1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,300 We Are One church. We love God love. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,100 People love his mission and love his church. 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:09,700 Welcome to the one Church podcast. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,700 Hello and welcome to the one Church podcast. 5 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:20,600 It's Monday, the 19th of December and we're so glad that 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:21,800 you could join us. Today. 7 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:25,200 Our message this week comes from Josh Smith. 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,700 Speaking at the one Church City site on Sunday the 18th of 9 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:30,400 December. So get ready? 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:38,500 Open your heart and enjoy. Farmers Family, over sin has 11 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:41,900 become a bit more special because of Levi, Ezra included, 12 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:43,400 but he can't say the word Christmas. 13 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,700 In fact, he doesn't say any words at the moment, he just 14 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:47,700 squeaks. He's very cute though. 15 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,200 I need to look at you. But Levi, our oldest boy, who is 16 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,700 two and a half has the memory of an elephant in that elephants. 17 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:57,600 Don't forget, at least. That's the rumor. 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,600 And if you say something once, or he sees something once, he's 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,400 going to remember it until Jesus returns. 20 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,500 And at one point, on a recent Drive, Alice saw some Christmas 21 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,300 lights. She said that pretty every time 22 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:13,200 now that we drive past, a set of bang, average, Christmas lights, 23 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:16,000 Levi says, look at those Christmas lights, they're 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,500 pretty, I love them. Every set of Lies, it becomes a 25 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:24,100 little bit more magical. Even if they are multicolored 26 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:26,600 flashing in no organized fashion. 27 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,800 I got to tell you lights, should be white. 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,100 That can either be cool or warm and static or slow twinkle. 29 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:35,900 Like I was I put the other day. What? 30 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:38,600 Watching one of the England matches, and there's a big TV, 31 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,200 and in the corner, there was a Christmas tree, and it had the 32 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,700 lights on that scrolling mode, where it's like on flash flash, 33 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:49,100 flash, flash flash, stop it. Just I couldn't watch the game, 34 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:52,500 I just transfixed by this irritating, tree in the corner 35 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:54,800 and other. I mean if you do your Christmas 36 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,800 fairy lights in a different way. That's okay. 37 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:02,900 Maybe it's time to change. I've captured again, what it is. 38 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,700 The Wonder of Christmas Through The Eyes of a child. 39 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,400 Levi is just fascinated by everything. 40 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,800 He wants to know, all the stories. 41 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,800 All the reasons why I want to say to us before I dive into a 42 00:02:13,808 --> 00:02:16,800 message, some of the things I enjoy about Christmas let us 43 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,100 never lose the wonder if you've lost the Wonder, allow yourself 44 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:24,200 to recapture it again. What I mean is that Christmas 45 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:28,100 for me is about this that God himself bent the rules of time 46 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:32,100 and space to inhabit human form. How does that work? 47 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:35,700 The one who hung the Stars Embrace Life underneath them? 48 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:39,500 Jesus, the Eternal and infinite was nursed by a woman that he 49 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:44,000 created by The Wonder of Christmas, the omnipresent 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,500 omnipotent and omniscient King of the universe made himself and 51 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:51,400 gave up everything making himself nothing. 52 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,900 The Wonder of Christmas. Let's not forget what it's all 53 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,700 about in the first place. I also love driving at 54 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:01,200 Christmas. Now we clock up a lot of miles 55 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:04,500 in the car to the extent where I had it serviced on Thursday 56 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:07,900 because we're going to do a few hundred miles or so through the 57 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:09,900 Christmas period and people always say to me. 58 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:12,700 Oh gosh, all that driving. It must be exhausting. 59 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:17,000 There are a few things that I enjoy more about Christmas than 60 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,300 a long night. Time Drive accompanied by an 61 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,700 overpriced drive through Coffee sleeping children in Jesus name, 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 and the world's most unhelpful, copilot, and Alice, not because 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,600 of her sense of direction. She's very good. 64 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,500 If she's been somewhere, once, you'll forget where it is. 65 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:39,000 And she has the ability though to fall asleep anywhere in any 66 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,500 moment. So, we've been on numerous 67 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:42,800 drives where Alice will be, like, no, don't worry. 68 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,300 I'm with you the whole way, and then we'll turn a corner, and 69 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,300 she'll just be asleep uncanny. It's the skill. 70 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,200 I think it may even be a spiritual gift. 71 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:56,500 But there are some things I struggle with with Christmas, I 72 00:03:56,500 --> 00:04:00,800 struggle with turkey is. Here's the thing. 73 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,500 As Aiden would say. If Turkey was a genuinely good 74 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:07,800 food, we would eat it more than once a year. 75 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:11,400 We weren't, it's just bad chicken. 76 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:15,900 Let's just have chicken. And I don't understand after the 77 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,500 end of a Christmas dinner, I sit down and I go. 78 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:25,400 I wish we ordered Chinese I'm just saying, I'm just saying, 79 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,300 we're coming to yours for Christmas day. 80 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:29,600 We're gonna have been off my sister Steph. 81 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,000 We love you. We're going to The Ridges. 82 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,800 Just don't understand. I for me, turkey has no place at 83 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,800 the dinner table. It is subpar chicken at best. 84 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,900 The other thing that frustrates me about Christmas is Christmas 85 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:43,500 movies. Now this might be slightly 86 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:45,200 controversial. I'll explain why. 87 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:49,100 Now, I am, no Scrooge. Most of the time and 88 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:53,300 occasionally I do shared a secret tear whilst watching a Us 89 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:55,900 from we watched Miracle on like 89th Street or whatever. 90 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:59,000 It's called the other day and it's just me. 91 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,500 Alison. Leave, I sat through the whole 92 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:02,900 film and occasionally went. Where's that girl gone? 93 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,300 Kept him interested and and at the end of it I was slightly 94 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:08,500 emotional. It's lovely. 95 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,500 Lovely. However how do we get from The 96 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:17,100 Wonder of Jesus God making himself nothing becoming like 97 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:24,000 human form to the Grinch. I can't figure out the steps 98 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,900 that led from A to B. I don't get. 99 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:30,300 It doesn't make any sense. Now, remember, an overly Harry 100 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:32,700 Green, dude, who lives up a mountain need? 101 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:37,900 I remind you on a snowflake Jesus, the king of the universe 102 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:41,500 fall in the body of a baby, a green, dude, up a hill, the 103 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:44,100 mopey personality. I just, it doesn't, it doesn't 104 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:49,900 for me, it distracts, rather than ads, we've still not 105 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:52,200 decided as well. What we're going to do with you 106 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,900 and Santa Claus. We've got decided as I say, 107 00:05:56,900 --> 00:06:01,300 often about Jesus, in decision is a decision, right? 108 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:05,700 So in not deciding to do or not do Santa, I'm hoping that we 109 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:07,600 I've accidentally decided against him. 110 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:10,900 It's all right. Because forgive me, this is my 111 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:13,900 understanding. A rather large old white guy. 112 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,000 Sneaks down. Your chimney takes credit for 113 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,200 the gifts that you buy and Demands, a mince pie for the 114 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,400 privilege. My life is better without that 115 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,000 guy in it to happening. Now if you still believe in 116 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,600 Santa Claus, Father, Christmas Saint Nick. 117 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,600 That's all right, Jesus loves you. 118 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:35,700 Some things about me and Christmas, I enjoyed writing 119 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:38,500 them, hope that makes you smile. However, you experience these 120 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:42,700 next few weeks, whether this season is painful with memory 121 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:46,400 and sadness, and lost loved ones who are no longer with you or 122 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,300 whether you find it an absolute Joy. 123 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:50,700 I want to say that we as a church are here to walk with you 124 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:54,400 because we believe in a God who is for you and we want to pray 125 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,900 safety protection over all of us. 126 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:57,100 As Christmas weird. Enjoy. 127 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:00,900 Some element of the peace that God brings not just get caught 128 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:03,900 up in the superficial. All Supermarket nonsense, I 129 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:08,300 meant, and in the blink of an eye out with 2023 and I'm 130 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,500 excited about the year to come, I don't know if you do this, 131 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:13,500 Alice loves New Year's resolutions. 132 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:16,600 We all sit down at some point over New Year and talk to people 133 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,500 that we made resolutions with and realize that everybody has 134 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:22,100 achieved nothing. They set out in 2022 to achieve 135 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:26,400 and that's good fun. For the most part, but I often 136 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,900 come to War's end of the year and then look back on it and 137 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,300 think about what's coming and also, spend time to lament and 138 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:37,000 rejoice for what's been found myself thinking about 20, 22, 139 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,800 and what a year we've had. If you've been around this site, 140 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,600 if you've been around our church, what a year it's been, 141 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,500 we believe God in January Alice, and I, and we talked with the 142 00:07:45,508 --> 00:07:48,600 team about about this, we believe God that City would be 143 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,600 100 people strong each week from September onwards. 144 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:53,900 I'm not counting today because I've not done the numbers. 145 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:56,500 And it definitely isn't a hundred plus but that's okay. 146 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:00,100 But I did some digging around our numbers and the average 147 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:04,000 attendance from the 18th of September through to last Sunday 148 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,600 is 101. People a week? 149 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:09,100 That's pretty cool. Right? 150 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,900 That's pretty cool. Someone once said to us 151 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:17,000 regarding Church, leadership that healthy things grow for me, 152 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,700 an element of health is numerical growth. 153 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:22,800 People coming to Jesus, I want to remind us again that we're 154 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,400 like if you've come And join us over this last year from a 155 00:08:25,407 --> 00:08:27,500 different Church. Want to say, we love you as so 156 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:30,900 grateful for you, make sure that you finish well with your last 157 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:32,799 place if this is becoming your home. 158 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,400 But we're not about, we're not about transfer growth, we're 159 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,200 about net gain for the Kingdom, right? 160 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,400 And what that means is that new people finding Jesus, and if we 161 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,000 look back over the year, we've seen many people finding Jesus 162 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,200 in this site and in our church and we're grateful this year, we 163 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,800 had Vision Sunday in which six hundred and fifty thousand 164 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,200 pounds was given and pledged. By the church in the middle of 165 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,700 the greatest economic crisis for a generation. 166 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:03,100 What a miracle, what a year. We've lived through the sense of 167 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:07,200 togetherness in our church, and the unity of churches around the 168 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,600 county has never been greater than it currently is. 169 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:12,100 And I believe that off the back of all. 170 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:16,500 This are about to experience growth and an expectation in 171 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:21,400 2023 The Lord has been good and he's going to continue to be 172 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,600 good for us in our personal lives. 173 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,500 I wonder what's 2022 being like for you as an individual. 174 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,700 Is it a year of sadness and trial? 175 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:32,300 Has it been a year of breakthrough and the miraculous? 176 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:35,900 Let me give you something. The Lord asks me at the back end 177 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,600 of 20 22 and this would sum up my year and I'm going to ask us 178 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,700 a couple of questions after back of it. 179 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,500 The Lord has asked me this will you trust me? 180 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:48,100 If you don't know the story with Ezra, let me just give you a 181 00:09:48,108 --> 00:09:50,300 brief overview. And let me just caveat this 182 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:54,600 story with this many of you with walk through deep hardship over 183 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,100 this last year and in the years have gone prior to this. 184 00:09:58,300 --> 00:10:01,100 I'm not saying that our story is greater or less. 185 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:03,000 I just want to tell you what the Lord Has Done in the middle of 186 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,300 is that, all right? So I'm not bringing comparison. 187 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:07,900 I want to tell you what, we've walked through on October the 188 00:10:07,908 --> 00:10:12,100 16th Lawrence, Josh Gail Beth, and I set out to climb five 189 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:14,200 mountains. We finished it City. 190 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:16,500 We packed up our stuff. We got into Car and we drove to 191 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,400 Ben Nevis and we began a journey and it was an awful lot of fun 192 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,600 on the 19th of October Alice called me to say that she was 193 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,100 taking ezzy into Hospital. While we were in the Republic of 194 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,300 islands on the 20th. I flew home from Belfast and as 195 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:33,000 he was about to be placed on a ventilator. 196 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:36,600 And for me, the morning of the 21st is something I will never 197 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,600 forget, I was sat on the lounge floor as Alice was living at the 198 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,700 lri with Ezra, and I was there being dad with Levi and he was 199 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:47,100 running around playing. And I was praying on the floor 200 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:50,300 and as I was praying, I just began to weep and then the 201 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,500 little boy comes and he jumps over my back and he says, love 202 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,900 you Dada. What a gorgeous for you are. 203 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,500 I'm a conversation with a walk with the Lord went like, this. 204 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,600 God will you heal Ezra and the Lord responded by saying, will 205 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,200 you trust me? I said, Lord, will you heal him? 206 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:10,000 And he said, will you trust me as a lawyer, you just step in 207 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 and do something and he said, will you trust me? 208 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:16,700 At the end of my conversation? My Confession became Lord. 209 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:18,800 I choose to trust you. I choose to trust you. 210 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,800 I choose to trust you. For some of us. 211 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,100 We need to confess until we believe in that moment. 212 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:28,900 I had a choice. Am I going to Confess it because 213 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:31,700 I didn't currently believe it. Don't get me wrong, I trust him 214 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:35,100 with my life but some of you will know this journey. 215 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:36,600 It's one thing trusting in with your own life. 216 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,200 It's another thing trusting in with a life of your child. 217 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:44,600 Lord, I choose to trust you. I choose to trust you I choose 218 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:50,600 to trust you. he knew best and he cared most through the 219 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,900 Journey with a z Alice was in hospital for about 10 days with 220 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:57,200 him, he was on a ventilator and five or six days and if he had 221 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,100 stayed at home during that period of time, it would have 222 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:02,700 made it their the facts that's a reality but all the way through 223 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:07,200 Little Miracles in the journey and those Little Miracles went a 224 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,600 long way to helping me say and confess Lord I choose to trust 225 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,100 you And I believe for you and I, the Lord wants to ask us as we 226 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:19,800 begin 2023. Will we trust him the laws 227 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,000 question to you? Will you trust me? 228 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:24,200 Will you trust me with your life? 229 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:26,000 Will you trust me with your future? 230 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:27,900 Will you trust me with your family? 231 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:29,900 Will you trust me with your dreams? 232 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:32,400 Will you trust me? Father, I pray over these next 233 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,500 few minutes and moments that we've shared together that the 234 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:37,400 Holy Spirit you would come and fill this room with a sense of 235 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,600 your glory, your presence, your peace, your closeness, Lord, we 236 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,500 honor you what? Amazing year. 237 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:44,800 We have lived through and are living through and we give you 238 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,500 all the glory. All the honor or the praise is 239 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,600 all about you King Jesus. We love you. 240 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:57,400 Our men at the beginning of humanity, God gave Adam and Eve. 241 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,300 This same choice. Will you trust me? 242 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:01,600 The passage is going to come up on the screen. 243 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,100 I'm going to skim through a couple of things. 244 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:05,300 I'm going to focus on the Journey of Adam and Eve with God 245 00:13:05,300 --> 00:13:07,600 in the garden and they're going to fast forward. 246 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:11,000 And number thousands of years until we get to Mary and Joseph 247 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,500 with a very similar conversation Genesis 2:16 through Genesis 3:8 248 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:18,400 says this but the Lord warned him. 249 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:22,400 Adam the man you may freely eat the fruit from any Tree in. 250 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:25,700 God and accept the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. 251 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:28,600 If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die. 252 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,200 But the serpent was shrewd of all the wild animals that the 253 00:13:33,208 --> 00:13:35,900 Lord had made one day. He asked the woman did God 254 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:38,700 really say, You must not eat from the fruit of any of the 255 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:41,900 trees in the garden. Of course, we may eat the fruit 256 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,200 from all the trees in the garden woman replied. 257 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:46,800 It is only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden 258 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,400 that we are not allowed to eat. God said, you must not eat it or 259 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,300 even touch it. If you do, you will. 260 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,500 Or die, you won't die. The serpent replied, the woman 261 00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:59,800 God knows that your eyes will be open as soon as you eat it. 262 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,900 And you'll be like, God knowing both good and evil verse 6. 263 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:08,600 The woman was convinced, she saw that the tree was beautiful and 264 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,200 that it's fruit looked delicious. 265 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,300 And she wanted the wisdom, it would give her. 266 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:14,800 So she took some fruit and ate it. 267 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,100 She gave us some fruit to her husband who was with her, and he 268 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:19,700 ate it too. That moment that eyes were 269 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:23,200 opened and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness so they 270 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,900 sewed, fig leaves together to cover themselves, the call from 271 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,600 God to humankind at the beginning was the call to 272 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:36,000 dependency on him. Dependency is the necessity to 273 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,800 rely solely on the wisdom of another Go to school to humanity 274 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,900 at the beginning was not to seek wisdom but to live in obedience 275 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:47,800 and surrender. Do not eat from the Tree of the 276 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,300 knowledge of rather trust that I understand. 277 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:54,100 So you don't need to know that's the conversation, the Lord has 278 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:56,800 with man and woman. You don't need the knowledge of 279 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,300 this tree possesses because I see all things and I'm about all 280 00:14:59,300 --> 00:15:01,700 things and I'm in all things and I know the end from the 281 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:03,600 beginning. So if you trust me, you don't 282 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:08,000 need what that can give you. Rather than trusting in the 283 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,800 wisdom of God, Eve chose to embrace the Curiosity of self. 284 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:14,800 And I imagine the Heartbreak in the moment for God when he 285 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,100 walked through the garden, he already knew what was happening 286 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:18,900 and he sees them with fig leaves. 287 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:21,500 So Dover themselves and they've never had been in that position 288 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,300 before. And the Heartbreak of God was 289 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:25,100 not. Why did you do that? 290 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:27,300 Rather it was, why didn't you trust me? 291 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:33,500 Because he always knew best. The Apple Tree in the garden was 292 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:36,900 not planted by mistake it, existed to pose a question of 293 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:41,200 trust. Whatever your life looks like 294 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,800 right now, 2023 will throw up an apple tree for you. 295 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,600 A moment where you can say, I need to seek wisdom from myself 296 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,800 or I'm going to choose to pendency and rely on the king of 297 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,600 kings. We'll walk through moments, but 298 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,400 we stand at the base of an apple tree. 299 00:15:56,500 --> 00:16:02,000 How do we choose to respond? Sometimes the fruit of curiosity 300 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,500 looks more appealing, the Journey of dependency, how do 301 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:11,900 you and I want to live The shortcut to Independence, never 302 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:15,300 leads to the destination found in Christ like four Lions. 303 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,800 If I choose to go my way to put my trust in what I can 304 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,300 understand. It's never going to take me 305 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:24,000 where dependency on the King of Kings. 306 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:25,500 It's going to eventually lead me. 307 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:28,700 How do you and I want to live as we begin 2023. 308 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,900 The shortcut of Independence, never leads to the destination 309 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:37,100 found in Christ like Reliance. Let's be a people that say again 310 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:39,300 and again and again I choose to trust you. 311 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,400 I choose to trust you a choose to trust you even if I don't 312 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,200 understand even if it doesn't make sense, even if I can't see 313 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,900 the end of it, I choose to place my trust in you anyway. 314 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:53,800 I want to say for us for our generation, those of us who are 315 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,600 maybe 35 are young or so and we live in a society that is full 316 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,000 of anxiety, lowness of emotion and paranoia. 317 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,400 And don't get me wrong, many Christians walk through some 318 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:07,000 horrendous mental health challenges and sometimes the 319 00:17:07,008 --> 00:17:09,800 Lord steps in a moment of fixing and other times. 320 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 He allows people to walk through the storm as I be shared, he 321 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,200 doesn't often take us out of it. Instead, he decides to hold our 322 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,400 hand and walk with us through it but I do believe that 323 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,900 independence from God. Reads, anxiety and feeds 324 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:25,200 paranoia. And I do believe that trust in 325 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,000 the Lord's leads to peace and security. 326 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,500 As much as it depends on me, I went to trust you, because 327 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:35,900 that's where I find my peace. That's where I find my security 328 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:37,800 and that's where I find my eternity. 329 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,600 How do you? And I want to live for Adam and 330 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,700 Eve the shortcut to wisdom, close the door, on the Journey 331 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:47,800 of intimacy. I'm going to choose this for 332 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,100 myself and the result was instead of walking closely. 333 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,500 They walked in the distance. What will we choose from today 334 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:00,900 forward even when he knows the end from the beginning? 335 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,200 And I don't Eve when he knows the outcome of that job 336 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,000 interview and I'm not sure Even when he knows, if my parents 337 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,300 going to get well. Well, I choose to trust him. 338 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,800 Believing that he knows best and that he holds the knowledge that 339 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,400 I don't need. For us this morning. 340 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,900 As we enter a new year, will you choose to trust again? 341 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,700 Let's fast forward slightly. Luke 1:26 238 and I what a 342 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:31,700 phenomenal passages, where we land for Christmas. 343 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:35,300 This is nice. The angel Mary. 344 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,700 Lovely says this, in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy. 345 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:43,800 God, sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth Village in Galilee to a 346 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,500 virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to 347 00:18:46,508 --> 00:18:49,100 a man named Joseph. A descendant of King, David 348 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,200 Gabriel appeared to her. Greetings favored, woman, I 349 00:18:52,208 --> 00:18:52,900 don't know if he would have said. 350 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,700 Greetings, so Chris is a weird word, isn't it? 351 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:56,600 What you have on a Christmas card? 352 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:57,800 That's not what you use in real life. 353 00:18:58,100 --> 00:18:59,900 Anyway, I wonder what was said, if it was today. 354 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:04,600 Hey, maybe, maybe that would have been more terrifying. 355 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,300 I imagine his voice was very, very deep. 356 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:10,300 Hey, that's not deep, is it? That's just that's just got 357 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:11,200 problem. That's fine. 358 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:15,300 And greetings. Hey favored, woman, the Lord is 359 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:18,900 with you confused and disturbed. No wonder nine foot dude, with 360 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:21,400 wings Mary tried. To think what the angel of the 361 00:19:21,408 --> 00:19:23,100 Lord could mean, don't be afraid. 362 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:26,200 Mary Angel told her. Do you notice the Angels say 363 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,800 that the demons don't? They carry Authority and power 364 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,600 and stature. Don't be afraid. 365 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,100 I'm with him. It's all right. 366 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:38,500 Dimas a piece gears. Because they're not always, as 367 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:41,600 intimidating as they appear to be anyway. 368 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:44,500 Don't Be Afraid. Mary. 369 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,200 The angel told her for you have found favor with God. 370 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,500 I mean, what a start to a conversation that is you found 371 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,600 favor with the King of Kings, you conceive and give birth to a 372 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,300 son and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will 373 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:58,100 be called the son of the most high God. 374 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:00,800 The Lord God will give him the Throne of his ancestor, David, 375 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,900 and he will reign over Israel forever. 376 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,000 His kingdom will never end. Merry Christmas. 377 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,600 Well, what? How do you, how do you process 378 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:14,400 that? You're 13, unmarried a virgin, 379 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,900 and the king of the universe is going to be implanted in your 380 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:21,000 womb and you're going to raise him for the rest of your life. 381 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,900 Hi cool. Mary responded. 382 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:29,200 She asked the angel, how can this happen? 383 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,700 I'm a virgin verse 35, the angel replied, the holy spirit will 384 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:35,300 come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow 385 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:37,700 you. So the baby to be born will be 386 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:40,600 holy and he will be called The Son of God. 387 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,900 What's more? Your relative Elizabeth has 388 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:45,900 become pregnant in her old age. People used to say, she was 389 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:48,700 Barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth 390 00:20:48,700 --> 00:20:52,200 month for the word of God will never fail Mary responded. 391 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:54,800 I am the Lord's. Servant May everything you've 392 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,400 said about me. Come true. 393 00:20:56,700 --> 00:21:01,400 And then the angel left her What a difference? 394 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:06,900 At the beginning of all things I want what that has. 395 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,400 I'm going to take it for myself and then at the new beginning of 396 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,100 humanity, when God presses reset through the person of Jesus, 397 00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:15,300 instead of Mary's saying, I want that knowledge. 398 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:18,700 She says, I don't understand but may everything you said about me 399 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:22,500 come true, the difference. The difference that trust in the 400 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:27,900 Lord makes Eve sought wisdom and it resulted in Independence Mary 401 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:32,300 chose to trust and it resulted in the salvation of humanity The 402 00:21:32,308 --> 00:21:35,400 decision. I don't get it. 403 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:40,300 But if you say so, Then I'm going to go with you because, 404 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:43,000 you know, the end from the beginning and I'm a simple 405 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,500 uneducated, young woman. And just to provide you with 406 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:51,300 some backstory for this passage I've already said Mary would 407 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:54,800 have been a teenager we presume around 13, 14 years old, she 408 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,900 would have not been highly educated, and she would have 409 00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:59,900 been of low status. That's why she was going back to 410 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:01,200 the area. She was at the time of the 411 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,900 senses and her life is about to begin. 412 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:06,800 She's betrothed or engaged to a guy called Joseph. 413 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,000 Again, not a few standing that comes from the line of David's 414 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,600 and marriage for her. Would have been the Gateway in 415 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,000 Middle Eastern culture for her to have some form of me. 416 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:19,100 Meaning and purpose because inside of marriage, women 417 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:22,100 produce children, and that becomes their legacy, it's a 418 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:24,900 very different culture to how we live today, but without 419 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:28,900 marriage, women would often remain uneducated and forgive 420 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:30,900 me. But the brutal reality is and of 421 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:36,800 little value to society. So the news that Gabriel brings 422 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,400 Mary is not just biologically impossible. 423 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:44,100 It's also social suicide. She's a teenage girl. 424 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,500 She's about to give birth to a child outside of marriage. 425 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,500 The child had been born illegitimate and her life. 426 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:52,600 Effectively would have become forfeit. 427 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,200 She would have face stigma and, and to Bear a child outside of 428 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:01,100 wedlock would have been horrendous thought for a young 429 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:02,900 Jewish girl. It would have had implications 430 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:07,500 that Mary will have well-known. In fact, a recent article 2019 431 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,400 by the independent founder and I quote babies, born outside of 432 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,200 wedlock are abandoned On the streets of Saudi Arabia as 433 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,800 women, fear, retribution and punishment for having a child 434 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,700 outside of marriage. That's 2,000 years on from when 435 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:23,700 Mary would have been around the consequences to the message of 436 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:26,300 the Angel? Would have been so severe that 437 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:32,100 it required questioning. If that is, you and me, what's 438 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:34,600 our response to the angel? How how are you going to make 439 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,400 sure that my son's not going to grow up in persecution? 440 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,200 How you going to make sure that I still have some form of 441 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,700 future? How you going to make sure that 442 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:42,200 my betrothed still wants to marry me? 443 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:47,300 How is it going to work? And the call of God through the 444 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:50,300 angel, is this Mary will you trust me? 445 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,200 Will you trust me that your life will still hold? 446 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,200 Meaning? Will you trust me for the 447 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,700 security of your child and the safety of your own life? 448 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:05,100 Where Eve chose Independence? Mary sort Reliance she responds, 449 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,900 I am the Lord's. Servant May everything you've 450 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:11,800 said about me come true. She must have had so many 451 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:18,500 questions but she asked, none. Friends of ours, walking through 452 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:22,400 a season at the moment, which is really difficult and longing, 453 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:25,900 and expecting the Lord to break through and I said some 454 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,300 recently, have you had anything? Has he said anything or what's 455 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:31,300 the Lord done? Have you had a word and and the 456 00:24:31,308 --> 00:24:33,600 guy said, no, we've not heard anything but what we're going to 457 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,500 do is what he said, last until he speaks again, that's how you 458 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:42,400 live interest. I'm going to do what he says 459 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,800 until he speaks again church for us this morning heading into a 460 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,400 new year, will you? And I choose to trust like Mary 461 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,400 that, he knows best. And that he cares, most Let me 462 00:24:55,408 --> 00:24:59,000 finish with this. Proverbs 3:5-6 trust in the 463 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,700 Lord, with all your heart and lean not on your own 464 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:05,300 understanding, in all your ways submit to him, and he will make 465 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:10,300 your path straight. Not got three points as you want 466 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:12,900 to present something to you. That is really simple, but 467 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:16,700 deeply profound, it's impacted our lives and I pray that the 468 00:25:16,708 --> 00:25:19,200 start of a new year will impact yours as well. 469 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,600 My understanding from 2022, is this first, that he knows best 470 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,700 the secondly that he cares. Most I'm a response again. 471 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:30,800 This morning is Lord. I choose to trust your wonder if 472 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,700 you're able to buy your heads and close your eyes. 473 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,300 Father, thank you for the truth. You know, the end from the 474 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:51,100 beginning. Hold the universe in the palm of 475 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:52,900 your hands and nothing is surprise to you. 476 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,100 Thank you that you're never caught unaware. 477 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:06,400 Thank you that you're never anxious or worried Lord. 478 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,100 I pray for all of us this afternoon. 479 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:15,700 Our last Sunday into we would have a revelation regardless of 480 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,300 what we're walking through or what's coming ahead that, you 481 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:31,300 know, best and that you care. I don't know, what's funny is 482 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:39,200 really through to us. Why your heads a nice to close 483 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,100 that believe that we are about to. 484 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:46,700 This is being recorded. So let's see what the just going 485 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:48,500 to go through a seismic shift in our nation. 486 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,800 I believe that people will either stick to the word of God. 487 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,100 Was you find out later in the New Testament, people will see, 488 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:00,900 teachers will tell them whatever that itchy is. 489 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:03,600 When I had people that either gonna say, yes I'm gonna stand 490 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,800 on what the word says, or no. I'm gonna just agree with 491 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,500 secular culture and I believe that we're going to walk through 492 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:13,100 a shift in the next five years. Why churches will stand firm on 493 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,300 the word of God and Thrive and see something of a Revival in 494 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:19,700 the middle of persecution or will succumb to to secular 495 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:26,100 Authority and die. But in the middle of persecution 496 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,300 is always with the church has experience Revival. 497 00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,600 I do believe it's this year coming but I believe there is a 498 00:27:34,608 --> 00:27:37,100 seasonal. We're about to walk into where 499 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,400 we're going to be cool to stand up for what we believe. 500 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,800 It's not be shy about what the scripture says, but to take 501 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,000 authority based on the authority, we receive from the 502 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,300 book. Regardless of where it all 503 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,200 begins. Let me tell you, we are on an 504 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,700 exciting Journey because his plans for your 20:23 at greater 505 00:27:56,700 --> 00:28:00,100 than you realize there is more in you, than you currently know. 506 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,600 He's cool g and this shows needs to make a difference. 507 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,500 I wonder what your response is this morning. 508 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,700 Maybe want to say, out loud with me. 509 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:13,300 I choose to trust you. Lord, I choose to trust you. 510 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,200 I choose to trust you. Maybe that needs to become your 511 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,300 confession until it becomes what you believe. 512 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:19,800 I choose to trust you in the morning. 513 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,900 When you wake up, I choose to trust you. 514 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,600 Even when you don't understand. I choose to trust you, even when 515 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,100 your health isn't good. I choose to trust you even when 516 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,000 he kids aren't while I choose to trust you, if when you get fired 517 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,700 from your job I choose to trust. True. 518 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:34,400 Even if your marriage is going through challenge, I choose to 519 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:44,900 trust you. Why he knows best and he cares. 520 00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:51,600 Most, father, help us to be a people that trust that people 521 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,000 might see you, in the way that we live our conduct speech and 522 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:03,300 Purity in Jesus. If there's anything you need, if 523 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:05,600 there's any way we can pray with you, help you? 524 00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,600 Or if you'd like to respond to that message. 525 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:12,300 Get in touch with us today. We are here for you over 526 00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:15,100 Christmas. We are gathering on Christmas 527 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:20,600 Day and New Year's Day at 10:30 a.m. at the one Center 10 frog 528 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,700 Island. We're also gathering on New 529 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:26,900 Year's Eve for prayer on Zoom, at 11 p.m. and they'll be a 530 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:30,800 podcast released on boxing day. That's Monday, the 26th of 531 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,400 December. Brr and then again on Monday the 532 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,100 9th of January so whatever you do coming up over these coming 533 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:41,800 days know that we love you. We're praying for you and would 534 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,500 God bless you might early see you soon? 535 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:48,100 The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord. 536 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:51,500 Make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. 537 00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:55,200 The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. 538 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:36,200 Brr and then again on Monday the 9th of January so whatever you 539 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,000 do coming up over these coming days know that we love you. 540 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:43,900 We're praying for you and would God bless you might early see 541 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:47,600 you soon? The Lord bless you and keep you 542 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,300 the Lord. Make his face shine upon you and 543 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:53,500 be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face toward 544 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,200 you and give you peace.