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The music of Christmas.

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We have been through Thanksgiving and in no small thanks to the National Retail Federation's

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online arm.

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We've been through Black Friday, small business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday.

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We are moving into the Advent season, and with this season comes music.

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On satellite radio, there is a channel for traditional and contemporary Christmas music.

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You hear it in the malls, in hotel lobbies, in airport terminals, on television commercials,

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and on streaming apps of every sort.

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In 2012, the BBC published a documentary called The World's Top 10 Richest Songs.

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Three of the highest grossing songs in the world are Christmas songs.

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In 1934, a publisher in New York City approached a lyricist named Havin Galepsby and asked

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him to write a Christmas song because he had a vocabulary that a child could understand.

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In the end, he wrote some lyrics on the back of a napkin in 15 minutes.

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And together they came up with the song, You Better Watch Out.

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You Better Not Pout.

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You Better Not Cry.

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I'm telling you why.

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Santa Claus is coming to town.

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That song has made $27 million.

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The families have a copyright on that song until the year 2029.

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Every time we hear it, they make some money.

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Without a song, the day would never end.

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Without a song, the road would never bend.

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When things go wrong, a man ain't got a friend without a song.

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I got my troubles in the world, but as long as I know the Jordan will roll, I'll get

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along as long as a song is down in my soul.

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I'll never know what makes the rain to fall.

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I'll never know what makes the grass grow tall.

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I only know there ain't no love at all without a song.

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Music has the power to move us.

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Black women walk like they're listening to music.

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Their hips sway from side to side as though there's some music in their head.

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Black children, before they can speak, they know how to dance because we are musical people.

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One of the ways you know that you're saved, the Bible says that there is melody, there's

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music in your heart.

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Music compels us to act.

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It gives us the power to even change our mood, which brings us to our text this morning in

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Isaiah at chapter nine.

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Isaiah nine is not a letter.

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It is not a story.

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It is not a vision.

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Isaiah chapter nine is a song.

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It is the music of Christmas.

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Brothers and sisters, this morning, it's important to understand the text in its context.

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In 725 BC, the northern kingdom of Israel faced an ominous situation from an evil and

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aggressive Assyrian empire, which had reached the zenith of its power and was now poised

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to attack a morally bankrupt and militarily weakened Israel.

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Yet into the helplessness of their darkness, in the midst of their hopelessness and despair,

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they receive a word from God that shined the light of God's deliverance in their dark

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situation.

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Their gloom would turn to rejoicing.

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Their distress would turn into joy.

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Their oppression would turn to a broken yoke.

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Their darkness would turn to life, and the shadow of death would be overcome.

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Seven hundred years before the wise men opened their treasures.

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Seven hundred years before the angels sang on steel Judean hills.

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Seven hundred years before the shepherds bowed to look down into heaven.

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Isaiah explains what Christmas is all about in a text that is called the cornerstone and

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the centerpiece of Old Testament prophecy.

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Like the people in this text, we know something of bondage.

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We here this morning know something of difficulty, distress, and hardship.

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In a congregation this size, somebody here knows the experience of the pain of divorce.

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Somebody here this morning knows of being a survivor of abuse.

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Someone this morning has experienced debilitating depression and crippling anxiety.

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Somebody here this morning needs to heal from hurts in your past.

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The loss of a loved one.

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Now maybe you are battling some affliction.

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The poet Dean Young writes, you start with the darkness to move through, and then the

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darkness moves through you.

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But brothers and sisters, I've got some good news for you this morning.

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And the good news is for unto us, a child is born.

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Unto us, a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder.

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And his name is wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace.

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I only want to deal with this wonderful counselor this morning.

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Look with me in verse six.

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He is marvelous.

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It's imperative that we see the flow of Isaiah's argument.

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From the virgin birth of Immanuel in Isaiah seven, to the king with four names in Isaiah

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nine, to the rod from the stem of Jesse in Isaiah 11, Jesus is God's Messiah, the promised

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deliverer of Old Testament prophecy.

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Yet there's something marvelous in his coming.

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There's something mysterious that only through the eyes of faith can we see what God is up

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to.

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He came in earthly humanity for a child is born.

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Literally, a child has been born for us, for our good, a child is born.

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This speaks of his earthly beginning.

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Galatians at chapter four and verse number four reads, but when the fullness of time

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had come.

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I wish I had a Bible reader.

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God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law.

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Hebrews chapter two and verse 14 reads, for as much then as the children are partakers

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of flesh and blood, he also himself became flesh and blood and took part of the same.

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He came not only in earthly humanity, but he's marvelous in that he came in heavenly

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deity.

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God's gift came in a person of deity wrapped in a package of humanity.

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The birth in Bethlehem, the birth in Bethlehem was not Jesus beginning.

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He was born in Bethlehem, but he didn't begin in Bethlehem.

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I wish I had helped to preach it.

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There was a time when Jesus was not, but there was never a time when the son was not.

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The great mystery of the manger is that God should be able to translate deity into humanity

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without discarding the deity or distorting the humanity.

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Listen to me brothers and sisters.

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The incarnation was a true and genuine wedding of perfect divinity and sinless humanity.

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He was older than his mother, yet the same age as his father, because John chapter one,

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verse one and two says, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the

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word was God.

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The same was in the beginning with God.

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He's marvelous, but not only is he marvelous in that same verse, he's majestic.

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Dr. Jerry Vines says that Isaiah chapter nine, verse six is the greatest single verse

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in all of scripture about the Lord Jesus Christ.

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With more than 250 names and titles scattered from Genesis to Revelation, Isaiah brings

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together four in a tight, concise package that appear nowhere else in all of scripture.

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He is a wonderful counselor.

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Literally wonderful counselor means wonder of a counselor.

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It's a wonder that he counsels with us.

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It's a wonder that he puts up with us.

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It's a wonder that he died to save us.

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It's a wonder that he blesses us.

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It's a wonder that he hears our prayers.

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It's a wonder that he comes to our deliverance.

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It's a wonder that he wakes us up in the morning.

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It's a wonder that he watches over us while we sleep at night.

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It's a wonder how he guides our footsteps and it's a wonder how he made us a little lower

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than the angel.

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Oh Lord, I love how excellent is your name in all the earth.

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I wish I had helped to preach it.

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When I consider the heaven, the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou

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have ordained, what is man that you're so mindful of him?

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And the son of man that you would even visit him, you've made him a little lower than the

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angels.

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You have crowned him with glory and honor.

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Wonderful counselor.

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He is one who gives wondrous counsel and unfailing wisdom.

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Listen to me right here.

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We live in the day of counseling.

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We live in a day of the psychiatrist.

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Like my husband, Beaumont said, a psychiatrist doctor.

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We live in a day of counselors and psychiatrists and psychoanalysts and therapists.

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Do not misunderstand me, brothers and sisters.

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Mental illness is real and needs proper treatment.

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But the inherent fallacy of human wisdom is derided if it is void of spiritual insight.

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It has been said, I didn't say this, it has been said that a counselor is someone who

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will help you organize your hangups so that you can be unhappy more efficiently.

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I didn't say that, it has been said that a psychologist, a counselor is one who helps

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you to organize your hangups so that you can be unhappy more efficiently.

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Listen to me, beloved.

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The reason why we need a wonderful counselor, it was by a counselor that we fell in the

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sea.

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Satan got Eve involved in psychoanalysis.

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Eve got Adam involved in group therapy.

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And together they plunged the world into insanity.

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Jesus is the wisdom of God.

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Jesus knows that in weakness is strength.

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Being surrender is victory.

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In death is life.

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This wonderful counselor is a wonder because his counsel goes beyond human wisdom.

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Not only is he marvelous, not only is he majestic, but verse 7 tells us he's mighty.

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Our God is a promised keeper.

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He promises.

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He will perform.

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He will rule completely.

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His rule will be universal, unending, and unparalleled.

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No one will vote him in.

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And no one will vote him out.

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His rule is complete.

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His rule is eternal.

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There shall be no end.

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Queen Elizabeth II sat on the throne of Great Britain for 70 years.

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But the other day, her reign came to an end.

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King Charles took her place.

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There will be nobody to take his place because he's in a class all by himself.

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And if you like me, the more I call him, the sweeter it's signed.

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He will rule completely.

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He will rule eternally.

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He will rule powerfully because the zeal of the Lord shall perform this.

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I'm running out of time here.

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My brothers and sisters, let me hurry and help us to understand that history records

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the birth of some famous people.

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In January, Franklin Roosevelt was born.

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Paul Riviere, George Washington Carver, Mozart was born.

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Edgar Allen Poe, and Isaac Newton were born in January.

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But we don't celebrate them.

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In February, George Washington was born, Abraham Lincoln was born, Thomas Edison and Charles

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Dickens and Charles Darwin were born in February, but we don't celebrate them.

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In March, Alexander Graham Bell was born.

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Michelangelo was born in March.

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David Livingstone and Albert Einstein, but we still don't celebrate them.

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In May, Harry Truman was born.

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John F. Kennedy was born in May.

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Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria, Ralph Waldo Emerson were born in May, but I'm not

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here to talk about them.

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In June, Robert Louis Stevenson was born and Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Wesley and Helen

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Keller, but I'm not here to shout about them.

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In July, Julius Caesar was born.

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Henry David Ferro was born.

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In July, Rembrandt was born.

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Mussolini and Isaac Watts, John Calvin of the Protestant Reformation, but I'm not here

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to talk about them this moment.

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In August, Alfred Lord Tennyson was born.

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Napoleon Bonaparte and Leo Tolstoy in September, Alexander the Great, who conquered all the

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known world was born, but we are not gathered this morning to celebrate Alexander the Great.

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In October, Dwight Eisenhower was born.

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Gandhi was born.

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Daniel Webster was born in October.

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In November, Martin Luther, Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill and Mark Twain were born,

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but I didn't get up this morning because Martin Luther or Andrew Carnegie was born.

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In December, Beethoven was born.

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Charles Wesley and Rudiott Kipling was born.

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Walt Disney was born in December, but I didn't put these clothes on to talk about Walt Disney.

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I'm here this morning because for unto us, a child is born, not just any child.

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I said not just any child.

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This child has a name that's above every name.

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You're going to help me talk about him, won't you?

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This child is the ancient of days.

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This child is a desire of all nations.

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This child is a linear of the valley.

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He's the bright and the morning star.

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This child is the rose of Sharon.

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He's a root of David.

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He's a stem of Jesse.

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This child was born in Bethlehem, reared in Nazareth, baptized in the Jordan, performed

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miracles in a desert place, wept over Jerusalem, prayed in Gethsemane.

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This child turned water into wine.

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This child made lame men to walk.

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He made deaf men to hear.

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This child was walking along one day and a woman had an issue of blood and grabbed his

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clothes and when he stopped, the blood stopped.

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And he told the woman, your faith has made you whole.

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This child went to a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee and turned ordinary water into

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extraordinary wine.

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This child went to Jairus' house one day and Jairus' little daughter was at the point of

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death.

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Jesus put everybody out but Peter, James and John.

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Jairus and his wife and took the girl by her hand and she came back to life again.

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If you just celebrate Jesus in a manger, you will miss what Christmas is all about.

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If you just shout over a baby, you will miss what salvation is all about.

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I'm glad he was born in a manger but he couldn't save me in a manger.

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I'm glad Mary and Joseph brought him to the temple but he couldn't save me in the temple.

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I'm glad Jesus came to 42 generations.

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I'm glad he sported a nine month nature train and stopped off in Bethlehem of Judea.

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Go out in the vestibule and look at that beautiful manger scene that's out there.

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Admire him as a baby in a manger but don't stop with admiring as a baby because you will

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miss what the season is all about.

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I'm glad that child grew up one day and walked to a hill called Calvary and died for my sins

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and rose for my justification.

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And because he lives, I can face tomorrow because he lives, all fear is gone.

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I wish I had a witness this morning who knows that there's power in the name of Jesus.

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Come on help me call that name.

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Come on help me talk about him a minute.

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He's a rock in a weary land.

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He's a shelter in a time of storm.

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He's a friend when you're friendless.

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Bread when you're hungry.

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Water when you're thirsty.

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Y'all know him don't you?

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He's God's only son.

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He's Mary's baby boy.

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He's James and Jude's older brother.

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He's Matthew's king.

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He's Mark's suffering servant.

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He's Luke's great physician.

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Y'all know him don't you?

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He's John's word made flesh.

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He's arch coming of the Holy Ghost.

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He's the only begotten of the Father.

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He's the blessed and the only potentate.

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He's the faithful and the true witness.

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Y'all know him don't you?

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He's Adam's redeemer.

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Abel's vindicator.

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Abraham's sacrifice.

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He's Noah's ark.

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He's Dave's music.

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He's Solomon's wisdom.

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He's Jeremiah's balm.

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He's Ezekiel's wheel.

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Y'all know him don't you?

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If you know him

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and you're not ashamed to testify.

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If he saved you

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and you don't care who's looking at you.

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If he brought you

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and you don't mind testifying.

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If he laid his hands on you

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and you don't mind being a witness.

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Now is a good time

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to tell God thank you

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for letting Jesus be born.

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But more than that

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thank you

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that one Friday

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on a hill called Calvary

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he died

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didn't he die

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but

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Sunday morning

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he got up

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didn't he do it?

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If he saved you

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why don't you grab somebody?

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Why don't you shake somebody's hand?

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Tell him for unto us

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come on use your preaching voice.

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Untill us

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a child is born

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tell somebody else

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unto us

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a son is given

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ask them right now

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aren't you glad

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he was born

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aren't you glad

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he died

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aren't you glad

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he got up

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aren't you glad

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he's coming back

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thank you

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thank you

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thank you

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and oh he's alright

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and oh he's alright

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and oh he's alright

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and oh he's alright

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now unto him

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who is able

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to do exceeding

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abundantly

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above all

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we can ask

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or freak

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according to the power

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working in us

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come on help me preach it

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now unto him

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who is able

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to keep you from falling

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and to present you faultless

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before the presence of

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with exceeding joy

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to the only wise God

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who is our savior

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be glory

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and majesty

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dominion

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and power

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and alright

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and oh he's alright

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and oh he's alright

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and oh he's alright

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child is born