1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,340 Ni including Josh, who is in charge of sound. 2 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:18,340 Alright. 3 00:00:22,340 --> 00:00:26,340 Where are you, Christmas? 4 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:31,340 Why can't I find you? 5 00:00:32,340 --> 00:00:40,340 Why have you gone away? 6 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:50,340 Where is the laughter you used to bring me? 7 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:59,340 Why can't I hear music play? 8 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:10,340 My world is changing, I'm re-arranging 9 00:01:10,340 --> 00:01:29,340 Does that mean Christmas changes too? 10 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:48,340 Where are you, Christmas? Do you remember the one you used to know? 11 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:58,340 I'm not the same one, see what the time's done 12 00:01:59,340 --> 00:02:10,340 Is that why you have let me go? 13 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:21,340 Christmas is here everywhere 14 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:31,340 Christmas is here if you care 15 00:02:31,340 --> 00:02:40,340 If there's love in your heart and your mind 16 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:47,340 You will feel like Christmas all the time 17 00:02:48,340 --> 00:02:54,340 I feel you, Christmas 18 00:02:54,340 --> 00:03:09,340 I know I found you, you've never been away 19 00:03:10,340 --> 00:03:18,340 The joy of Christmas stays here inside us 20 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:33,340 Fills each and every heart with love 21 00:03:34,340 --> 00:03:39,340 Where are you, Christmas? 22 00:03:39,340 --> 00:03:47,340 There you are with love 23 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:19,340 Today the good child is born of you 24 00:04:20,340 --> 00:04:29,340 Today the good child is born of you 25 00:04:29,340 --> 00:04:38,340 Today the good child is born of you 26 00:04:39,340 --> 00:04:48,340 Today the good child shines everywhere in the world of the world 27 00:04:48,340 --> 00:05:00,340 Jesus, born of this day, he is the light of salvation 28 00:05:01,340 --> 00:05:14,340 Oh Jesus, born of this day, he is the King of all nations 29 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:23,340 We hold the Lamb of God as one 30 00:05:24,340 --> 00:05:29,340 We hold the Lamb of God as one 31 00:05:30,340 --> 00:05:35,340 We hold the Lamb of God as one 32 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:43,340 We sing of love to everyone 33 00:05:44,340 --> 00:05:53,340 Jesus, born of this day, heavenly child, you the angel 34 00:05:53,340 --> 00:06:07,340 Oh Jesus, born of this day, he is our Lord and our Savior 35 00:06:07,340 --> 00:06:22,340 Today our hearts rejoice in him 36 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:34,340 Today the light of his fire fills us with power and brings peace anew 37 00:06:34,340 --> 00:06:46,340 Jesus, born of this day, he is the light of salvation 38 00:06:47,340 --> 00:07:00,340 Oh Jesus, born of this day, he is the King of all nations 39 00:07:00,340 --> 00:07:12,340 Today our child is born of you 40 00:07:13,340 --> 00:07:25,340 Today the glory of God shines everywhere in the world of the world 41 00:07:25,340 --> 00:07:50,340 He is light, he is love, he is love, he is Christ, born on Christmas day 42 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:58,340 Born on Christmas day 43 00:07:59,340 --> 00:08:01,340 Amen 44 00:08:01,340 --> 00:08:26,340 Coming soon to a New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church near you, Grand Prix sign ups! 45 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:39,340 Christ was born in Bethlehem, hallelujah, Son of God and Son of God, hallelujah 46 00:08:40,340 --> 00:08:53,340 Glory be to God Almighty, hallelujah, Glory be to God Almighty, hallelujah 47 00:08:53,340 --> 00:09:07,340 Hallelujah, born of the earthly child, hallelujah, of the world without him found, hallelujah 48 00:09:07,340 --> 00:09:11,180 Jesus died in Calvary, hallelujah, he was born of Zion's 49 00:09:11,340 --> 00:09:35,340 Hallelujah, Glory be to God Almighty, hallelujah, Glory be to God Almighty, hallelujah 50 00:09:35,340 --> 00:09:47,340 With the blessedness of God, hallelujah, with the blood of Christ, hallelujah 51 00:09:48,340 --> 00:10:00,340 He will live with him all his days, hallelujah, one for all, with him say, hallelujah 52 00:10:00,340 --> 00:10:27,340 Glory be to God Almighty, hallelujah, Glory be to God Almighty, hallelujah 53 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:32,340 Amen 54 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:58,340 Tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere go, tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born 55 00:10:58,340 --> 00:11:15,340 While shepherds keep their watching, or silent thoughts find light, behold the Father of us, the Son of Holy God 56 00:11:16,340 --> 00:11:24,340 It's Christmas morning, still barely just before you, you just simply have to be excited. 57 00:11:24,340 --> 00:11:32,340 No? Are you worn out? Are you used up? We're just getting started, this is Christmas day. 58 00:11:33,340 --> 00:11:42,340 We're praising the Holy God. I know you probably Christmas shopped, maybe cooked, ran around town, some of us ran around town finding out what stores were closed last night. 59 00:11:42,340 --> 00:11:48,340 I heard that story this morning. Right? We've done a lot. But we're not done, we're just getting started. 60 00:11:48,340 --> 00:11:55,340 So it's Christmas day, you just have to be inspired. Yes? Alright, what do you got? Let's hear it. 61 00:11:56,340 --> 00:11:59,340 How has the Lord worked this week? It's been amazing. Go. 62 00:12:00,340 --> 00:12:05,340 So, prior to this sermon, the greatest story it's ever told, but I'm just going to call it one night only. 63 00:12:05,340 --> 00:12:11,340 I was just thinking about, and I'm not glory to God, but I've been able to share the gospel through so many movies. 64 00:12:11,340 --> 00:12:18,340 Spider-Man 3, The Matrix, every time I watch a movie I'm just like, God can you speak to me? 65 00:12:18,340 --> 00:12:24,340 And I'm just like, yeah, that's so awesome. I can see God in this, I can see Him trying to share His message through this. 66 00:12:24,340 --> 00:12:32,340 But I just want to talk about, with all those movies, they're fiction. They have a great story, but here we've got a true story. 67 00:12:32,340 --> 00:12:40,340 And I say story, I mean a real story, that one night only, if you didn't know this, angels in the Bible just don't show up. 68 00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:48,340 They show up for a message, they appear, and people are on their knees. They sacrifice to Him, so they say, hey, don't kill us. 69 00:12:48,340 --> 00:12:55,340 God sent an angel of death to destroy a city, but we can talk about that later, wasn't God trying to kill everybody? 70 00:12:55,340 --> 00:13:02,340 There was a reason for it. The idea is these angels are super major, powerful, and they don't just show up, there's angels here every day. 71 00:13:02,340 --> 00:13:06,340 And I would also say, I'm just going to say ignorant faith, and I'm going to say it's wrong faith. 72 00:13:06,340 --> 00:13:14,340 People are blessed, there are miracles, there are healings from angels, because if someone calls on something, by God's grace and mercy, 73 00:13:14,340 --> 00:13:20,340 people are going to be healed, there is a favor of God, it doesn't change who God is, how gracious and good He is. 74 00:13:20,340 --> 00:13:28,340 So that night, and the shepherds were just watching their flocks at night, literally just watching the flocks, they were just there, 75 00:13:28,340 --> 00:13:36,340 and all of a sudden, a multitude of angels appeared out of the sky, they saw them. You don't get to see angels. 76 00:13:36,340 --> 00:13:42,340 Like I said, this is one night only, this will be the only night. The angels itself, they weren't here to boast, 77 00:13:42,340 --> 00:13:51,340 or I believe they were even created for this day, just to come out and say, glory to God in the highest, the son of David, Christ the Savior is born, 78 00:13:51,340 --> 00:13:58,340 peace and good will to all men, and they just start singing, there could be thousands, multitudes, ten thousands upon ten thousands, 79 00:13:58,340 --> 00:14:05,340 who knows how many there are. And the shepherds are just watching this one time only, because you don't see any more angels come out, 80 00:14:05,340 --> 00:14:11,340 you haven't seen them for two thousand years, for anyone to come out in a multitude. I mean these are angels. 81 00:14:11,340 --> 00:14:17,340 This isn't like, you know, when we come out and have a concert, sing amazing songs, it's really cool and stuff, 82 00:14:17,340 --> 00:14:24,340 but these are literally God's creation, singing a song to proclaim the birth of a Savior. 83 00:14:24,340 --> 00:14:30,340 And so I just wanted to encourage us today, and just a reminder, that's why I call it one night only, 84 00:14:30,340 --> 00:14:41,340 this was the greatest gift that God could ever give of himself. He gave his son to be born as a babe in Bethlehem, 85 00:14:41,340 --> 00:14:49,340 and to anyone that will call on his name. And so I just wanted to say, Merry Christmas to y'all, I love this story, 86 00:14:49,340 --> 00:14:57,340 because there's no story like this. You could never rewrite this story, and if you did that story, you could never change that day 87 00:14:57,340 --> 00:15:03,340 that he came to shepherds. Shepherds were the least of the people, not because he couldn't come anywhere, 88 00:15:03,340 --> 00:15:08,340 people just seemed to sky lit up, but they got to see a concert like they've never seen before. 89 00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:13,340 And it probably didn't last very long, because they just shared a message and boop, gone. 90 00:15:13,340 --> 00:15:18,340 But they were able to see a message, and today we can declare that message today. 91 00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:20,340 So Merry Christmas to all New Light's family. 92 00:15:20,340 --> 00:15:23,340 Amen. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. 93 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:27,340 Alright, who else? Are you inspired? 94 00:15:27,340 --> 00:15:30,340 I hope you've been at least looking at the Christmas story this week. 95 00:15:30,340 --> 00:15:35,340 Earlier this month we went thoroughly through it in the sermons, and I was very blessed. 96 00:15:35,340 --> 00:15:39,340 And then right up to last night, the anticipation, we talked about the anticipation. 97 00:15:39,340 --> 00:15:45,340 And if they were anticipating His coming, then Christmas is the day that we celebrate His coming. 98 00:15:45,340 --> 00:15:51,340 But it is not the first time that Jesus visited earth, it is not the first time that Jesus was involved in creation. 99 00:15:51,340 --> 00:15:54,340 He was involved in everything that was created at the beginning. 100 00:15:54,340 --> 00:16:00,340 You can read about that in John chapter 1. Nothing was made except that which was made through Him. Praise God. 101 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:06,340 And He is the full embodiment, the full glory, the full awesome presence of God as a man on earth. 102 00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:08,340 We are blessed. 103 00:16:08,340 --> 00:16:12,340 Anyone else have something you'd like to share? We're going to pray? 104 00:16:12,340 --> 00:16:17,340 Alright, Brother Tim, would you pray for us then as we transition and we baptize and offer him some more worship? 105 00:16:17,340 --> 00:16:31,340 Let's pray with Tim. 106 00:16:47,340 --> 00:17:11,340 I'll take it. 107 00:17:11,340 --> 00:17:19,340 I'll take it. 108 00:17:41,340 --> 00:17:45,340 I see 109 00:17:45,340 --> 00:17:49,340 a snow, a snow 110 00:17:49,340 --> 00:17:51,340 shining in the night 111 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:53,340 with the whole world 112 00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:57,340 moving in line 113 00:17:57,340 --> 00:17:59,340 with the whole world 114 00:17:59,340 --> 00:18:11,340 moving in line 115 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:13,340 to the shepherd 116 00:18:13,340 --> 00:18:15,340 to the shepherd 117 00:18:15,340 --> 00:18:21,340 Do you hear what I hear? 118 00:18:21,340 --> 00:18:29,340 Ringing through the sky, shepherd, howl 119 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:33,340 Do you hear what I hear? 120 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:37,340 A snow, a snow 121 00:18:37,340 --> 00:18:39,340 crying above the tree 122 00:18:39,340 --> 00:18:41,340 with a voice 123 00:18:41,340 --> 00:18:45,340 as big as the sea 124 00:18:45,340 --> 00:18:53,340 with a voice as big as the sea 125 00:18:53,340 --> 00:18:55,340 said the shepherd boy 126 00:18:55,340 --> 00:18:59,340 to the mighty sea 127 00:18:59,340 --> 00:19:05,340 Do you know what I know? 128 00:19:05,340 --> 00:19:11,340 Ringing through the sky, shepherd 129 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:19,340 I'm going to read, this is Isaiah 9-6, which is a prophecy about the coming of Jesus that was written almost 700 years before it was born. 130 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:25,340 I'm going to read a phrase from it and I would like you to say back to me, his name is Jesus. 131 00:19:25,340 --> 00:19:29,340 So let's practice that one time on the count of three. Ready? 132 00:19:29,340 --> 00:19:32,340 One, two, three, go. His name is Jesus. 133 00:19:32,340 --> 00:19:35,340 Karina, you with me? Don't be too distracted by that phone now. 134 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:41,340 Okay, so I'm going to read the phrase and I want you to say back to me, his name is Jesus. Each time. 135 00:19:41,340 --> 00:19:44,340 This is Isaiah 9-6, broken down. 136 00:19:44,340 --> 00:19:47,340 First one says, for a child will be born for us. 137 00:19:47,340 --> 00:19:49,340 His name is Jesus. 138 00:19:49,340 --> 00:19:51,340 Thank you, very good. That was good. 139 00:19:51,340 --> 00:19:53,340 A son will be given to us. 140 00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:54,340 His name is Jesus. 141 00:19:54,340 --> 00:19:55,340 Thank you so much. 142 00:19:55,340 --> 00:19:57,340 And the government will be on his shoulders. 143 00:19:57,340 --> 00:19:59,340 His name is Jesus. 144 00:19:59,340 --> 00:20:01,340 Very good, nice and loud. 145 00:20:01,340 --> 00:20:03,340 He will be named wonderful counselor. 146 00:20:03,340 --> 00:20:05,340 His name is Jesus. 147 00:20:05,340 --> 00:20:06,340 Mighty God. 148 00:20:06,340 --> 00:20:08,340 His name is Jesus. 149 00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:09,340 Eternal Father. 150 00:20:09,340 --> 00:20:11,340 His name is Jesus. 151 00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:12,340 Prince of Peace. 152 00:20:12,340 --> 00:20:13,340 His name is Jesus. 153 00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:14,340 Thank you very much. 154 00:20:14,340 --> 00:20:19,340 Interestingly enough, in the middle of that verse it says he will be named and then it says wonderful counselor, 155 00:20:19,340 --> 00:20:25,340 Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace, but we know that his name is Jesus. 156 00:20:25,340 --> 00:20:31,340 Those are titles like doctor or father, right? 157 00:20:31,340 --> 00:20:39,340 And so they are showing us really the character about him, what we need to know about who he would be. 158 00:20:39,340 --> 00:20:43,340 And then when he is born, he is given the name Jesus. 159 00:20:43,340 --> 00:20:45,340 We have one more activity that we're going to do. 160 00:20:45,340 --> 00:20:48,340 I'm turning the page, but we have one more activity that we're going to do before we start. 161 00:20:48,340 --> 00:20:51,340 And for that I will need a volunteer. 162 00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:54,340 So I need somebody to volunteer to come up here. 163 00:20:54,340 --> 00:20:55,340 Come on up here. 164 00:20:55,340 --> 00:20:57,340 Is it Ashley? Did I say that right? 165 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:59,340 Okay, so we're going to have a little game. 166 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:02,340 So in my pocket I have two sets of locks. 167 00:21:02,340 --> 00:21:04,340 You don't have to come on stage, I'll come down to you. 168 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:07,340 So this is going to be your set. 169 00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:09,340 You count the locks. 170 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:11,340 One, two, three, four, five. 171 00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:15,340 And then how many keys? 172 00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:16,340 Five. 173 00:21:16,340 --> 00:21:19,340 There are actually ten total, but there are two copies of each one, right? 174 00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:26,340 So now the interesting thing is each lock has its key locked to it. 175 00:21:26,340 --> 00:21:27,340 See it? 176 00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:28,340 Yeah. 177 00:21:28,340 --> 00:21:30,340 So I'm giving her five locks. 178 00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:32,340 You take those five locks and ten keys. 179 00:21:32,340 --> 00:21:36,340 And I have a bag here. 180 00:21:36,340 --> 00:21:37,340 How old are you? 181 00:21:37,340 --> 00:21:38,340 Thirty-six. 182 00:21:38,340 --> 00:21:39,340 Thirty-six. 183 00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:40,340 You can probably remember that, okay? 184 00:21:40,340 --> 00:21:42,340 I have five also. 185 00:21:42,340 --> 00:21:43,340 Simple math. 186 00:21:43,340 --> 00:21:46,340 And I have sets of keys on each one. 187 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:49,340 Each one of mine has two keys as well. 188 00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:52,340 So basically these are identical locks and keys to hers. 189 00:21:52,340 --> 00:21:55,340 Presumably the keys are different, but the locks are identical, okay? 190 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:57,340 So we're going to race. 191 00:21:57,340 --> 00:22:00,340 I'm going to open my five locks and you're going to open your five locks. 192 00:22:00,340 --> 00:22:01,340 Are you ready? 193 00:22:01,340 --> 00:22:02,340 Yeah. 194 00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:05,340 So presumably what are you going to use to open the locks? 195 00:22:05,340 --> 00:22:06,340 The keys. 196 00:22:06,340 --> 00:22:07,340 The keys, okay? 197 00:22:07,340 --> 00:22:13,340 So do you think maybe one of the other keys will work like you can do it like this? 198 00:22:13,340 --> 00:22:15,340 You can do the key here and work on the... 199 00:22:15,340 --> 00:22:16,340 I bet you might be right. 200 00:22:16,340 --> 00:22:17,340 Are you ready to go? 201 00:22:17,340 --> 00:22:19,340 On your mark, get set, go. 202 00:22:19,340 --> 00:22:21,340 Okay, I've got my five locks. 203 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:24,340 Here we go. 204 00:22:24,340 --> 00:22:26,340 Done. 205 00:22:26,340 --> 00:22:29,340 Okay, try again. 206 00:22:29,340 --> 00:22:30,340 Did you get one yet? 207 00:22:30,340 --> 00:22:33,340 No. 208 00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:36,340 Nothing. 209 00:22:36,340 --> 00:22:37,340 I'm over two. 210 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:42,340 How about you? 211 00:22:42,340 --> 00:22:43,340 Nothing. 212 00:22:43,340 --> 00:22:44,340 Nothing? 213 00:22:44,340 --> 00:22:47,340 Uh-oh, she's got one. 214 00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:48,340 I'm going to go behind. 215 00:22:48,340 --> 00:22:50,340 Oh, I got nothing. 216 00:22:50,340 --> 00:22:53,340 I'm getting mixed up here. 217 00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:54,340 How many got nothing? 218 00:22:54,340 --> 00:22:56,340 I still want one. 219 00:22:56,340 --> 00:22:57,340 Yeah. 220 00:22:57,340 --> 00:22:58,340 Nothing. 221 00:22:58,340 --> 00:23:02,340 Okay, this key better work or I'm in trouble. 222 00:23:02,340 --> 00:23:04,340 Darn it, it's a... 223 00:23:04,340 --> 00:23:07,340 The old one doesn't matter. 224 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:08,340 I got one. 225 00:23:08,340 --> 00:23:09,340 I got one. 226 00:23:09,340 --> 00:23:11,340 I got two. 227 00:23:11,340 --> 00:23:13,340 Oh, no. 228 00:23:13,340 --> 00:23:14,340 I got two. 229 00:23:14,340 --> 00:23:17,340 Oh, I'm catching up. 230 00:23:17,340 --> 00:23:18,340 It's a race now. 231 00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:19,340 We're on baby. 232 00:23:19,340 --> 00:23:20,340 Three. 233 00:23:20,340 --> 00:23:22,340 Look at that. 234 00:23:22,340 --> 00:23:25,340 I'm going to have a problem with the ending. 235 00:23:25,340 --> 00:23:26,340 Oh, no. 236 00:23:26,340 --> 00:23:27,340 Now what? 237 00:23:27,340 --> 00:23:30,340 This is the only key that worked. 238 00:23:30,340 --> 00:23:33,340 I'm going to take this off. 239 00:23:33,340 --> 00:23:35,340 Oh, no. 240 00:23:35,340 --> 00:23:37,340 I'm getting close. 241 00:23:37,340 --> 00:23:42,340 This is the only key that worked. 242 00:23:42,340 --> 00:23:43,340 Bye. 243 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:44,340 Congratulations. 244 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:45,340 You win. 245 00:23:45,340 --> 00:23:46,340 Congratulations. 246 00:23:46,340 --> 00:23:47,340 Very good. 247 00:23:47,340 --> 00:23:48,340 Very good. 248 00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:49,340 All right. 249 00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:54,340 Keys and locks, they come in many forms. 250 00:23:54,340 --> 00:24:01,340 This morning, I wanted to go on the Verizon website and they had to send me an email and 251 00:24:01,340 --> 00:24:07,340 it says, do you allow or disallow this person to get on the website using your email address? 252 00:24:07,340 --> 00:24:11,340 It's called a multi-factor authentication, which means a lock. 253 00:24:11,340 --> 00:24:12,340 That's what it means. 254 00:24:12,340 --> 00:24:13,340 Okay? 255 00:24:13,340 --> 00:24:17,340 And so I said I allow and then because he put in the wrong password, he still didn't 256 00:24:17,340 --> 00:24:20,340 because a password also is a lock. 257 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:25,340 There are lots of different kinds of locks and there are lots of different kinds of keys. 258 00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:26,340 Okay? 259 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:30,340 Sometimes you say please to someone and they're more likely to give you what it is that you're 260 00:24:30,340 --> 00:24:33,340 asking for because please is the key. 261 00:24:33,340 --> 00:24:36,340 And politeness is both a key and a lock. 262 00:24:36,340 --> 00:24:37,340 Oh, wait. 263 00:24:37,340 --> 00:24:40,340 Now we've discovered that sometimes things are keys and locks. 264 00:24:40,340 --> 00:24:42,340 Sometimes they're both, keys and locks. 265 00:24:42,340 --> 00:24:44,340 So that's pretty interesting. 266 00:24:44,340 --> 00:24:50,340 So we're going to look today at the key and lock that all of the other keys and locks 267 00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:51,340 are pointing towards. 268 00:24:51,340 --> 00:24:52,340 Okay? 269 00:24:52,340 --> 00:24:58,340 All of creation has keys and locks everywhere you look and they're all pointing toward one. 270 00:24:58,340 --> 00:24:59,340 Would you grab your Bibles and go with me? 271 00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:04,340 Maybe give me a hoot, a holler, amen as we go to Luke chapter two. 272 00:25:04,340 --> 00:25:05,340 Thank you for those of you who participated. 273 00:25:05,340 --> 00:25:06,340 Did anybody not get to? 274 00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:08,340 They wanted to, but they didn't know they were supposed to yell right there. 275 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:09,340 Okay. 276 00:25:09,340 --> 00:25:10,340 We'll do it again. 277 00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:11,340 Ready? 278 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:12,340 We're going to Luke chapter two. 279 00:25:12,340 --> 00:25:13,340 All right. 280 00:25:13,340 --> 00:25:14,340 I think it was, I heard somebody knew. 281 00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:15,340 Okay. 282 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:16,340 We're good. 283 00:25:16,340 --> 00:25:17,340 We added one person. 284 00:25:17,340 --> 00:25:18,340 Okay. 285 00:25:18,340 --> 00:25:19,340 We're good. 286 00:25:19,340 --> 00:25:20,340 Luke two, 21. 287 00:25:20,340 --> 00:25:25,740 This is the word of God, which amazingly enough is God's very, very inspired method of pointing 288 00:25:25,740 --> 00:25:29,940 us to the locks and keys of the universe, in particular this one. 289 00:25:29,940 --> 00:25:30,940 Okay? 290 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:32,460 So we're just going to use one verse from Luke chapter two. 291 00:25:32,460 --> 00:25:36,880 I will tell you that this is the story of the birth of Jesus and we did study it earlier 292 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,880 this month. 293 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,940 We went through all of these verses and now we're going to hone in on one moment in time. 294 00:25:42,940 --> 00:25:43,940 Okay? 295 00:25:43,940 --> 00:25:46,940 And it is the one kind of that we didn't read because we didn't quite go that far and it 296 00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:47,940 is Luke two, 21. 297 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:48,940 All right. 298 00:25:48,940 --> 00:25:54,900 So in Luke two, 21, it says this, when the eight days were completed for his circumcision, 299 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:57,580 he was named Jesus. 300 00:25:57,580 --> 00:26:02,380 And it's in great big all capital letters, J-E-S-U-S, all in caps. 301 00:26:02,380 --> 00:26:09,940 He was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived. 302 00:26:09,940 --> 00:26:14,220 Oh, that's good stuff. 303 00:26:14,220 --> 00:26:15,460 All right? 304 00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:20,900 She named him Jesus and it says right in there that she named him Jesus because he was given 305 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:27,380 that name, as we know by the angel Gabriel, before he was conceived. 306 00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:38,580 This name, Jesus, is his name and it is a key. 307 00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:42,620 This name, Jesus, was given to him chosen by God. 308 00:26:42,620 --> 00:26:50,500 Gabriel, the angel, in just a few verses before, in Luke one, verse 30, it says, back over 309 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:56,980 here, the angel told her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 310 00:26:56,980 --> 00:27:02,100 Now listen, you will conceive and give birth to a son and you will call his name Jesus, 311 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:03,500 all in capitals. 312 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:07,860 He will be great and will be called the son of the most high and the Lord of God will 313 00:27:07,860 --> 00:27:10,420 give him the throne of his father David. 314 00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:16,100 So she gets the prophecy that she will have a son and that his name will be Jesus. 315 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:23,860 Okay, Bible scholars, what does the name Jesus mean? 316 00:27:23,860 --> 00:27:24,860 Very good. 317 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:26,520 It's actually Jehovah or God saves. 318 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,520 That's what it means. 319 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,520 Okay? 320 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,860 And so what does the name Jehovah mean? 321 00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:34,100 Does anybody know? 322 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:35,100 That's tougher, isn't it? 323 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:39,620 So Jehovah is actually, I'm going to mess up the word, but I won't even try it, but 324 00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:44,500 it's a shifting of the word Yahweh. 325 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:46,620 Now you know what that word means, right? 326 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:53,020 That is the personal name of God and it literally means I am. 327 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:54,340 Now wouldn't you love to have a name? 328 00:27:54,340 --> 00:27:56,700 I mean you probably wouldn't because then you'd be God and you don't have the powers 329 00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:57,700 of God. 330 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:01,980 But if not, wouldn't it be cool to just say I am and everybody knows who you are? 331 00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:04,760 I wish that were so even of God. 332 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:13,300 But God's name, I am, Yahweh is then shifted and it's the Latin version, we get Jehovah 333 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:18,420 and it actually is phonetically sound, it's got a three in it of all things. 334 00:28:18,420 --> 00:28:24,900 It's like D3E and then what we would say was an H and then it's an OU. 335 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:30,380 So it's actually in the Latin Jehovah. 336 00:28:30,380 --> 00:28:33,780 It's a stretched out U like Jehovah, almost like Jehovah but not. 337 00:28:33,780 --> 00:28:37,060 And it's the Latin version of the word Yahweh. 338 00:28:37,060 --> 00:28:42,500 It is the proper name of God and they never say, Jews never say Yahweh or Jehovah, either 339 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:43,500 one. 340 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:50,380 They say Adonai, which is Lord and it kind of comes over from the Greek, transliterated 341 00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:54,700 sort of through the Greek and it means Lord and it is the Lord. 342 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:59,500 And Jehovah also means the Lord, the one, the only God. 343 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,500 This is God we're talking about, the creator God. 344 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:05,620 When you see Yahweh in the New Testament you will see it translated, capital L, capital 345 00:29:05,620 --> 00:29:11,900 O, capital R, capital D. It is the Lord, the creator God who started it all, who was before 346 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:17,620 creation began, before anything existed, he existed and he created it all. 347 00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:18,620 That's the God. 348 00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:22,660 I am God, says God. 349 00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:28,660 And Jehovah saves, says Jesus. 350 00:29:28,660 --> 00:29:31,540 God gave him the name Jesus. 351 00:29:31,540 --> 00:29:35,140 He gave it through first the angel Gabriel but then on the eighth day when he went to 352 00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:41,700 be circumcised in the temple, Mary and Joseph told them that he would be named Jesus. 353 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:45,900 Isn't it great to know that Jehovah saves? 354 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:51,180 Boy, it would be awesome if there was only ever one Jesus, wouldn't it? 355 00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:52,180 But it isn't so. 356 00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:54,420 There have been other men named Jesus. 357 00:29:54,420 --> 00:29:59,900 In fact, for a long time in Mexico it was quite common to name people Jesus, named after 358 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:01,860 Jesus. 359 00:30:01,860 --> 00:30:03,900 Probably meaning the same thing, Jehovah saves. 360 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:05,700 And it is a great thing to know that Jehovah saves. 361 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:06,700 So you can reverse it. 362 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:10,000 You say, wouldn't it be great if we were all named Jesus? 363 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,540 So that everywhere you went you'd be saying Jehovah saves, Jehovah saves, Jehovah saves, 364 00:30:13,540 --> 00:30:14,540 which is true. 365 00:30:14,540 --> 00:30:17,620 Except it would not be great, would it, if we were all named Jesus? 366 00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:18,620 Because then how would you call your kids? 367 00:30:18,620 --> 00:30:19,620 You've got to clean your room, son. 368 00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:20,620 Jesus. 369 00:30:20,620 --> 00:30:21,620 No, the other Jesus. 370 00:30:21,620 --> 00:30:22,620 No, not that one, the other Jesus. 371 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:23,620 God saved you. 372 00:30:23,620 --> 00:30:24,620 The other Jesus. 373 00:30:24,620 --> 00:30:25,620 God cleaned your room. 374 00:30:25,620 --> 00:30:27,660 That would be extremely confusing. 375 00:30:27,660 --> 00:30:30,060 So we can't all be named Jesus. 376 00:30:30,060 --> 00:30:31,580 But there have been a lot of Jesuses. 377 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:33,580 There were even other Jesuses in Jesus' day. 378 00:30:33,580 --> 00:30:35,700 Well, I tried to say that three times fast. 379 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,460 Other Jesus in Jesus' day. 380 00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:39,580 So there were other Jesuses in Jesus' day. 381 00:30:39,580 --> 00:30:41,580 I did say that pretty well. 382 00:30:41,580 --> 00:30:44,860 Anyway, the point is there were others. 383 00:30:44,860 --> 00:30:47,180 So you've got to be clear about who this Jesus. 384 00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:52,100 This is the Jesus whom God gave the name Jesus through the angel Gabriel. 385 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:59,540 And he was born to a virgin in Bethlehem, lived a sinless life, and eventually died 386 00:30:59,540 --> 00:31:01,260 on the cross. 387 00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:05,340 This is that Jesus who died on the cross but did not stay dead, rose again on the third 388 00:31:05,340 --> 00:31:06,500 day. 389 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:08,700 He had a fairly colored life. 390 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:10,660 Good things and bad things happened. 391 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:12,380 It was difficult at times. 392 00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:14,540 They came to him for healing when he was tired. 393 00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:17,300 They came to him for teaching when he was tired. 394 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:19,760 He got away alone by himself. 395 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,700 He would go to the garden of Gethsemane into wilderness places and spend time alone with 396 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:24,700 God. 397 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:28,380 He's 40 days he fasted in the wilderness, led there by the Holy Spirit. 398 00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:32,020 40 days he fasted, tempted then by the devil himself. 399 00:31:32,020 --> 00:31:34,100 This is our Jesus. 400 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,700 And God gave him his name before he was ever conceived. 401 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:42,740 You ever know anybody picked out baby names before the baby was conceived? 402 00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:45,140 I mean, somebody, yeah. 403 00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:46,580 You know, thinking kind of romantically. 404 00:31:46,580 --> 00:31:49,360 I think if I ever had a boy he'd be named. 405 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:50,360 We did that. 406 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,660 I had a plan to name my firstborn son Jason. 407 00:31:54,660 --> 00:31:56,060 Could have been Jason, Erin. 408 00:31:56,060 --> 00:31:57,340 You could have been Jason. 409 00:31:57,340 --> 00:31:58,340 But no. 410 00:31:58,340 --> 00:31:59,340 Jason Daniel. 411 00:31:59,340 --> 00:32:01,340 And now we see the problem. 412 00:32:01,340 --> 00:32:03,940 Yeah, it worked out, didn't it? 413 00:32:03,940 --> 00:32:05,300 Yeah, but she spelled it wrong. 414 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:06,740 But it's okay. 415 00:32:06,740 --> 00:32:07,740 We love him anyway. 416 00:32:07,740 --> 00:32:09,740 His middle name is Daniel? 417 00:32:09,740 --> 00:32:10,740 See? 418 00:32:10,740 --> 00:32:11,740 There you go. 419 00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:17,260 I had a plan to name all my grandsons Daniel. 420 00:32:17,260 --> 00:32:18,260 That was my plan. 421 00:32:18,260 --> 00:32:20,660 It hadn't happened yet. 422 00:32:20,660 --> 00:32:24,700 Anyway, God gave her the name before he was conceived. 423 00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:27,220 And then she gave it at the baptism. 424 00:32:27,220 --> 00:32:29,820 And his name was chosen by God. 425 00:32:29,820 --> 00:32:32,280 He is that Jesus. 426 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,100 Notice then, his name is a key. 427 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:38,780 His name is a key. 428 00:32:38,780 --> 00:32:40,660 Go with me if you're following along in your Bibles. 429 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:43,860 We're going to use a number of verses today. 430 00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:45,540 Not a big number, but it's a good solid. 431 00:32:45,540 --> 00:32:48,180 Probably about five total. 432 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:51,900 We're going to look briefly at Hebrews chapter one. 433 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:55,980 So in Hebrews, in the New Testament, you're going to go way out to the right. 434 00:32:55,980 --> 00:32:56,980 Not too far. 435 00:32:56,980 --> 00:32:57,980 We're going to Revelation. 436 00:32:57,980 --> 00:32:59,580 We'll be in the end times before you know it. 437 00:32:59,580 --> 00:33:02,420 We're going to go out to the right to Hebrews. 438 00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:05,780 Someone want to come find it in my Bible up here? 439 00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:09,900 In a minute I'm going to have to use the table of contents. 440 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:10,900 Anybody else? 441 00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:11,900 Okay, there it is. 442 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:12,900 Okay. 443 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:13,900 Hebrews chapter one. 444 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:16,740 This is a different Bible than I normally preach out of, but that's no excuse. 445 00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:17,740 Here we go. 446 00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:20,020 We're going to look at verse four. 447 00:33:20,020 --> 00:33:21,820 It's power packed. 448 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:22,820 Right? 449 00:33:22,820 --> 00:33:24,940 It's talking about Jesus. 450 00:33:24,940 --> 00:33:26,260 Which Jesus? 451 00:33:26,260 --> 00:33:31,060 This Jesus who received his name before he was conceived, who was born in Bethlehem to 452 00:33:31,060 --> 00:33:34,940 a virgin named Mary and her betrothed husband. 453 00:33:34,940 --> 00:33:38,820 He had married her by the time that Jesus was born, but he had not married her by the 454 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:43,660 time that Jesus was conceived because he's not Jesus' father. 455 00:33:43,660 --> 00:33:45,340 God is Jesus' father. 456 00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:50,660 But Mary and Joseph gave him his name Jesus on the eighth day in Jerusalem. 457 00:33:50,660 --> 00:33:51,820 They fled to Egypt. 458 00:33:51,820 --> 00:33:53,060 They returned. 459 00:33:53,060 --> 00:33:55,000 They settled in Nazareth. 460 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,940 We know who this Jesus is. 461 00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:58,800 God gave him his name before he was born. 462 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,460 This is that Jesus. 463 00:34:00,460 --> 00:34:03,180 His name is a key here in Hebrews chapter one. 464 00:34:03,180 --> 00:34:05,260 He's talking about that Jesus. 465 00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:12,200 In verse four it says, so he became higher in rank than the angels just as the name he 466 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:18,260 inherited is superior to theirs. 467 00:34:18,260 --> 00:34:20,900 God elevated Jesus' name. 468 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:25,980 In fact, you could almost say that God had elevated Jesus' name from the beginning of 469 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:28,020 creation. 470 00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:30,300 Go back to verse one of that and here it goes. 471 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:33,860 It says, long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in 472 00:34:33,860 --> 00:34:34,860 different ways. 473 00:34:34,860 --> 00:34:37,860 In other words, God's been revealing the key all this time. 474 00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:42,700 In these last days he has spoken to us by his son whom he has appointed heir of all 475 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:45,580 things and through whom he made the universe. 476 00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:51,700 He is the radiance of his glory, the exact expression of his nature, and he sustains 477 00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:54,500 all things by his powerful word. 478 00:34:54,500 --> 00:35:01,200 After making purifications for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. 479 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,820 So he became higher in rank than the angels just as the name he inherited is superior 480 00:35:06,820 --> 00:35:08,080 to theirs. 481 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,940 This name of Jesus is a superior name. 482 00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:19,580 This name of our Jesus, the Jesus, not just any Jesus, but the Jesus whom God named, whom 483 00:35:19,580 --> 00:35:25,900 God sent to be the key, his name is a key. 484 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,420 His name is a key. 485 00:35:29,420 --> 00:35:32,740 Look at Acts chapter four. 486 00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:37,300 Going back to the left, you always find Acts right after the book of Luke, probably because 487 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:41,580 Luke wrote all that big piece back to back. 488 00:35:41,580 --> 00:35:45,420 The book of Luke and the book of Acts, he wrote pretty much back to back and they kind 489 00:35:45,420 --> 00:35:47,300 of pair up nicely. 490 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:52,380 So Acts chapter four, beginning in verse eight. 491 00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:54,220 Now you know this story maybe, maybe not. 492 00:35:54,220 --> 00:35:55,220 I don't know. 493 00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:57,740 Most people have heard a little bit of something about it. 494 00:35:57,740 --> 00:35:59,500 Peter and John were arrested. 495 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,500 They healed a man. 496 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,100 Silver and gold have I done, but such as I have I give unto thee. 497 00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:08,060 And they healed him and he got up and he could walk normally and stuff and become no longer 498 00:36:08,060 --> 00:36:10,600 a beggar basically. 499 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,540 And then they get arrested because they're preaching Jesus and all that's going on. 500 00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:17,260 And this is right in the middle of that story. 501 00:36:17,260 --> 00:36:21,060 Verse eight, it says, then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and he said to them, 502 00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:27,300 rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today about a good deed done 503 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:34,260 to a disabled man by what means he was healed, let it be known to all of you and all the 504 00:36:34,260 --> 00:36:40,260 people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and 505 00:36:40,260 --> 00:36:45,660 whom God raised from the dead by him this man is standing here before you healthy. 506 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:51,560 This Jesus is the stone despised by your builders, by you builders who has become the cornerstone. 507 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:59,100 There is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to people 508 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:01,020 by which we must be saved. 509 00:37:01,020 --> 00:37:02,420 Now don't you wish you were named Jesus. 510 00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:03,420 Man, that's awesome. 511 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:08,980 That we can't all be named Jesus and even if we were there is only one Jesus. 512 00:37:08,980 --> 00:37:11,360 His name was given to him before his birth. 513 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,480 He was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, lived a sinless life and died on a cross. 514 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:24,220 He was the stone despised by the builders but he had become the cornerstone, the key. 515 00:37:24,220 --> 00:37:30,780 There is no salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to people 516 00:37:30,780 --> 00:37:32,660 by which we must be saved. 517 00:37:32,660 --> 00:37:38,180 Listen to me, don't tell people you got to believe in God to be saved because that's 518 00:37:38,180 --> 00:37:41,240 not how it's done. 519 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:47,420 There are Muslims all over the world who say they believe in God and they don't know Jesus 520 00:37:47,420 --> 00:37:52,340 and they're just as destined for hell if they do not accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior 521 00:37:52,340 --> 00:37:53,660 and they're not the only ones. 522 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:55,100 There are people all over the world. 523 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:59,620 There are people all over East Toledo, all over Toledo and all the metropolitan area 524 00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:04,280 and all over Ohio and all over the United States who definitely believe in God. 525 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,020 They believe in God and everything about God. 526 00:38:06,020 --> 00:38:07,020 He created the universe. 527 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:08,020 He loved us. 528 00:38:08,020 --> 00:38:10,020 He loved us so much that he sent his son. 529 00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:12,180 Here's what they haven't done, many of them. 530 00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:18,840 They have not come to the God of the universe through Jesus and there is no other name given 531 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,180 among men by which we must be saved. 532 00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:23,180 You cannot be saved by Allah. 533 00:38:23,180 --> 00:38:25,900 You cannot be saved by the Almighty Dollar. 534 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,000 You cannot be saved by family. 535 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,220 You cannot be saved by honesty. 536 00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:35,180 You cannot be saved by your hobbies or your recreation or even, wait a minute, you cannot 537 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:37,900 be saved by your Bible. 538 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:43,660 You must be saved by Jesus. 539 00:38:43,660 --> 00:38:49,120 And this is true because it is Jesus who is standing at the right hand of the Father making 540 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:56,180 eternal intercession for those who have believed in God and come to God through the name of 541 00:38:56,180 --> 00:38:58,180 Jesus. 542 00:38:58,180 --> 00:39:03,020 There are guys named Joe in heaven and they may entreat God and in heaven they may have 543 00:39:03,020 --> 00:39:06,700 what it is that they desire but they did not die for your sins. 544 00:39:06,700 --> 00:39:09,500 They did not come back to life again on the third day. 545 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:16,220 They are not the Savior and they are not Jesus the Nazarene who was put to death primarily 546 00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:19,900 because people didn't like the fact that he is the key. 547 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:25,140 His name was chosen by God and his name is a key. 548 00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:33,020 And lastly, his name, his name, his name, capital H, capital I, capital S, his name is 549 00:39:33,020 --> 00:39:34,020 a lock. 550 00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:35,020 Oh. 551 00:39:35,020 --> 00:39:37,020 You ever forget your password? 552 00:39:37,020 --> 00:39:38,220 Third try locks you out. 553 00:39:38,220 --> 00:39:40,420 Now you've got to call customer service, right? 554 00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:42,700 Or the network password in your house. 555 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:44,660 You ever forget your car keys? 556 00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:46,860 Like leave them in your husband's car when you drive to work, make him have to drive 557 00:39:46,860 --> 00:39:47,860 an hour back home. 558 00:39:47,860 --> 00:39:49,980 You ever do that? 559 00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:51,980 Nobody's ever done that, right? 560 00:39:51,980 --> 00:39:54,940 You ever want to make a call? 561 00:39:54,940 --> 00:39:56,780 Reach for your cell phone. 562 00:39:56,780 --> 00:40:00,460 Your cell phone is the key to making a cell phone call. 563 00:40:00,460 --> 00:40:02,380 You need a cell phone to make a cell phone call. 564 00:40:02,380 --> 00:40:03,380 That's kind of how that works. 565 00:40:03,380 --> 00:40:05,580 You ever leave it at home? 566 00:40:05,580 --> 00:40:09,100 How many times did you reach for your cell phone to make a call that day and go, oh crud, 567 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:15,940 I forgot I left my cell phone at home because you're used to having the key with you. 568 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:19,900 Nobody likes a lock standing in the way of what they want to do. 569 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:24,820 Nobody likes a lock standing in the way of who they want to be, how they see themselves. 570 00:40:24,820 --> 00:40:27,180 The truth is, let's just get realistic. 571 00:40:27,180 --> 00:40:30,580 Nobody likes a lock. 572 00:40:30,580 --> 00:40:32,460 I don't like the locks on my house. 573 00:40:32,460 --> 00:40:34,220 I don't like the locks on my car. 574 00:40:34,220 --> 00:40:36,340 I don't like locks. 575 00:40:36,340 --> 00:40:39,500 I wish I lived in a world where no locks were needed. 576 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:42,300 There are parts of the world where they never lock their houses. 577 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:43,300 You want to come in and take something? 578 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:44,300 Just take it. 579 00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:49,860 You can do that a lot easier if you have nothing of value. 580 00:40:49,860 --> 00:40:51,120 But hear me now. 581 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,740 This salvation of Jesus is not something of value. 582 00:40:54,740 --> 00:40:57,700 It is everything of value. 583 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:04,020 This Jesus, whose name is a key, his name is also a lock. 584 00:41:04,020 --> 00:41:09,900 Turn with me to Acts chapter 19, which will be our last passage of scripture today, although 585 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:16,700 we will look at Isaiah 9, 6 in the conclusion and do that little reading again. 586 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:17,700 Acts 19. 587 00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:23,060 So you're just basically going to the right if you had stopped in Acts 4 with me. 588 00:41:23,060 --> 00:41:25,340 Acts 19. 589 00:41:25,340 --> 00:41:30,140 We're looking at verse 12. 590 00:41:30,140 --> 00:41:34,740 So there's a kind of a sort of a revival thing going on in Ephesus. 591 00:41:34,740 --> 00:41:36,140 It's getting a little spark. 592 00:41:36,140 --> 00:41:40,120 You know, people are hearing about Jesus and they're starting to come to God. 593 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,020 And there are some extraordinary miracles that have happened. 594 00:41:43,020 --> 00:41:48,700 In verse 11, it says God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul's hands so that even face 595 00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:54,140 cloths or work aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick and the diseases 596 00:41:54,140 --> 00:41:56,500 left them and the evil spirits came out of them. 597 00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:00,720 That's pretty incredible that Paul, through the power of the Lord, of course, was doing 598 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:02,700 miracles when he wasn't even present. 599 00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:06,020 They would take a little napkin that he, you know, he blew his nose, he handed it off and 600 00:42:06,020 --> 00:42:07,140 some guy could walk again. 601 00:42:07,140 --> 00:42:09,600 It was awesome. 602 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:14,100 Verse 13 then says, then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to pronounce the 603 00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:18,340 name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits saying, I command you by the 604 00:42:18,340 --> 00:42:20,460 Jesus whom Paul preaches. 605 00:42:20,460 --> 00:42:24,700 I think it's interesting that they did it that very specific way. 606 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:27,820 They didn't say Jesus of Nazareth. 607 00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:32,140 They didn't say the Jesus that was crucified and rose again on the third day. 608 00:42:32,140 --> 00:42:33,820 But they did identify him. 609 00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:37,820 They identified him as the Jesus whom Paul preaches. 610 00:42:37,820 --> 00:42:39,660 This is really interesting, isn't it? 611 00:42:39,660 --> 00:42:41,580 It's clear that they don't know Jesus. 612 00:42:41,580 --> 00:42:43,140 They have not met Jesus. 613 00:42:43,140 --> 00:42:45,660 They have not come to a personal relationship with Jesus. 614 00:42:45,660 --> 00:42:49,160 They've not come into faith in God through Jesus. 615 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,040 They do not know that Jesus' name is a lock. 616 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,660 They do not really know that Jesus' name was chosen by God. 617 00:42:56,660 --> 00:42:59,100 But they think it's a key. 618 00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:03,100 When Ashley and I were opening the locks, it was like, well, this key might work. 619 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:04,100 This key might work. 620 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:05,100 This key might work. 621 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:08,500 And here are some folks who realize that Jesus' name is a key and they're going to try to 622 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:11,460 use Jesus' name to overcome some evil spirits. 623 00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:14,020 Do you think that they would have any success? 624 00:43:14,020 --> 00:43:17,900 Well it says in verse 13, then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to pronounce 625 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:21,900 the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits saying, I command you by 626 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:24,740 the Jesus whom Paul preaches. 627 00:43:24,740 --> 00:43:29,740 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this. 628 00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:32,620 That word means they began in the past and they were continuing to. 629 00:43:32,620 --> 00:43:33,900 In the English we say were. 630 00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:35,620 And by the way, that's what we usually mean. 631 00:43:35,620 --> 00:43:37,460 That we started doing something and we're still doing it. 632 00:43:37,460 --> 00:43:38,740 We were walking to the store. 633 00:43:38,740 --> 00:43:39,740 We left for the store. 634 00:43:39,740 --> 00:43:41,300 We're still walking to the store. 635 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,940 Or we can say, at two o'clock yesterday we were walking to the store because we had begun 636 00:43:44,940 --> 00:43:47,100 to walk to the store and we hadn't finished yet. 637 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:48,300 That's what we mean when we say were. 638 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:52,100 And that word there means they had begun to do it and they hadn't stopped yet doing it. 639 00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:59,160 Meaning they probably had some success pronouncing Jesus against or over top of these evil spirits. 640 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,960 They were continuing to become a process for them. 641 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,300 The seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this. 642 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:11,540 The evil spirit answered them, Jesus I know and Paul I recognize, but who are you? 643 00:44:11,540 --> 00:44:15,900 And the man who had the evil spirit leapt on them, overpowered them all, prevailed against 644 00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:24,220 them so that they ran out of that house naked and wounded. 645 00:44:24,220 --> 00:44:28,240 This became known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. 646 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:33,380 Then fear fell on all of them and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 647 00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:35,980 That's probably when they moved into all caps, you think? 648 00:44:35,980 --> 00:44:39,300 Like previously it was capital J and then just like in small ESUS because the first 649 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:40,900 name proper, proper now. 650 00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:41,900 And then he moved into all caps. 651 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:46,860 Whoa, this Jesus of Nazareth who lived, who died, who rose again, this Jesus of Nazareth 652 00:44:46,860 --> 00:44:50,940 who parents carried him off to Egypt and came back again, this Jesus whom God gave him his 653 00:44:50,940 --> 00:44:55,300 name before he was born, born of a virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, tempted by the 654 00:44:55,300 --> 00:44:59,180 devil but still didn't sin, died on a cross, rose again. 655 00:44:59,180 --> 00:45:07,100 That Jesus, whoa, he's not just a key, he's also a lock. 656 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:13,740 When we started I handed Ashley five locks and ten keys. 657 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:17,540 And if you picked up one thing out of your hand you have a 66% chance. 658 00:45:17,540 --> 00:45:19,700 So I've got ten keys and only five locks. 659 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:22,500 I guess I could use a key to open a lock. 660 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:24,140 That makes some sense, right? 661 00:45:24,140 --> 00:45:27,740 I try one of the other keys even though it looks like the keys are paired up and the 662 00:45:27,740 --> 00:45:28,740 key won't reach. 663 00:45:28,740 --> 00:45:30,580 I'll try one and see if it did. 664 00:45:30,580 --> 00:45:32,580 That's how we were able to do it. 665 00:45:32,580 --> 00:45:37,340 Have you ever tried to open a lock with a lock? 666 00:45:37,340 --> 00:45:41,140 That's dumb, right? 667 00:45:41,140 --> 00:45:44,460 I mean that's not the way it's supposed to go. 668 00:45:44,460 --> 00:45:48,100 We all know that inside there's little things that this key, and some of us know how the 669 00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:51,780 insides work, Brother Tim knows this really well, how the insides work and some of us 670 00:45:51,780 --> 00:45:58,020 don't but if you don't put a key in there or a lock pick or a bobby pin or something 671 00:45:58,020 --> 00:46:01,660 in there, that ain't going to open and you can fiddle with this lock all day and you 672 00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:06,060 might even pound it down flat and make a lock pick or a key eventually but to get there 673 00:46:06,060 --> 00:46:08,180 you're going to need a key. 674 00:46:08,180 --> 00:46:11,940 Opening a lock with a lock is not how it works. 675 00:46:11,940 --> 00:46:15,780 And so right away Ashley was able to say, I'm going to use a key, you know, it might 676 00:46:15,780 --> 00:46:18,580 not necessarily be the right key, I'm going to use a key and see if one of these keys 677 00:46:18,580 --> 00:46:20,260 will work and that's how we were able to do it. 678 00:46:20,260 --> 00:46:23,780 We found one that would work and I submit to you it's because it's a small lock and 679 00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:26,220 a small key and there's not much variety. 680 00:46:26,220 --> 00:46:27,820 But in life there's a lot of variety. 681 00:46:27,820 --> 00:46:31,340 There's a lot of people going, well I think I'm going to get there and this is how I'm 682 00:46:31,340 --> 00:46:32,340 going to do it. 683 00:46:32,340 --> 00:46:36,020 I'm going to collect cars or I'm going to collect money or I'm going to collect a finer 684 00:46:36,020 --> 00:46:40,500 house or I'm going to belittle my children and talk to them down, like tell them how 685 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:43,620 stupid they are and then they'll do what I tell them to do because they think I'm smarter 686 00:46:43,620 --> 00:46:47,940 than they are or I'm going to get real loud and throw stuff around and then everybody 687 00:46:47,940 --> 00:46:51,700 will walk on eggshells around me and then I'll be able to manipulate people and get 688 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:55,780 them to do what they want or I'm going to dress nice or I'm going to dress down so people 689 00:46:55,780 --> 00:46:59,060 won't expect and people will give me more stuff or whatever. 690 00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:00,740 People got all these plans. 691 00:47:00,740 --> 00:47:10,140 There are a lot of issues in life and you can't solve those issues with a lock. 692 00:47:10,140 --> 00:47:13,440 You can only solve them with a key and so we go, oh well the name of Jesus. 693 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:14,440 That makes perfect sense. 694 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,400 I'm going to follow Jesus. 695 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:22,660 But don't forget Jesus is not only a key, Jesus is also Himself a lock. 696 00:47:22,660 --> 00:47:25,760 If you forgot your password and can't get in then you can understand that if you come 697 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:33,240 to God by some other method other than the key, the lock remains locked. 698 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:37,040 When you're trying to get in Google, you have to have told them what your username and password 699 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:42,220 was in advance and if you put the right username and password, they let you in and if you don't, 700 00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:43,760 they keep you out. 701 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,960 If you personally install the lock, you go to the store and you buy a lock and they don't 702 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,460 give you a key and then you lock your house and you can't get in, right? 703 00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:50,540 No, they give you a key. 704 00:47:50,540 --> 00:47:52,940 The key comes matched to the lock. 705 00:47:52,940 --> 00:47:57,180 Jesus is both a key and a lock. 706 00:47:57,180 --> 00:48:01,500 The problem is those who do not know Jesus, those who do not want to themselves follow 707 00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:06,040 the Lord, those who do not want to be a Christian or be the kind of person that God wants them 708 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,440 to be, they don't want to deal with the lock. 709 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,660 They just want to do an end run. 710 00:48:11,660 --> 00:48:15,200 Let's forget it or let's batter our way through. 711 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:19,160 We don't want to accept that the lock and the key are for everyone, every Jew and every 712 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:26,840 Gentile and that by believing in God through Jesus Christ, His Son, we can be saved. 713 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:33,000 But in this very story, when the lock shows up, when they go, yeah, you can talk to me 714 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:40,000 about Jesus if you want because I know who Jesus is, but I don't know you. 715 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,320 And the next thing you know, it's a brawl and people are running out beat up in their 716 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:48,360 underwear, right? 717 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:56,840 How embarrassing because I tried to wield the key. 718 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:08,440 What I discovered was my fake faith that doesn't honor God, my effort to manipulate life, my 719 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:14,760 wisdom and my trickery, and none of it was good enough. 720 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:20,600 If I'd humbly come before Jesus Christ and said, Lord, will you save me? 721 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,680 And if I'd have been plugged into the Holy God of the universe through Jesus, then when 722 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:36,880 I say in Jesus' name, they know who I'm talking about and I know who I'm talking about. 723 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,960 And if that had happened, if those men had come to God through Jesus in advance, then 724 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,640 they wouldn't have said the Jesus whom Paul preaches. 725 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,920 They'd have said Jesus who is my Lord, Jesus who is my Savior, Jesus who is God of the 726 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,320 universe, this Jesus whom God named. 727 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,520 We know who we're talking about. 728 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,200 Do you know who I'm talking about? 729 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,040 Yes, I know who I'm talking about. 730 00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:04,560 I know Jesus and I know Paul and I know you because you're a follower of Jesus. 731 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,560 And that's what the people of Ephesus begin to do. 732 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,040 They magnify the name of Jesus. 733 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:14,000 They begin to do their work and they're speaking about Jesus. 734 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,040 And in verse 18 it says, and many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing 735 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:20,040 their practices. 736 00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:24,080 They stopped hiding their secret sins and started saying, I'm living for Jesus now. 737 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:25,920 I don't need that anymore. 738 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:30,300 And those who practice magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone. 739 00:50:30,300 --> 00:50:34,200 So they calculated their value and found it to be 50,000 pieces of silver. 740 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,920 They didn't sell them at a garage sale. 741 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:41,380 Sometimes some years ago, many years ago now, the Lord really convicted me in our house 742 00:50:41,380 --> 00:50:43,480 to give up rated R movies. 743 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,760 And then we had a number of really good rated R movies that we liked. 744 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,120 And I'm not saying you have to do this, okay, but this was our example. 745 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:49,280 I'm using an example. 746 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:54,320 We gave up rated R movies and we had probably about, I'd say maybe 15 or 20. 747 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,280 It wasn't a big number or anything, but we had about 15 or 20 of them. 748 00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,360 And Sherry and I were riding a car when I brought it up to her. 749 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,960 I remember the day and she said, well, what are you going to do with them? 750 00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,360 And I said, well, I'm just going to throw them out. 751 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,160 And I was thinking in my head, cause I, you know, there is a miserly side to me. 752 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,360 Like I don't waste money if I can help it. 753 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,360 And thinking in my head, well, I could sell them. 754 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:18,160 But I thought, but if I sell the rated R movies, then while I am not a watcher of rated R movies, 755 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,280 I become a peddler of rated R movies. 756 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,920 And that doesn't sound right either. 757 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,240 And so we decided to just throw them away. 758 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:29,040 It's probably about, I don't know, back, this was back in the day when people actually watched 759 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,160 DVDs, I'm guessing it was probably about a hundred dollars worth of movies. 760 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,680 We could have sold them for five, 10 bucks a piece probably. 761 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,760 We'll just throw them away. 762 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,960 And as we went through and the Lord convicted me, there was one movie that was there that 763 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,480 has a really strong Christian message. 764 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:45,040 In fact, it really spoke to me in one of the first sermons I ever preached. 765 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:46,040 And we kept that movie. 766 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:53,760 So to this day, for the last, now it's been what, 20 years, we've owned one rated R movie. 767 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:54,760 Same one. 768 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,720 And somebody's going to go, well, what is it? 769 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:04,080 And if I tell you the name, then you'll know. 770 00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:08,000 Understand? 771 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:15,600 This Jesus, this Jesus got his name before he was conceived. 772 00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,160 He was named by Mary and Joseph on the eighth day. 773 00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:24,720 He was born in Bethlehem to a virgin and the angels testified of his birth the day, the 774 00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:28,200 night he was born. 775 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,480 They fled into Egypt because Harry was going to kill all the babies. 776 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:42,440 When they returned, when they returned, they diverted into Nazareth because of the rumors 777 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:43,440 that they had heard. 778 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,800 And he was raised there in Nazareth. 779 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:52,240 He's Jesus the Nazarene, though he was really born in Bethlehem. 780 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:56,000 Came on the public scene and John testified every day. 781 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,800 Repent, repent for the King of God has a hand. 782 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,560 But that is, his ministry was closing out. 783 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,000 He began to say, realize, you do realize all that I've been saying all this time is that 784 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,880 I am not the one. 785 00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,040 But there is one among you yet who will come. 786 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:17,080 And while I baptize you with water, he will baptize you with the Spirit of God. 787 00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,080 And Jesus did that. 788 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:19,080 And he did miracles. 789 00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:26,280 And he said, if you don't believe in me, believe in the miracles that I do. 790 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:27,640 And Mark, I think it's chapter nine. 791 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,560 There was a man who was casting out evil spirits in the name of Jesus. 792 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,160 And by the way, doing so successfully. 793 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:36,120 And the disciples told him, we told him to knock it off because he was not following 794 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:37,120 with us. 795 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:38,120 And Jesus said, don't worry about it. 796 00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,660 He said, don't molest him because it's hard to do something powerful. 797 00:53:42,660 --> 00:53:45,640 He said a miracle is how it's translated in English, but it really means something powerful. 798 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,480 It's hard to do something powerful in the name of Jesus. 799 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,320 And then anytime shortly thereafter speak badly about me. 800 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,200 He was Jesus. 801 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,000 Those who know him today find it hard to speak badly about him. 802 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,900 If Jesus has done a powerful thing in your soul. 803 00:54:01,900 --> 00:54:05,200 If he's transformed you, born you again, started you fresh. 804 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:09,580 And that's how it works, by the way, for those who magnify his name by turning from your 805 00:54:09,580 --> 00:54:13,120 sins and turning to God through Jesus. 806 00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:22,440 By refusing to worship anyone or anything else, recognizing who Jesus is. 807 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,440 By choosing to be all in for God through Jesus. 808 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,320 There is a new birth. 809 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,960 A sealed up heart protected. 810 00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:37,200 A learning of what God desires from us. 811 00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,560 Profoundly affected. 812 00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:44,520 But for those who do not magnify the name of Jesus. 813 00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,920 For those who don't know which Jesus I'm talking about. 814 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:53,080 For those who try to come to God by some other way. 815 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:58,320 They try to open a lock with a lock or with a key that doesn't fit. 816 00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,880 There is no eternity in heaven with God. 817 00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,680 You must come to God through Jesus. 818 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,680 Because his name was given to him before he was born, because his name is a key. 819 00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:16,680 And frankly and painfully, his name is a lock. 820 00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:18,560 There will never be another Jesus. 821 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:29,400 No one else is coming to die for your sins before Jesus comes again to begin eternity. 822 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:36,560 To judge, to sort. 823 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:42,240 When you get this right, choose the right man Jesus. 824 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:44,500 Choose the right God the Son. 825 00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:45,880 You will be saved. 826 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,660 You will receive the Holy Spirit. 827 00:55:47,660 --> 00:55:49,640 You will be profoundly affected. 828 00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:50,640 Born again. 829 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:51,840 Starting essentially a new life. 830 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:58,640 You will then work diligently to magnify his name every day. 831 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,640 You will work diligently to magnify his name every day. 832 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,760 Because his name was chosen by God before he was conceived. 833 00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:11,440 His name is a key and his name is a lock. 834 00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:19,520 And every other key, and every password, and every multi-factor authentication, all of 835 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,300 it. 836 00:56:21,300 --> 00:56:33,000 Every bit of security and every breach of security is all designed to point to Jesus. 837 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:39,320 I will read the phrases from Isaiah 9-6 again in closing. 838 00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:46,160 And I'll ask you again to say his name is Jesus in between each phrase. 839 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:47,520 I'm almost there. 840 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,320 There it is. 841 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:55,760 This is the prophecy written about Jesus' birth almost 700 years before he was born. 842 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:56,760 And it goes something like this. 843 00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:57,760 This is one of them. 844 00:56:57,760 --> 00:56:58,760 There are multiple. 845 00:56:58,760 --> 00:56:59,760 It goes something like this. 846 00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,280 For a child will be born for us. 847 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:03,680 His name is Jesus. 848 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:04,680 Nope. 849 00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:05,680 We're going to do it again. 850 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:06,680 Everybody ready? 851 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:07,680 Take a breath. 852 00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:08,680 Clear your throat. 853 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:09,960 Okay, here we go. 854 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,920 For a child will be born for us. 855 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,400 His name is Jesus. 856 00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,360 A son will be given to us. 857 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:16,680 His name is Jesus. 858 00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,680 And the government will be on his shoulders. 859 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,440 His name is Jesus. 860 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:21,440 He will be named. 861 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:22,440 Jesus. 862 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,040 Yeah, that was good. 863 00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:25,880 Thank you, Larry. 864 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:26,880 Wonderful counselor. 865 00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:28,760 His name is Jesus. 866 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:29,760 Mighty God. 867 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,320 His name is Jesus. 868 00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:32,320 Eternal Father. 869 00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:33,440 His name is Jesus. 870 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,440 And Prince of Peace. 871 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:35,720 His name is Jesus. 872 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:43,120 His name is Jesus because Jehovah saves and He would be the key and the lock. 873 00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:44,920 His name is Jesus. 874 00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:50,440 I'm going to ask a praise team to come forward at this time and lead us in a closing song. 875 00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:56,320 If you're here in this room and you have not come to faith in God the Father through Jesus 876 00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,960 Christ the Son, then you are not saved. 877 00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:03,120 And you will not go to heaven when you die. 878 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,040 Unless you right now do. 879 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,480 Or you do between now and when you die. 880 00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:11,360 Why put it off? 881 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,440 His name is Jesus. 882 00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:23,600 When we see who He is, His lasting testimony going on 2,000 years, named before He was 883 00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:31,240 conceived, born to a virgin in Bethlehem, fled to Egypt, returned to Nazareth, a public 884 00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:35,160 ministry healing, saving people from their sins. 885 00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:38,040 He even pronounced people sinless. 886 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,040 Forgave them. 887 00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,640 The bread of life. 888 00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:42,760 Our Jesus. 889 00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,000 Will you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today? 890 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:50,280 A Lord means I recognize He has a right to tell me what to do and I do it. 891 00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:55,520 And a Savior means He paid the price for my sins. 892 00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:01,680 And then live magnifying His name every day until either He comes again or we die. 893 00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,400 I'm kind of hoping for the former. 894 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,560 But I guess I'm good either way. 895 00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:13,320 Because Jehovah saves. His name is Jesus. 896 00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,360 Would you stand with us and sing this song? 897 00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,120 And then if you're responding in some way, you don't have to sing. 898 00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:24,160 You can walk right forward, stand here with me amongst the locks and say, I want my lock 899 00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:25,160 opened. 900 00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:26,160 I want to be saved. 901 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:30,200 Surrendering my life to the Lord Jesus today. 902 00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:34,680 And then you will magnify Him every day going forward. 903 00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:39,440 You come and He's speaking in your heart today. 904 00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:45,720 As little children we were two Christmas boys. 905 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:52,800 And all the gifts and toys we knew we'd find. 906 00:59:52,800 --> 01:00:01,080 But we never realized a baby born one blessed night. 907 01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:08,200 He gave us the greatest gift of our lives. 908 01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,720 It won't matter if you think you're saved in the end. 909 01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,120 It won't matter if someone else thinks you're saved. 910 01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:24,120 You can go all the way out screaming, kicking, complaining, whining, questioning. 911 01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:28,120 It just matters if you're saved or not. 912 01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,360 Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ to save you.