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All right, this is David, and I'm here with Jim

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and Dinah Cook, and I wanted to have them share

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an element that pointed to Christ for the season

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for them. Well, you've got quite a list here

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to choose from, David, but out of those items,

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I think I would choose a highlight because there

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are three or four times during the year when

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our family, close family, extended family, and

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fringes get together, and Christmas is one of

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those times. And I get to see not only our kids,

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three daughters and a son, but I get to see their

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children. And we have graduated one more step.

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We're seeing the little ones now, the great -grandchildren.

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So that's a big event for me and influence throughout

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the year. Two of my favorite times of the year

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are Thanksgiving and Christmas because all of

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my children and grandchildren and great -grandchildren

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come to our house and we just have a wonderful

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time. Sometimes we have to share them with their

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other in -laws. Oh, yeah. But we're very blessed.

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All right. Thank you all for sharing. And I've

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learned a new word from you today. Fringes. You

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just said fringes, the family and the fringes.

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Yeah. I think I'm going to borrow that. OK. OK.

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Because that's like your friends that are like

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family. Yeah. And that does fit, David. Yeah.

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So I think I might borrow that. Isaiah 40 from

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the Revised Standard Version of your Bible. Comfort.

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Comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly

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to Jerusalem and cry to her that her warfare

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is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that

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she is received from the Lord's hand double for

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all her sins. A voice cries, in the wilderness

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prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight in

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the desert a highway for our God. Every valley

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shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill

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be made low. the uneven ground shall become level,

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and the rough places a plain, and the glory of

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the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall

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see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has

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spoken." John chapter 1, verses 19 through 28.

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And this is the testimony of John when the Jews

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sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask

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him, who are you? He confessed. He did not deny,

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but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they

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asked him, what then? Are you Elijah? He said,

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I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered,

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no. They said to him then, who are you? Let us

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have an answer for those who sent us. What do

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you say about yourself? He said, I am the voice

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of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight

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the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.

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Now, they had been sent from the Pharisees. They

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asked him, then why are you baptizing if you

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are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?

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John answered them, I baptize with water. But

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among you stands one whom you do not know. Even

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he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal

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I'm not worthy to untie. This took place in Bethany,

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beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing.