WEBVTT 00:00:00.879 --> 00:00:04.320 Hello Oak Ridge family and friends. This is David 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:09.539 here with Byron and Janae Hunter and Today I've 00:00:09.539 --> 00:00:12.240 asked them to share one of the elements that 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:15.580 points them to Christ. Hey Oak Ridge. So I chose 00:00:15.580 --> 00:00:18.160 from David's acronyms I was going to share a 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.559 Christmas Carol that speaks to me if you will 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:23.359 and it's Oh Holy Night I'm not that sentimental 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.420 about Christmas carols, but I've always appreciated 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:29.879 this song and the lyric line that I really like 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:32.689 is or the singer is singing along and he or she 00:00:32.689 --> 00:00:37.070 says along lay the world in sin and error pining 00:00:37.070 --> 00:00:40.090 till he appeared and the soul felt its worth 00:00:40.090 --> 00:00:43.429 and that's always really kind of got to me kind 00:00:43.429 --> 00:00:47.009 of stirs emotion in me and I think that that 00:00:47.009 --> 00:00:49.270 is one of the things that the church should be 00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:52.969 about is finding a way to convince these souls 00:00:52.969 --> 00:00:56.390 of their worth and the wife's genetic comes behind 00:00:56.390 --> 00:01:01.020 that with not a very serious spiritual aphronym 00:01:01.020 --> 00:01:05.079 word but tradition that I must do every year 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.480 came out of when we got in -laws when our children 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.579 got married and the first Christmas that we had 00:01:12.579 --> 00:01:16.280 with them I made the scavenger hunt just for 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:20.739 fun and from then on it was required of me by 00:01:20.739 --> 00:01:23.459 my in -laws and my daughter once in a long required 00:01:23.459 --> 00:01:26.560 that I do it for all things so It has become 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.439 a challenge every year to come up with something 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:31.480 new. And I usually will take a Christmas book 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.599 and kind of read that story and the clues come 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.219 from that and make us think about some things. 00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:39.519 I've incorporated our grandchildren now, but 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.980 that's going to be a tradition for us. You always 00:01:42.980 --> 00:01:48.159 pull it off. The prophet Isaiah chapter 30, verses 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.519 18 through 26, and it's coming from the New International 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:57.819 Version. Therefore, He will rise up to show you 00:01:57.819 --> 00:02:01.180 compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. 00:02:01.939 --> 00:02:05.140 Blessed are all who wait for Him. People of Zion 00:02:05.140 --> 00:02:08.259 who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. 00:02:08.860 --> 00:02:11.479 How gracious He will be when you cry for help. 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.840 As soon as He hears, He will answer you. Although 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:17.259 the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:20.460 the water of affliction, your teachers will be 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:23.039 hidden no more. With your own eyes, you will 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.280 see them. Whether you turn to the right or to 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:27.680 the left, your ears will hear a voice behind 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.259 you saying, this is the way, walk in it. Then 00:02:31.259 --> 00:02:33.960 you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.439 and your images covered with gold. You will throw 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:40.099 them away like a menstrual cloth and save them 00:02:40.099 --> 00:02:43.400 away with you. It will also send you rain for 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:45.639 the seed you sow in the ground and the food that 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:48.120 comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:51.659 In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows. 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.319 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.659 eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and 00:02:58.659 --> 00:03:01.919 shovel. In the day of great slaughter, when the 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:05.479 towers fall, streams of water will flow on every 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.620 high mountain and every lofty hill. The moon 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:11.819 will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will 00:03:11.819 --> 00:03:14.439 be seven times brighter like the light of seven 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.979 full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises 00:03:17.979 --> 00:03:21.659 of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted. 00:03:23.270 --> 00:03:29.430 Acts 13 verses 16 through 25. Standing up, Paul 00:03:29.430 --> 00:03:32.430 motioned with his hand and said, fellow Israelites, 00:03:32.789 --> 00:03:36.310 you and you Gentiles who worship God, listen 00:03:36.310 --> 00:03:39.289 to me. The God of the people of Israel chose 00:03:39.289 --> 00:03:42.650 our ancestors and made the people prosper during 00:03:42.650 --> 00:03:45.389 their stay in Egypt. With mighty power, he led 00:03:45.389 --> 00:03:48.050 them out of that country. For about 40 years, 00:03:48.169 --> 00:03:50.879 he endured their conduct in the wilderness. and 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.860 he overthrew seven nations and came in, giving 00:03:53.860 --> 00:03:56.539 their land to his people as their inheritance. 00:03:57.180 --> 00:04:01.319 All this took about 450 years. After this, God 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.879 gave them judges until the time of Samuel the 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.139 prophet. Then the people asked for a king, and 00:04:07.139 --> 00:04:09.960 he gave them Saul son of Kish of the tribe of 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:12.960 Benjamin, who ruled 40 years. After removing 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.740 Saul, he made David their king. God testified 00:04:15.740 --> 00:04:18.879 concerning him. I have found David, son of Jesse, 00:04:19.019 --> 00:04:21.860 a man after my own heart. He will do everything 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:24.860 I want him to do. From this man's ascendance, 00:04:24.860 --> 00:04:28.180 God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus. As 00:04:28.180 --> 00:04:30.839 he promised, before the coming of Jesus, John 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.740 preached repentance and baptism to all the people 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:36.879 of Israel. As John was completing his work, he 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:40.319 said, who do you suppose I am? I am not the one 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.879 you are looking for, but there is one coming 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.319 after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.