TO RECEIVE. JOSEPH,
- 1:31:18LOOK AT THE MESSAGE TO HIM, AND IT'S THE MESSAGE TO YOU AS WELL.
- 1:31:21WHY AM I SHARING THIS? BECAUSE IF GOD SENT THIS MESSAGE TO MARY
- 1:31:26AND JOSEPH, AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE SHEPHERDS, IT'S BECAUSE FEAR
- 1:31:29IS THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT WILL TRY TO GET AT YOUR GIFT
- 1:31:32PACKAGE AND TAKE YOUR PRESERVATION RIGHTS, YOUR
- 1:31:38PROTECTIVE RIGHTS FROM YOU. BECAUSE YOU'LL START DOUBTING,
- 1:31:42YOU'LL START THINKING THAT GOD ISN'T FOR YOU OR HE'S NOT GONNA
- 1:31:44COME THROUGH. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSES 19 THROUGH 20.
- 1:31:47THEN JOSEPH, HER HUSBAND, BEING A JUST MAN AND NOT WILLING TO
- 1:31:51MAKE HER A PUBLIC EXAMPLE, WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY
- 1:31:55PRIVATELY. BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE
- 1:31:58ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM. NOTICE, "JOSEPH,
- 1:32:02SON OF DAVID, DON'T YOU DARE FEAR TO TAKE MARY TO BE YOUR
- 1:32:06WIFE, FOR THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS BY THE HOLY
- 1:32:10GHOST." LOOK AT THE SHEPHERDS. NOW, HERE'S WHAT'S AMAZING. YOU
- 1:32:13KNOW, THE SHEPHERDS WERE OUT THERE ON THEIR HILLSIDE, AND
- 1:32:17THEY WERE LISTENING TO "OOH" TIDE CAROLS. OOH, OR YOU, OR
- 1:32:29OOH. THEY CALL 'EM AN OOH. I DON'T THINK YOU'D LIKE THAT.
- 1:32:36WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT MARY AND JOSEPH, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE
- 1:32:38ANGEL APPEARED, AND THEY WENT TO THE MANGER, IT WAS TO CAUSE THEM
- 1:32:45TO HAVE A STABLE RELATIONSHIP. SO I JUST THOUGHT I WOULD THROW
- 1:32:49THAT OUT THERE FOR YOU THAT ARE WANTING TO. YOU ARE ALL IN A
- 1:32:57CHRISTMAS MOOD. NOTHING I'M SAYING IS GOING OVER, JUST OKAY.
- 1:33:01LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER TWO. DON'T BE AFRAID. THE ANGEL SAID, "I
- 1:33:05BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY "THAT WILL BE FOR ALL PEOPLE."
- 1:33:09NOW, I WANNA SAY THIS BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS
- 1:33:12IMPORTANT IS THE MESSAGE THAT WAS GIVEN. NOTICE, LET'S
- 1:33:17CONTINUE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSES 10 THROUGH 12. MAYBE
- 1:33:21YOU HAVEN'T CONSIDERED THIS. THE ANGEL BEGINS TO SAY, "DON'T
- 1:33:24FEAR." BUT THEN I WANT YOU TO SEE HE PUTS SOMETHING IN THE
- 1:33:29MESSAGE FROM GOD THAT SHOULD GIVE ALL OF US A SENSE OF
- 1:33:33COMFORT, A SENSE OF PEACE, A SENSE OF KNOWING, A SENSE OF
- 1:33:37FAITH. LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD, YOU ARE PROTECTING ME. I GET IN
- 1:33:41MY CAR, I HAVE THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT OF PRESERVATION. GOD, WHEN
- 1:33:47I'M AT MY HOUSE, I HAVE PRESERVATION. WHEN I'M GOING
- 1:33:51ABOUT MY DAY, I HAVE PRESERVATION. NOTICE WHAT THE
- 1:33:54ANGEL SAID, LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. AND THE ANGEL SAID, "FEAR
- 1:33:57NOT, "I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, "WHICH SHALL BE TO
- 1:33:59ALL PEOPLE." NOW WATCH THIS, "FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY
- 1:34:02"IN THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD, "AND THIS SHALL
- 1:34:05BE A SIGN UNTO YOU." NOW THERE'S ANOTHER SIGN. NOTICE THIS, MAYBE
- 1:34:09YOU'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF IT IN THIS CONTEXT OF PRESERVATION OR
- 1:34:12PROTECTION, BUT NOTICE WHAT THE ANGEL SAID. YOU'RE GONNA FIND A
- 1:34:16BABE, YOU'RE GONNA FIND A LITTLE BABY WRAPPED IN SWADDLING
- 1:34:21CLOTHES, UNDERLINE THAT, LYING IN A MANGER. NOW YOU SAY, WHAT
- 1:34:26DOES SWADDLING CLOTHES HAVE TO DO WITH PRESERVATION OR
- 1:34:29PROTECTION? GOD FROM THE BEGINNING WAS TRYING TO SAY,
- 1:34:33LOOK, I'M COMING TO GIVE YOU THIS CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT
- 1:34:37THAT'LL TAKE 33 YEARS BEFORE YOU CAN OPEN IT. IT'S GOT A DIE ON
- 1:34:43THE CROSS, JESUS, AND THEN AFTER THAT YOU GET THIS FULL PACKAGE
- 1:34:48AND YOU GET PRESERVATION BUT HE'S TRYING TO GIVE US A HINT.
- 1:34:51SWADDLING CLOTHES, WHY WOULD THEY PUT A LITTLE BABY IN
- 1:34:54SWADDLING CLOTHES? WHY WOULD THEY WRAP THAT CHILD IN
- 1:34:56SWADDLING CLOTHES? IT WAS TO BRING PRESERVATION, IT WAS TO
- 1:35:00BRING PROTECTION BECAUSE WITHOUT THE SWADDLING OF THOSE CLOTHING
- 1:35:04AROUND THAT CHILD, THAT CHILD IS VERY VULNERABLE. WHAT'S THE
- 1:35:08FIRST THING, COME ON, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GIVEN BIRTH? HOW
- 1:35:11MANY HUSBANDS WERE THERE WHEN THEY GAVE BIRTH? THE FIRST THING
- 1:35:14THEY DO IS CLEAN THAT BABY UP AND IMMEDIATELY WRAP THAT CHILD
- 1:35:18IN SWADDLING CLOTHES AS A SIGN OF PRESERVATION, PROTECTION. SO
- 1:35:24YOU HAVE, WATCH THIS, OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE LITERAL BODY
- 1:35:29OF JESUS, HE HAD A WRAPPING, A SWADDLING AROUND HIM. AT HIS
- 1:35:34DEATH IN THE GRAVE, THEY WRAPPED HIM AGAIN SO THAT YOU, THE BODY
- 1:35:41OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH, YOU ARE HIS BODY, RIGHT? THOSE OF YOU
- 1:35:46THAT ARE WATCHING. YOU ARE ALSO SWADDLED NOW. YOU ARE WRAPPED IN
- 1:35:52THE COVENANT OF HIS PROTECTION, OF HIS PEACE, OF HIS MERCY, OF
- 1:35:58HIS FORGIVENESS, OF HIS HEALING. HOW MANY OF YOU SEE THAT? LET ME
- 1:36:03GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF SWADDLING. SWADDLING CLOTHES
- 1:36:06WERE FOR LAMBS AND BABIES, WHICH SYMBOLIZED BOTH THE BABY'S
- 1:36:09VULNERABILITY THAT NEEDED PHYSICAL PROTECTION, BUT IT WAS
- 1:36:13AROUND THE BODY OF THE BABY OR THE BODY OF CHRIST. IN THE SAME
- 1:36:17WAY, THE CHURCH OR THE BODY OF CHRIST, WE ARE SWADDLED IN THE
- 1:36:20BLESSING OF OUR SALVATION. WE ARE PROTECTED THROUGH JESUS'
- 1:36:23DEATH AND RESURRECTION. LOOK AT PSALM 91, 9 THROUGH 10. TALK
- 1:36:28ABOUT THESE SWADDLING VERSES. PSALM 91, LOOK AT WHAT IT SAYS.
- 1:36:32THIS IS PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION, SWADDLING. BECAUSE
- 1:36:35THOU HAS MADE THE LORD, WHICH IS MY REFUGE, EVEN THE MOST HIGH IS
- 1:36:40MY HABITATION. VERSE 10, HERE'S THE SWADDLING. NO EVIL CAN COME
- 1:36:44NEAR YOU. THAT'S PRESERVATION, THAT'S PROTECTION. AND NEITHER
- 1:36:48SHALL ANY SICKNESS, DISEASE, COVID VARIANT NUMBER 16,
- 1:36:52WHATEVER IT IS, IT CANNOT COME NEAR YOU OR YOUR HOUSE. LOOK AT
- 1:36:57ANOTHER ONE. PSALM 23, VERSE 1, "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. "I
- 1:37:01SHALL NOT WANT," AND IT BEGINS TO TALK ABOUT, EVEN THOUGH YOU
- 1:37:04WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, EVEN THOUGH
- 1:37:08THERE'S SOME FRIGHTENING THINGS, SOME FEARFUL THINGS, I AM WITH
- 1:37:12YOU, THAT'S PART OF PRESERVATION THAT HE GIVES TO YOU AS THE GOOD
- 1:37:17SHEPHERD. PSALM 103, WE ALREADY QUOTED IT, LOOK AT VERSE 4. PART
- 1:37:21OF THE SWADDLING THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR YOU IS YOUR
- 1:37:24CHRISTMAS GIFT. PSALM 103, VERSE 4, HE'S REDEEMED, HE'S PAID FOR
- 1:37:29IT THROUGH HIS BLOOD. YOUR LIFE IS FREE FROM DESTRUCTION,
- 1:37:34TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES, COME ON, HIGH WINDS WHEN THEY COME INTO
- 1:37:38YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, INTO YOUR CITY, INTO YOUR STATE, INTO YOUR
- 1:37:42NATION. HE'S REDEEMED YOUR LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION AND HE'S
- 1:37:45SWADDLED YOU AS HE SURROUNDED YOU, WRAPPED YOU WITH LOVING
- 1:37:50KINDNESS AND TENDER MERCY. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 10, VERSE 9,
- 1:37:53JESUS OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH SAID, "LISTEN, I'VE GIVEN YOU
- 1:37:57AUTHORITY "TO TREAD UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS "AND OVER
- 1:38:00ALL THE POWERS OF THE DEVIL. "THE DEVIL IS NOT ALL THAT
- 1:38:03POWERFUL. "AND BY NO MEANS, BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN SWALLOWED,"
- 1:38:09LUKE 10:19, "BECAUSE OF THAT, NO HARM CAN COME NEAR YOU. "NOTHING
- 1:38:17CAN HARM OR INJURE YOU." THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS. PUT IT
- 1:38:20UP AGAIN, "BEHOLD, PAY ATTENTION, "I GIVE YOU POWER TO
- 1:38:24TREAD UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS "OVER ALL THE POWERS
- 1:38:27OF THE ENEMY, "BECAUSE YOU'RE SWADDLED, "JUST LIKE THE BODY OF
- 1:38:30CHRIST WAS. "YOU AS MY BODY, YOU'RE SWADDLED, "AND BY NO
- 1:38:34MEANS SHALL ANYTHING HURT YOU." AMEN. JONATHAN, I PRAY SOMEBODY
- 1:38:40DOESN'T PRAY THAT WHEN YOU GO IN THE RING WITH THEM. BY NO MEANS
- 1:38:44SHALL ANYTHING HURT ME. I AM UFC SWADDLE MAN.
- 1:38:48(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:38:49JUST BE CAREFUL, JOHN, ALL RIGHT? I WANNA SHOW YOU ANOTHER
- 1:38:53ONE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 1, VERSE 35. THIS ONE IS SO
- 1:38:56POWERFUL. LOOK AT THE MESSAGE. IT CONTINUES FROM THE ANGEL. AND
- 1:38:59IN VERSE 35, NOTICE WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS TO MARY. I WANT YOU
- 1:39:04TO SEE THIS SWADDLING. AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, "THE HOLY
- 1:39:08GHOST SHALL COME UPON YOU." AND NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THESE
- 1:39:12WORDS. "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST." OKAY, MOUNT EVEREST IS
- 1:39:19WHAT? IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. GOD IS THE HIGHEST THERE IS.
- 1:39:26THERE IS NOTHING AND NO ONE HIGHER THAN GOD. AND SO NOTICE
- 1:39:31WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS. "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST, THE MOST HIGH,
- 1:39:36"SHALL WHAT? SWADDLE YOU, SHALL OVERSHADOW YOU." JUST LIKE THE
- 1:39:40LITTLE BABY THAT YOU'RE GONNA WRAP IN SWADDLING CLOTHES,
- 1:39:44YOU'RE GONNA PLACE HIM IN THE MANGER, GOD IS GONNA PLACE YOU
- 1:39:47IN THE MANGER OF BLESSING, THE MANGER OF COVENANT, AND YOU'RE
- 1:39:50GONNA BE SWADDLED. YOU ARE GOING TO BE OVERSHADOWED. NOW NOTICE A
- 1:39:54SHADOW, THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THERE IS NO GREATER
- 1:39:59POWER, THERE'S NO GREATER ENTITY THAN GOD IS GONNA OVERSHADOW THE
- 1:40:03VERY BODY OF CHRIST IN THE WHAT? WOMB OF MARY. YOU SAY, WELL,
- 1:40:10THAT WAS JUST FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS CATHOLIC.
- 1:40:13(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:40:15RIGHT? NO, IT'S THE SAME PROMISE FOR YOU. NOW, I WANT YOU TO PUT
- 1:40:19THAT VERSE BACK UP. THIS IS POWERFUL. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
- 1:40:22LITERALLY MEANS? THE SHADOW OF THE HIGHEST? IT LITERALLY MEANS
- 1:40:26THIS, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, BECAUSE IT'S THE
- 1:40:29SHADOW OF THE HIGHEST, IT IS THE MOST POWER AVAILABLE, GREATER
- 1:40:35THAN ALL NUCLEAR POWER, ATOMIC POWER. IT IS THE GREATEST POWER
- 1:40:41AVAILABLE, GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE CALL NUCLEAR, ATOMIC,
- 1:40:46WHATEVER. IT IS THE GREATEST POWER AVAILABLE, CONTAINED IN
- 1:40:52THE EARTH WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. THAT'S HOW MUCH SWADDLING OF THE
- 1:40:59PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE'S LIKE, I AM COMING TO WATCH
- 1:41:03OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST, LITERALLY, AND IT'S SO MUCH
- 1:41:07POWER, IF I DON'T CONTAIN IT, IT'LL BLOW UP THE WORLD. AND
- 1:41:10IT'S GREATER THAN ATOMIC, IT'S GREATER THAN NUCLEAR, 'CAUSE WHO
- 1:41:13MADE NUCLEAR POWER? GOD DID. WE TAPPED INTO THE SCIENCE OF IT,
- 1:41:21BUT GOD MADE IT. AND HE'S SAYING MY SHADOW, MY SWADDLING, OVER
- 1:41:25THE LITERAL BODY OF CHRIST IS THE MOST CONTAINED POWER
- 1:41:31AVAILABLE IN EARTH WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. SO IF MARY HAD
- 1:41:34THIS OVER HER WOMB, PREGNANT WOMEN, THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT A
- 1:41:40CHILD, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE CHILDREN, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE
- 1:41:43MARRIED, YOU NEED TO PRAY THIS. GOD, I PRAY FOR THAT SAME
- 1:41:49OVERSHADOWING, THAT SAME SWADDLING TO BE OVER MY CHILD,
- 1:41:54OVER MY BABY, OVER MY SPOUSE, OVER MY CAR, OVER MY HOME.
- 1:41:58YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, CAN I DO THAT? LOOK AT PSALM 91. THERE IS
- 1:42:02THIS SHADOW. LOOK AT PSALM 91, VERSE ONE THROUGH TWO. IT'S PART
- 1:42:06OF YOUR COVENANT PACKAGE. HE THAT DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE
- 1:42:10OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL, NOTICE HE'S THE MOST HIGH, AND IF HE'S
- 1:42:14THE MOST HIGH, HIS SHADOW IS THE MOST HIGH'S SHADOW. IT'S THE
- 1:42:18MOST CONTAINED POWER AVAILABLE THAT RESTRAINS THE DEVIL THAT HE
- 1:42:25WOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT TRYING TO VIOLATE IT. THAT'S THE KIND
- 1:42:29OF PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION YOU HAVE. IT SAYS THE SECRET
- 1:42:33PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW, THE
- 1:42:37PRESENCE, THE OVERSHADOWING OF GOD. VERSE TWO, LOOK AT VERSE
- 1:42:41TWO. AND I'LL SAY TO THE LORD, HE'S MY REFUGE, HE'S MY GOD,
- 1:42:44HE'S EMMANUEL. I'LL PUT MY TRUST THERE AND I WON'T EVEN BE
- 1:42:47AFRAID. LOOK AT ACTS CHAPTER FIVE, SAME WORD. YOU THINK, WELL
- 1:42:51THAT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, MARY, SHE WAS CATHOLIC. AND NO, LOOK AT
- 1:42:56THE APOSTLE PAUL, ACTS CHAPTER 5. THIS SAYS IN VERSE 15, IN SO
- 1:43:01MUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK IN THE STREETS, THEY LAID
- 1:43:05THE SICK ON THE BEDS, THEY LAID THE SICK ON COUCHES, THAT THE
- 1:43:10SHADOW, WHICH WAS THE PRESENCE OF THE MOST HIGH, THAT WORD
- 1:43:14SHADOW IS THE SAME WORD THAT THE ANGEL SAID WOULD OVERSHADOW
- 1:43:19MARY'S WOMB, IS NOW THE SAME WORD, THE SAME SHADOW OF THE
- 1:43:23HIGHEST, THE SAME MOST CONTAINED POWER AVAILABLE IN THE EARTH
- 1:43:28WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP, WAS UPON PETER AND OVERSHADOWED THEM. AND
- 1:43:33NOTICE THE NEXT VERSE, THEY GOT HEALED. SO WHEN YOU SAY THE
- 1:43:37SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, THAT IS NO JOKE. THAT SHOULDN'T
- 1:43:41BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. WHEN YOU WALK ABOUT YOUR DAY AND YOU KNOW THAT
- 1:43:46YOU HAVE GOD ON THE INSIDE OF YOU AND GOD UPON YOU, YOU NEED
- 1:43:51TO UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A PRESERVATION PACKAGE. YOU HAVE
- 1:43:54GOD OVERSHADOWING YOU. WHAT CAN MEN DO UNTO ME, THE SCRIPTURE
- 1:43:58SAYS. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 17, JESUS.
- 1:44:03HE'S NOW UP IN VERSE FIVE, HE'S BEING TRANSFIGURED, HE'S BEING
- 1:44:07CHANGED, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT SAYS THERE BEGAN TO BE AN
- 1:44:12OVERSHADOWING, A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM. SAME WORD,
- 1:44:16SAME PRINCIPLE, THE MOST CONTAINED POWER IN EXISTENCE
- 1:44:21AVAILABLE TO MAN WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. AND NOTICE VERSE SIX, HOW
- 1:44:28THE DISCIPLES RESPONDED. MAN, THEY WERE SO AFRAID. THEY FELL
- 1:44:32ON THEIR FACE, THEY WERE SO AFRAID. THIS POWER IS NOTHING TO
- 1:44:35MESS WITH. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID OUT OF HIS MOUTH, "YOU HAVE SO
- 1:44:39MUCH POWER AND AUTHORITY THAT I'M GIVING TO YOU "THAT BY NO
- 1:44:42MEANS SHALL ANYTHING HARM OR INJURE YOU." YOU NEED TO START
- 1:44:45BEING ABSOLUTELY A PERSON WHO KNOWS YOUR GIFT PACKAGE. WHAT
- 1:44:51WAS GIVEN TO YOU AS WE SAY ON THAT CHRISTMAS DAY, WHATEVER DAY
- 1:44:55THAT WAS? YOU HAVE PRESERVATION. YOU'RE TO HAVE A LIFE OF
- 1:45:04GOODWILL FROM GOD AND PEACE BECAUSE IT'S PART OF YOUR
- 1:45:08BENEFITS. I'M GONNA WRAP THIS UP. IF THEY COULD START COMING,
- 1:45:11PASTOR DOUG, AND YOU CAN COME TO THE PIANO. LOOK AT THIS ONE. THE
- 1:45:15NEXT ONE IS ANGELS. HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANGEL? JUST
- 1:45:20LOOK OVER AT BRENDA. YOU CAN SEE AN ANGEL RIGHT THERE. THERE'S
- 1:45:23WHAT AN ANGEL LOOKS LIKE. SEE AN ANGEL, THAT'S WHAT SHE LOOKS
- 1:45:27LIKE. BUT HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANGEL OF THE ANGEL KIND?
- 1:45:30LIKE, YOU KNOW, RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'VE SEEN AN ANGEL. NO,
- 1:45:35RAISE YOUR HAND, I WANNA SEE IT. OH, WOW, THAT'S GREAT. THOSE OF
- 1:45:38YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU COULD PUT LIKE A HAND UP, I'D LOVE TO
- 1:45:42KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN AN ANGEL. I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAS MAKING,
- 1:45:46I HAD OREO COOKIES AND MILK, AND I WAS CREATING A BOWL AND I HAD
- 1:45:51MILK AND I WAS WALKING OUT, WE HAD A CEILING AT A HOUSE THAT WE
- 1:45:55USED TO LIVE IN YEARS AGO, IT WAS ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW, 14 FOOT
- 1:45:58HIGH, BRENDA, AND I WAS WALKING OUT WITH THE MILK AND WITH THE
- 1:46:02OREOS, AND I LOOKED OVER AS I WALKED OUT AND THERE WAS, AS
- 1:46:07TALL AS THE 14 FOOT HIGH CEILING WAS THIS ANGEL. I MEAN, HE WAS
- 1:46:11ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP AND HIS SHOULDERS WERE VERY, VERY
- 1:46:15WIDE. AND AS SOON AS I SAW HIM, I WAS STARTLED. I WENT LIKE THIS
- 1:46:20AND I SPILLED EVERYTHING. I'VE SEEN ANGELS. AND I TELL YOU,
- 1:46:26THEY'RE NOTHING TO MESS WITH. AMEN? I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE WITH A
- 1:46:31LITTLE HEART AND A LITTLE NAKED BABY BOTTOM. I'VE NEVER SEEN
- 1:46:34THOSE. AND THAT DOESN'T LOOK VERY DANGEROUS TO ME. I LIKE THE
- 1:46:38ONES THAT LOOK DANGEROUS, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, I LIKE WHAT ONE GUY
- 1:46:42SAID. HE MET HIS ANGELS AND THEY WERE, I THINK THEIR NAMES WERE
- 1:46:46SPIKE AND FANG. I THINK HE MADE THAT UP. ALL RIGHT, YOU READY?
- 1:46:55ARE YOU ALL HERE TODAY OR IS IT JUST YOU GOT SHOPPING TO DO? ALL
- 1:46:57RIGHT. I LOVE ANGELS AND YOU KNOW, BY THE WAY, I FOUND OUT
- 1:47:02ANGELS REALLY, REALLY ARE GREAT AT GIFT WRAPPING. DO YOU KNOW
- 1:47:09ANGELS ARE GREAT AT GIFT WRAPPING? WELL, IT'S EASY WHEN
- 1:47:13YOU HAVE DIVINE PRESENCE. BUT IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE DIVINE
- 1:47:19PRESENCE TO HELP THEM IN THEIR CHRISTMAS WRAPPING, THEN THEY
- 1:47:22JUST WING IT. YOU KNOW, SO WE'LL JUST KIND OF KEEP THAT ONE AS WE
- 1:47:26GO ON. BUT I WANT YOU TO LOOK HERE AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2. JOHN,
- 1:47:30DID YOU EVEN SMIRK AT THAT? OKAY. MATTHEW CHAPTER 2:13
- 1:47:36THROUGH 15, AND 19 THROUGH 21 AS WE GET READY TO CLOSE. LOOK AT
- 1:47:39THIS. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2. "AND WHEN THEY DEPARTED, BEHOLD,
- 1:47:43THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM." AND BY
- 1:47:46THE WAY, GOD DOES USE DREAMS TO PROTECT YOU. HOW MANY HAVE EVER
- 1:47:50HAD A DREAM WHERE YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT MEANT, BUT
- 1:47:53YOU WERE GONNA DO SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA BUY
- 1:47:56SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA TAKE A JOB, YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE
- 1:47:59TO TAKE THE JOB, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HAD A DREAM, AND IN
- 1:48:01THE DREAM YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE JOB, YOU WEREN'T
- 1:48:04SUPPOSED TO BUY THAT HOUSE, YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO MARRY THAT
- 1:48:06PERSON, RIGHT? YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO STAY HOME, BUT YOU
- 1:48:09WERE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO GO TO CHURCH THAT SUNDAY. YOU KNOW,
- 1:48:13STUFF LIKE THAT, RIGHT? RIGHT. YOU WERE NOT TO GET A CAT,
- 1:48:19THEY'RE DEMONIC. YOU WERE TO GET A DOG, YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF
- 1:48:21DREAMS. YEAH, YOU KNOW WHICH ONES I'M TALKING ABOUT. YEAH,
- 1:48:25OKAY, YOU CAN WOO ALL DAY LONG, WE'RE ALMOST DONE. NOW HERE'S
- 1:48:28THE THING. DREAMS, GOD GAVE DREAMS TO THE WISE MEN. YOU EVER
- 1:48:33READ THAT IN MATTHEW 2? LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, LOOK AT VERSE
- 1:48:3510. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING TO ME, I
- 1:48:38WAS READING THIS. AND IT'S JUST A THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT THAT YOU
- 1:48:42COULD THEOLOGICALLY THINK ABOUT THEOLOGICALLY. DOES THAT MAKE
- 1:48:45SENSE? AND WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED WITH GREAT
- 1:48:49SEED AND GREAT JOY. VERSE 11, WATCH THIS. WHEN THEY WERE
- 1:48:52COMING TO THE HOUSE, NOTICE THIS WAS LIKE 2 YEARS OR SO BEYOND
- 1:48:57THE MANGER 'CAUSE THEY WERE NOW IN THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE YOUNG
- 1:49:00CHILD. BEFORE IN THE MANGER, HE WAS A BABY. AND THEY WORSHIPED
- 1:49:03HIM, THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES, PRESENTED UNTO HIM
- 1:49:06GIFTS, NOTICE PLURAL, GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. LOOK AT
- 1:49:09VERSE 12. NOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, LOOK AT THIS. AND
- 1:49:11BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A WHAT? IN A DREAM, THAT'S PRESERVATION.
- 1:49:16THAT'S PROTECTION. SEE, ALL THROUGH THE CHRISTMAS STORY IS
- 1:49:19PRESERVATION, PROTECTION. AND SAID, THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN TO
- 1:49:23HEROD. THEY DEPARTED INTO THEIR OWN COUNTRY. NOW KEEP THAT UP
- 1:49:26THERE. BUT IT SAYS BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM. HOW MANY WAS
- 1:49:30WARNED IN A DREAM? THAT'S MY THEOLOGICAL QUESTION. IT DIDN'T
- 1:49:34SAY ONE OF THE GUYS, MURR OR FRANK, WAS WARNED IN A DREAM.
- 1:49:40NO, IT SAYS, AND BEING WARNED OF GOD. WHAT, ALL OF THEM? DON'T
- 1:49:45THINK THAT GOD CAN'T GET A MESSAGE TO YOU IF NEEDED. WE
- 1:49:54GOTTA QUIT DOUBTING, QUIT GETTING IN FEAR, QUIT GETTING
- 1:49:56FRUSTRATED, NEGATIVE. SAY, GOD, I NEED DIRECTION. EXPECT IT. IF
- 1:50:01GOD CAN DO THIS IN A DREAM, WHAT CAN HE DO FOR YOU? LOOK AT VERSE
- 1:50:0413 AGAIN, BEING WARNED IN A DREAM. JOSEPH SAID, "TAKE THE
- 1:50:09CHILD AND FLEE INTO EGYPT." LOOK AT VERSE 19 NOW AGAIN, NOTICE
- 1:50:13THE ANGELS SHOW UP. "AND WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL
- 1:50:17OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM AGAIN TO JOSEPH." SO GOD USES
- 1:50:21ANGELS. YOU SAY, WELL, THAT'S JUST THEM. LOOK AT PSALM 91,
- 1:50:24VERSE 11, PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION PACKAGE IS YOU HAVE
- 1:50:29A GIFT IN THAT GIFT, IN THAT PACKAGE THAT WAS GIVEN, THE
- 1:50:33SWADDLING CLOTHES OF THE CHILD THAT WOULD NOW BE WRAPPED IN THE
- 1:50:38TOMB IS SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT AVAILABLE.
- 1:50:47AND IT'S THROUGH SALVATION. FOR HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE
- 1:50:51OVER YOU. AND WHAT ARE THOSE ANGELS SUPPOSED TO DO? PROTECT
- 1:50:56YOU, KEEP YOU IN SOME OF YOUR WAYS. ALL YOUR WAYS. NOW, ONE
- 1:51:02THING I WOULDN'T DO IS PROVOKE MY ANGEL TO WRATH, THE BIBLE
- 1:51:05SAID. DON'T DO THINGS LIKE SINNING AND THEN EXPECT THE
- 1:51:08ANGEL TO PROTECT YOU. RIGHT, DON'T GO OUT AND DO WICKED
- 1:51:13THINGS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, ANGEL, I'M ABOUT TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW,
- 1:51:15SO I NEED YOU TO BACK ME UP. OKAY, NO, ANGELS AREN'T GONNA BE
- 1:51:20IN THE GETAWAY CAR WHILE YOU HOLD SOMETHING UP.
- 1:51:22(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:51:27PART OF THE ACCESSORIES TO THE CRIME. RIGHT? SO ALL YOUR WAYS,
- 1:51:33EXCEPT YOU GOTTA NOT PROVOKE HIM TO WRATH. LET'S MAKE SURE THAT
- 1:51:39WE DO THINGS RIGHT. LOOK AT HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, PART OF YOUR
- 1:51:42INHERITANCE. PART OF YOUR LEGAL RIGHT. PART OF WHAT WAS LEFT TO
- 1:51:50YOU FROM YOUR FATHER AND YOUR ELDER BROTHER, JESUS. HEBREWS
- 1:51:56CHAPTER 1, LOOK AT VERSE 14. HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, ARE THEY
- 1:52:01NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS, ANGELS? AND NOTICE WHAT THEY'RE
- 1:52:04SENT FOR, TO MINISTER FOR THEM. EVERY TIME YOU GUYS ARE OUT
- 1:52:09MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, YOU NEED TO BE PRAYING, "FATHER, THANK YOU
- 1:52:11FOR YOUR ANGELS." EVERY TIME YOU GET IN THE CAR, "FATHER, THANK
- 1:52:14YOU FOR YOUR ANGELS." EVERY TIME YOUR WIFE ASKS IF YOU COULD DO
- 1:52:18THE DISHES, SAY, "HONEY, THE ANGELS GOT IT."
- 1:52:20(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:52:22RIGHT? YEAH, I MIGHT TRY THAT IN 2026. I'LL LET YOU KNOW NEXT
- 1:52:29CHRISTMAS MESSAGE HOW THAT WORKED. BRENDA, I DON'T THINK I
- 1:52:31CAN DO THAT TODAY. LET THE ANGELS HANDLE IT. I'M COMING UP
- 1:52:36WITH GREAT STUFF TODAY, AND YOU ARE BARELY WITH ME. OK, LAST ONE
- 1:52:42I WANT TO SHOW YOU BEFORE PASTOR DOUG COMES AND CLOSES OUR
- 1:52:45SERVICE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. MAYBE YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT
- 1:52:49THIS. YOU'VE GOT THE SWADDLING OF THE CLOTHES. YOU'VE GOT THE
- 1:52:52MESSAGE, DON'T FEAR. YOU'VE GOT THE MESSAGE, EMMANUEL, GOD IS
- 1:52:56WITH YOU AND FOR YOU. YOU HAVE HIS NAME. HIS NAME IS JESUS.
- 1:53:00THERE'S NO GREATER NAME. YOU HAVE ANGELS AND DREAMS. COME ON,
- 1:53:04MAN. WHY CAN WE HAVE THIS? LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. I WANT YOU TO
- 1:53:10STAND TO YOUR FEET. LAST SCRIPTURE I READ. AND WHEN 8
- 1:53:15DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED NOTICE THE WORD 8 DAYS. 8 IS A VERY
- 1:53:20INTERESTING NUMBER IN SCRIPTURE. 8 IS A HUNGER WORD. 8, THEY ATE.
- 1:53:29NEVERMIND, NO IT ISN'T. I JUST MADE THAT UP. THAT WAS, I SAID A
- 1:53:32BAD ONE TO SEE IF YOU WOULD LIKE IT MORE THAN ALL THE GREAT ONES
- 1:53:34THAT I SAID. BUT WHEN 8 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED, 8 IS THE
- 1:53:38NUMBER OF RESURRECTION, 8 IS THE NUMBER OF NEW BEGINNINGS, 8 IS
- 1:53:41THE NUMBER OF COVENANT. NOW WATCH THIS, WHY DID THEY DO
- 1:53:45THIS? AND I WAS READING THIS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT KEPT SPEAKING TO
- 1:53:49ME SAYING, "HANK, YOU'RE READING OVER SOMETHING." AND I'M LIKE,
- 1:53:51"OKAY, WHAT'S UP?" I READ EACH WORD AGAIN AND I BEGAN TO LOOK
- 1:53:54AT IT. WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT LUKE 21 THROUGH 24 VERY QUICKLY. WHEN
- 1:53:578 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED, NOTICE UNDERLINED THE CIRCUMCISING OF
- 1:54:01THE CHILD. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO CIRCUMCISE THE CHILD? BECAUSE IT
- 1:54:06HAD TO DO WITH COVENANT, RIGHT? AND ALL THE BLESSINGS OF
- 1:54:11ABRAHAM, THAT GOD PROMISED TO ABRAHAM. AND PART OF WHAT GOD
- 1:54:16PROMISED TO ABRAHAM WAS FAVOR, PROTECTION. GENESIS 15:15 WAS
- 1:54:21PRESERVATION. HE SAID, "LOOK, ABRAHAM, YOU'RE GONNA GO IN
- 1:54:24PEACE "WHEN YOU DIE." THAT MEANS NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN.
- 1:54:28AND BY THE WAY, ABRAHAM, WHEN YOU DO DIE, IT'S GONNA BE IN
- 1:54:31PEACE, NOT IN THE JAWS OF DEATH OR SICKNESS, DISEASE, OR RESULT
- 1:54:35OF A TRAGEDY, CALAMITY, ACCIDENT. YOU'RE GONNA GO IN
- 1:54:38PEACE, GENESIS 15:15, ABRAHAM, AND YOU'RE GONNA GO IN A GOOD
- 1:54:42OLD AGE. AND THEN IF YOU FLIP OVER TO 10 CHAPTERS LATER, IN
- 1:54:45GENESIS 25, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, IT SAYS THAT
- 1:54:48ABRAHAM DIED AN OLD MAN AND WAS BURIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE IN HIS
- 1:54:52GRAVE. IT WAS FULFILLED, ALL BECAUSE OF COVENANT. SO HERE
- 1:54:57THEY HAVE THIS BABY. THEY PUT HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES. THE
- 1:55:01HOLY SPIRIT OVERSHADOWS THE CHILD, AND YET THEY UNDERSTAND
- 1:55:05IF THEY ARE GOING TO REALLY MAINTAIN THIS AND HAVE LEGAL
- 1:55:10AUTHORITY BACKED BY GOD THAT THE ENEMY CANNOT EXACT UPON, THEY
- 1:55:18NEED TO GET UNDER COVENANT. THEY NEED TO PUT THIS CHILD UNDER THE
- 1:55:22COVENANT. YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR BODY UNDER THE COVENANT. YOU
- 1:55:25NEED TO PUT YOUR CHILDREN UNDER THE COVENANT. YOU NEED TO OPEN
- 1:55:28YOUR BIBLE UP WHEN YOU HAVE A PRODIGAL AND SAY, NO, NO, NO,
- 1:55:30NO, GOD, I'M IN COVENANT WITH YOU. AND THE BIBLE SAYS, MY
- 1:55:35COVENANT THAT MY CHILDREN SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD, TEACH MY
- 1:55:38KIDS. YOU START GETTING THE SNIFFLES, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,
- 1:55:42NO, NO, NO, I HAVE A COVENANT. ISAIAH 53 SAYS, I'M ALREADY
- 1:55:49HEALED. FIRST PETER 2:24 SAYS, BY THE WHIPS THAT WERE ON JESUS'
- 1:55:55BACK, WE ARE OR WE WERE HEALED. WHEN YOU HAVE BILLS COMING,
- 1:56:01NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. MY COVENANT IS A COVENANT OF PROVISION,
- 1:56:05EPHESIANS 3:20. GOD, YOU ALWAYS DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY BEYOND
- 1:56:09ALL I COULD ASK OR THINK. COME ON. SO NOTICE WHAT THEY DID,
- 1:56:14LUKE 2, VERSE 21, WE'RE GONNA END WITH THIS. EIGHT DAYS WERE
- 1:56:17ACCOMPLISHED AND THEY CIRCUMCISED THE YOUNG CHILD,
- 1:56:22BRINGING HIM UNDER THE COVENANT OF ABRAHAM. HIS NAME WAS CALLED
- 1:56:25JESUS. THERE IT IS AGAIN, SALVATION, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF
- 1:56:28THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB. SO THE
- 1:56:31ANGEL BROUGHT FORTH THE NAME, VERSE 22, AND WHEN THE DAYS OF
- 1:56:34THE PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES, UNDERLINE
- 1:56:37THAT. THIS IS WHAT GOD KEPT SAYING TO ME. NOTICE HOW MANY
- 1:56:40TIMES IT SAYS THE LAW OF MOSES. IT WAS TO SHOW THE READER THAT
- 1:56:45THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING TO, IN THOSE DAYS, YOU COULD SAY,
- 1:56:50WALK IN THE WORD. OBEY THE BIBLE, OBEY THE COVENANT, OBEY
- 1:56:57THE COMMAND OF GOD. SO NOTICE IT SAYS IT THE FIRST TIME.
- 1:57:00ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, ACCORDING TO THE LAW, MOSES WAS
- 1:57:04ACCOMPLISHED. THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM TO PRESENT HIM TO
- 1:57:06THE LORD. VERSE 23, "AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD,
- 1:57:11"EVERY MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB "SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE
- 1:57:15LORD." NOW LOOK AT VERSE 24. "AND TO OFFER A SACRIFICE
- 1:57:20ACCORDING TO THAT "WHICH IS SAID IN THE LAW OF THE LORD." THEY
- 1:57:24WERE WORD, BIBLE THUMPERS, YOU COULD SAY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTOOD,
- 1:57:31MAN. THEY'VE GOT AN OVERSHADOWING. THEY'VE GOT A
- 1:57:35PACKAGE. THEY'VE GOTTA TAKE CARE OF THIS CHILD. THEY'VE GOT A
- 1:57:38RESPONSIBILITY, SO WE BETTER WALK IN THE WORD. WE BETTER WALK
- 1:57:41ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT OF GOD. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? JESUS
- 1:57:46PROVIDED ALL OF THIS. YOU HAVE A COVENANT WITH GOD, AND WE HAVE
- 1:57:51TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BELONGS TO US. REMEMBER, HE'S FORGIVEN YOU
- 1:57:57OF EVERY AND ALL SIN AND INIQUITY. HE'S HEALED YOU OF
- 1:58:00EVERY DISEASE, PSALM 103. HE'S REDEEMED YOU, PROTECTED YOU,
- 1:58:04PRESERVED YOU FROM DESTRUCTIONS AND TRAGEDIES AND CALAMITIES.
- 1:58:10HE'S CROWNED YOU BY PRESERVING YOU, SWADDLING YOU,
- 1:58:13OVERSHADOWING YOU WITH LOVING KINDNESS AND TENDER MERCIES.
- 1:58:17WHEN YOU EAT SOMETHING, HE SATISFIED YOUR MOUTH WITH GOOD
- 1:58:20THINGS. AND AS YOU AGE AND EVERY DAY, YOU HAVE YOUTHFULNESS LIKE
- 1:58:26THE EAGLE. IT'S ALL PART OF YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT JESUS PAID
- 1:58:30FOR. LET'S PRAY. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT
- 1:58:34WAS GIVEN, THAT YOU LOVED THIS WORLD, YOU LOVED US, THAT YOU
- 1:58:38GAVE THAT GIFT, JESUS CHRIST, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES UPON HIM
- 1:58:43WOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. AND WE THANK
- 1:58:47YOU THAT THE GREATEST GIFT EVER WAS JESUS COMING. BORN IN A
- 1:58:51MANGER BUT ALSO CAME TO DIE. THAT WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME
- 1:58:56OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. LORD, WE RECEIVE OF THAT PACKAGE
- 1:59:02TODAY. AND IF WE ARE ALREADY BORN AGAIN, WE'VE ALREADY
- 1:59:06ACCEPTED JESUS AND WE'RE NOT USING OR THANKING YOU OR
- 1:59:11STANDING FIRM IN OUR PRESERVATION RIGHTS THAT WERE
- 1:59:16PROVIDED TO US AND FOR US. I ASK YOU TO SHOW US THE WAY, GOD,
- 1:59:20THAT WE'LL BEGIN TO DO IT. NOW, WITH EVERY HEAD BOWED AND EVERY
- 1:59:23EYE CLOSED, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, THOSE OF YOU
- 1:59:26THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM, I WANNA TALK VERY SERIOUSLY TO YOU. ONE
- 1:59:30OF THE GREATEST THINGS THAT YOU ARE PRESERVED FROM IS ETERNAL
- 1:59:33DAMNATION. GOD DOES NOT SEND ANYONE TO HELL. IN FACT, JESUS
- 1:59:41EVEN MADE IT CLEAR THAT HELL WAS CREATED, NOT FOR US, THAT WAS
- 1:59:45NOT WHY IT WAS THERE. IT WAS CREATED FOR THE DEVIL AND ALL
- 1:59:49THE FALLEN ANGELS, DEMONS. BUT SIN CANNOT BE IN THE PRESENCE OF
- 1:59:59GOD. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE A
- 2:00:05PRESERVATION PACKAGE OF ETERNAL LIFE, IT COMES BY ASKING JESUS
- 2:00:11TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS AND TO COME INTO YOUR HEART. I WANT YOU TO
- 2:00:16DO SOMETHING VERY BOLD. THIS IS PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION
- 2:00:20PACKAGE NOW. YOU'RE UNWRAPPING YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT WAS
- 2:00:24GIVEN BY GOD HIMSELF AS EMMANUEL. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY
- 2:00:29OR YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, YOU COULD PUT YOUR HAND UP. IF
- 2:00:32YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU SAY, "PREACHER, PRAY FOR ME." I WANT
- 2:00:35TO RECEIVE THAT FREE GIFT OF GOD. I WANT TO ACCEPT JESUS
- 2:00:40CHRIST IN MY HEART. I WANT THAT FORGIVENESS OF SIN AND ETERNAL
- 2:00:45LIFE. ARE YOU HERE TODAY? ANYBODY HERE? PUT YOUR HAND UP
- 2:00:49IF THAT'S YOU. I DON'T SEE ANY HANDS. PUT IT UP HIGH SO I CAN
- 2:00:51SEE. THERE'S ONE HAND. GOD BLESS YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. ANYBODY
- 2:00:56ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE ONLINE?
- 2:01:01PASTOR DOUG, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO COME, AND I'M GONNA ASK YOU
- 2:01:04TO LEAD THEM IN A PRAYER OF ASKING JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR
- 2:01:08HEART. NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU, BEFORE HE PRAYS, YOU COULD
- 2:01:11HONESTLY SAY, I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY? HOW MANY OF YOU
- 2:01:15LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE SWADDLED AS THE BODY OF CHRIST?
- 2:01:19THE OVERSHADOWING OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. SO VERY
- 2:01:22QUICKLY, PASTOR DOUG'S GONNA GIVE YOU INSTRUCTION ON WHAT TO
- 2:01:25DO REGARDING JESUS CHRIST AND SALVATION. GO AHEAD, PASTOR.
- 2:01:29AMEN. ALTAR TEAM, IF YOU RUN UP HERE QUICKLY, WE'RE GONNA PRAY
- 2:01:32TODAY, AND THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ONLINE, WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, YOU
- 2:01:36CAN PRAY RIGHT ALONG WITH ME. JESUS HEARS YOU WHEREVER YOU'RE
- 2:01:40AT. YOU CAN HAVE HIM BECOME THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE TODAY RIGHT
- 2:01:45WHERE YOU'RE AT. EVERY WEEK THAT HAPPENS, PEOPLE RECEIVE JESUS
- 2:01:50CHRIST ACROSS THIS NATION JUST BY PRAYING THIS PRAYER, AND YOU
- 2:01:54CAN JOIN IN WITH US. THE ONE THAT RAISED YOUR HAND TODAY, IF
- 2:01:57YOU'LL COME UP HERE QUICKLY, OUR ALTAR TEAM HAS SOME INFORMATION
- 2:02:01FOR YOU. THEY'LL GIVE YOU THAT AND MINISTER TO YOU AND MAKE
- 2:02:04SURE THAT YOU HAVE INFORMATION THAT WOULD HELP YOU IN YOUR WALK
- 2:02:08WITH THE LORD, AND YOU CAN CALL OUR PRAYER LINE ALSO. BUT LET'S
- 2:02:11PRAY TODAY. I'M GONNA ASK EVERYONE TO BOW YOUR HEADS AND
- 2:02:14JUST PRAY OUT LOUD AND MEAN IT WITH YOUR HEART. JESUS WILL COME
- 2:02:18INTO YOUR HEART AND BE YOUR SAVIOR TODAY, JUST LIKE THIS ONE
- 2:02:21THAT'S COMING UP HERE. JUST REPEAT AFTER ME, FATHER IN
- 2:02:24HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS. THANK YOU THAT HE CAME
- 2:02:30NOT ONLY AS A BABY, BUT HE GREW UP AND HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO
- 2:02:38REDEEM US FROM THE SIN AND CURSE THAT WE WERE UNDER ON THIS
- 2:02:44EARTH. THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR COMING TO SAVE ME. I REPENT OF
- 2:02:52MY SIN. I ASK YOU TO BE THE LORD AND SAVIOR OF MY LIFE. I WANT TO
- 2:03:01SPEND ETERNITY WITH YOU IN HEAVEN. I NOW SAY, LORD, I WILL
- 2:03:11SERVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, IN DILIGENCE, THROUGHOUT THE
- 2:03:17REMAINDER OF MY LIFE, AND SOMEDAY I'LL BE IN HEAVEN WITH
- 2:03:22YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS. AMEN. IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY,
- 2:03:27I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO CALL OUR PRAYER LINE, 855 777 7907.
- 2:03:33THEY'LL SEND YOU THE SAME INFORMATION THAT THIS LADY IS
- 2:03:36RECEIVING UP HERE TODAY, AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR THAT. ONE MORE
- 2:03:40QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE I LET YOU GO. IT'S ONLY 11:03. WE'RE
- 2:03:44DOING GOOD TODAY, SO YOU'VE GOT LOTS OF TIME. WASN'T THAT A
- 2:03:47GREAT MESSAGE ON PRESERVATION? THAT'S ONE WORTH WATCHING OVER
- 2:03:53AND OVER. JUST A COUPLE THINGS. REMEMBER THAT MIDWEEK RECHARGE
- 2:03:58THIS WEEK IS ONLINE ONLY. THERE'LL BE NO IN HOUSE SERVICES
- 2:04:03THIS WEEK ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. TUNE IN ONLINE FOR OUR HEART TO
- 2:04:06YOUR HOME FOR OUR MIDWEEK RECHARGE PROGRAM. AND THEN, JUST
- 2:04:10AS ANOTHER REMINDER, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, PASTOR HANK WILL
- 2:04:14BE DOING A SPECIAL FLASHPOINT BROADCAST, SO YOU CAN TUNE IN TO
- 2:04:18FLASHPOINT LIVE, 7 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, AND SEE PASTOR HANK
- 2:04:24AND THE OTHER GUESTS ON THAT. WELL, GOD BLESS YOU,
- 2:04:26THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY. HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS.
- 2:04:28WE'LL SEE YOU BACK IN THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY.
- 2:04:30(MUSIC)