Michael Low 0:00
Well, God bless you all. To me, this is a rare privilege. And I’m honored to be in your presence. You know, people asked me well, you know so much of the word because normally, when I’m talking to people I’ll quote Scripture is something because that’s normally what’s on my mind. But what I’m thinking is I’m humbled in you guys’s presence, because you guys teach me. There’s a poem, it’s called, sermons we see. And the theme of that poem is, I’d rather see a sermon than here when any day and that’s who you are to me. Your sermons we see because the Bible says we’re all living epistles known and read of all men, as I’m humbled in your presence. You guys teach me all the time, because the word of God is profitable for doctrine, how to believe rightly right, believing for reproof, that tells us where we’re not believing rightly, and how to get back to right believing correction. We don’t like these two words reproof and correction, but correction means to restore to an upright position. That’s why we’re here to restore one another to an upright position. Then when we have our upright position, our vertical position in line with God, our horizontal relationships are much more enjoyable. So it’s great to be with all y’all because you guys teach me doctrine, reproof and correction, which is instruction righteousness all the time. So I’m also honored to have my son Aaron, and his son, Caden, my son and my grandson here from North Carolina.
And having them here reminds me of for him, Bill had mentioned for him for him is a is is a discipleship training program where we train and disciple one another. The theme of for him is, as you have received Christ, Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and grounded and built up in him and established in the faith that you have been taught, abounding there, and with thanksgiving, and the birth that comes to mind when people asked me you will with 4am about the verse that comes to mind is Second Timothy chapter two, verse two, where it says, that wish thou has heard of me, among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also, that’s the definition of for him, because in that one short verse, there’s four generations. And that’s what my son and my grandson reminded me of, you know, I was honored to do my dad’s eulogy. Eulogy. The word eulogy is like a benediction. The word eulogy means good word. And what my dad taught me, he was a man of God. I remember every Christmas, we would, there were sick kids in our family. So mom was always running around getting presents and gifts for all the kids. But dad would always say, before we buy any Christmas presents, we’re gonna give to the work of the Lord. We had a special offering every Christmas, it was called the Lottie Moon Christmas offering for foreign missions. And we’ve heard from missionaries today. But that always said that before we’re giving gifts to anybody, first we’re going to give to the church, because God’s the one who’s blessed us. And we had to bless God with the first fruits of our increase. That’s what dad taught me. He said, You always put God first. And this four generations thing in that short verse, that which thou, you’re the second generation has heard of me, this is Apostle Paul. So Paul was first generation, you’re the second generation among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, that third generation, who shall be able to teach others also the fourth generation. So my dad taught me the word, I’m teaching it to my son, and he’s teaching it to his son. There’s four generations there. God is a God a blessing. Glad to know said don’t get too emotional. He said, I know you will. But rest assured, the song says Joy to the world, the Lord has come. And so if I get a little bit emotional, rest assured, these are tears of joy. I was asked to speak on on Christmas, broad topic. When you pull on one thread of Scripture, the whole thing unravels because the whole scripture is interconnected through the cross of Christ. He’s the theme of the Word of God, because he’s the Word of God made manifest. The Christmas story is about The love of God and the Word of God. And that’s what we’re gonna be talking about this morning. So we’re gonna be talking about the purpose of Christmas and the meaning of Christmas. That’s what we’re going to be talking about this morning. And actually, I did prepare a few notes. And since I’m speaking, as I’ve said before, y’all have to take your own notes. And Pastor Pete says, I can’t wait to hear what you’re about to say. And I said to Pete, well, neither can I. Because right now I’m going off script.
Anyway, so I’ll say Merry Christmas to all y’all. I used to love Christmas, several years ago, because when I was first introduced to influencers, this was in Oh, seven or so y’all. many of y’all have been here, long before that. But in oh seven, I was introduced to influencers. And I would come on Christmas week. And I would come the day after Thanksgiving, those were the two times of year that I could come to influences because I had to work. I couldn’t get off on Fridays, until I started working for for one company that let me have Friday’s off. But so I would come twice a year. So the day after, or the day before Christmas, or the week of Christmas was one of the only times that I could spend time with all y’all. And I was always so blessed to be here. You know, what makes something precious is because it’s rare. And it was a rare experience, to be able to get together with all y’all, because that’s why we’re here. We’re here to build one another up. We’re here to meet together. We’re here to fellowship one with another, to link together as like minded men, and the like mindedness is with the love of God, and the Word of God because Jesus Christ is Lord. And because the Bible is our sole rule of faith and practice, that’s who we are and what we do, we link together with like minded men, because we’re like minded in the love of God and in the Word of God. So this morning, we’re going to talk about the purpose of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas. And before we do, I’d like to open with a word of prayer. So Father, we thank You for this morning, this day that you’ve given us to rejoice and be glad in it. Thank you, Father, for this Christmas season, where we can understand what it means to be a son of God and a brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and why Jesus Christ came, and his purpose and the meaning of his coming. Thank you, Father, that your word lives within us. And more importantly, Father, that Christ lives within us because he’s the Word of God made manifest. And you’ve given us your Holy Spirit, so that we can know you and so that we can know the truth that sets us free. Because Jesus Christ said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no man, commit them to the Father, but by me. So thank you, Father, today for this Pentecostal gift. Not just the gift of speaking, but especially the gift of hearing. Because the day of Pentecost, all men heard the wonderful works of God in their own tongue. So thank you, Father, for speaking to our hearts today. And that we can understand the reason for the season, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. So Christmas is a great time of year. I’m blessed to be able to speak to the children in our church. That’s one of the things that I do at church I, I help with the Children’s fellowship with with Sunday school on Sunday morning, so I really ever get to listen to the pastor speak. But it’s such a blessing to be able to talk to the children. And we’ve been talking about the Christmas story and about the coming of Jesus Christ this Advent season. And one of the things that I asked the children is, what do you like most about Christmas? And of course, there, they all raise their hands. And normally they’ll say, I love getting Christmas presents. That’s what I love the most is is all these Christmas presents, because I’ve, I’ve wanted these things all year and I wrote down all the things that I wanted for Christmas and then on Christmas morning, I run down the stairs, tear open the packages, and there’s exactly what I wanted. I’ve been waiting all year for this special present that I’ve been given. And what I said to the children is one thing to To appreciate Christmas presidents. But there’s another Christmas presents. There’s another Christmas present. That’s the greatest president of all. That’s Jesus Christ. He’s the reason for the season. The presence of God in Christ in you is the reason for the season, their Christmas presents. But then there’s the presence of God and Christ in you the hope of glory. You know, the Bible says that the reason the Jesus came, that’s the message that I’m going to share this morning. Why did Jesus come?
He came because God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish but have everlasting life. He came, because God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, He was the gift. Jesus Christ was a gift, not because we deserved gift. Because what is a gift anyway, we were talking about the wrap that the our friend here did was about grace. When when I had the grace of God, I saw his face, because only by the grace of God, that we can see the face of God, By grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourself as a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast? If you look at this word, Grace, sometimes I like to look up the Greek because we speak English. But if we’re speaking English, we’re normally speaking the world’s vernacular. And the problem with speaking the world’s vernacular is that the world calls good, evil and evil good. So you have to look up the biblical definitions of the words. And if you look up the word gift, the word gift is a derivation of this word, Grace. The word The Greek word is the word. Charisse gift is charisma or charismata. Grace is a word charis, gifts are always a grace. Grace is not because we deserve it. Grace is a gift, because the giver loved us. See, we we didn’t deserve a gift, we actually deserve death, the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We weren’t given the gift of eternal life, we were not given the gift of Jesus Christ, Christ in you the hope of glory, the spirit of our living God, we weren’t given that gift because we deserved it. We were given that gift, not because of who we are, we deserve death, the wages of sin is death. We were given that gift not because of who we are. But because of who God is. God is a giver. Not because of who we are, but because of who God is. Several months ago, I was blessed to be able to share about the difference between fusion and confusion. Maybe you heard that message, maybe it didn’t. But the essence of the message, diffusion versus confusion is, there’s a verse of Scripture that says, The thief, the devil, Satan, the adversary, this is John 1010, come at not but for to steal and to kill him to destroy, but I Jesus Christ, and come that they might have life in that they might have it more abundantly. The difference between confusion and fusion is confusion is of the devil. What he does is he blows things apart. He, that’s what he does. He blows things to smithereens. His job is to divide and conquer. His primary job is to separate our heart from God’s heart. That’s what the adversary does. That’s confusion to blow apart, to explode to atomize. But what Jesus Christ did is he came to fuse our hearts back together with God’s heart, because there’s one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ, is the mediator. He’s the one who chooses our heart with God’s heart, in the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace. The spirit is Christ in you the hope of glory. If you read in the first three gospels, there’s there’s three synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Those will tell you about the historical record of Jesus Christ. But then there’s also the Gospel of John, the theme of the Gospel of John is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. So it looks at the birth of Jesus Christ, not from a physical perspective, but from a spiritual perspective. The spiritual perspective is Jesus Christ is the word of God made manifest. He’s the word God revealed. He’s the Word of God in the flesh. That’s who Jesus Christ is. What the devil did when he caused the fall of man, if you remember the fall of man,
the devil did two things. to beguile Eve, this word, but guile and means he tricked Eve, and he got Eve to doubt, God. When you doubt God, at that point, you’re in the devil’s ballpark. So what the way the devil did is he came to Eve, and said, Did God really say? Because God had given Adam and Eve only one commandment? Do you remember the one commandment from Genesis that God gave Adam and Eve, God had said to Adam and Eve, of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. From the day thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die. That was a one commandment that God gave Adam and Eve, He said, Don’t eat it, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, if you do on that day, on that very day, toe Yom. In the Hebrew, thou shall surely die that very day. And then the adversary came to even he said, it got really say, Thou shalt not eat at the tree of knowledge, good and evil. The first thing that the adversary did, to beguile Eve was to question the Word of God, because who is God is his word. God is his Word, the Word of God. God is faithful to His word. He is his word. He’s not independent of His word. He is His Word. God is his word. He’s as good as his word. Did God really say, the first thing that the devil did was questioned the Word of God. The second thing the adversary did was to question the love of God, God doesn’t really love you. He wants you to be ignorant. He doesn’t want you to know the knowledge of good and evil. He knows that if you take a bite, just take a bite of this Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil or the fruit of the tree of knowledge, good and evil, then you’re going to be like God, you’ll have your eyes open, you won’t be ignorant. God’s word is not true. And God doesn’t love you. He questioned the Word of God and the love of God. What is the meaning Christmas? Jesus Christ? is a word of God made manifest? Do you want to know the Word of God? You know, people would say, you know so much of the Word of God, I tell people. You know, I studied with the biblical research and teaching ministry, because I love the word. I like blue letter bible.org. I used to have a stack of books, Young’s analytical concordance, Strong’s exhaustive concordance, there’s Bible Dictionary, interlinear, Greek New Testament and old, Hebrew interlinear Old Testament, I used to have a stack of books in a Bible Atlas. And because I loved reading the Word, and I like to study the Word and understand the word of God, because it’s precious to me. And every time you go to the Word, you learn something else, thy words were found, and I did eat them. That’s what Jeremiah said, and they were liking isn’t to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. So I love the Word of God. That’s what I learned in church, and in this biblical research and teaching ministry that I studied with but people ask me well what what did influencers teach you? I tell them influencers taught me to love Jesus Christ. Because beat put this band on my this little bracelet on my hand, says, Man of God, He anointed my head with all he put this band on my arm that says, Man of God, man of God, and I was thinking to myself, I took a little bit of Latin, but what does that man of God thing mean? And then I thought to myself, haha, of God, in Latin, that’s called the genitive of possession. Influencers taught me that it’s not who we are. It’s who’s we are that matters, whose we are a man of God means God’s man. In English, we say, God’s man, apostrophe s. That’s who we are. That’s who’s we are. Who’s we are. Jesus Christ as Lord, Lord means owner.
Influencers taught me to love God. It’s one thing to love the word. It’s another thing altogether to love Jesus Christ, and our Father, God, our heavenly Father. That’s what influencers taught me was to love Jesus Christ. And if, unless you KNOW Jesus Christ, you can’t love him to know him is to love him. That’s what influencers taught me was this relationship with Jesus Christ. And that’s what all y’all taught me as well, and are teaching me every day. Because it’s the love of God made manifest in our hearts. So, what Jesus Christ did the purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ. Aaron was saying, Well, what are you going to share with the people this morning, and I’m way off script, by the way, but that’s fine. Because I expect God to call an audible. That’s what Pete says, I can’t wait to hear what you’re gonna say. And I said, I can’t either. I I’d love to hear what what God’s gonna say. But my son was saying, What what are you going to share with the people? And then he, of course, he quoted Luke chapter two. Luke chapter two, I remember I learned in the sixth grade, I went to public school just like y’all did. And I had a teacher named Winnie Garretson. I remember Winnie Garrison, because she said, you’re going to learn scripture this year. And if your mom doesn’t like it, have her come talk to me. Because I’ll tell your mom, what we’re studying in school this year is literature. The Bible is not the literature of the moment. The Bible is a literature of eternity is the word of God, the literature of eternity. She says, If your mom has a problem, have her come talk to me. And we’ll have a discussion about the meaning of literature. And that God is above all, because there’s a law above the law. Let every soul be subject to the higher power. The law above the law is the law of God, Jesus Christ, the Word of God made manifest. So my son asked me, well, what are you going to share? And so of course, he quoted Luke chapter two, he says, I learned Luke Chapter Two from watching a Charlie Brown Christmas every year. And in Luke chapter two, it says, Mary brought forth her firstborn son and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the end. And there were in the same country, shepherds biting in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shown round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not. For behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy which will be unto all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ’s the Lord, and this shall be assignment to you. And you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. So what is the significance of Christmas? unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior? You ever looked at that word, Savior? Savior? The word Jesus means Savior, Yeshua, my brother from another mother, Lando Orlando. Jesus means Savior, a Savior. If you look up the word Savior, the Greek word comes from the word Zozo. Or Sotiria is a verb form and noun form of this word, Savior to save savior. Salvation is it’s a whole topic in systematic theology, this topic of soteriology with the Greek word it’s the word Shozo. The essence of the word SOS Oh, me too be made complete. That’s why Jesus came and year completed him.
Who is the head of all things your complete in Jesus Christ Guess what you just guys came, because he’s our Savior, He makes us complete. The implication is that before we were born again of God’s Spirit, we were incomplete. Because we were born body and soul. The the first prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ was in Genesis chapter three, verse 15. You can look that up for yourself. I’ve got it in my notes here. But I’m going way off script, like I said, in Genesis 316, is a verse about God is confronting Adam and Eve because they’ve eaten the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and had disobeyed the word God and had questioned Of course, the love of God. And when you doubt the Word of God, and the love of God, at that point, you’re no longer in God’s ballpark, you’re in the devil’s ballpark, you’re in his domain at that point. The downfall of man was doubting the Word of God, and doubting the love of God. Because then your actions are in line with your heart and if your heart is in the wrong place, if you’ve got another Lord, other than Jesus Christ, if you’re making, if you’re making yourself Lord of your own life, because I want this knowledge of good and evil, I want to be like God, I don’t need God, I want to be like God, he doesn’t love me, and his words, not true. At that point, they died that day, but of course, they lived on and on and on. So Genesis 315, is about God confronting Adam and Eve, what happened here? Of course, he said, The serpent began me and I did eat. He made me question the Word of God and the love of God, and I doubted in my heart, he beguiled me and I did eat. And so God said to Satan, the serpent, you’re going to crawl on your belly, and you’re going to be cursed all the days of your life. And there will be coming, another one, who will, and you’ll bruise His heel, but he’s gonna crush your head, the first Popsy of the coming of Jesus Christ, it was about the seat of the woman. And if you study biology, you understand that, in order to have life, you got to have 23 pairs of jeans of chromosomes, one compliment from your mom, and one compliment of 23 chromosomes from your dad. And that’s how you have the egg from the mom fertilized with the sperm from the dad. And that’s the way that that you reproduce. This is reproduction. Because God said, Be fruitful and multiply. But the problem is, that they died the day that they ate the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The question is what died that day, what died, was the Spirit of God, within them, that’s what died, because man was made body soul and spirit, three part being body, soul, and spirit. And he they met, we all inherit body and soul from Adam. Because from Adam, our fathers contributed the complement 23 chromosomes to the mom’s egg. And that’s how we how we got here is by the word of life. DNA is the word of life. It’s a message written in base for code, ATCG, deoxy, ribose, deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. That’s how we got here. That was God’s divine design, for body and soul. But we were incomplete, because on the day that they aged the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they died that day, their spirit died. That’s what Jesus Christ came to make available. With the Spirit of God in Christ in us being born again. We were born in the first time, we were born of Adam seed passed down, through through the male line, from our dads all the way back to Adam from Adam seed. But when we were born again, we were born again, not of corruptible seed of DNA, this Deoxyribonucleic base for word of man through the ages, but we’re born again, not of corruptible seed, that DNA is a message of word as well, a word from God and the Word of God, to pass on body and soul.
But when we were born again, of God’s Spirit, we’re born again by the word of God, not a corruptible seed DNA, but an incorruptible, and then in the King James that leaves out the word seed It’s a figure of speech called ellipsis. To place the emphasis not on the seed, but on the interoperability of the seed, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. That’s why Jesus Christ gave the message of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas. And the significance of Christmas is Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, For by grace, or you say, through faith, that not of yourselves into the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we’re God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, and to good works, which he’s for deigned that we should walk in them. We’re talking about our, our missionary friend here, was talking about a purpose. He said, Mom, you conceived me and You bore me, and you bought me out, you know me? What is my purpose for life? Well, what is the purpose for life? The purpose, ultimately, is a we would beat the praises of the glory of God’s grace, because he’s the one who made us acceptable in the Beloved. That’s why we’re here. When the rich young ruler came to Jesus Christ, he went to Jesus Christ, because he wanted a pat on the back. He wanted Jesus Christ to acknowledge all the good stuff that he had done in his life. So he came to Jesus and he said, Good Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And of course, Jesus, knowing what was in the heart of man said, Why call us thou me good? There’s none good, but God. And what he was talking about was something that the rich young ruler didn’t understand. Because this word good. You look up the word good. It’s the word agathos. I think of Agatha, the woman’s name Agatha. The word good, has to do with purpose. The word good means fit for a particular purpose. What was our purpose? The reason that Jesus Christ came the reason for Christmas, the purpose for Christmas? What is our purpose? Our purpose is that we should be to the praise of the glory of God’s grace. You see, there were two things that the devil did to separate man’s heart, from God’s heart because that’s what the adversary does, he divides and conquers. He splits things up. He pits factions, one against the other. That’s what the adversary does. He’s the author of strife and contention and confusion, and where there’s confusion. There’s every evil work, because that’s what the adversary does. But Jesus Christ came to make available the Spirit of God in Christ in us a new birth, that thou shall confess with by mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in my heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, Greek word soza. For He shall save His people from their sins. That’s why Jesus Christ came that we might be made complete the Spirit of God in Christ in you. So the adversary did two things. He questioned the Word of God. And he questioned the love of God. And why did Jesus Christ came, because he is a word of God made manifest. And he’s the love of God made manifest. And what else did the angels say? This this morning in prayer, I didn’t get a chance to go to the prayer meeting, because I was doing sound checks and whatnot. But I was told that that in the prayer meeting this morning, Pastor Pete, open with this thing about what the world considers success is upside down from what the Bible considers success. We’ve been talking about the Beatitudes. Since when was poverty, mourning, persecution, purity, meekness, humility. When were these things success like criteria? In the world standards? They’re opposite from from what the world considered success. What I was thinking is that the angels
they they they only appeared to some lowly shepherds. On the Judean hillside, they were the ones who got the invitation,
because their hearts ready. Who was Jesus Christ? He was the perfect Lamb of God. What did the shepherds do? That was your job, to raise a lamb without spot, without blemish. So that on the Passover, the Hebrews could have a lamb to sacrifice to take away their sin. That was who Jesus Christ was, he was a perfect Lamb of God. You know, my dad taught me a lot of stuff, but I’m thinking I learned so much from from my son, probably more, he’s probably taught me more than I’ve taught him. I remember when they might, my son said, Well, what was the significance of Jesus’s death? He said to me, Dad, you know, they’ve been so many people that have died for a worthy cause. They’ve died for freedom, they’ve died for their family. He said, Well, you know, even even the guys that flew those planes into the twin towers on 911. They died for their cause, is the planes went down as they were hitting the building. They said, Allah Akbar, well, what does that mean? That means God is great, God is good. But what they were because of course, they worship the wrong god. There say, the Essence of Allah Akbar is my gods greater than your God, I’m going to show you, America, who’s God. And it ain’t the God of wealth and the God of materialism, in it at the God of self and self absorption, that you Americans worship. Materialism will show you whose God is greater. They died for a cause. My My son said to me what, what was different about Jesus Christ did what my son said is the difference. Jesus Christ shed innocent blood, the operative word is innocent. Because the Bible says, All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And the wages of sin is death. If you ever think well, I deserve my just deserves, well, you’re just deserves, it’s six feet under. That’s you’re just deserved, because the wages of sin is dead, because our blood is guilty. But Jesus Christ, shed innocent blood, because he who is without sin, was made the perfect sacrifice for sin on our behalf, that we might be made. The righteousness of God in Him. Jesus Christ, is the word of God made manifest and the love of God made manifest. He unifies us back to God, because there’s one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, not because of who he we are, but because of who we got it. Because of who God is. God is the love of God. And Jesus Christ is a love of God made manifest. There’s an old poem, maybe you’ve heard it, maybe you haven’t, is attributed to a rabbi from from way back in the olden days. But this poem, they said, they found it in an insane asylum when they were tearing down an insane asylum. It’s amazing how God works. He takes the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, the foolish things to the world to confound the wise. And this poem is about the love of God. And the poem goes, if, if we could we with the oceans fill, and word the skies of parchment made, where every stock on Earth, the quill, and every man ascribed by trade, to write the love of God above, would drain the oceans dry. Nor could this crow contain the whole, those stretched from sky to sky. The love of God is beyond words, an ephah bliss sublime I had to look up this word ineffable. It means indescribable. That’s the love of God.
The Book of John shows the life of Christ, not from a worldly perspective, not about the things that he did and the thing it talks about the miracles of Jesus Christ, but the emphasis is on the spiritual reality of who Jesus Christ is. The Word of God made manifest. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. That’s the book of John. The Book of John ends with If I were to describe all the things that Jesus Christ did, there would not be enough volumes in the all the books of all eternity, to fill the volumes that would be required to talk about Jesus Christ, because the love of God is the essence of God Himself. Jesus Christ is the word of God made manifest in the love of God made manifest. What’s the significance of Christmas? The significance of Christmas is the love of God. And the Word of God made manifest. You know, I was asking my friend Orlando there because you know, are blessed by Neil. Unfortunately, I don’t speak the language of the majority. I think a little bit of French. French is a great language as well. But I asked Orlando and I asked some of the Sunday school teachers where I teach the kids at church. Well, what does Christmas mean? And of course, one of the girls at church, she says, Chris, what does Christmas mean? en Espanol. Polska or because I don’t know how to speak Espanol. She says Christmas in Espanol. That means the least NaVi died. And I said, Well, that may be the Gospel according to Jose Feliciano, but that wasn’t my question. My question, What does Christmas mean? in Espanol? My my sister God bless her heart. She’s from North Carolina as well. My My sister said, Have you ever looked at the words Christmas, Christ Mass? And you know what that means to spend your Christmas means more of Christ. Desperate Christmas beans. That’s what John the Baptist said. When when John the Baptist he had a great following a preacher in the wilderness and camels here and a grasshoppers, Akuna kata. But he had a great following, because he was a first prophet of God after Malikai. For 400 years there had not been a prophet from God. He was the first prophet in for 100 years and he had the word of life. And his followers came to him and said, we see that Jesus is baptizing people. Is he taking away your congregation? Is he cannibalizing your demographic here? What’s this Jesus Christ? Are you guys complete competing for lost souls on this baptism thing? And what John the Baptist said, he said, you know, something, I’m not the bridegroom. I’m only here, they introduced the Bride of Christ, Israel, to her bride, groom, Jesus Christ, it’s a bride groom. He says, I must decrease so that he might increase. That’s Christos Moss, more of Christ, and less of me. So Father, we thank You for this Christmas season. Thank you, Father, that You sent Your Son Jesus Christ. So that would be more of the unless of me, that he might increase the we might decrease, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world, including our own selves that we inherited from Adam. Thank you, Father, for this band of brothers. Thank you, Father, for having called us from the darkness of this world into the glorious light of your gospel of truth. Thank you, Father, for the words of the angels that said, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. Thank you, Father, that we can have peace, the reconciliation between God and men, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His birth we celebrate this Christmas season, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you guys.
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