It s the. Big. It s the. Father. God thank you for this wonderful time of year. Lord thank you that you. In eternity past decided that you would send forth your son born of a Virgen Lord to be our Savior Lord thank you that we celebrate Christmas Lord according to your word Lord that we love the power the peace the joy and the glory that you bring to us through your son or thank you that Lord even though we live in the midst of a dark and deprived world already even though it does seem like there s much peace lord there s peace in the hearts of those who know you and one day there will be peace forever when the Prince of Peace comes and Father I pray you will bless our time together this morning hard as we sing these ancient carols as we rejoice over the. Newborn baby who one day would be a risen Savior Father help us to. Experience that in in our hearts and our minds and our souls may we rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ in His name we pray Amen it s good to see you here this morning
Loves laughing why because laughing reflects joy laughing reflex freedom and the ability to be able to laugh with the Egyptians have done to the Jewish people is taken away their ability to laugh as Job says till he filled a lot mouth with laughing and their lips were rejoicing No Laughing No he joisting just own me just affliction just depression and God God doesn t like that and see wants to fill he wants to fill mouths with laughing and fill lips with rejoicing So what s the opposite of laughing and rejoice in is depression and that s the state that he saw as people in verse 7 when he says I ve seen the affliction or depression of by people it s this d. Sense of darkness and it comes over our soul and Was it comes over this deed sense of darkness this cloud it brings with it a great sense of sadness and then there s the pull of it and the pull is to pull lower and lower and lower into the pit of darkness that s depression that s what depression is and we are to respond to depressio
Is not in the New Testament. Astronomers have made several attempts to link the star to unusual astronomical events such as a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus. The king planet and the planet named after the goddess of love or a comet or supernova some modern scholars do not consider the story to be describing a historical event but a pious fiction created by the author of The Gospel of Matthew. The subject is a favorite planetarium shows during the Christmas season although the biblical account describes Jesus with a broader Greek word which can mean either infant or child rather than the more specific word for infant briefless possibly implying that some time is passed since the birth the visit is traditionally celebrated on a pitch any were January 6th in Western Christianity what about this star prophecy . It s also called the star and scepter prophecy it s a messy onic reading applied by radical Jews and early Christians to the Old Testament specifically to Numbers Chapter $24.00
Spectrum of people would you. What would you say all of those people had in common . What they all have in common they were all members of a church of Philip by I m going to show you the Jewish philosopher who got to say was the apostle Paul the little wager was a demon possessed girl who was saved by the Gospel of Christ the prison guard was the jailer who was saved in the flippin revival of businesswomen was a woman named Lydia from fire a tire a grad a business selling purple dye and incredible thing is that the grace of God took people from this guy her job background. And made them one in the Lord Jesus Christ that s what a church is your friend Church is a family of people who have come from all kinds of backgrounds all kinds of beliefs all kinds of ideas and ideals and have found a humanity in the family of God because we have one Lord we have one life and because we have one Lord and one life we have one who love the Lord Jesus Christ and we are a family of God Now I want you
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