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hi my name is Amberly and I have the
privilege of serving as one of our
executive pastors here at Transformation
Church we just want to say thank you so
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jump into this amazing
message well merry Christmas everybody
and um just so grateful man as I look
around the room and I see so many people
I see all different types of faces I see
all different types of
pain I see all different types of
problems some of you have gated
neighborhood
problems oh y’all come
on the dog is too
loud some of us have apartment problems
second floor apartment
problems some of
us have father
problems and some of us just have
feeling forgotten problem problem
s and everybody’s in the house today
isn’t it beautiful that Jesus can bring
everybody
together like like no no no no I just
need you to to understand the only other
place that looks this diverse right now
is the
mall but we’re in the house of God
today and people have come and put aside
all the Frantic for a
moment to tune in to their faith
and in a holiday season where Christ is
the first part of the word
Christmas isn’t it beautiful that we
came here to say God we’re going to
acknowledge you first before the
presence before the Christmas ornaments
before the crazy family we
got we’re going to say Jesus you’re
welcome I just want to thank our church
for being a faithful Church the crazy
thing about this is
this is what happens every Sunday here
that people have just decided you know
what if I’m going to live in a crazy
world I’m not going to do without
Jesus and nobody’s perfect here they
dress up nice but everybody jacked up
under
this we’ve been in a series for over 12
weeks called damaged but not
destroyed realizing that the value that
God put on us no matter what has
happened it’s still in us and today I
just wanted to as your pastor just say
thank you
this has have been a year of Triumph for
Transformation Church the only way you
know that you’ve grown is you get weight
put on
you and this year a whole bunch of
weight see a lot of people think that
weight or or trials or tribulations or a
sign of God abandoning them it’s
actually proof that he’s been with you
the whole time and now you get to lift
what he has given you the grace to lift
and this this year I’m just so grateful
for everybody who’s given and prayed and
served and I just believe the truth of
the matter is as we end in Triumph
somebody say end in Triumph end in Tri
come on say it with faith end in Triumph
end in Triumph we about to start
something crazy in
2024 now only four people had Faith to
believe I’m going to say it one more
time and give you an opportunity we
about to start something crazy in
2024 come on personally for your life
for your business for your family for
this church for this community for our
city for your
city so I just want to tell you that um
ne ne next week next week we ain’t going
to be here so if you show up here next
week it will be you and the Holy
Spirit and he’ll meet you right here
okay but them doors will be
locked because we want you to spend a
Sunday with your
family like like like I know church is
like uhuh the church got to be we are
the
church and I would I would I would love
for you to gather with your family
around breakfast and
pray this this next year is going to be
a year of maturity for the body of
Christ it’s not going to be the church
spoon feeding you what you need to get
closer to God I’m going to give you them
ingredients you going to dice it cut it
Grill it
yourself okay some of y’all they’re like
uhuh no more no
more but um next week we’ll be doing the
end of year review and you can watch it
online in your pajamas and then the week
after that I feel a burden to preach the
first Sunday in January in a brand new
series we’re calling start
[Music]
sharp the revelation God has given
me about starting 202 24 sharp everybody
say sharp
sharp I’m talking about have you ever
had a knife so sharp cooking all my cook
and somebody was like yeah when I shank
that food
not not killing
anybody
cooking hunting you know what I’m
saying but there’s there’s a level of
knife you can have that is so sharp that
it takes very little
effort I just believe if we if we spend
more time sharpening our spiritual tools
this
year it won’t be so hard to deal with
the things that come in our life this
year everybody say start sharp start
sharp we going to start sharp and the
next day we’re going to start 21 days of
prayer and
fasting now I know some of y’all is like
I’m about to eat this week go
ahead do your thing but come
January we are going to put into
practice giving God the first of our
year so that he’ll bless the rest of
it and um I’m just looking forward to
what God is about to do in our church
and through it and I’m just so grateful
for you to be a part of it I have a word
today and it is not going to be long but
it shall be
strong get your notepads out get your
smartphones and your dumb phones we
accept Androids here all are
welcome
I thought you said end all right she
said I thought you said end in Triumph
we’re getting you an apple here soon
um I want to read a passage of scripture
that is read in the Christmas story a
lot you’ve heard it a couple times today
but it hit me different and um we’ve
been talking about our trauma and our
drama and let’s just go ahead and make
the room feel even right now if you know
there’s an area of your life that still
has trauma and drama surround ing it
would you please raise your hand so the
neighbor that you’re sitting next to
doesn’t think that you’re better than
them if your hand is not up I have a
Christmas present for you you’re a
liar the truth of the matter is all of
us have something that we’re still
working through yeah and we will be
working through that not maybe the same
thing but something until the day that
Jesus comes back
let me help you there are some things
that will never ever be like I’ll never
I’ll never no no no no there are some
things that we’re going to have to rely
on God to help us with for the rest of
our
life and I know that Jacks a lot of
people up cuz you want to be
independent but God Wants You dependent
on
him and so as we deal and wrestle
through our trauma and our drama I
started thinking about the Christmas
Story and how
beautiful it was for Jesus to be born
Isaiah
9:6 this scripture I mean it’s so
beautiful on
cards it’s so Majestic when you put nice
music behind it matter of fact do I have
a musician still back there would you
put some strings on some kind of
symphonic Christmas strings for me real
quick something that gets them in the
mood of Good Tidings and good cheer
quickly unto
us a child is
born unto
us a son is given and the government
will be on his shoulders and he will be
called
wonderful
counselor Mighty God Everlasting father
Prince of
Peace
Mary Christmas cut the
music we read that
scripture so
pretty so tied up in a
bow so
beautiful but I started reading through
all the accounts of the Christmas story
and this story was an episode season 1
of Jerry
Springer this is the most trauma
field jacked up way to have a
baby in history now I know you don’t get
it yet because you see little white
porcelain baby Jesus in the manger with
the wise men and all and that’s where
you see the scripture but can I break it
down with a little little remix on it
with reality of what actually happened
in this story because I found that
there’s something in the character of
God that I want to give you a cheat code
to understand he’s wise enough to many
times conven conveniently conceal the
potential confusion that your promise is
wrapped up
in I’m going say it one more time that
our God many times conveniently conceals
potential confusion that your promise is
wrapped up in cuz he knows if he told
you all of the crap you would have to go
through to get
it you wouldn’t even
go Isaiah prophesies unto us a child he
prophesies this beautiful moment 700
years before
Jesus so I mean I’m thinking that it’s
just going to be some beautiful sorry
night like we see and a light is going
to shine and all this stuff but do y’all
understand what happens watch this this
is the m the MLT miix version okay for
unto us a child is born after 9 months
to a teenage
mom for unto us a son is given to a dad
don’t that don’t know if it’s
his okay y’all be so bougie this is baby
mama drama you pregnant by who the Holy
Spirit where he
at
okay and the Govern government shall be
on his shoulders after the government
tries to assassinate him as a
newborn he had a hit out on his life
from the time he said
when you talking about haters
okay and he will be called wonderful
counselor Mighty God Everlasting father
Prince of Peace that couldn’t find room
in the worst
Motel so he was born in a
barn
many times if God told you all of the
confusion that was around your promise
you wouldn’t even show
up and I I came to encourage somebody
who’s felt like this year has been
that like your year like you made a plan
in 2023 and now you just need to cross
out the three and put four cuz none of
your
plans come on let’s be honest it’s going
to start a business was going to lose
weight was going to
forgive was going to stop
cussing cuss them out this morning on
the way y’all better be happy it’s Jesus
birthday okay y’all going to be faking
here
today was going to start serving was
going to read the Bible was going
to was you were going to do the
things that you said to yourself you
wanted to do
but somehow this year has been filled
with confusion and
crisis what I came to tell you today the
title of my sermon sermon is triumph is
usually wrapped in
trauma Triumph the victory the
win is usually wrapped in something
traumatic
sit with
it I don’t know any marriage who’s good
50 years down the road and ain’t had
nothing bad
happened the best marriages if you dig
deep into them there is something
traumatic that they had to walk through
together that brought them to a place
that said ain’t nothing going to break
us from here on out the Triumph was
wrapped in
trauma there’s no
business that you see being great
Tesla was on the verge of losing
everything two years before it became
the largest electric they had to go
through
trauma and today I just want to
hopefully help you reframe your
situation cuz some of you are about to
give up and you’re right on the
brink of the greatest breakthrough of
your whole life and I came to tell you
it had to go that way no no no no no no
you got to hear me right now it had to
go that way if it didn’t go that way you
would have got the glory out of your
life but because God going to bring you
back from
that only he gets the glory out of your
life uh oh okay I’m come to help you why
are you saying this because when I look
at the Christmas story I got to keep
this jacket undone I’m about to come out
out of it because I’m getting excited
right now I found out that Christ was
born into a trauma filled situation but
I got to see that Christ excels in
crisis you got a crisis you need
Christ why cuz he can beat any
crisis he can literally have his power
work through a situation to the point
that you even forget about the pain the
way it was when it was happening okay I
I got to keep
moving it’s it’s hiso it’s his selo it’s
his swag he sees crisis and he says I’ll
step right into the middle of
that he literally steps Out of Heaven
y’all don’t even want to leave your
house and he sees Humanity in
crisis and he said you know what let me
put on this nasty skin and let
me and he steps into our situation
literally put the word Christmas up
there I saw this completely different
for the first time like when I was
thinking about how Christ steps into
crisis what is the main word of
Christmas what is the main word of
Christmas
christ so it’s Christ must split apart
from me real quick just so I can see it
christm and then I was looking at I just
wrote it down on my paper like this
christm and then I started thinking like
it could be say that Christ is attracted
to our
mess whenever I see Christmas I should
see Christ plus r
mess tomorrow you about to go to a
Christmas dinner or a Christ mess dinner
come on some of our families are
jacked and you thinking of everybody
else and they’re thinking of
you it’s a mess a lot of unforgiveness a
lot of pain a lot of
Secrets a lot of unspoken expectations a
lot of
failed formulas that worked for them but
don’t work for
y’all a lot of son-in-laws who don’t
talk to the father-in-law
a lot of mother-in-laws who mean to the
daughter-in-laws a lot a lot a lot of
pain due to
pedophilia
okay it was your uncle
but a lot of
Secrets it’s a
mess and the crazy thing is you’re still
trying to do this without
Christ like you’re literally in here
planning another year of
mess and going to ask Christ at the end
of it would you please sprinkle some
some some blessing on
it he said no no no I’ll let you have
your mess until you put me in front of
it put me in front of it I do my best
work with mess I do my best work with
mess today I need you to understand that
Christmas is honestly the story let me
say it like this put it down in a point
the story of Christmas is the beginning
of Christ dealing with our
mess anytime you think of Christmas
that’s God’s plan for saying you know
what I’mma deal with Humanity’s mess so
what I’m going to do I’mma just come
down and save the day no I’m going to
make it be born in the messiest place
ever a born do you see all the
symbolism there’s literal dirty animals
everywhere and God allows there to be no
available room in decent
places so that he could foreshadow all
of us feeling like we needed to clean
ourselves up
first before we no no no no I I actually
was born into
mess so that you know that I’ll clean
you up from wherever you are oh my the
Revelation and I don’t know if y’all
have like a bougie Christmas spirit
today or you think like somehow your
life don’t stink but I was grateful to
know my savior was not allergic to a
messy situation because when I was
dealing in pornography when I was jacked
up in my mind when I was disobedient I
always tried to clean myself up before I
came to
God and sometime and somehow every time
I ended up the at the altar I was
stealer a
mess but the fact that our Christ loves
crisis and was born into a mess means
that whatever you’re going through right
now I feel my health coming on
this is his favorite type of
work it’s his
nature part of his first smell is
crap okay y y’all don’t read the Bible
like I like
donkeys y’all see the nativity scene
what do horses donkeys and pigs
do okay use a use a uh uh PG word right
now they make a
mess so literally
wh
oh oh my
Lord
I guess I got to get used to
this the next 33 years I’m I’mma have
mess around
me and then when I go to do the finished
work I’m going to be dealing with
people’s messes for the rest of
Eternity I do my best
work in
mess this this is the Christmas Story
okay all
right and the truth of the matter is
some of us this year have made a mess of
our
finances okay I’m not trying to be I’m I
didn’t want you to come for a Christmas
service and then be like leave and be
like oh that was
fun I I wanted you to come and know that
there’s a solution to the messes that
we’re still
in some of us you’re sitting next to
your spouse but your relationship is
really a
mess some of us our confidence is a mess
you ain’t been you in three
years the stuff you used to do very
simply you’re you you’re timid you’re
scared you you you you’re in you you
feel inferior in things that you know
you’re called to
do for some of us our emotions are a
mess three things I learned from the
Christmas
story and I found like 28 and I just
decided that some of y’all still have
Christmas shopping to
do so I’m only to give you how many
three okay just real quick just show of
hands real quick we we we’re gone in 22
minutes okay real quick how many of
y’all have ever thought let me deal with
this mess before I bring it to
Jesus ah I’m in the right room
today that that’s all I just wanted I
just just wanted to make sure you know
you
can’t I spent so many years trying to
fix the things that I had no power to
fix without the power of the Holy
Spirit and I just want to save you
another year of
frustration don’t do it without
him this will be your best year if it is
your best year spiritually and some of
you have put so much energy and effort
into a
plan that has no power because it’s not
been submitted to the king
yet and I want to say I’m just going to
save you in the balcony I want to save
you another year of getting to
2024 I thought it was supposed to be
more
2024 did I pick the wrong
door cuz everybody about to start chance
the next seven days watch watch the
chance the chance are about to
come
2024 you got
one wh what what’s
yours
huh why am I so
poor it’s
funny but the truth of the matter is for
many of us it’ll be
true because we won’t put Christ in
front of the mess
okay okay three things I learned from
the Christmas story write it down
Triumph is usually wrapped in trauma
Pastor ain’t that the title yeah I don’t
want you to forget
it I’mma put it in there two times
because scientists tell us that reput
rep repetition helps you be able to get
something okay Matthew Chapter 1 Verse
18 just go go here the literal
underscore says Joseph accepts Jesus as
his son hold on why would he have to
accept Jesus as his
son it’s because well you’ll see this is
how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came
about his mother Mary was pledged to be
married to Joseph they was engaged but
before they came together before they
um came
together she was found to be pregnant
through the Holy Spirit hold up
found my my baby mama found was found
pregnant you don’t know what
happened you hold on you have no
clue you oh you asleep and you were
found this is not
normal as much as we read these Bible
scriptures this this is some wild
stuff but this was the wrapping that God
chose for Mary and Joseph to
strategically go through to give him
glory and bring the savior of the world
into this realm can I help you the thing
that you hate may be the very thing God
chose to get a promise into this world
Merry
Christmas do you think Joseph wanted
this to happen do you think I mean
literally at this time it is an
embarrassment above all embarrassments
to not have a child or a son with your
name and then to be with the woman
still and the whole Community
knows that y’all ain’t even
okay
okay but why did I always find it
interesting that Joseph I I think Joseph
is a great man of Faith crazy Faith cuz
he stayed committed to God’s plan even
though it felt
confusing this is the place where most
of us give up don’t make no sense to me
I’mma just go do my own
thing oh come
on you you God was asking you to wait on
him to allow the plan to be unwrapped
and you couldn’t wait no time cuz it got
too
confusing what if Joseph would have done
what most what what I would have
done can I be
honest Nat comes to me we engag I’m like
baby I already got the ring don’t even
worry about it girl W night I’m I’mma
lay hands on
you and she was like mik I’m like
what
what you got gas what’s happening is it
what’s happening the Holy Spirit visited
me you hold
on that’s funny I mean what do you mean
visited I’m
pregnant you’re you’re what I’m pregnant
there’s no way you could be
pregnant because
we Church
Hub you can’t be
pregnant I’m telling you I felt the
power hold on the power hold
on okay let me
stop I would have left the
room I’m just telling you in my Humanity
I would have left the room Mary and
whoever her baby daddy is
would have had to figure that situation
out now y’all sitting up here judging me
but the truth of the matter is God had
to visit Joseph as
well and this really don’t make it no
better cuz now God’s saying it was
me like like I just want you okay I want
you to imagine with me don’t
worry she was telling the truth it was
me first woman last woman in history
that this is going to happen to you’ll
never really be able to measure up
Joseph but this is what I want you to
know you don’t get to name the baby you
don’t get to do anything you want to do
but stay
committed even though it’s
confusing stay
committed even though it’s
confusing stay committed
even though it doesn’t fully make sense
to me stay committed even though I don’t
understand why you would allow this to
happen to me there’s a hundred other
people that this could have happened to
stay
[Applause]
committed story of Christmas could have
been over at
Joseph but he stayed committed because
his Triumph was wrapped in trauma okay
second thing we I told you we’re almost
done
favor can be wrapped watch this this
encouragement in
foolishness your favor can be wrapped in
a foolish
situation okay Luke chapter 1 oh verse
29 oh the reason I’m so passionate about
this because I came to encourage people
today that didn’t have a perfect year
I came to encourage the people who are
kind of not even really looking forward
to
2024 cuz you don’t know how it’s going
to change between now and
then and I know you steeped in presents
and Amazon
packages but there’s no amount of gifts
that you could
buy no amount of trips you could take no
amount of money you can make that will
feel the emptiness
of not actually allowing Christ to deal
with your mess so what I found in Mary’s
situation is favor can be wrapped in
foolishness Luke 1: 29 when she saw the
angel she was troubled at his words she
thought about what had been said the
angel said to her Mary Don’t Be Afraid
are you kidding
me you are an angel I don’t know what
you look like I don’t know how where did
you come did you walk through the wall
y’all get scared of people you know is
in the room
okay come on have you ever like gone to
the bathroom your husband or wife or
brother or sister saw you go to the
bathroom then they come ah like why
didn’t you tell me you saw
me now an angel is about to come talk to
me and he said don’t be afraid but look
at his next sentence Don’t Be Afraid why
cuz you have found
favor with God this what favor feel like
cuz this feel pretty foolish to
me this this what favor they let me
go I don’t work there no
more I don’t have no
job this you have found
favor with God no no no no no no no no
no no no no they not my friend no more
they they stopped answering the phone
and they were my
besti Miss Westy they
they why why are we not you have
found everything you lost wasn’t a
loss I I I need I need everybody to hear
me say this the situation surrounding
your situation may be foolish right now
but I came to tell some people you have
found
favor with God see you are to become a
mother and have a son you are to give
him the name
Jesus if I was married I’d be sitting
there like this cannot be really
happening I’m about to lose my
relationship cuz I don’t think Joseph
built like
that I didn’t ask for
this and now I got to carry a baby for
nine months where are all the mothers in
the room
okay look they start clapping for
themselves they like we are mothers hear
us roar I ain’t even say nothing to clap
I just said where all the
up but the truth of the matter is if you
are a mother for nine
months no matter what you
feel you are baking a
baby to the point that some of y’all
lose y’
mind and then you had a baby you gain it
back and you do it
again Mary is sitting here with no
choice at this
moment except to
surrender to a situation that seems
completely
foolish but God called the foolish thing
a favorable
situation I just came today to ask you
to look at your situation with a new
lens the thing that you have been
calling foolish all year could it be
God’s
favor there are some situations in my
life that’s been going on I’m like God
why would you allow this to happen he
said look
again don’t be too quick to label what’s
not
over Mary and Joseph at this moment
would have been like this the worst time
of my life for the rest of her life
she’s like my baby
Jesus like think about it you talk about
your son Blake he just can play
basketball this
Jesus at this at one moment it’s like I
cannot believe this at another moment
it’s like I cannot
believe this I bet she felt that way
when she turned when she told Jesus turn
the water in wine y’all remember his
first
miracle Jesus was like my time has not
come she said boy
please I carried you for nine months
do whatever Jesus say do whatever he say
she’s like marry your son he got the
charie up in here cracking she’s like
that’s my
baby now I just you know I’m
[Applause]
[Music]
just but at one moment it’s
horrible and then God says it’s my
favor I just came to encourage somebody
on this Christmas Eve service it may
look foolish but look again this is
God’s
favor I need you to hear me say this
this is a prophetic word for somebody
right now I know the business didn’t do
what you thought it was going to do look
again was God trying to work something
in you oh or was he trying to work
something out of you you’ve been so
prideful he had to let it fail so
humility could come to your life look
again this is God’s favor they had to
leave your life because you would never
know who you were without them if they
would have stayed you would have just
been a puppy and a robot behind them but
I called you something powerful and I
want everything I put out of you look
again
uhoh it might be God’s
[Music]
favor look at your neighbor say look
again
again Mary and Joseph had to look
again and you know they found out
that there there was so much favor
wrapped in a situation that was foolish
matter of fact um I just I need I need
somebody help me who will help me with
an example real quick just somebody that
that would help me just real quick a
hand let me see she said ooh ooh you
help me right here in the black right
there with the glass yeah yeah come here
come here come here I want to give you a
gift for Christmas y’all bring me this
gift come here y’all want to give you a
gift oh yeah look the church people
don’t even know if they should clab
they’re like uh why they call why he
call her what’s your name Meredith
Meredith you have the perfect Christmas
name here we go um I want you to go
ahead and unwrap this gift in front of
everybody yes this is awkward but just
go ahead and now I need you to unwrap it
like you’re a 2-year-old kid and you
really want it oh
snap hold on there’s another layer oh
gosh go again
yeah um oh M struggle
process
frustration
muscles come on Meredith come on you
didn’t know you was coming for all this
today come on unwrap it come on there
you go another layer go ahead another
layer oh
God now most yeah come on mer y’all
supporter come
on yeah
all right another
layer what’s going on church
family come on we’re trying to get
everybody in here I love you I love you
I love you if you’re watching on YouTube
if you’re watching on Instagram if this
is going to Facebook wherever you’re at
I just want to let you know we love you
here I’m going to try to get some of
this on here I’m I came to the house and
I’m in my uh Den I ain’t changed clothes
I’m here nothing can stop what God is
trying to do I want you to share this
with everybody if you’re watching online
transformation Nation I love you um I’m
about to address what happened in the
middle of service for everybody that’s
been praying everybody that’s been
watching um we are um in the middle of a
miracle and I’m going to finish this
message right now and so um I wanted to
let everybody know um if you don’t know
what’s happening or what happened we
were in the middle of the most amazing
Christmas Eve service and we um had to
abruptly end service and evacuate the
building and I want to let you know why
it was out of the abundance of caution
and I want to let you know as a pastor
and a leader with our amazing team um we
care about you and your family and
everything that God is doing and um we
care about your safety so out of the
abundance of caution um we had a
verified threat from our authorities and
at that moment we could have either
finished service or worried about
everybody being safe with their children
and making sure that this was a Merry
Christmas and so because we love and
care about um everybody that is a part
of transformation church every visitor
every person um that is faithful uh we
decided that we were going to in service
God’s with us all the time and we were
going to in service and make sure that
everybody was safe um and we are
thankful so thankful um that our team
along with the authorities in um our
area just did such an amazing job
evacuating thousands of people in the
matter of moments and so um we are just
so grateful for everybody that’s still
um working with our team but I’m going
finish this message and I I did not know
that the message was going to get a live
example but if you’re just joining us
right now I want to let you know that
trauma is usually the thing that is the
setting for Triumph and um I’ve been
preaching a message and I only have one
more point one more Point left so I’m
not going to end this year unfinished
I’m going to end in Triumph I want you
to put it in the chat I feel my help
coming on I’m taking my sweater off
I’m about to preach the rest of this in
this Den we are going to end in Triumph
I hate the devil I hate what he would
try to do in our service but this is the
message this is the example that no
matter what happens God has put in a
resilience on the inside of us to be
able to believe him in the mid midst of
a messy situation to be able to trust
him in the midst of a mess in the midst
of evacuation still be able to praise
the Eternal God we were we are going to
end in Triumph and the story of Jesus is
just this it’s Christ coming through a
crisis and as our whole church was used
as a sermon illustration today I want to
let you know wherever you are no matter
how broken your situation may seem no
matter how much you want to forget what
has happened this year God is saying to
you like he’s saying to me and my faith
is being encouraged right in the moment
where I could have doubted or been mad
or have fear God said Michael I’m
telling you right now that this is going
to be a triumphant situation but it may
come through some trauma point one of
the message was Triumph is usually
racked in trauma point two is favor can
be wacked in foolishness and point three
this is the last Point promises can be
wrapped in pain write that down put it
in the chat promises are many times
wrapped in pain Luke Chapter 2 verse six
it says while they were there the time
came for the baby to be born and she
gave birth to her first son her
firstborn son she wrapped him remember
we talked about it being wrapped she
wrapped him in cloth and placed him in a
Manger because there was no room
available for them there are many of you
right now in the middle of a situation
just like Mary and Joseph that it is a
painful situation right now can I
encourage you that there is a promise
attached to that pain and the the whole
goal would be for you to get almost to
the point and give up I want you to
realize how many painful situations that
Mary and Joseph had literally walked
through in this whole situation I mean
think about it the pain of their promise
they had the pain of embarrassment like
literally having a child out of wedlock
um I’m I’m literally being shamed and
shunned by the community if anybody
times out they had the pain of child
birth come on Mothers come on let’s be
honest in here children would not be
born if men had to to actually be the
ones to give birth because the truth of
the matter is that pain that you go
through giving child birth with all of
your organs and everything moving and
everything going this is the same pain
many of us have in birthing a vision out
and I know I’m talking to somebody right
now because I’m experiencing the pain of
birthing a vision out the pain of not
being in control of everything the the
pain of having to move around problems
but I’m telling you the baby is coming
I’m telling you that God is going to get
glory on the other side of this pain but
you got to hold on to the
promise Mary and Joseph had
pain because their family wasn’t even
there think about it it says it was her
first son her firstborn son this is
where everybody would gather and be
excited they were in an entirely
different
city on the run when Jesus was born no
family no friends
around pain of being isolated pain of
being
alone they had the like literal physical
pain of a 90m trip on a donkey now can
we okay let’s just be honest right now
if you’re pregnant and somebody tells
you we going on a trip on a donkey for
90 miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem
there’s physical pain that went along to
seeing this promise come to pass from
the cultural
judgment to literally the pain of
rejection of not even having anywhere to
have this
baby Mary and Joseph go through this but
despite all of the pain and this is what
I came to encourage you with they as I
believe you will to they still receive
the
promise this is the story
of Christmas the pain the frustration
the trauma it is the platform for God to
get you to the promise Luke chap 19:1
oh Luke chap
19:10 it says for the son of man came to
seek and to save those who were lost
the whole reason Jesus came the whole
reason that
he was put through this
crisis we get Christ out of the crisis
the whole reason you went through
everything you went
through the whole reason that this is a
type in a shadow the whole reason that
Mary and Joseph went through all of this
I need you to understand that the
promise that we have of
Salvation it was in Mary ‘s pain it was
in Mary’s pain that we get Christ but it
was a type in a shower or a
foreshadowing of the pain that Jesus
would endure so that we could receive
salvation see I need you to see what
just happened Mary had to go through the
pain cuz she had to be the
Forerunner because Jesus was going to go
to the pain to produce a promise which
is our Salvation this was Christmas’s
whole intent this is why you don’t have
to live the same way this this is why
you don’t have to keep doing the same
thing and going to the same places and
live the mess or Christmas Christmas you
don’t got to do it no more it’s because
somebody already took the pain but it
started with Mary and
Joseph birthing the promise out of pain
so that Jesus one day could birth the
promise of salvation out of his pain on
the cross Luke 19:10 for the son of man
Jesus came to seek and to save those who
were lost you know this story took a
brand new meaning for me um this summer
and I’m going to tell this story and
we’re going to enjoy our Christmas and I
thank you transformation Nation for
rocking with me the one thing I don’t
care what happens if I got to set up on
the side of a corner we are going to
represent God to the lost and found for
transformation in Christ and this whole
situation done fired me up on a whole
another level and I’m telling you that
we are going to see God do something so
powerful because we’re going to be
steadfast and committed to the promise
even if it comes with some
pain this summer as our family took a
trip we uh decided to go on a trip um as
a family and I call it a trip because
there is a difference between a vacation
and a trip and let me be very clear a
vacation is Mom and Dad going somewhere
if the kids is there and there’s
backpacks and and and uh diaper bags and
all that it is a family trip just that’s
free game for all my new parents out
here do not call it a vacation if all
your kids is with you anyway we went on
a family trip and we were in the Dallas
airport and my little Bella my oldest
daughter she wasn’t paying attention but
she was with us and we had to get on the
tram to catch our next flight and at the
moment that it was time for the doors to
close she was on the outside of the tram
and she looked I mean we’re this close
and she looked and her mom’s like Oh my
goodness and I’m trying to incredible
beh Hoke the doors and open them up and
they wouldn’t open and I literally
looked at Bella in her face as the tram
started to move and I said stay right
here and I didn’t know if she fully
heard me or saw
me but that was the longest seven
minutes of my life because as a father I
had to wait for the trm to get to the
next stop and literally run across and
get on the next trim and ride it back
and all I could think did somebody take
my daughter all I could think is is she
gone did she walk away all I could think
is did she did somebody come and and and
lead her away she’s impressionable did
she is she far from me is she going to
be where I left her is she and all I
could think is my daughter is lost and
as a father in that moment I started
thinking about let me be honest killing
everybody I started thinking like I’m
going to have to to literally run
through every person in this airport I
my my what’s his name lean Nelson neon
the taken guy I was about to I have some
unique talents that I was about to go
because I could not imagine
myself separated from my
child for the first time in my life I
understood what Luke
191 really meant because it was God’s
plan at Christmas sin Jesus but the that
was the beginning of him saving all of
humanity and he said the reason I had to
do it is because I have to seek and save
those who are lost my children who are
lost as I got off that
tram I saw Bella standing right where I
told her to stay and I was behind her
now and all I did was I said her name I
said Bella and she turned around and saw
me and she just started crying and she
she ran to her father because the whole
time the whole plan was for us to be
United the story of
Christmas was actually our
Triumph that was wrapped in the
trauma of the birth of
Jesus today I just want to offer you the
greatest gift that could ever be given
to anybody that has already been given
the question is will you receive it will
you receive it I know people are going
through all kinds of stuff I know people
are maxing out credit cards I know that
people have deep emotional grieving pain
people are missing loved ones I know
that people are in the middle of making
huge
decisions but would you like Christ to
step in the middle of your mess on this
Christmas cuz he’s the only one that
specializes in being bringing Triumph
out of trauma I want to pray with
you there’s another
deepening in me right now to really know
that God is at work within our church
and in this moment I’m humbled to stand
here in this moment and lead us through
this because I really do believe that in
this Christmas season God is trying to
bring us to a place of trusting him in
the
trauma I’m going to say it one more time
God is literally letting Things Fall
Apart all around you cuz he’s just
saying will you trust me will you trust
me in the middle of your trauma and
that’s what Christmas is Mary and Joseph
trusting God in the middle of their
trauma it is the same invitation that
you are being given right
now Christmas is the beginning of Christ
doing anything to get back to
you this Christmas I want you you to
know it was all about
you the gift to humanity is Jesus from
God because he wants a relationship with
you will you receive
it Emmanuel means god with
us he had to be born into pain so he let
you know I’m with you I know what that
feels like I know what it feels like to
be betrayed I know what it feels like to
go through hard situation I know what it
feels like for the plan not to work out
he’s Emanuel God With Us will you
receive the full benefit what Jesus has
for you today I want to pray with you if
on this Christmas Eve or Christmas
whenever you’re watching this you want
to make a decision to make Jesus Christ
your personal Lord and Savior today I
want to let you know there’s no greater
gift cuz the gift has already been given
all you have to do is receive it
wherever you are in your home home in
your car some people are still in
traffic getting through um people
getting out of our church I’m I just
wherever it is God said this is your
moment this is the chaos that I’m about
to birth This Promise into this this is
this is the place where I’m about to
become a lord of your life yes I had to
drive to my house and come to my Den to
finish this message but God said Michael
end in Triumph show them what it feels
like to have every odd against them I
didn’t even have the login to the
YouTube and Instagram and God said it
doesn’t matter end in Triumph and I’m
telling you there is a level of
perseverance that I believe that is
coming up on the inside of God’s people
right now that is going to allow you to
not be stopped by the lies of the enemy
and the obstacles God’s calling for
obedience you’re going to birth this
promise even if it’s
painful you’re going to find favor even
if it’s
foolishness and your Triumph is coming
in the middle of trauma if you want to
accept Jesus Christ today it’s the
greatest gift it literally is the thing
that took me from being a liar a
manipulator addicted to pornography had
crazy things in my H heart my head I was
I had a poverty mentality all kinds of
things were going on and more than a
poverty mentality I had a corrupt
heart and I invited Jesus in and I
accepted that
gift and he accepted all of me I didn’t
have to clean my mess up he helped me
clean my mess up that that’s what
religion wants you to think is that you
need to get your stuff together and then
come to me and God said if you give me
your heart I’ll help you change your
habits what better day than Christmas
Eve when we’re about to celebrate
Christ for you to receive the gift that
he’s already given to you you don’t got
to bring a gift to this party you have
to receive the gift and he’ll change
your life forever if that’s you watching
on Instagram live watching on YouTube on
Facebook Facebook on rebroadcast we
putting this up I’m not letting nothing
stop what God has for you if one person
gets saved we saw
22,000 people plus get saved this year
at Transformation Church you think the
enemy can stop what’s happening he hates
it he hates it and he’s going to have to
keep hating it because as long as I have
breath in my body we are going to
represent God to the lost and found for
transformation in Christ whether it be
from this room whether it be from a
boardroom whether it be from 1519 it
does not matter you cannot stop what God
is doing and I’m telling you right now
even though it’s painful the promise is
still coming
out this is the moment where God’s
saying let me be in this with you today
I believe Destinies are changing today I
believe your family is changing today I
believe that your mind and your heart is
changing as you receive Jesus I don’t
have any music for you I don’t have
anything this is the the the rawest
realest moment that you could ever have
wherever you are if if you want to
accept Jesus Christ as your personal
Lord and Savior I want you to just
repeat after me say God thank you for
sending
Jesus on
Christmas to be your plan for my
salvation I believe he
lived he died and he rose
again so that I could be in right
relationship with you today
I’m handing
over control of my life to
you change me renew me transform me I’m
yours in Jesus name
amen if you just prayed that prayer I
want you to put your hand up in the chat
right now and I want you to everybody
else I want you to start giving God
praise right now come on right there
come on put your hand up in the chat I
see Hands going up right now Hallelujah
like this is what it’s all about if you
just gave your life to Jesus I want you
to head to the TC website after we end
this and I want you to find resources we
don’t have the QR code and all that
stuff I don’t got all the technology
right now I don’t know what number you
need to call but I need you to come back
and I need you to plug in I need you to
go find the resources I need you to let
let everybody know tell some around you
like this is what this church is all
about today you just received the
greatest gift you could ever receive
it’s the gift of Jesus and we’re about
to walk with you and I’m telling you
that this will be the best year of your
life if it is the best year spiritually
and I’m telling you you’re starting it
off right we’re not just starting 2024
we’re ending in
Triumph there’s no way when I was on the
way over here they’re like what you want
to do you want want to just put a
message out I said no I’m ending in
Triumph I’m ending my last sermon of the
Year preaching I don’t care where it’s
from what God has given has to come out
because there are people attached to our
obedience Transformation Church I love
you Merry Christmas from my house I a’t
got no ornaments on the tree I just came
in here to just say I love you I’m
committed to you I’m going to lead you
into the greatest season of our ministry
and your growth and your development I
have a word of the year
God has
spoken but I’m going to do something
different next year we’re going to we’re
going to see the greatest year of
ministry that we’ve ever seen I want you
if you’re just joining us and you on
Instagram or Facebook I want you to go
back and watch the whole message in the
middle of the message there’s going to
be a cut and it’s just going to be at my
house okay so you just tell people but
this is still for your salvation and
your deliverance and I’m just so glad
for what God is doing on January the 7th
put it in the comments January 7th put
it in there January 7th we’re starting a
brand new series and I’m preaching it
called start
sharp I cannot wait everybody put it in
the comments start sharp January 7th
start sharp we are about to go up next
Sunday we will not be at the physical
location we want you to enjoy and we’re
going to be doing the end of the year
review so you can tune in and watch that
spend time with your family from my
family family they all over the now from
my family to yours Merry Christmas we
love you Transformation Church we
believe God is doing something special
in this time thank you everybody is safe
everybody is good I hate the devil and
uh we going to see God represent more
lives to the lost and the found for one
reason what is it transformation in
Christ Merry Christmas to you and yours
from everybody here at Transformation
Church go out and live a transformed
life I love you
thank you so much for watching this
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