1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,520 Well hallelujah, has he been good to you? 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:09,360 He's been really good, give him the best praise you can. 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,220 How good has he been? 4 00:00:13,220 --> 00:00:14,220 Thank you Jesus. 5 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:16,880 Amen, he's a good, good God. 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:25,040 You can be seated in the house of the Lord today. 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,340 Well hallelujah, man it's a wonderful atmosphere in here. 8 00:00:29,340 --> 00:00:31,720 Feel the presence of the Lord. 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:32,720 Amen. 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:39,160 You have a good Thanksgiving, family all around, everybody behave themselves and all that good 11 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,680 stuff. 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,560 Sometimes they do and sometimes you just have to put them out in the yard. 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,960 Amen, they'll be alright. 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,120 They'll come back in. 15 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,640 So much to be thankful for. 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:54,640 Amen. 17 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:02,320 I preached my own self into an attitude adjustment last week so hallelujah, it's been a great 18 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,560 week in the Lord. 19 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,320 Sometimes you just have to dial on up don't you? 20 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:09,680 Amen. 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,960 Continue to pray for God's faithfulness over your lives and his blessings into your life 22 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:19,280 as we're coming to the close of another year. 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:26,480 Next Sunday of December it does not seem like that's where we should be. 24 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,120 25 is just around the corner isn't it? 25 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,760 And who'd have thought, I thought for sure we'd be in glory by now. 26 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,960 Shouting on the streets of cold over with all of this. 27 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:42,960 But the Lord knows doesn't he? 28 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,320 Father I love you this morning. 29 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:50,720 Well thankful for the opportunity to come before you, before your people, to speak blessings 30 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,880 over their lives for financial well-being. 31 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,160 As they worship in the giving of the tithe and the offering, faithful to you, you are 32 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,200 faithful to us. 33 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:09,440 You supply all of our need according to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 34 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,000 So with that I pray for jobs and better jobs and increases. 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,700 Checks in the mail, refunds, rebates. 36 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:16,560 The best sales in town. 37 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,120 It's Christmas time. 38 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:19,960 Bless your people in Christ's name. 39 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:20,960 That's all I said? 40 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:21,960 Amen. 41 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,120 Stand together and let's worship him in our giving this morning. 42 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:32,340 He set me free, yes he set me free. 43 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:36,880 He broke the bonds of prison for me. 44 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:51,720 My glory by now, my Jesus to see and glory to God he set me free. 45 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:57,120 Now I am climbing higher each day. 46 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,240 Darkness of night has retailed away. 47 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:08,520 From my feet are planted and glory to God. 48 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:13,680 I'm homeward bound for he set me free. 49 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:21,280 Yes he set me free and he broke the bond of prison for me. 50 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:33,200 Well I'm glory bound, my Jesus to see and glory to God he set me free. 51 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,080 Any free people in the house this morning? 52 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,080 Yeah. 53 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:47,840 If you got your Bibles be turning with me to John 1 and Isaiah 9. 54 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:53,160 We'll do Isaiah first, Isaiah 9 and then John's Gospel first chapter. 55 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,520 How many of you had some leftover turkey yesterday? 56 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,040 I can tell. 57 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,160 Yeah it's still sitting heavy on you. 58 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:13,960 Everybody I text I said eat more ham, turkey's overrated. 59 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:19,320 Hallelujah. 60 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:28,360 Isaiah 9 and John 1, so good to see you in the house of the Lord today. 61 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:34,600 I'm so thankful for Pastor Brian not throwing me under the bus on your little calendar thing, 62 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,080 your event schedule. 63 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:42,400 I called him, did a little conference call with him yesterday and said hey I'm going 64 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,600 to change the calendar. 65 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,080 So that adjustments on there. 66 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:55,080 What that is is instead of doing our candlelight communion on that Wednesday evening of Christmas 67 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:00,920 Eve, I'm going to make that part of our Sunday morning the 22nd part of our service that 68 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,400 day. 69 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:09,080 So we're not doing away with anything, we're just joining days doing it. 70 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:16,840 That way you don't have to fuss because Pastor had you come back out on Christmas Eve. 71 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:19,840 Oh I know, I know. 72 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:24,600 Well it's good but my Lord why do you have to do it on Christmas Eve? 73 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,000 I enjoy doing it but it's Christmas Eve. 74 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,720 Don't he know it's Christmas Eve? 75 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:36,020 Well let's go have communion then we'll get back. 76 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:37,480 Are you with me? 77 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:43,600 You know why I know that's how it goes because I used to say that. 78 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,440 I've not always been a pastor you know. 79 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:52,440 I used to be one of you and so I know what we used to say about pastors doing stuff like 80 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:53,860 that. 81 00:05:53,860 --> 00:05:58,440 So I thought well we're going to combine that together since it's so close to Christmas. 82 00:05:58,440 --> 00:05:59,960 Is that alright? 83 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:00,960 Thank you. 84 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,760 Isaiah, did I tell you how good it was to see you in the house of the Lord today? 85 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,480 If I did not you look lovely today so thank you for being here. 86 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:15,360 Except for this bunch over here, they gone. 87 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,040 My left hand balcony folk thank you. 88 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,000 The center section and the right, we'll pray for them. 89 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,280 Oh they gone. 90 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:29,440 They not even in the building. 91 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:37,600 Isaiah 9 verse 2 reads, the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. 92 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:44,240 They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined. 93 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:50,960 Verse 6 reads, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the government 94 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,980 shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor. 95 00:06:55,980 --> 00:07:00,720 The mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace, of the increase of his government 96 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:06,720 and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it, 97 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:13,400 to establish it with judgment, with justice from henceforth even forever the zeal of the 98 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:18,080 Lord of hosts will perform this. 99 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,220 John's gospel reads verse 1, you know it well. 100 00:07:21,220 --> 00:07:26,400 In the beginning was the word, the word was God, the word was with God and the word was 101 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,400 God. 102 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,000 The same was in the beginning with God. 103 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:37,260 All things were made by him, without him was not anything made that was made. 104 00:07:37,260 --> 00:07:45,440 In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness and 105 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,300 the darkness comprehended it not. 106 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:53,460 There was a man sent from God whose name was John, the same came for a witness to bear 107 00:07:53,460 --> 00:07:58,760 witness of the light that all men through him might believe. 108 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:04,160 He was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light. 109 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:09,280 That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 110 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,860 He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. 111 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:19,240 He came into his own and his own received him not but as many as received him to them 112 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:26,300 gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name which were 113 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:33,280 born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God. 114 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:38,480 And the word was made flesh and the world among us and we beheld his glory, the glory 115 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,200 as the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. 116 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:49,520 I just want to talk for a little while this morning on the subject of the wonderful light, 117 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:50,520 the wonderful light. 118 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,620 Father, I love you this morning so thankful and grateful for the unction you've given 119 00:08:54,620 --> 00:08:55,620 me today. 120 00:08:55,620 --> 00:09:02,580 Lord, just anoint you servant this morning as we endeavor to edify the body and glorify 121 00:09:02,580 --> 00:09:03,580 your name. 122 00:09:03,580 --> 00:09:09,320 And truly Lord may we leave here today saying it was good to be in the house of the Lord, 123 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,880 to be touched by your presence, to worship you in spirit and in truth. 124 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,880 To you be praised forever in Christ's name. 125 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,520 And the church said, Amen, you can be seated. 126 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,560 The wonderful light. 127 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:28,600 I don't know about you but the Christmas season has kind of caught me a little bit off guard. 128 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:36,080 It's fully here, Thanksgiving being so near the end of November. 129 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:43,480 It has hardly given us the opportunity to prepare for all that Christmas involves. 130 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,720 Seems as though we get a week or so and then December's on us. 131 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,160 But not this year. 132 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,160 It was so late. 133 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:51,160 I mean it's here. 134 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:56,360 Today's the first of December and Thanksgiving, your Black Friday, some of you still not 135 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,800 over that, not caught up on your sleep from doing all that stuff. 136 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,080 But we are now full blown into the Christmas season. 137 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,640 I know they've tried to, I saw a little thing in somebody's yard the other day of a snowman 138 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,520 sitting on top of a turkey. 139 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,320 I thought, well that's pretty funny. 140 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,000 And that's about the truth. 141 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:25,320 But we're here now and today begins part of the liturgical season, the practice for the 142 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,480 church known as Advent. 143 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:35,320 Now I, over my 30 years of pastoral ministry, I've never been and have not been one to get 144 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,880 too deeply involved in the liturgical practices and issues of the church. 145 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:49,960 But my heart's been drawn this year at a greater level to this, the idea of this Advent. 146 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,680 We don't have our wreath and candles yet. 147 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:54,160 We will. 148 00:10:54,160 --> 00:11:01,160 That's the part of it that I'm really not all that hoopla about, but we will do that 149 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,280 on the 22nd. 150 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,040 That's going to be part of our service that day. 151 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:11,160 But the idea of Advent, I think we need to have our attention drawn to, whether so much 152 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,960 with the practices of the liturgical part of it. 153 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,080 But I think we really need to focus. 154 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,440 I know, let me just speak from pastor's perspective. 155 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:25,760 I need to be redrawn, not that I haven't been in the past, but that I do this thing in the 156 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:30,600 order I think that God would have us to do and to see and to think about this upcoming 157 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,360 Christmas season. 158 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:39,740 And this prepares us and lays us the foundation so that when we finally get to Christmas Eve, 159 00:11:39,740 --> 00:11:43,360 we are fully aware of why we are celebrating. 160 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:44,600 Amen? 161 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,480 And I know we are and I know you are, but you also and I know how we can get caught 162 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:54,320 up in the commercialization of Christmas and all that that encompasses. 163 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,180 And not that it's a bad thing, but it can be a distracted thing and keep us away from 164 00:11:59,180 --> 00:12:03,000 the full purpose of what Christmas is all about. 165 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:09,000 And when we think about Advent, it comes from a Latin word, which means to come to, to come 166 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 to. 167 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,320 The purpose of Advent is to celebrate the birth of Jesus and the unexpected nature of 168 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:23,840 it as well as all and to serve as a reminder that we are to prepare for the second coming. 169 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,560 If how many of you believe Christ was born? 170 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:27,560 Amen. 171 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:31,600 How many of you then therefore believe that Christ is coming again? 172 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:39,080 So the Advent doesn't just point us to Christ's birth, but he is to come to this earth again. 173 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:40,080 Amen. 174 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:45,520 And so Christmas is as much about resurrection as it is about anything else. 175 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:50,960 The whole and the entirety of the birth of Christ, the life of Christ, the death of Christ, 176 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:56,000 the resurrection of Christ and the soon appearing of Christ is all encompassed in the entirety 177 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,760 of his story and the entirety of his life. 178 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:04,560 You can't see one without seeing the other for you and I, I feel like I'm going to ask 179 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:10,560 us to begin to read Luke as our readings up to Christmas, up to Christmas, the book of 180 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,560 Luke. 181 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:13,360 I want us to read it in reverse order. 182 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:19,160 There's 24 chapters and there's 24 more days and then Christmas Eve is there. 183 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:24,480 And so, and I think if we begin to read Luke in reverse order, I think that's what I'm 184 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,600 going to do for my Advent reading. 185 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:32,400 I'm reading the book of Luke in reverse order and it's going to put me in Luke one on the 186 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,520 very Eve of Christmas. 187 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:39,560 And I think reading in reverse is going to cause a little bit of stirring in our mind 188 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:42,520 to be how grateful we are for his coming. 189 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:47,280 For when we see how bad things are and how bad things will and we read that in reverse 190 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:52,440 order and we get to his birth, we are even more grateful for his coming. 191 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:53,440 Amen. 192 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:58,440 Because we have read of his soon return and of his coming and the reason why he came to 193 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,440 begin with. 194 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,240 The reason of the Advent was for the Christ to come to, to come to the earth. 195 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:09,120 He had to come to the earth in that manger and he's coming to the earth again one day 196 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:14,400 to step off the steed of glory, to put his feet down on the Mount of Olives to which 197 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,160 it will be split in two. 198 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,160 Hallelujah. 199 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:23,040 And we usher ourselves into the end of the glorious reign of Jesus Christ. 200 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:28,040 And so we cannot think about Advent without thinking about the totality of who Christ 201 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,640 is and why he came to begin with. 202 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:35,960 But we take that unexpected appearance of Christ and the nature of that coming and the 203 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,440 incarnation and we let it soak and we begin to marinate and let it serve as a reminder 204 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,640 that he will come again. 205 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,680 I know how it happens and I know it's so easy. 206 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,440 We get so caught up in life and we get so caught up in living and we fail to remind 207 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:56,000 ourselves that today could be the day that the Lord comes again. 208 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,560 Today could be the day that the trumpet sounds. 209 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:04,440 And the archangel gives us the shout of attention and the clouds be opened up and we be carried 210 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:05,440 home. 211 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:10,920 Let it serve as a reminder of the advent of his birth as the advent of his return will 212 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,200 be just as literal and be just as real. 213 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,200 Hallelujah. 214 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:20,720 And let our hearts be prepared for the return of the Lord. 215 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,920 Say how can you preach on resurrection at Christmas? 216 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,160 It all goes together. 217 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:26,160 Amen. 218 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,160 And as we live through the troubles and the trials and the tribulations of our current 219 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:35,400 living and our current existence, wars and rumors of wars, and it tells us why he came 220 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:42,040 to begin with such a unique way. 221 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:48,440 Typically there will be and when the time comes there are four candles within this advent 222 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,440 wreath. 223 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:56,760 Each one of them representing something beautiful and something wonderful for the believer. 224 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,280 The first candle is that. 225 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,360 It's a purple candle, three purples and a pink. 226 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:07,120 The purple candle that we light first would be to remind us of hope. 227 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:12,080 It's also known as the prophecy candle. 228 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:18,000 And when we begin to think about the prophecy of the Lord of his first coming, we begin 229 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:23,600 to think about how the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost would move upon men of old and 230 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:30,160 urge them and prompt them to speak concerning the first advent that the Lord's coming to 231 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,160 the earth. 232 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:36,200 And it reminds me of some wonderful and powerful things when I think about the prophecies of 233 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,520 the Messiah's birth and the hope that that's going to bring to the world. 234 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:41,600 That's the whole point. 235 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:47,660 He came to bring hope to a lost and dying world, to a humanity that was absent without 236 00:16:47,660 --> 00:16:48,960 his presence. 237 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:54,320 He came that he would bridge the chasm between sin and God the Father. 238 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:55,320 Hallelujah. 239 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:56,800 Let that sink in for a moment. 240 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:02,840 He came to the earth to bridge across the chasm of our sin, his wonderful grace, so 241 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:08,320 that we may know in free part and in upright relationship with the Father. 242 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:09,320 Hallelujah. 243 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,600 For without the shedding of his blood, there is no remission of our sin. 244 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:18,120 And without a manger, there would never have been a Calvary's cross, but because of the 245 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:23,840 manger and the nature of the hope that is instilled in our heart and life, the Old Testament 246 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:31,000 prophets would warn us and encourage us to be watching into the darkness is what Isaiah 247 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:38,400 said, a place that was shadowed over by sin and the grip of sin and the people that sat 248 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,400 in darkness. 249 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,200 There's a great light about to shine upon them. 250 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,440 He had to give them encouragement after encouragement. 251 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,320 He had to let them know that the time was going to soon approach. 252 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:56,680 Jeremiah, the prophet put it this way in the 23rd chapter, verse five, behold the days 253 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:02,880 come, saith the Lord that I will rise and raise unto David a righteous branch. 254 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,840 A king shall reign and prosper judgment and justice in the earth. 255 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:14,760 In his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby 256 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,180 he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. 257 00:18:19,180 --> 00:18:25,400 And you can look where Paul reassured us in first Corinthians one and 30 that Jesus Christ 258 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,440 is the Lord our righteousness. 259 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:34,800 God had to speak through men of old and begin to tell and to warn and to prophesy that hope 260 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:41,320 was coming into the world as dark as it was and his name shall be called wonderful and 261 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,840 counselor and mighty God into that darkness. 262 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:51,520 This marvelous light is going to come to illuminate the heartache of mankind, the hopelessness 263 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:52,880 of humanity. 264 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,680 This bright light is going to shine on those who are sitting in darkness. 265 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,120 I'm telling you it was dark. 266 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,200 It was dark then when Isaiah prophesied. 267 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:09,320 It was dark when Jesus was born and it's dark today but cause of his light that illuminates 268 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,320 with hope. 269 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:21,320 The darkness has been pushed aside and light now illuminates the light of men. 270 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:27,120 We think about all the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning his birth. 271 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:32,480 Isaiah would say in 714, therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. 272 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,920 The Lord himself, you're not going to believe it from anybody else. 273 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,640 So the Lord himself shall give you a sign and he went on to say, behold, a virgin shall 274 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:52,200 conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel being interpreted God with us. 275 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:58,480 Now how else would those hard hearted people and stiff neck people of his get a grip on 276 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:05,120 reality and God's word and God's promise without God himself giving them a sign and no other 277 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:10,520 sign could be given that they would fully get a hold of than God being with them. 278 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:15,640 And the only way that God could be with him is that he sent himself among us and the way 279 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:20,920 that he would do that could not be through the tainted flesh totally of humanity and 280 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,840 the seed of man which brought sky. 281 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,240 I'm preaching better than you're shouting now. 282 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:32,240 The seed of man that would relay sin from one to the other could not get the job done. 283 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:38,760 So Mary, that little damsel who had never known a man, the Holy Ghost moved upon her 284 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:45,920 and planted the seed of the righteous son of the living God so that the incarnated God 285 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:52,360 would come into this world fully God and fully fleshed but untainted by the sin of. 286 00:20:52,360 --> 00:21:00,320 I'm talking about a wonderful light. 287 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:11,280 I didn't realize I was going to get this worked up about the light, but I'm totally worked 288 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:17,360 up this morning. 289 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:24,320 I ate smoked turkey and it took some of that lethargy out of it. 290 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,800 Smoked turkey instills joy and happiness. 291 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:35,160 That old oven baked stuff just brings you down. 292 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:44,320 The light, this marvelous light is coming into darkness. 293 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:49,720 Isaiah said where men are sitting in darkness, all of a sudden this light is going to come 294 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,720 in and begin to shine. 295 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,840 There's a light that's coming. 296 00:21:52,840 --> 00:22:01,100 You know there's really no definition for darkness other than the absence of light. 297 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:03,280 Light is measurable by speed. 298 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,400 Hallelujah. 299 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,720 Light is measurable by brightness and illumination factor. 300 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,120 These over your head are 5,000 lumen cut in half for 2,500. 301 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:19,520 If we lit it up we would probably all go out here glowing. 302 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:25,080 Darkness is not measured except by the absence of light. 303 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,720 I'm working my way to John. 304 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,680 Hold on. 305 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,160 Micah 5 2. 306 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,880 We got to get this prophecy candle lit. 307 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,240 Hello? 308 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,240 Micah 5 2. 309 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,000 Behold, you bethe him Ephrathah. 310 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:45,760 Though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be 311 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:53,360 ruler over Israel whose origins are from of old and from ancient times. 312 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:58,200 My Lord, the prophet said there's one coming from old, from ancient times. 313 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,260 How can he still be alive? 314 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:01,680 How could he come into this world? 315 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,160 How could a virgin bring an ancient one into this world? 316 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,960 I'm going to tell you why because it's the wonderful mystery of the grace and the power 317 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:11,440 of God Almighty. 318 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:16,800 That's the reason he said for me myself, I'm going to do this so that you can just scratch 319 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:17,960 your head. 320 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,800 There's no way that you're going to take responsibility for what I'm about to do. 321 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,680 And oh Bethlehem, he's coming from you. 322 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,400 Oh Bethlehem, the star will shine over you. 323 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:36,000 Oh Bethlehem, it will be there that in labor she mourns and groans and brings into this 324 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,400 world the light of the glorious life of man. 325 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:47,720 Hallelujah. 326 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:54,440 Hope comes in the form of light. 327 00:23:54,440 --> 00:24:05,320 Matthew will tell you the genealogy and Matthew will repeat to you Isaiah's prophecy that 328 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:11,300 the light's coming into the darkness where they that sit and dwell. 329 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:12,300 Get ready. 330 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:16,160 You're not going to believe it when it happens, but it's going to happen. 331 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,440 Matthew gives us his lineage. 332 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:29,040 Luke shares of us of his glorious birth and the angelic announcement. 333 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:42,720 Mark just gets right to work with his ministry, but John introduces us to his incarnate divinity. 334 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,040 It's his own. 335 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,720 It's his own narrative. 336 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:53,480 It's his own nativity description, but it's so much more than shepherd sitting on side 337 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:54,880 of the hill. 338 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:55,880 Amen. 339 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,880 It's so much more than the angelic announcement on earth peace and goodwill toward men. 340 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:02,880 Why? 341 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:09,600 Because on earth that night peace personified in the bodily form of Jesus Christ, the son 342 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,120 of the living God was made present and announced. 343 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:14,360 Hallelujah. 344 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:20,800 But John gives you a different introduction into who this Christ child is and who the 345 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,680 one that was born of a virgin really is. 346 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,520 And he said, in the beginning, what's the word? 347 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:27,520 Hallelujah. 348 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:32,640 And he begins to bring about this descriptive of the word of ancient times for from the 349 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:39,160 foundations of the world, the Christ was slain before yet he was even born into this world. 350 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,240 How do we get an ancient one in current events? 351 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,360 Because the ancient one had always been. 352 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:47,960 He is the ancient of days. 353 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:48,960 Hallelujah. 354 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:58,320 He is the rose of Sharon and he is the glorious day star that shines on us. 355 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:05,180 How would the Magi know to look for a star other than it was foretold that there would 356 00:26:05,180 --> 00:26:08,120 be a star? 357 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:15,680 And John begins to give you this wonderful look into the deity of the one that was laid 358 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:23,040 in swaddling clothes in a manger on that Bethlehem eve when it was announced the Christ was born. 359 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:29,580 He tells you that he was the word and in the beginning he was always and the same was God. 360 00:26:29,580 --> 00:26:34,360 And he began to tell you that all things were made by him for nothing is coming to existence 361 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:38,600 without him because he is all things in existence. 362 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:45,800 And John begins to tell you about this marvelous light that has now been placed upon the earth. 363 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,360 And he begins to describe him how things were made by him. 364 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:56,560 In him was life and in him the life was the light of men. 365 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,520 Somebody just got to hear for. 366 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:07,280 I just called somebody and left him a nice long voicemail. 367 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:08,280 This is here for time purposes. 368 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:13,040 I don't even know why I bring it because I don't really pay much attention to it. 369 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:18,800 It's for your comfort that I'm at least looking. 370 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:27,640 In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shineth into darkness 371 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,880 and the darkness comprehended it not. 372 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:37,920 His wonderful light is the hope of the present and the expectation of the future that we 373 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,120 know exists in him. 374 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:45,800 And it illuminates my every day without that hope without the hope of this first advent 375 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,480 orientation without this hope. 376 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:49,680 Where would we be? 377 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:55,520 We would have all been be most miserable if in this life only we did not have the hope 378 00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:00,640 that we have in Christ but because of the hope that we have in him we are not miserable 379 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,920 but we are able to rejoice. 380 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,280 And again I say rejoice because of the hope that exists in him. 381 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,880 There's so many hopeless situations and circumstances that are introduced into our life according 382 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:18,120 to our own power to merit to have them perform but not in his. 383 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:24,240 And I have the hope resting in him because of the light that is in him is the life that 384 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,680 is in me. 385 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:32,360 Hallelujah and into the darkness and the gloom of my everyday existence they steal the glorious 386 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:50,120 radiant life of Jesus Christ to come to the advent to come to my aid. 387 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:59,280 That's why he came to come to provide when I need provision to come to protect when I 388 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:08,000 need protection to come to deliver when I need deliverance to come to bring joy when 389 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:14,840 I'm down and out when the oil needs to be applied that I may rejoice in him over and 390 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:23,800 over again to come to the aid of humanity. 391 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:33,200 And he came he came his wonderful light again is the hope of the present and the expectation 392 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,120 of the future. 393 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:42,200 And into the darkness he came. 394 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:49,160 Verse five of our text from John's writing and the light shine within darkness and the 395 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:57,640 darkness comprehended it not comprehend is a little bit hard to catch hold of there. 396 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:05,880 It means apprehend and the darkness apprehended it not what the light you get on down into 397 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,280 the Greek on it. 398 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,920 It's a it's a it's a word that I don't really know if I pronounce it right but you'll get 399 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,880 the gist of it. 400 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:20,160 Kata lamba no I won't sound Italian instead of Greek. 401 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:25,680 Put a little Spanish flare on it. 402 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:33,880 Kata lamba no with a hyphen over the O at the end. 403 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,360 It's the word in the original utterance. 404 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,080 Kata means to cause to come down. 405 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,560 It's a compound word. 406 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:50,520 The word lamba no means to seize or to take or to grasp. 407 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,960 My God somebody or just got a hold of that. 408 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:03,320 And the darkness Kata lamba no couldn't get a grip. 409 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:08,920 Couldn't take a firm enough hold to bring the light down. 410 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,840 And darkness couldn't overcome the light. 411 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,320 Darkness couldn't do away with the light. 412 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:26,520 Darkness couldn't suspend the light and the darkness cast just not down the light. 413 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,920 Light dispels. 414 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,640 Darkness flees. 415 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,480 Darkness dare approach light. 416 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:39,600 Do I really have to preach all that just to get you to clap your hands and say amen. 417 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:51,360 Darkness comprehended apprehended couldn't get a grasp to bring down the light. 418 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,760 This wonderful light. 419 00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:08,480 And might I add greater is he that's in you than he that is in this world. 420 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:14,520 Could I add to you the hope that you have as Christ Jesus living in you. 421 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:21,920 What does that mean if Christ is in you becomes the hope of glory then the hope of glory cannot 422 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:29,400 be grasped and cast down. 423 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:34,840 I'll keep preaching it till you get it. 424 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,080 You're going to make it. 425 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:45,720 Hold on child of God because the light that is in you darkness couldn't comprehend it. 426 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,800 Darkness couldn't apprehended. 427 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,440 Darkness couldn't get a grasp on it to bring it down. 428 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,600 So if it can't go down you're not going down. 429 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:59,640 Lift up your head because the wonderful light of the glorious Christ lives in you. 430 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:14,120 He come to you. 431 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:28,280 And him was life and the life was the light of me and the light shineth in darkness and 432 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,240 the darkness comprehended it not. 433 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:39,120 I hope any time you hear that or read that this morning floods into your mind. 434 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:51,840 Correct pronunciation or not it still means the same. 435 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:57,560 What are you saying greater is he that's in you than he that's in this world. 436 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:03,240 Christmas can be one of the most depressing times of the year and it's because of what 437 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:11,040 has been twisted into what I can't give what I can't do. 438 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,040 Right. 439 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:20,200 Oh we'd love to if we all had the financing we just give everybody something. 440 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,760 Right. 441 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:32,280 And because you don't does not mean that alleviates the advent Christ's coming because you can't 442 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:37,040 give everybody what they want. 443 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,040 Socks still work. 444 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,520 I told you that last week. 445 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:52,000 If you can't do that give them a hug around the neck and a great I love you. 446 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,160 Merry Christmas. 447 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,080 Christ has come. 448 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:07,680 Get you a Shriner pecan log. 449 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:12,360 Just I mean this is nothing to do with I'm about to preach but how many of you actually 450 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,360 like those things. 451 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,360 Raise your hand. 452 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,400 I need to see if I get one. 453 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,440 All right. 454 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,400 Y'all seen them. 455 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:27,600 If you if you get one or two bless them. 456 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,920 Hallelujah. 457 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,760 I'll save you the trouble don't buy me no chocolate covered cherries. 458 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:40,120 I could eat the pecan log before I could that. 459 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,960 I know when you nod heads is going to show up with some cherries. 460 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,280 Probably because you like them and you know I say here you eat them. 461 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:55,800 I don't like it when you're going to grill. 462 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:01,520 The light of men is the hope of man. 463 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,960 It's our hope. 464 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,740 Christ is our hope. 465 00:36:05,740 --> 00:36:09,080 We got to laugh a little bit because there's so much going on in our lives if we didn't 466 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,400 we just cry all the time. 467 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:12,400 Hello. 468 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:26,480 I mean just look at yourself and laugh because the options that we have. 469 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,040 The odds of them working out the way we want them to don't seem to be so great sometimes. 470 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:36,200 So it's matter whether the life or the joy of the Lord is your strength and we're going 471 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,360 to need all we can get to get through. 472 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:46,560 But do not allow the oppressiveness of this season to cause you to miss the advent. 473 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,560 Hello. 474 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,240 It doesn't matter if you give anybody anything but a hard time. 475 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:53,840 Amen. 476 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,120 Aggravate the life out of them do something. 477 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:05,440 But do not get depressed because Christmas is coming. 478 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,200 You've got people that get on every side of things. 479 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,400 That's a pagan holiday. 480 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,800 Nothing pagan about my Christ. 481 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,800 I'm sorry. 482 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,560 If that's your opinion please keep yourself around me because I'm going to tell you right 483 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:20,720 quick. 484 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:22,400 Nothing pagan about Christmas for me. 485 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,360 Well I didn't when he was born. 486 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:30,320 Nobody knows when he was born so it's as good a day as the next. 487 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:37,160 It's as good a day as any to celebrate the marvelous light that penetrated our and you 488 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,680 know why they chose it right because it's on the winter solstice. 489 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,680 It's the darkest season of the year. 490 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:53,000 So why not let a little light shine in the darkest season of the year. 491 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,800 Proclaim the advent. 492 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,680 Christ has come to the earth. 493 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:04,680 Man if I had known preaching this advent thing was this good I'd have been doing it twenty 494 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,680 nine years ago. 495 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:13,880 I mean I preach Jesus anyway but this makes it easy. 496 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:19,280 It's a four part sermon outline for you. 497 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,600 You better stay in so I'll quit. 498 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,200 I'm going to let you out early today. 499 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:31,680 You can beat the first Baptist over to wherever you're going today. 500 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,120 I know you have to wait on most Sundays but not today. 501 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:43,120 You're getting in unless unless you get down here unless you come into this altar needing 502 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:50,800 some light to penetrate your darkness and together the lights that illuminating in us 503 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,520 will surround each other. 504 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:59,960 Hallelujah and light a glow our lives for the hope of the advent not the one that is 505 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:06,920 already came but the one that is to come to the earth. 506 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:12,600 That's why I celebrate Bethlehem so greatly because Bethlehem means there's a Mount Olivet 507 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,880 coming. 508 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:21,560 Bethlehem means there's a Christ going to be standing in the clouds waiting. 509 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,720 That's what Bethlehem means. 510 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:35,280 Romans 15 13 says now the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. 511 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:41,000 Romans 8 24 for we are saved by hope. 512 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Hebrews 6 19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast. 513 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,720 That's what it's all about. 514 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:07,880 The anchor for our souls. 515 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:14,600 The light has come to the earth for men that once sat in darkness. 516 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:22,920 This wonderful marvelous light came to the earth. 517 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:32,000 Father I love you this morning my lord I feel you right now. 518 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:48,120 I feel your presence in this house. 519 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:54,600 Lord over the hearts of humanity in this room today. 520 00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:10,000 Light has come and it doesn't take a great flame to see darkness flee for even a spark 521 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:17,160 drives darkness away. 522 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:28,840 Darkness illuminate so into the darkness of life right now. 523 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:44,080 May hope become the sparks of illumination into the darkness that surrounds. 524 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:49,280 Lord I know the enemy is just trying to cast down but here this morning your word lifts 525 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,280 up. 526 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,960 Your word to encourage us. 527 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,960 Emmanuel. 528 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960 Emmanuel. 529 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:11,200 Let's sing a little of that together. 530 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,320 Let's worship him in this. 531 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,480 You will. 532 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,480 Emmanuel. 533 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:28,160 He is calling. 534 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,400 If you need prayer come on down. 535 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,480 We're going to let a little spark of hope come in. 536 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,480 Anybody else come on. 537 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,480 Hallelujah. 538 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:45,680 We're going to pray. 539 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,040 Heavenly Father the light came for the healing of our bodies. 540 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:55,280 Sister Melia needs a healing in her body this morning. 541 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,440 Pain in her back today. 542 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:05,960 But I think I've read where you bore the pain on your back for our healing. 543 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,240 You came to earth to heal. 544 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:14,440 So do a healing work in the life this morning. 545 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,960 Do a healing work in this body today Father. 546 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:24,120 In the name above every let the light shine into this darkness Lord. 547 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:29,160 Lord we're believing continually every day standing and every night trusting for a divine 548 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,880 touch of your grace and glory. 549 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,160 In body soul mind and spirit. 550 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:41,920 A healing we claim in Jesus mighty name. 551 00:43:41,920 --> 00:44:04,560 Emmanuel. 552 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:20,120 Lord we thank you for the hope that we have. 553 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,120 Lord touch and heal. 554 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,080 Lord move on brother James today. 555 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:24,080 Lord move in his body. 556 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,720 Move in his life this morning. 557 00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:28,480 Father God in the name of Jesus we ask it today. 558 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:29,480 Hallelujah. 559 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:30,480 Hallelujah. 560 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:38,720 Father in the name of Jesus we speak against this vertigo. 561 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:42,680 Lord you've touched once and I know you're able to touch again. 562 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:49,040 And Lord we're trusting and believing you today that we leave steady upon our feet. 563 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,040 Sure and steady. 564 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,160 That's the hope we just read about it. 565 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,400 Sure and steady today Father. 566 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,920 Take authority and bring about a healing in this body today Father. 567 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:04,440 In the name of Jesus bring a healing Lord a steadiness. 568 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,840 Father in the name of Jesus we ask. 569 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,840 Hallelujah. 570 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,360 Father in the name of Jesus. 571 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,160 Little buddy needs a healing today for his head and his shoulder. 572 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,520 Lord we know that you're able and childlike faith. 573 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,600 Lord you said you would honor it. 574 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,560 You said if we just had faith like a child. 575 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,640 Lord as he stands today. 576 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,760 Lord I know he wouldn't be down here if he didn't believe you. 577 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,360 He'd have stayed back but Lord he's come forward knowing. 578 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,120 So do a work in his little body today Father. 579 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,680 In the name of Jesus. 580 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,720 Father Lord you're able to heal today. 581 00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:47,680 To touch the tendon and the muscle in this hand. 582 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,360 Lord you're able to bring about a healing. 583 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:56,120 Lord you're able to rebuke and take authority over pain and discomfort today. 584 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,800 It's the light that we're seeking Lord the light that we need. 585 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,840 Lord so do a healing work in our hand today Father God in the name of Jesus. 586 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,560 In the name of Jesus Lord do a healing work this morning. 587 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,640 We know you're able and we trust you today Father. 588 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,540 Do a great work Lord do a great work. 589 00:46:12,540 --> 00:46:14,300 Do a great work. 590 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:17,800 Do great works in your house this morning oh Father God. 591 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,640 Do great works in your house today Father. 592 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:20,640 Touch my brother this morning. 593 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,080 Lord you know every need concerning him. 594 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,920 So I ask God today to begin to move. 595 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,120 Remove barriers Lord. 596 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,920 Remove the barriers that the enemy places before him. 597 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,720 God we know that you're able and we trust you and we have confidence in you today. 598 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:38,200 For the light is the life of men. 599 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,560 Hallelujah Lord we thank you for your glorious light today. 600 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,880 Thank you for your glorious light today. 601 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,120 The hope that it brings in our heart and life. 602 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,000 The hope that it brings in our hearts and lives. 603 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,000 Wonderful hope. 604 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:59,640 The light that hope brings into our hearts. 605 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:04,120 He man you have. 606 00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:08,920 Give the Lord praise for the light that shines. 607 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:14,560 Hallelujah this wonderful marvelous glorious light. 608 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:19,800 Hallelujah don't forget we're starting Luke in reverse. 609 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,960 Anybody else need prayer this morning? 610 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,000 We're going to move today. 611 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,480 Touch today Father in the name of Jesus. 612 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:35,480 We'll take authority over those old seizures today. 613 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:40,520 We'll grant a healing in body today. 614 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,960 In Jesus mighty name. 615 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,720 We thank you Lord for the light of hope. 616 00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:50,240 For the light of hope. 617 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:51,240 Amen. 618 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:54,800 The Lord is good isn't he? 619 00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:01,960 Well glory. 620 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:08,840 Erica wasn't in here to write it all down so I don't even know what to say. 621 00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,520 Go in grace. 622 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,840 Go in his marvelous peace. 623 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,840 That's next week's subject. 624 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:17,840 Amen. 625 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:23,840 We'll be talking about his peace in the season in which we're in. 626 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:24,840 Amen. 627 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:25,840 God bless you. 628 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:26,840 Go in grace. 629 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:27,840 Go in peace. 630 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:28,840 If you're visiting with us you say is it like this always? 631 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,320 I'll say most of the time. 632 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:32,320 Go in grace. 633 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,320 Go in peace. 634 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:34,320 Stop by that booth out to my left. 635 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,920 They have something special for you if you're visiting with us today. 636 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:48,560 Thank you so much for being in the house of the Lord.