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Hey Oak Ridge family and friends, David here.

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And today we are getting ready to read some scripture

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and talk about what points people to Christ with

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the Bagwell family. And so I'm gonna let them

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start off with something that points them to

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Christ during this season. Hello Oak Ridge, this

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is Kelsey. I think for me right now this season...

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We have Lawson, this is our first Advent season,

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Christmas with our son. And so just, you know,

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seeing him grow and getting to experience like

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his excitement with all the new Christmas type

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things too is fun. So that's reminds me of just

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the love I have for him and Christ's love for

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us. Hey guys, it's Dylan. I would say not only

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in this season, but just in life, something that

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not only grounds me, but points me to God and

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points me to Jesus is just other people. I think

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Love, when the Bible talks about God is love

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and just what love is, it's embodied in so many

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different ways and just humans were around. Working

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in a school, kids are a wonderful example, but

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I think it's also embodied at any age. You can

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go to a place like a nursing home or wherever

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and just see people of all ages just loving in

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a way that you probably don't. And when I'm loved

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on in a way that I don't do well at loving others,

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it just... Reminds me of how magnificent God

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is and how wonderfully blessed we are to be having

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a God that has painted a picture of love in so

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many different ways and we can appreciate that

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through each other. All right, thank you guys

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for sharing and now we're going to hop into a

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couple of scriptures to reflect on as we enter

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the season. I'm reading from 1st Samuel 2, 1

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through 8. This is Hannah gives thanks. Hannah

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said, my heart is happy in the Lord. I feel very

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strong in my God. I laugh at my enemies. I am

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very happy in my victory. There is no holy God

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like the Lord. There is no God but you. There

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is no rock like our God. Don't continue bragging.

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Don't speak proud words because the Lord God

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knows everything. He leads and judges people.

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The bows of strong soldiers break. and weak people

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become strong. People who have plenty of food

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in the past must now work to get food, but those

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who were hungry in the past now grow fat on food.

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The woman who has not been able to have children

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now has seven children, but the woman who may

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have many children is sad because her children

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are gone. The Lord causes people to die and he

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causes them to live. He sends people down to

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the grave and he can raise them up to live again.

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I'll be reading Luke 3, 1 through 18. John the

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Baptist prepares the way. In the fifteenth year

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of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate,

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being governor of Judea, and Herod being Tatriarch

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of Galilee, and his brother Philip, Tatriarch

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of the region of Eitruria, and Trachonidus and

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Lysanias, Tatriarch of Abilene. During the high

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priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of

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the Lord came to John, the son of Zechariah,

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in the wilderness. and he went into all the region

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around the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of repentance

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for the forgiveness of sins as it is written

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in the book of the word of Isaiah the prophet

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the voice of the one crying in the wilderness

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prepare the way of the Lord make his path straight

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every valley shall be filled and every mountain

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and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall

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become straight and the rough places shall become

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level ways and all flesh shall see the salvation

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of God he said therefore in the crowds that came

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out to be baptized by him you brood of vipers

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who warned you to flee from the wrath to come

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bear fruits in keeping with repentance and do

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not begin to say to yourselves we have abraham

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as our father for i tell you god is able from

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these stones to raise up children for abraham

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even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees

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every tree therefore does not bear good fruit

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is cut down and thrown into the fire. And the

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crowds asked him, what then shall we do? And

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he answered them, whoever has two tunics is to

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share with him who has none. And whoever has

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food is to do likewise. Tax collectors also came

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to be baptized and said to him, teacher, what

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shall we do? And he said to them, collect no

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more than you are authorized to do. Soldiers

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also asked him, and we, what shall we do? and

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he said to them, do not extort money from anyone

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by threats or by false acquisitions, and be content

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with your wages. As the people were in expectation

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and all the questioning in their hearts concerning

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John, whether he might be the Christ, John answered

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them all by saying, I baptize you with water,

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but he who is mightier than I is coming, the

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strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.

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He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and

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fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear

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his thrashing floor and to gather the wheat into

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his barn. But the chaff he will burn with unquenchable

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fire. So with any other exhortations he preached

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good news to the people.