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Now, enjoy this message. Father we just magnify your
name, we thank you that. The king is born Lord we thank
you today as we take time to go through the scripture and remind
ourselves of the reason for the season that Jesus did come to
save us and he is savior of the world, but the Earth was waiting
for the king and father may we recognize that the king was born
today. In a town called Bethlehem and
we honor and praise you for it. In Jesus name.
Amen. You can be seated, there's much
to say about the birth of Jesus. And as I was taking some time to
book was given to me this morning by Rick Renner.
It speaks of The backstory of what we call Christmas and
there's another gentleman that's in Australia that took time to
do a study on how much the wise men actually brought to Jesus.
That between them and our Greek scholar Rick.
Renner, there's really much to say concerning Christmas that's
been lost. The commercialization of this
holiday has caused the truth about Jesus, to be suppressed so
much so that most of its context is in error.
But it would take more than one service for up to be able to
right those wrongs and as I was reading through, I said, Lord, I
should take time next year. Beginning in December to really
dissect. What it what this Monumental
event was for all of humanity, because the minute we take today
and only view it through a Where is born?
Then we lose a lot of its meaning.
Instead of a king is born, now a savior is born but it came was
born and there's way more emphasis on his kingship.
Than what he ultimately does to save us.
And so next year, we're going to take some time to do just that.
But today, I want to take some time to just read.
I think it's important for us as a family.
When I say family, I'm talking Grandma's.
Grandpa's moms dads and our children that there's a
tradition that the Lord had since the fall of Man that they
put in remembrance and we must never undermined or under
appreciate just the reading of the The word for the word is
life. Its life and so I'm going to
navigate through some prophecies that are in connection to the
gospel accounts of the birth of our King.
And I'm just going to take time just to read so that we can see
the context of today. And again, when I look out and
our service today, many of you just could have stayed home But
you came because you realize the importance of what this is
about. And I appreciate that.
And Isaiah 9:2, a says, the people who walked in darkness
will see a great light, those who live in a dark land, the
light will shine on them. Isaiah also prophesied in
chapter 40 verse 5. He says then the glory of the
Lord will be revealed and All Flesh will see it together for
the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Where did he speak this? Originally, it was in Genesis
chapter 3 after Man fell from Dominion.
The Lord told the serpent. I'm bringing my seed and he's
going to crush your head. Why does the seed?
Come John 3:16 for God. So loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son. God is the chief Giver.
And gives the greatest gifts, Isaiah prophesied and 7:14.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a saint and behold a
virgin will be with child and bear a son and we shall call his
name Immanuel into chapters later.
He says concerning this child. He says for a child will be born
to us. A son will be given and the
government will rest on his shoulders and his name.
I'm will be called, wonderful, counselor, Mighty God.
Eternal Father Prince of Peace. They'll be no end to the
increase of his government or of Peace on the throne of David or
over his kingdom to establish and to uphold it with Justice
and righteousness from then on and forever.
More the Zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this in
Luke chapter 1 starting in verse 26.
It says now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel sent from God
to a City in Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin engaged to
a man whose name was Joseph of the descendants of David.
And the virgin's name was Mary and coming in, he said to her,
greetings favored. One, the Lord is with you, but
she was very perplexed at this statement and kept pondering.
What kind of salutation this was?
And the angel said to her, do not be afraid.
Mary for you, have found favor with God and behold, you will
conceive. Receive in your womb and bear a
son and you shall name him Jesus and he will be great, and will
be called the son of the most high.
And the Lord, God will give him the Throne of his father David.
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
And his kingdom will have no end.
Mary said to the angel, how can this be?
Since I am a virgin and the angel answered and said to her
the holy It will come upon you and the power of the most high
will overshadow you. And for that reason the holy
child shall be called The Son of God.
In verse 38, Mary said behold the bond servant of the Lord may
it be done to me according to your word and the angel departed
from her. Matthew 1:18 says, now, the
birth of Jesus Christ was as followed when his mother Mary
had been betrothed to Joseph before they Came together was
found to be with child by the Holy Spirit and Joseph, her
husband being a righteous man. Not wanting to disgrace her plan
to send her away secretly, but when he had considered this
behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream
saying Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take.
Mary as your wife for the child who has been conceived in her is
of the Holy Spirit. She shall bear a son and you
shall call his name Jesus. And he will say, Save his people
from their sins and all this took place to fulfill what was
spoken by the Lord through the prophet.
That's the prophet. Isaiah Behold.
A virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son and they shall
call his name Emmanuel, which translated means god with us.
And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord
commanded him and took Mary as his wife.
In Luke Chapter 2, Verse 1. Now, in those days, a decree
went out from Caesar Augustus that a census.
Be taken in all the inhabitants of the Earth.
This was the first sentence sentence taken by choir.
Ennis was getting her of Syria and everyone was on his way to
register for the census each to his own City.
Joseph also went up From Galilee from the city of Nazareth to
Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem
because he was of the House of the family of David in order to
register along with Mary, he who was engaged to him and was with
child while they were there. The days were completed for her
to give birth and she gave birth to her firstborn son and she
wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a Manger because there
was no room for them in the end Zechariah 9:9 and The first part
of non in the latter part of 10, says this Rejoice greatly o
Daughter of Zion shout and Triumph old daughter of
Jerusalem. Behold, your king is coming.
He is just an endowed with salvation and he will speak
peace to the nation's and his Dominion will be from sea to Sea
and from the river to the ends of the Earth back in Luke
chapter 2 verse 8, it says in the same region They were some
Shepherds staying in the fields and keeping watch over their
flock by night, and an angel of the Lord, suddenly stood before
them and the glory of the Lord Shone around them, and they were
terribly frightened. But the angel said to them do
not be afraid. And behold I bring you good news
of great joy which will be for all the people for today in the
city of David. There has been born for you.
A savior who is Christ the Lord? This will be assigned to eat for
you. You Will find a baby wrapped in
clothes and lying in a manger and suddenly there appeared with
the angel, a multitude of the Heavenly Host, praising God, and
saying, glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace among
men with whom he is pleased when the Angels had gone away from
them into heaven. The shepherd's began saying to
one another, let us go straight to Bethlehem then and see this
thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.
So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and
Joseph and the baby as he laid in the manger.
And when they had seen this, they made known the statement
that they that had been told them about this child and all
who heard it wandered at the things which were told them by
the Shepherds. But Mary treasured all these
things pondering them in her heart and the shepherd went back
glorifying and praising God. For all they had heard and seen
just As it had been told them on this same night, Daniel
prophesied concerning a coming Kingdom years, that hundreds
thousands of years earlier concerning this king would come
and in turn wise men were constantly on the lookout
looking for his star and Daniel said concerning this and Daniel
2:44 he says, in the days of those kings, the king of heaven
will set up a kingdom. Which will never be destroyed
and that Kingdom will not be left for another people.
It will crush and put on put it in to all these kingdoms but
itself endure forever in so much.
As you saw, the stone was cut out of the mountain without
hands and it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the
silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to
the king. What will happen, what will take
place in the future. So the dream is true and its
interpretation is trustworthy Oh, thee.
So within a two-year period time frame between the birth of
Jesus, to the coming of the Magi or the wise men, as found in
Matthew Chapter 2. It says, now, after Jesus was
born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod, the king Magi
from the East arrived in Jerusalem.
They came from the area by which Daniel prophesied that they
around. Where Babylon was saying, where,
where is he, who was born King? The Jews for we saw his star in
the east and have come to worship him when Herod and the
King heard Herod, the king heard this he was troubled and all
Jerusalem with him gathering together, all the chief priests
and scribes of the people. He inquired of them where the
Messiah was to be born and they said to him in Bethlehem of
Judea for this is what has been written by the prophet and you
Bethlehem. Oh, Land of Judah are by no
means least among the leaders of Judah for out of you shall come.
I'm forth. A ruler who will Shepherd My
People Israel, then Herod secretly called the Magi and
determine from them. The exact time, the star
appeared and he sent them to Bethlehem and said, go and
search carefully for the child, and when you have found him
report to me, so that I too may come and worship him after
hearing the king, they went their way and the star, which
they had seen in the East went on before them until it came and
stood over the place where the child was And when they saw the
star they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy after coming in
the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother and they
fell to the ground and worshiped him.
Then opening their Treasures. They presented to him Gifts of
gold and frankincense and myrrh and having been warned by God
and dream, not to return to Herod the Magi left for their
own country, by another way. Jesus later on live says this to
pilate and John 18:37. Jesus answered, you say
correctly, that I am a king for this.
I have been born for this. I have been born and for this,
I've come into the world to testify to the truth and
everyone who is of the truth hears, my voice Philippians.
Verse 9 says, for this reason also God.
Highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above
every name. So that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow of those who are in heaven and on Earth and
under the Earth and that every tongue will confess Jesus Christ
is Lord to the glory of God, the father in Revelation, 17 verse
14 says this. He He is Lord of lords, and king
of kings, and those who are with him, are the called and the
Chosen and the faithful. Hallelujah hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Are you with the Lord?
Is he the Lord of your life? Well, we're going to take
communion this morning together because the king is born.
I said the king is Warn the king is born.
If you did not receive and communion element when you came
in, if you would just our Usher's are going to stand and
if you just raise your hand they'll look around.
Just keep your hands raised real high.
Okay. So that they can navigate to
you. We're keeping the lights down.
A little low. They'll find you, amen?
But as you're waiting to get a communion element, what
qualifies you to take communion this morning?
Well, you just must be born again.
Again you don't have to be a vision partner Bank of a church,
you just need to be born born again, confess, that Jesus is
Lord. Maybe you're here today and say
Pastor Earle. I'm not I came with some family,
they said they were going to service on Christmas thought
that was kind of odd. I thought, we'd just you know,
open presents but here I am in service, maybe that someone in
this room today we'll listen, there's a present.
You should unwrap this morning and it's salvation.
If asks you today if you're here right now and I'm not gonna play
around, I'm gonna make you do what you would do for a natural
gift because all of us even today we have no problem going
to the tree, grabbing our gift in front of everybody and
opening. It we don't raise a hand, we
don't do it silently. We show up, we open it up in
front of everybody and so if you're here this morning and
you're I don't know this King. You're talking about, but I want
to be in this family. I want to be in this family,
there's something happening here, maybe you're sensing that.
I'm just going to ask you to do what you would do at your own
home to get a natural gift. I just want you to stand up and
come down here right now because I'm going to pray with you.
If that's you and just right now fast, she's saying, man, I need
to know that I'm a Child of God this morning because today's a
great day to open up the free gift he's given us is called
life eternal. And you get to act exercise that
life not when you go to heaven. But right now it's just like
when you open a present up underneath the tree, you don't
have to wait until you die to enjoy it.
You get to enjoy it immediately. So if that's you just before we
finish taking commune or, uh, Scherzer passing it out, I just
want to give you an opportunity to come so that Christ can give
you the greatest gift ever. Anyone at all this morning?
Hey, Man, I see. We're praying with a child this
morning. Hallelujah, childlike faith.
I was born again at 99 years old.
Oh, I'm thankful. Although, I didn't live perfect.
I'm just thankful there was something on the inside of me.
Guiding me. And there were certain choices.
I never made, because God was in me.
Hallelujah. So man, when we make Jesus, the
Lord at a young age, praise the Lord.
Lord, the things that God will do in our lives.
Anyone else? When it comes, the Bible's very
clear, you must come as a child, you must come as a child.
Glory to his name. Well, we're going to take
communion together you, go ahead and prepare that.
Obviously the bread is on the top and separate that and then
obviously, you'll get to the other.
I might not be able to do this at all.
Help me out there, please. The Bible talks about in the
night. That Jesus was betrayed.
He's the king, but the king had to die for his Nation, so that
we could come into His Nation. Not only did he die, so that his
blood would be shed for us, but he was raised and the King sits
on the throne today. And he makes sure that everyone
who calls on his name, comes into that Kingdom.
Amen. And so it says, on the night in
which he was betrayed, he took the bread and said this bread
represents my body. That he was strikes were laid on
his back. He was beaten the Bible says,
and we understand that the stripes ever laid on his back,
were for our healing, that's physical healing.
It's the healthcare system of the kingdom and it also because
his body had taken that on. He legally entered the Earth as
a man because God had given the Earth to man originally at least
Dominion of it. And then the cup he raised up
and he said this cup represents the blood of my Covenant.
He says, as long as long as you eat the bread and drink the cup,
you'll put yourself in remembrance of his death that
which started this whole process for us to be liberated.
And the Bible says, without the shedding of blood, there is no
remission of sin. All of us, have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God.
And because the blood still flows on The Mercy Seat today,
We are guilt free from a life against the kingdom.
Hallelujah. Amen.
I'm going to pray every both of these elements and we'll take
them together. Father, in the name of Jesus, I
thank you for the bread and I thank you for the cup.
I think of these are Covenant pieces.
That lets us know that we are in a covenant with the king of all
creation and that we are as children and that we recognize
that God loved us. He sent his son.
Son, born of the flesh, born of man, but was the son of God.
He lived the life pleasing to the father without sin.
He then laid down his life and took on our sin where we failed
were, we were rightly to be judged and separated from our
God because we were dead in our trespasses of sin, he took them
on. And then on the third day, God
raised him from the grave and he's poured.
His blood on The Mercy Seat. He's made Meant for Humanity,
for all humanity. And for all who call on the name
of the Lord is are saved. And we take this today.
Recognizing that, this Covenant is Everlasting.
This Covenant is defended by our King and we cannot be snatched
out of it. In the name of Jesus, break the
bread and take it. Now, let's take the cup.
Father, thank you for the gift of life.
Thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for the gift of life.
Only, you could give the gift of life.
Wow, thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
Thank you. at the sea Linda, At the house and her and Bob bought
me a gift. And as I've said to you before,
Linda knows that I like to unwrap them.
And that she would embed gift upon gift inside a box.
This year, they decided to put on the top of the box do not
open till January 1st. Since I'm telling you guys that
Something's Happened in January 1st and I won't let you know.
Now Bob did let me know on Wednesday that I could it was a
joke. I said, no, I'm waiting but I'm
bringing this up because the gift of Life Jesus gives us.
Everyday, I can unwrap a deeper gift.
It's like a gift that keeps on giving.
I cannot exhausted. I can't find the end of it.
I just keep digging deeper and I keep finding more life.
I keep finding more things in the Kingdom.
It's the greatest gift that was ever given to me.
Many of us, we unlock wrap the first and see the first part of
the gift, but there's so much more to unpack in this Kingdom,
and I encourage you to just keep unwrapping the king.
In 2023, let's unwrap this Kingdom, like never before.
Like, it's, let's see. It in the fullness that God
wants because the Kings coming. I said the Kings coming the
Kings coming and he wants his church to be ready to receive
him. He will not come as a suffering
servant, he will come as the reigning King and there's much
he has to say concerning his kingdom that we can learn.
Now operate in today. It's Ting.
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