thing people think that when Jesus endured all the things he endured and endured an incredible amount of the Asli that he always knew exactly how it was going to turn out at the end but he didn t know any more than you know except that he trusted the father the father said you re not going to die of starvation in the desert Well then whatever else was going to happen Jesus wasn t going to die of starvation in the desert but even if he did die of starvation of the desert he was going to die of starvation in obedience to God he was not going to manipulate God begin to do what he wanted and some people actually turn their back on God Once they find out he s not able to be manipulated and he s not. He s not able to be manipulated no matter what you do you can t make him do anything and that is just so frustrating for Americans think because we re used to being able to just make anybody do anything almost you know if we give them enough money they ll do it or if we threaten them with lega
And he dwells in you when you re born again he is in you and nothing is impossible with God Nothing at all I appreciate that little vignette advertisement right before the 1 o clock program if you d like to give a card and I ll tell you what the other day I went home and there were 75 emails and they were all political So you get sick and tired of political you re saying well I d love to give to the president but I don t know what to give too well and I throw most of the mail that comes you know that says present from President Trump I don t know I I hate to say that I m cynical but I thought of those away and I don t know who to believe anymore do you so here is that online Web site that you can go to to send a card and you can probably when you go to that website you can give a little donation to that would be a great time to do that and it s White House Christmas dot org Ok White House Christmas dot org You go to that and you give a little Christmas card for him and maybe there s o
There s something wrong there and there s something wrong there ironically was for years in our culture we would look at that child and say she s a prostitute she needs to be arrested taken off the street let s send her to juvenile hall and let s treat her like a criminal somebody finally got the idea. That maybe that 12 year old didn t wake up one day and decide she was going to be a hustler maybe she was forced into it maybe she was kidnapped they were she was drugged into it maybe her parents are gone and she s you know the family s from Dallas and she s in Hollywood and you know. Common sense started to prevail I sat across the table here shortly after that bill passed from a detective with the Police Department the Obama administration to put forth federal grant money to improve detective training to help these police officers and detectives work with victims of sex crimes and sex trafficking because you don t just you know go in there all Rambo style and hey there s a girl she s
and also 1st John Chapter 2 verses 12 to 14 the passages that Pastor Chris read earlier. We re going to begin in Matthew for. Which is a very famous scene where Jesus faces Satan is a very powerful scene it s a message in and of itself and I m going to do my best to not say everything I d like to say so that we can get into the other past them using it as an introduction and some of you wonder why we always do this and here s why I ll say it again I m going to keep saying it because I want us to think this way I want us as Christians to think this way you always start with Jesus and then you go to wherever else you re going to go and whatever else you re going to think you have to start with Jesus you re a Christian you live inside the gospel so you start with Jesus and that doesn t mean you always have to open every Bible study that way I open a lot of the bible studies that way to kind of set the Tom but you have to be thinking in the gospel before you interpret any other passage o
That s not the story for everyone either it s tough to get pregnant or it s tough to stay pregnant. And that can be a big challenge for a lot of women the Reverend Herman who was part of our Northern California Fornier affiliate k.c. B.c. Has a ministry to women who had a pregnancy and they decided they didn t want to be pregnant so they got abortions and then they realize they ve made a horrible mistake and their post abortive now are a lot of women in the church who go through that and it s a terrible time because there are many people in the church who will look at someone like that and say well why did you do that and you come across as Judge Mental or harsh and so I encourage people in our sanctity of life segment each and every day to be mindful of the world that you re interested in to a woman who s posed the border for example or what about a family who has been trying to start a family and it s just not there for whatever reason God has His reasons and infertility is a proble