1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:06,950 All right, Oak Ridge family and friends, this is David here with Yana, Jeremy, and Jory, 2 00:00:07,130 --> 00:00:13,630 and we are working on reading a scripture for the first Sunday of Advent today. 3 00:00:14,250 --> 00:00:18,830 Anything that y'all look forward to for Christmas break? 4 00:00:19,230 --> 00:00:20,430 Seeing my family. 5 00:00:20,930 --> 00:00:22,490 Listening to Christmas carols. 6 00:00:23,010 --> 00:00:24,870 Celebrating Los Tres Reinos. 7 00:00:24,870 --> 00:00:25,430 Christmas. 8 00:00:25,562 --> 00:00:31,842 I am looking forward to getting on the road here in a minute for Encounter Ali. 9 00:00:31,842 --> 00:00:33,842 Yeah. 10 00:00:34,135 --> 00:00:34,815 All right. 11 00:00:35,555 --> 00:00:39,335 Isaiah chapter 2, verses 1 through 5. 12 00:00:39,515 --> 00:00:45,715 The word that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 13 00:00:46,315 --> 00:00:54,655 In days to come, the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised above the hills. 14 00:00:55,295 --> 00:00:57,895 All the nations shall stream to it. 15 00:00:57,895 --> 00:01:06,175 Many people shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, 16 00:01:06,355 --> 00:01:10,555 that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. 17 00:01:10,675 --> 00:01:15,595 For out of Zion shall go forth instruction and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 18 00:01:15,975 --> 00:01:20,195 He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples. 19 00:01:20,575 --> 00:01:25,775 They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. 20 00:01:25,772 --> 00:01:29,032 Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 21 00:01:29,032 --> 00:01:32,812 neither shall they learn war anymore. 22 00:01:32,812 --> 00:01:37,692 O house of Jacob, come let us walk in the light of the Lord. 23 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,580 Psalm 122 24 00:01:41,580 --> 00:01:44,120 I was glad when they said to me, 25 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,660 Let us go to the house of the Lord. 26 00:01:46,660 --> 00:01:50,540 Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. 27 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:55,540 Jerusalem was built as a city that is bound firmly together. 28 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:58,700 To the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord, 29 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:00,780 as was decreed for Israel, 30 00:02:00,780 --> 00:02:03,080 to give thanks to the name of the Lord. 31 00:02:03,083 --> 00:02:10,043 For there the thrones of four judgments were set up, the thrones of the house of David. 32 00:02:10,043 --> 00:02:14,883 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you. 33 00:02:14,883 --> 00:02:19,683 Peace be within your walls and security within your towers. 34 00:02:19,683 --> 00:02:25,263 For the sake of my relatives and friends, I will say, Peace be with you. 35 00:02:25,263 --> 00:02:30,223 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. 36 00:02:31,534 --> 00:02:36,334 Bless this, you know what time it is, how it is already. 37 00:02:36,546 --> 00:02:40,746 The moment for you to want from salvation is near to us. 38 00:02:40,846 --> 00:02:45,746 Now, when we became believers, the night is far gone. 39 00:02:45,786 --> 00:02:47,346 The days are near. 40 00:02:47,346 --> 00:02:52,586 Let us throw off the work of darkness and put on the armor of light. 41 00:02:52,606 --> 00:02:56,546 Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already 42 00:02:56,546 --> 00:03:02,606 the moment for you to wake from sleep for salvation is near to us now. 43 00:03:02,606 --> 00:03:05,966 Then when we became believers, the night is far gone. 44 00:03:06,381 --> 00:03:07,621 and the day is near. 45 00:03:09,781 --> 00:03:13,561 Matthew 24, 36 through 44. 46 00:03:13,992 --> 00:03:21,212 But about that day and hour no one knew, neither the angels of heaven nor the Son, but only the Father. 47 00:03:21,492 --> 00:03:25,772 For as the day of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 48 00:03:25,772 --> 00:03:31,732 For in the days before the flood there were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, 49 00:03:31,952 --> 00:03:38,592 until the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away. 50 00:03:38,872 --> 00:03:41,632 So too will be the coming of Son and Man. 51 00:03:43,219 --> 00:03:45,559 Then two will be in the field. 52 00:03:45,559 --> 00:03:48,499 One will be taken and one will be left. 53 00:03:48,499 --> 00:03:51,059 Two women will be grinding meal together. 54 00:03:51,059 --> 00:03:53,499 One will be taken and one will be left. 55 00:03:53,499 --> 00:03:56,759 Keep awake therefore, for you do not know 56 00:03:56,759 --> 00:03:58,899 on what day your Lord is coming. 57 00:03:58,899 --> 00:04:01,599 But understand this, if the owner of the house 58 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:05,239 had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, 59 00:04:05,239 --> 00:04:06,979 he would have stayed awake 60 00:04:06,979 --> 00:04:10,579 and would have not let his house be broken into. 61 00:04:10,574 --> 00:04:14,454 Therefore, you must also be on the ready, 62 00:04:14,934 --> 00:04:19,954 for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.