1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,200 But we want to go to the Lord and pray and and just invite him 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,160 into our presence. And he already says he rides 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,560 upon the the waves of our praise. 8 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,160 So he's already here. And we just want to thank him 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,960 for that. Father, we want to bless you 10 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,920 tonight. We have gathered together 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,320 tonight because we love you. We want to sit at your feet 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:40,200 tonight and just feel your presence, Father, that you would 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:45,680 just calm the storms that's in our lives, Lord, That you would 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,840 just give us peace where there doesn't seem to be any peace. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,320 That you'll make a way where there doesn't seem to be a way. 16 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,160 Father, we pray right now that you just touch our minds, touch 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,080 our hearts, Lord, and let us absorb your word into our being, 18 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:04,239 Lord, as we set at your feet tonight to worship you in spirit 19 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,280 and in truth, in Jesus name, Amen. 20 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,040 OK, I've got a going to ask y'all a question and it's going 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,600 to be a head tilter. What's the name of the baby in 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,000 the Manger? Well, we're going to find out. 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,640 We're going to find out if there's a lot of names because 24 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,680 with Jesus, all through Scripture, He's a lot of things 25 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:32,200 to whatever you need. That's what He is. 26 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,200 He is to you now Matthew 1 and 21 and then I'm going to go to 27 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,360 Luke 1 and 31 and I'm going to be jumping around all over the 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,920 place as y'all know I do. But Matthew 1 and 21 says and 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,440 she will bring forth a son and you shall call his name Jesus, 30 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,440 for he will save his people from their sins. 31 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,360 Luke 131 says pretty much the same. 32 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,880 It says and behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring 33 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,520 forth a son and shall call his name Jesus. 34 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,320 So we know that the the given name for our Lord and Savior is 35 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,039 Jesus. Jehovah saves is what that 36 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:13,520 means. You know, he tells us in 37 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,760 Scripture, Acts 4 and 12, it says there is no other name by 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,160 which a man can be saved except by the name of Jesus. 39 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:26,400 He's also the Messiah. He's the Christ, the Messiah, 40 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,040 He's the anointed. 1 He introduced himself in the 41 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,480 synagogue one day. Luke 4 and 18 says the spirit of 42 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:38,160 the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the 43 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,400 gospel to the poor. He sent me to heal the broken 44 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,920 hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recover sight 45 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,520 to the blind. He did all of that to set at 46 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,000 liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,680 of the Lord. And there was a woman that said 48 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,920 to him one time she said, I know the Messiah is coming who is 49 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:03,480 called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us 50 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,800 all things Jesus said to her, I am the one who speaks to you. 51 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,440 I am, I am he. So he is, he is Jesus. 52 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:19,080 He's the Messiah, Christ. He's the promised deliverer. 53 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,360 The baby in the Manger is the promised deliverer. 54 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:28,160 Romans 11/26 And and also all Israel will be saved. 55 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,720 As it is written. The deliverer will come out of 56 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,560 Zion and he will turn away the ungodliness from Jacob. 57 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,480 Now the deliverer. That made me think of a song by 58 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,840 Rich Mullins. My deliverer comes. 59 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,720 I probably posted it on Facebook if anybody saw it. 60 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,520 But my deliverer, he's our deliverer. 61 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,920 Has anybody been delivered? Has he been a deliverer for 62 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,480 anybody in here? Yes, delivered from all kinds of 63 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,520 things. He just keeps his hand upon us. 64 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,520 He's the deliverer. He's the Lamb of God. 65 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,880 John the Baptist introduced him as the Lamb of God. 66 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,160 He said when Jesus was going down to be baptized, John the 67 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,240 Baptist says, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins 68 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,120 of the world. So he's Jesus Messiah, Christ, 69 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:22,000 the promised deliverer, and he's the Lamb of God. 70 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:28,320 That's the baby in the Manger. Now he's also known as Emmanuel, 71 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,560 God with us. He's not just out there 72 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:39,120 somewhere, He's here and now he's with us all the time. 73 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,000 Emmanuel, the baby in the Manger. 74 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,360 He's also known as Jehovah Shama. 75 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,240 That means Lamb of God, Emmanuel. 76 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,480 Rather, that means Emmanuel, Jehovah Shama. 77 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,920 He's the Alpha and the Omega. He's the 1st and he's the last. 78 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:03,440 He is the pre existent beginning and the eternal end. 79 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,000 He was there when there was nothing and he'll be there when 80 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,200 there is nothing. He is the Alpha and the Omega. 81 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:16,200 He's the 1st and the last. He is my favorite, the word 82 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,360 Logos. He is the word. 83 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,280 He's the divine expression of God. 84 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:27,480 Think about that, the Word. He's the divine expression of 85 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,760 God. John 1 and 1. 86 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,400 John always starts out different than anybody else. 87 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,600 He says in the beginning was the word and he goes on and says and 88 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,520 the word was with God. And he goes on and says and the 89 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,760 word was God. And then he goes on and tells us 90 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,720 he says he was in the beginning with God. 91 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,200 All things were made through him and without him nothing that was 92 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,960 made was made. John 1 enforces in him was life 93 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,000 and the life of light of the men. 94 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,040 He's the word, the spoken word of God. 95 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,200 How was heaven and earth created? 96 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,320 Y'all remember the story in Genesis? 97 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,280 God spoke He said it says over and over and over again. 98 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:20,240 It says God said let there be and there was and there was. 99 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:27,920 So Jesus is the word you want to set at the feet of Jesus, Open 100 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,920 your word, open your word and sit there and say, I want to sit 101 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,600 at the feet of Jesus. Well, here you go. 102 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:40,480 Because he is the Word. And he in John 14 and 9 says he 103 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,000 that has seen me has seen the Father. 104 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,640 So he's the word. He's God in the beginning, and 105 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:54,800 he'll always be God. He's also known as the light of 106 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,160 the world. Wow. 107 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,280 Remember God says let there be light, and this just there was 108 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,200 light. He's the light of the world. 109 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,240 He's the illumination of the truth in this Dark World that we 110 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,200 live in. And He guides us with his light. 111 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,880 He shines his light for us, and he leads us and He directs us. 112 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:22,560 He says, Psalm says your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light 113 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,760 to my path. That's what he says. 114 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,760 And he doesn't say you illuminate the whole building. 115 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,720 He says, you're a light unto my path. 116 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,560 You take a flashlight and you can just see one step at a time. 117 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,400 Because if we can see the whole thing, we wouldn't like it. 118 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,880 One step at a time. He says I am the light of the 119 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,240 world. And John, he proclaims I'm the 120 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,240 light of the world. So we have that little baby. 121 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:52,120 He's the Messiah, he's the Christ, he's Jesus, He's he's 122 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:57,640 the promised deliverer, he's the word, he's the Lamb of God. 123 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,400 So what name is in the name of that baby? 124 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,000 That's in the Manger as we always celebrate the baby Jesus. 125 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,880 But he's also the bread of life. Did you ever think of that? 126 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,080 He's the, he is spiritual substance to us. 127 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,280 He satisfies the soul's deepest yearning. 128 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,200 We are hungry. You ever get hungry for 129 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,000 something you're not sure what you're hungry for? 130 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,200 He satisfies. He's the bread of life. 131 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,480 He satisfies us. And John again, back to John, I 132 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,000 love John. We may take that up next year, 133 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,200 ladies. John, I am the bread of life. 134 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,320 Your father and ate manna in the wilderness and are dead. 135 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,160 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may 136 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,760 eat it and not die. I am the living bread which came 137 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,120 down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he 138 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,880 says, you will live forever. And the bread that I shall give 139 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,520 is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. 140 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:07,040 So here he is now. He's the bread of life, he said. 141 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:12,200 He satisfies our souls. We're yearning and hungry. 142 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,720 And if you were ever lost and undone without the Lord, you 143 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,960 know, out in the world somewhere, you were always 144 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,280 looking for something. He says I'm the bread. 145 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,880 I meant. I meant this is what you need. 146 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:28,120 This is what you want. He's also the living water. 147 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,360 Living Water. The woman at the well remember 148 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,960 she knew him as the living Water. 149 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,040 She said he who believe or he said he who believes in me as a 150 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:44,240 scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living 151 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,840 water. Jeremiah says it from my people 152 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,960 have committed 2 evils. They have forsaken me, the 153 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,360 fountain of living water and healing themselves systems, 154 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,600 broken systems they cannot hold any water. 155 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,000 So he warns the people, he says I'm the water. 156 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,720 I'm what you're yearning for. I'm the one that you're yearning 157 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,160 for. So now we have him as the living 158 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,440 water. Like the woman at the well found 159 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,960 him to be the living water. She knew him as the living 160 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,040 water. He wasn't even born yet. 161 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,520 And he was the living water. He was the bread of life, the 162 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,960 manna from heaven. He's always been that. 163 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:33,200 We know him as the Son of God. His divinity, his parentage, his 164 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,840 nature is the son of God. He's also the son of man, Jesus 165 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,680 said. Told everybody that so that we 166 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:43,840 could identify with him. He's the son of man so we can 167 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,680 identify with him. He's the son of David. 168 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,200 Now, why do you think that's important? 169 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:54,280 Son of David, his royalty, He comes from a royal priesthood 170 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,080 that we know of. That's son of David. 171 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,360 He's the bright and morning star. 172 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,600 He's the hope and the promise of a new day. 173 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,880 Need that, he said. I am the root and the offspring 174 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,000 of David and the bright and morning star. 175 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,240 So if it's dark where you're at, look to him. 176 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,840 He's the bright and morning star and he will give you a new day. 177 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,720 It's coming. He's the way, the truth and the 178 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,720 life. He declares that to us, since 179 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,120 nobody comes back to the Father except through me. 180 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,960 I am the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. 181 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,800 Nobody can come to the Father except through me. 182 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,480 His exclusive path to God is Jesus. 183 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,040 Don't believe anybody else. That tells you something 184 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,480 different won't happen. He's also. 185 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,600 We know the angels proclaimed Him to be the wonderful 186 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,600 counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, the Prince 187 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:00,680 of Peace, Jehovah Shalom. The Prince of Peace was 188 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:06,000 prophesied by Isaiah 740 years before he was ever born. 189 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,400 Isaiah prophesied that that he's going to be the wonderful 190 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,080 counselor, He's going to be the mighty God, everlasting Father, 191 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,360 Prince of Peace. So what's the name of the baby 192 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,560 in the Manger? All of this. 193 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:27,640 He's all of this Jehovah Shalom. And it goes on to say, for unto 194 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,400 us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government 195 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,880 will be on his shoulders. Is it truth? 196 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:43,320 It's true, it's the truth. I mean, people going don't talk 197 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:50,720 about government and religion. Hello, 740 years before Christ 198 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,120 was ever born, it's already told us that the government's going 199 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,640 to be on his shoulders, constant. 200 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,440 It's a constant. He's the resurrection and the 201 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,240 life. Mary, Martha and Lazarus, they 202 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,160 knew him as the resurrection and life. 203 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,560 Remember, Lazarus was dead, had been dead for four days. 204 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,080 They called Jesus, Jesus comes in, says Lazarus come forth. 205 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,880 They recognized him and they called the baby in the Manger 206 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,880 the resurrection and the life. That's what he was, and 207 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,920 Scripture says. And when he came near the gate 208 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,200 of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried, the only son 209 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,120 of his mother, and she was a widow, and a large crowd from 210 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,360 the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he 211 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,280 had compassion on her, and said to her, Don't weep. 212 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,560 Then he came and touched open coffin, and those who carried 213 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:47,960 him stood still, And he said, Young man, I say to you, arise. 214 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:53,280 So he who was dead set up and began to speak and he presented 215 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,080 him to his mother. So the widow woman who had lost 216 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:01,640 her son, she knows him as the resurrection and the life. 217 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,360 We can know him as my life is was dead without him. 218 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,440 And now it's resurrected because of him. 219 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,920 We can know him as the resurrection and the life. 220 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,520 We, we kind of overlooked that story. 221 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,600 We go by that one so fast. Where? 222 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,000 Where they were in a funeral procession, they were. 223 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,640 He doesn't just show compassion, but he is. 224 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:56,440 He doesn't just love, but he is love. 225 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,160 Without him, there would be no love. 226 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,080 So that's the baby in the Manger. 227 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,800 I keep pointing over here. There's a baby in the Manger 228 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,360 over here, y'all? That's the baby in the Manger. 229 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:12,120 King of Kings and Lord of Lords, we know that ultimate authority 230 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,040 and future reign. He's going to reign forever and 231 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,760 ever, and no one is above him. He's the King of kings and the 232 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,800 Lord of Lords. He's also the lion of the tribe 233 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,120 of Judah. Yes, we like that one. 234 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:31,120 We see that lion roaring. He's royal conquering. 235 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,760 Jesus was from the tribe of Judah. 236 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,120 It's prophesied that the Messiah whose triumphs over sin and 237 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:45,400 death, conquering like a lion, roaring, strong and powerful. 238 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,880 Hosea said it like this. For I will be like a lion of 239 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,200 Ephraim, and like a young lion to the House of Judah. 240 00:15:53,200 --> 00:16:00,080 I even I will tear them and go away, and I will take them away, 241 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,600 and no one shall rescue. Verse 5 of Revelation goes on 242 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,200 and says, but no. But one of the elders said unto 243 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,880 me, do not wait. Behold, the lion of the tribe of 244 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,720 Judah, the root of David has prevailed to open the scrolls 245 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:20,200 and loosen the seven seals. He's not all power powerful. 246 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,240 The lion of the tribe of Judah, he's the chief cornerstone boy. 247 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,320 He's got a lot of names. He's our foundation. 248 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,120 That's what we build upon is the word. 249 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,920 He's the word. We build upon His word, and he's 250 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,560 the chief cornerstone that was rejected. 251 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,800 They rejected him, but we can build upon Him. 252 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,840 He's the rock. We know Him as the rock. 253 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:51,240 The wise men built their house upon the rock and the rains came 254 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,600 down. Y'all know that He's that rock? 255 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 And Scripture says, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone 256 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:07,200 elect precious, and he who believes on him will not, no 257 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,160 means be put to shame. Yay. 258 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,640 We won't have to be put the same for nothing. 259 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,440 People try to shame us for being Christians. 260 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,200 They try to say, oh, oh, you're one of those. 261 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,800 Yes, I am. You bet you I stand on the chief 262 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,480 cornerstone. That's right. 263 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,599 He's the true vine. He's the source of all spiritual 264 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,280 life. If we're not plugged into that 265 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,520 vine, we're going to die wither away. 266 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,520 But when we're into the vine of Jesus, he's the true vine, and 267 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,400 that's what's going to keep us alive. 268 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,080 Otherwise we'll just wither and die. 269 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:47,440 I'm almost done. It's going to be a short night, 270 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,880 y'all. He's the author and the finisher 271 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:57,520 of our faith. Our faith starts and is 272 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:02,400 perfected in Him. Hebrews 12 and two says looking 273 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,880 into Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for 274 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,640 the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the 275 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,440 shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Father. 276 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,920 Hallelujah. He knew what was going to 277 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,880 happen. He knew that He was going to go 278 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,560 to the cross, but He did it for us so that we would have an 279 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,400 author and finisher of our faith. 280 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,080 We look to him. He's our provider. 281 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,760 Remember the people on the hillside, the 5000 plus, men and 282 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,240 women and children. So it's probably approximately 283 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,760 15,000. I have to say that I get 284 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:39,240 irritated because they leave the women out. 285 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,960 But the 5000 plus on the hillside, Peter was looking for 286 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,920 money and paying taxes. He provided. 287 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,800 He said go look at that fish. Go look in the fish's mouth. 288 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,720 The first fish you catch, look in his mouth and you'll find 289 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,760 money for your taxes. Hallelujah, I'm going fish in. 290 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,440 But he provided food when there was no food. 291 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,560 He provided food for the people on the hillside. 292 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,480 He provided oil for the woman that was her children. 293 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,480 Remember OT her children were getting ready to be her sons 294 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,720 were getting ready to be taken into debtors prison. 295 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:21,600 And he said the prophet said go, get, go get some jars, not a 296 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,320 few, get a lot. And that oil kept pouring out. 297 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:32,480 He's the oil. He's the deliverer to the 298 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,280 demoniac in the garden of the Gadarenes. 299 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,240 He knew him as a deliverer. Mary Magdalene knew him as the 300 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,400 deliverer. I know him as a deliverer. 301 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,640 We all know him as our deliverer. 302 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,040 He delivers us from the pit of hell. 303 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,440 He delivers us from the life we used to have to the life we have 304 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,360 now. He's a friend. 305 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:01,520 Yay, he's our friend. Greater love has no man than 306 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,200 this to lay down in one's life for his friends. 307 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,560 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you no longer 308 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,680 do I call you servants. And we need to understand that 309 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,120 because we call him a servant of God. 310 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:16,360 Now you're a friend of God, he said. 311 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:18,600 I'm not calling you servant anymore. 312 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,880 I'm going to call you friend. For all things that I have heard 313 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,400 from my father, I have made known to you. 314 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,680 Proverbs said he's a friend who sticks closer than a brother. 315 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,520 So that baby in the Manger, he's a lot of things. 316 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,480 Deliverer, provider, author, finisher, king of kings, love, 317 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,680 lion of the tribe of Judah. What's the name of the baby in 318 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,000 the Manger? He's all of it. 319 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,040 He's all of it. He's the healer. 320 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,760 Jehovah Rapha. He's the healer. 321 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,160 Remember the woman with the issue of blood? 322 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,280 She knew him as the healer. She just had to touch the hem of 323 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,520 his garment. The soldier with a sick child 324 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:05,080 knew him as the healer. The leper knew him as the 325 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,600 healer. The crippled man at the pool of 326 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:14,080 Shalom knew him as the healer. We can know him as the healer. 327 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,760 The forgiver of sin. Yay, the woman who was about to 328 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,520 be stoned. Remember her? 329 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,120 They drug her up here. I don't know where the second 330 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,440 party was, but anyway, I'm going to go that one. 331 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,840 Drug her up there, threw her down on the ground. 332 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,800 She's been caught in the act of adultery. 333 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,720 Jesus said your sins are forgiven, Go and sin no more. 334 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:47,000 He's the forgiver of sins. Hallelujah. 335 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:53,360 So how do you know him? What's the name of the baby in 336 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:58,520 the Manger for you? Joy, peace, merciful. 337 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,680 He's, I kept thinking that I was reading it before I come left 338 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,360 the house. He's our shepherd, Jehovah Raul. 339 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,880 He's peace, he's faithful, he's our judge. 340 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,360 We could go on and on and on about who that baby in the 341 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:20,200 Manger is and the name of that baby in the Manger, but I'm not 342 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,680 going to keep y'all. Well we're going to get out real 343 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:29,320 early, but who is he to you? This time of year we always 344 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,600 think about Santa Claus, which is not real. 345 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,280 Y'all, I'm sorry, don't want to hurt your kids feelings, but 346 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,760 it's not real. It's Jesus. 347 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,720 Jesus is the one. We celebrate his birthday. 348 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,720 We don't celebrate Santa Claus, we celebrate his birthday. 349 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,000 We put up our trees. The Evergreen stands for eternal 350 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,040 life. The lights stand for the fact 351 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,520 that he's the light of the world. 352 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,720 The gifts under the tree stands for the fact that he gives us 353 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,880 gifts when we get saved. The red stands for the blood. 354 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:09,040 So when we celebrate, let's tell our children, when we put up our 355 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:15,520 trees and say this is Jesus, we want you to see he was hung upon 356 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,720 the tree. Tell them the story of Jesus. 357 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,800 Don't tell them the story of Santa Claus because it's fake. 358 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:29,320 It's not real at all. Tell them the names of the baby 359 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,240 in the Manger, not just baby Jesus, because he's coming back 360 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:34,920 as a lion from the tribe of Judah. 361 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,480 He's going to come back as a warrior, the mighty God. 362 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,920 He's God, eternal God, the creator. 363 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,040 Did you hear that when I first read? 364 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,560 Nothing was created that was created without him. 365 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,440 Wow. I used to, back in my long ago, 366 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:01,280 early Christian walk, I would sit and think and I would look, 367 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,720 I would look at the wood and I thought that wood's there 368 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,680 because Jesus made it. The sheetrock's there because 369 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:15,720 Jesus made the elements that caused men to make it, give men 370 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,120 knowledge to make it. So even today when men put up 371 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,800 the big high rise buildings and look what I did. 372 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:28,240 No, the Lord did that for you. He gave you the wisdom to do it, 373 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,920 and He gave you the materials to do it with. 374 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,440 That didn't just happen. He's the creator, Creator God, 375 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,880 merciful. Oh, we're so glad He's so 376 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,440 merciful to us. We don't. 377 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,080 He gives us way more than we deserve. 378 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:53,840 He's a forgiver of sins, eternal life, our judge, merciful judge 379 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:59,400 at that, because he could ZAP us anytime He could. 380 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,200 So I just want you all to think about it as you are preparing 381 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:10,920 for the holidays, who he is, who he is to you, not just the baby 382 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,640 and the Manger, but he's everything. 383 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,440 He's everything we need, all of it. 384 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,520 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 385 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,480 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 386 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,880 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 387 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,000 would love for you to join us in person. 388 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,600 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.