IT'S THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, THAT ONE TIME OF YEAR 00:01:20.64\00:01:23.41 WHEN EVERYBODY STOPS EVERYTHING THEY'RE DOING 00:01:23.41\00:01:25.98 TO THINK FOR ONE MOMENT 00:01:25.98\00:01:27.38 ABOUT THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY, 00:01:27.38\00:01:30.19 THAT MOMENT WHEN GOD ENTERED HUMAN HISTORY AS ONE OF US. 00:01:30.19\00:01:33.42 AND HERE AT THE SPENCERVILLE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 00:01:33.42\00:01:35.69 PEOPLE ARE GATHERING TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE EVENT, 00:01:35.69\00:01:38.56 JUST AS PEOPLE HAVE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, 00:01:38.56\00:01:41.06 GATHERED TO STUDY THAT EVENT. 00:01:41.06\00:01:42.70 I HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US INSIDE. 00:01:42.70\00:01:44.27 YOU CAN SEE I STILL HAVE TO GO GET READY FOR THIS EVENT, 00:01:44.27\00:01:47.00 SO I'M GOING TO GO AND GET CHANGED. 00:01:47.00\00:01:48.74 YOU GO ON INSIDE, AND I'LL JOIN YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 00:01:48.74\00:01:51.81 Jean Boonstra: HI, I'M BEHIND THE SCENES HERE 00:01:52.44\00:01:53.64 AT THE SPENCERVILLE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. I'M HERE IN 00:01:53.74\00:01:56.28 THE CHOIR ROOM. I HAVE SOME REALLY EXCITED KIDS AND OTHER 00:01:56.38\00:01:58.71 MUSICIANS READY TO GO OUT FRONT FOR OUR PROGRAM. SO 00:01:58.81\00:02:02.38 THROUGHOUT THIS PROGRAM, BE SURE TO STAY WITH US. JOIN US 00:02:02.48\00:02:05.05 ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ON FACEBOOK, ON TWITTER, HASHTAG VOP 00:02:05.15\00:02:08.86 CHRISTMAS. SO LET'S SEE IF WE HAVE SOME MUSICIANS WHO ARE 00:02:08.96\00:02:12.46 READY TO GO. ARE YOU KIDS EXCITED? 00:02:12.56\00:02:14.83 Kids: YEAH! [CHEERING, APPLAUSE] 00:02:15.16\00:02:25.51 ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO INSIDE. COME ON WITH US. 00:02:27.81\00:02:30.91 Announcer: "PEACE ON EARTH," 00:02:39.42\00:02:41.39 FEATURING SHAWN AND JEAN BOONSTRA, 00:02:41.39\00:02:44.19 WITH MUSICAL GUEST CHRISTINE WOLLMANN, 00:02:44.19\00:02:48.30 THE KING'S HERALDS, 00:02:48.30\00:02:51.10 THE ADVENTIST CHILDREN'S CHORUS, 00:02:51.10\00:02:53.97 AND A SPECIAL FEATURE BY BILL KNOTT. 00:02:53.97\00:02:57.11 [ PLAYS "ANGELS' CAROL" ] 00:02:59.37\00:03:02.71 Children's Chorus: ¤ HAVE YOU HEARD THE SOUND ¤ 00:03:02.71\00:03:06.11 ¤ OF THE ANGEL VOICES ¤ 00:03:06.11\00:03:09.58 ¤ RINGING OUT SO SWEETLY ¤ 00:03:09.58\00:03:12.99 ¤ RINGING OUT SO CLEAR? ¤ 00:03:12.99\00:03:16.26 ¤ HAVE YOU SEEN THE STAR ¤ 00:03:16.26\00:03:19.63 ¤ SHINING OUT SO BRIGHTLY ¤ 00:03:19.63\00:03:23.03 ¤ AS A SIGN FROM GOD ¤ 00:03:23.03\00:03:25.67 ¤ THAT CHRIST THE LORD IS HERE? ¤ 00:03:25.67\00:03:29.94 ¤ HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS ¤ 00:03:29.94\00:03:33.44 ¤ THAT THEY BRING FROM HEAVEN ¤ 00:03:33.44\00:03:36.88 ¤ TO THE HUMBLE SHEPHERDS ¤ 00:03:36.88\00:03:40.35 ¤ WHO HAVE WAITED LONG? ¤ 00:03:40.35\00:03:45.05 ¤ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO! ¤ 00:03:45.05\00:03:48.66 ¤ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO! ¤ 00:03:48.66\00:03:52.56 ¤ HEAR THE ANGELS SING THEIR JOYFUL SONG ¤ 00:03:52.56\00:03:58.57 ¤ HE IS COME IN PEACE ¤ 00:04:01.60\00:04:05.17 ¤ IN THE WINTER'S STILLNESS ¤ 00:04:05.17\00:04:08.71 ¤ LIKE A GENTLE SNOWFALL ¤ 00:04:08.71\00:04:12.15 ¤ IN THE GENTLE NIGHT ¤ 00:04:12.15\00:04:15.75 ¤ HE IS COME IN JOY ¤ 00:04:15.75\00:04:17.62 ¤ HE IS COME IN JOY ¤ 00:04:17.62\00:04:19.12 ¤ LIKE THE SUN AT MORNING, ¤ 00:04:19.12\00:04:22.59 ¤ FILLING ALL THE WORLD ¤ 00:04:22.59\00:04:24.49 ¤ FILLING ALL THE WORLD ¤ 00:04:24.49\00:04:25.99 ¤ WITH RADIANCE AND WITH LIGHT ¤ 00:04:25.99\00:04:29.90 ¤ HE IS COME IN LOVE ¤ 00:04:29.90\00:04:33.50 ¤ AS THE CHILD OF MARY ¤ 00:04:33.50\00:04:36.97 ¤ IN A SIMPLE STABLE ¤ 00:04:36.97\00:04:40.44 ¤ WE HAVE SEEN HIS BIRTH ¤ 00:04:40.44\00:04:45.25 ¤ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO! ¤ 00:04:45.25\00:04:48.88 ¤ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO! ¤ 00:04:48.88\00:04:52.62 ¤ HEAR THE ANGELS SINGING "PEACE ON EARTH" ¤ 00:04:52.62\00:04:58.56 ¤ HE WILL BRING NEW LIGHT ¤ 00:05:02.30\00:05:04.43 ¤ HE WILL BRING NEW LIGHT ¤ 00:05:04.43\00:05:05.93 ¤ TO A WORLD IN DARKNESS ¤ 00:05:05.93\00:05:09.34 ¤ LIKE A BRIGHT STAR SHINING ¤ 00:05:09.34\00:05:12.71 ¤ IN THE SKIES ABOVE ¤ 00:05:12.71\00:05:16.44 ¤ HE WILL BRING NEW HOPE ¤ 00:05:16.44\00:05:18.38 ¤ HE WILL BRING NEW HOPE ¤ 00:05:18.38\00:05:20.05 ¤ TO THE WAITING NATIONS ¤ 00:05:20.05\00:05:21.98 ¤ TO THE WAITING NATIONS ¤ 00:05:21.98\00:05:23.55 ¤ WHEN HE COMES TO REIGN ¤ 00:05:23.55\00:05:25.15 ¤ WHEN HE COMES TO REIGN ¤ 00:05:25.15\00:05:26.59 ¤ IN PURITY AND LOVE ¤ 00:05:26.59\00:05:31.06 ¤ LET THE EARTH REJOICE ¤ 00:05:31.06\00:05:32.86 ¤ LET THE EARTH REJOICE ¤ 00:05:32.86\00:05:34.50 ¤ AT THE SAVIOR'S COMING ¤ 00:05:34.50\00:05:38.10 ¤ LET THE HEAVENS ANSWER ¤ 00:05:38.10\00:05:41.47 ¤ WITH THE JOYFUL MORN ¤ 00:05:41.47\00:05:46.31 ¤ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO! ¤ 00:05:46.31\00:05:50.01 ¤ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO! ¤ 00:05:50.01\00:05:54.08 ¤ HEAR THE ANGELS SINGING "CHRIST IS BORN" ¤ 00:05:54.08\00:06:00.62 ¤ HEAR THE ANGELS SINGING ¤ 00:06:02.56\00:06:06.83 ¤ "CHRIST IS BORN" ¤ 00:06:06.83\00:06:15.37 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:06:15.37\00:06:18.97 ¤ SAID THE NIGHT WIND TO THE LITTLE LAMB ¤ 00:06:37.79\00:06:43.20 ¤ "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?" ¤ 00:06:43.20\00:06:45.73 ¤ DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? ¤ 00:06:45.73\00:06:48.04 ¤ WAY UP IN THE SKY, LITTLE LAMB ¤ 00:06:48.04\00:06:52.71 ¤ DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? ¤ 00:06:52.71\00:06:55.18 ¤ DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? ¤ 00:06:55.18\00:06:57.25 ¤ A STAR, A STAR DANCING IN THE NIGHT ¤ 00:06:57.25\00:07:01.68 ¤ WITH A TAIL AS BIG AS A KITE ¤ 00:07:01.68\00:07:06.29 ¤ WITH A TAIL AS BIG AS A KITE ¤ 00:07:06.29\00:07:11.69 ¤ SAID THE LITTLE LAMB TO THE SHEPHERD BOY ¤ 00:07:13.33\00:07:18.67 ¤ "DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?" ¤ 00:07:18.67\00:07:20.97 ¤ DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? ¤ 00:07:20.97\00:07:23.34 ¤ RINGING THROUGH THE SKY, SHEPHERD BOY ¤ 00:07:23.34\00:07:28.18 ¤ DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? ¤ 00:07:28.18\00:07:30.48 ¤ DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? ¤ 00:07:30.48\00:07:32.88 ¤ A SONG, A SONG HIGH ABOVE THE TREES ¤ 00:07:32.88\00:07:36.92 ¤ WITH A VOICE AS BIG AS THE SEA ¤ 00:07:36.92\00:07:41.32 ¤ WITH A VOICE AS BIG AS THE SEA ¤ 00:07:41.32\00:07:46.56 ¤ SAID THE SHEPHERD BOY TO THE MIGHTY KING ¤ 00:07:48.13\00:07:53.80 ¤ "DO YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW? ¤ 00:07:53.80\00:07:55.87 ¤ DO YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW? ¤ 00:07:55.87\00:07:58.27 ¤ IN YOUR PALACE WARM, MIGHTY KING ¤ 00:07:58.27\00:08:02.78 ¤ DO YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW? ¤ 00:08:02.78\00:08:05.11 ¤ DO YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW? ¤ 00:08:05.11\00:08:07.48 ¤ A CHILD, A CHILD SHIVERS IN THE COLD ¤ 00:08:07.48\00:08:11.99 ¤ LET US BRING HIM SILVER AND GOLD ¤ 00:08:11.99\00:08:16.19 ¤ LET US BRING HIM SILVER AND GOLD ¤ 00:08:16.19\00:08:21.50 ¤ SAID THE KING TO THE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ¤ 00:08:28.10\00:08:33.54 ¤ "LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY ¤ 00:08:33.54\00:08:38.35 ¤ "PRAY FOR PEACE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE! ¤ 00:08:38.35\00:08:43.28 ¤ "LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY ¤ 00:08:43.28\00:08:47.69 ¤ "THE CHILD, THE CHILD SLEEPING IN THE NIGHT ¤ 00:08:47.69\00:08:52.03 ¤ "HE WILL BRING US GOODNESS AND LIGHT ¤ 00:08:52.03\00:08:56.40 ¤ "HE WILL BRING US GOODNESS ¤ 00:08:56.40\00:09:01.27 ¤ "AND LI-I-I-GHT ¤ 00:09:01.27\00:09:07.98 ¤ BRING US LI-I-I-GHT!" ¤ 00:09:07.98\00:09:17.05 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:09:17.05\00:09:20.52 JILL JACKSON MILLER AND SY MILLER 00:09:28.60\00:09:31.33 WROTE THE BEAUTIFUL SONG "LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH." 00:09:31.33\00:09:34.74 WHEN I WAS ABOUT 6 YEARS OLD, MY CHOIR LEADER ASKED ME 00:09:34.74\00:09:39.31 IF I WOULD DO THE SOLO PART IN THE CHOIR FOR THIS PIECE. 00:09:39.31\00:09:44.01 AND I SAID, "ABSOLUTELY NOT." 00:09:44.01\00:09:46.85 I WAS PETRIFIED. 00:09:46.85\00:09:48.62 I DIDN'T WANT TO SING IN FRONT OF ANYBODY. 00:09:48.62\00:09:51.39 EVENTUALLY, WHAT HAPPENED 00:09:51.39\00:09:52.82 IS THAT I ENDED UP SINGING IT WITH THE CHOIR. 00:09:52.82\00:09:55.42 BUT IT LEFT A PROFOUND IMPACT ON ME. 00:09:55.42\00:09:59.19 THE WORDS ARE DEEP AND MEANINGFUL. 00:09:59.19\00:10:02.33 I FEEL THAT WORLD PEACE 00:10:02.33\00:10:04.17 IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE FOR, 00:10:04.17\00:10:07.57 AND IT DOES BEGIN WITH EACH ONE OF US. 00:10:07.57\00:10:10.67 I LOVE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHERE THEY COME FROM, 00:10:10.67\00:10:13.88 AND THE SONG, I BELIEVE, HAS IMPACTED ME EVEN TO THIS DAY. 00:10:13.88\00:10:19.31 THE WORDS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL, AND MY PRAYER 00:10:19.31\00:10:22.65 IS THAT OTHERS WILL ALSO TAKE THIS SONG WHEN THEY HEAR IT 00:10:22.65\00:10:27.09 AND BE THAT PEACE THAT THE WORLD WANTS TO SEE. 00:10:27.09\00:10:32.16 ¤ LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:10:37.20\00:10:44.74 ¤ AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME ¤ 00:10:44.74\00:10:52.51 ¤ LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:10:52.51\00:10:58.62 ¤ THE PEACE THAT WAS MEANT TO BE ¤ 00:10:58.62\00:11:05.43 ¤ WITH GOD AS OUR FATHER ¤ 00:11:05.43\00:11:12.87 ¤ FAMILY ALL ARE WE ¤ 00:11:12.87\00:11:19.51 ¤ LET ME WALK WITH MY BROTHER ¤ 00:11:19.51\00:11:25.71 ¤ IN PERFECT HARMONY ¤ 00:11:25.71\00:11:33.19 ¤ LET PEACE BEGIN WITH ME ¤ 00:11:33.19\00:11:38.83 ¤ LET THIS BE THE MOMENT NOW ¤ 00:11:38.83\00:11:46.03 ¤ WITH EVERY STEP I TAKE ¤ 00:11:46.03\00:11:51.94 ¤ LET THIS BE MY SOLEMN VOW ¤ 00:11:51.94\00:11:58.31 ¤ TO TAKE EACH MOMENT ¤ 00:11:58.31\00:12:02.18 ¤ AND LIVE EACH MOMENT ¤ 00:12:02.18\00:12:05.25 ¤ IN PEACE ETERNALLY ¤ 00:12:05.25\00:12:12.13 ¤ LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:12:12.13\00:12:18.47 ¤ AND LET IT BEGIN ¤ 00:12:18.47\00:12:23.81 ¤ WITH ME ¤ 00:12:23.81\00:12:31.38 ¤ OHHH ¤ 00:12:31.38\00:12:33.58 ¤ OH-OH-OH-OH-OHHH ¤ 00:12:33.58\00:12:37.69 ¤ TO TAKE EACH MOMENT ¤ 00:12:37.69\00:12:41.76 ¤ AND LIVE EACH MOMENT ¤ 00:12:41.76\00:12:44.86 ¤ IN PEACE ETERNALLY ¤ 00:12:44.86\00:12:51.73 ¤ LET THERE BE PEACE ¤ 00:12:51.73\00:12:57.97 ¤ LET THERE BE PEACE ¤ 00:12:57.97\00:13:04.08 ¤ LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:13:04.08\00:13:09.95 ¤ AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME-E-E-E ¤ 00:13:09.95\00:13:17.86 ¤ LET PEACE BEGIN ¤ 00:13:17.86\00:13:25.40 ¤ WITH ME-E-E-E-E ¤ 00:13:25.40\00:13:32.91 ¤ WITH ME-E-E-E-E-E ¤ 00:13:32.91\00:13:40.42 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:13:40.42\00:13:43.12 WELCOME TO THE SPENCERVILLE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:13:56.10\00:13:59.83 AND TO PEACE ON EARTH. 00:13:59.83\00:14:02.27 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE. 00:14:02.27\00:14:04.01 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US FROM HOME WHEREVER YOU ARE. 00:14:04.01\00:14:07.18 THIS EVENING WE HAVE A WONDERFUL MUSICAL PROGRAM PLANNED, 00:14:07.18\00:14:10.35 SOME STORIES THAT WILL TAKE US BACK 00:14:10.35\00:14:12.58 TO MEMORIES FROM YEARS GONE BY. 00:14:12.58\00:14:15.62 AND WE ARE JUST PRIVILEGED 00:14:15.62\00:14:17.32 TO CELEBRATE THIS WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS TIME OF YEAR 00:14:17.32\00:14:20.59 WITH EACH OF YOU. 00:14:20.59\00:14:21.96 LET'S BEGIN OUR PROGRAM TONIGHT WITH PRAYER. 00:14:21.96\00:14:25.36 DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU 00:14:25.36\00:14:27.83 FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF COMING TO YOU WITH OUR REQUESTS. 00:14:27.83\00:14:31.37 LORD, WE ASK THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US THIS EVENING. 00:14:31.37\00:14:34.00 AND, LORD, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR 00:14:34.00\00:14:36.87 WHERE WE CAN PAUSE AND THINK ABOUT 00:14:36.87\00:14:39.54 THE WONDERFUL GIFT THAT YOU GAVE US IN YOUR SON JESUS. 00:14:39.54\00:14:42.81 PLEASE GO WITH US, BLESS US, 00:14:42.81\00:14:45.01 WE PRAY AND ASK IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 00:14:45.01\00:14:48.15 [ BUGLE PLAYS "CHARGE" ] 00:14:52.19\00:14:54.09 Soldiers: CHARGE! 00:14:54.09\00:14:57.03 [ GUNFIRE ] 00:14:57.03\00:14:58.83 Announcer: CHRISTMAS, 1863. 00:15:04.80\00:15:07.67 AMERICA IS IN THE MIDDLE 00:15:07.67\00:15:09.04 OF ONE OF THE BLOODIEST CHAPTERS IN ITS HISTORY. 00:15:09.04\00:15:11.74 AND AS THE WAR DRAGS ON, IT SEEMS THAT, ONCE AGAIN, 00:15:11.74\00:15:15.38 CHRISTMAS WILL BE SPENT IN THE MISERY OF ANOTHER BATTLEFIELD. 00:15:15.38\00:15:19.98 BUT IN THE MIDST OF THE VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION, 00:15:19.98\00:15:22.98 A STORY EMERGES THAT DEFIES BELIEF, 00:15:22.98\00:15:26.19 A STORY OF TWO UNEXPECTED GIFTS EXCHANGED BETWEEN ENEMIES 00:15:26.19\00:15:30.56 THAT, FOR ONE BRIEF MOMENT, 00:15:30.56\00:15:32.39 BRING THE JOY AND PEACE OF CHRISTMAS TO THE WAR. 00:15:32.39\00:15:36.06 MANY ARE THE HEARTS THAT ARE WEARY TONIGHT, 00:15:38.13\00:15:41.74 WAITING FOR THE WAR TO CEASE. 00:15:41.74\00:15:45.07 MANY ARE THE HEARTS THAT ARE LOOKING TO THE RIGHT 00:15:45.07\00:15:48.11 TO SEE THE DAWN OF PEACE. 00:15:48.11\00:15:51.15 IT WAS A COLD AND DREARY CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON 00:15:51.15\00:15:54.88 IN THE MIDDLE OF A GREAT, BIG WAR. 00:15:54.88\00:15:58.02 THE SENTINELS WATCHED EACH OTHER FROM ACROSS THE OPPOSING BANKS 00:15:58.02\00:16:01.96 OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER NEAR FREDERICKSBURG, 00:16:01.96\00:16:04.93 THE STARS AND BARS ON THE WESTERN SIDE 00:16:04.93\00:16:08.60 AS THE CONFEDERATE TROOPS WAITED THERE FOR THE NEXT MOVE, 00:16:08.60\00:16:13.20 THE STARS AND STRIPES ON THE EASTERN SHORE 00:16:13.20\00:16:16.60 AS THE SENTINELS TRIED TO GUESS THE OTHER'S MOVEMENTS. 00:16:16.60\00:16:21.64 SUDDENLY A VOICE BROKE THE STILLNESS 00:16:21.64\00:16:23.58 OF THE CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON. 00:16:23.58\00:16:25.08 "HEY, YANK! 00:16:25.08\00:16:28.02 "WOULD YOU LET SOMEONE COME ACROSS THE RIVER 00:16:28.02\00:16:30.95 AND THEN GO BACK?" 00:16:30.95\00:16:32.59 WHEN THE ANSWER CAME BACK POSITIVELY, 00:16:32.59\00:16:35.89 A MOMENT LATER A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER 00:16:35.89\00:16:38.63 WAS PADDLING HIS WAY ACROSS THE RIVER, 00:16:38.63\00:16:41.43 CAREFULLY EDGING TOWARD THE NORTHERN SHORE. 00:16:41.43\00:16:46.03 WHEN HE ARRIVED, HE WAS IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDED 00:16:46.03\00:16:48.47 BY A CLUSTER OF UNION SOLDIERS. 00:16:48.47\00:16:50.01 "WHO ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU FROM? 00:16:50.01\00:16:51.61 WHAT IS YOUR COMPANY?" 00:16:51.61\00:16:52.74 "OH," HE SAID, "I AM FROM GEORGIA. 00:16:52.74\00:16:55.34 I'M A PART OF THE GEORGIA LEGION." 00:16:55.34\00:16:57.95 "OH," THEY SAID, "WE... 00:16:57.95\00:17:00.22 "WE MET YOU, IN A WAY, 00:17:00.22\00:17:02.55 "THREE MONTHS AGO AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 00:17:02.55\00:17:06.02 IT...IT WAS A HARD FIGHT." 00:17:06.02\00:17:08.39 "YES," THE GEORGIAN SAID, "IT...IT WAS. 00:17:08.39\00:17:11.76 "WE LEFT MANY DEAR FRIENDS ON THE FIELD. 00:17:11.76\00:17:15.16 "IN FACT, MY OWN BROTHER, WILL, WAS AMONG THE DEAD. 00:17:15.16\00:17:19.33 WE HAD TO LEAVE THEM AND HURRY AWAY." 00:17:19.33\00:17:22.57 "SAY," SAID ONE OF THE YANKEE SOLDIERS, 00:17:22.57\00:17:25.31 "I FOUND A PICTURE ON THE FIELD AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 00:17:25.31\00:17:28.88 I'VE BEEN CARRYING IT ALL THESE MONTHS." 00:17:28.88\00:17:31.68 AND HE HANDED IT TO THE SOLDIER FROM GEORGIA, 00:17:31.68\00:17:34.75 WHO LOOKED AT IT WITH ASTONISHMENT. 00:17:34.75\00:17:40.16 "THAT IS MY MOTHER," HE SAID. 00:17:40.16\00:17:42.96 MY MOTHER." 00:17:42.96\00:17:45.49 "THIS IS THE PHOTO WILL WAS CARRYING 00:17:47.00\00:17:51.57 AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN." 00:17:51.57\00:17:54.60 AS THE TEARS CONVULSED THE SOLDIER FROM GEORGIA, 00:17:54.60\00:17:59.21 THE UNION SOLDIERS TURNED AWAY 00:17:59.21\00:18:01.61 TO LET HIM HAVE HIS TEARS IN QUIETNESS. 00:18:01.61\00:18:04.81 WHEN HE REGAINED HIS COMPOSURE, HE TURNED BACK. 00:18:04.81\00:18:07.72 "SIR," HE SAID TO THE ONE WHO HAD GIVEN HIM THE PHOTOGRAPH, 00:18:07.72\00:18:11.22 "COULD I HAVE YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE? 00:18:11.22\00:18:13.69 "I WOULD LIKE PERHAPS TO CONTACT YOU WHEN THIS WAR IS OVER. 00:18:13.69\00:18:17.46 PERHAPS WE COULD BE FRIENDS THEN." 00:18:17.46\00:18:19.86 HE TOOK OUT THE BIBLE, A SMALL, THIN BIBLE FROM HIS POCKET, 00:18:19.86\00:18:24.17 AND STARTED TO WRITE IN THE FLYLEAF. 00:18:24.17\00:18:26.80 "WAIT," SAID ANOTHER VOICE. 00:18:26.80\00:18:29.04 "I KNOW THAT BOOK. I'VE SEEN THAT BOOK. 00:18:29.04\00:18:32.41 "THAT'S -- THAT'S MY BIBLE. 00:18:32.41\00:18:34.64 I LOST THAT AT BULL RUN 18 MONTHS AGO." 00:18:34.64\00:18:38.01 IT WAS THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S TURN TO BE ASTONISHED 00:18:38.01\00:18:43.35 AS HE HANDED THE SMALL BIBLE TO HIS YANKEE COUNTERPART. 00:18:43.35\00:18:49.19 HE OPENED IT AND READ THE WORDS 00:18:49.19\00:18:51.93 IN THE PENMANSHIP HE KNEW SO WELL -- 00:18:51.93\00:18:55.33 "MY GIFT TO ALEX. 00:18:55.33\00:18:58.83 "DECEMBER 25, 1860. 00:18:58.83\00:19:03.10 ELLA." 00:19:03.10\00:19:05.64 A GIFT THAT CAME BACK THE SECOND TIME. 00:19:05.64\00:19:10.31 THE UNION CAPTAIN WALKED UP TO ALEX AND SAID, 00:19:11.41\00:19:15.68 "IT IS NOT OFTEN, ALEX, 00:19:15.68\00:19:17.89 "THAT A GIFT COMES BACK TO A MAN FOR A SECOND TIME IN HIS LIFE, 00:19:17.89\00:19:23.53 ESPECIALLY A GIFT LIKE THIS." 00:19:23.53\00:19:27.40 "YES," SAID ALEX, "THERE IS NOTHING DEARER TO ME 00:19:28.70\00:19:32.73 IN ALL THE WORLD THAN THIS BOOK AND THE ONE WHO GAVE IT TO ME." 00:19:32.73\00:19:37.81 PERHAPS YOU HAVE SUCH A STORY IN YOUR LIFE -- 00:19:39.41\00:19:44.61 A BOOK LOST, 00:19:44.61\00:19:46.88 STACKED AWAY, 00:19:46.88\00:19:49.05 HIDDEN IN THE DEBRIS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 00:19:49.05\00:19:52.72 A BOOK THAT COULD BE A GIFT AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE -- 00:19:52.72\00:19:59.26 GOD'S WORD, A WORD OF PEACE, AT CHRISTMAS. 00:19:59.26\00:20:04.93 IT WAS NOVEMBER, A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE THANKSGIVING, 00:20:07.34\00:20:09.90 AND WE HAD A LITTLE CHRISTMAS TOUR THAT WE HAD TO DO. 00:20:09.90\00:20:12.54 AND SO, DO YOU REMEMBER, 00:20:12.54\00:20:13.84 WE ALL MET OUT AT DON'S HOUSE OUT IN THE COUNTRY. 00:20:13.84\00:20:16.28 AND WE WORKED ON THAT SONG FOR -- 00:20:16.28\00:20:18.35 IT WAS COLD THAT DAY, 00:20:18.35\00:20:19.65 AND WE WORKED ON THAT SONG FOR TWO OR THREE HOURS, 00:20:19.65\00:20:21.68 AND DON HAD A BIG FIRE GOING IN THE FIREPLACE, AND -- 00:20:21.68\00:20:24.55 Russell: AT LEAST HE FED US. 00:20:24.55\00:20:26.32 EXACTLY. 00:20:26.32\00:20:27.36 BUT THE NEAT THING WAS -- 00:20:27.36\00:20:29.02 THE NEAT THING WAS IT WAS A SPECIAL MOMENT FOR US 00:20:29.02\00:20:31.53 BECAUSE AFTER ALL THE REHEARSAL 00:20:31.53\00:20:33.26 AND THE SONG FINALLY CAME TOGETHER, 00:20:33.26\00:20:35.13 WE LOOKED OUT, 00:20:35.13\00:20:36.40 AND THERE WAS SNOW ON THE TENNESSEE HILLS THERE. 00:20:36.40\00:20:39.67 AND IT WAS JUST KIND OF AN END TO A PERFECT DAY. 00:20:39.67\00:20:42.17 IT WAS FUN, YOU KNOW. 00:20:42.17\00:20:43.71 YOU LOOK BACK ON ALL THE MILES THAT WE'VE TRAVELED 00:20:43.71\00:20:47.24 AND ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD'VE GONE WRONG BUT DIDN'T, 00:20:47.24\00:20:50.25 IT JUST MAKES YOU EXTRA THANKFUL THIS TIME OF THE YEAR 00:20:50.25\00:20:53.62 FOR GOD'S HAND OF BLESSING. 00:20:53.62\00:20:55.58 IT WAS ALL BECAUSE A LITTLE BABY WAS BORN 00:20:55.58\00:20:58.35 AND THE ANGEL APPEARED TO THE SHEPHERDS. 00:20:58.35\00:21:00.42 THAT'S RIGHT. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN. 00:21:00.42\00:21:03.79 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:03.79\00:21:06.06 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:06.06\00:21:08.03 Both: ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:08.03\00:21:09.70 ¤ ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:09.70\00:21:11.37 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:11.37\00:21:15.27 ¤ OVER THE HILLS AND EVERYWHERE ¤ 00:21:15.27\00:21:18.77 ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:18.77\00:21:22.04 ¤ THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:21:22.04\00:21:25.51 ¤ WHILE THE SHEPHERDS WERE WATCHING ¤ ¤ WHILE SHEPHERDS 00:21:25.51\00:21:29.75 WERE WATCHING ¤ ¤ THEIR SILENT FLOCKS BY NIGHT ¤ ¤ THEIR SILENT 00:21:29.75\00:21:33.42 FLOCKS BY NIGHT ¤ ¤ BEHOLD, THROUGHOUT THE HEAVENS ¤ 00:21:33.42\00:21:37.46 ¤ THERE SHONE A HOLY LIGHT ¤ 00:21:37.46\00:21:46.90 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:46.90\00:21:50.47 ¤ OVER THE HILLS AND EVERYWHERE ¤ 00:21:50.47\00:21:53.91 ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:21:53.91\00:21:57.55 ¤ THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:21:57.55\00:22:01.35 ¤ DOWN IN A LOWLY MANGER ¤ 00:22:01.35\00:22:05.05 ¤ THE HUMBLE CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:22:05.05\00:22:09.29 ¤ AND BROUGHT US GOD'S SALVATION ¤ 00:22:09.29\00:22:13.06 ¤ THAT BLESSED CHRISTMAS MORN ¤ 00:22:13.06\00:22:22.34 ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:22.34\00:22:25.97 ¤ OVER THE HILLS AND EVERYWHERE ¤ 00:22:25.97\00:22:29.41 ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:29.41\00:22:33.15 ¤ THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:22:33.15\00:22:35.58 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:35.58\00:22:37.32 ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:37.32\00:22:40.89 ¤ OVER THE HILLS AND EVERYWHERE ¤ 00:22:40.89\00:22:44.33 ¤ GO, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:44.33\00:22:47.96 ¤ THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:22:47.96\00:22:51.50 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:51.50\00:22:53.60 ¤ ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ ¤ ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:53.60\00:22:55.57 ¤ GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:55.57\00:22:58.44 ¤ TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ¤ 00:22:58.44\00:23:06.31 ¤ JESUS CHRIST ¤ 00:23:06.31\00:23:13.56 ¤ WAS BORN ¤ 00:23:13.56\00:23:21.26 ¤ WAS BORN ¤ 00:23:21.26\00:23:29.00 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:23:29.00\00:23:32.51 ¤ DR-R-R-UM, DR-R-R-UM ¤ 00:23:37.08\00:23:40.02 ¤ DR-R-R-UM, DR-R-R-UM, DR-R-R-UM ¤ 00:23:40.02\00:23:42.95 ¤ COME, THEY TOLD ME ¤ 00:23:42.95\00:23:47.46 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:23:47.46\00:23:50.06 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ ¤ DRUM ¤ 00:23:50.06\00:23:51.23 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ ¤ DRUM ¤ 00:23:51.23\00:23:52.59 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ 00:23:52.59\00:23:54.00 ¤ OUR NEWBORN KING TO SEE ¤ 00:23:54.00\00:23:57.80 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:23:57.80\00:24:00.30 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ ¤ DRUM ¤ 00:24:00.30\00:24:01.37 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ ¤ DRUM ¤ 00:24:01.37\00:24:03.07 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ 00:24:03.07\00:24:04.61 ¤ OUR FINEST GIFTS WE BRING ¤ 00:24:04.61\00:24:08.21 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:24:08.21\00:24:10.61 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM, PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ 00:24:10.61\00:24:13.11 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ 00:24:13.11\00:24:15.15 ¤ TO LAY BEFORE OUR KING ¤ 00:24:15.15\00:24:18.45 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:24:18.45\00:24:21.12 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:24:21.12\00:24:23.73 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:24:23.73\00:24:26.19 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM, PA-PA-PA-PUM ¤ ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:24:26.19\00:24:29.03 ¤ SO TO HONOR HIM ¤ 00:24:29.03\00:24:33.60 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:24:33.60\00:24:36.37 ¤ PA-PA-PA PUM ¤ 00:24:36.37\00:24:39.01 ¤ WHEN WE COME ¤ 00:24:39.01\00:24:43.98 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA-PA-PUM ¤ 00:24:43.98\00:24:45.85 ¤ DRUM, DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:24:45.85\00:24:48.18 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA-PA-PUM ¤ 00:24:48.18\00:24:49.95 ¤ BABY JESUS ¤ 00:24:49.95\00:24:53.89 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:24:53.89\00:24:56.12 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:24:56.12\00:24:57.93 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:24:57.93\00:25:00.06 ¤ I AM A POOR BOY, TOO ¤ 00:25:00.06\00:25:04.00 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:04.00\00:25:06.37 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:06.37\00:25:08.37 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:08.37\00:25:10.21 ¤ I HAVE NO GIFT TO BRING ¤ 00:25:10.21\00:25:14.08 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:14.08\00:25:16.04 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:16.04\00:25:18.28 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:18.28\00:25:20.62 ¤ THAT'S FIT TO GIVE A KING ¤ 00:25:20.62\00:25:24.05 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:24.05\00:25:26.12 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:26.12\00:25:27.12 ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:27.12\00:25:28.76 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:28.76\00:25:29.76 ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:29.76\00:25:31.26 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:31.26\00:25:32.96 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:32.96\00:25:34.83 ¤ SHALL I PLAY FOR YOU ¤ 00:25:34.83\00:25:39.00 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:39.00\00:25:41.37 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:41.37\00:25:43.37 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:43.37\00:25:44.74 ¤ ON MY DRUM? ¤ 00:25:44.74\00:25:48.01 ¤ PUM, PUM, PUM ¤ 00:25:48.01\00:25:50.11 ¤ PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:50.11\00:25:51.21 ¤ PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:51.21\00:25:52.21 ¤ PA-PA-PUM, PA-PA-PUM ¤ 00:25:52.21\00:25:54.25 ¤ MARY NODDED ¤ 00:25:54.25\00:25:59.22 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:25:59.22\00:26:00.62 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:00.62\00:26:02.72 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:02.72\00:26:04.99 ¤ THE OX AND LAMB KEPT TIME ¤ 00:26:04.99\00:26:09.00 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:26:09.00\00:26:10.67 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:10.67\00:26:13.00 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:13.00\00:26:15.00 ¤ I PLAYED MY DRUM FOR HIM ¤ 00:26:15.00\00:26:19.01 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:26:19.01\00:26:21.24 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:21.24\00:26:22.94 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:22.94\00:26:25.11 ¤ I PLAYED MY BEST FOR HIM ¤ 00:26:25.11\00:26:28.95 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:26:28.95\00:26:31.89 ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:26:31.89\00:26:34.19 ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:26:34.19\00:26:37.76 ¤ PA-RUM-PA-PA-PUM ¤ 00:26:37.76\00:26:39.89 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA ¤ 00:26:39.89\00:26:40.90 ¤ PA-PA-PA-PA ¤ 00:26:40.90\00:26:42.20 ¤ PA-PA-PA, PA-PA-PA, PA-PA-PA RUM ¤ 00:26:42.20\00:26:44.80 [ HARMONIZING ] 00:26:44.80\00:26:48.97 ¤ DRUM, DRUM-DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:48.97\00:26:52.24 ¤ PUM, PUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:52.24\00:26:54.88 ¤ PUM, PUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:54.88\00:26:57.38 ¤ PUM, PUM, DRUM ¤ 00:26:57.38\00:26:58.81 ¤ THEN HE SMILED AT ME ¤ 00:26:58.81\00:27:03.28 ¤ PA-RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:27:03.28\00:27:06.45 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:27:06.45\00:27:08.79 ¤ ME AND MY DRUM ¤ 00:27:08.79\00:27:12.53 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:27:12.53\00:27:14.20 ¤ RUM-PUM-PUM-PUM ¤ 00:27:14.20\00:27:16.63 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:27:16.63\00:27:18.80 ¤ ME AND MY DRUM ¤ 00:27:18.80\00:27:21.74 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:27:21.74\00:27:23.64 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:27:23.64\00:27:26.37 ¤ DRUM, DRUM ¤ 00:27:26.37\00:27:28.94 ¤ DRUM ¤ 00:27:28.94\00:27:30.95 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:27:35.15\00:27:39.62 ¤ THEY ¤ 00:27:52.63\00:27:53.77 ¤ LAID MY PRETTY LITTLE JESUS ¤ 00:27:53.77\00:28:01.58 ¤ DOWN IN THE STRAW ¤ 00:28:01.58\00:28:07.98 ¤ THEY ¤ 00:28:07.98\00:28:09.15 ¤ LAID MY PRETTY LITTLE JESUS ¤ 00:28:09.15\00:28:16.56 ¤ DOWN IN THE STRAW ¤ 00:28:16.56\00:28:25.10 ¤ THEN ¤ 00:28:25.10\00:28:26.00 ¤ HALLELUJAH ¤ 00:28:26.00\00:28:28.90 ¤ THEN ¤ 00:28:28.90\00:28:29.80 ¤ HALLELUJAH ¤ 00:28:29.80\00:28:34.44 ¤ LORD, WASN'T THAT A BRIGHT BETHLEHEM MORNING? ¤ 00:28:34.44\00:28:47.26 ¤ ALL AROUND THE GLORY MANGER ¤ 00:28:47.26\00:28:57.13 ¤ SEE ALL HIS PRETTY LITTLE FINGERS ¤ 00:28:57.13\00:29:05.84 ¤ PLAYING IN THE STRAW ¤ 00:29:05.84\00:29:12.61 ¤ HEAR ¤ 00:29:12.61\00:29:13.65 ¤ ALL HIS PRETTY LITTLE COOING ¤ 00:29:13.65\00:29:20.86 ¤ CALLING FROM THE STRAW ¤ 00:29:20.86\00:29:29.16 ¤ THEN ¤ 00:29:29.16\00:29:30.07 ¤ HALLELUJAH ¤ 00:29:30.07\00:29:33.00 ¤ THEN ¤ 00:29:33.00\00:29:34.14 ¤ HALLELUJAH ¤ 00:29:34.14\00:29:38.87 ¤ LORD, WASN'T THAT A BRIGHT BETHLEHEM MORNING? ¤ 00:29:38.87\00:29:52.55 ¤ ALL AROUND ¤ 00:29:52.55\00:29:55.72 ¤ THE GLORY MANGER ¤ 00:29:55.72\00:30:05.57 ¤ THE GLORY MANGER ¤ 00:30:05.57\00:30:15.44 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:30:15.44\00:30:19.31 OUR SCRIPTURE READING IS FROM LUKE 2:7-12. 00:30:30.13\00:30:34.00 "AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON 00:30:34.00\00:30:35.60 "AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHS 00:30:35.60\00:30:37.10 "AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER 00:30:37.10\00:30:38.33 "BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN. 00:30:38.33\00:30:40.37 "NOW, THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY 00:30:40.37\00:30:41.94 "SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE FIELDS, 00:30:41.94\00:30:43.61 "KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. 00:30:43.61\00:30:45.44 "AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM, 00:30:45.44\00:30:47.74 "AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, 00:30:47.74\00:30:49.68 "AND THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. 00:30:49.68\00:30:51.18 THEN THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM..." 00:30:51.18\00:30:52.71 "DO NOT BE AFRAID, 00:30:53.68\00:30:55.32 "FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY 00:30:55.32\00:30:58.35 "WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. 00:30:58.35\00:31:00.22 "FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID 00:31:00.22\00:31:03.26 "A SAVIOR WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD. 00:31:03.26\00:31:05.63 "AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU -- 00:31:05.63\00:31:07.50 "YOU WILL FIND A BABE 00:31:07.50\00:31:08.86 WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS LYING IN A MANGER." 00:31:08.86\00:31:12.00 [ PLAYS "STILL, STILL, STILL" ] 00:31:17.11\00:31:20.01 Children's Chorus: ¤ STILL, STILL, STILL ¤ 00:31:29.38\00:31:35.29 ¤ WEIL'S KINDLEIN SCHLAFEN WILL ¤ 00:31:35.29\00:31:41.76 ¤ MARIA TUT DICH NIEDERSINGEN ¤ 00:31:41.76\00:31:49.07 ¤ UND IHR TREUES HERZ DARBRINGEN ¤ 00:31:49.07\00:31:56.04 ¤ STILL, STILL, STILL ¤ 00:31:56.04\00:32:02.08 ¤ WEIL'S KINDLEIN SCHLAFEN WILL ¤ 00:32:02.08\00:32:09.72 ¤ SCHLAF, SCHLAF, SCHLAF ¤ 00:32:22.84\00:32:28.44 ¤ MEIN LIEBES KINDLEIN, SCHLAF ¤ 00:32:28.44\00:32:35.02 ¤ DIE ENGEL TUN SCHOEN JUBILIEREN ¤ 00:32:35.02\00:32:42.22 ¤ BEI DEM KRIPPLEIN MUSIZIEREN ¤ 00:32:42.22\00:32:48.83 ¤ SCHLAF, SCHLAF, SCHLAF ¤ 00:32:48.83\00:32:54.84 ¤ MEIN LIEBES KINDLEIN, SCHLAF ¤ 00:32:54.84\00:33:02.64 ¤ GROSSE, GROSSE, GROSSE ¤ 00:33:12.79\00:33:18.36 ¤ DIE LIEB' IST UEBERGROSSE ¤ 00:33:18.36\00:33:25.13 ¤ GOTT HAT DEN HIMMELSTHRON VERLASSEN ¤ 00:33:25.13\00:33:32.61 ¤ UND MUSSE REISEN AUF DER STRASSEN ¤ 00:33:32.61\00:33:39.75 ¤ GROSSE, GROSSE, GROSSE ¤ 00:33:39.75\00:33:45.29 ¤ DIE LIEB' IST UEBERGROSSE ¤ 00:33:45.29\00:33:53.80 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:34:14.02\00:34:18.72 THERE'S AN UNUSUAL PASSAGE 00:34:27.30\00:34:29.50 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET OF HAGGAI 00:34:29.50\00:34:32.83 WHERE THE PROPHET REFERS TO THE COMING MESSIAH 00:34:32.83\00:34:35.34 AS THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS. 00:34:35.34\00:34:36.77 AND OF COURSE, 00:34:36.77\00:34:38.04 THAT'S NOT ONE OF THE BETTER-KNOWN TITLES FOR JESUS, 00:34:38.04\00:34:40.21 AND IT'S CERTAINLY NOT ONE OF THE ONES 00:34:40.21\00:34:41.91 THAT YOU EXPECT TO HEAR AT CHRISTMASTIME. 00:34:41.91\00:34:43.68 WHAT YOU WANT AT CHRISTMASTIME IS THE PROPHET ISAIAH -- 00:34:43.68\00:34:46.68 "WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, PRINCE OF PEACE, 00:34:46.68\00:34:48.95 UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN." 00:34:48.95\00:34:50.35 BUT HAGGAI GOES DOWN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PATH. 00:34:50.35\00:34:53.99 HAGGAI CALLS JESUS THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS. 00:34:53.99\00:34:56.56 AND IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND 00:34:56.56\00:34:58.16 WHY HE MIGHT CALL JESUS THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, 00:34:58.16\00:35:01.00 IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, 00:35:01.00\00:35:02.23 ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO START LOOKING 00:35:02.23\00:35:04.50 IS IN EXODUS 33. 00:35:04.50\00:35:06.57 NOW, I KNOW, AGAIN, 00:35:06.57\00:35:08.40 THAT EXODUS 33 IS NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT AT CHRISTMASTIME. 00:35:08.40\00:35:11.64 YOU WANT MATTHEW 1. 00:35:11.64\00:35:13.27 YOU WANT LUKE 2. 00:35:13.27\00:35:14.54 BUT I THINK IF YOU BEAR WITH ME FOR A MOMENT, 00:35:14.54\00:35:17.05 YOU'LL SEE THAT BOTH EXODUS 33 AND HAGGAI 00:35:17.05\00:35:19.58 START TO MAKE SOME REALLY GOOD CHRISTMAS SENSE. 00:35:19.58\00:35:22.52 IN EXODUS 33, MOSES IS OUT IN THE DESERT, 00:35:22.52\00:35:27.02 AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE 00:35:27.02\00:35:29.29 RELYING ON HIM WITH THEIR VERY LIVES. 00:35:29.29\00:35:31.73 AND HE'S BEGINNING TO FEEL THE WEIGHT OF LEADERSHIP, 00:35:31.73\00:35:34.93 THE PRESSURE OF LEADING THESE PEOPLE, 00:35:34.93\00:35:37.17 AND HE WANTS A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM GOD. 00:35:37.17\00:35:39.93 HE WANTS TO KNOW THAT GOD IS ESPECIALLY CLOSE 00:35:39.93\00:35:42.97 BECAUSE HE'S RESPONSIBLE. 00:35:42.97\00:35:45.94 AND SO HE'S STANDING ON THE MOUNTAINTOP. 00:35:45.94\00:35:48.11 HE'S AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU CAN PHYSICALLY GET. 00:35:48.11\00:35:50.55 AND GOD IS VEILED JUST INSIDE THE CLOUD. 00:35:50.55\00:35:52.71 AND IN EXODUS 33, MOSES BEGINS TO PLEAD WITH GOD. 00:35:52.71\00:35:55.92 "PLEASE COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD. 00:35:55.92\00:35:58.72 "LET ME SEE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE OF YOU. 00:35:58.72\00:36:00.86 "I NEED TO SEE YOUR FACE. 00:36:00.86\00:36:02.12 "I FEEL COMPLETELY ALONE OUT HERE IN THE WILDERNESS. 00:36:02.12\00:36:04.59 "PLEASE, MORE. 00:36:04.59\00:36:06.16 "LORD, I KNOW YOU'RE REAL. I SAW THE MIRACLES. 00:36:06.16\00:36:09.13 "I SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN PHARAOH'S PALACE. 00:36:09.13\00:36:11.40 "I SAW YOU IN THE PILLAR OF CLOUD BY DAY 00:36:11.40\00:36:13.47 "AND THE PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT. 00:36:13.47\00:36:15.10 "I SAW THE WATERS OF THE RED SEA PART, 00:36:15.10\00:36:17.44 "BUT I NEED SOMETHING MORE. 00:36:17.44\00:36:18.84 "I'VE GOT TO KNOW THAT YOU'RE CLOSE. 00:36:18.84\00:36:20.71 "I NEED YOU. 00:36:20.71\00:36:21.91 PLEASE, GOD, STEP OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD." 00:36:21.91\00:36:25.21 "MOSES, I WOULD LOVE TO. 00:36:25.21\00:36:27.58 "I WOULD LOVE TO GET CLOSER TO YOU. 00:36:27.58\00:36:29.22 "I WOULD LOVE TO STEP OUT, 00:36:29.22\00:36:30.35 "BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, I CAN'T DO IT. 00:36:30.35\00:36:32.22 "MY PRESENCE USED TO BE A DELIGHT TO YOUR FIRST PARENTS. 00:36:32.22\00:36:35.52 "IN EDEN, THEY LOVED TO HAVE ME COME IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING. 00:36:35.52\00:36:38.83 "I WAS A DELIGHT TO YOU THEN. 00:36:38.83\00:36:40.40 "BUT EVER SINCE SIN, EVER SINCE YOU WERE SEPARATED FROM ME, 00:36:40.40\00:36:43.47 "MY PRESENCE HAS BECOME A CONSUMING FIRE. 00:36:43.47\00:36:46.17 "MOSES, I WOULD DEARLY LOVE TO STEP OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD, 00:36:46.17\00:36:49.97 "BUT IF I DID, IT WOULD KILL YOU. 00:36:49.97\00:36:52.24 I CAN'T DO IT." 00:36:52.24\00:36:53.74 "BUT LORD, PLEASE, THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING 00:36:53.74\00:36:56.04 "YOU CAN GIVE ME, SOME TOKEN OF YOUR PRESENCE. 00:36:56.04\00:36:58.35 I NEED TO SEE SOMETHING." 00:36:58.35\00:37:00.88 IT'S THE CRY OF THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. 00:37:00.88\00:37:03.95 WE LOOK OUT INTO SPACE THROUGH A TELESCOPE 00:37:03.95\00:37:06.72 AND WE SEE VAST, EMPTY REGIONS, 00:37:06.72\00:37:08.66 AND WE LOOK BACK AT THIS TINY BLUE MARBLE 00:37:08.66\00:37:11.06 THAT WE LIVE ON AND WE ASK THE QUESTION, 00:37:11.06\00:37:13.43 "ARE WE REALLY ALONE HERE?" 00:37:13.43\00:37:15.06 BECAUSE WHILE OUR PLANET IS SMALL, THE PROBLEMS SEEM BIG. 00:37:15.06\00:37:19.37 "AM I BY MYSELF? LORD, PLEASE." 00:37:19.37\00:37:22.17 NOW, HOW IN THE WORLD IS EXODUS 33 A CHRISTMAS STORY? 00:37:22.17\00:37:25.94 WELL, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. 00:37:25.94\00:37:28.04 WHO EXACTLY IS MOSES SPEAKING TO INSIDE THE CLOUD? 00:37:28.04\00:37:31.41 1st CORINTHIANS 10 LEAVES NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 00:37:31.41\00:37:33.72 PAUL TELLS US POINT-BLANK THAT THE PRESENCE IN THE CLOUD 00:37:33.72\00:37:36.55 THAT FOLLOWED ISRAEL ACROSS THE DESERT 00:37:36.55\00:37:38.62 WAS NONE OTHER THAN JESUS CHRIST. 00:37:38.62\00:37:40.62 THAT'S WHO'S IN THE CLOUD. 00:37:40.62\00:37:42.42 AND MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN 00:37:42.42\00:37:43.79 IS GETTING HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE BABY 00:37:43.79\00:37:46.03 WHO WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM SOME 1,500 YEARS LATER. 00:37:46.03\00:37:48.90 HE'S STARTING TO SEE JESUS. 00:37:48.90\00:37:50.97 AND ONCE YOU START TO SEE JESUS, 00:37:50.97\00:37:52.87 ONCE YOU START TO GRASP WHO HE IS, YOU NEVER GET ENOUGH. 00:37:52.87\00:37:56.17 THE DESIRE IN YOUR HEART JUST BUILDS AND BUILDS. 00:37:56.17\00:37:59.11 "LORD, PLEASE, SHOW ME SOMETHING. 00:37:59.11\00:38:01.91 I NEED TO SEE YOU." 00:38:01.91\00:38:04.18 "ALL RIGHT, MOSES. 00:38:04.18\00:38:05.61 "I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'LL DO. 00:38:05.61\00:38:07.32 I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I CAN." 00:38:07.32\00:38:10.22 NOW, I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY 00:38:10.22\00:38:12.82 BECAUSE IT REVEALS SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT GOD. 00:38:12.82\00:38:15.62 HE WANTS TO STEP OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD. 00:38:15.62\00:38:18.29 HE WOULD LOVE DEARLY TO GET CLOSER TO THE HUMAN RACE. 00:38:18.29\00:38:21.06 HE WANTS TO BECAUSE HE HAS SEEN THE WAY THAT WE LIVE. 00:38:21.06\00:38:24.13 HE HAS SEEN WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US 00:38:24.13\00:38:26.30 SINCE WE SEPARATED FROM HIM, AND IT RIPS HIS HEART OUT. 00:38:26.30\00:38:29.47 HE CAN'T STAND IT. HE WANTS TO GET CLOSER. 00:38:29.47\00:38:31.71 HE WANTS TO STEP INTO THIS WORLD 00:38:31.71\00:38:33.31 BECAUSE HE HAS SEEN WHAT IS HAPPENING TO US, 00:38:33.31\00:38:35.64 AND NOT ONLY HAS HE SEEN IT, HE HAS FELT IT. 00:38:35.64\00:38:38.75 HE FEELS WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN WE RUN SCARED 00:38:38.75\00:38:41.38 FROM THE NEXT EPIDEMIC 00:38:41.38\00:38:42.75 AND EBOLA TOUCHES DOWN IN PLACES ALL OVER THE WORLD. 00:38:42.75\00:38:45.52 GOD FEELS IT. 00:38:45.52\00:38:47.22 HE SEES THE ROCKETS GO ONE DIRECTION IN PALESTINE 00:38:47.22\00:38:49.66 AND THE TANKS MOVE THE OTHER DIRECTION, 00:38:49.66\00:38:51.66 AND HE FEELS IT. 00:38:51.66\00:38:53.83 HE SEES IT. 00:38:53.83\00:38:55.16 HE SEES THE CHILDREN GOING TO BED HUNGRY AT NIGHT, 00:38:55.16\00:38:58.30 AND THE HEART OF GOD FEELS IT. 00:38:58.30\00:39:00.20 HE SEES YOUNG CHILDREN ABDUCTED IN INDIA 00:39:00.20\00:39:02.64 AND SOLD INTO PROSTITUTION AT 14 YEARS OF AGE, 00:39:02.64\00:39:05.34 AND THE HEART OF GOD FEELS IT, 00:39:05.34\00:39:06.78 AND HE LONGS TO STEP INTO THIS WORLD 00:39:06.78\00:39:08.64 AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 00:39:08.64\00:39:10.51 HE LONGS TO STEP IN AND PUT A STOP TO IT. 00:39:10.51\00:39:12.55 HE HAS FELT IT ALL. 00:39:12.55\00:39:13.55 THE BIBLE SAYS IN PSALM 56 00:39:13.55\00:39:15.78 THAT HE HAS WRITTEN DOWN EVERY ONE OF OUR TEARS. 00:39:15.78\00:39:18.75 IN FACT, IT SAYS IN PSALM 56 00:39:18.75\00:39:20.69 THAT GOD HAS COLLECTED EVERY ONE OF OUR TEARS IN A BOTTLE. 00:39:20.69\00:39:23.63 HE FELT THEM ALL. 00:39:23.63\00:39:26.03 AND HE LOOKS AT OUR WORLD 00:39:26.03\00:39:27.30 THE WAY THAT IT IS RIGHT NOW TODAY, 00:39:27.30\00:39:29.13 AND HE KNOWS IN HIS HEART THIS IS NOT THE WAY HE DESIGNED IT. 00:39:29.13\00:39:32.07 THIS IS NOT THE WAY HE DESIGNED FOR YOU AND I TO LIVE, 00:39:32.07\00:39:34.74 AND HE WANTS TO GET CLOSER. 00:39:34.74\00:39:36.10 HE WANTS TO PUT A STOP TO IT, 00:39:36.10\00:39:37.54 BUT HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU DO THAT? 00:39:37.54\00:39:39.67 HOW DO YOU PUT A STOP TO EVIL 00:39:39.67\00:39:42.28 WITHOUT DESTROYING THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN IT? 00:39:42.28\00:39:45.71 HOW DO YOU STEP OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD 00:39:45.71\00:39:47.88 AND PUT A STOP TO ALL THE SUFFERING 00:39:47.88\00:39:49.78 WITHOUT DESTROYING ME, WITHOUT DESTROYING YOU? 00:39:49.78\00:39:53.12 BECAUSE I MEAN, IF WE'RE REALLY HONEST ABOUT IT, 00:39:53.12\00:39:55.56 WE'D HAVE TO ADMIT WE'VE HAD A HAND 00:39:55.56\00:39:57.46 IN THE WAY THAT THE WORLD IS. 00:39:57.46\00:39:59.19 WE'VE HAD A PART TO PLAY. 00:39:59.19\00:40:00.86 THERE'S EVIL THAT LURKS IN EVERY HUMAN HEART. 00:40:00.86\00:40:02.90 AND IF YOU HAVE A QUIET MOMENT AND THINK ABOUT IT, 00:40:02.90\00:40:05.17 YOU SUDDENLY START TO SEE IT -- 00:40:05.17\00:40:06.57 YES, WE'RE NOT ALL POL POT, AND WE'RE NOT ALL HITLER, 00:40:06.57\00:40:09.70 BUT THERE'S A PART THAT WE HAVE PLAYED 00:40:09.70\00:40:11.97 IN THE DOWNGRADING OF GOD'S CREATION. 00:40:11.97\00:40:14.48 HOW DOES GOD STEP OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD 00:40:14.48\00:40:17.15 WITHOUT DESTROYING ME? 00:40:17.15\00:40:18.68 HOW DOES HE DO IT? 00:40:18.68\00:40:19.85 WHAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT HE'S GOT? 00:40:19.85\00:40:21.35 "MOSES, LISTEN. I'D LOVE TO STEP OUT. 00:40:21.35\00:40:23.49 HERE'S WHAT I'M GOING TO DO. I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I CAN." 00:40:23.49\00:40:26.42 NOW, LISTEN CAREFULLY. 00:40:26.42\00:40:27.82 IT'S EXODUS 34, AND ITISA CHRISTMAS STORY. 00:40:27.82\00:40:30.29 THE LORD PASSED BY BEFORE HIM AND PROCLAIMED, 00:40:30.29\00:40:33.80 "THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, 00:40:33.80\00:40:37.10 LONGSUFFERING AND ABUNDANT IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH." 00:40:37.10\00:40:40.40 WHAT DID GOD SHOW MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN? 00:40:40.40\00:40:43.04 HE SHOWED HIM HIS PERFECT, FLAWLESS CHARACTER. 00:40:43.04\00:40:45.97 HE SHOWED HIM HIS INTENTION 00:40:45.97\00:40:47.38 OF PEACE AND GOODWILL TOWARD ALL MEN. 00:40:47.38\00:40:49.38 HE SHOWED MOSES SOMETHING OF THE BABY 00:40:49.38\00:40:51.75 THAT WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM 1,500 YEARS LATER. 00:40:51.75\00:40:54.78 GOD SHOWED MOSES THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS. 00:40:54.78\00:40:57.62 AND AS IT TURNS OUT, THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS 00:40:57.62\00:41:00.66 IS EXACTLY EVERYTHING YOU WOULD HOPE GOD WOULD BE. 00:41:00.66\00:41:04.03 IT'S JESUS. 00:41:04.03\00:41:05.79 LISTEN TO WHAT HAGGAI ACTUALLY WROTE. 00:41:05.79\00:41:09.40 "AND I WILL SHAKE ALL NATIONS 00:41:09.40\00:41:11.23 AND THEY SHALL COME TO THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS." 00:41:11.23\00:41:14.44 THERE'S THAT TITLE FOR JESUS. 00:41:14.44\00:41:16.57 "AND I WILL FILL THIS TEMPLE WITH GLORY," 00:41:16.57\00:41:20.08 THE THING THAT MOSES BEGGED TO SEE. 00:41:20.08\00:41:22.91 WHICH TEMPLE? IT'S THE SECOND TEMPLE. 00:41:22.91\00:41:25.31 AS HAGGAI IS WRITING THIS, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 00:41:25.31\00:41:27.75 ARE ON THEIR WAY BACK FROM BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY 00:41:27.75\00:41:30.12 AND THEY HAVE TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE. 00:41:30.12\00:41:32.02 AND IT'S A DAUNTING TASK, AND HAGGAI SAYS, 00:41:32.02\00:41:34.12 "WHEN YOU BUILD THAT SECOND TEMPLE, 00:41:34.12\00:41:36.09 IT WILL BE FILLED WITH GOD'S GLORY." 00:41:36.09\00:41:38.13 NOW, THAT'S AN EXCITING PROMISE BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEIR HISTORY. 00:41:38.13\00:41:41.20 WHEN SOLOMON HAD DEDICATED THE FIRST TEMPLE, 00:41:41.20\00:41:43.43 THE PRESENCE OF GOD HAD LITERALLY SHOWN UP. 00:41:43.43\00:41:45.83 IT HAD MOVED RIGHT IN IN A CLOUD, 00:41:45.83\00:41:47.54 AND THEY COULD POINT TO THE TEMPLE AND SAY, 00:41:47.54\00:41:49.57 "SEE? GOD IS WITH US. HE HAS NOT ABANDONED US." 00:41:49.57\00:41:53.31 SO THEY GOT EXCITED. 00:41:53.31\00:41:54.81 HAGGAI SAID, "THIS TEMPLE WILL BE FILLED WITH GLORY, TOO." 00:41:54.81\00:41:57.31 AND THEY REBUILT IT AND THEY DEDICATED IT 00:41:57.31\00:42:00.38 AND NOTHING HAPPENED. 00:42:00.38\00:42:03.69 NO CHOIR OF ANGELS. 00:42:03.69\00:42:06.19 NO FIRE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 00:42:06.19\00:42:09.36 NO BRILLIANT CLOUD OF GOD'S GLORY, 00:42:09.36\00:42:12.43 AND ABSOLUTELY NO PEACE ON EARTH. 00:42:12.43\00:42:15.40 IN FACT, THE NEXT THING THEY HAD 00:42:15.40\00:42:17.47 WERE FOUR GREEK KINGS AND THEN ROMAN OCCUPATION. 00:42:17.47\00:42:20.64 NO PEACE ON EARTH. 00:42:20.64\00:42:21.84 AND IT WAS BITTER. IT WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 00:42:21.84\00:42:24.07 DID GOD FAIL US IN THE PROMISE? 00:42:24.07\00:42:25.97 WHERE IS THE GLORY OF GOD? 00:42:25.97\00:42:27.64 IT WAS SUPPOSED TO FILL THIS TEMPLE. 00:42:27.64\00:42:29.44 VERSE 9 OF HAGGAI 2 -- 00:42:29.44\00:42:31.31 "THE GLORY OF THIS LATTER TEMPLE WILL BE GREATER THAN THE FIRST. 00:42:31.31\00:42:35.18 AND IN THIS PLACE, I WILL GIVE PEACE." 00:42:35.18\00:42:37.99 WE DON'T HAVE PEACE ON EARTH. 00:42:37.99\00:42:40.26 DID YOU FAIL US, GOD? 00:42:40.26\00:42:41.96 IT WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 00:42:41.96\00:42:43.69 IT WAS BITTER. 00:42:43.69\00:42:44.99 AND GOD'S PEOPLE WERE TEMPTED TO THINK 00:42:44.99\00:42:46.80 THAT THE HUMAN RACE IS NOW ON ITS OWN, 00:42:46.80\00:42:48.56 JUST LIKE PEOPLE ARE TEMPTED TO THINK NOW. 00:42:48.56\00:42:51.87 AND THEN IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, 500 YEARS LATER, 00:42:51.87\00:42:56.17 SUDDENLY GOD HIMSELF, WITH HUMAN FEET, 00:42:56.17\00:42:58.94 WALKED INTO THAT TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO TEACH. 00:42:58.94\00:43:01.71 GOD IN HUMAN FLESH. 00:43:01.71\00:43:03.61 GOD RIGHT AMONG US AS ONE OF US, 00:43:03.61\00:43:06.75 AND NOW THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT HAGGAI WAS RIGHT. 00:43:06.75\00:43:09.48 THE GLORY OF THE SECOND TEMPLE WOULD BE GREATER. 00:43:09.48\00:43:12.89 NOW, LISTEN TO THE CHRISTMAS STORY, 00:43:12.89\00:43:15.39 BUT LISTEN TO IT WITH HAGGAI'S EARS. 00:43:15.39\00:43:18.56 "BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND BEAR A SON 00:43:18.56\00:43:21.93 "AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME 'EMMANUEL,'" 00:43:21.93\00:43:25.10 WHICH MEANS 'GOD WITH US.'" 00:43:25.10\00:43:28.27 NOT "GOD NEAR US." 00:43:28.27\00:43:29.67 NOT "GOD UP ABOVE US SOMEWHERE." 00:43:29.67\00:43:31.67 NOT "GOD HIDING IN A CLOUD." 00:43:31.67\00:43:33.21 NOT "GOD BEHIND THE VEIL IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE OF THE TEMPLE," 00:43:33.21\00:43:36.44 BUT GOD ON THE OUTSIDE WITH US IN FLESH. 00:43:36.44\00:43:40.05 "GOD WITH US." 00:43:40.05\00:43:42.38 LISTEN TO THE CHRISTMAS STORY FROM HAGGAI'S EARS. 00:43:42.38\00:43:45.22 "NOW, THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY 00:43:45.22\00:43:47.09 "SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT ON THE FIELDS, 00:43:47.09\00:43:49.02 KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT." 00:43:49.02\00:43:51.19 THEY'RE SHEPHERDS, 00:43:51.19\00:43:52.43 JUST LIKE MOSES THE DAY HE ASKED TO SEE GOD. 00:43:52.43\00:43:55.20 "AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM 00:43:55.20\00:43:58.27 "AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM 00:43:58.27\00:44:00.67 AND THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID." 00:44:00.67\00:44:02.24 WELL, OF COURSE THEY WERE. 00:44:02.24\00:44:04.54 IF YOU SEE THE GLORY OF THE LORD, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. 00:44:04.54\00:44:07.64 "THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID, 00:44:07.64\00:44:10.25 "'FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY 00:44:10.25\00:44:13.25 WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE,'" 00:44:13.25\00:44:15.65 BECAUSE HE'S THE DESIRE OFALLNATIONS. 00:44:15.65\00:44:19.52 "'FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID 00:44:19.52\00:44:22.66 "'A SAVIOR WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD. 00:44:22.66\00:44:24.89 "'AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU -- 00:44:24.89\00:44:26.63 "'YOU WILL FIND A BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES 00:44:26.63\00:44:28.86 "LYING IN A MANGER.' 00:44:28.86\00:44:30.33 "AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL 00:44:30.33\00:44:32.47 "A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOSTS PRAISING GOD AND SAYING, 00:44:32.47\00:44:35.54 "'GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, 00:44:35.54\00:44:38.57 AND ON EARTH, PEACE.'" 00:44:38.57\00:44:42.18 IT'S EVERYTHING HAGGAI PROMISED -- 00:44:42.18\00:44:45.58 THE GLORY OF GOD AND PEACE ON EARTH. 00:44:45.58\00:44:51.19 NOW, MAYBE YOU'VE NOTICED -- 00:44:51.19\00:44:52.79 THE STORY DOESN'T SEEM TO BE COMPLETE. 00:44:52.79\00:44:55.56 WHERE IS THE PEACE ON EARTH? WHERE IS IT? 00:44:55.56\00:44:59.19 WE STILL HAVE KIDS WHO GO TO BED HUNGRY EVERY NIGHT, 00:44:59.19\00:45:02.53 EVEN IN AMERICA. 00:45:02.53\00:45:04.60 WE STILL HAVE NATURAL DISASTERS. 00:45:04.60\00:45:07.17 WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE WHO START WARS. 00:45:07.17\00:45:10.64 WE STILL HAVE RIOTS IN THE STREETS, 00:45:10.64\00:45:12.41 AND WE CERTAINLY DON'T HAVE PEACE ON EARTH. 00:45:12.41\00:45:14.48 AND EVEN THE SECOND TEMPLE THAT HAGGAI SPOKE ABOUT 00:45:14.48\00:45:16.88 LIES IN RUINS. 00:45:16.88\00:45:19.11 WHERE IS IT? 00:45:19.11\00:45:20.82 IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, GOD WILL FINISH THE STORY. 00:45:20.82\00:45:25.69 IT'S NOT OVER YET. 00:45:25.69\00:45:27.06 THERE'S MORE TO COME. 00:45:27.06\00:45:28.59 LISTEN TO THE WAY THE BIBLE ENDS. 00:45:28.59\00:45:30.66 HE'S NOT DONE WITH THE PLAN. 00:45:30.66\00:45:32.26 "AND I HEARD A LOUD VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING, 00:45:32.26\00:45:35.16 "'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, 00:45:35.16\00:45:38.07 AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE.'" 00:45:38.07\00:45:41.80 GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD. 00:45:41.80\00:45:44.87 "AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES. 00:45:44.87\00:45:48.21 "THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH NOR SORROW NOR CRYING. 00:45:48.21\00:45:51.58 "THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN, 00:45:51.58\00:45:53.45 FOR THE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY." 00:45:53.45\00:45:56.18 HE'S GETTING CLOSER BY THE MINUTE. 00:45:57.65\00:46:01.09 HE'S ALREADY STEPPED OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD 00:46:01.09\00:46:03.59 AND JOINED US HERE IN THIS WORLD, 00:46:03.59\00:46:05.49 BORN AS A BABY IN A MANGER. 00:46:05.49\00:46:06.96 WALKED WITH US, UNDERSTANDS WHAT LIFE IS LIKE, 00:46:06.96\00:46:09.86 AND HE WILL KEEP HIS WORD. 00:46:09.86\00:46:11.53 HE WILL BRING PEACE ON EARTH. 00:46:11.53\00:46:14.97 IT'S JUST, THE BIBLE SAYS, HE'S LONGSUFFERING, 00:46:14.97\00:46:17.67 NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 00:46:17.67\00:46:19.81 HE'S GETTING CLOSER. 00:46:19.81\00:46:21.51 THE QUESTION IS, AS HE GETS CLOSER, 00:46:21.51\00:46:23.41 WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH HIM? 00:46:23.41\00:46:25.08 HER NAME WAS HANNAH. 00:46:25.08\00:46:27.48 SHE LIVED IN A LITTLE HOVEL ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, 00:46:27.48\00:46:31.42 AND SHE KEPT TO HERSELF. 00:46:31.42\00:46:32.89 IN FACT, IF YOU WERE TO EVER KNOCK ON HANNAH'S DOOR, 00:46:32.89\00:46:35.92 SHE WOULD TURN OUT THE LIGHTS AND PRETEND SHE WASN'T HOME. 00:46:35.92\00:46:38.79 NOW, I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE DONE THAT ON OCCASION, TOO. 00:46:38.79\00:46:41.56 BUT HANNAH HAS DONE IT EVERY SINGLE TIME. 00:46:41.56\00:46:43.73 TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS. NOBODY'S HOME. 00:46:43.73\00:46:45.77 SHE WOULD DIVE BEHIND THE COUCH. 00:46:45.77\00:46:47.40 SHE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE COMMUNITY 00:46:47.40\00:46:49.80 BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY HAD HURT HER ONE TOO MANY TIMES. 00:46:49.80\00:46:52.97 THE ONLY THING SHE EVER DID WITH THE COMMUNITY 00:46:52.97\00:46:55.11 WAS, AT CHRISTMASTIME, SHE WOULD SIT IN HER BEDROOM 00:46:55.11\00:46:57.41 BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY HAD A CHRISTMAS PARTY 00:46:57.41\00:46:59.38 AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER HALF A BLOCK FROM HER HOUSE, 00:46:59.38\00:47:01.78 AND SHE WOULD OPEN HER WINDOW JUST A GAP 00:47:01.78\00:47:03.65 SO THAT SHE COULD HEAR THE PEOPLE SINGING. 00:47:03.65\00:47:05.75 AND SOMEHOW, THAT MADE HER FEEL WARM 00:47:05.75\00:47:07.72 AND REMINDED HER OF HER CHILDHOOD 00:47:07.72\00:47:09.56 AND MADE HER FEEL SAFE FOR JUST ONE EVENING. 00:47:09.56\00:47:11.89 YEAR AFTER YEAR, SHE DID THAT, 00:47:11.89\00:47:13.46 AND THEN ONE WINTER, SHE GOT SICK. 00:47:13.46\00:47:15.66 AND SHE WENT TO SEE THE DOCTOR, AND THE DOCTOR SAID, 00:47:15.66\00:47:18.03 "HANNAH, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET BETTER THIS TIME. 00:47:18.03\00:47:20.30 IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER." 00:47:20.30\00:47:23.17 AND SO SHE DID. 00:47:23.17\00:47:24.71 AND EVEN THOUGH SHE HADN'T DARKENED THE CHURCH DOOR 00:47:24.71\00:47:27.64 IN 26 YEARS, SHE CALLED FOR THE PASTOR. 00:47:27.64\00:47:29.98 AND THE PASTOR CAME OVER 00:47:29.98\00:47:31.45 AND READ ALL THE PASTOR STUFF THAT PASTORS READ. 00:47:31.45\00:47:34.28 "YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, 00:47:34.28\00:47:37.32 I WILL FEAR NO EVIL, FOR THOU ART WITH ME." 00:47:37.32\00:47:39.55 AND THEY SAT QUIETLY AND LISTENED... 00:47:39.55\00:47:43.36 JUST LISTENED FOR NOTHING IN PARTICULAR. 00:47:43.36\00:47:45.59 AND THAT'S WHEN SHE HEARD IT -- VOICES. 00:47:45.59\00:47:48.00 "PASTOR," SHE SAID, "I'VE LOST TRACK OF TIME. 00:47:48.00\00:47:50.37 IT'S THAT CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER. 00:47:50.37\00:47:52.97 WOULD YOU OPEN MY WINDOW JUST A CRACK SO I COULD LISTEN?" 00:47:52.97\00:47:56.30 AND HE DID. 00:47:56.30\00:47:57.51 NOT SO MUCH THAT SHE WOULD GET COLD, 00:47:57.51\00:47:59.51 BECAUSE DEATH IS COLD ENOUGH ALL BY ITSELF. 00:47:59.51\00:48:01.88 AND HE OPENED IT JUST A CRACK, 00:48:01.88\00:48:03.71 AND SHE LISTENED TO THE PEOPLE SING. 00:48:03.71\00:48:06.05 AND AT ONE POINT IN HER DYING, FEEBLE VOICE, SHE SANG ALONG. 00:48:06.05\00:48:11.15 "SILENT NIGHT...HOLY NIGHT." 00:48:11.15\00:48:17.16 AND SHE BEGAN TO CRY. 00:48:18.69\00:48:20.83 "WHAT'S THE MATTER, HANNAH?" 00:48:20.83\00:48:22.93 "OH, PASTOR, EVERY YEAR THEY HAD THAT PARTY, 00:48:22.93\00:48:25.73 "AND I WANTED TO GO SO BADLY AND I NEVER WENT. 00:48:25.73\00:48:28.64 I JUST ENJOYED IT FROM A DISTANCE AND I WANTED TO GO." 00:48:28.64\00:48:31.17 "HANNAH, WHY DID YOU NEVER GO?" 00:48:31.17\00:48:33.34 "THEY DIDN'T WANT ME." 00:48:33.34\00:48:34.98 "WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT, HANNAH?" 00:48:34.98\00:48:36.75 "NOBODY EVER INVITED ME." 00:48:36.75\00:48:39.38 "BUT, HANNAH, EVERY YEAR WHEN I KNOCKED ON YOUR DOOR, 00:48:39.38\00:48:42.62 "YOU TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS, 00:48:42.62\00:48:44.69 AND YOU PRETENDED YOU WEREN'T HOME." 00:48:44.69\00:48:47.62 WHAT A SHAME. 00:48:47.62\00:48:49.62 IT WAS SO CLOSE, AND IT WAS OPEN TO HER. 00:48:49.62\00:48:52.73 GOD HAS ALREADY STEPPED OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUD 00:48:52.73\00:48:56.40 AND JOINED US AS A REAL FLESH-AND-BLOOD HUMAN BEING. 00:48:56.40\00:49:00.04 THAT'S WHAT THAT BABY WAS IN BETHLEHEM, 00:49:00.04\00:49:02.30 AND NOW HE SAYS HE WILL COME AGAIN. 00:49:02.30\00:49:04.37 AND SO MANY PEOPLE FEEL THEY'RE NOT INVITED BY GOD. 00:49:04.37\00:49:07.48 BUT AT THIS MOMENT, 00:49:07.48\00:49:08.74 AS THE WORLD THINKS ABOUT THE BABY IN BETHLEHEM, 00:49:08.74\00:49:11.01 KNOW HE HAS JUST KNOCKED ON THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART. 00:49:11.01\00:49:14.58 AND THE QUESTION IS, 00:49:14.58\00:49:16.55 DO YOU TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, OR DO YOU OPEN THE DOOR? 00:49:16.55\00:49:21.32 GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, 00:49:21.32\00:49:23.49 AND ON EARTH, PEACE, GOODWILL TO ALL MEN. 00:49:23.49\00:49:28.83 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:49:28.83\00:49:32.07 Children's Chorus: ¤ PEACE, PEACE ¤ 00:49:49.75\00:49:53.79 ¤ PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:49:53.79\00:49:57.13 ¤ AND GOODWILL TO ALL ¤ 00:49:57.13\00:50:03.67 ¤ THIS IS A TIME FOR JOY ¤ 00:50:03.67\00:50:11.71 ¤ THIS IS A TIME FOR LOVE ¤ 00:50:11.71\00:50:19.65 ¤ NOW LET US ALL SING TOGETHER ¤ 00:50:19.65\00:50:28.96 ¤ OF PEACE, PEACE ¤ 00:50:28.96\00:50:33.63 ¤ PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:50:33.63\00:50:37.97 ¤ PEACE, PEACE ¤ 00:50:46.24\00:50:50.28 ¤ PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:50:50.28\00:50:53.68 ¤ AND GOODWILL TO ALL ¤ 00:50:53.68\00:51:00.29 ¤ THIS IS A TIME FOR JOY ¤ 00:51:00.29\00:51:08.00 ¤ THIS IS A TIME FOR LOVE ¤ 00:51:08.00\00:51:15.64 ¤ NOW LET US ALL SING TOGETHER ¤ 00:51:15.64\00:51:24.91 ¤ OF PEACE, PEACE ¤ 00:51:24.91\00:51:30.02 ¤ PEACE ON EARTH ¤ 00:51:30.02\00:51:34.72 ¤ PEACE, PEACE ¤ ¤ SILENT NIGHT ¤ 00:51:42.10\00:51:46.07 ¤ PEACE ON EARTH ¤ ¤ HOLY NIGHT ¤ 00:51:46.07\00:51:50.07 ¤ AND GOODWILL TO ALL ¤ ¤ ALL IS CALM ¤ 00:51:50.07\00:51:54.81 ¤ ALL IS BRIGHT ¤ 00:51:54.81\00:51:57.35 ¤ THIS IS A TIME FOR JOY ¤ ¤ 'ROUND YON VIRGIN ¤ 00:51:57.35\00:52:02.28 ¤ MOTHER AND CHILD ¤ 00:52:02.28\00:52:04.95 ¤ THIS IS A TIME FOR LOVE ¤ ¤ HOLY INFANT ¤ 00:52:04.95\00:52:09.59 ¤ SO TENDER AND MILD ¤ 00:52:09.59\00:52:13.23 ¤ NOW LET US ALL SING TOGETHER ¤ ¤ SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE ¤ 00:52:13.23\00:52:22.20 ¤ OF PEACE, PEACE ¤ ¤ SLEEP IN HEAVENLY ¤ 00:52:22.20\00:52:27.21 ¤ PEACE ON EARTH ¤ ¤ PEACE ¤ 00:52:27.21\00:52:35.88 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:52:35.88\00:52:40.29 WHAT A BLESSING IT'S BEEN 00:52:49.83\00:52:51.53 TO CELEBRATE THIS JOYOUS TIME OF YEAR TOGETHER. 00:52:51.53\00:52:54.84 LET'S PRAY TOGETHER. 00:52:54.84\00:52:56.50 DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, WE WANT TO PRAISE YOU. 00:52:56.50\00:52:59.37 WE THANK YOU THAT WE CAN CELEBRATE 00:52:59.37\00:53:01.84 THE WONDERFUL GIFT YOU'VE GIVEN US. 00:53:01.84\00:53:03.78 THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRAISE YOU. 00:53:03.78\00:53:07.38 LORD, WE LOVE YOU. 00:53:07.38\00:53:08.58 WE ASK YOU TO GO WITH US, 00:53:08.58\00:53:10.19 NOT ONLY DURING THIS BEAUTIFUL SEASON OF THE YEAR, 00:53:10.19\00:53:12.89 BUT THROUGHOUT EACH DAY OF THE NEW YEAR. 00:53:12.89\00:53:15.62 WE PRAISE YOU AND WE LOVE YOU. 00:53:15.62\00:53:17.59 IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. 00:53:17.59\00:53:20.40 Jean: ONE OF THE SONGS THAT YOUR GROUP IS SINGING 00:53:22.80\00:53:25.83 WITH MISS CHRISTINE WOLLMANN IS "O HOLY NIGHT." 00:53:25.83\00:53:28.74 CAN YOU TELL ME WHY YOU THINK THAT IS CALLED "O HOLY NIGHT"? 00:53:28.74\00:53:33.21 I FEEL LIKE IT'S CALLED "O HOLY NIGHT" 00:53:33.21\00:53:35.74 BECAUSE GOD IS BRINGING HIS SON TO EARTH 00:53:35.74\00:53:38.38 SO HE COULD SAVE ALL OF US SO WE CAN GO WITH HIM TO HEAVEN. 00:53:38.38\00:53:42.05 WELL, JUST TO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, 00:53:42.05\00:53:44.65 GOD HAS SENT JESUS TO THIS EARTH TO SAVE US 00:53:44.65\00:53:47.72 JUST MAKES IT ALL THE MORE SPECIAL, 00:53:47.72\00:53:49.72 AND I WOULD SAY THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT HOLY. 00:53:49.72\00:53:51.29 IT WAS JUST SO HOLY THAT NIGHT WHEN JESUS WAS BORN 00:53:51.29\00:53:54.96 AND ALL THE SHEPHERDS AND ALL THE WISE MEN 00:53:54.96\00:53:59.27 JUST CAME FROM DIFFERENT PLACES JUST AROUND THE WORLD. 00:53:59.27\00:54:03.54 AND IT WAS JUST SO NICE WHEN JESUS WAS BORN THAT NIGHT. 00:54:03.54\00:54:06.84 THERE WAS A NEW SAVIOR BORN, SO I GUESS THAT WAS REALLY HOLY. 00:54:06.84\00:54:10.35 A NEW KING WAS BEING BORN, 00:54:10.35\00:54:12.41 AND HE WAS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD 00:54:12.41\00:54:15.65 TO MAKE IT BETTER AND HAPPIER. 00:54:15.65\00:54:18.02 ¤ O HOLY NIGHT! ¤ 00:54:25.43\00:54:29.13 ¤ THE STARS ARE BRIGHTLY SHINING ¤ 00:54:29.13\00:54:34.10 ¤ IT IS THE NIGHT OF THY DEAR SAVIOR'S BIRTH! ¤ 00:54:34.10\00:54:43.51 ¤ LONG LAY THE WORLD IN SIN AND ERROR PINING ¤ 00:54:43.51\00:54:52.35 ¤ TILL HE APPEARED AND THE SOUL FELT ITS WORTH ¤ 00:54:52.35\00:55:01.50 ¤ A THRILL OF HOPE ¤ 00:55:01.50\00:55:04.77 ¤ THE WEARY WORLD REJOICES ¤ 00:55:04.77\00:55:09.37 ¤ FOR YONDER BREAKS A NEW AND GLORIOUS MORN! ¤ 00:55:09.37\00:55:17.38 Christine and Children's Chorus: ¤ FALL ON YOUR KNEES ¤ 00:55:17.38\00:55:24.75 ¤ O HEAR THE ANGEL VOICES ¤ 00:55:24.75\00:55:32.66 ¤ O NIGHT DIVINE ¤ 00:55:32.66\00:55:39.93 ¤ O NIGHT WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:55:39.93\00:55:47.81 ¤ O NIGHT DIVINE ¤ 00:55:47.81\00:55:55.45 ¤ O NIGHT DIVINE ¤ 00:55:55.45\00:56:05.39 Christine: ¤ TRULY HE TAUGHT US ¤ 00:56:09.23\00:56:12.97 ¤ TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER ¤ 00:56:12.97\00:56:18.07 ¤ HIS LAW IS LOVE ¤ 00:56:18.07\00:56:20.68 ¤ AND HIS GOSPEL IS PEACE ¤ 00:56:20.68\00:56:27.12 ¤ CHAINS SHALL HE BREAK ¤ 00:56:27.12\00:56:30.72 ¤ FOR THE SLAVE IS OUR BROTHER ¤ 00:56:30.72\00:56:36.09 ¤ AND IN HIS NAME ALL OPPRESSION SHALL CEASE ¤ 00:56:36.09\00:56:44.87 ¤ SWEET HYMNS OF JOY IN GRATEFUL CHORUS RAISE WE ¤ 00:56:44.87\00:56:52.67 ¤ LET ALL WITHIN US PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME ¤ 00:56:52.67\00:57:00.88 Christine and Children's Chorus: ¤ FALL ON YOUR KNEES ¤ 00:57:00.88\00:57:08.26 ¤ O HEAR THE ANGEL VOICES ¤ 00:57:08.26\00:57:16.13 ¤ O NIGHT DIVINE ¤ 00:57:16.13\00:57:23.44 ¤ O NIGHT WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:57:23.44\00:57:31.31 ¤ O NIGHT ¤ 00:57:31.31\00:57:35.22 ¤ O HOLY NIGHT ¤ 00:57:35.22\00:57:39.82 ¤ O NIGHT WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN ¤ 00:57:39.82\00:57:47.86 ¤ SO FALL ON, ON YOUR KNEES ¤ 00:57:47.86\00:57:55.34 ¤ DON'T YOU HEAR THE ANGEL VOICES? ¤ 00:57:55.34\00:58:02.28 ¤ THEY'RE SINGING, "O NIGHT DIVINE" ¤ 00:58:02.28\00:58:09.88 ¤ "O NIGHT WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN" ¤ 00:58:09.88\00:58:17.69 ¤ O NIGHT DIVINE ¤ 00:58:17.69\00:58:25.57 ¤ O NIGHT ¤ 00:58:25.57\00:58:30.27 ¤ O HOLY NIGHT! ¤ 00:58:30.27\00:58:41.92 [ APPLAUSE ] 00:58:41.92\00:58:45.69 To find out how to get a Bluray or DVD copy of this program, call 1-877-877-2487 Monday 00:59:06.57\00:59:14.92 through Thursday 8:00 am to 6:00 pm mountain time. 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