1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,500 The music of Christmas. 2 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:29,960 In the sermon from this Sunday last, I mentioned that in 2012 the BBC published a documentary 3 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:38,040 that was called the world's top ten richest songs. 4 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:48,840 The highest grossing songs in the world, three of which are Christmas songs. 5 00:00:48,840 --> 00:01:00,040 The first of the three was by Haven Galebsi and J. Fred Kootz, who collaborated on Santa 6 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,080 Claus is coming to town. 7 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:16,720 A song that grossed $27 million with a copyright on it until the year 2029. 8 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:29,720 The second song was written in 1934 by a jazz musician named Mel Tormé. 9 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:39,120 Mel Tormé wrote a song called The Christmas Song, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, 10 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,960 Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose. 11 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:51,320 Two tied carols being sung by a choir and folks dressed up like Eskimos. 12 00:01:51,320 --> 00:02:01,200 He wrote it in 45 minutes in the middle of a blistering Los Angeles summer with his 13 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:07,640 collaborator and they made $20 million. 14 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:13,640 While it may or may not matter, Mel Tormé does not even celebrate Christmas because 15 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:15,640 he is Jewish. 16 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:23,280 Yes, music has the power to move us. 17 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,880 Music has the power to compel us to act. 18 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:34,760 Music has the power even to change our mood. 19 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:44,800 As a member of an oppressed, marginalized and disinherited community, I cannot now nor 20 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:53,920 have I ever been able to sing We Shall Overcome without being moved to tears because music 21 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,720 has a way of moving us. 22 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Music has power which gathers us again to our text this morning in Isaiah chapter number 23 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,960 nine. 24 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,800 Isaiah chapter nine is not a letter. 25 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,640 It is not a story. 26 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:17,960 It is not a vision. 27 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,000 It is music. 28 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,440 It is the music of Christmas. 29 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,560 And we talked about him as a wonderful counselor. 30 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:42,240 A wonderful counselor means that his plans and his purposes are always right. 31 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:50,720 Even if we do not see it right now, there is someone above and beyond us that is able 32 00:03:50,720 --> 00:04:01,240 to conceive the plans and purposes for our lives that we can't even see right now. 33 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:09,560 Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse 11 says, for I know the plans that I have for you, plans 34 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:18,560 for prosperity and not for disaster, plans to give you a future and a hope. 35 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:25,400 Romans chapter eight and verse 28 says, for we know, I wish I had a Bible reader, that 36 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:36,000 all things work together for good to them that love God and to those who are the called 37 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,320 according to his purpose. 38 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:47,160 This morning he's not only a wonderful counselor who solves my confusion. 39 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:54,320 He is a mighty God who shelters me from conflict. 40 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,680 Mighty God. 41 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:02,960 In the Hebrew El Gebo, he's the hero God. 42 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,040 He is the warrior God. 43 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:14,320 Mighty God, warrior God, fighting God, a God of battle. 44 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:24,680 Here is a title that is a source of some severe discomfort and agitation for liberal 45 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,960 theologians and Jewish scholars. 46 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:43,200 Mighty God cannot be understood as popular exaggeration, royal hyperbole or court flattery. 47 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:50,880 When within the context of the text and the book of Isaiah itself, one is inescapably 48 00:05:50,880 --> 00:06:00,120 driven to the conclusion that mighty God is an affirmation of deity. 49 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:08,440 Not only does God love us, but God fights for us. 50 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,040 Mighty God. 51 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:21,320 Mighty God conjures up warfare and battlefield imagery. 52 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:34,440 The king with four names is a warrior God, a hero God who would fight a battle greater 53 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:42,560 than the battle that the Duke of Wellington waged against Napoleon at Waterloo. 54 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:50,640 He's a mighty God who waged a battle greater than General George Washington and the Continental 55 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:56,360 Army at Valley Forge against the British. 56 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:03,520 This mighty God waged a battle greater than the turning point of the Civil War or the 57 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,520 slavery that was fought at Gettysburg. 58 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:15,800 This mighty God fought a battle greater than the Allied forces under the command of General 59 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:22,400 Dwight David Eisenhower on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 60 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:34,520 No, this warrior God, this captain of our salvation would take the battlefield at Calvary and engage 61 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:42,680 the tightened forces of Satan and sin, death, hell, and the grave. 62 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:52,040 And when the death was settled, when the battle was fought, when the victory had been won 63 00:07:52,040 --> 00:08:03,880 an empty tomb stands as an eternal monument that we serve a mighty God who not only loves 64 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:12,320 us enough to be incarnated, but he loves us enough to die for us. 65 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:19,760 And to die for us, he had to do battle with Satan and sin. 66 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:29,800 Sunday morning when he came out of the grave, an empty tomb is there to prove that the battle 67 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:35,200 was won in our favor. 68 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,600 Brothers and sisters, I want you to walk with me as a hurry. 69 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:43,600 Jesus is God's grace. 70 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:49,240 Jesus for us is God's grace. 71 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:55,480 He is victory over death. 72 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:59,960 Now here is what you deserve. 73 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:02,960 Here is what I deserve. 74 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:09,600 We deserve eternal damnation. 75 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:22,840 We deserve death because the wages of my sin and yours is not life, but death. 76 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,800 We deserve to be in hell this morning. 77 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:35,960 That's nothing that we bring to God that can assuage God's wrath towards us except somebody 78 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:40,600 die in our place. 79 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:50,280 The jest for the unjust, the righteous for the unrighteous. 80 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:56,720 And so in order to make his death and his life, his burial and his resurrection make 81 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,960 sense, a child is born. 82 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:08,880 That's human agency, but a son is given. 83 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,400 That's divine mercy. 84 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:17,640 For a child to be born, that was human participation. 85 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:24,320 But for a son to be given, that's divine initiation. 86 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:31,200 He became what I am that I might become what he is. 87 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,320 He lowers himself. 88 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:44,840 He lets himself be born in as well contaminated with weakness and sin. 89 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,800 Let me see if I can help us. 90 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:56,040 The transcendent one condescends. 91 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:04,560 The creator lets himself be created. 92 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:12,000 Infinity becomes time bound. 93 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:22,120 Perfect righteousness becomes sin for us who knew no sin that we might become the righteousness 94 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:26,200 of God. 95 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,320 Let me put it another way. 96 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:44,440 If there's a yardstick to measure sin this morning, maybe I'm at three feet and you at 97 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:52,080 two feet, but the measurement is a hundred feet. 98 00:11:52,080 --> 00:12:01,920 And so it does not matter if you come up to 90, the measurement is a hundred. 99 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:09,520 So there's some of us in here a little better than the rest of us in here, but all of us 100 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:18,920 in here deserve punishment because there's so much good in the worst of us and so much 101 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:32,640 bad in the best of us that it behooves each of us not to look down on the rest of us. 102 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:39,480 So the summer you looking down your sanctimonious nose at us because you ain't told a lie. 103 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:44,480 You ain't too much. 104 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,680 And for the rest of you who looking down at us because you haven't committed adultery, 105 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:56,760 you cheated on your taxes. 106 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,000 The measurement is a hundred, 99 and a half. 107 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,560 Yeah, you got it. 108 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:13,440 The wages of sin is death. 109 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:19,760 Now the free gift of God is eternal life. 110 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:32,400 And so God sent a child to be born and at the same time he gave a son. 111 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:40,560 And for the first time in human history, instead of the baby looking like its mother, the mother 112 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:44,880 look like the baby. 113 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:51,360 He's older than his mother and the same age with his father. 114 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:59,200 He was wounded for our transgression, bruised for our iniquity. 115 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,520 The chastisement of my peace was upon him. 116 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,840 I wish I had a witness here. 117 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:15,320 God laid on him the iniquity of us all and through Jesus Christ being born, he is for 118 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:21,640 us God's grace. 119 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,720 I don't care where you went to college. 120 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,200 I don't care what you drive, what you own, where you live or what you have. 121 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:36,360 All of us here this morning need the grace of God. 122 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:49,360 We deserve death, but he gives us new life through Jesus Christ. 123 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:50,760 I'm trying to hurry here. 124 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:58,200 Not only is Jesus God's grace, Jesus is God's glory. 125 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:03,840 He gave us victory over death by becoming God's grace. 126 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:11,840 And now he gives us victory over sin by becoming God's glory. 127 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:20,880 Augustine of Hippo, bishop of Carthage in North Africa, one of the most famous of the 128 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:33,200 early church fathers, posited the notion of human nature in his fourfold state. 129 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:42,360 In the Latin it's called posse picare, meaning able to sin. 130 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:51,120 Non posse non picare means not able, not to sin. 131 00:15:51,120 --> 00:16:04,840 Non picare means able not to sin, all three of those I fall in those categories. 132 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:13,840 Not only am I able to sin, but I'm not able not to sin. 133 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:23,160 Paul helps us right here, cause Paul says every time, I wish I had a crook in here like 134 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:39,880 me, every time I have a desire to do good, evil is always present. 135 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:45,600 Have I got a witness? 136 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,600 The good that I would do, I find myself not doing. 137 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:55,200 And the evil that I don't want to do, that's exactly what I do. 138 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:04,800 Oh wretched man, not that I was, but that I am. 139 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,000 I'm able to sin. 140 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:16,440 I'm not able not to sin, and I'm able not to sin, but I sin anyway. 141 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,360 Can I run that by you one more time? 142 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:21,920 I'm able to sin. 143 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:33,160 I'm not able not to sin, and I'm able not to sin, but I sin anyway. 144 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:42,160 But then this last one, non-pose picare, unable to sin. 145 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:51,960 Jesus is the only living, loving personality who was incapable of sin. 146 00:17:51,960 --> 00:18:02,960 In order for God to save us, there must be a sinless substitute. 147 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:13,600 God sent prophets and God sent fathers in the Old Testament, but they were pose picare. 148 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,120 They were non-pose non-picare. 149 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:18,600 They were pose non-picare. 150 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,760 They were not able not to sin. 151 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:31,600 Abraham lied and said Sarah was his sister when she was really his wife. 152 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:39,560 Moses killed a man, murdered him, buried his body in the same. 153 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:48,200 David took another man's wife to bed, and the cover of his sin had that same man killed. 154 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:57,600 David's son Solomon had 700 wives, 300 women on the side. 155 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,560 He was not able to save us. 156 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:07,640 David was a man after God's own heart, but God would not let David be our savior. 157 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:20,160 But he sent the son of David who is incapable of sinning, and he became my sinless substitute. 158 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:28,560 Because in order for God to redeem me, somebody had to die in my place. 159 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:35,160 I'm almost through. 160 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,200 He's God's grace. 161 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,040 He's God's glory. 162 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,560 He's victory over death. 163 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,120 He's victory over sin. 164 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:51,440 But this mighty God is God's greatness. 165 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:58,600 Because in him, we have victory over the grave. 166 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:04,760 We were born dying. 167 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:11,640 Everybody in here is born dying. 168 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:19,280 One day if the Lord delays his coming, we're going to have your funeral or mine. 169 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:26,760 Because each one of us have an appointment with death. 170 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:37,720 Because of Adamic sin, every one of us will taste death if the Lord delays his coming. 171 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:52,800 But when you are a child of God, you die twice and recognize that this death, this second 172 00:20:52,800 --> 00:21:02,480 death, this first death rather, is death to sin and death to self so that you can come 173 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:08,680 to life in Jesus Christ. 174 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:18,120 And so when you die once, you can live twice. 175 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:25,400 But there is a second death talked about in the revelation of Jesus Christ for those who 176 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:35,640 are unregenerate and unredeemed whose names are not in the book of life. 177 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,160 Because I trust Jesus. 178 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,080 Because I serve a living Savior. 179 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,560 My name is not in that book. 180 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:53,080 My record will not ever come up again from that book. 181 00:21:53,080 --> 00:22:00,200 Because from that book will be judged the dead, small and great. 182 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:10,520 But my name and the names of those who have been redeemed are written in the book of life. 183 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:19,640 And when he comes again, we will not be judged about sin because he took caravans on the 184 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,640 cross. 185 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:29,640 When I stand before God again, it's going to be victory over the grave. 186 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:36,120 Behold, I show you a mystery. 187 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:42,880 We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 188 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:49,920 I'm talking about believers now in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. 189 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:55,000 For this mortal must put on immortality. 190 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,840 This corruptible must put on incorruption. 191 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:07,280 Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death has been swallowed up in 192 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,280 victory. 193 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,280 Death? 194 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,160 Where is your sting? 195 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,560 Grief? 196 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,120 Where is your victory? 197 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:24,120 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Lord. 198 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:34,560 But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 199 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:46,600 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye step fast, unmovable, always abounding in the work 200 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:56,920 of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 201 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:04,520 So I just want to encourage somebody here this morning, keep on giving God glory. 202 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,560 Keep on thanking God for his grace. 203 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,200 Keep on basking in the sunshine of God's glory. 204 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:19,920 Keep giving praise and hallelujah to God for his greatness because he didn't have to do 205 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,720 it. 206 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:27,560 He didn't owe me anything, but I owe him everything. 207 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,840 Have I got a witness here? 208 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:35,240 God did not owe me to wake me up this morning because I've sinned enough last week that 209 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,840 I ought to be in my grave. 210 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,600 But thank God for grace. 211 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,040 Thank God for mercy. 212 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,760 Thank God for forgiveness. 213 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:51,600 Thank God he looks beyond my faults, and he sees all my needs. 214 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,360 I hear you, I'm reading your mind. 215 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,160 You say, Reverend, I haven't done anything wrong this week. 216 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:07,040 If you woke up and your mind was functioning, something wrong came across your mind. 217 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:13,320 That's enough right there for you not ever to come in the presence of a holy God because 218 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,200 you don't have to commit and act to sin. 219 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:22,240 You can just think it and it becomes sin. 220 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,160 And that's enough for you to be in hell this morning. 221 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:36,320 For grace, favor, redemption, the goodness of God in our lives, all of me because glad 222 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:41,480 this morning for grace, we have victory over death. 223 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,140 We ought to be glad this morning for God's glory. 224 00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:48,120 We have victory over sin. 225 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:53,240 We ought to be thankful this morning for God's greatness because when this earthly house 226 00:25:53,240 --> 00:26:00,360 of this tabernacle shall be dissolved, we Christians have another building. 227 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:07,800 We have a house not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens. 228 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:13,840 The older you get, the more you start looking forward to that brand new house because there 229 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,120 is a leak in this building. 230 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,680 I need somebody who will help me tell the truth this morning. 231 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,240 I don't care how good you look in this morning. 232 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:28,120 I don't care how well you are feeling this morning. 233 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:32,160 If you tell the truth, there's a leak in this building. 234 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,400 If it's not your back, it's your shoulder. 235 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,080 If it's not your shoulder, it's your blood pressure. 236 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,820 If it's not your blood pressure, it's diabetes. 237 00:26:42,820 --> 00:26:47,280 If it's not diabetes, cancer is trying to invade your body. 238 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,000 If it's not cancer, you've got to have an operation for some other malady or another. 239 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:57,800 There is a leak in this old building. 240 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:03,160 But one day my soul is going to have to move. 241 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:13,320 And brother and sisters, I'm glad that when my soul has to move, I have a forwarding address. 242 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,640 This world is not my home. 243 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:23,480 I'm just a pilgrim and a stranger traveling through this barren land. 244 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,120 I'm on my way to my father's house. 245 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,840 Is there anybody here? 246 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,200 Got grace in your life this morning? 247 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,360 God has given you victory over death. 248 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,760 Is there somebody else in here this morning? 249 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,560 Got the glory of God shining in your life? 250 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,120 You've got victory over sin in your life. 251 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:55,000 But hallelujah this morning, if God is a mighty God, you've got victory over the grave. 252 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:07,040 Because I'm glad morning, when this life is over, I will fly away somewhere where the 253 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,240 wicked will cease from troubling. 254 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,160 Where the weary can be at rest. 255 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,400 No more suffering. 256 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,520 No more dying. 257 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,560 No more pain. 258 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,600 No more separation in our family. 259 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,880 Because the form of things are passed away. 260 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,680 Have a God to witness here. 261 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,600 We see through a glass darkly. 262 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:38,360 But then face to face, I will know as also I am known. 263 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,120 You're going to help me close this, won't you? 264 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,920 God has told his disciples one day, let not your heart be troubled. 265 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,960 Come on, you can help me say it. 266 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,280 Come on, use your preaching voice. 267 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,680 If you believe in God, believe also in me. 268 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:02,280 Because in my father's house are many mansions. 269 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,640 If it were not so, I would have told you. 270 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,360 I go to prepare a place for you. 271 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:21,000 And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you under myself 272 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:29,640 that where I am, that you will be also one of his disciples said, Lord, we don't know 273 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,840 where you're going. 274 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,320 How can we know the way? 275 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:39,200 Jesus said, I am the way. 276 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,000 I am the truth. 277 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,720 I am the life. 278 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:53,800 No man can come to the Father except become through by me. 279 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:59,600 Is there anybody here knows something about God's grace? 280 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,920 Is there anybody here knows something about God's 281 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:04,920 glory? 282 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:11,120 Is there anybody here shouting over God's greatness? 283 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:16,840 If he woke you up this morning, that's something to shout about. 284 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,440 If he put food on your table, that's something to shout about. 285 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,960 If he gave you a job in the morning, that's something to shout about. 286 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:33,280 If you got your health and strength, that's something to shout about. 287 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,160 But here's why you ought to really shout. 288 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:45,840 Because one Friday, one Friday on a hill called Calvary, he died. 289 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,840 Didn't he die? 290 00:30:47,840 --> 00:31:03,160 But early, early Sunday morning, he got up from the grave with all power in his hand. 291 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,520 I serve a risen Savior. 292 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,960 He's in the world today. 293 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,960 I know he is living whatever men may say. 294 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,120 I see his hand of mercy. 295 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,360 I hear his voice of cheer. 296 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:33,120 And just the time I need him, he's always near. 297 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:38,360 He lives, he lives. 298 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,760 Christ Jesus lives today. 299 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:48,320 He walks, he talks with me, living. 300 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,200 He loved me, dying. 301 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,800 He saved me, buried. 302 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,480 He carried my sins far away. 303 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:03,240 But rising, he justified. 304 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,720 Freed me forever. 305 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,560 One day he's coming back. 306 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,280 What a glorious day. 307 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,400 Why don't you grab somebody? 308 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,000 Shake somebody's hand. 309 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,720 Tell them he's coming back. 310 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,160 He's coming back. 311 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,160 He's coming back. 312 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,160 Yes, he is. 313 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,160 Yes, he is. 314 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,160 Yes, he is. 315 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:58,160 No, he's all right. 316 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:04,160 He's a waymaker. 317 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,160 He's a problem solver. 318 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,160 He's a burden bearer. 319 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,160 He's a mighty God. 320 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,160 He's an everlasting father. 321 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,160 He's a prince of peace. 322 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,160 He's Adam's redeemer. 323 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,160 Abel's vindicator. 324 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,160 Abraham's sacrifice. 325 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,160 Don't know him, don't you? 326 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,160 He's Noah's ark. 327 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,160 Moses bush on fire. 328 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,160 God's only son. 329 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,160 Mary's baby boy. 330 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,160 Distinctive in supernatural capacity. 331 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,160 Superlative in sovereign majesty. 332 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,160 Exclusive in spiritual beauty. 333 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,160 Radiant in eternal splendor. 334 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,160 Matchless in superlative deity. 335 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,160 He's the God of God. 336 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,160 The prince of princes. 337 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,160 The famerous of 10,000. 338 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,160 Have you tried him? 339 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,160 Won't he open doors? 340 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,160 Won't he make a way? 341 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,160 Say yes! 342 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,160 Yes! 343 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,160 Yes! 344 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,160 Yes! 345 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:25,160 No, he's alright!