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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church in Adelaide, South 

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Australia. 
Excellent. 

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Well, as. 
Justin mentioned we heard around

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the blood of Jesus last week. 
We're going to be talking a 

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little bit about, you know, this
story in Luke with, with Mary in

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the birth of Jesus. 
So we've sort of come full 

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circle. 
We're back to the start and now 

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we're going again. 
And I think it's funny because 

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we're going to continue to do 
that forever. 

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Talk about his birth, talk about
his death, talk about everything

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in in between. 
Talk about the church. 

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Talk. 
You know, it's just like this. 

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There's no new, new things that 
we're going to be talking about 

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here. 
Jesus has given us, you know, 

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his word and and through the. 
Apostles, He's given us all that

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we. 
Need to know in the scriptures 

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and and his Holy Spirit's with 
us and he's leading us and 

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guiding us but. 
You know it says that the Holy 

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Spirit will remind you of. 
The things that I've said and so

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we just continue just to to go 
through the word of God and and 

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just to ask. 
For greater revelation. 

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Of, of the truth of these things
and what it means. 

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And so I'm believing and 
trusting that even this morning,

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you know, this is, these are 
things that we've heard many 

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times, but I'm trusting that 
we're going to be receiving a, 

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a. 
Greater revelation of who? 

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Christ is and, and what he's 
come to do and and these things.

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So Lord help us to do that. 
We open up our. 

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Hearts to you, Lord. 
We can't grow. 

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Ourselves, Lord, we can't, you 
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Seek revelation through, 
studying through. 

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Understanding the words on the 
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Lord, it's your Holy Spirit 
that. 

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Reveals the son to. 
Us and it reveals yourself so. 

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We seek you. 
For that today, Holy Spirit, 

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that you would reveal yourself, 
and that we would come to know 

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you in a greater way. 
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So we we read the the story here
with the kids. 

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I mean, we could have just left 
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That was that's pretty good 
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So I'm not going to go for too 
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So just relax. 
This is not going to be a long 

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sort of sermon. 
So, Luke. 

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One verse 26. 
Is where we're going to pick up 

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this morning and I'm just going 
to start reading some verses. 

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Here Luke one verse 26 it says 
now in the sixth month the Angel

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Gabriel was sent by God. 
To a city. 

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Of of Galilee named Nazareth. 
To a virgin. 

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Betrothed of a man whose whose 
name was Joseph. 

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Of the House of David and the. 
Virgin's name was. 

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Mary and having. 
Come in, the Angel said to her. 

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Rejoice, highly favoured one, 
the Lord is with you. 

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Blessed are you among women. 
But when she saw him, she was 

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troubled, and at his saying, and
considered what manner of 

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greeting. 
This was when the Angel said to 

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her, Do not be afraid. 
And then the Angel said to her, 

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Do not be afraid, Mary, for you 
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behold, you will conceive in 
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Womb and bring. 
Forth the Son, and shall call 

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his name Jesus. 
He will be great and oh, and he 

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will be called the Son of the 
Highest, and the Lord God will 

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give him the throne of his 
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David. 
And he will reign over the House

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of Jacob Forever, and of his 
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Then Mary said to the Angel, How
can this be, since I do not know

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a man? 
Then the Angel answered her, and

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said to her, That the Holy 
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the power of the Highest will 
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Therefore also the Holy One who 
is to be born will be called the

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Son of God. 
Now indeed, Elizabeth, your 

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relative has also conceived a 
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In her old age. 
And this is now the 6th month 

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for her who? 
Was who was called. 

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Baron, For with God nothing will
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Then Mary said, Behold, the 
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be to me, according to. 
Your word. 

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And the Angel? 
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When you think about the virgin 
birth, it's what an what an. 

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Unbelievable miracle, that is. 
You know that a child. 

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Would be born to a woman. 
Who had never been with a man, 

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never been married that causes. 
A lot of problems I think for 

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you know for the. 
Situation. 

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It's not going to get into that 
stuff now, but when? 

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You actually consider what we're
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their families and for like. 
It's just, it's amazing. 

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And we believe that that's true,
right? 

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You know when I mentioned some? 
Of these things to unbelieving 

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people, you know. 
Sometimes maybe not this. 

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Exact scene. 
They would say, do you actually 

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believe that? 
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You go. 
Yeah, I do. 

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That is an unbelievable. 
Thing right there that we've 

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read. 
But it is true. 

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Right. 
We do believe that. 

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And we believe it because what 
we know in here, there's a I 

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just know, like it's one of it's
like, you just know that, you 

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know, like I just, I don't 
question this anymore. 

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I believe this to be true. 
I've seen it in the scripture. 

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I hold the scripture as true. 
I believe what it says. 

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And I'm sure us in this room 
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We just, although we can't, 
can't understand these things. 

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We just believe them because 
they are true, because it's 

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God's word and we, we know that 
it's trustworthy. 

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Amen. 
So we just believe. 

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But it is amazing. 
Like it is unbelievable to the 

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things that we read in the 
scripture, but we choose to 

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believe. 
We trust God and Mary. 

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Trusted the Angel that spoke. 
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Imagine being Mary and having 
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Her you're going to have a son 
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Not just any son, like you're 
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going to be like the Most High 
and you know, he's going to be a

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king forever and all of these. 
Things. 

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And Mary just believes, she 
says, according to your word, 

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let it be. 
So this is, I think this is just

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testament to the sort of person 
that Mary was and Joseph as well

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when you read the story, God 
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For that privilege, you know. 
Which is just amazing. 

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But. 
Mary asks a very obvious. 

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Question of the Angel and of 
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She says how can this be? 
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I haven't, I don't have a 
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intimately. 
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I have a son. 
It's a pretty obvious question 

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to ask. 
Can I say that it's OK to ask 

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God questions? 
Like it's OK to ask God 

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questions? 
God asks hard things of us. 

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God tells us impossible things 
and it's OK to ask God. 

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You know, God asks us to, you 
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to give everything away and come
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We're, we're told to be generous
and share things and give things

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away. 
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God asks hard things. 
You know, God asks us to forgive

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people no matter what, like no 
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you must forgive. 
That's a hard thing for God to 

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ask of us because you don't want
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hearts, we don't want to 
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This is a hard thing that God 
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God says fear, not fear not over
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we're told not to fear, don't be
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That's a hard thing. 
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I supposed to fear? 
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Like I'm feeling scared right 
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I'm feeling fear and you're 
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earth, God. 
This is a question that we could

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ask God. 
How am I supposed to not be 

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scared God there. 
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asking God how and telling God 
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You know Mary didn't say no, 
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Possible. 
I can't do that. 

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She. 
Said you know. 

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How God? 
And so when we're faced with 

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impossible things that God's 
asking us to do, there is a 

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difference between me saying 
God, I can't. 

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Forgive. 
Because you're saying I won't 

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forgive. 
You're saying I'm not willing to

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forgive so it's OK to ask. 
God help me to forgive or show. 

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Me how to forgive or how on 
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But let's not just stamp our 
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You know, this is not the 
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That's. 
Mary, that Mary's given us here.

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So God, God's answer to. 
Mary is the same. 

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Answer that God has for you and 
I when we seek God with hard 

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things like how is this supposed
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How am I supposed to do this? 
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the Angel says, says the Holy 
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the power of the highest will 
over shadow you, and then he 

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says, therefore therefore you 
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A son. 
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To the King. 
And so that's our answer as 

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well. 
When we face hard things, when 

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we say, Lord, you know when your
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free from sickness. 
And when you know, when you read

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Psalm 91 and it says that you 
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you and, and be bring you under 
his wings and all these things, 

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then it's like how God, I'm 
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don't feel strong. 
How God am I going to overcome? 

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How am I going to be healed? 
How am I going to live well? 

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And it's the the power of the 
Holy Spirit that comes upon you 

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that will. 
Empower us to walk out the. 

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Things that God's calling us to 
do, the impossible things of 

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God. 
It's the same answer for us. 

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God doesn't. 
It's always by God's power and 

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provision that we can do what 
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And God will always provide what
is needed for us to do what he's

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calling us to do, right. 
I think about, you know, I think

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about our Christmas lunch, you 
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Sat around and we. 
Talked and we we counted the 

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cost of how much is this kind of
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We came up with a. 
Figure and all of the money's 

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there through through generosity
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money that. 
We we came up with a number. 

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Justin did the math right. 
We have that money. 

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We have more than that money. 
And that's because when God asks

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us to do things, God provides 
and he is faithful, right? 

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And we can depend on him and 
trust him. 

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And I think that's just a 
wonderful thing. 

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And so I said this was. 
Going to be really short and it 

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is going to be short. 
So there's there's one more. 

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Thing that I just want to touch 
just out of this story that 

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we've read, why is the Virgin? 
Birth important. 

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And I would say that to believe 
that Christ Jesus came from the 

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seed of men, like if you believe
that he was just born of Joseph 

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and not of God, we'd be denying 
Christ dearly. 

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We'd be saying that he was just 
a man from man, as you and I 

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are. 
But that is not the Jesus that 

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we serve. 
The Christ Jesus that we serve 

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was born of God. 
He's divine. 

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He always has been. 
He always will be. 

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Jesus is God. 
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right? 
Jesus is God, Jesus is Lord. 

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We serve one. 
God in three persons. 

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That's what we believe in this 
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That's what the Scripture 
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It's God the Father, God the 
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Spirit. 
Jesus has always been the Son of

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God. 
This is one of those things that

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it's it's hard to. 
Wrap your head around. 

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The. 
Things in. 

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The word of God. 
That that. 

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You know, it says that Jesus was
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the world, the. 
Lamb that was slain. 

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Before the foundation of the 
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world. 
Like try and wrap your head 

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around that glass. 
Like there's things that we just

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can't understand in our own. 
Understanding. 

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But we know that it's true. 
So Jesus has always been the. 

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Son of God. 
John 858 says that Jesus said to

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them most assuredly I say to 
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the the Pharisees, and that that
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Knew what? 
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speak to people and they say 
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what Jesus was saying. 
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This is making reference to the 
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Jesus made it very clear who he 
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to us, right. 
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understanding of who Jesus the. 
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In our hearts, we need to 
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Jesus, I guess is what I'm 
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Almighty? 
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And people say, you know, I hear
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week, people would say, you 
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believe in God or whatever they 
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Like I believe he was just a 
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a good ethical guy. 
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That's not what Jesus said. 
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So for someone to say that Jesus
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you're you're saying that what 
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So you're Jesus is a liar is. 
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He's not a good. 
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he's a liar. 
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crazy. 
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and he meant what he said. 
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So he wasn't just a good man. 
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Almighty Amen and God calls 
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In John 316 it says this is. 
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I'm sure we've all heard it, 
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world that he gave his only 
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believes in him should not 
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So begotten just means of God, 
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sons and they're of me. 
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They've they've come from me. 
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This is this word begotten. 
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that the let me read it again. 
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world that he gave his son, his 
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He gave his son. 
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God gave him, his gave us his 
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thing. 
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understand that Jesus has always
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God gave us his Son. 

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Isaiah 9 says the same thing. 
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child is born. 
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For unto us a child is born, 
unto us a son is given. 

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God gave us his Son to be born. 
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And you and I were lost sons and
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We weren't born sons of God. 
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created mankind, it doesn't mean
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that we were sons of the Most 
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It doesn't mean that the 
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lost sons and daughters. 
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This is why the only begotten 
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And do what he did. 
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come to save that which was 
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This is why sons that to become 
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be born again, because we were 
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Were born of the. 
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Right, not like. 
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Jesus was born. 
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And so we need to be born again.
The Spirit of God needs to come 

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and live inside us for us to be 
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of of God, John one verse 12 
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Received him to. 
Them He gave the right to become

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children of God to those who 
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So we became children. 
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sons and daughters. 
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Through faith, through believing
who Jesus is, through believing 

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that Jesus is the Son of God, 
that he was born of the holy. 

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Spirit and that he lived. 
And died and shed his blood for 

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you and I that's the privilege, 
you know, through the blood of 

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Jesus, that is the privilege 
that we can take a hold of that 

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we have we take a hold of the 
right to become sons and. 

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Daughters of the King, through 
what Jesus? 

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Did that's a fantastic. 
Thing. 

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Like, I couldn't say. 
Enough words to express. 

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How wonderful it is to be lost 
and to be found and to be, you 

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know, to be in death and to be 
born again through Jesus, 

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through the blood of Jesus. 
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Gosh, we've got so much to be 
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Behold what manner of love the 
Father have bestowed on us that 

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we should be called children of 
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I hope that's stirring up 
excitement in us to know that we

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have something very, very 
special, something more special 

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than anyone could ever have. 
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about that, I don't know that we
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Truth of the Gospel. 
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I get excited about things. 
Like I get excited about, you 

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know, I like playing with RC 
cars and stuff. 

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Like, I don't get excited about 
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But this I get. 
I become alive when I think 

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about what? 
Christ has. 

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Done for me. 
You know we could. 

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Get excited about many things 
about our kids and and about 

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God's blessing. 
It's exciting to be blessed by 

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the Lord, but this thing to know
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And. 
That we are alive in him forever

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should. 
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You know, we shouldn't have to 
stir each other up to be able to

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praise the Lord. 
Amen should be bursting out of 

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us when we catch a a heart 
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It's an amazing thing that we 
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And so we celebrate Christmas. 
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Saviour, Jesus, the Son of God, 
and we worship him as Lord God 

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Almighty. 
That's how we worship Jesus as 

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God. 
You are Lord, you are King, you 

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are Lord God Almighty. 
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But there's much to be 
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In this season. 
From that, you know, there's 

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this is a busy time of season 
we've got. 

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Dinners and we've got people and
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Gifts and just. 
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keep your head together. 
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Nuts. 
But anyway, we're. 

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There's so many distractions. 
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this means to the to what this 
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Because he is. 
All about. 

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Him and so let's not get 
distracted in all of the stuff 

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you know, let's not be working 
so hard to create a a nice space

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for our family and running 
around stressed and all of these

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things that we miss the point of
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We're coming together to 
celebrate what Christ has done 

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and so don't be overwhelmed with
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You're working and and preparing
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Trust the Lord for peace. 
These things don't matter, guys.

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You know, we're, we're going to 
come together and we're going to

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surf here and there's lots to 
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And it sounds weird that I'm 
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be busy. 
But we need to center ourselves 

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on who Jesus is and do this well
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This is an amazing season for 
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Lose sight of who he. 
Is because this is all we have. 

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It's all we have. 
We're going to take nothing out 

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of this world. 
Nothing. 

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All of the. 
Things that we think matter, we 

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can't take them with us. 
You know, if we're if we're 

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doing what Jesus has called us 
to do, we're going to take 

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people with us. 
We're going to raise our 

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families well and our family is 
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We're going to make sure that 
we've done everything that we 

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could to make sure that people 
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But that's all the only things 
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are going to be people that 
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We do have a big part to play in
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But I will close with Isaiah 9. 
I'm going to read the whole 

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thing. 
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Maybe can we just stand to our 
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let's just honour the word of 
God in this place. 

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Isaiah 9, verse 6 For unto us a 
child is born, unto us a son is 

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given, and the government will 
be upon his shoulder, and his 

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name will be called. 
Wonderful Counsellor, mighty 

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God, everlasting Father, Prince 
of Peace, of His increase, and 

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of his government and peace 
there will be no end upon the 

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throne of David and over His 
Kingdom, to order it and 

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establish it with judgement and 
justice. 

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From this time forward and 
forever, the zeal of the Lord of

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Hosts will. 
Perform this. 

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Isn't that amazing? 
Let's just, I'm just going to 

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pray. 
Let's turn our hearts to the 

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Lord. 
Lord Jesus. 

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We thank you, Lord, that you are
no mere man, that you are Lord 

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God Almighty. 
We thank you, Lord, that you 

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laid it all down and you came 
and you were born and you lived 

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and you died and you rose again 
according to the scriptures. 

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Lord, you shed your blood. 
That. 

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The that the sins of the world 
could be forgiven and of your 

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Kingdom, Lord, there will be no 
end. 

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And we thank you, Lord, that we 
stand in this place today as a 

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part of your covenant family, 
sons and daughters of the Most 

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High, a part of your everlasting
Kingdom. 

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And it fills us with joy, it 
fills us with hope, and it fills

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us with peace. 
And Lord, we pray that all of 

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those things would flow in US 
and through us this Christmas 

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season, and all of the people 
around us would. 

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Experience who you are. 
Give us boldness to speak your 

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truth and Your word and your 
gospel. 

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God, we pray that we would see 
Your mighty arm of salvation in 

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our midst. 
This. 

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Christmas season, Lord and. 
That you would be glorified. 

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You would be lifted high, our 
amazing God and King. 

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Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Excellent. 

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All right, I'm going to head 
back to Justin. 

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He's going to. 
Cool. 

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Thanks, Dave. 
Just a few different things that

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just popped out to me. 
Then obviously as we come into 

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the season, if God is asking 
something of you, ask how, don't

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just say, I can't say God, how 
will this happen? 

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But it's also that reminder of 
like merit, the story of Mary 

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and Martha, like Martha, you're 
busy with so many things, but 

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one thing is needed to sit at 
Jesus feet. 

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I just pray this this Christmas 
season, all of us would find a 

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place at Jesus feet. 
We just sit there and we're kind

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of go, wow, The wonder of who 
you are, the wonder of what you 

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came to do, the wonder of how 
you were born. 

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And and that incredible story, 
an impossible story. 

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But as Mary said, with God, all 
things are possible. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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