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Hello, Oak Ridge family and friends. This is

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David here with the youth group and we're about

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to read the fourth Sunday of Advent readings.

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But before we do that, I'd like some of our youth

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group members to share some things that they're

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looking forward to for Christmas. I'm Parker

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Hughes, a tradition in my family. Something I

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look forward to is opening the early present

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on Christmas Eve. something we do every year

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on Christmas Eve and I look forward to. My name

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is Jeremy Oviedo. A tradition is that I give

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candy cans out at school. I wear a little ugly

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sweater and I have little pockets. A little big

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present on my sweater and I put candy cans in

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there. I pass out candy cans at school, so yeah.

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Oh, and it's pretty funny they fight for it sometimes,

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so yeah. Hi, my name is Zach Harris, and one

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thing I look forward to during Christmastime

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is all the songs, especially Merry Did You Know.

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Hi, I'm Rhiannon, and one of the things I look

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forward to every Christmas is seeing my cousins,

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because they live really far away. Hi, I'm Alyssa

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Harris, and a tradition that our family has done

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recently is a Saran Rap Ball game, where you

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have a Saran... wrapped ball filled with presents,

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and you're trying to unwrap it as fast as possible

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before the person next to you rolls the dice

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and gets double and steals it from you. And it's

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really fun and competitive, and I look forward

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to it every year. Hi, I'm Yana. One of my favorite

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Christmas carols is Carol of the Bells. All right,

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and I'm David again, and I really look forward

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to hearing Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel each year.

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There's something about those minor chords. This

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is Isaiah 7 verses 10 through 16. Look the young

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woman is with child and shall bear a son and

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shall name him Immanuel You shall eat curds of

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honey before the child knows how to refuse the

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evil and choose the good The land before two

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kings you are in dread will be deserted Psalm

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81 through 7 17 through 19 give here a shepherd

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of Israel You who lead Joseph like a flock, you

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who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir

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up your might and come to save us. Restore us,

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O God, let your face shine that we may be saved.

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O Lord, God of hosts, how long will you be angry

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with your people's prayers? You have fed them

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with the bread of tears and given them tears

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to drink in full measure. You make us the scorn

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of our neighbors. our enemies laugh amongst themselves

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restore us oh god of host let your face shine

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that we may be saved but let your hands be upon

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the one at your right hand the one who has made

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strong for yourself then we will never turn back

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you give us life and we will call on your name

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restore us oh lord god of host let your face

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shine that we may be saved This is Romans 1,

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1 through 7. obedience of faith among all the

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Gentiles for the sake of His name, including

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you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,

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to all God's beloved in Rome, who are called

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to be saints. Grace to you and peace from God

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our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew

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1, 18 -25. Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah

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took place in this way. When his mother Mary

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had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived

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together, she was found to be pregnant from the

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Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous

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man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace,

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planned to divorce her quietly. But just when

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he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord

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appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph,

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son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as

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your wife, for the child conceived in her is

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from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and

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you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his

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people from their sins. All this took place to

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fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through

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the prophet. Look, the virgin shall become pregnant

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and give birth to a son, and they shall name

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him Immanuel, which means God is with us. When

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Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel

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of the Lord commanded him. He took her as his

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wife but had no marital relations with her until

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she had given birth to a son and he named him

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Jesus.