1 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:11,900 Could have been a night 2 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,900 just like this one. 3 00:00:15,166 --> 00:00:17,166 The air 4 00:00:17,166 --> 00:00:20,166 filled with anticipation. 5 00:00:21,066 --> 00:00:23,066 And that light 6 00:00:23,066 --> 00:00:25,900 so bright in the night sky. 7 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:27,133 That it beckoned. 8 00:00:27,133 --> 00:00:30,133 For shepherds and wise men to follow. 9 00:00:31,466 --> 00:00:33,766 Imagine to their surprise. 10 00:00:33,766 --> 00:00:34,966 When they arrive. 11 00:00:34,966 --> 00:00:38,966 And find a tiny baby laying in a manger, 12 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:42,900 surrounded with nothing more than farm animals. 13 00:00:44,833 --> 00:00:47,833 How could this be their king? 14 00:00:47,966 --> 00:00:50,966 How could the Savior of the world 15 00:00:51,033 --> 00:00:54,033 be here in this place? 16 00:00:55,433 --> 00:00:58,300 And yet they were compelled 17 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:02,833 to bow down right there and worship him. 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,600 You see, they knew that something 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,833 beyond comprehension had just transpired. 20 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,800 The hope of all mankind has just shown up before them 21 00:01:15,366 --> 00:01:19,633 that Jesus, although a baby, had come for you 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:25,800 and for me, you came to give us a hope and a future. 23 00:01:26,733 --> 00:01:27,633 You came so that 24 00:01:27,633 --> 00:01:30,866 we might have joy and light. 25 00:01:31,633 --> 00:01:36,466 He came so that no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in. 26 00:01:36,866 --> 00:01:42,200 All we have to do is call on his name and we would be saved. 27 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,600 This is the story of Christmas. 28 00:01:45,666 --> 00:01:48,666 This is the story of the greatest gift 29 00:01:48,833 --> 00:01:53,033 ever given in the story of a king, 30 00:01:54,033 --> 00:01:57,000 the Savior of the world. 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,100 Born in a manger. 32 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:02,100 For you and for me. 33 00:02:07,833 --> 00:02:09,966 The story of Christmas is, 34 00:02:09,966 --> 00:02:12,466 simply put, two fold. 35 00:02:12,466 --> 00:02:15,466 One is the story 36 00:02:15,533 --> 00:02:16,500 of trusting God. 37 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:19,133 Orchestration. 38 00:02:19,133 --> 00:02:22,133 See, when when Jesus shows up. 39 00:02:24,233 --> 00:02:26,033 Things 40 00:02:26,033 --> 00:02:26,700 he disrupts. 41 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:28,800 Things. 42 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,800 And in the middle of that disruption, 43 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:34,800 we're forced to answer the question. 44 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,800 Can I trust his orchestration? 45 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:41,300 The other part of the Christmas story is this. 46 00:02:41,466 --> 00:02:42,766 That the highest of heights, 47 00:02:44,166 --> 00:02:45,900 lowest of lows, 48 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:48,900 for the lowest of lows. 49 00:02:49,066 --> 00:02:51,400 That's the Christmas story. 50 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,500 The highest of heights 51 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,966 taken on human flesh, 52 00:02:55,966 --> 00:02:58,600 becoming the lowest of lows 53 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,000 for humanity. 54 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 For the lowest of lows. 55 00:03:04,166 --> 00:03:05,700 We've been looking at the Christmas story 56 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:08,833 through two gospels, the Gospel of Matthew in the Gospel of Luke. 57 00:03:09,566 --> 00:03:11,600 We started in Matthew chapter one. 58 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,633 Then we went to Luke, chapter one. 59 00:03:13,633 --> 00:03:17,466 Today we'll be in Luke chapter two and wrap it up in two days on Christmas Eve 60 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,500 with Matthew chapter two. 61 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,666 We've jumped back and forth because I want to look at some kind 62 00:03:22,666 --> 00:03:25,666 of chronologically how events transpired. 63 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:30,300 And so this morning we're in Luke chapter two with the account 64 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:34,400 of Jesus's, the announcement of the birth of Jesus to the shepherds. 65 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,566 And Mary having this child. 66 00:03:37,566 --> 00:03:40,700 And so, in whatever form you use to look at Scripture, 67 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:43,700 if you'll turn to Luke, to go to Luke two, please, 68 00:03:44,066 --> 00:03:46,566 I just want to read the passage. 69 00:03:46,566 --> 00:03:48,966 And then we'll talk about it 70 00:03:48,966 --> 00:03:52,366 and see what God reveals of these two lessons of Christmas, 71 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:55,300 trusting his orchestration 72 00:03:55,300 --> 00:03:57,000 and the realization that the highest of highs 73 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,166 becomes the lowest of lows for the lowest of the low. 74 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:02,133 And so the Bible says 75 00:04:02,133 --> 00:04:05,600 in Luke chapter two, in those days, Caesar 76 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,366 Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 77 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:13,266 This was the first census that was that took place while Quirinius 78 00:04:13,266 --> 00:04:17,133 was governor of Syria, and everyone went to his own town to register. 79 00:04:17,966 --> 00:04:20,833 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth 80 00:04:20,833 --> 00:04:23,533 in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem. 81 00:04:23,533 --> 00:04:27,100 Now he did, because he belonged to the house and the lion of David. 82 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,200 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him. 83 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:34,700 I was expecting a child. 84 00:04:36,733 --> 00:04:38,166 Mary's life. 85 00:04:38,166 --> 00:04:40,366 Joseph's life 86 00:04:40,366 --> 00:04:43,366 dramatically, drastically and forever interrupted. 87 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:47,433 They, like us, has to answer the question. 88 00:04:47,433 --> 00:04:50,433 Do I trust God's orchestration 89 00:04:50,466 --> 00:04:52,500 or will I push back and fight against it? 90 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:55,533 You know what's interesting? 91 00:04:55,533 --> 00:04:58,166 As I look at our world 92 00:04:58,166 --> 00:05:01,166 and, those of us who call ourselves Christians. 93 00:05:01,733 --> 00:05:02,700 So look at this. 94 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:07,033 This term nationalistic protest movement. 95 00:05:07,933 --> 00:05:10,933 When we don't like something, we protest, we revolt. 96 00:05:11,366 --> 00:05:13,866 We post 97 00:05:13,866 --> 00:05:16,866 God's people in the beginning. 98 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,566 They were under severe Roman 99 00:05:19,566 --> 00:05:22,866 occupation, depression and taxation. 100 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:27,000 And rather than revolt, and rather than hold 101 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 marches and rather than post. 102 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,200 They trusted God's orchestration. 103 00:05:34,833 --> 00:05:37,066 And they said, Lord, 104 00:05:37,066 --> 00:05:39,533 what we're going through right now is very, very difficult. 105 00:05:39,533 --> 00:05:43,133 And we trust that you will make it right one day. But. 106 00:05:45,233 --> 00:05:46,800 We're going to trust 107 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,800 your orchestration of all things. 108 00:05:50,566 --> 00:05:51,800 And they lived these 109 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,700 quiet, humble lives of obedience and trusted 110 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:58,800 God's orchestration, even of difficult things. 111 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:02,700 And that's where we find Mary and Joseph. 112 00:06:04,333 --> 00:06:06,300 Caesar Augustus issued 113 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:10,133 a decree that a census should be taken up the entire Roman world. 114 00:06:10,133 --> 00:06:13,166 They were under Roman occupation in the Holy Land. 115 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,233 And then the Bible says in verse two, this was the first census 116 00:06:16,233 --> 00:06:19,233 that was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 117 00:06:19,433 --> 00:06:22,166 Well, let me just let me just do a little, 118 00:06:22,166 --> 00:06:24,066 little prep work here. 119 00:06:24,066 --> 00:06:26,833 Any of you who are like hardcore 120 00:06:26,833 --> 00:06:29,833 nerdy history students 121 00:06:29,866 --> 00:06:33,766 of ancient times, this verse is going to cause a problem for you 122 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,233 because it says Caesar Augustus issued a decree. 123 00:06:38,566 --> 00:06:40,500 Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem. 124 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:43,500 We know all of that happened in our back 125 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,600 at about somewhere between 4 and 3 BC. 126 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,800 And then it says this was the first census that was taken 127 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,666 while Corinthians was governor of Syria. 128 00:06:52,666 --> 00:06:56,333 We know from history that Quirinius was governor, ensuring at six A.D.. 129 00:06:57,433 --> 00:06:59,766 See, anybody see a problem? 130 00:06:59,766 --> 00:07:02,100 And those with knowledge will look at the work. 131 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,100 Let me first say that all knowledge. 132 00:07:05,333 --> 00:07:07,466 We'll look at that and see. You see, the Bible can't be trusted. 133 00:07:07,466 --> 00:07:09,000 Well, let me put you at ease now. 134 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 I'm going to answer a question for you that most of you never even had. 135 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,200 But the reason I'm doing this is so you will understand 136 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,533 that you can trust this. 137 00:07:18,533 --> 00:07:20,600 It's without error. 138 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,133 When the Bible says that this was the first census, take governor of Syria 139 00:07:25,766 --> 00:07:28,866 in the Greek, which the New Testament is written in that word. 140 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,866 First census is, wow, wow. 141 00:07:33,933 --> 00:07:34,966 Chris was governor. 142 00:07:34,966 --> 00:07:38,900 That work can also mean before Quirinius was governor. 143 00:07:39,633 --> 00:07:43,233 Now, just during so literally if we read it that way 144 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:47,800 before Carinus was governor, the you understand? 145 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,666 But not only that, even if you say, no, no, I'm going to I'm going to say it. 146 00:07:52,733 --> 00:07:55,800 It says, wow, fine. No problem. 147 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,133 Because what we know from archeology that there was a governor in Syria 148 00:07:59,133 --> 00:08:02,366 who reigned two times, he reign took a break 149 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,400 from. 150 00:08:07,766 --> 00:08:08,400 What? 151 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,400 We're not told his name the first time, 152 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,600 but we know his name the second time. 153 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,400 Guess what? It was. 154 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:17,666 Yeah. 155 00:08:17,666 --> 00:08:19,333 So it could be that this was the guy. 156 00:08:19,333 --> 00:08:22,333 This took place during his first reign 157 00:08:22,633 --> 00:08:24,033 in Sam. 158 00:08:24,033 --> 00:08:24,733 So what? 159 00:08:24,733 --> 00:08:27,733 That tells me I trust this 160 00:08:28,766 --> 00:08:30,900 if even if someone throws up. 161 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:33,900 Yeah, but I trust this. 162 00:08:34,166 --> 00:08:37,900 And what this tells me is that there was this young girl 163 00:08:38,733 --> 00:08:41,233 who was chosen by God 164 00:08:41,233 --> 00:08:44,066 to be the one true God. 165 00:08:44,066 --> 00:08:46,200 Savior of the world, would enter humanity 166 00:08:47,700 --> 00:08:50,933 in the first in the days of Caesar Augustus, when he issued a decree 167 00:08:50,933 --> 00:08:53,933 that since this should be taken up, the Roman world, 168 00:08:55,066 --> 00:08:57,500 everyone went to his own town to register. 169 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:01,066 So Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee 170 00:09:01,066 --> 00:09:04,066 to Judea, to Bethlehem of David. 171 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:07,500 Because you belong to that line, house and line of David. 172 00:09:12,066 --> 00:09:14,100 Everybody around him, 173 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:17,333 the whole area was concerned about a census. 174 00:09:20,466 --> 00:09:23,466 God was concerned about something different. 175 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,833 So they go to him. 176 00:09:25,833 --> 00:09:29,566 And I want you to know, since they went up from the town of Nazareth 177 00:09:29,566 --> 00:09:34,533 in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem, if you look at a map geographically, 178 00:09:35,366 --> 00:09:39,733 they have to go from Nazareth down to Bethlehem geographically. 179 00:09:39,766 --> 00:09:42,100 But the Bible says they went up. Why? 180 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:43,200 Because every time, 181 00:09:44,266 --> 00:09:45,300 Bethlehem, every 182 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,300 time in Scripture it says that you're going up. 183 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:52,500 Because when you take steps towards God, 184 00:09:53,666 --> 00:09:56,300 you understand. 185 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:00,100 If you want to know what your next steps are in life 186 00:10:00,233 --> 00:10:03,300 that are right and good and will progress, 187 00:10:04,133 --> 00:10:07,066 take steps towards God. 188 00:10:07,066 --> 00:10:10,066 Go up. 189 00:10:10,133 --> 00:10:11,633 And enter the house in line, 190 00:10:11,633 --> 00:10:14,633 because he around the house of the line of David. 191 00:10:15,566 --> 00:10:19,000 Well, he went there to register with Mary while they were there. 192 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,166 Verse six. Watch this. 193 00:10:20,166 --> 00:10:22,000 While they were there, 194 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,566 the time came, for the baby gave birth to her firstborn, a son. 195 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,966 She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, 196 00:10:27,966 --> 00:10:30,966 because there was no room for them in the inn. 197 00:10:32,366 --> 00:10:36,033 When the Bible says there was no room for them, in the end we seek hotel. 198 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,500 That's not. 199 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:39,900 That's not the context. 200 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:42,900 Bethlehem was so small. 201 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:48,600 It was so small that they didn't have a hotel in Bethlehem. 202 00:10:48,966 --> 00:10:51,566 There was no inn in Bethlehem. 203 00:10:51,566 --> 00:10:55,566 That word in is the Greek word 204 00:10:56,133 --> 00:10:59,133 that is called Catalina. 205 00:10:59,166 --> 00:11:02,166 And what it is, is historically 206 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:06,033 in the small town that would receive travelers for whatever 207 00:11:06,033 --> 00:11:11,733 reason, they would have these little one room shacks, all in a great big circle. 208 00:11:11,766 --> 00:11:14,766 Think, think, 209 00:11:15,133 --> 00:11:15,900 What the. 210 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:17,933 Like the wagons of the pioneers in the circle. 211 00:11:17,933 --> 00:11:20,700 The wagons type thing. Think of that. 212 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:23,700 And so these visitors would come in 213 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,566 one little room, and they, the animals that they travel with, 214 00:11:28,566 --> 00:11:32,000 they would just put in the center of this big caravan here. 215 00:11:32,833 --> 00:11:33,733 Okay. 216 00:11:33,733 --> 00:11:37,100 And so when the Bible says there was no room for them in the inn, 217 00:11:37,333 --> 00:11:42,100 there was no room for them in this big circle of little one room. 218 00:11:42,233 --> 00:11:43,066 Rundowns 219 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:46,266 with all the animals in the middle. 220 00:11:46,266 --> 00:11:49,033 And so it's very likely that as they show up to Bethlehem, 221 00:11:49,033 --> 00:11:53,133 where there are no room, there's no ends and hotels, they go to 222 00:11:53,166 --> 00:11:56,166 what most travelers would go to this little caravans here, 223 00:11:56,633 --> 00:11:59,500 and they look for one of those little shacks. 224 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:01,933 Everybody's so concerned with the census 225 00:12:01,933 --> 00:12:04,933 and what's going on in the room 226 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:07,900 for baby Jesus. 227 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,600 And so what they do is they sleep in the middle, where 228 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,733 all of the animals are kept outside 229 00:12:14,933 --> 00:12:16,866 in the dirt, 230 00:12:16,866 --> 00:12:18,866 in the dorm 231 00:12:18,866 --> 00:12:21,866 with the animals. Why? 232 00:12:22,633 --> 00:12:27,233 Because so preoccupied with what's going on in their lives, 233 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,500 there's no room for Christ. 234 00:12:31,866 --> 00:12:34,100 Everybody. So this is so important. 235 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:34,966 This is so. 236 00:12:34,966 --> 00:12:36,633 This is taken over our lives. 237 00:12:36,633 --> 00:12:39,000 And this is where our focus is. So there's 238 00:12:40,333 --> 00:12:42,833 there's no room 239 00:12:42,833 --> 00:12:45,366 for someone. 240 00:12:45,366 --> 00:12:48,100 How many times you and I 241 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,933 get so wrapped up 242 00:12:50,933 --> 00:12:53,466 and so overwhelmed 243 00:12:53,466 --> 00:12:57,133 and so involved in everything else 244 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:01,100 that in our lives, two 245 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:04,100 there's. 246 00:13:08,933 --> 00:13:10,866 The thing I love about my Jesus, he's 247 00:13:10,866 --> 00:13:15,266 not afraid to go to the places of the dirt 248 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,200 and the dung in the mess. 249 00:13:20,766 --> 00:13:23,400 And so that's where he goes. 250 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,266 The room. 251 00:13:25,266 --> 00:13:27,966 See, the people were concerned about the census 252 00:13:27,966 --> 00:13:30,966 when Jesus wanted to occupy their city. 253 00:13:33,466 --> 00:13:36,466 But they didn't have room for him. 254 00:13:38,566 --> 00:13:41,566 I wonder how much of that is true for us. 255 00:13:42,133 --> 00:13:45,133 We got room for if you. 256 00:13:46,133 --> 00:13:49,133 Yeah, yeah. 257 00:13:49,833 --> 00:13:52,833 There's a room for him to. 258 00:13:54,266 --> 00:13:56,566 I mean, the question that we have to ask ourselves, 259 00:13:56,566 --> 00:14:00,000 it begs the question, how much room do you have available? 260 00:14:02,266 --> 00:14:04,833 Not if you room. 261 00:14:04,833 --> 00:14:07,833 Well, I got room for Sunday every now and then. 262 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:11,066 Right. 263 00:14:11,066 --> 00:14:14,066 I got enough room to get me into heaven. 264 00:14:14,266 --> 00:14:17,266 You right. 265 00:14:18,533 --> 00:14:20,800 So the question really isn't, do you have room? 266 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,800 The question is, how much have you made a. 267 00:14:25,166 --> 00:14:28,166 Profoundly different questions. 268 00:14:29,033 --> 00:14:32,033 I got out from the keep them out in the mess. 269 00:14:34,433 --> 00:14:35,966 Like when the stuff hits the fan. 270 00:14:35,966 --> 00:14:36,733 I got room for him. 271 00:14:36,733 --> 00:14:39,733 Then. 272 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:41,866 But as far as taking up residency 273 00:14:41,866 --> 00:14:44,866 and living in. 274 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:48,900 You understand? 275 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:51,900 It's about. 276 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,500 She wrapped him in cloths. 277 00:15:04,833 --> 00:15:07,466 And placed him in a manger. 278 00:15:07,466 --> 00:15:09,100 Because there's no room. 279 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:12,033 The clause that she wrapped him in. 280 00:15:12,033 --> 00:15:15,266 It's the same words, the same wrapping as burial cloths. 281 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,500 When Jesus was crucified and they wrapped his body, 282 00:15:20,066 --> 00:15:23,066 they covered him in 100 pounds of spices. 283 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:25,800 Part of the embalming process. 284 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,200 They wrapped him in what the Bible calls swaddling cloths. 285 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,500 Same thing from the beginning. 286 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:38,733 This child pictured his death 287 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:44,400 and the Bible makes it clear that this as a baby 288 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,400 that we celebrate, came for one purpose 289 00:15:48,166 --> 00:15:50,300 to die 290 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:53,300 and then to raise himself from the dead, 291 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:56,700 wrapped in swaddling cloths 292 00:15:57,633 --> 00:15:59,100 because people didn't have room. 293 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:01,866 You know why he was crucified 294 00:16:01,866 --> 00:16:04,866 and wrapped in swaddling clothes? 295 00:16:05,366 --> 00:16:08,366 Because you and I didn't have room. 296 00:16:08,766 --> 00:16:11,766 It's a Bible call. Sin. 297 00:16:14,533 --> 00:16:15,200 Verse eight. 298 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,066 And there were shepherds living out in the fields 299 00:16:17,066 --> 00:16:20,066 nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 300 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:24,233 To them in the glory 301 00:16:24,233 --> 00:16:27,233 of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified, 302 00:16:27,466 --> 00:16:30,466 no doubt. 303 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,300 I love the fact that it says the time came 304 00:16:35,333 --> 00:16:37,833 for this baby to be born, 305 00:16:37,833 --> 00:16:41,500 and once that happened, God showed up to shepherds. 306 00:16:43,633 --> 00:16:44,333 Things let me draw 307 00:16:44,333 --> 00:16:47,333 your attention to when the Bible says the time came. 308 00:16:48,133 --> 00:16:48,766 Hunt. 309 00:16:48,766 --> 00:16:51,766 What it literally means is, Time came. 310 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:54,966 The word for the time is a 311 00:16:54,966 --> 00:16:59,066 is is a feminine word, and the root of that word is gentle. 312 00:17:00,066 --> 00:17:03,000 So God was gentle with her 313 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,166 in giving her two her time, 314 00:17:07,433 --> 00:17:09,533 not just the time of the delivery, 315 00:17:09,533 --> 00:17:13,400 but the her appointed time for God's purpose. 316 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,133 When the Bible says her time came, it 317 00:17:17,133 --> 00:17:21,133 literally means her appointed time was accomplished. 318 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,266 Here's what I know. 319 00:17:24,266 --> 00:17:27,266 The moment we attach ourselves to Jesus, 320 00:17:27,566 --> 00:17:30,566 his plan starts to become 321 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,600 developed and unfolded in our lives. 322 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:37,000 And if we trust his orchestration enough 323 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,433 to stay in those moments, 324 00:17:40,433 --> 00:17:43,433 he is faithful to develop us. 325 00:17:44,566 --> 00:17:47,200 Into the accomplishment 326 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,033 of his purpose in time. 327 00:17:51,066 --> 00:17:52,166 Our problem is 328 00:17:52,166 --> 00:17:55,900 when we walk into these moments that are unknown and moments 329 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:59,733 of fear and moments of questions and moments about and moments 330 00:17:59,733 --> 00:18:03,400 of difficulty and moments of defeat, we want to go 331 00:18:04,566 --> 00:18:06,866 on, say God, 332 00:18:06,866 --> 00:18:08,766 you often can't be a part of this 333 00:18:08,766 --> 00:18:11,766 because this doesn't fit my. 334 00:18:12,233 --> 00:18:14,400 And rather than staying in that moment 335 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,900 and trusting his orchestration of all things, 336 00:18:18,933 --> 00:18:21,766 we back out of that and say, God, 337 00:18:21,766 --> 00:18:24,766 if this is a way to sit down. 338 00:18:27,633 --> 00:18:30,633 And when we stay in it with him, 339 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:35,333 he has the freedom to, in gentleness, 340 00:18:36,333 --> 00:18:40,800 walk us and develop us into the accomplishment 341 00:18:41,633 --> 00:18:44,100 of what he began, 342 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:46,700 which the Bible says over and over and over, faithful 343 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:49,700 is he to complete what he started. 344 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,633 And for some of you this morning, I want to call you back. 345 00:18:58,133 --> 00:19:00,833 Some of you have backed out 346 00:19:00,833 --> 00:19:03,600 of trusting God's orchestration. 347 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,600 Richly detailed plan. 348 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,400 And I want to call you back. 349 00:19:11,466 --> 00:19:14,700 Because if you'll let him in gentleness, 350 00:19:16,166 --> 00:19:18,300 he will walk you into the time 351 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:21,300 when it is accomplished in you. 352 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:24,900 I'm telling you. 353 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:27,900 When the time came for it to be accomplished. 354 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,766 God is so detailed 355 00:19:30,766 --> 00:19:34,366 and so he's he's so intricately. 356 00:19:34,933 --> 00:19:35,800 It is. 357 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,800 He's developed a time for you. 358 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:42,900 If you trust him 359 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:45,900 in Thomas. 360 00:19:46,433 --> 00:19:49,433 He will accomplish it. 361 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:51,933 The time came for her to be born. 362 00:19:51,933 --> 00:19:54,133 She wrapped him in cloth 363 00:19:54,133 --> 00:19:55,433 place and there's no room for them. 364 00:19:55,433 --> 00:19:57,700 In the end, the shepherds are living out. 365 00:19:57,700 --> 00:19:58,900 Verse eight. In the fields nearby. 366 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:00,933 Keep watch over their flocks by night. 367 00:20:00,933 --> 00:20:03,933 And the angel showed up there to up. 368 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,700 Angels are scary, scary, scary beings. 369 00:20:07,866 --> 00:20:08,866 Just please understand 370 00:20:08,866 --> 00:20:12,600 they're not little fat babies sitting on clouds, playing harps, wearing diapers. 371 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,800 And that's not what angel angels are. 372 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:20,400 Fearful creatures are fearful when they show up in the Bible. 373 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,000 Everybody's afraid to show up in. 374 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:24,866 These guys are terrifying. 375 00:20:24,866 --> 00:20:28,566 I love the fact that when God is going to break into human history, 376 00:20:28,666 --> 00:20:30,533 his announcement first goes to shepherds. 377 00:20:30,533 --> 00:20:32,133 Here's why I love that. 378 00:20:32,133 --> 00:20:35,100 Because these shepherds were anywhere from 10 to 16 year 379 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:38,466 old young men, the 16 young. 380 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,166 You know why God showed up to the young ones? 381 00:20:41,166 --> 00:20:44,633 Because the young ones are naive enough 382 00:20:45,466 --> 00:20:48,033 to believe God's word. 383 00:20:48,033 --> 00:20:48,966 See what happens. 384 00:20:48,966 --> 00:20:53,100 As you get older, you start living life and you got some experience 385 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:56,033 and you've been around a block and you know how life works. 386 00:20:56,033 --> 00:20:59,766 And sometimes we convince ourselves that the way God works. 387 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Has been our experience. 388 00:21:06,233 --> 00:21:07,833 And so we don't believe it anymore. 389 00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:10,833 So much. 390 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,200 We're so old and wise 391 00:21:14,466 --> 00:21:16,400 when I say believe God's Word anymore. 392 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,366 Not like the young, naive 393 00:21:19,366 --> 00:21:21,500 and part of us want to say, just wait to grow up. 394 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:23,533 You'll understand. Then. 395 00:21:23,533 --> 00:21:25,500 Then what we're really saying is in which you'll grow up 396 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:28,500 because you'll lose your faith. 397 00:21:29,233 --> 00:21:30,766 And so he goes to these young ones 398 00:21:30,766 --> 00:21:33,766 who are just ignorant and naive enough. 399 00:21:35,333 --> 00:21:37,800 They have been around the block yet 400 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,200 they still believe the word 401 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,433 and they hear it 402 00:21:42,433 --> 00:21:46,033 and this was kind of the lowest rung, 403 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:50,700 in Judaism's ladder, because what it meant for them to be a shepherd 404 00:21:50,766 --> 00:21:55,500 is you were never ritually clean to go into the temple for worship. 405 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:58,166 You were always dirty. 406 00:21:58,166 --> 00:22:03,233 And so these guys were excluded from the religious establishment because they were 407 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:05,400 in it. 408 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,200 That's where God goes. 409 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,200 And I love the fact that that when Jesus shows up, 410 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,200 he shows up to the ones 411 00:22:14,733 --> 00:22:17,733 who think that they're not worthy, 412 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 who think that they're just a little bit too dirty. 413 00:22:21,933 --> 00:22:24,933 But then there are these what he says 414 00:22:25,633 --> 00:22:28,633 everybody else has cast me aside, but not Jesus. 415 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,733 I love that, 416 00:22:32,733 --> 00:22:35,866 and these little flocks that they're in can take care of what they were taking 417 00:22:35,866 --> 00:22:39,500 care of, were the lambs that were to be slaughtered for the Passover. 418 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,200 So they're taking care of the lambs that were Passover, 419 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:47,300 and they're invited to see the lamb 420 00:22:47,533 --> 00:22:50,233 who would be killed on the cross 421 00:22:50,233 --> 00:22:52,400 as our Passover. 422 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,400 So that's what Passover us. 423 00:22:55,900 --> 00:23:00,266 From the beginning, the story has been, do we trust God's orchestration? 424 00:23:00,266 --> 00:23:02,466 Because from the beginning, God has orchestrated 425 00:23:03,566 --> 00:23:06,200 for the highest the heights to become the lowest of lows, 426 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,133 for the lowest, a low, so we can attain the highest of heights. 427 00:23:11,433 --> 00:23:13,900 It's a beautiful story 428 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:16,900 and it's a great reality for 429 00:23:17,633 --> 00:23:21,033 guarding their flocks at night, keeping watch over the flocks. 430 00:23:21,033 --> 00:23:21,933 Angel. Lord Peter, hear them. 431 00:23:21,933 --> 00:23:24,200 They're terrified. 432 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:24,766 Verse ten. 433 00:23:24,766 --> 00:23:27,566 But the angel said to them, do not be afraid. 434 00:23:27,566 --> 00:23:30,566 I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 435 00:23:31,733 --> 00:23:34,100 Do not be afraid. 436 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:36,633 Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. 437 00:23:36,633 --> 00:23:38,066 He is Christ the Lord. 438 00:23:38,066 --> 00:23:39,033 This will be a sign to. 439 00:23:39,033 --> 00:23:42,933 You'll find the baby wrapped in cloths. Why? 440 00:23:45,466 --> 00:23:48,433 When the angel said to them, don't be afraid. 441 00:23:48,433 --> 00:23:53,266 Have any of you ever seen, like, I don't know, like on Pinterest or some some. 442 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,600 Thing. 443 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,900 But where are the Bible lists? 444 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,700 Don't be afraid 365 times. 445 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:05,100 Have you seen that? 446 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,766 Yeah. Okay. Don't believe it. It's a lie. 447 00:24:07,766 --> 00:24:09,533 That's not what the Bible says. 448 00:24:09,533 --> 00:24:09,733 Okay? 449 00:24:09,733 --> 00:24:12,733 It makes a great little sticker or. 450 00:24:14,433 --> 00:24:16,966 The thing 451 00:24:16,966 --> 00:24:19,533 is just not true. 452 00:24:19,533 --> 00:24:21,533 The Bible says 70 times. 453 00:24:21,533 --> 00:24:23,466 Don't be afraid. 454 00:24:23,466 --> 00:24:26,466 I'm so sorry to ruin that for you. 455 00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:31,300 But I want to be knowledgeable biblically and 70 times. 456 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:31,900 But here's the deal. 457 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:35,366 It doesn't matter if God says 365 times. 458 00:24:35,366 --> 00:24:40,033 You're 75 says 512 times 783 times says 1870. 459 00:24:40,633 --> 00:24:43,433 Says one time. 460 00:24:43,433 --> 00:24:46,433 If God says at one time, don't be afraid. 461 00:24:46,766 --> 00:24:48,833 That's enough. 462 00:24:48,833 --> 00:24:49,800 That's enough. 463 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,800 That is enough to trust his orchestration. 464 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,733 That is enough. 465 00:24:55,733 --> 00:24:57,666 But God, you don't understand. 466 00:24:57,666 --> 00:25:00,000 Like I got all this going on. 467 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,566 Don't be afraid. 468 00:25:01,566 --> 00:25:03,500 But you don't understand. 469 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,500 Now don't be afraid. 470 00:25:06,533 --> 00:25:08,533 But you don't understand what's happened. 471 00:25:08,533 --> 00:25:10,700 Like you, if you knew. Hey, 472 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:13,933 don't be afraid. 473 00:25:13,933 --> 00:25:16,833 But I run up against the daddy, and I run up against the difficulty 474 00:25:16,833 --> 00:25:19,833 I run up against to defeat the. 475 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:24,600 I only need to. 476 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,333 Don't be afraid. 477 00:25:27,333 --> 00:25:30,333 Trust my frustration. 478 00:25:30,933 --> 00:25:33,300 I'm gonna get you 479 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,266 to that place of my accomplishment 480 00:25:36,266 --> 00:25:39,266 in your life. 481 00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:42,500 When we start wiggling out of that, 482 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,600 that's great problems for ourselves, 483 00:25:46,166 --> 00:25:47,166 right? 484 00:25:47,166 --> 00:25:50,166 Right. 485 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,233 I guarantee 486 00:25:51,233 --> 00:25:55,866 every one of us, we have the story of the problem 487 00:25:55,866 --> 00:26:00,333 we created for ourselves and we might convince ourselves 488 00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:03,333 was because they did whatever fine arts 489 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,500 respond how we did. 490 00:26:06,733 --> 00:26:08,900 Thing we stay in there 491 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:11,900 or I'm not going to be afraid. 492 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,033 I'm going to trust your orchestration 493 00:26:15,033 --> 00:26:17,933 because I know you're going to get me 494 00:26:17,933 --> 00:26:20,933 to your accomplishment. 495 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:22,400 I know that's going to be good. 496 00:26:24,966 --> 00:26:27,966 Don't be afraid. 497 00:26:28,533 --> 00:26:28,966 You'll find 498 00:26:28,966 --> 00:26:32,233 this baby wrapped in claws, lying in a manger. 499 00:26:32,233 --> 00:26:35,233 Let me just try a little bit more of your Christmas story. 500 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:37,466 You know that little manger that we see? 501 00:26:37,466 --> 00:26:41,200 The little wooden thing with the little hay and it looks all pretty and pristine. 502 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,600 But let me show you what the was. 503 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:47,800 That's the manger. 504 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,366 The stone struck, the stone 505 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:54,500 hewn doubt. 506 00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:59,133 When this baby was born, 507 00:26:59,133 --> 00:27:02,133 wrapped in burial clothes. 508 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:05,300 Laid in a hewn out stone. 509 00:27:07,033 --> 00:27:08,100 Which is what the graves 510 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:11,100 were made of back then. 511 00:27:11,566 --> 00:27:14,566 Everything about his birth prefigured 512 00:27:15,133 --> 00:27:17,633 his death. 513 00:27:17,633 --> 00:27:20,100 And into this little caravanserai where there's no room. 514 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:23,100 Because everybody's so concerned about other stuff. 515 00:27:23,633 --> 00:27:26,733 He's wrapped in these clothes cloths 516 00:27:27,366 --> 00:27:30,366 and laid and assumed out stump. 517 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:36,833 Because he is orchestrating all things 518 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,700 to communicate that the highest of heights 519 00:27:41,966 --> 00:27:44,933 has become. 520 00:27:44,933 --> 00:27:47,933 For the lowest of the low. 521 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,200 It's incredible. 522 00:27:56,333 --> 00:27:57,333 Verse 13, suddenly 523 00:27:57,333 --> 00:28:01,633 a company of heavenly host appeared to the angel, praising God and and saying, 524 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,500 Glory to God the Son on earth, peace to men on 525 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,500 whom his favor rests. 526 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:14,500 These angels show up, 527 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:17,500 this one angel with the announcement and all these other names show up. 528 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:20,466 And what do they do? 529 00:28:20,466 --> 00:28:23,466 What all these angels do? 530 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,400 The what it says. 531 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,766 As a great company, the heavenly host appeared to the angel praising God. 532 00:28:29,766 --> 00:28:31,333 And what? 533 00:28:31,333 --> 00:28:33,366 Saying 534 00:28:33,366 --> 00:28:36,366 they didn't seem. 535 00:28:36,366 --> 00:28:39,366 The company of angels did not seem. 536 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:39,866 Let me. 537 00:28:39,866 --> 00:28:41,733 Let me give you a little bit of Bible info here. 538 00:28:41,733 --> 00:28:44,900 There's only two of the Bible where angels sing. 539 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,800 Did you know that? 540 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,666 Only two places. 541 00:28:48,666 --> 00:28:52,133 And they're significant because of what it means. 542 00:28:53,433 --> 00:28:55,900 The two places where the angels sing. 543 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,700 One is in the book of job. 544 00:28:58,700 --> 00:28:59,500 And job. 545 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:03,833 Is this incredibly heartbreaking, yet really end of it, 546 00:29:04,933 --> 00:29:10,300 where job has his life torn apart and he's in this conversation 547 00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:13,533 with other religious people who are just dumb 548 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,866 and they're paying all these charges. 549 00:29:15,866 --> 00:29:17,966 Well, all this stuff happened because you're a sinner. 550 00:29:17,966 --> 00:29:20,666 And just like, shut up. 551 00:29:20,666 --> 00:29:22,700 That's not it. 552 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:25,266 A your conversation with God and God. 553 00:29:25,266 --> 00:29:25,733 Fine. 554 00:29:25,733 --> 00:29:28,800 God never answers his questions, which is amazing to think about. 555 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:33,100 All these questions we don't answer forgot from God. 556 00:29:33,333 --> 00:29:35,733 He's under no obligation to answer our questions. 557 00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:36,766 They give us reasons. 558 00:29:36,766 --> 00:29:39,766 And his response to job is basically this job. 559 00:29:39,933 --> 00:29:43,800 Answer me now stand up man. Be. 560 00:29:45,833 --> 00:29:49,500 Tell me how I set the limits of the ocean. 561 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:51,366 Tell me how I hung the stars. 562 00:29:51,366 --> 00:29:53,733 Tell me how I set the moon in place. 563 00:29:53,733 --> 00:29:55,500 And set the sun. Tell me, 564 00:29:56,866 --> 00:29:58,733 tell me how I made the galaxy. 565 00:29:58,733 --> 00:30:00,166 You can't because you weren't there. 566 00:30:00,166 --> 00:30:02,366 Because you don't know. 567 00:30:02,366 --> 00:30:05,366 So God is dream job 568 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:07,933 on. Why were its footings 569 00:30:07,933 --> 00:30:12,100 set or who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars. 570 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:14,500 In other words phrases well, the angels sang. 571 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:15,300 There it is 572 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:20,333 together, and all the angels shout for joy in the creation of all things. 573 00:30:20,333 --> 00:30:24,633 When God was putting it all together, the orchestration of the angels 574 00:30:24,633 --> 00:30:27,800 sang at his creation. 575 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,800 Loving, watching the God of all creation put it all together. 576 00:30:32,866 --> 00:30:35,866 God loves work in the background, music. 577 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,366 And at the creation 578 00:30:38,366 --> 00:30:41,366 of all these things, he says, the angels sang. 579 00:30:41,633 --> 00:30:46,566 And after the for all of the rest of human history, they don't sing. 580 00:30:48,166 --> 00:30:51,100 Not another case in the Bible where the angels sing, 581 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,466 you know, the next place and the only other place they sing in the Bible. 582 00:30:54,866 --> 00:30:57,600 Revelation chapter five. 583 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,333 When the curse is being removed from humanity and from the world, 584 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,233 they sang a new song saying, you, God, 585 00:31:06,733 --> 00:31:10,400 Jesus, are worthy to take the scroll and open. 586 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,433 It seals because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased 587 00:31:14,433 --> 00:31:18,500 God for God, persons from every tribe and language of people and nation. 588 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:20,733 At the creation of all things. 589 00:31:20,733 --> 00:31:25,766 They sang of celebration, faith and power and creative work. 590 00:31:25,966 --> 00:31:28,033 And then they were once sin and of the world. 591 00:31:28,033 --> 00:31:31,033 They apparently they were silent and have been silent since. 592 00:31:31,033 --> 00:31:32,066 And they will not see 593 00:31:32,066 --> 00:31:35,966 you until God comes and reverse and takes away the curse from humanity. 594 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:38,100 And then they'll burst out in song again. 595 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:41,966 Guess who's left in their stead to sing praises to God. 596 00:31:46,366 --> 00:31:49,033 This is why God said, if you are silent, 597 00:31:49,033 --> 00:31:52,166 the rocks will cry out and sing my praises. 598 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,566 And I've got to wonder just for a moment. 599 00:31:58,566 --> 00:32:01,066 Wonder with me. 600 00:32:01,066 --> 00:32:04,200 The angels sit in heaven down at us. 601 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,100 And they look at God and they think, God. Why? 602 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:10,266 Why do you love them so much? 603 00:32:10,266 --> 00:32:12,433 Why are you so gracious to them? 604 00:32:12,433 --> 00:32:14,100 Why are you so merciful? 605 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,100 They have no room for you. 606 00:32:17,766 --> 00:32:21,866 They're so involved in everything else that's going on around them and in them. 607 00:32:21,966 --> 00:32:26,466 They make you sleep out in the cold and the dirt in the dumb. 608 00:32:27,466 --> 00:32:30,233 Why do you love them so much? 609 00:32:30,233 --> 00:32:33,233 If you were just a we would sing your praise. 610 00:32:33,333 --> 00:32:35,733 They have the opportunity to 611 00:32:35,733 --> 00:32:39,133 they're they're redeemed ones who sit in silence of you. 612 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:41,133 We know how great you are. 613 00:32:41,133 --> 00:32:44,400 We know how good you see your hand. 614 00:32:44,533 --> 00:32:46,866 And yet they sit in silence. 615 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,700 I wonder what the angels would say to us. 616 00:32:54,866 --> 00:32:57,733 I think I know. 617 00:32:57,733 --> 00:33:00,733 I think they would say, you who are redeemed, 618 00:33:01,066 --> 00:33:02,100 you have. No. 619 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:06,233 I know what God has done. 620 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,500 Christ, the eternal one from eternity. 621 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,466 The highest of heights became the lowest of lows 622 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,366 as a baby with the animals and the dumb. 623 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,700 For you who the lowest of low 624 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:28,700 shout. See? 625 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 Do you realize who this is? 626 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,466 You sit there unaffected. 627 00:33:35,466 --> 00:33:38,166 Look, you got no room 628 00:33:38,166 --> 00:33:39,900 you want for eternity, but not your life. 629 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:42,900 Shout! 630 00:33:43,266 --> 00:33:45,133 I think they'd say something like that. 631 00:33:45,133 --> 00:33:48,133 Thank you for. 632 00:33:51,733 --> 00:33:54,033 Your. 633 00:33:54,033 --> 00:33:56,700 When the angels had left him, they had gone into heaven. 634 00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:59,700 The shepherds said to one another. 635 00:33:59,766 --> 00:34:02,000 Let's go. 636 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,800 Let's go see this thing that's happened. 637 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:05,866 Where's the Lord told us about? 638 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,600 And so they hurried off and 639 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,600 found Mary and Joseph and the baby who was lying in a manger 640 00:34:12,633 --> 00:34:14,233 a little. 641 00:34:14,233 --> 00:34:16,533 Let's go. Wait. 642 00:34:16,533 --> 00:34:19,533 How can we sit here unaffected 643 00:34:19,633 --> 00:34:21,066 when we realize when we see the. 644 00:34:21,066 --> 00:34:23,766 How can we sit around the fact, 645 00:34:23,766 --> 00:34:26,066 let's go. 646 00:34:26,066 --> 00:34:29,066 Can you imagine if they had the suspension like. 647 00:34:37,333 --> 00:34:40,333 Man, I hope we don't waste moments. 648 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,866 So they heard off and found Mary and Joseph. 649 00:34:50,866 --> 00:34:53,866 And the baby was lying in a manger. 650 00:34:56,266 --> 00:34:57,100 When they had seen him, 651 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:00,100 they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child. 652 00:35:00,233 --> 00:35:03,233 And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to. 653 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,133 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 654 00:35:07,133 --> 00:35:10,133 Can you imagine? 655 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:13,133 You know when 656 00:35:14,933 --> 00:35:17,933 when you've seen Christ, 657 00:35:18,633 --> 00:35:21,633 when you've heard him. 658 00:35:24,066 --> 00:35:27,066 You can't be unaffected. 659 00:35:29,966 --> 00:35:32,966 When you see him, you talk about him. 660 00:35:33,766 --> 00:35:36,000 One of the greatest prayers any of us could pray is God. 661 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Open my eyes that I might see. 662 00:35:39,566 --> 00:35:42,566 Because when you see him, it changes. 663 00:35:43,933 --> 00:35:45,000 Here's my great fear. 664 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,900 My great fear is that people sit in church time after time of time, 665 00:35:48,933 --> 00:35:53,433 with just enough Bible and just enough Jesus to get inoculated 666 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:57,300 so they don't get infected. 667 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,433 The goal of a life 668 00:36:01,433 --> 00:36:06,066 attached to Jesus infected, not inoculated. 669 00:36:08,433 --> 00:36:11,100 And we know when we're inoculated, 670 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:14,100 when we get a little bit and go out. 671 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:19,500 And we play safe 672 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,700 and there's no spreading. 673 00:36:23,966 --> 00:36:26,966 And we know we've been infected. 674 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:29,533 When we go out 675 00:36:29,533 --> 00:36:32,966 and others get infected because of us. 676 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,300 To understand, 677 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:39,300 these guys got infected. 678 00:36:40,166 --> 00:36:42,700 Each of us has to discern for ourself 679 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,566 and populated. 680 00:36:45,566 --> 00:36:48,566 Or am I infected? 681 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,766 Jesus calls us to a life of infection 682 00:36:53,666 --> 00:36:54,866 when he said, come, follow me, 683 00:36:54,866 --> 00:36:57,866 become like me. 684 00:37:00,666 --> 00:37:01,100 Look at verse 685 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:06,133 27 and glorifying and praising God for the things they had seen and heard 686 00:37:06,366 --> 00:37:09,366 or heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. 687 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,300 Here's what I know. 688 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:16,300 When you get infected, 689 00:37:16,333 --> 00:37:19,133 you tell your humble your story. 690 00:37:19,133 --> 00:37:20,800 In this church, we talk about our huddle, those 691 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,800 8 to 15 people that we have, 692 00:37:24,066 --> 00:37:26,400 that we have influence with, 693 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,166 some of them, our family, some of our people go to school with some people. 694 00:37:29,166 --> 00:37:31,000 We work with, 695 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,233 but we got 8 to 15 people that we call our huddle. 696 00:37:33,233 --> 00:37:34,933 They're close to us. 697 00:37:34,933 --> 00:37:36,300 And when we're infected, 698 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,433 they know. 699 00:37:40,433 --> 00:37:43,333 And they get infected to. 700 00:37:43,333 --> 00:37:46,333 And when this has been your experience, like the shepherds, 701 00:37:47,333 --> 00:37:50,333 you get infected. 702 00:37:51,466 --> 00:37:54,400 And it is good. 703 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,633 I want to I want to go back to verses one, 704 00:37:57,633 --> 00:38:01,166 two, three, four because there's something I want to point out here, okay? 705 00:38:01,166 --> 00:38:03,200 So just just hang with me. 706 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,200 Let's go back to verses one, two, three, four. 707 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:08,333 In those days, Caesar 708 00:38:08,333 --> 00:38:11,366 Augustus issued a decree that a censorship take of the entire Roman world. 709 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,166 It was the first census. 710 00:38:12,166 --> 00:38:15,366 It was taken a while before Carinus was governor of Syria. 711 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,466 Ever went to his own town to register? 712 00:38:17,466 --> 00:38:19,033 Remember that. Now watch this. 713 00:38:19,033 --> 00:38:24,000 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, 714 00:38:24,333 --> 00:38:27,666 the town of David, because he was he belonged to the house and line of David. 715 00:38:27,666 --> 00:38:29,166 This was why this is so important. 716 00:38:30,533 --> 00:38:33,533 The census was a Roman, 717 00:38:34,833 --> 00:38:36,300 regulation. 718 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:39,933 So all the Hebrews, all the Jewish people in the nation, in the Promised 719 00:38:39,933 --> 00:38:43,733 Land, were living under Roman occupation law. 720 00:38:44,133 --> 00:38:49,566 The civil law and part of the civil law was to hold a census for taxation 721 00:38:49,566 --> 00:38:54,066 purposes, to know how many people do we have, how much money they owe us. 722 00:38:54,166 --> 00:38:57,166 That's what government does. Okay. 723 00:38:57,500 --> 00:38:59,866 And it was unjust, and it was unfair 724 00:38:59,866 --> 00:39:02,866 because that's. 725 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:04,766 Government up and so 726 00:39:04,766 --> 00:39:07,800 and so so they were under Roman obligation. 727 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,300 The census. They run a Roman obligation. 728 00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:14,933 But to go back to their home town was not a Jewish regulation. 729 00:39:16,033 --> 00:39:19,033 That was a Jewish stipulation. 730 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:19,533 Okay. 731 00:39:19,533 --> 00:39:22,533 So the Roman obligation is that you will be taxed, 732 00:39:23,166 --> 00:39:26,800 because the Jewish stipulation is that they went back to their homeland. 733 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,900 What, because the Jews were very concerned with the with the land 734 00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,433 that had been granted originally through the tribe to family lines. 735 00:39:35,533 --> 00:39:36,066 And so 736 00:39:36,066 --> 00:39:39,900 they were under Roman obligation, living under Jewish stipulation. 737 00:39:40,066 --> 00:39:43,833 But God was working everything for a divine restriction. 738 00:39:45,033 --> 00:39:49,333 Sometimes you and I live under oppressive obligation 739 00:39:49,333 --> 00:39:53,266 and other stipulations over our lives, but God will use even 740 00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:56,833 that as a divine orchestration to do what God wants to do. 741 00:39:57,666 --> 00:39:59,700 So don't question it, 742 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:04,166 even when the obligation and stipulation are all and oppressive. 743 00:40:04,166 --> 00:40:05,800 For a moment, live under it 744 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,800 because it is working together for God's divine orchestration. 745 00:40:08,833 --> 00:40:11,833 Let me tell you a house. How specifically? 746 00:40:11,833 --> 00:40:15,366 So they went back to Bethlehem, the town of David. 747 00:40:16,366 --> 00:40:19,366 Mary had to get back to that Bethlehem 748 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,733 because that's what the prophecy said 749 00:40:21,733 --> 00:40:24,733 in my way back in the Old Testament. 750 00:40:24,766 --> 00:40:28,733 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small 751 00:40:28,733 --> 00:40:32,500 among the clans of Judah, out of you will come, 752 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,133 one who will be ruler over 753 00:40:36,133 --> 00:40:39,800 Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times. 754 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,966 And so the prophecy in the Old Testament 755 00:40:42,966 --> 00:40:46,500 that from Ephrathah would come the Messiah. 756 00:40:47,633 --> 00:40:48,833 Here's why this is important. 757 00:40:48,833 --> 00:40:51,833 There were two Bethlehem's back in the day. 758 00:40:52,366 --> 00:40:55,600 Two there wasn't just a little town of Bethlehem. 759 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,400 There was the Bethlehem of Judah 760 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,400 and the Bethlehem of Zebulun. 761 00:41:03,566 --> 00:41:05,400 And back in Micah five 762 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,000 it says, but you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah Bethlehem, 763 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,100 Efrat was the small little Bethlehem from whence David was born. 764 00:41:15,466 --> 00:41:18,466 Mary had to give back to that Bethlehem 765 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:20,200 because there were two. 766 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,266 And the prophecy specified that's what so had 767 00:41:24,266 --> 00:41:27,600 the Roman obligation of his census not taking place. 768 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,133 And the Jewish stipulation to go back to your homeland, 769 00:41:31,133 --> 00:41:33,300 Mary would have never been back in Bethlehem. 770 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:38,200 Ephrathah fulfilling the Scripture centuries before. 771 00:41:38,833 --> 00:41:42,200 That's recorded in Micah five two out of you. 772 00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:46,366 And God says, I will orchestrate everything 773 00:41:46,366 --> 00:41:50,300 in your world to get you to a place where you've got to be. 774 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,366 Trust me with it. 775 00:41:52,366 --> 00:41:56,133 The obligations that are oppressive, the stipulations that other people have on 776 00:41:56,133 --> 00:41:59,666 you, will work together as a divine orchestration 777 00:41:59,733 --> 00:42:03,200 to do exactly what I have determined to. 778 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,466 Through you and with you. 779 00:42:04,466 --> 00:42:07,466 Trust me, you understand. 780 00:42:08,466 --> 00:42:11,466 It's amazing. 781 00:42:11,833 --> 00:42:14,433 Out of you will come the one who will rule over 782 00:42:14,433 --> 00:42:17,433 Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times. 783 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:20,033 John one one in the beginning 784 00:42:20,033 --> 00:42:24,533 was the word Jesus, and the word was God, and the word was God. 785 00:42:24,533 --> 00:42:26,133 He was with God from the beginning. 786 00:42:26,133 --> 00:42:29,133 All things that have been made have been made through him 787 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,200 from ancient times. 788 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,500 All at the orchestration 789 00:42:36,566 --> 00:42:39,566 of the father. 790 00:42:40,666 --> 00:42:43,666 And. Sometimes 791 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,600 as difficult as this might be, 792 00:42:47,766 --> 00:42:51,533 what looks like an obligation or stipulation imposed upon 793 00:42:51,533 --> 00:42:54,533 you from others is actually God's orchestration for you. 794 00:42:57,533 --> 00:42:59,566 If you can't believe that right now, 795 00:42:59,566 --> 00:43:02,566 I want to believe it for you. 796 00:43:02,666 --> 00:43:04,400 I can lend you my faith. 797 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,266 I would. 798 00:43:07,266 --> 00:43:09,166 There's nothing better that you and I can do 799 00:43:09,166 --> 00:43:12,166 than to trust God's orchestration 800 00:43:12,766 --> 00:43:15,833 and obediently follow him into it. 801 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,333 See, everybody thought that Caesar was ruling. 802 00:43:20,333 --> 00:43:21,700 He's the one that issued the decree. 803 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:24,700 But overruling 804 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:25,566 a right. 805 00:43:25,566 --> 00:43:28,566 Now, some of you think this thing is ruling over my life, 806 00:43:29,266 --> 00:43:33,466 this difficulty, this pain, this defeat, the struggle, this is ruling over my life. 807 00:43:33,466 --> 00:43:35,466 I want you to hear me say these words. 808 00:43:35,466 --> 00:43:39,466 It might feel as though that is ruling your life, but God is overrule that 809 00:43:41,166 --> 00:43:44,666 you trust a divine orchestration 810 00:43:46,333 --> 00:43:48,866 and I invite you to trust it, 811 00:43:48,866 --> 00:43:51,866 because that's really the question of Christmas. 812 00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:55,033 Can you trust God's orchestration when you can't trust others, 813 00:43:55,033 --> 00:43:58,033 and when you feel like you have no control? 814 00:44:02,066 --> 00:44:04,833 That's really kind of Christmas, 815 00:44:04,833 --> 00:44:05,133 is it? 816 00:44:05,133 --> 00:44:08,133 Christmas is the question Mary had to answer. 817 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,900 It's the question Joseph had to answer. 818 00:44:12,700 --> 00:44:15,700 It's a question every one of you and I must answer. 819 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:20,033 Can we trust God to put restriction? 820 00:44:20,033 --> 00:44:23,033 I don't want to suggest you can. 821 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,400 Because of his amazing grace. 822 00:44:27,233 --> 00:44:30,233 Because his amazing grace 823 00:44:30,366 --> 00:44:31,933 that says I am going to, 824 00:44:31,933 --> 00:44:34,933 from the highest of heights, become the lowest of lows 825 00:44:35,900 --> 00:44:36,933 for the lowest of lows. 826 00:44:36,933 --> 00:44:40,733 Because I have so much love and mercy and grace to pour out of them, and I want 827 00:44:40,733 --> 00:44:41,633 them to experience that. 828 00:44:43,966 --> 00:44:45,366 Because of God's amazing grace, 829 00:44:45,366 --> 00:44:48,366 we can trust his orchestration. 830 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,000 He loves you. 831 00:44:53,966 --> 00:44:55,733 And he doesn't just want to spend eternity 832 00:44:55,733 --> 00:44:58,733 with you, wants to spend your right now with you, 833 00:44:59,633 --> 00:45:01,133 and he want you to spend your right now 834 00:45:01,133 --> 00:45:04,133 with him. 835 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,000 And if you're willing to step into 836 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,000 this thing called faith. 837 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,600 Faith is the antidote for your every fear. 838 00:45:16,766 --> 00:45:18,833 I know that sometimes life gets scary. 839 00:45:18,833 --> 00:45:23,566 I know that sometimes the circumstances that feel like they have an I'm scary 840 00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:27,300 faith is the antidote. 841 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:29,300 The faith that says, God, I trust you 842 00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:32,300 and I'm going to trust your orchestration, 843 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,400 and I'm not going to wiggle out. 844 00:45:37,933 --> 00:45:40,933 His grace for you and for me is so amazing. 845 00:45:41,233 --> 00:45:44,166 It is sufficient. He. 846 00:45:44,166 --> 00:45:46,500 And it's because of that amazing grace that he chose 847 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:49,866 to take up the form of a human and come to this planet 848 00:45:51,833 --> 00:45:53,866 and offer his life 849 00:45:53,866 --> 00:45:56,866 as a ransom for our sin. 850 00:45:58,666 --> 00:46:00,333 So that we can have eternal life 851 00:46:00,333 --> 00:46:03,333 starting right now. 852 00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:06,400 And there's no greater invitation 853 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,400 that you can accept than that. 854 00:46:12,233 --> 00:46:15,233 So the question. 855 00:46:15,366 --> 00:46:18,000 Because of his grace, 856 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,000 will you trust his orchestration 857 00:46:21,033 --> 00:46:23,666 and give yourself. 858 00:46:23,666 --> 00:46:26,666 Why don't you pray with me? 859 00:46:30,566 --> 00:46:33,566 God, you are a good God. 860 00:46:35,866 --> 00:46:37,266 I believe what your word says, 861 00:46:37,266 --> 00:46:40,266 that you've loved us with an everlasting love. 862 00:46:44,666 --> 00:46:48,200 And I believe you showed us how much your love, how great it is for us. 863 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,200 By sending your son to earth. 864 00:46:51,733 --> 00:46:53,733 And Jesus, you confirmed 865 00:46:53,733 --> 00:46:56,733 the magnitude of the father's love 866 00:46:57,233 --> 00:46:59,466 by willingly going to the cross and then picking your life 867 00:46:59,466 --> 00:47:02,466 back up again. 868 00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:07,266 So that through you, Jesus, we could have a right relationship with the father. 869 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,400 God, I believe that. 870 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,100 There are many here who do believe the same, 871 00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:19,033 and there are some who are who are 872 00:47:19,033 --> 00:47:22,033 beginning to believe that. 873 00:47:22,866 --> 00:47:25,866 Father, I ask for grace to believe. 874 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:28,666 For those who are yet 875 00:47:28,666 --> 00:47:31,666 undecided, for those who have wiggled out, for those 876 00:47:33,033 --> 00:47:36,033 who have walked away, I ask 877 00:47:37,066 --> 00:47:40,000 for them on their behalf for grace 878 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,000 that they might believe again. 879 00:47:44,766 --> 00:47:47,766 And friends, I'd invite you in this moment. 880 00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:53,500 To say to the Father, God, 881 00:47:54,033 --> 00:47:57,033 I'm going to trust your orchestration. 882 00:47:58,400 --> 00:47:59,200 Because I'm going to choose 883 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,200 to believe that you love me. 884 00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:07,100 And as much as I know how. 885 00:48:07,933 --> 00:48:10,833 I'm going to love you back. 886 00:48:10,833 --> 00:48:13,833 I choose to follow you. 887 00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:16,166 Guys, a simple prayer, 888 00:48:16,166 --> 00:48:19,166 a simple decision in your heart. 889 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,066 I don't want you to walk out of here without making that decision. 890 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,233 It's the best decision you can make. 891 00:48:30,233 --> 00:48:33,366 That the highest of heights became the lowest lows 892 00:48:35,066 --> 00:48:35,833 for people like me. 893 00:48:35,833 --> 00:48:38,833 And people like you, who are the lowest of low 894 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,600 that we might become and live. 895 00:48:45,366 --> 00:48:48,366 Would you just say in your own heart, God, 896 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,733 I trust you. 897 00:48:51,733 --> 00:48:54,733 Lead and rule in my life. 898 00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:00,100 Help me follow you. 899 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,600 Today I give myself back. 900 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:10,200 Father, I thank you for decisions that are being made. 901 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,766 I thank you for people 902 00:49:12,766 --> 00:49:15,766 who are choosing to trust. 903 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:20,533 God, I pray that you continue 904 00:49:20,533 --> 00:49:23,500 to give us grace to believe. 905 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:25,333 I thank you for your amazing grace. 906 00:49:25,333 --> 00:49:28,100 How sweet the sound that it saved a wretch like me. 907 00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:31,766 I oh God, I once was lost, but now I'm found. 908 00:49:31,766 --> 00:49:34,366 I once was blind, but now I see. Your grace is amazing. 909 00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:39,100 Your love is profound. 910 00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:42,100 And I thank you that you are in the business right now of orchestrating 911 00:49:42,766 --> 00:49:45,766 for an appointed time, an appointed purpose. 912 00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:51,900 You're a good God. 913 00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:53,600 And in the angels 914 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,600 stead, we want to praise you. 915 00:49:56,733 --> 00:49:57,400 In your name I pray. 916 00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:58,966 Amen. 917 00:49:58,966 --> 00:50:01,966 Listen, I love you. 918 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:03,933 In two days, 919 00:50:03,933 --> 00:50:06,933 I want you to come back to us at 5:00. 920 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:08,400 Get there early. 921 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,400 We're going to wrap up this Christmas story 922 00:50:11,500 --> 00:50:13,666 with the wise men and their approach to Jesus. 923 00:50:13,666 --> 00:50:16,666 It's amazing. It's just amazing. 924 00:50:16,866 --> 00:50:17,766 I want you to come back. 925 00:50:17,766 --> 00:50:19,100 I want to invite your family and friends. 926 00:50:19,100 --> 00:50:22,100 I want to invite your huddle. Destroy. 927 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:25,700 We need to be reminded of. 928 00:50:28,633 --> 00:50:29,400 If any of you made 929 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,400 some decision to follow Jesus 930 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,300 or to come back a 931 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,200 you got to tell somebody. 932 00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:41,133 You can let us know on those cards. 933 00:50:41,133 --> 00:50:43,966 You let us know on I'm going to be here after serving. 934 00:50:43,966 --> 00:50:45,200 Come talk to me now. 935 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,633 My friend John McElroy is Laura, Bob and Jennifer. 936 00:50:49,833 --> 00:50:51,800 There's the we're going to be down there. Just people down here. 937 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,700 You going to talk to us alone? 938 00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:56,966 Talk with you, pray with you, help solidify this thing. 939 00:50:59,633 --> 00:51:02,633 Listen, it's been good to be together. 940 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,600 Two days. 941 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,766 Where are we meeting again? 942 00:51:08,766 --> 00:51:10,933 Less. What time? 943 00:51:10,933 --> 00:51:13,933 Who are you going to invite? 944 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,533 Like a good football team, man. 945 00:51:17,533 --> 00:51:18,966 That's good right there. 946 00:51:18,966 --> 00:51:23,100 Yeah, man, I love you guys, I love you. 947 00:51:23,433 --> 00:51:26,300 Stand up and sing because angels can't let us go get.