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today welcome Church to our Christmas

service today would you just rise on

your feet and can can you just greet the

one next to you and wish them a blessed

Christmas we’re going going to just

praise and honor our lord Jesus are you

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thank you for joining us for our

Christmas service

today during Christmas we celebrate the

birth of our Lord and SA Jesus Christ

the savior of the world during Christmas

we are reminded once again for God so

loved the world that he gave his only

begotten son that whosoever believes in

Him should not perish but have

everlasting life for God did not send

his son into the world to condemn the

world but that the world through him

might be saved God gave his son to save

you my my friend to save you from all

your sins from all your hurts from all

the challenges that you face in your

life and he is still the same today he’s

here to save you when Jesus was born it

was the greatest news for

humankind and what is interesting is

there were wise men from the East that

responded to the birth of Christ they

came to the Lord bringing with them

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Merry Christmas

everyone what a beautiful

sight at least uh you know that uh you

are in the house of God Anything is

Possible

and everything is

possible not just because it’s Christmas

it’s because of his presence amen but

during this Christmas time we want to

take time to acknowledge the Lord

because he is the birthday boy

amen

amen and every time we come before

him we stop for a while and we think

that everything revolves around him

he is the one who’s been watching you

all these times in your

struggles he sees you with eyes of love

and he wants to come into your

life to touch those broken

areas to pour in the oil and the

wine and to give you his

healing and restore you to wholeness and

health that is his desire do you know

the Bible says God wishes for you I wish

above all

things that you

prosper and be in health even as your

souls

Prosper because we know it’s never God’s

will in the very beginning when God made

Adam and

Eve God never made

man to be sick to become weak to grow

old and to die

was never his plan then why all these

things Pastor Prince why why all these

things happening well man sin against

God and sin brought all these things can

you see the drama of

Redemption how Jesus had to come and

during this Christmas time we are

reminded of the savior of all that

came the Bible says great is the mystery

of

godliness God

incarnate in

flesh and I see

him going about doing good and healing

all that were oppressed of the devil if

you find yourself oppressed you can’t

even explain I mean the doctors can just

give you medicine for your

depression but you are depressed and you

know that your mind goes into all kinds

of

Darkness all kinds of obsess obsessive

compulsive thoughts you cannot

control and you’re always feeling

discouraged Jesus can set you

free cuz I see

him just like by

Galilee by

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down and his name

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praise the Lord

hallelujah during this

Christmas may you find this wonderful

Jesus the son of the

father

real in your

life amen let’s start with some

scripture reading from the portion of

Christmas that we always read

from Luke chap two you ready it’s all up

here and it came to pass in those days

that a decree went out from Caesar

Augustus that all the world should be

registered Caesar Augustus was the

emperor of Rome at that

time this census first took place while

cinius was governing Syria so all went

to be registered everyone to his own own

City Joseph also went up From Galilee

out of the city of Nazareth into Judea

to the city of David which is called

Bethlehem because he was of the house

and lineage of David to be registered

with Mary his betro wife who was with

child so it was that while they were

there the days were completed for her to

be

delivered and she brought forth her

firstborn son and wrapped him in

swaddling cloths and laid him in a

Manger because there was no room for

them in the

Inn there was no room for them in the

Inn you know it starts off by telling us

about an

emperor in Rome making a decree

throughout his domain throughout his

kingdom that has to be obeyed in those

days he was The

Sovereign and the Roman Empire at the

time based on the prophecy of Daniel

being the

last Roman Empire the revived Roman

Empire that’s yet to come and we see

everything is converging now on Europe

and the Bible talks about a revived

Roman Empire but during that

time

during that time there was an emperor

who knew nothing about a carpenter in

Nazareth and the carpenter in

Nazareth knows nothing about the emperor

in

Rome but God moved in

Rome to move the

Carpenter and his wife who was now with

child to leave Nazareth to make that

Journey Journey Down south All the Way

to

Bethlehem now this is a beautiful lovely

story where every time we think about

Christmas we think of the beautiful

story

of God’s love for us and here in this

portion we

see

sovereignty

mystery and lovely

humility how God moved in

Rome just to move

a carpenter in

Nazareth All the Way to Bethlehem you

see Joseph and Mary they were from the

tribe of Judah their lineage both of

them came all the way

from the line of David in other words

David had two sons from which if you

trace down it goes all the way to Mary

on one hand and Joseph on the other yet

we see this love humility how Jesus was

born to a a parents that were poor at

this time even though they are of the

royal lineage because the

kingdom came to an end at the time when

they were taken away to

Babylon there was no more king of Israel

at that time from that time

on there was a governor from the Royal

line from which Jesus came from the line

of David who name was zeru Babel by the

time he came back but he didn’t come

back to become

king So by now this royal family has

become poor I I doubt that even the

people of Nazareth might know about

their genealogy the fact that they are

royal family we hear so much from

history right you all know that uh down

through history there are

stories of the sons or the daughters of

Emperors and kings

they dwindled into poverty and they end

up as servants or or beggar even in the

street you now you start thinking that

well the Bible says Jesus though he was

rich yet be he became poor yeah

initially they were poor but later on

when the wise men came and brought gold

silver not silver gold frankincense and

myrr you can say that later on when they

had to flee to go to Alex RA in

Egypt the baby

sponsored the

trip when Jesus comes into your life get

ready for an uplifting amen get ready

for you to experience the good life and

I’m not referring to things as just

material okay yes he can bless you with

those things because the Good Shepherd

said the Lord is my shepherd I shall not

lack David himself said that that Royal

child said early in his life before he

became king the Lord is my shepherd I

shall not lack you will not lack for

anything but more than anything else the

biggest hindrance between us and God is

our sin we’ve all

sinned I said we’ve all sin and come

short of the glory of God but back to

this lovely story we see this

sovereignty of God

moving this family this royal family now

poor right and uh Mary was now pregnant

in advanced stage so what would what was

she thinking of you know and this what

what was Joseph thinking of moving all

the way from Nazareth to Bethlehem it’s

a long arduous Journey a journey of

about 65 miles

all the way from

Nazareth in the North of Israel all the

way down through Jerusalem is about 65

miles and then from Jerusalem All the

Way South even to Bethlehem about five

another five to six

miles it’ll take probably about 3 to

four days for

someone walking probably Joseph was

walking and

Mary very

advanced in a pregnancy sitting on the

Donkey it’ll take about three to 4 days

but very arduous Journey along the way

there are also Perils of robbers and all

that of course we know God will make

sure he’s Angels is watching over them

but they had to make their way all the

way to Bethlehem why why take this

journey people around will say why take

this journey when your wife is so

advanced in her

pregnancy well because of all that

prophets prophesy that the baby will be

born this ruler who will Shepherd his

people is Israel will come forth from

Bethlehem you see there are two

Bethlehem in Israel for those who do not

know just let you know that there’s one

in Galilee very near to their Hometown

Nazareth all right but that’s not the

one that’s prophesied that Galilee is uh

that that Bethlehem is called Bethlehem

Galilee so there’s one Bethlehem near to

gal Nazareth called Bethlehem galit in

Hebrew but that’s not the one prophesied

by the prophets in Micah it was

prophesied that Jesus will come out of

Bethlehem

Ephrata and that’s Bethlehem Judah the

prophet Michael says this you Bethlehem

Ephrata this was written years before

Jesus was born in the Old Testament all

right it was prophesied by Michael the

prophet you Bethlehem Ephrata so it

locates the place it’s Bethlehem Judah

the same Bethlehem that David came out

of the same Bethlehem you have the

beautiful love story of Boaz and

Ruth that’s the same Bethlehem Bethlehem

Ephrata or Bethlehem

Judah okay though you are little among

the thousands of Judah yet out of you

shall come forth to me the one to be

ruler in Israel notice this whose goings

forth are from of old from Everlasting

so this baby is no ordinary baby this

baby he’s going forth is of all from

Everlasting the Bible says in Isaiah

9 verse six it says For unto us a child

is born unto us a son is

given he was the

son before he was a

child can you understand that as the son

he always with the

father but as a child he was born that

speaks of of his

Humanity the sun given the sun cannot be

born because the sun is deity God

himself the son was given but the child

was

born very beautiful in the very first

line we see the prophecy of

Isaiah a child for unto us a child is

born the son is given unto us a son is

given I love it

it’s very

beautiful Sometimes some of the things

we don’t understand like the the Virgin

birth the Bible says she brought forth

her son look at Luke two again and um it

says she brought forth a firstborn son

and wrapped him in swaddling

clothes laid him in a Manger because

there was no room for them in the

Inn no room for them in the Inn I was

reading this one one day and I realized

it does not say there was no room in the

Inn it’s all used up because during this

time is the the Feast of Tabernacles and

it’s one of the major feasts of Israel

and people from all over Israel and even

outside Israel the Jewish

proales and uh also the Jewish uh I

should say Gentile proelite those were

not Jews they will come in because they

believe in the god of Israel and they

will converge on jerus Jerusalem so

Bethlehem is about 5 6 miles just south

you imagine all the the whole entire

region all the hotels are

filled right in those days they don’t

have hotels they have Gest houses and

there’s one in Bethlehem a caravan Sur

in in those days they travel in groups

for safety okay so when they travel they

they come to a a location where they

stop you know when you travel right now

when you drive long Journeys there it’s

always a rest stop what a blessing isn’t

it and your wife will tell you okay uh 3

kilomet more we got to go we got to go

we got to go amen your son says I got to

go you know what that means right

because if not he says I told you I had

to

go that’s too late amen so you thank God

for the rest stop amen you can relax

stretch your legs if you’re driving I

love driving when I’m when I’m abroad I

love driving

in those days they have a place called

they call it Caravan Sarai where they

will just come and bring their donkey

some of them horses and they’ll bring

all their goods they put it right in the

center usually it’s like a you shap and

then uh they will stay inside those who

are wealthy of course will have rooms in

those buildings it’s called Caravan s

what is interesting is that this Inn in

in Bethlehem I can show you from

scripture that originally uh it belonged

to David David was born there how how

came it that David the king was born

there now he was born there he wasn’t a

king yet he was just a Shepherd boy from

a from a a Shepherd

family he was born there because he was

the great great grandson of Boaz and rof

you know the story of Boaz and rof amen

Ruth was not a Jew but through believing

in the god of Israel she became

a Jewish

proelite and from her came the royal son

and from

David came Jesus Christ the greatest son

of David amen so it was their home in

Bethlehem and where did this story

happen you can read all about it in the

Old Testament in that lovely little

small book in fact it takes just uh less

than an hour to read it in one seting

just just a few chapters but a lovely

story of

how a redeemer is needed when you have

lost everything you need someone from

your own

family in those days among the Jewish

people they have a law that if you have

become bankrupt if if uh your land is

forfeited you can have someone from your

own family to redeem for you the land

provided he has the

means

provided he is willing very important

not all relatives are willing you know

they say wealth is

relative more wealth more

relatives okay and he must be from your

family Circle in those days why did God

gave this law and this law was there in

the Old Testament it’s all about Jesus

it’s all about how Jesus will come part

of the human family number one he has to

be among

your family to be a

redeemer to redeem you out of your lost

state to redeem you out of your

bondage Amen to redeem you of all that

you have forfeited through your own

foolishness through your own

sins he can redeem what is lost you see

even healing is nothing more than

redeeming what was

lost

amen so another thing that relative must

be willing is Jesus willing oh yes how

willing like this on the cross and

that’s why he said for God so love the

world that he gave his only begotten son

that whoever believes in him should not

perish but have everlasting life he must

be willing does he have the

means yes oh how he says all power is

given unto me in heaven and on Earth he

went about and and with all the power he

has you know some people with just some

Authority some power they abused it to

enrich themselves they step down on

others they use others that people use

people to love

money when we should be loving people

and using money to bless

them but Jesus with all the power that

he has how does he use that power he

used the power to cleanse the leper to

Open the Eyes of the

blind to heal the sick even to raise the

dead which goes to tell us when he did

this and he did this so often three4 of

his ministry is in healing restoring

cleansing

forgiving that tells us that it is God’s

will that something has gone wrong with

mankind man has sinned and sin has

brought in disease destruction

depression becoming decrepit and finally

deaf it was never part of God’s plan God

calls death an enemy hence we have the

story of Christmas it’s all planned by

God Amen now God didn’t plan for men to

sin man chose to sin then you say why

didn’t God just stop men in fact my son

he has come to the age where he’s asking

questions so one time I was driving him

just me and him we have some time

together a few weeks ago abroad

somewhere I’ll bring him somewhere where

the girls are out my wife and my

daughter out

shopping I must teach him not to be

addicted to

shopping he’s got to do a man stuff you

know what do men do we go to amusement

park amen we go to Amusement Center amen

so on the way there he asked me

questions like Bible questions why

didn’t God just God knew what was going

to happen why didn’t he just stop man I

say huh that’s the thing

Justin do you want me to force you you

have no choice I program into you

something

that you are just nothing more than an

AI

robot nowadays you have robots bringing

you food right in the

restaurant I mean they are so smart they

know which table to go to amen would you

like to marry one of

them they will always obey you always

bring food for you some of them know how

to make good

coffee yeah they are bars who are robots

now they say that one day they’ll take

over our

jobs no there’s no substitute for human

intelligence it was a human intelligence

that produced the artificial

intelligence if there’s an artificial

intelligence there’s a real

intelligence right so I said would you

like to be a robot obeying me I tell you

what to do you do amen you will never

disobey me I will never be

disappointed right but is that what I

want is that what God wants God gave man

what a free choice if God made Man a

robot I tell you this if God made man

like an AI okay with

intelligence right but to obey him no

choice but to obey him like a robot no

free choice we won’t be in the

fall there’ll be no sickness there be no

disease so I I say to him is because God

really respect man’s free choice when

God saw Adam reaching out for that fruit

if God stop him he God says stop it I

have all power I can stop you anytime I

want is that giving the man the free

choice he says no say however you cannot

choose the result of your

choice you cannot say for example I put

my finger Into the

Fire okay I choose put to put my finger

finger in the fire but I don’t choose

burn no no if you put your finger in the

fire you choose

burn you understand so God gave the

choice to man if you sin against me in

the day that you do it you will surely

die now Adam didn’t die immediately but

he died spiritually why because you are

not just a body you are a spirit you are

a soul you live in a body this body is

your

house so God says the day that you sin

you will surely die in fact Adam lived

nearly a thousand

years but in the day a thousand years a

thousand uh uh a thousand years is like

to God one year I say a thousand years

it’s like to God one

day amen God doesn’t measure time the

way we measure time God is outside

time

amen so if you look at what is happening

in the world today you cannot blame God

you know someone got knocked down in uh

the street down there it’s a child the

child is innocent the child got knocked

down you don’t go to the minister of

transport and say what are you

doing

right there are laws There Are Rules

governing the whole thing that that

there are parents who are supposed to

tell the child what to do and and what

is the red light all about and what is

the green light for and what is the

amber light there for or you know there

are

rules you cannot just say you know

forget about the law of gravity and just

step out from a 50 story

building thou shall be

crushed

amen you cannot choose the result you

can choose the step out you cannot

choose the CH the the result of your

choice so hence the story just to let

you all know how complicated I get when

I explain to my son all right

so I

believe that if we can see things in its

perspective we understand what’s going

on in the world we won’t see this world

that we are living in as a perfect world

it’s not a perfect

world hey come on it’s not a perfect

world and you look at the people today I

mean they have so many more conveniences

modern conveniences we have have a

smartphone we have uh uh uh uh you know

automat hair dryer in those days you

just got to let your hair dry you know

and mean we got all kinds of we got we

got a social media we got uh we can

watch television live you know just live

somewhere you know somewhere in the

world is happening right now I can see

it in my box right I can see how menu

got defeated yesterday really bad you

know and I can see all that right no I

didn’t see it I was

asleep no it was earlier so I was still

awake prep preparing the message for you

all amen but I couldn’t stay up of

course for

Liverpool so don’t tell me the result

okay cuz I was

sleeping the things you

sacrifice to serve the

[Laughter]

Lord so God gave men a choice and man

chose the wrong thing hence the story of

what the history of men is all about

everyone dies it’s not God’s plan for

men to die but man dies the wages of sin

is

death you like wages

right yeah but the wages of sin is death

the Bible says that now God cannot say

you know okay Adam sin okay it’s okay

boys will be boys no no God is a god of

his word if God say something there is a

devil out there to make sure that God

keeps his word amen or else you will

challenge

God so how can God now bring sinful man

back into his presence man that he loves

so much Jesus himself out of Jesus own

mouth Jesus says for God so loved the

world that he gave his only begotten son

that whoever believes in him should not

perish but have everlasting life so

Jesus said God so loved the world God so

love

you you might not know it you are loved

God loves you and this love doesn’t

change because of your behavior you

cannot turn off God’s love but how can

God receive sinful man into his holy

presence because God is

Holy right Heaven is

perfect in fact if you enter Heaven

right now you’ll be miserable because

everything in heaven is perfect and you

are not is not in syn you got to be born

again Amen to relish the heavenly things

am amen are you with me so far so back

to the story of that Inn the Caravan

Sarai it was originally the house of

Boaz and Ruth and then David their great

grand grandson Royal

grandson David and then from David David

actually gave it to bazel a man who was

very kind to David when he was wandering

FL

and that man the elderly man who was a

wealthy man he was very kind to David

David gave to his son called

kimam that in that his own house that

lat on became to be known in the Old

Testament you can find this it began to

be called on the Way to Bethlehem there

is a kimam

Inn that word there is Caravan sorai

later on it became the center in

Bethlehem where people who travel for

you know pilgrimage to Jerusalem they

will sto there so you think about it

Mary and Joseph from the line of David

actually they they had the right to have

the presidential suite

there am I right but there was no room

for them in the end doesn’t say there’s

no room there’s no room for

them they’re poor you know one look at

them and you know you think about if I

give up that room somebody else might

come was able to pay for it so there’s

no room for

them in the Inn did they fight it did

they say you know don’t you know who I

am no this a beautiful picture of

humility if I were to write the story of

the Christmas it’ll be like this all

right on a mountain that was

glowing there was lightning and

thunder and there was a crack of of a

loud sound and all of a sudden you see a

strong being shining bright with a sword

is littering and he steps down he has

six no eight

packs and it comes down with big biceps

amen he takes off his Royal rope and he

says I’ve come to be a

[Laughter]

man you CA him at

least to be born if you want to be born

born in a

palace

but Jesus was so kind even to

Children he

chose to be a child to come from the

very beginning of Mankind’s life he

didn’t come just drop down you know even

to become a man he can just become a

full grown man isn’t

it like Adam Adam was created a full

grown man the very first

man but Jesus came not like Adam he came

as a child I think that’s lovely

humility it’s lovely humility you know a

child might might thinking does Jesus

understand me every stage you are at

Jesus understands you you got a child at

6 years old you can tell him Jesus was

Once Upon a Time 6 years

old amen if you a child that’s 12 years

old you can say Jesus one time was 12

years old in fact there’s a story of the

in the Bible where he was when he was 12

years old

they were astounded at his understanding

and

answers amen Jesus came as a child to go

through all the vicissitudes of human

life amen to sit where we

sit amen but he could choose to be born

in a palace with gilded ceiling pillars

of marble but he chose to be

born

not in a guest house in his rightful

home at least his ancestor home

ancestral

home but they say that you know but you

know what saying that your wife is so

Advanced and all that we’ll give you

where the cows are and where the U they

put the horses and the and the

donkeys you can find some place that can

lay your child to Lay Your Child So the

Bible says

amongst that stable which was a cave

actually in those days nearby to where

he was most houses then was also in a

cave

Jesus was

born here’s another beautiful lovely

humility the Son of God became the son

of

Mary the Ancient of

Days became an infant in

time Heaven of Heavens cannot contain

him but here he lies in a

Manger you know Mary probably picked him

up from the ground after he was born and

put him in a Manger a Manger is a

feeding Trout the place where the

animals would feed literally the word

manger the original word there it

actually says it has the idea of

eating so it tells you the place where

the animals would eat this wonderful

child this is Beautiful Jesus

he himself said later

on I am the bread of life he that eats

me will never

die believe thou this Jesus didn’t come

to set an

example primarily that’s not the purpose

for which he came to give us an example

or teaching that we should adopt and

follow and patn ourselves after no he

came that you might eat

him he came to be the the bread of life

unless you feed on him unless you

appropriate him there’s no life in

you many of us we want to follow Jesus I

I I I like his teachings I want to

follow his teachings his teachings

following trying to follow his teachings

cannot save

you it is Death At The Cross and it’s

resurrection that saves you

amen

amen and since we are on that none of us

can follow his teachings you know he say

love your

enemies H we got problem loving our

relative so you go by his teaching to

justify yourself we are all done

for you know Jesus preached a Sermon on

the Mount thank God after he preached a

Sermon on the Mount he came down to

where the people were if he didn’t come

down we all

finished he came down so that one day he

knows he was going to come back to us by

his holy spirit live in us and live out

the sermon of the mount for us

us as we rest in him amen none of us can

do it none of

us and if you criticize me for saying

that there you go he says also in the

sermon of the mouth don’t criticize your

neighbor judge not that you be not

judged

amen so a child is born a son is

given you know there are

11 ways the Bible refers to Jesus as the

son the son has the idea of deity he’s

the son of

God he is the son of the

father 10 to 11 ways 11 ways the Bible

describes him as a son son of God Son of

the father son of the highest son of the

Blessed these four refers to his

Heavenly origin his deity he’s the son

of Mary son son of Joseph son of the

carpenter these three refers to his

manhood his

humility and then the son of Abraham the

son of David the son of man this refers

to his

royalty and then the son of his

love as a Son of God he’s the son of God

people the Son of God eternally he the

son of the Father relationally the Son

of the highest

uniquely he’s a son of the Blessed

morally son of Mary

miraculously son of Joseph legally son

of the carpenter practically son of

Abraham prophetically son of David

royally son of men

dispensation the son of his love

intimately unto us a son is

given and everything revolves around him

once upon a

time the astronomers

thought that the Earth was the

center of the

system so they did all their

calculations based on

that that in the solar system the Earth

is a center So based on the center being

the Earth they did all their

calculations and as you know all their

calculations fail all the calculations

did not add

up everything failed why they had the

center wrong now we know and later on

the astronomers discovered what we know

now it’s very it’s all very

simple Earth is not the center the sun

is the center and when the sun is the

center everything even the

calculations everything falls into

place the Bible says of Jesus that all

things were made by him Colossians

chapter 1 for through him God created

everything in the Heavenly Realms and on

Earth he made the things we can see and

the things we can’t see such as Thrones

kingdoms rulers and authorities in the

Unseen World everything was created

through him and for

him he he existed before anything else

and he holds all creation together

Christ is also the head of the church

which is his body he is the beginning

Supreme Over All Who rise from the dead

so he is first in everything all things

were created by Him you saw that let’s

look at the verse again for through him

God created everything all things were

made by

Christ and he goes on to say everything

was created through him and for him

not just that he holds all things

together look at this he existed existed

before anything else so before he was

the child that was born he’s a son

always dead with the

father and he holds all creation

together whenever I think of Mary

holding that baby close to her heart I

think of the one the helpless bab looks

so helpless Mary holds

him the one who holds all all things

together this is lovely humility we

don’t ask you to understand it we don’t

ask you to explain it we just ask you to

come and worship him we bow before this

beauty see I

I I don’t I don’t care whether you’re

talking about study of scripture

whether the arrangement of your life The

Ordering of your family your

home put Christ in the

center when the center is wrong nothing

Falls in place am nothing

prospers when Christ is the

center everything falls into

place he holds all things together

that’s why a marriage must have a thir

thir party the Lord Jesus

Christ amen every successful marriage

must have a third party if I take from

you I take from you and you take from me

you take from me we take from each other

we’re going to kill each

other if not

physically verbally in our hearts will

end up because we are not meant to live

without him being in the center of our

marriage or the center of our Lives you

know when when when when when uh they

use the word uh

integrated it means what everything is

in its place

integrated in Israel there’s a very

beautiful expression you will hear

people saying when they greet you they

say shalom and when they leave they say

shalom when they are really excited

they’ll say shalom shalom or they didn’t

see you for a long time they say shalom

shalom twice shalom in our words

wholeness is a beautiful picture of

Peace that’s how they say it in Hebrew

Jesus native tongue right they say it

Shalom say shalom shalom peace on Earth

shalom shalom means wholeness integrated

everything is in its place in other

words if your body is in Shalom there’s

no part sick there’s no part disease if

your mind your soul is in Shalom you

have peace of mind no part

depressed no no part is obsessed with

dark compuls sa thoughts and

imaginations shalom shalom shalom for

your outside Shalom for your

inside and if you know that

verse that says trust in the thou will

keep him in perfect peace whose mind is

stayed on Thee I us the wonder what the

word perfect peace peace I know is

Shalom what is perfect peace in the

Bible thou will keep him in perfect

peace whose mind is stayed on Thee Well

if you look at the original it says you

will keep him in perfect peace you will

keep him in shalom

Shalom to God that’s perfect peace would

you say so if you’re complete on the

outside and complete on the

Insight that’s what God God wants for

you only when we keep our mind on him

when our lives revolve around him what

about your life

today sovereignty his power can come

into your life and arrange that even

someone doesn’t know you can make

decisions that will influence you in

your humble

situation amen and there’s a

mystery a virgin shall be with

tri or we can discuss all about you know

the fact that well how can a virgin have

a child and not we’re not call us to

understand we’re

asked to just bow before

it today

even based on Modern discoveries and all

that they realize that the placenta of

the baby brings in the oxygen

nourishment from the mother amen into

the child and the child’s waves and all

that goes back through through the

placenta but never during that time does

the mother’s blood and the baby’s blood

mix we’ve discovered that but what a

beautiful picture that confirms that the

Blood of Mary that was sinful because

everyone sinned have

sinned but this

baby is called the holy Thing by the

angel he has no sin but if you think

that the placenta of Mary brought in sin

through her blood none of the blood

comes into the baby

Hallelujah all the blood in Jesus is in

him to be shed on the cross to wash away

your

sins his Royal Blood is Holy Blood can I

have a good amen no wonder the Apostle

Paul says to put him in the center he

says this at the end the climax of uh

Romans 11 he concludes like this for of

him and through him and to him are all

things to whom be glory forever amen for

of him that means the source must be

from him amen through him means the

channel is also through him and to him

is the object it’s all to him if you

leave your life like that you are living

your life the way God wants you to live

and you’ll find everything will fall

into place amen may you find the Son of

God real in your life during this time

don’t forget the reason why he died on

the cross the Bible says it’s as if God

was looking for this opportunity and I

close with this that at the culmination

of all the ages the age of the law the

age of dispensation of of Innocence the

dispensation of government everything

comes to an a a hit here in Hebrews 9 it

says but now once for all time Jesus has

appeared at the end of the age and this

word age here is in plural all the ages

combined came to the final

culmination why he appeared why at this

time to remove sin by his own death as a

sacrifice and just as each person is

destined to die hey hello 100 years from

now not a single person here still be

alive we can try not talk about it don’t

want to focus on

it Christmas Day you talk about death

but we need to we need to be reminder

because it’s a reminder of

Love prepare yourself for a Christian

the Bible use the word fall asleep they

don’t die and anyway we’re not looking

down for the believer the right the

right posture Bible posture to take is

not looking down to the Grave looking up

to the sky he’s coming back for us as we

shall see ly in this portion and just as

each person is destined to die once and

after that comes judgment so also Christ

was offered once for all time as a

sacrifice to take away the sins of many

people he will come again he will come

again he will come again not to deal

with our sins now his first coming was

to deal with our sins he died on the

cross that’s why he died on the cross

all right he bore all our sins so that

you and I can be forgiven you can you

and I can be justified by faith not by

our our performance or our

works amen but when it comes again it is

not to deal with our sins so many

Christians are so afraid that when Jesus

comes again you know I’m still not

perfect I’m not this I’m not that hey

he’s not come to deal with your

sins when he comes again he’s going to

come to be the ruler of

all amen after so many thousands of

years of man’s rule he’s going to show

us what the rule of the Son of God is

going to be

light amen so Al Christ was offered once

for all time as a sacrifice to take away

the sins of many people he will come

again not to deal with our sins but to

bring Salvation now this word salvation

is a bodily

salvation even our bodies will be saved

the Bible says when Jesus comes again

amen all of us will receive instantly

our brand new bodies a body that will

never grow old never become sick again

never feel bored never fall asleep when

the pastor is preaching and and a body

that will live forever and forever young

forever healthy Forever Strong forever

is quite a long time and whoever

believes this son of God says whoever

believes in him should not perish but

have everlasting life amen put Jesus in

the center of your life amen every hate

every eye closed just for a moment all

right just remain in your position just

for a moment pray this prayer with me

we’ll dismiss you a beautiful sound we

have a treat for you if you stay back I

promise you you’re going to see a treat

right in the midst of us okay

something’s going to

happen now if you have never put your

trust in Christ the Bible says believe

on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall

be saved in your house your whole family

if you confess with your mouth Jesus

Christ is your lord accept him believe

on him and believe that God raised him

from the dead today if you go to Israel

there is an empty tomb Jesus rose from

the dead why I told you just now death

is an enemy so God also has a deal with

death and he conquered death that’s why

for a Christian there’s no death you may

fall asleep if Jesus Waits before he

comes again during our time there’ll

come a time we just fall

asleep that’s a that’s a term the Bible

use and we wake up in

heaven so Jesus rose from the dead if

you believe that the Bible says you

shall be safe pray this prayer with me

if that is you you want to put your

trust in Christ pray this prayer with me

from your heart say heavenly

father I thank

you Christ died for my sins

and you raised him from the

dead when I was

acquitted when I was

justified in him Jesus Christ is my Lord

and my savior now and forever fill me

now with your Holy

Spirit and give me the wonderful

Abundant Life in jesus’ name and all the

people said amen amen if you pred prayer

do a big wave yeah praise the Lord if

you pred prayer do a big wave praise God

praise God you just want me to see yeah

do a big wave okay I promise you a treat

okay okay the treat is we’re going to

sing you a Christmas song okay stand to

your

feet he your treat is still

coming Merry

Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of you Merry

Christmas everyone and I wish you um a

very blessed

2024 uh have a confident expectation of

good the Lord is faithful amen amen

amen like promise something is going to

happen okay don’t look around you

something’s going to happen Okay but we

wish you Amic

Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas

we wish you a Merry Christmas and a

Happy New

Year we wish you a Merry Christmas we

wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a

Merry Christmas and a Happy New

Year we wish you a merry

Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas

we wish you a Merry Christmas and a

Happy New

Year and a

happy New

Year can you hear the

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bells

everybody likes to take a Hol

day everybody likes to take some

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rest spending time together with the

family sharing lots of love and

happiness come on ring those

Bell like the Christmas

tree Jesus is the

King born for you and

me come on ring those

bells everybody

say Jesus we remember this your

birthday celebration come because of

something good something celebrate

we love to

[Music]

recall Mary had a baby born in

[Applause]

Bethlehem great a celebration of them

all come on R those

Bell like the Christmas

tree Jesus is the

king Bor for you and me

come on rain those

bells everybody

say Jesus we remember this your birth

come on Rainbow’s Bell come on

rainbow around the Christmas

tree Jesus is the

King born for you and

me come on ring those Fair

everybody

say Jesus we remember this your

birthday Jesus we remember this your

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birthday he Here Comes Your

treat so I’m

dreaming of the white Christmas

just like the ones I never

knew

I’m

dreaming of a

wine

christas just like the ones I used to

know where the

tree t

listen and

children

listen to

hear slay bells in the snow once a

[Music]

year dreaming of the

wi

christma

with every Christmas car i

r may your days be

merry and

bright and may

all your

Christmases be one

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though your sins be as scalid they shall

be whiter than

snow

amen I’m so sorry some of you got it

really heavy on

you okay my son is telling me there’s

someone wearing a Liverpool

Jersey You’ll Never Walk

Alone Val’s na d

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how want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas from the bottom of my heart I

want to wish you I want to wish you a

Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas from the bottom of my heart

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[Music]

[Music]

is

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas I

want to wish you a Merry Christmas I

want to wish you a Merry Christmas from

the bottom of my

heart I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a merry

Christmas from the bottom of my

heart I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas I want to wish you a Merry

Christmas from the bottom of my

[Applause]

heart amen God bless

you

Hallelujah the Lord Lord bless you and

the Lord keep you throughout this

week the Lord make his face to shine

upon you and be gracious to you the Lord

lift up his countenance on you and Grant

to you and yours his Shalom

peace

amen amen I hope you enjoyed today’s

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