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Christmas Family Service · Stornoway Free Church of Scotland - Sermons

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We're going to read our first passage on the little booklet. It's on page 3. We're going to read in Isaiah chapter 1.
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We're going to read from verse 15 to verse 20.
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So it's on page 3 of the little booklet, so if you're using the church Bible, you'll find it around page 684.
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Isaiah chapter 1.
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And we're reading from verse 15 down to verse 20.
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So Isaiah here is speaking about God's people in his day, which was about 700 years before Jesus came.
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So we're looking back a long way, and he's speaking to his people who were in trouble.
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And we see a little bit of why they were in trouble in these verses.
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They had forgotten God.
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So we're going to read from verse 15 to verse 20.
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When you spread your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
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Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen.
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Your hands are full of blood.
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Wash yourselves.
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Make yourselves clean.
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Remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes.
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Cease to do evil.
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Learn to do good.
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Seek justice.
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Correct oppression.
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Bring justice to the fatherless.
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Plead the widow's cause.
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Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord.
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Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
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Though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
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If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.
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But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword.
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For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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May God bless that reading to us.
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It's where our Bible verse for yesterday came from.
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Verse 18 there, where it speaks about our sins are like scarlet, yet they shall be as white as snow.
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Now what's your favorite thing about Christmas time?
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Anybody want to give me an answer?
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What's your favorite thing about Christmas time?
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Just shout out an answer to me.
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You don't have to put up your hand.
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Anybody want?
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Christmas dinner.
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Christmas dinner.
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Food.
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That came from both sides of the pews there.
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Food's very important at Christmas time.
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Anything else?
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What was that?
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Presents.
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Yes, presents are also important as well.
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So there's lots of different things.
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They're important for Christmas.
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Food and presents.
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Nobody mentioned snow.
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Anybody want a white Christmas?
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Snow can be fun, but it can also be dangerous.
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There's two sides of snow.
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It can be good fun.
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When I was younger, seems a long time ago now, but I remember when winters were a lot more snow than we seem to get now.
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And I remember one winter in particular where there was so much snow, the street on which I lived was blocked with the snow.
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And a digger had to come and dig out the snow off the road so we could start to get out in the cars again.
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It's hard to believe that maybe.
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And yet, when I say to my parents, when I speak to my parents about it, they say we used to have even more snow.
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Remember my mother saying that once when she opened the front door, she couldn't get out because it was just a wall of snow.
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There was that much snow.
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And we don't seem to get as much snow in the winter now.
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But when we do, it can be good fun.
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We like to go out maybe sledging or building snowmen or having snowball fights and these kinds of things.
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And today we're going to be thinking about snow in the service.
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Thinking about snow, but think about in particular just how white, how bright snow can be.
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When there's a lot of snow around and if the sun comes out, it can be so bright, you sometimes have to wear sunglasses because it can be so blinding.
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And that's the kind of description that we see of the snow here in Isaiah.
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Isaiah chapter 1 verse 18,
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Though your sins are like scarred, they shall be as white as snow.
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They're going to be bright.
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They're going to be clean.
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And this verse reminds us of two things.
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One is, we've got a problem.
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There's something wrong.
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Because it's speaking about sin.
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And sin is a problem for all of us.
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It's like a dirty mark that it leaves in our lives.
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But it also reminds us too that we need something or someone to take away our sin.
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And that's what we've been thinking about at the Christmas club.
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This idea of sin being dirty and we need someone to wash our sins away.
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Now, very often in church I wear a nice white shirt.
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Nice clean white shirt.
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And I've got another one here.
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Nice white shirt.
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But there's a little problem with it.
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You see, when you have a bacon roll in the morning and you put tomato sauce on your bacon roll,
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it can sometimes make a little mess.
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So I'm not sure what's going to happen to this.
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How are we going to wash this away?
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But I couldn't wear it today.
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I don't think it's too dirty.
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And that's what sin is like.
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Sin is like that tomato sauce.
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It's just on us.
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It makes us dirty.
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And we need something to wash our sin away.
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And one of the songs we sang at the Christmas club yesterday,
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it spoke about this.
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And it said in the song,
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What can wash away my sin?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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And it sounds a little bit strange that.
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How can our sins be washed away with blood when blood seems to be dirty?
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Well, what it's saying is that Jesus came to pay the price for our sin.
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The way our sin is washed away is by Jesus giving himself,
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giving his life for our sin.
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And that's what this verse is speaking to us about.
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Though our sins be like scarlet,
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though our sins be so dirty in our lives,
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Jesus came to wash our sin away.
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And that's what we're going to look at as we go through the sermon this morning.
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There's going to be three little things we're going to look at.
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But before we come to the first one of these,
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which is Jesus predicted,
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we're going to sing together first.
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We're going to sing in Psalm 51.
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And again, you find this on the little booklets on page 4.
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Or if you're in the Psalm books, page 281.
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It's the Scottish Psalter version.
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And this is a psalm that speaks about our sin.
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But it also speaks about our sins being washed away.
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So we're going to sing Psalm 51, verse 5 to 10.
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And you see in verse 7 there,
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it speaks about us being washed.
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Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me,
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I shall be cleansed so.
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Yea, wash thou me,
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and then I shall be whiter than the snow.
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So we're going to stand to sing,
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verse 5 to 10.
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And at this point,
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the younger ones can go out to the tweenies
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during the singing.
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So we'll stand to sing to God's praise.
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Bluetooth
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In guiltiness and sin
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Behold our in the inward heart
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With duty I live art
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Our wisdom, our child, make me know
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Within the hidden heart
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To the wicked soul sing the lead
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I shall be blessed soul
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They watch the dream
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And then I shall be whiter than the snow
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O God, Son of Joyfulness
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Make me to hear the voice
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That's all this very full switch
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That's broken may rejoice
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All my iniquities, O God
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By faith I hold myself
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Behold our iniquities, O God
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Arise, O God
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Amen
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We're going to look at the first part of our sermon today
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And it's Jesus predicted that we're going to think about
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And this is based on our reading in Isaiah
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Chapter 1, verse 15 to 20
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Jesus predicted
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What does the word predict mean?
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It's like trying to guess in some ways
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What's going to happen
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Some people like to try and predict the football scores
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They look at who's playing who
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And they try and predict what the score is going to be
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And it's not always easy to get that right
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Others try and predict what the weather is going to be like
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They look at the charts
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And they look at what's happening
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And they say, well, it's going to be windy
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Or it's going to be dry
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It's going to be sunny
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They try and predict the weather
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But again, it's hard to get that right as well
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There's so many things we can try and predict
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But in many ways, what we're trying to do is guess what's going to happen
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But when we look at Isaiah
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And as we think of what Isaiah was saying in his day
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He was predicting Jesus
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But not in a way where he was guessing what was going to happen
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You see, when he was looking at this
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He was telling something that was certain
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Something that was true
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Something that was sure and guaranteed
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Because God was giving him a message
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Isaiah was what we call a prophet
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That is someone who came with a message to tell the people from God
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So everything that he was predicting came to pass
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And it's amazing when you think of Isaiah
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He lived 700 years before Jesus was born
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And yet, throughout Isaiah's writing
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All you see is him speaking about Jesus in many different ways
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Isaiah 53 is a very famous chapter
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Where it speaks about how Jesus would die for our sins
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And you've got other passages like Isaiah 9 or Isaiah 6
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That talk about Jesus' birth
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And here in chapter 1 we're seeing in verse 18
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How Jesus is being shown even here
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When speaking about our sins
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That will be dirty like scarlet
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They will be whiter than the snow
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This is because of what Jesus is going to do
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But Isaiah was writing to the people
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Because the people were in trouble
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And what trouble were they in?
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They had forgotten about God
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They had forgotten about God
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And back in the days long before Isaiah
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There was a man called Moses
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And in a book in the Bible, Deuteronomy
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Moses warned by God the people
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Saying, be careful
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In chapter 6 of Deuteronomy verse 12
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Be careful, take care lest you forget the Lord
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Because the people are going to have so many different things
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It's like Christmas had come for them
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They got everything that they wanted
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They went into a land as is described
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Flowing with milk and honey
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They had everything that they wanted in life
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And yet they forgot God
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And that's something that happens again and again and again
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And it happens with us
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Do you forget God?
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Hands up if you forget God
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There's times I have to say
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I forget God
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We all do
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We all forget God at some times
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Because we think we can do without Him
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We can manage fine on our own
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And we can forget how important God is
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Because it's always a danger to us
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And especially as we think of Christmas time
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A time when we're supposed to be thinking about
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The wonder of Jesus coming into the world
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How amazing it is that Jesus was born
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And yet we can get distracted
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We can forget about Jesus
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Jesus who was promised to us
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Somebody put it like this
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To see Christmas through its wrappings
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Becomes more and more difficult every year
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So Christmas becomes so busy
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Whether it's food or presents
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Snowmen or sledging
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These things can be fun and good and right
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But the danger is that we forget about God
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And so that's why we were doing it at the Christmas club yesterday
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We were doing all kinds of different crafts and different stories
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Reminding ourselves of just how precious Jesus is
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Remember you did your snow globe
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Did you all make these?
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You all got them switched on at home?
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Yeah?
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Or did anybody give away to somebody else?
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Or did you have it yourself?
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Now the important thing on this is
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The verse that's on it
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Because the verse is this verse from Isaiah
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Though your sins are like scarlet
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They shall be as white as snow
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So there's a reminder to us
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So we are helped not to forget
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Jesus was predicted by Isaiah
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He was saying that Jesus is going to come
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700 years after he said it
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That promise, that prediction came through
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Jesus came into the world
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And why did Jesus come?
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Because we had forgotten about God
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It was like we couldn't find a way back to God by ourselves
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But Jesus came to show us that way
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You think of the little lights in here
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It shines bright
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Switch off the lights in here
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And you'll be able to see these lights very clearly
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But Jesus is described as the light of the world
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And he came to shine into the darkness of our sin
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And show us the way back to God
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Though our sins be dirty like scarlet
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They shall be white as snow if we put our trust in Jesus
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But the question with that is
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Do we want Jesus in our lives?
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Do we want to be right with God?
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A man called Augustine
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He put it like this
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He said there's three different ways
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That we can look at sin in our life
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And he said the first way is this
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Lord make me good
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But not yet
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Is that you today?
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When you may be thinking about God
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You're saying Lord I want to be good
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But not yet
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Because I want to go and enjoy life
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Well that's a dangerous thing to do
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Another way of putting it is like this
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Lord make me good
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But not completely
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In other words I want a little bit of room in my life
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Where I can be good for God
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But I can also have a little bit of what I want for myself
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That's not the way either
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He said the third way is the way to go
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He said Lord make me good
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And the only way for that is
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By being washed of our sin
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By being as white as snow
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By putting our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ
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Jesus was predicted by Isaiah
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That he would come into the world
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To save us from our sin
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What we couldn't fix
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He came to fix for us
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To take our sin away
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So long before he came
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Jesus was predicted
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It wasn't a guess
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It was something sure
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Something true
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And that's what we're going to look at
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Secondly as we're going to read
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Our second reading in Matthew's Gospel
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And here we're going to see
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How what Isaiah predicted
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Became true
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In Matthew chapter 1
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Verse 18 to 23
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So you'll find this
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On your little booklet
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On page 5 and 6
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And also if you're using the church Bible
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It's the first book in the New Testament
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Around page 973
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So Matthew chapter 1
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And verse 18
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Now the birth of Jesus Christ
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Took place in this way
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When his mother Mary
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Had been betrothed to Joseph
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Before they came together
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She was found to be with child
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From the Holy Spirit
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And her husband Joseph
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Being a just man
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And unwilling to put her to shame
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Resolved to divorce her quietly
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But as he considered these things
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An angel of the Lord
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Appeared to him in a dream
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Saying
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Joseph son of David
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Do not fear
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To take Mary as your wife
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For that which is conceived in her
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Is from the Holy Spirit
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She shall bear a son
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And you shall call his name Jesus
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For he will save his people
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From their sins
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All this took place to fulfill
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What the Lord had spoken
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By the prophet
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Behold
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The virgin shall conceive
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And bear a son
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And they shall call his name Emmanuel
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Which means
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God with us
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So Jesus was
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Predicted by Isaiah
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But now we see Jesus
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And pronounced means telling
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That something has come to be
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To be
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Mary and Joseph
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And Mary was going to have
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And look at the way
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This child is
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Pronounced there
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As the angel spoke to Joseph
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In verse 21
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And you shall call his name Jesus
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For he will save his people
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From their sins
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And you see how that connects
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With what Isaiah was saying
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Isaiah was saying
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And as Isaiah
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It's quoted there at the end
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In verse 23
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So what we're saying is
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Everything Isaiah said
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Has come true
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So he's predicted
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And here we see pronounced
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So Isaiah said that our sin
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Is like scarlet
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Our sin is dirty
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But that our sin
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Can become white
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As snow
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And here we see how
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Because Jesus was coming
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And it says in verse 21
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For he will save his people
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From their sins
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He will save his people
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From their sins
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People have often made
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They've tried to tell people
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This is what is going to happen
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And in many different ways
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They thought they would get it right
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For example in 1926
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The man who invented
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To make televisions
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He said that
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They're not going to become
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They're not going to take off
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Are going to have them
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Well look at the world today
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How long have you got television
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In your house?
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Most people will have televisions
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Don't they?
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And yet somebody once pronounced
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They're not going to take off
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They're not going to be popular
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Nobody's going to want them
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And now everybody has them
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Same with computers
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In 1943
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A man who was chairman of IBM
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A big computing company
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Said the world market for computers
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Will be how many do you think?
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How many did he predict
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That would be computers made?
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How many?
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Anyone want to have a wee guess?
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Shout out
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Give me a number
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Have you been reading my notes?
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It was
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Five
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I'm sure you're not reading my notes
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Five computers he predicted
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Imagine how many computers are in the world today
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Thousands
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Millions of computers
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What about phones?
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In 1980 somebody said
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Phones aren't going to take off
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I reckon there will be about
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Maybe a million people in the world
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Who will have phones one day
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Well
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In this year
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It's reckoned that
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70% of the world's population
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Has a mobile phone
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How many people is that?
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It's nearly 6 billion people
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Have a mobile phone
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And somebody had said
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Maybe only a million people
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All of these pronouncements are made
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And they're thinking
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This is going to be what happens
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But yet here we have a pronouncement
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I see I made a prediction
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And Matthew here is making this pronouncement
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Through this angel who spoke to Joseph
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That Jesus is come
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And he will save his people
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From their sins
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How many people will he save?
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Will it be just a few?
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A small number?
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A small number?
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No
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It will be a great number
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A number beyond anything we can imagine
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Because he will save anyone
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Who puts their trust in him
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That is the pronouncement
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It's pronouncements that the angels
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Made to the shepherds
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In Luke chapter 2
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A verse we so often look at
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At Christmas time
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Luke 2 verse 10 and 11
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The angel said to them
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This is to the shepherds
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Fear not
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For behold I bring you
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Good news of great joy
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That will be for all the people
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For unto you is born this day
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In the city of David
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A saviour who is Christ the Lord
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A saviour is born
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A pronouncement is made
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Jesus has come
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And he has come to save us
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Think of snow
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When you see it lying
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And the place is white with snow
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It looks like there is just
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A large great big pile
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But snow is made up
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Of little snowflakes
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Thousands and thousands
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And make this great big pile of snow
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Have you ever caught
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A snowflake in your hand?
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Or seen it land on your jacket?
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Every snowflake is different
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Not any one snowflake is like another
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Each one has its own design
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Each one is different
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It's amazing to think
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When you think all the snow
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That falls in the world
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And every snowflake is different
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Yet that's just like us
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There are billions of people in the world
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And yet every one of us is unique
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Every one of us is different
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And yet Jesus sees us all
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And he knows us all
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And he came to invite us to himself
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That we might know the forgiveness of our sin
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Isaiah 1.18
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Though your sins are like scarlet
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They shall be as white as snow
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How?
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Because Jesus came to save his people
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From their sins
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His people
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We are his people when we put our trust in him
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He knows us each one by name
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And he calls us to himself
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When you get a present
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Or a Christmas card
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It often says two
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And your name will be on it
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So you know it's for you
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Well, when Jesus gives us this great gift
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He puts our name on it as well
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He has come to save his people
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From their sins
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And we are his people
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If we put our trust in him
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Do any of you have an advent calendar?
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Yeah, you're all working your way through it
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What day are we on now?
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Fourteen
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There's not many left now
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I've opened fourteen already this morning
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After I made the mess with my bacon roll
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And as you work your way through your advent calendar
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What are we doing?
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We're counting down, aren't we?
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That's what we were doing at the Christmas club last year
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The adventure club that we had
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It was all about counting down to Christmas
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And that's what we do every year
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We count down to Christmas
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But the danger is
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That as we're counting down
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We forget what Christmas is really about
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Because remember what we're counting down to
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Is a reminder to us
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That Jesus came into the world
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To save us from our sin
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To wash away our sin
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Jesus is so, so precious
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He has been predicted
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And by Isaiah
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It's been pronounced
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In Matthew and Luke
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And these other gospels
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And the third thing we want to see
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The final thing we want to see just now
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Is Jesus proclaimed
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And we're going to read our last part of scripture
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Which is in 1 Timothy
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!
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Chapter 1
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Verse 12
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To 17
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So further on
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In the New Testament
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1 Timothy
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Chapter 1
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You'll find it around page 1193
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Of the church Bibles
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We're going to read verse
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Chapter 1
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Verse 12
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To 17
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Here we see a man called Paul
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Thanking God for all that he has
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1 Timothy
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Verse 12
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Of the little booklets
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I thank him who has given me strength
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Christ Jesus our Lord
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Because he judged me faithful
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Appointing me to his service
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Though formerly I was a blasphemer
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Persecuted and insolent opponent
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But I received mercy
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Because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief
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And the grace of our Lord
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Overflowed for me with the faith
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And love that are in Christ Jesus
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The saying is trustworthy
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And deserving of full acceptance
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That Christ Jesus came into the world
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To save sinners
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Of whom I am foremost
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But I received mercy for this reason
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That in me as the foremost
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Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience
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As an example to those who are to believe in him
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For eternal life
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To the king of ages
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Immortal, invisible
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Only God
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Be honour and glory
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Well Jesus came to live in this world
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He was born into this world
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But ultimately he died in this world
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He died on the cross
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And that is what he had to do
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To wash our sin away
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But although he died
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It wasn't the end
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You see for Jesus to show his power over sin
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Something else was to happen
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After he died
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On the third day after
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He rose from the grave
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He is alive
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And to this day
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A risen saviour
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And who will come
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And this is the saviour that Paul
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This man who wrote 1 Timothy
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This is the saviour he came to know
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And Paul as you see in some of the ways
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He describes himself here
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In his past he did many bad things
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But in verse 14 it says
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The grace of our Lord
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The grace of our Lord
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Overflowed for me
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With the faith and love
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That are in Christ Jesus
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This amazing gift that Jesus gave to Paul
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And gives to all his people
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Faith and love
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That are in Christ Jesus
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So this is how Paul
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Was able to describe him
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This great gift
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That Paul received
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Faith
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What faith in Jesus gave to him
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Was this new life
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This new way
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Of living
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And in verse 15
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He then says
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The saying is trustworthy
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And deserving of full acceptance
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That Christ Jesus
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Came into the world
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To save sinners
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Of whom I am foremost
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Of whom he sees himself
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As the worst of sinners
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Is proclaiming
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Jesus to others
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Proclaiming Jesus
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When we get a great gift
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We want to share it
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What did you get for Christmas
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Hands up if you remember
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Well a few people remember
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Not everybody does
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It's amazing how quickly
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What you got for Christmas
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What about two years ago
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Or three years ago
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Ten years ago
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You forget
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Don't we
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We often forget
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What we got for Christmas
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And it's the same
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With Jesus
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We often forget
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What Jesus has done for us
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He had forgotten Jesus
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In his past
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He thought he was a good person
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Because he was forgetting Jesus
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But now that he's known Jesus
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And what Jesus has done for him
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He's proclaiming
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He's telling others
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That this Jesus is amazing
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This Jesus is wonderful
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This Jesus is a saviour
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He can save us
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And so he's making it known
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He's sharing
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If you were at the club yesterday
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You were decorating cakes
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How many cakes did you decorate?
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Okay
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Do you remember what you were meant to do with them?
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One was for who?
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Me
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Me
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And one was for who else?
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To give away to somebody
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Hands up if you gave me
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Hmm?
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Who ate their cake?
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Go on, be honest
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Hands up
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A few have eaten it, yeah
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Right, second
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Hands up if you gave a cake to somebody
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Oh, more hands are going up for that
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That's excellent
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Most people have given away their cake to someone else
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Because that's what it was about
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It was about sharing with others
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Give one to me
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That's fine
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But give one to somebody else
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Because then you can be able to share with somebody
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Might be a parent or a grandparent
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Somebody like that
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And so it's good to share
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It's good to tell others
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This is what I made for you
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And it's good as we see what Paul is doing here
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What he's doing is he's telling others about Jesus
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He's not keeping it to himself
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He's sharing it with others
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And as you read through the Bible
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What you see is Jesus being proclaimed
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Jesus being shared with the whole world
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So that people might know how precious he is
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Another of the songs that we sang yesterday
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Comes to mind for this
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One night into the darkness
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One star shining the brightest
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Heaven couldn't contain the greatest news
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Shepherds couldn't believe it
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Wise men wanted to see it
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God was sending his only son to earth
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Joy sing and shout it
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Tell the world about it
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God is with us
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That song is reminding us
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That we are to proclaim Jesus
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We cannot contain it
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Because Jesus is the most precious thing
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That we have in this world
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There are so many people
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When we think about what people make predictions about
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People try and predict their football scores
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Well sometimes then if their team wins
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They like to proclaim it
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They like to tell others
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That my team beat yours
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Doesn't happen for some often
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But when it does
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They let you know
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They tell you that their team has won
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And there are so many things in life
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We love to proclaim
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We love to tell others about
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But what about when we hear Jesus proclaimed
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Do we listen?
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Do we listen to Jesus as he is proclaimed here?
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And as we hear about Jesus
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Do we proclaim him to others?
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Do we share him with others?
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So a woman in the Bible
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She is often described as the woman of Samaria
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And she met Jesus at a well
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And when she heard about Jesus
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When she knew who Jesus was
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Even though she was afraid of many people in the village
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That she came from
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She went back
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She went back and she said this to them
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Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did
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Can this be the Christ?
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She wanted to proclaim Jesus to others
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And what a reason that we have to proclaim Jesus
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And what he has done for us
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One of the songs we heard yesterday being played says
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Jesus paid it all
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All to him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it white as snow
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That's from this verse in Isaiah that we were looking at
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Though our sins are like scarlet
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They shall be whiter than the snow
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That is what we have
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If we put our trust in Jesus
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Are we forgetting Jesus just now?
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Are we forgetting Jesus every day?
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Are we saying maybe not yet
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Or not completely
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Or are we saying Lord save me
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Lord take away my sin
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Jesus was predicted by Isaiah
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We were told that he would come
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Jesus was pronounced
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He was born into this world
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And he was called Jesus
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That he might save us from our sins
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And now Jesus is proclaimed
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Because he is able to save us all
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From our sin if we put our trust in him
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Jesus came that though our sins are like scarlet
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They might be whiter than the snow
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So may we all remember Jesus
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Today and in all the days ahead
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And may we know his blessing with us
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Let's just bow our heads in a word of prayer
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Lord our gracious God
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We do thank you that you are one who has promised
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One who has come
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We thank you that in Jesus we have the one who was called that name
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That he might save his people from their sins
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And we do rejoice in that good news
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And we seek to proclaim it to each other and to all around us
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That Jesus is the one we owe everything to
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For he came to save and help us to remember
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And not to forget how precious he is in the midst of everything else
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That we might be busy with
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That we might remember him
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And give thanks for him
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So hear us, go before us
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Pardon our sin
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As we ask all in Jesus name
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Amen
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We are going to sing in conclusion now
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Psalm 103
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It is the Sing Psalms version
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If you are using the psalm book
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It is page 135
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Psalm 103
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We are going to sing from verse 8 to 14
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It is on the back of the little booklets
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And this again a great psalm that reminds us of
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How Jesus, how the Lord is able to forget our sins
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As far as east is from the west
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So far his love has borne our way
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Our many sins and trespasses
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And all the guilt that on us lay
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We will sing verse 8 to 14
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We stand to sing to God's praise
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The Lord is mercy, full and kind
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To anger slow and full of grace
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He will not constantly be true
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For in his anger I disise
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He does not punish our mischief
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Or give our sins their just reward
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By the greatest love as high as den
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Towards all those who fear the Lord
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Towards all those who fear the Lord
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Towards all those who fear the Lord
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Towards all those who fear the Lord
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As God has eased his home the west, so far his love has borne away,
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our many sins and trespasses, and all the guilt that all has stayed.
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Just as the Father was in child, so come us those who feel his pain,
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for healing then works we are done, and well he knows and he will play.
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And well he knows and he will play.
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After the benediction I'll go to the door to my left. We'll close with the benediction.
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Now may grace, mercy and peace from God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
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rest upon and abide with you all now and forevermore. Amen.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.