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>> FROM ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA, "THE CARTER REPORT"
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PRESENTS THE LIVING
WORD AROUND THE WORLD.
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>> HELLO, FRIEND.
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I'M JOHN CARTER WITH
SOME AMAZING NEWS FOR YOU.
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A FEW DAYS AGO, A
MAN CAME TO THIS CHURCH.
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HE CAME TO SEE ME
BECAUSE HE'S HEARD ABOUT
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"THE CARTER REPORT."
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HE CAME FROM COMMUNIST CHINA
AND HE CAME WITH A MESSAGE.
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HE SAID, "WE'VE GOT OVER THERE
1.2 BILLION SOULS AND THESE
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PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR
THE TRUTHS ABOUT JESUS
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AND THE GREAT TRUTHS OF
THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES."
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HE SAID TO ME, "WE'VE HEARD
ABOUT THE CARTER REPORT, AND
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WE WANT YOU TO BE OUR
PARTNERS IN THE PREACHING OF
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THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL
TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE."
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I SAID, "WHAT DO
YOU WANT US TO DO?"
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HE SAID, "IT'S NOT CLEAR.
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WE'VE GOT TO PRAY AND WE'VE
GOT TO STRATEGIZE, BUT WE'VE GOT
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SOME PLANS."
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I SAID TO HIM, "YOU CAN COUNT
ON US BECAUSE WE CAN HEAR THE
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VOICE OF GOD CALLING TO US
TO WORK FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE,
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1.2 BILLION PEOPLE."
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PLEASE PRAY FOR CHINA.
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TODAY I WAS TALKING TO A MAN
FROM ANOTHER VAST COUNTRY, THE
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LAND OF INDIA, A LAND WITH MORE
THAN A BILLION LOST SOULS WHO
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NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS.
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THIS MAN'S NAME IS
PASTOR JOHNSON JACOB.
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WHY IS HE OVER HERE IN ARCADIA
AT THE CARTER REPORT CENTER?
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BECAUSE HE IS TRANSLATING
OUR MATERIAL, OUR EVANGELISTIC
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SERMONS INTO THE
TELUGU LANGUAGE BECAUSE WE ARE
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BROADCASTING THROUGH TELEVISION
OVER THERE IN THAT VAST LAND.
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MY FRIEND, THE DOORS
ARE OPENING EVERYWHERE.
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PLEASE JOIN WITH
US AND PRAY WITH US.
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AND WRITE TO ME, JOHN
CARTER, POST OFFICE BOX 1900,
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THOUSAND OAKS,
CALIFORNIA, 91358.
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THANK YOU IN JESUS' NAME.
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>> IT'S BEEN A GLOOMY OLD YEAR,
WHAT WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
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AND WARS STILL GOING ON
IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
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AND I THINK IT'S TIME FOR
SOME GOOD NEWS, DON'T YOU?
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AND WE FIND IT IN LUKE 2, WHERE
DR. LUKE WRITES ABOUT SHEPHERDS
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WATCHING THEIR FLOCK BY
NIGHT, WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
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AN ANGEL APPEARS.
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AND AT FIRST, THE SHEPHERDS ARE
AFRAID BECAUSE PERHAPS THEY'RE
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THINKING, "THIS ANGEL
HAS TAKEN A WRONG TURN.
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HE SHOULD BE WITH THE
CHURCH LEADERS, NOT US."
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OR ELSE PERHAPS THEY'RE SHAKING
IN THEIR SHOES AND THINKING,
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"WELL, PERHAPS
HE'S COME TO JUDGE US."
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BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO
WAIT LONG BECAUSE, TO THEIR
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ASTONISHMENT, THE ANGEL
BEGINS TO SPEAK AND THEY HEAR
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THE GREATEST FRONT PAGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ALL TIME.
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"FEAR NOT, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING
YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY,
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WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE.
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FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY
IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR,
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WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD."
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WE NOTICED FIRSTLY THAT THE
ANGEL ALLEVIATES THEIR FEARS
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BY SAYING, "FEAR NOT."
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AND YOU KNOW WHEN THE GOSPEL
COMES INTO OUR HEART, IT SWEEPS
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ALL FEAR AWAY AND
REPLACES IT WITH PEACE AND JOY.
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AS PSALM 27:1 SAYS, "THE LORD
IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION.
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WHOM SHALL I FEAR?
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THE LORD IS THE
STRONGHOLD OF MY LIFE.
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OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID?"
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ON HEARING THE GOOD NEWS OF
GREAT JOY, THE SHEPHERDS RUSH
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INTO BETHLEHEM TO FIND THE
BABY WHO WAS TO GROW UP TO BE
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THE SAVIOR OF ALL PEOPLE.
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THERE HAVE BEEN MANY OVER
THE YEARS WHO HAVE WRITTEN GREAT
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HYMNS ABOUT THIS JOYFUL EVENT.
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IN THE LATE 1600s, A
MELODY COMPOSED BY JOHANN SCHOP,
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WORDS BY MARTIN
JANICE, AND REARRANGED BY
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
BECAME THE BEAUTIFUL PIECE
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"JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING."
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ANOTHER FAMOUS HYMN WRITER WAS
ISAAC WATTS, WHO IN 1717 WROTE
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"JOY TO THE WORLD," A SONG THAT
ANNOUNCES THAT INDEED OUR LORD
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AND SAVIOR HAS COME.
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A THIRD AND WELL-KNOWN HYMN IS
"JOYFUL, JOYFUL WE ADORE THEE,"
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WHICH GOES ON TO SAY,
"GOD OF GLORY, LORD OF LOVE,"
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WORDS THAT COULD HAVE ONLY
BEEN WRITTEN UNDER INSPIRATION.
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THE WORDS WERE WRITTEN IN
1907 BY AMERICAN HENRY VAN DYKE
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AND WERE SET TO THE MUSIC
OF A HYMN WRITTEN BY BEETHOVEN.
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THE WORDS THE ANGEL ANNOUNCED
SO LONG AGO FINDS US STILL
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SINGING THESE
JOYFUL SONGS TODAY.
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AND AS A DEMONSTRATION OF
THIS JOYFUL NEWS, WE AS A CHURCH
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WITH MANY OTHER CHURCHES WANT
TO HELP THOSE IN NEED OF SOME
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JOY AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.
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AND THIS YEAR, WE HAVE DECIDED
TO WORK WITH CHILDREN'S HUNGER
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FUND AND THEY GIVE OUT BOXES
AND WE FILL THEM UP WITH FOOD,
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NON-PERISHABLES, AND THEN THEY
DELIVER THEM TO PEOPLE WHO NEED
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THEM, NOT ONLY HERE IN THE
U.S., BUT IN OTHER COUNTRIES
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AROUND THE WORLD.
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AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU
IN THIS CHURCH WHO ARE TAKING
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A PART IN THAT PROGRAM.
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LET'S HELP TO
GET THE MESSAGE OUT.
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FEAR NOT, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING
YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY,
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FOR UNTO YOU, OVER 2000 YEARS
AGO NOW, WAS BORN IN THE CITY
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OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH
WAS AND IS CHRIST THE LORD.
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AMEN.
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[APPLAUDING]
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>> TOPIC TODAY IS
"SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?"
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EVEN THOUGH IT'S GOT NOTHING
REALLY TO DO WITH THE BIRTH
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OF CHRIST, SHALL
WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?
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I WANT YOU TO
KNOW I LIKE CHRISTMAS.
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YOU KNOW WHY I LIKE CHRISTMAS?
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'CAUSE AT CHRISTMASTIME
WE GO TO SAN FRANCISCO,
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AND THERE I SEE MY DAUGHTERS.
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AND I ONLY SEE THEM
USUALLY ONCE A YEAR, UNLESS SOME
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CATASTROPHE HAPPENS, BUT I
LIKE CHRISTMAS BECAUSE I GET
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TOGETHER WITH MY FAMILY.
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AND FOR MANY, MANY
PEOPLE, IT'S THE SAME.
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YOU KNOW WHAT MARK TWAIN SAID
ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO, TO PEOPLE
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IN SAN FRANCISCO?
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HE SAID THE COLDEST WINTER
HE'D EVER SPENT IN HIS LIFE WAS
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A SUMMER IN SAN FRANCISCO.
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YOU KNOW WHAT
THEIR WINTERS ARE LIKE.
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IT'S A COLD, WET--BUT IT'S
GREAT BECAUSE YOU GET TO SEE
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LOVED ONES.
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I LOVE GIVING GIFTS.
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THAT'S WHY WE HAVE IN THIS
CHURCH A CHRISTMAS TREE AND
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GIVE GIFTS TO PEOPLE WHO
WOULDN'T GET THEM OTHERWISE.
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REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID.
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JESUS SAID, "IT IS MORE BLESSED
TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE."
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AND THE GREATEST BLESSING THAT
YOU CAN GET IS GIVING SOMETHING
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TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
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NOW TODAY WE HAVE SOME
SPECIAL GUESTS IN OUR AUDIENCE,
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CAROL AND GARY AND SAM.
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AND THEY'RE GOING TO
COME UP TO THE FRONT NOW.
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I WANT YOU TO WELCOME
CAROL AND SAM AND GARY.
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[APPLAUDING]
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DON'T THEY LOOK NICE?
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DON'T THEY LOOK NICE?
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YEAH, THANK YOU.
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THEY LOOK NICE.
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AND WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE
NOT GONNA STAND OR ANYTHING.
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WE'RE GONNA BOW OUR HEADS AND
CAROL IS GOING TO SAY A PRAYER
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OF BLESSING FOR ALL
THE FAMILIES IN THE CHURCH,
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INCLUDING THE FIRST FAMILY.
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SO WE'RE GONNA BOW OUR HEADS
AND CAROL IS GONNA SAY A PRAYER
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FOR US.
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WE CAN JUST STAND HERE.
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IT'LL BE FINE.
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>> OUR FATHER,
BLESSED BE YOUR NAME.
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WE'RE GATHERED HERE TODAY WITH
GRATITUDE IN OUR HEARTS, FOR
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YOU ARE THE FATHER WHO FORGIVES
OUR INIQUITIES AND HEALS OUR
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DISEASES.
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MAY THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THIS
CHRISTMAS SEASON DWELL IN OUR
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HEARTS ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
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ON THIS SABBATH DAY, WE ASK
FOR SPECIAL BLESSINGS FOR OUR
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CHURCH FAMILIES.
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RENEW OUR MINDS SO THAT WE MAY
BE TRULY TRANSFORMED TO DO YOUR
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WILL.
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FATHER, YOU KNOW OUR NEEDS
AND WE PRAISE YOU FOR YOUR GRACE
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AND MERCY UPON US.
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WE ALSO ASK FOR SPECIAL
BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION
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FOR THE FIRST
FAMILY, PRESIDENT OBAMA,
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HIS WIFE MICHELLE,
AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS.
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PLEASE OPEN PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S HEART AND FILL HIM WITH
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THE HOLY SPIRIT AS
HE LEADS OUR COUNTRY.
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PLEASE ALSO BE
WITH PASTOR CARTER TODAY
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AS HE OPENS YOUR WORD.
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LOVING LORD,
FOREVER WE WILL LOVE YOU.
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FOREVER WE WILL STAND.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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>> AMEN, AMEN.
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THANK YOU, CAROL.
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WE'RE PROUD OF YOU.
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AND GARY, THANK YOU.
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TAKE IT WITH YOU AS A GIFT.
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SO OUR TOPIC IS
"SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?"
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DECEMBER 25.
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THE TEXT--YOU CANNOT GET A
BETTER TEXT THAN THIS TEXT.
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COME IN YOUR BIBLES TO
THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 9:6.
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THIS IS THE THEME TEXT.
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ISAIAH 9:6.
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I DON'T CARE IF
YOU CAME IN LATE TODAY.
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I DO CARE IF YOU DON'T GET
A BIBLE AND TURN TO IT BECAUSE
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THIS IS A
BIBLE-READING, BIBLE-BELIEVING,
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BIBLE-OBEYING CHURCH.
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SO WE'RE TURNING TO ISAIAH 9:6.
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AND THE GOSPEL PROPHET
2,700 YEARS AGO SAID--THIS IS
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THE GREAT PROPHECY.
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"FOR TO US A CHILD IS
BORN, TO US A SON IS GIVEN,
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AND THE GOVERNMENT
WILL BE ON HIS SHOULDERS.
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AND HE WILL BE CALLED
WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD,
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EVERLASTING
FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE."
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AND OF COURSE, THIS PROPHECY
WAS FULFILLED IN ONLY ONE
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PERSON AND WE KNOW
WHO THAT PERSON WAS.
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THAT PERSON IS THE LORD JESUS.
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AND THE BIBLE CALLS HIM
HERE THESE WONDERFUL NAMES.
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HE IS CALLED WONDERFUL AND
HE IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
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PERSON.
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WONDERFUL COUNSELOR CAN
BE TRANSLATED JUST WONDERFUL
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COMMA COUNSELOR.
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OR IT CAN BE
TRANSLATED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR.
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HE'S THE PERSON YOU GO TO IF
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU OUGHT
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TO DO.
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WONDERFUL COUNSELOR.
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THEN THE BIBLE
CALLS HIM MIGHTY GOD.
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THESE ARE SOME OF
THE BIGGEST WORDS.
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MIGHTY GOD.
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AND HE IS EVEN
CALLED HERE EVERLASTING.
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EVERLASTING.
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HE HAD NO BEGINNING.
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HE HAS NO ENDING.
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EVERLASTING FATHER.
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AND THEN YOU HAVE THOSE
WONDERFUL WORDS THAT WE NEED
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IN THE NATION, IN OUR
HOMES, AND IN OUR HEARTS.
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PRINCE OF PEACE.
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THESE WORDS ARE
FULFILLED IN ONLY ONE PERSON,
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THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
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BUT THE QUESTION IS THAT
WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER TODAY,
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AND IT'S A PERTINENT QUESTION,
SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?
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IS IT A HOLY DAY, AS HAS BEEN
TAUGHT BY OUR FRIENDS IN THE
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GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH?
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IS IT A HOLY DAY?
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I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU TODAY
ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF
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GOD IT IS NOT A
HOLY DAY, BUT A HOLIDAY.
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SO KEEP CHRISTMAS AS
YOU WOULD ANY OTHER HOLIDAY,
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WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
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JESUS, AND WE SAY THIS
WITHOUT FEAR OF CONTRADICTION,
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WAS NOT BORN ON DECEMBER 25.
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AND I CAN GIVE YOU MANY
REASONS, BUT HERE ARE TWO.
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NUMBER ONE, BECAUSE
OF THE ROMAN CENSUS.
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COME OVER HERE TO LUKE 2:1-4.
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TURN FAST TO THE TEXT BECAUSE
IN THIS CHURCH WE HAVE LOTS
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OF TEXTS.
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LOTS OF TEXTS BECAUSE
OUR AUTHORITY IS THE BIBLE.
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LUKE 2:1.
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"IN THOSE DAYS CAESAR AUGUSTUS
ISSUED A DECREE THAT A CENSUS
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SHOULD BE TAKEN OF
THE ENTIRE ROMAN WORLD."
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AND VERSE 4, "SO JOSEPH
ALSO WENT UP FROM THE TOWN OF
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NAZARETH IN GALILEE TO JUDEA,
TO BETHLEHEM THE TOWN OF DAVID,
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BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO
THE HOUSE AND LINE OF DAVID."
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HE WENT THERE TO REGISTER,
THE BIBLE SAYS, WITH MARY.
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LISTEN, NO ROMAN LEADER, NO
CAESAR, NO EMPEROR WOULD EVER
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HAVE A CENSUS IN THE DEAD OF
WINTER BECAUSE THE ROADS WERE
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IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE SNOW.
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AND DECEMBER 25 IN THE NORTHERN
HEMISPHERE IS THE MIDDLE
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OF WINTER.
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THEREFORE, HE COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN BORN IN THE MIDDLE
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OF WINTER.
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AND IF YOU COME TO CHAPTER 2,
THE SAME CHAPTER, VERSES 8-16,
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IT GIVES YOU A SECOND REASON.
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BECAUSE HE WAS BORN WHEN THE
SHEPHERDS WERE IN THE FIELDS.
00:14:03.13\00:14:07.70
CHAPTER 2:8-16, "AND THERE
WERE SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE
00:14:07.70\00:14:11.40
FIELDS NEARBY, KEEPING WATCH
OVER THEIR FLOCKS AT NIGHT.
00:14:11.40\00:14:15.56
AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED
TO THEM AND THE GLORY OF
00:14:15.56\00:14:18.26
THE LORD SHONE AROUND
THEM, AND THEY WERE TERRIFIED.
00:14:18.26\00:14:21.93
BUT THE ANGEL SAID TO
THEM, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
00:14:21.93\00:14:24.46
I BRING YOU GOSPEL NEWS.
00:14:24.46\00:14:26.56
I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF
GREAT JOY THAT WILL BE FOR ALL
00:14:26.56\00:14:31.23
THE PEOPLE.
00:14:31.23\00:14:32.40
TODAY IN THE TOWN OF DAVID
A SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN TO YOU;
00:14:32.40\00:14:35.83
HE IS CHRIST THE LORD.
00:14:35.83\00:14:38.50
THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU.
00:14:38.50\00:14:39.90
YOU WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN
CLOTHS AND LYING IN A MANGER.'
00:14:39.90\00:14:44.76
SUDDENLY A GREAT COMPANY OF THE
HEAVENLY HOST APPEARED WITH THE
00:14:44.76\00:14:47.56
ANGEL, PRAISING GOD AND SAYING,
'GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST,
00:14:47.56\00:14:53.10
AND ON EARTH PEACE TO
MEN ON WHOM IS FAVOR RESTS.'
00:14:53.10\00:14:57.53
WHEN THE ANGELS HAD LEFT
THEM AND GONE INTO HEAVEN, THE
00:14:57.53\00:15:01.86
SHEPHERDS SAID TO ONE ANOTHER,
'LET'S GO TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE
00:15:01.86\00:15:05.16
THIS THING THAT HAS
HAPPENED, WHICH THE LORD HAS
00:15:05.16\00:15:07.80
TOLD US ABOUT.'" I
HAVE BEEN IN JERUSALEM IN
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DECEMBER, WHERE
THEY GET SNOW AND SLEET.
00:15:12.20\00:15:17.20
IT IS FREEZING COLD.
00:15:17.20\00:15:19.23
THE SHEPHERDS ARE NEVER OUT
IN THE FIELDS WITH THEIR SHEEP
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AT CHRISTMASTIME.
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AND SO IT IS AS PLAIN AS
THE NOSE ON YOUR FACE THAT
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CHRIST WAS NOT BORN DECEMBER 25.
00:15:34.83\00:15:39.16
THIS LEADS US, LOGICALLY,
TO THE QUESTION: WHO WAS BORN
00:15:39.16\00:15:45.26
DECEMBER 25?
00:15:45.26\00:15:49.60
WHO WAS BORN?
00:15:49.60\00:15:51.90
NOT THE SON OF
GOD, BUT THE SUN GOD.
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THE SUN GOD, THE CHIEF
GOD OF THE PAGANS, WAS BORN
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ON DECEMBER 25.
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I WOULD HAVE YOU TURN TO
THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL 8:14-16.
00:16:08.23\00:16:13.20
THE BIBLE MAKES IT PLAIN THAT
MANY, MANY PEOPLE, THE MAJORITY
00:16:13.20\00:16:17.40
OF THE PEOPLE BACK
THERE WERE SUN WORSHIPPERS.
00:16:17.40\00:16:21.53
EZEKIEL 8:14-16.
00:16:21.53\00:16:27.03
EZEKIEL 8:14-16.
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THIS ILLUSTRATES THE
PREVALENCE OF SUN WORSHIP.
00:16:33.20\00:16:37.56
"THEN HE BROUGHT ME TO THE
ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH GATE OF
00:16:37.56\00:16:40.63
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,
AND I SAW WOMEN SITTING THERE,
00:16:40.63\00:16:44.70
MOURNING FOR TAMMUZ.
00:16:44.70\00:16:47.46
HE SAID TO ME, 'DO
YOU SEE THIS, SON OF MAN?
00:16:47.46\00:16:50.13
YOU WILL SEE THINGS THAT ARE
EVEN MORE DETESTABLE THAN THIS.'
00:16:50.13\00:16:53.90
HE THEN BROUGHT ME INTO THE
INNER COURT OF THE HOUSE OF THE
00:16:53.90\00:16:56.80
LORD, AND THERE AT THE
ENTRANCE TO THE TEMPLE, BETWEEN
00:16:56.80\00:17:01.40
THE PORTICO AND THE
ALTAR, WERE ABOUT 25 MEN.
00:17:01.40\00:17:05.36
WITH THEIR BACKS TOWARDS
THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AND THEIR
00:17:05.36\00:17:09.03
FACES TOWARDS THE EAST,
THEY WERE BOWING DOWN TO THE SUN
00:17:09.03\00:17:13.93
IN THE EAST."
00:17:13.93\00:17:16.93
THE WORLD BACK THERE
WAS A SUN WORSHIPING WORLD.
00:17:16.93\00:17:25.16
DECEMBER 25 COMES
FROM THE WINTER SOLSTICE.
00:17:25.16\00:17:31.60
IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE,
IT IS THE MIDDLE OF WINTER.
00:17:31.60\00:17:38.00
DECEMBER 24, AS THE PAGANS
LOOKED OUT TOWARDS THEIR GOD,
00:17:38.00\00:17:44.03
THEY SAW THAT THE SUN WAS AT
THE LOWEST SPOT AND THEY CRIED
00:17:44.03\00:17:47.63
OUT, "OUR SUN IS DYING!"
00:17:47.63\00:17:50.10
HENCE THE WOMEN
WOULD WEEP FOR TAMMUZ.
00:17:50.10\00:17:53.26
HE WAS DYING.
00:17:53.26\00:17:55.36
BUT ON DECEMBER 25, HE WAS BORN
IN A GLORIOUS RESURRECTION AND
00:17:55.36\00:18:02.03
THEY SAID, "IT IS
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE SUN."
00:18:02.03\00:18:08.30
AND THUS YOU CAN SEE
HOW DECEMBER 25 CAME INTO
00:18:08.30\00:18:13.10
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
00:18:13.10\00:18:14.76
IT IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF
HOW PAGANISM INVADED THE CHURCH.
00:18:14.76\00:18:22.70
GO TO ROME AND LOOK AT THE
PICTURES OF SUN WORSHIP THAT
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YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN.
00:18:28.23\00:18:32.36
AND SO DECEMBER 25 I WOULD
TELL YOU ON THE AUTHORITY OF
00:18:32.36\00:18:37.33
SCRIPTURE IS NOT A HOLY DAY.
00:18:37.33\00:18:41.63
IT IS A HOLIDAY BECAUSE OUR
LORD WAS NOT BORN DECEMBER 25.
00:18:41.63\00:18:52.00
I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT
REMIND YOU OF THE GREAT TRUTH
00:18:52.00\00:19:01.30
THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE HOLY DAY
IN SCRIPTURE THAT IS RELEVANT
00:19:01.30\00:19:06.23
TO US.
00:19:06.23\00:19:12.56
THERE IS ONLY ONE HOLY DAY
IN SCRIPTURE THAT IS RELEVANT
00:19:12.56\00:19:16.60
TO US TODAY AND THAT IS
THE COMMANDMENT THAT PREACHES
00:19:16.60\00:19:21.20
THE GOSPEL.
00:19:21.20\00:19:25.26
DID YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:19:25.26\00:19:27.36
NOW I WANT TO SAY THIS TO
YOU TODAY WITH ALL THE GRACE
00:19:27.36\00:19:31.70
IN MY SOUL.
00:19:31.70\00:19:34.23
LISTEN, WE LIVE IN AN
AGE OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS.
00:19:34.23\00:19:41.70
AND MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
AND IN THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN
00:19:41.70\00:19:46.43
CHURCH ARE IGNORANT OF
THE GREAT FACTS OF HISTORY,
00:19:46.43\00:19:52.96
THE FACTS OF THE BIBLE,
AND THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD.
00:19:52.96\00:20:01.53
THE ONLY DAY THAT IS IMPORTANT
AS FAR AS GOD IS CONCERNED IS
00:20:01.53\00:20:06.16
THE COMMANDMENTS
THAT PREACHES THE GOSPEL.
00:20:06.16\00:20:09.90
COME OVER HERE TO HEBREWS 4.
00:20:09.90\00:20:12.63
HEBREWS 4:9-10, MY DEAR FRIENDS.
00:20:12.63\00:20:18.43
HEBREWS 4:9-10.
00:20:18.43\00:20:25.56
HEBREWS 4:9, THE WRITER OF
THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS SAYS,
00:20:25.56\00:20:33.76
"THERE REMAINS, THEN, A
SABBATH-REST FOR THE PEOPLE
00:20:33.76\00:20:40.03
OF GOD."
00:20:40.03\00:20:41.46
LOOK AT VERSE 4.
00:20:41.46\00:20:43.83
"FOR SOMEWHERE HE HAS SPOKEN
ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY IN THESE
00:20:43.83\00:20:46.33
WORDS: 'AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY
GOD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORKS.'"
00:20:46.33\00:20:51.23
AND THE WRITER SAYS
THERE REMAINS A SABBATH-REST TO
00:20:51.23\00:20:56.10
THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
00:20:56.10\00:20:57.93
VERSE 10, "FOR ANYONE WHO
ENTERS GOD'S REST ALSO RESTS
00:20:57.93\00:21:03.10
FROM HIS OWN WORK, JUST
AS GOD DID FROM HIS OWN."
00:21:03.10\00:21:08.33
I WANT TO SAY TO MY FRIEND
WHO SAYS THAT WE ARE LEGALISTS
00:21:08.33\00:21:14.83
BECAUSE WE KEEP THE SABBATH,
I WOULD SAY TO YOU, "SHOW ME ONE
00:21:14.83\00:21:19.10
TEXT IN THE BIBLE WHERE SUNDAY
IS A SYMBOL OF THE SABBATH.
00:21:19.10\00:21:26.40
IT'S NOT THERE."
00:21:26.40\00:21:29.33
THE SABBATH IS THE ONLY THING
THAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS REGARD
00:21:29.33\00:21:35.63
THAT POINTS TO THE GOSPEL.
00:21:35.63\00:21:39.80
BECAUSE WHEN A PERSON COMES
TO CHRIST AND CEASES FROM HIS
00:21:39.80\00:21:44.33
OWN WORKS AND TRUSTS IN
THE COMPLETED WORKS OF CHRIST,
00:21:44.33\00:21:50.23
THAT PERSON, MY
FRIEND, ENJOYS THE GOSPEL REST.
00:21:50.23\00:21:57.23
AND UNLESS YOU'VE GOT
THE GOSPEL IN YOUR HEART,
00:21:57.23\00:21:59.83
YOU CAN'T KEEP THE SABBATH.
00:21:59.83\00:22:03.36
NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, "I
FIND IT VERY, VERY HARD TO KEEP
00:22:03.36\00:22:06.60
THE SABBATH.
00:22:06.60\00:22:07.63
IT'S A BURDEN TO ME."
00:22:07.63\00:22:08.90
IT IS BECAUSE, MY FRIEND,
YOU HAVEN'T ENTERED INTO REST.
00:22:08.90\00:22:14.50
BUT WHEN YOU ENTER INTO
CHRIST'S REST AND YOU'VE GOT
00:22:14.50\00:22:19.53
THE GOSPEL IN YOUR SOUL,
THEN YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THE REST
00:22:19.53\00:22:22.43
OF THE SABBATH.
00:22:22.43\00:22:24.93
AND WHAT THIS POOR, SAD, SICK,
IGNORANT OLD WORLD NEEDS IS
00:22:24.93\00:22:32.00
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS.
00:22:32.00\00:22:34.63
NOW COME OVER HERE TO
MATTHEW 11:28 AND ONWARDS.
00:22:34.63\00:22:40.30
MATTHEW 11:28 AND ONWARDS.
00:22:40.30\00:22:48.03
MATTHEW 11:28 AND ONWARDS.
00:22:48.03\00:22:50.73
OUR BLESSED LORD SAID
THESE UNFORGETTABLE WORDS.
00:22:50.73\00:22:55.36
"COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO ARE
WEARY AND BURDENED, AND I WILL
00:22:55.36\00:23:03.03
GIVE YOU REST.
00:23:03.03\00:23:04.70
TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN
OF ME, FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY
00:23:04.70\00:23:10.96
IN HEART, AND YOU WILL
FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.
00:23:10.96\00:23:16.16
FOR MY YOKE IS EASY
AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT."
00:23:16.16\00:23:22.73
WHEN I WAS A BOY GOING THROUGH
AVONDALE COLLEGE AND MY FIRST
00:23:22.73\00:23:25.96
YEAR AT AVONDALE, I
TURNED 17 YEARS OF AGE.
00:23:25.96\00:23:31.00
I HAD A JOB WORKING AT THE
SHF, THE SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD
00:23:31.00\00:23:36.66
COMPANY, ONE OF THE
BIGGEST ENTERPRISES IN
00:23:36.66\00:23:40.50
THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
00:23:40.50\00:23:41.96
AND WE OWN IT.
00:23:41.96\00:23:44.20
IT WAS MY JOB TO HELP
RUN THIS BIG PRINTING PRESS
00:23:44.20\00:23:48.36
AT NIGHTTIME.
00:23:48.36\00:23:50.20
AND THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH YOU
CAN DO WITH A PRINTING PRESS.
00:23:50.20\00:23:53.50
ONCE IT'S UP AND RUNNING,
YOU'VE JUST GOT TO WATCH IT.
00:23:53.50\00:23:58.26
AND DURING THE LONG WATCHES OF
THE NIGHT, I COMMITTED PASSAGES
00:23:58.26\00:24:02.46
OF SCRIPTURE TO MY
MIND AND TO MY MEMORY.
00:24:02.46\00:24:08.80
I WANT TO TELL
YOU FOLKS SOMETHING.
00:24:08.80\00:24:10.96
UNLESS YOU ARE COMMITTING
PASSAGES EVERY DAY OF SCRIPTURE
00:24:10.96\00:24:17.66
TO YOUR MEMORY, YOU'LL FIND
THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE REST
00:24:17.66\00:24:22.80
OF THE GOSPEL.
00:24:22.80\00:24:25.20
THE GOSPEL IS LIKE QUICKSILVER.
00:24:25.20\00:24:30.53
IT'S BEAUTIFUL, BUT
IT'S EASY TO LOSE IT.
00:24:30.53\00:24:35.50
MARTIN LUTHER SAID HE WAS
AFRAID OF LOSING THE GOSPEL A
00:24:35.50\00:24:39.56
DOZEN TIMES IN THE DAY
BECAUSE WE BY NATURE ARE OPPOSED
00:24:39.56\00:24:44.90
TO THE GOSPEL.
00:24:44.90\00:24:49.26
BUT THE SABBATH DAY IS THE
GREAT SYMBOL OF THE GOSPEL.
00:24:49.26\00:24:54.66
I THANK GOD FOR THE GOSPEL.
00:24:54.66\00:24:57.70
I THANK GOD FOR THE SABBATH.
00:24:57.70\00:25:01.40
ONE OF THE GREATEST
THEOLOGIANS OF OUR MODERN TIMES,
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.93
KARL BARTH, IN ONE OF HIS
GREAT BOOKS QUOTED DE QUERVAIN,
00:25:04.93\00:25:11.36
WHO SAID THESE WORDS.
00:25:11.36\00:25:13.96
"WHEN THE HOLY DAY," AND
BARTH QUOTED THESE WORDS WITH
00:25:13.96\00:25:18.00
AFFIRMATION, "WHEN THE HOLY DAY
BECOMES THE DAY OF MAN, SOCIETY
00:25:18.00\00:25:27.13
AND HUMANITY WITHER
AWAY AND THE DEMONS RULE."
00:25:27.13\00:25:38.50
YOU WONDER WHAT'S WRONG
TODAY IN AMERICA, WHY EVERYTHING
00:25:38.50\00:25:42.46
SEEMS TO BE CHAOTIC, WHY
MEN WHO OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER
00:25:42.46\00:25:48.46
SEEM TO BE MAKING
SUCH HORRENDOUS DECISIONS?
00:25:48.46\00:25:54.33
IT'S BECAUSE THE HOLY DAY
HAS BECOME THE DAY OF MAN AND
00:25:54.33\00:25:58.43
SOCIETY AND HUMANITY ARE
WITHERING AWAY AND THE DEMONS
00:25:58.43\00:26:05.23
ARE RULING.
00:26:05.23\00:26:06.93
THAT GREAT ADVENTIST SCHOLAR,
DR. SAM BAKIOKI, WHO STUDIED
00:26:06.93\00:26:11.93
FOR HIS DOCTORATE AT THE
PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY
00:26:11.93\00:26:16.56
IN ROME, AND WHO RECEIVED FROM
THE POPE'S HAND A GOLD MEDAL
00:26:16.56\00:26:22.20
BECAUSE HE WROTE HIS THESIS ON
HOW THE CHURCH OF ROME CHANGED
00:26:22.20\00:26:26.46
THE SABBATH FROM THE SEVENTH
TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:26:26.46\00:26:30.26
THE POPE GAVE HIM
A GOLD MEDAL FOR IT.
00:26:30.26\00:26:32.73
MY SUNDAY KEEPING FRIENDS,
YOU MAY NOT BE CERTAIN ABOUT IT,
00:26:32.73\00:26:37.60
BUT THE POPE IS.
00:26:37.60\00:26:41.66
AND DR. BAKIOKI, AN OLD FRIEND
OF MINE PASSED AWAY RECENTLY.
00:26:41.66\00:26:47.23
HE SAID, "THE SABBATH
IS A WINDOW ON ETERNITY,
00:26:47.23\00:26:52.23
A HOLIDAY WITH GOD."
00:26:52.23\00:26:56.63
IF YOU WONDER WHAT'S WRONG WITH
YOUR OWN LIVES IN THIS CHURCH,
00:26:56.63\00:26:59.56
WHY YOU'RE SO FRANTIC,
WHY YOU'RE RUSHING AND YOU'RE
00:26:59.56\00:27:02.66
TEARING AND YOU GOT NO PEACE
IN YOUR SOULS, MAYBE YOU'VE
00:27:02.66\00:27:06.43
FORGOTTEN THE ONLY
COMMANDMENT THAT'S PREFACED BY
00:27:06.43\00:27:08.96
THE WORD REMEMBER.
00:27:08.96\00:27:12.53
AND ALMIGHTY GOD SAID IT.
00:27:12.53\00:27:16.90
MOST FOLKS ARE NOT AWARE OF THE
FACT THAT JESUS OUR LORD RISKED
00:27:16.90\00:27:24.60
HIS LIFE AND MISSION TO SHOW
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SABBATH.
00:27:24.60\00:27:30.06
DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:27:30.06\00:27:32.13
THERE ARE SEVEN MIRACLES
RECORDED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:27:32.13\00:27:36.93
OF THE SABBATH DAY, SEVEN.
00:27:36.93\00:27:40.96
AND THUS JESUS PROCLAIMED THE
SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, THE REST
00:27:40.96\00:27:45.23
DAY, THE DAY OF LIBERATION,
THE DAY FOR FEEDING THE HUNGRY,
00:27:45.23\00:27:50.90
THE DAY FOR SAVING LOST SOULS,
THE DAY FOR HEALING SICK BODIES,
00:27:50.90\00:27:56.36
AND CALMING TROUBLED MINDS.
00:27:56.36\00:28:01.56
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TALK
ABOUT AS YOU HAVE LUNCH TODAY?
00:28:01.56\00:28:07.83
IS IT GOING TO BE
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OR
00:28:07.83\00:28:11.36
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR
SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT HAS
00:28:11.36\00:28:15.16
DONE WRONG THAT YOU DON'T LIKE?
00:28:15.16\00:28:19.00
CAN I REMIND YOU THAT POLITICS
ON THE SABBATH DAY IS A SIN
00:28:19.00\00:28:25.16
AGAINST CHRIST?
00:28:25.16\00:28:28.43
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY,
TO KEEP IT HOLY, MY FRIENDS.
00:28:28.43\00:28:36.13
IT IS GOD'S DAY.
00:28:36.13\00:28:37.93
OH, YOU SAY, "WELL, I SNEAK
INTO CHURCH AT QUARTER TO 12
00:28:37.93\00:28:41.36
OR HALF PAST 11
AND I GIVE GOD HIS DUE.
00:28:41.36\00:28:45.16
I GIVE HIM AT LEAST AN
HOUR, BUT I GET OUT AS THEY TAKE
00:28:45.16\00:28:48.00
THE OFFERING."
00:28:48.00\00:28:51.96
MY FRIEND, THAT IS
NOT KEEPING THE SABBATH.
00:28:51.96\00:28:55.60
IT SHOWS THAT YOU DO
NOT HAVE THE GOSPEL REST
00:28:55.60\00:28:59.76
IN YOUR OWN SOUL.
00:28:59.76\00:29:03.00
AND AS THE SUN SINKS BENEATH
THE HILLS AT FRIDAY SUNSET, WE
00:29:03.00\00:29:09.73
OUGHT TO REMEMBER THE
SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY.
00:29:09.73\00:29:13.80
AND IT LASTS FOR 24 HOURS.
00:29:13.80\00:29:17.50
IT IS THE LORD'S HOLY DAY.
00:29:17.50\00:29:20.76
YOU KNOW WHY THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WENT INTO CAPTIVITY
00:29:20.76\00:29:23.43
AND LOST THEIR WAY?
00:29:23.43\00:29:26.03
BECAUSE THEY BROKE THE SABBATH.
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.43
YOU CAN READ THAT IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS.
00:29:28.43\00:29:33.40
THAT'S THE DAY WE
OUGHT TO REMEMBER.
00:29:33.40\00:29:35.56
ARE YOU REMEMBERING IT?
00:29:35.56\00:29:39.56
SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?
00:29:39.56\00:29:42.93
WE SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH
AS GOD'S HOLY DAY AND ENJOY
00:29:42.93\00:29:47.30
CHRISTMAS AS A HOLIDAY.
00:29:47.30\00:29:50.46
LET ME SAY IT AGAIN.
00:29:50.46\00:29:51.80
WE SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH
AS GOD'S HOLY DAY AND ENJOY
00:29:51.80\00:29:58.80
CHRISTMAS AS A HOLIDAY.
00:29:58.80\00:30:03.63
WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER
OUR LORD JESUS EVERY DAY,
00:30:03.63\00:30:07.96
INCLUDING DECEMBER 25.
00:30:07.96\00:30:11.10
SOME FOLKS SAY, "WELL,
YOU KNOW, IF YOU DO THAT,
00:30:11.10\00:30:14.63
YOU'RE BEING A PAGAN."
00:30:14.63\00:30:16.63
YOU'RE PAGAN BECAUSE YOU
REMEMBER JESUS DECEMBER 25?
00:30:16.63\00:30:21.16
WE SHOULD
REMEMBER HIM EVERY DAY.
00:30:21.16\00:30:24.00
I ASK MY FRIENDS THE QUESTION.
00:30:24.00\00:30:27.56
IS IT A BAD THING THAT A PAGAN
OLD WORLD PAUSES ONCE A YEAR
00:30:27.56\00:30:35.60
TO ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS?
00:30:35.60\00:30:38.03
IS THAT SUCH A BAD THING?
00:30:38.03\00:30:44.00
THE DATE OF CHRIST'S BIRTH
IS NOT REVEALED IN THE BIBLE
00:30:44.00\00:30:47.60
BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY
IT'S NOT IMPORTANT.
00:30:47.60\00:30:50.50
BUT ONE THING IS IMPORTANT AND
THIS IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO GET
00:30:50.50\00:30:55.23
INTO YOUR HEARTS TODAY.
00:30:55.23\00:30:57.26
UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.
00:30:57.26\00:30:59.80
UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN.
00:30:59.80\00:31:01.80
AND HIS NAME SHALL BE
CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,
00:31:01.80\00:31:04.66
MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING
FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.
00:31:04.66\00:31:09.26
WHEN HE WAS BORN
IS NOT OF CONSEQUENCE.
00:31:09.26\00:31:13.73
WHAT IS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE
IS THAT THE SON OF GOD CAME
00:31:13.73\00:31:18.73
DOWN, THE BLESSED
TRUTH OF THE INCARNATION.
00:31:18.73\00:31:25.63
COME OVER HERE TO HEBREWS 1:1-4.
00:31:25.63\00:31:30.26
HEBREWS 1:1-4, DEAR
HEARTS AND GENTLE PEOPLE.
00:31:30.26\00:31:36.76
"IN THE PAST GOD SPOKE TO
OUR FOREFATHERS THROUGH THE
00:31:36.76\00:31:39.93
PROPHETS AT MANY TIMES AND IN
VARIOUS WAYS, BUT IN THESE LAST
00:31:39.93\00:31:43.80
DAYS HE HAS SPOKEN TO US BY
HIS SON, WHOM HE APPOINTED HEIR
00:31:43.80\00:31:47.83
OF ALL THINGS, AND THROUGH
WHOM HE MADE THE UNIVERSE."
00:31:47.83\00:31:51.36
HE'S THE CREATOR.
00:31:51.36\00:31:52.93
"THE SON IS THE RADIANCE
OF GOD'S GLORY AND THE EXACT
00:31:52.93\00:31:56.06
REPRESENTATION OF HIS
BEING, SUSTAINING ALL THINGS
00:31:56.06\00:31:59.96
BY HIS POWERFUL WORD.
00:31:59.96\00:32:02.13
AFTER HE HAD PROVIDED
PURIFICATION FOR SINS,
00:32:02.13\00:32:05.33
HE SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT
HAND OF THE MAJESTY IN HEAVEN.
00:32:05.33\00:32:11.23
SO HE BECAME AS MUCH SUPERIOR
TO THE ANGELS AS THE NAME
00:32:11.23\00:32:15.63
HE HAS INHERITED IS
SUPERIOR TO THEIRS."
00:32:15.63\00:32:19.70
LOOK AT VERSE 6.
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.06
"AND AGAIN, WHEN GOD BRINGS
HIS FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD,
00:32:21.06\00:32:25.73
HE SAYS, 'LET ALL
GOD'S ANGELS WORSHIP HIM.'"
00:32:25.73\00:32:30.30
AND THEN VERSE
8, LOOK AT VERSE 8.
00:32:30.30\00:32:32.63
"BUT ABOUT THE SON HE SAYS,
'YOUR THRONE, O GOD, WILL LAST
00:32:32.63\00:32:37.90
FOR EVER AND EVER,
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE
00:32:37.90\00:32:42.23
THE SCEPTER OF YOUR KINGDOM.
00:32:42.23\00:32:45.33
YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND HATED WICKEDNESS; THEREFORE
00:32:45.33\00:32:49.10
GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS SET
YOU ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS BY
00:32:49.10\00:32:52.90
ANOINTING YOU
WITH THE OIL OF JOY.'
00:32:52.90\00:32:56.20
HE ALSO SAYS," GOD THE
FATHER SAYS TO THE SON, "'IN THE
00:32:56.20\00:32:59.76
BEGINNING, O LORD, YOU LAID
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH,
00:32:59.76\00:33:04.43
AND THE HEAVENS ARE
THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.'"
00:33:04.43\00:33:09.53
I WOULD REMIND YOU TODAY,
MY BELOVED FRIENDS HERE IN
00:33:09.53\00:33:13.73
CALIFORNIA, THAT
JESUS IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP.
00:33:13.73\00:33:20.83
I BELIEVE IN THE
BLESSED TRINITY, GOD THE FATHER,
00:33:20.83\00:33:24.10
GOD THE SON, AND
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:33:24.10\00:33:27.26
AND WHEN GOD THE SON COMES INTO
THE WORLD, BORN OF THE BLESSED
00:33:27.26\00:33:33.90
VIRGIN MARY, THE
FATHER GIVES A COMMAND.
00:33:33.90\00:33:37.86
"LET ALL THE
ANGELS WORSHIP HIM."
00:33:37.86\00:33:39.96
AND THEY FALL DOWN AND THEY
WORSHIP HIM BECAUSE HE'S WORTHY
00:33:39.96\00:33:44.26
OF WORSHIP.
00:33:44.26\00:33:46.63
HE IS THE
CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE.
00:33:46.63\00:33:50.66
THE BIBLE SAYS--CALLS HIM
GOD WHOSE THRONE IS ETERNAL.
00:33:50.66\00:33:54.93
AND WHEN THE FATHER TURNS
TO OUR BLESSED LORD AND SAYS,
00:33:54.93\00:33:59.63
"AND YOU, O LORD, LAID
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH,
00:33:59.63\00:34:04.60
AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE
WORKS OF YOUR HANDS," MY FRIEND,
00:34:04.60\00:34:07.96
YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS.
00:34:07.96\00:34:11.70
THE WRITER THERE
IS QUOTING PSALM 102.
00:34:11.70\00:34:16.86
AND IN PSALM 102,
THIS WORD IS USED FOR LORD.
00:34:16.86\00:34:25.26
IT IS THE WORD THAT THE
WONDERFUL JEWISH PEOPLE, THOSE
00:34:25.26\00:34:30.80
WHO REALLY BELIEVE THE
BIBLE, WILL NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE
00:34:30.80\00:34:33.83
THAT NAME.
00:34:33.83\00:34:35.73
IT IS THE NAME THAT
THEY BELIEVE SHOULD NEVER BE
00:34:35.73\00:34:38.46
PRONOUNCED BECAUSE IT'S
THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD,
00:34:38.46\00:34:43.10
YAHWEH.
00:34:43.10\00:34:47.36
SAY IT WITH REVERENCE.
00:34:47.36\00:34:50.56
REMEMBER, GOD IS HOLY.
00:34:50.56\00:34:52.93
AND WHEN JESUS COMES INTO
THE WORLD, THE FATHER SAYS,
00:34:52.93\00:34:57.20
"AND YOU, YAHWEH, LAID
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH,
00:34:57.20\00:35:05.66
AND THE HEAVENS ARE
THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS."
00:35:05.66\00:35:08.83
SO I SAY O COME
LET US ADORE HIM.
00:35:08.83\00:35:14.06
COME WITH ME TO MATTHEW 1.
00:35:14.06\00:35:17.46
WE'RE GOING TO READ
THE GRAND OLD STORY.
00:35:17.46\00:35:20.40
MATTHEW 1:18-25.
00:35:20.40\00:35:28.56
MATTHEW 1:18-25.
00:35:28.56\00:35:35.23
WE'RE GOING TO
FOLLOW A GREAT CUSTOM.
00:35:35.23\00:35:40.03
WE'RE GOING TO STAND
AND READ THE SCRIPTURE.
00:35:40.03\00:35:43.86
PLEASE STAND WITH ME, MATTHEW 1.
00:35:43.86\00:35:49.60
AND JUST KEEP PACE WITH ME.
00:35:49.60\00:35:51.43
I WANT YOU ALL TO
STAND, PLEASE, AS WE READ THE
00:35:51.43\00:35:54.80
SCRIPTURE, OUT OF
REVERENCE FOR THE SCRIPTURE.
00:35:54.80\00:36:00.46
THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:36:00.46\00:36:02.76
MATTHEW 1:18.
00:36:02.76\00:36:05.26
"THIS IS HOW THE BIRTH
OF JESUS CHRIST CAME ABOUT:
00:36:05.26\00:36:08.56
HIS MOTHER MARY WAS
PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO JOSEPH,
00:36:08.56\00:36:12.06
BUT BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER,
SHE WAS FOUND TO BE WITH
00:36:12.06\00:36:14.60
CHILD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:36:14.60\00:36:16.90
BECAUSE JOSEPH HER HUSBAND
WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN AND DID NOT
00:36:16.90\00:36:20.43
WANT TO EXPOSE HER TO
PUBLIC DISGRACE, HE HAD IN MIND
00:36:20.43\00:36:23.76
TO DIVORCE HER QUIETLY.
00:36:23.76\00:36:25.80
BUT AFTER HE HAD CONSIDERED
THIS, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD
00:36:25.80\00:36:28.96
APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM AND
SAID, 'JOSEPH SON OF DAVID, DO
00:36:28.96\00:36:33.40
NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE MARY
HOME AS YOUR WIFE, BECAUSE WHAT
00:36:33.40\00:36:37.00
IS CONCEIVED IN HER
IS FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:36:37.00\00:36:40.23
SHE WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A
SON, AND YOU ARE TO GIVE HIM
00:36:40.23\00:36:43.46
THE NAME JESUS,
BECAUSE HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE
00:36:43.46\00:36:46.66
FROM THEIR SINS.' ALL
THIS TOOK PLACE TO FULFILL
00:36:46.66\00:36:50.03
WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID THROUGH
THE PROPHET: 'THE VIRGIN WILL
00:36:50.03\00:36:53.60
BE WITH CHILD AND WILL GIVE
BIRTH TO A SON, AND THEY WILL
00:36:53.60\00:36:57.10
CALL HIM IMMANUEL,
WHICH MEANS GOD WITH US.
00:36:57.10\00:37:01.83
WHEN JOSEPH WOKE UP, HE DID
WHAT THE ANGEL OF THE LORD HAD
00:37:01.83\00:37:04.53
COMMANDED HIM AND
TOOK MARY HOME AS HIS WIFE.
00:37:04.53\00:37:08.06
BUT HE HAD NO UNION WITH HER
UNTIL SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A SON.
00:37:08.06\00:37:12.63
AND HE GAVE HIM THE NAME JESUS."
00:37:12.63\00:37:15.26
CHAPTER 2, VERSES 1-11 TOGETHER.
00:37:15.26\00:37:18.56
"AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN
BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA, DURING THE
00:37:18.56\00:37:22.53
TIME OF KING HEROD, MAGI FROM
THE EAST CAME TO JERUSALEM AND
00:37:22.53\00:37:26.10
ASKED, 'WHERE IS THE ONE WHO
HAS BEEN BORN KING OF THE JEWS?
00:37:26.10\00:37:29.86
WE SAW HIS STAR IN THE EAST
AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM.'
00:37:29.86\00:37:34.16
WHEN KING HEROD HEARD
THIS HE WAS DISTURBED, AND ALL
00:37:34.16\00:37:37.80
JERUSALEM WITH HIM.
00:37:37.80\00:37:39.30
WHEN HE HAD CALLED TOGETHER
ALL THE PEOPLE'S CHIEF PRIESTS
00:37:39.30\00:37:42.70
AND THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW,
HE ASKED THEM WHERE THE CHRIST
00:37:42.70\00:37:45.76
WAS TO BE BORN.
00:37:45.76\00:37:47.36
'IN BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA,' THEY
REPLIED, 'FOR THIS IS WHAT THE
00:37:47.36\00:37:50.86
PROPHET HAS WRITTEN: BUT
YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF
00:37:50.86\00:37:53.83
JUDEA, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST
AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR
00:37:53.83\00:37:58.20
OUT OF YOUILL COME A
RULER WHO WILL BE THE SHEPHERD
00:37:58.20\00:38:01.73
OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.'
THEN HEROD CALLED THE MAGI
00:38:01.73\00:38:05.70
SECRETLY AND FOUND OUT
FROM THEM THE EXACT TIME
00:38:05.70\00:38:10.23
THE STAR HAD APPEARED.
00:38:10.23\00:38:12.33
HE SENT THEM TO BETHLEHEM
AND SAID, 'GO AND MAKE A CAREFUL
00:38:12.33\00:38:16.50
SEARCH FOR THE CHILD.
00:38:16.50\00:38:18.26
AS SOON AS YOU FIND HIM,
REPORT TO ME THAT I, TOO,
00:38:18.26\00:38:21.83
MAY GO AND WORSHIP HIM.'
AFTER THEY HAD HEARD THE KING,
00:38:21.83\00:38:26.33
THEY WENT ON THEIR WAY, AND THE
STAR THEY HAD SEEN IN THE EAST
00:38:26.33\00:38:29.66
WENT AHEAD OF THEM UNTIL IT
STOPPED OVER THE PLACE WHERE
00:38:29.66\00:38:32.26
THE CHILD WAS.
00:38:32.26\00:38:34.23
WHEN THEY SAW THE
STAR, THEY WERE OVERJOYED.
00:38:34.23\00:38:37.46
ON COMING TO THE HOUSE, THEY
SAW THE CHILD WITH HIS MOTHER
00:38:37.46\00:38:40.86
MARY, AND THEY BOWED
DOWN AND WORSHIPED HIM.
00:38:40.86\00:38:45.16
THEN THEY OPENED THEIR
TREASURES AND PRESENTED HIM
00:38:45.16\00:38:48.23
WITH GIFTS OF GOLD AND
OF INCENSE AND OF MYRRH."
00:38:48.23\00:38:53.13
AND MAY THE LORD ADD HIS
BLESSING TO THE PUBLIC READING
00:38:53.13\00:38:56.20
OF HIS WORD.
00:38:56.20\00:38:57.40
PLEASE BE SEATED.
00:38:57.40\00:39:01.03
AND SO THE BIBLE TELLS US
THERE WAS A LITTLE PEASANT GIRL
00:39:02.03\00:39:08.00
AND HER NAME WAS
MARY AND SHE WAS A VIRGIN.
00:39:08.00\00:39:11.76
AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME
UPON HER AND THUS THE PROPHECY
00:39:11.76\00:39:16.73
WAS FULFILLED.
00:39:16.73\00:39:17.86
UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.
00:39:17.86\00:39:19.80
UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN.
00:39:19.80\00:39:21.40
AND HIS NAME SHALL BE
CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,
00:39:21.40\00:39:24.46
MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING
FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.
00:39:24.46\00:39:30.33
AND IT WAS A HOLY NIGHT, INDEED
IT WAS, WHEN THE SON OF GOD
00:39:31.26\00:39:37.33
CAME DOWN TO
TABERNACLE IN HUMAN FLESH.
00:39:37.33\00:39:42.83
PASTOR AND MRS.
O'CONNOR ARE GOING TO COME.
00:39:42.83\00:39:46.26
THEY'RE GOING TO SING TO US
ABOUT THE BLESSED NIGHT OF THAT
00:39:46.26\00:39:51.33
WONDERFUL OCCASION WHEN JESUS,
THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE,
00:39:51.33\00:39:57.16
CAME DOWN FROM GLORY AND
HE CAME DOWN TO AN AWFUL PLACE
00:39:57.16\00:40:03.90
AND HE WAS BORN IN A MANGER.
00:40:03.90\00:40:07.06
[MUSIC]
00:40:08.93\00:40:13.93
? O HOLY NIGHT, THE STARS
ARE ? ? BRIGHTLY SHINING. ?
00:40:15.70\00:40:24.30
? IT IS THE NIGHT OF OUR
DEAR ? ? SAVIOR'S BIRTH. ?
00:40:24.30\00:40:32.80
? LONG LAY THE WORLD ? ?
IN SIN AND ERROR PINING ?
00:40:34.53\00:40:42.73
? 'TIL HE APPEARED ? ?
AND THE SOUL FELT ITS WORTH. ?
00:40:42.73\00:40:51.23
? A THRILL OF HOPE, ? ?
THE WEARY WORLD REJOICES. ?
00:40:51.23\00:40:58.40
? FOR YONDER BREAKS ? ?
A NEW AND GLORIOUS MORN. ?
00:40:58.40\00:41:05.93
? FALL ON YOUR KNEES ? ?
AND HEAR THE ANGEL VOICES. ?
00:41:05.93\00:41:19.76
? O NIGHT DIVINE, ? ? O NIGHT ?
00:41:19.76\00:41:29.40
? WHEN CHRIST WAS
BORN. ? ? O NIGHT DIVINE, ?
00:41:29.40\00:41:39.93
? O NIGHT, ? ? O NIGHT DIVINE. ?
00:41:39.93\00:41:48.50
[MUSIC]
00:41:49.46\00:41:54.46
? TRULY HE TAUGHT US ?
? TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. ?
00:42:05.26\00:42:13.50
? HIS LAW IS LOVE ? ?
AND HIS GOSPEL IS PEACE. ?
00:42:13.50\00:42:22.03
? CHAINS SHALL HE BREAK FOR
? ? THE SLAVE IS OUR BROTHER. ?
00:42:23.40\00:42:31.46
? AND IN HIS NAME ALL ?
? OPPRESSION SHALL CEASE. ?
00:42:31.46\00:42:39.33
? SWEET HYMNS OF JOY IN ?
? GRATEFUL CHORUS RAISE WE. ?
00:42:39.33\00:42:46.56
? LET ALL WITHIN US
PRAISE ? ? HIS HOLY NAME. ?
00:42:46.56\00:42:53.80
? CHRIST IS THE LORD. ? ?
THEN EVER, EVER PRAISE WE. ?
00:42:53.80\00:43:07.30
? HIS POWER AND GLORY
? ? EVERMORE PROCLAIM. ?
00:43:07.30\00:43:20.60
? HIS POWER AND GLORY
? ? EVERMORE PROCLAIM. ??
00:43:20.60\00:43:43.73
[APPLAUDING]
00:43:59.13\00:44:03.03
>> DO WE REALLY GET IT,
THAT THIS LITTLE BABY, BORN OF
00:44:05.30\00:44:10.16
THE BLESSED VIRGIN, WAS GOD?
00:44:10.16\00:44:15.00
WHY DID HE COME?
00:44:15.00\00:44:17.40
BECAUSE SOMETHING AWFUL
AND DREADFUL HAD HAPPENED
00:44:17.40\00:44:19.43
TO THE WORLD.
00:44:19.43\00:44:21.66
SIN HAD INVADED THE WORLD.
00:44:21.66\00:44:23.73
IT'S INVADED YOU AND ME.
00:44:23.73\00:44:26.60
IT'S WHY WE'RE
INDIFFERENT TO GOD.
00:44:26.60\00:44:28.90
IT'S WHY OUR HEARTS ARE
COLD AND WHY WE ARE NATURALLY
00:44:28.90\00:44:31.76
REBELLIOUS AND UNSPIRITUAL,
WHY WE JUST DON'T WANT TO READ
00:44:31.76\00:44:36.76
OUR BIBLE, BECAUSE
IT GOES AGAINST US.
00:44:36.76\00:44:41.43
WHY DID HE COME?
00:44:41.43\00:44:43.80
I HAVE RECEIVED DURING MY
MINISTRY SOME EMERGENCY CALLS.
00:44:43.80\00:44:47.76
SOMEONE IS DYING.
00:44:47.76\00:44:50.00
PHONE RINGS.
00:44:50.00\00:44:51.06
"SOMEONE IS DYING, COME."
00:44:51.06\00:44:52.40
SO I ANSWER THE CALL.
00:44:52.40\00:44:55.00
WHEN I WAS IN RUSSIA
LAST JANUARY, A MESSAGE WAS
00:44:55.00\00:44:59.83
BROUGHT TO ME.
00:44:59.83\00:45:00.96
"A LITTLE BABY BOY IS
DYING IN THE HOSPITAL.
00:45:00.96\00:45:03.43
COME, HE'S DYING.
00:45:03.43\00:45:04.90
COME PRAY FOR--"
I ANSWERED THE CALL.
00:45:04.90\00:45:08.90
AND THEN WHEN I WAS IN ODESSA,
UKRAINE, A LITTLE BOY THIS HIGH
00:45:08.90\00:45:14.53
IS DYING OF CANCER.
00:45:14.53\00:45:16.96
"PLEASE COME.
00:45:16.96\00:45:19.50
I ANSWERED THE CALL.
00:45:19.50\00:45:21.63
I WANT YOU TO KNOW
JESUS ANSWERED THE CALL.
00:45:21.63\00:45:27.96
THERE'S A
FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER.
00:45:27.96\00:45:30.06
I THINK--I MAY BE WRONG.
00:45:30.06\00:45:31.80
I THINK HIS
NAME WAS ELISHA KANE.
00:45:31.80\00:45:34.86
SOME OF HIS MEN WERE TRAPPED.
00:45:34.86\00:45:36.73
THEY WERE FREEZING TO DEATH.
00:45:36.73\00:45:39.10
HE MARCHED FOR 3 DAYS,
EVEN THOUGH HE HAD A HEART
00:45:39.10\00:45:41.70
CONDITION.
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.53
HE WAS DYING HIMSELF.
00:45:43.53\00:45:44.83
WHEN HE GOT INTO THE CAVE, MEN
WHO WERE FREEZING, CRAZED WITH
00:45:44.83\00:45:50.36
THE COLD, GASP OUT, "WE
KNEW YOU WOULD COME, BROTHER."
00:45:50.36\00:45:55.40
THAT'S WHY HE CAME.
00:45:55.40\00:45:58.56
HE CAME BECAUSE OF A DESPERATE
NEED, TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT
00:45:58.56\00:46:02.70
WHICH WAS LOST.
00:46:02.70\00:46:04.50
HE CAME TO SHOW US THE HEART
OF GOD, THAT GOD IS NOT A CRANKY
00:46:04.50\00:46:10.03
OLD MAN, THAT GOD IS
KIND AND COMPASSIONATE.
00:46:10.03\00:46:18.43
HE EVEN WASHED THE
FEET OF JUDAS, THE BETRAYER.
00:46:18.43\00:46:23.30
HE'S A MILLION TIMES
BETTER THAN YOU AND I COULD
00:46:23.30\00:46:25.33
EVER COMPREHEND.
00:46:25.33\00:46:27.86
ONE GREAT THEOLOGIAN SAID THERE
ARE GREAT--TWO GREAT TRUTHS
00:46:27.86\00:46:31.03
THAT EVERY ONE OF US MUST
LEARN, BUT MOST OF US HAVEN'T
00:46:31.03\00:46:33.96
GOT A CLUE ABOUT.
00:46:33.96\00:46:35.06
NUMBER ONE, MAN IS MUCH WORSE
THAN HE EVER FEARED TO THINK,
00:46:35.06\00:46:44.86
BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER
THAN HE EVER DARED TO HOPE.
00:46:44.86\00:46:51.03
THAT'S WHY HE CAME.
00:46:51.03\00:46:53.90
HE CAME TO RANSOM US FROM
FEAR, DEATH, AND THE GRAVE.
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HE WAS NOT BORN
TO LIVE, YOU KNOW.
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HE WAS BORN TO DIE.
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LISTEN TO THE POEM.
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"THE LOVE OF GOD IS
GREATER FAR THAN TONGUE OF PEN
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CAN EVER TELL.
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IT GOES BEYOND THE HIGHEST STAR.
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IT REACHES TO THE LOWEST HELL.
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THE GUILTY PAIR, BOWED
DOWN WITH CARE, GOD GAVE HIS SON
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TO WIN.
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HIS ERRING CHILD HE RECONCILED
AND PARDONED FROM HIS SIN.
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WHEN YEARS OF TIME SHALL PASS
AWAY AND EARTHLY THRONES AND
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KINGDOMS FALL, WHEN MEN WHO
HEAR REFUSE TO PRAY, ON ROCKS
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AND HILLS AND MOUNTAINS
CALL, GOD'S LOVE, SO SURE,
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SHALL STILL ENDURE,
ALL MEASURELESS AND STRONG.
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REDEEMING GRACE TO ADAM'S RACE,
THE SAINTS' AND ANGELS' SONG."
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COULD WE WITH INK THE
OCEAN FILL AND WERE THE SKIES OF
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PARCHMENT MADE, WERE
EVERY STOCK ON EARTH A QUILL AND
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EVERY MAN A SCRIBE BY TRADE,
TO WRITE THE LOVE OF GOD ABOVE
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WOULD DRAIN THE OCEAN WIDE.
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NOR COULD THE SCROLL CONTAIN
THE WHOLE, THOUGH STRETCHED
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FROM SKY TO SKY.
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O LOVE OF GOD, HOW RICH
AND PURE, HOW MEASURELESS
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AND STRONG.
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IT SHALL FOREVERMORE ENDURE
THE SAINTS' AND ANGEL'S SONG."
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FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.
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UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN.
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AND HIS NAME SHALL BE
CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,
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MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING
FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.
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O COME, LET US ADORE
HIM, CHRIST THE LORD.
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O COME, LET US ADORE
HIM, CHRIST THE LORD.
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WHEN HE BRINGS THE FIRSTBORN
INTO THE WORLD, HE SAYS THAT
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ALL OF THE ANGELS
OF GOD WORSHIP HIM.
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OUR FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR
THE MESSAGE OF THE INCARNATION.
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WE THANK YOU WITH ALL
OUR HEARTS THAT WHEN WE
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INDIVIDUALLY, BECAUSE OF
OUR COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL
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SINFULNESS, WHEN WE MADE SUCH
A MESS OF OUR LIVES AND WHEN WE
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POLLUTED THIS PLANET SO
THAT NOW THE PLANET IS GROANING
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IN ITS AGONIES, WE THANK YOU.
00:50:50.36\00:50:55.06
WHEN NIGHT WAS AS BLACK AS
COULD BE, THE CRY OF A LITTLE
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BABY BOY BROKE THE STILLNESS
IN A SHED, WE WOULD SAY,
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IN A BACKSTREET IN BETHLEHEM.
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AND THERE EL SHADDAI, YAHWEH,
ELOHIM, THE ONE WHO HAD NO
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BEGINNING, THE GREAT CREATOR
OF THE UNIVERSE TOOK THE FORM--
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NO, NOT TOOK THE FORM.
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HE BECAME A MAN
AND LIVED AMONG US.
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WE THANK YOU THAT HE CAME
TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH
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WAS LOST.
00:51:43.66\00:51:45.63
AND OUR FATHER, AT THIS
CHRISTMASTIME AND EVERY DAY, WE
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SHALL REMEMBER HIM AND WE SHALL
ADORE HIM AND WE SHALL WORSHIP
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HIM, CHRIST THE LORD.
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HOW MANY TODAY WILL RAISE A
HAND TOWARDS HEAVEN AND SAY,
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"I WORSHIP YOU
TODAY, MY BLESSED SAVIOR.
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I THANK YOU TODAY.
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THERE'S NOTHING I CAN BRING
TODAY, MY LORD, BUT I BRING
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GRATITUDE.
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MAY AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
BE BORN IN THIS OLD SINNER'S
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HEART TODAY."
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FILL US TODAY WITH GRATITUDE
AND HELP US TO UNDERSTAND
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THAT WE LOVE HIM
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.
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GIVE US SOME
FEELING IN OUR HEARTS TODAY.
00:52:42.76\00:52:49.13
MELT THE COLD, FRIGID HEARTS
AND FILL US WITH LOVE FOR HIM
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TODAY.
00:52:56.56\00:52:59.10
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM.
00:52:59.10\00:53:03.20
BLESS THIS CONGREGATION TODAY.
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WE ARE HERE ON OUR KNEES.
00:53:05.93\00:53:08.33
WE WORSHIP YOU, O LIVING CHRIST.
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WE PRAISE YOU, WE BLESS YOU.
00:53:11.60\00:53:15.50
WE'RE THANKFUL, IN
JESUS' NAME, AMEN, AMEN.
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? HE IS HERE. ? ? THE
SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN, ?
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? THE ONE WE'VE WAITED FOR, ?
? SURROUNDED BY OUR PRAISES. ?
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? HE IS HERE, ? ? THE
PROMISE OF OUR KING. ?
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? TO YOU OUR LIVES WE
BRING. ? ? LET YOUR GLORY ?
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? BE REVEALED. ?
00:54:12.36\00:54:19.83
? JOY TO THE WORLD. ? ?
PEACE TO ALL WHO LOVE HIM. ?
00:54:21.70\00:54:34.20
? THE SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN ?
? AND ALL OF HEAVEN SMILES. ?
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? GLORY TO GOD. ? ?
BRING AN OFFERING TO YOU. ?
00:54:48.66\00:55:01.60
? JOIN WITH ALL THE
ANGELS ? ? SINGING HALLELUJAH. ?
00:55:01.60\00:55:20.10
? HE IS HERE. ? ? THE
SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN, ?
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? THE ONE WE'VE WAITED FOR, ?
? SURROUNDED BY OUR PRAISES. ?
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? HE IS HERE, ? ? THE
PROMISE OF OUR KING. ?
00:55:47.93\00:55:58.46
? TO YOU OUR LIVES WE
BRING. ? ? LET YOUR GLORY ?
00:55:58.46\00:56:06.56
? BE REVEALED. ?
00:56:06.56\00:56:13.76
? JOY TO THE WORLD. ? ?
PEACE TO ALL WHO LOVE HIM. ?
00:56:16.03\00:56:28.46
? THE SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN ?
? AND ALL OF HEAVEN SMILES. ?
00:56:28.46\00:56:42.63
? GLORY TO GOD. ? ?
BRING AN OFFERING TO YOU. ?
00:56:42.63\00:56:55.40
? JOIN WITH ALL THE
ANGELS ? ? SINGING HALLELUJAH. ?
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[MUSIC] ? HALLELUJAH. ?
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? O HALLELUJAH. ? [MUSIC]
00:57:31.03\00:57:44.50
? O HALLELUJAH. ??
00:57:44.50\00:57:56.43