I haven't the father would thank you for this time of year that we can set aside to remember.
You've sent Jesus Christ into the world to save centers like us. Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ, for coming.
Not only a man but as a child, a baby child. Just so thankful that you were willing to come and to be our great captain of salvation and thank you that we can.
Once again, just remember this very special thing. You came into the world. Again.
Good morning and welcome to each of you. Do I have it right, Jim? OK, good. Good morning and welcome to each and every one of you for our Christmas.
Celebration, it's going to be a time of, of singing and giving praise to Lord Jesus Christ and his coming into this world to redeem simple people such as us and we're here this morning to give him the praise that he so richly deserves.
I just want to highlight if you didn't receive your Bolton today that Just going to highlight a couple of things that on Wednesday night we are not having a Her median Bible study this week, so most of the studies will be canceled.
For this week, we'll resume after the first of the year. I also want to make a note 2 of a per request.
Philip Taki will be traveling to India. He asked for prayers for him as he travels leaving on the 20 seventh and we'll be gone for a few weeks so he just asked for a prayer.
That as well. Prey also for John Schwitt who is still recovering from a fall that he had this.
Past week. And and to have a few stitches from on her stand so just pray for her brother.
As well for his healing. I also want to clarify something I I made a mistake this morning on the announcement of the birth.
Of it's Jonathan Jeffrey Shows. I said he was 11 pounds.
Okay, that's the hammer reading today. It's 11, so my mind was in the wrong frame of mind.
8 pounds. So, But everybody says, didn't you hear everybody go wow? This is yeah, well I thought 8 pounds that's pretty big you know but the ham's bigger so anyway But we just want to welcome each and every one of you.
Trust that you'd be blessed by the service today. Just again, we just thank the Lord for what he has done for us.
I'll turn the meeting over to Luke and we'll get started.
If the children can come on up, we're going to start by singing Away in a Manger.
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This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about. His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law and yet did not want to expose her to the public, disgrace, to public disgrace.
He had an in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said Joseph son of David do not be afraid take Mary home as your wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
She will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name of the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins.
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet the Virgin will conceive in the birth to a to a son.
And they will call him Emmanuel. Which means God with us. When Joseph woke up, he did not.
He did what the angel of the Lord had commanded. He took Mary home as his wife. But he did not consume it.
Their marriage until She gave birth to a son and gave him the name Jesus.
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In the 6 months of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledge to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.
The virgin's name was married. The angel went to her and said greetings. You who are highly favored, the Lord is with you.
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of reading this might be. But the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, you have found S you have found favor with God.
You will conceive and give bird to a son and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and he will be called the son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever.
His kingdom will never end. How will this be? Mary asked the angel since I am a virgin.
The angel answered, the Holy Spirit will come on you and the power of the most high will overshadow you.
So the holy one to be born will be called a son of God. Even Elizabeth, your relative is going to have a child in her old age and she who was said to be unable to conceive and is in her 6 month for no word from God will ever fail.
I am the Lord from God will ever fail. I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered, may your word from God will ever fail.
I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered, May your word be to me be fulfilled, and Angel left her.
Thank you, Daniel. Thank you.
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There is one more song, a in the song. The Carol song which is sung in India, India.
That means, Shorr, Donia, May, Yea, Huaya. First words is, Gerardi, Gadiri, me, Bedu Kojarati.
That means shepherds were feeding their ships and then the message came. To them that Jesus Christ is going to be born.
And the second verse is the heavens declared. The rejoice of the king being born. And that's the reason everyone is celebrating.
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Thank you, Philip. And everyone else. Samuel is going to come up and read. A passage for us.
Loop Chapter 2.
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That that a sinus should be taken of the entire Roman world. This was the first census that was took in place of Kui, the governor of Syria.
And everyone went there to their own town to register. So, the Joseph also went there from the town of Nazareth to Gallery to Judea to Bethlehem the town of David because he belonged to the House of in line of David.
He went there to register with Mary. He was who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child who was who they were there while they were there, the the time came to the the baby to be born and she gave birth to her first son, first born, a son.
She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in the major because there was no gas or room available for them.
Thank you, Sam.
Jacob is going to come up and read a a poem that we found, Jamie found, it's called Only a Baby.
I don't know if you've heard this before, but it's worth listening to. Okay. He's just the baby.
10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 eyes, 2 ears, one mouth and one nose. He's just a baby, cries out for his mom's arms as he lies in a manger in the keepers barn.
He's just a baby at the sky changed its form as a new star appeared when this baby was born.
He's just a baby, yet this host of heaven sang, Hallelujah to this baby, hallelujah, son of man.
He's just a baby, hallelujah, son of man. He's just a baby yet drove a mad keen wild, who stained the streets with innocence, for this child.
He's just a baby, yet will carry out the law, live a life of perfection so man will fear no more.
He's just a baby, yet will speak to every nation, every broken heart in lost soul. He will fight for their salvation.
He's just a baby, yet when they call him man, they will shout for crucifixion and drive nails through his hands.
He's just a baby yet. His final breath, all creation will shake more in his death. He's just a baby yet when he's late and his grave he will rise 3 days later victorious to save.
When we look in his festive caught but the truth is he's not just a baby he is the almighty son of God.
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And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby keeping watch over their flocks by night.
An angel of the Lord appeared to them. And the glory of the Lord shown around them. And they were terrified.
But the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, I bring you great news that will cause great joy for all the people.
Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. He is the Messiah the Lord.
This will be assigned to you. You will find a baby wrapped in clothes, cloths, and laying in a major.
Suddenly a great company of heavenly hosts appeared with the angel. Praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest heaven.
And on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests. When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, let's go on to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told of.
When they heard off and found Mary and Joseph and the baby who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him.
They spread the word concerning what had been told. To them about the child and all who had heard it were amazed at what the shepherds had said to them.
But Mary treasured up for these things had pondered them in their hearts. Their heart. The shepherd's returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things he had seen and heard.
Which were just as he had been told. In the second month of month. Thank you, Kayden.
Very good.
We're going to have The, the, some Mansky ladies come up and do a special number for us.
Merry Christmas everybody. So, Jane just started playing chill. And I have not played for it since.
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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the time of Kinghead, Maggie from the east came to Jerusalem and asked Where is the one who has been born king of the juice?
We saw a star when it rose. And have come to worship him. One king heard her this, he was disturbed.
Just disturbed and all of Jerusalem with him. And when he had called together all of the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem in Judea, they replied, for this is though for this is what the prophet was written.
But you Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
He sent them to Bethlehem and said, Ghosts and search carefully for the child.
As soon as you find them, report to me so that I can too may go and worship him. After they had heard the king, they went on their way.
And the star they had seen. When it roast. Went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. In the on coming to the house they saw a child with his mother Mary.
And they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, Frankenstein's and.
Thank you, Jonathan.
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Last year I was thinking about one of the lines from one of the hymns that says the thrill of hope a weary world rejoices.
I was just thinking about that throughout the whole Christmas season. This year I was thinking about I've been thinking about.
Drawing near. First I was thinking around the nativity scene. We have all these people who come to see.
The birth of the child, this promised long waited for child. We have Mary and Joseph and and the Angelic messages that they received about who this child is going to be and we see the shepherd's drawing near and we see the angels making an appearance and these wise men coming from Vast, vast distances to to see this newborn child.
Then I was thinking about it later and really Drawing near is it God has come near to us.
And that's what this season is about. It's Yes, there are people who came great distances, but.
Jesus Christ came from the greatest. Possible distance that there was and he entered into the world and he he, drew near to us.
And as a result of that, we can we can. Come here on a weekly basis and remember all that he's done and he's paved this way for us to have a relationship with him and have a restored fellowship with the father and to have the hope and assurance of eternal life and and So we draw near to him because he drew near to us.
And I was thinking about. And Luke chapter 2. This is about a week. Week after Jesus would have been born.
Luke chapter 2 starting in verse 25 when Simeon sees. The child.
Just sort of the, this. I was there was a few things in what he said that really stood out to me.
Simeon, I'll just start in verse 25 and behold there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.
And this man was just and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
And that had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death. Before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
So when he came by the spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the customs of the law, He took him in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now.
You are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation. Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples.
A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your people is Israel. I was thinking about how It was only by the Holy Spirit that he was able to recognize the child.
Jesus looked like a regular baby. He wasn't glowing. You know in some of the depictions where he's And infant and, and you know, he's got his hands up in Mary and they've got the halos and everything's.
Like, it wasn't like that. He was just a baby. And, The Holy Spirit revealed to Simeon who this was.
And taking the baby in his arms. There's 3 specific things that he said about him that I thought was interesting.
He called him salvation. They call them light and they call them glory. And that's what we're here to remember.
We're here to remember the salvation that he. That his coming into the world it paved the way for him he He came into the world as we remember this morning that he would die, that he would bring salvation to a fallen, broken world that had been waiting so long for him.
Light he was the light of the world he by him all of this was created. All of this is sustained in him.
And, and he brought. The revelation of God's love of the physical manifestation of God's love to a world that needed to hear it.
And glory we often, we often, talk about the angels. Who.
Sing about the. You know, they were singing when, when Jesus was born. But, the reality is, as far as I can tell, angels never sing.
That's something that only we do. And, it's a very unique. Opportunity that we have to participate in worshiping God.
And. And They are glorious beings, but they pale in comparison to the glory of the only begotten sun.
And we have this very unique opportunity. To remember him and to do it in a very unique kind of a way where we can sing of the glory of God.
We can sing to the glory of God. And I hope that just some of these thoughts are blessing to you as they've been to me.
Jesus draws near to us. And. He came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost.
And we're thankful for that. And I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. And, As we leave, we'd like to just sing one more song.
Joy to the World.
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