Love Came Down • He Came to Serve Us

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If you have your Bibles, and I hope you do, I want to invite you to join us in Matthew

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chapter 2 as we continue on in our Christmas series. As you turn there, I also want to welcome

our first-time guest. So glad and so privileged that you were able to be here with us this morning.

I hope you got here and enough time to get some of the goodies that were out there. And by the way,

thank you for everyone who brought and contributed to that. I know that we were all blessed. But for

our first-time guests, we're so grateful that you are here. After the service is over with, we're

actually going to have a vote on our church budget for next year. And so after the service is over

with, Pastor Dave's going to come up here to walk our congregation through that. And so Aaron and I

will actually head out into the lobby. That's my wife. And so for our first-time guests, if you want

to come out there, we would love to be able to speak with you, greet you, welcome you. If you have

any questions about us as a church, we would be happy to answer those for you. For everyone here,

whether you're a first-time guest or whether you're a member, there's these December, January date cards

of all the things going on at Willow Ridge Church. You want to make sure that you pay special attention

to that. There are a lot of things that are going on each and every week at our church during this time

of year. That's a little bit different than our normal schedule. So we want to point you to those,

encourage you. If you would like to, we would love to have you for our Christmas Eve service this

Wednesday at 5 30. Everyone in the service together. We're going to do the Lord's Supper

together. We're going to have a special time for our kids down front. Be a wonderful time and would

love for you to come and be a part of that. And then also next Sunday, December 28th, we will gather

together for our church-wide prayer breakfast and would love for each and every one of you to come

and be a part of that. It'll start, the breakfast time will start at 9 50 that morning. We've got

grits, eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes. We're going to do some chocolate chip pancakes this year to kind

of mix it up a little bit with the plain and the chocolate chip as well. We will have some fruit for

those of you that want something else other than carbs and protein, which I do not understand. But if

you would like that, that'll be there as well. And so, and obviously juice and a lot of coffee. We'd love

you guys to come. It'll be a little bit different. We'll have breakfast together as a church family and

then we'll have a time of worship. And then instead of having a message, we'll have a time

of prayer as we come together for the upcoming year for allow you to have an opportunity to pray as

individuals, as families, but joining together as the family of God that he has for us at Willow Ridge

Church in that time of prayer. But as we go into our message time, I'm going to read to you a verse

that we look at in our passage this morning. It's Isaiah 53 verses 4 through 6.

Isaiah 53:4–6

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions and he was crushed

for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace and with his wounds we are

healed. All we like sheep have gone astray and we have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord

has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Would you pray with me? God, as we come into this season

and this time of Christmas, Lord, there's so many reasons that we have to celebrate.

Lord, we come and we're reminded of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, but the journey that his

life will take him, which will go to the cross. And so, God, as we look at all the reasons to celebrate

is the victory that we have through Christ, through the price that he paid and eternal life is given.

God, may you be glorified in all that is done and all that is said to the glory of your name.

And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Well, only a few days left. Here's my question for you. Is everyone ready for Christmas?

I heard a lot of kids say yes. Parents, grandparents, are you ready for Christmas?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Presence bought? Yeah. Are all your presents wrapped?

Overachievers, right? Kids, letters to Santa sent? No, no, all right, we got to work on that.

Decorations out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gatherings planned? Gatherings planned? Movies watched?

Movies watched? Movies watched? Or are you kind of working through that with us? Yeah, we're doing that

at the Bradbury house. How many of you are tired of Christmas music on the radio?

Never, never. There you go. In 1963, I like finding out the history of different things. I'm a nerd like

that. In 1963, a song came out about Christmas called It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Not written by,

recorded by, recorded by Andy Williams. And if you go through and you listen to the song, it lists all of

the activities that we would associate and think about concerning, especially with the secular aspects

of Christmas. And in the title, it kind of encompasses everyone, regardless if you're a Christian or not,

whether the feeling that we're told, the feeling that we believe, the people that want us

to know that right now, it is the most wonderful time of the year.

And while I love this time of year,

I would argue there's no bigger kid at heart

than I am.

In fact, every year since my kids were small, I'm the first one up on Christmas morning, waking

everyone up about 4 a.m. to come downstairs and see what the surprises are.

One year, as the pastor of this church, I made a statement. And the statement was,

kids, on Christmas morning, get up whenever you want to and wake your parents up because it's Christmas

morning. That day, around 4.30 in the morning, I got a text message from Daniel and Leslie Howard

letting me know not only that their kids were awake, but that when they were told,

maybe we need to go back to bed for a little while, they said, no, Pastor Bo said we could get up

this early. So that's my gift to the Howard family every year, every year, right?

I love it. I love it. I love this time of year. I love the time that we spend together.

I love the traditions that we build. In fact, this weekend has kind of encompassed a lot of that for

us in our family. Erin had a great idea. I don't know if she found this online or if she just kind

of came up with it herself. But as we watch Christmas movies, and we kind of have those dedicated Christmas

movies that we watch together, she finds a meal that is prepared in the movie. And then the night

that we're going to watch that movie, right, we eat that meal together that's associated with the movie.

And so, like, when we watch, like, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, right, it's turkey and jello,

right? Like, that's what we eat. Tonight, we're going to watch the Christmas story.

Tonight, we're going to watch the Christmas story. And so, we're going to have meatloaf and mashed potatoes,

right? So, this is what we do. We love it. Friday night for us, we gathered in our living room

together. We watched the Christmas cartoons, the ones that we love. We watched Mickey's Christmas

Carol. We watched Peanuts Christmas, Charlie Brown. We watched The Grinch. We watched Frosty,

some of our favorites. Last night, we watched White Christmas. I know that's an old one for a lot of

you, but that's kind of a new one for our house, and we watched that. And then tonight, you know,

we'll gather together. We'll go put on our PJs. We'll gather downstairs on the couch with the dogs,

like everybody piled into the room, you know, and we'll watch a Christmas story. It's a great time

of year. It's a time of year every year where memories are made, traditions are established.

I absolutely love it.

But what happens, especially for us as believers, what happens when that phrase, like the Christmas

spirit that we're told to have, isn't quite there for you? What if that song, it's the most wonderful time

of the year, doesn't quite hit home the way it has in the past? What happens when the brokenness

of this world affects the happiness of a season? I'm not trying to bring discouragement to you this

morning. There's lots of things we have to be encouraged about and blessed about. But the reality

is for a lot of us in this room, as joyful as we are in Christ, this time of year can just be hard.

Maybe it's the loss of a job. Maybe it's a struggle in your marriage. Maybe it's a child who is

rebelling. Maybe it's financial struggles that you're enduring. Maybe it's a diagnosis or a sickness that

you're facing or someone close to you is facing. Maybe it's the death of a loved one. Your first

Christmas without them. Or maybe, as we've experienced here with even in the life of our

church, within the last several weeks or several months, you've buried someone who you love dearly.

You see, it's easy for us to sit back and put on this false notion that because we celebrate a holiday,

that the reality of our life is it's the most wonderful time of the year.

But in the brokenness of this world, there's difficulty that surrounds that.

If you're not saved, if you're not a follower of Jesus and you're here because you're curious, you're here because you have

questions, what I want to share with you is this, is that becoming a believer and follower of Jesus Christ does not

mean that we are set free, that we don't experience, that we don't walk through the struggles and the things that we

face with this world. Now when we look at the Christmas story, when we look at what we've been

looking at, where Josh began to walk us through the coming and the birth of our Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ, it is absolutely a story that's filled with good news. And just as the good news of the

gospel rang true on that very first Christmas, just as the truth of the gospel was not determined by the events of this

world, the truth of the gospel is real today. In the midst of all that you're facing, in the midst of all that you're going

through, Christ came, he lived, he died, he resurrected, he ascended, and he will come back again. And everyone who put their

faith or hope and trust in him can cling to that. And we see the joy in that first Christmas. We see the good

news of the gospel. We see Jesus. We see it with Mary. We see it with Joseph. We see it with the angels. We see it with the

shepherds. We see it with the wise men. But in the back half of Matthew chapter 2, the passage that we're going to look at this

Matthew 2 · chapter mention

morning, also kind of the part that gets left off in this Christmas narrative is a little bit darker side of the

story. But what we'll see this morning is that the good news of the gospel still reigns. We'll see a corrupt ruler who

calls for the murder of the innocent. We'll see a family who runs for their lives. But through it all, through it

all, God is good and God has a plan. You know, if you're here this morning and you're walking through

the midst of the struggles of the world, isn't it relieving to know that our joy is not found in our

situations, but our joy is found in the person of Christ? Our joy is not found in the outcomes of the

brokenness of this world, but our joy is found in the one who will save us from the brokenness of this

world. That Christ is the shepherd of the 23rd Psalm. In Matthew's gospel in verses 13 through 23,

Matthew gives us three prophetic messages about Christ from the Old Testament that I hope that the Lord can

use for you in this moment, in this morning to remind you or to bring you joy, even in the difficulty in

your seizing of suffering. Our passage begins this morning with where we left off last week.

The wise men have come and they have visited Jesus. They have left him his three gifts that they have

brought. And they were warned in a dream by God to return a different way than they came. Because Herod,

even though he had told them that he wanted to come and worship this king of the Jews, Jesus, that they

were looking for, that Herod had ulterior motives. And he didn't want to come to worship Jesus. He wanted

to come to come to kill him. So they leave by a different manner than which they came. And verse 13

picks up in that story. So would you join me, Matthew 2, read verses 13 through 15.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,

rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt and remain there until I tell you. For Herod is

about to search for the child to destroy him. And he rose and took the child and his mother by night

and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord

had spoken by the prophet. Out of Egypt came my son. So we'll see this phrase three times in this section

of Matthew to fulfill what the Lord had spoken. So when the wise men leave, God gives Joseph a dream.

And he tells Joseph in this dream to take Mary and to take Jesus and to go to Egypt and to stay there

until God tells him to return. He tells him that Herod seeks to kill Jesus. So Joseph does what God has

called him to do and he flees to Egypt. I mean, just imagine of all of what it looks like to raise a young

child. And in this moment of all of what they've gone through, to in the moment to pack up, to move,

to leave, to flee to a foreign land. Not for a better job, not for better finances,

but because the life of your family is at stake. And so what we find here, though, in the midst of

this, the prophetic word of God is that through Jesus, there is freedom. Through Jesus, there is freedom.

Verse 15 is the prophecy. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet saying,

out of Egypt I called my son. This prophecy is found in Hosea 11.1, where it says just that,

when Israel was a child, I loved him. And out of Egypt I called my son. This Old Testament prophetic

passage pointing to Jesus, the Messiah, being fulfilled in this moment through the course of

history as given to us by God's word. So how is fleeing to Egypt freedom? I would say this morning,

it's not the going to Egypt that it will be significant. It was what will come from Egypt

that will show who Jesus is and what Jesus will do. When we look at the story of the entire

concept of the Bible, what the Bible is teaching us, what the Bible is showing us, and we're reminded

of what God has done specifically through the Exodus, where God had delivered his people

through his plan from slavery in Egypt. And in that, God used 10 miracles in the form of plagues

in order to get Pharaoh to release them in order to do so. There's water to blood, the frogs,

the gnats, the flies, the livestock, the boils, the hail, the locusts, the darkness, all of these

for Pharaoh over and over again to let God's people go and the refusal to do so. But then the final one

that God would use, we find in Exodus chapter 12, that God would strike down the firstborn in the land

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of Egypt. But God gave a way for people to escape this death sentence. And God called his people,

the Israelites, that the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and the lentils of their door. And that when God saw

the blood of the lamb on the door of their blood, that he would pass by and he would save that house.

And following this would come the Exodus, where God would deliver his people and give them

their freedom from Egypt. And so what we find here in Matthew 2, that what will come from Egypt,

that God will send his son, and not to just paint a picture of what the old Exodus was,

but to paint a picture of the new Exodus that was to come. And that the freedom bringer,

Jesus himself would come from Egypt, and he would save people, as Matthew 1, 21 tells us, from their sin.

Freedom from what enslaves all of mankind. It'll be through his life and death and burial and resurrection

that we will find our freedom. And it's not through blood on a doorframe,

but through the blood of the lamb that our guilt will be made innocent.

And the truth of the gospel of what we find. And so in the midst of the horror, in the midst of the terror,

in the midst of the panic, in the midst of the uncertain, God says,

Joseph, take your family to Egypt, because I'll call my son from it.

And it'll be through his Exodus. It'll be through the freedom that he brings,

that life will be possible.

Continue with me in Matthew 2, verses 16 through 18.

Matthew 2:16–18

It says,

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men,

became furious.

And he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem,

and in all that region who were two years old or younger,

according to the time that had been ascertained from the wise men.

Then what was fulfilled was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah.

A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping in loud lamentation.

Rachel, weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted,

because they are no more.

So Herod sees what happens.

He's figured out, the wise men didn't come back to me.

These magi from the east, they didn't come and give me this report.

So he realized he had been tricked.

And so he decided that if he couldn't find out specifically

who this king of the Jews was,

then he decided that he would just eliminate

all who could possibly fall into this.

And so in this town of Bethlehem,

as we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ,

it's also marked with the tragedy of the elimination of an entire generation

of firstborn sons.

And through this,

that we're reminded in the goodness of God,

is through Jesus there is hope.

Can you imagine?

Can you imagine being in Bethlehem?

Can you imagine the horror?

Can you imagine being the families who didn't escape?

Can you imagine the yearly anniversary

that would have come up and marked this time of year for them?

Can you imagine the impact it would have had,

what would have rang true?

But over and over and over again,

what we see is that in the midst of the despair of this world,

in the midst of the brokenness of this world,

in the midst of the horror that all of sin can produce,

through Jesus there is hope.

Through Jesus there is hope.

The prophetic verse is found in verse 18.

A voice was heard in Ramah,

weeping in loud lamentation,

Rachel weeping for her children.

She refused to be comforted

because they were no more.

This comes out of Jeremiah 31, verse 15.

Jeremiah 31:15

This is thus says the Lord.

A voice is heard in Ramah,

lamentation and bitter weeping.

Rachel is weeping for her children.

She refuses to be comforted for her children

because they are no more.

What we see in Jeremiah 31

is a historical account of an event

that will take place or that has taken place

with looking toward a Messiah who will come.

The prophet Jeremiah is speaking specifically

about a time when God's people

were taken into exile by the Babylonians.

The Babylonians came and attacked Jerusalem,

killing and destroying all that they could.

And then they took God's people,

the survivors,

to a place known as Ramah.

And there they were scattered one from another,

families broken apart,

husbands taken from wives,

children taken from their parents,

would have been a scene of horror,

of devastation.

I mean, can you just imagine

what that would look like?

Mothers reaching out for their kids

to have them pried from her fingers.

Fathers doing all they can to protect.

But yet their strength is overpowered.

But God doesn't end in there.

Jeremiah 31, 16 through 17.

Thus says the Lord,

keep your voice from weeping

and your eyes from tears,

for there is a reward for your work,

declares the Lord.

And they shall come back

from the land of the enemy.

There is hope for your future,

declares the Lord.

And your children shall come back

to their own country.

God tells His people

that in spite of all of this,

that He has not forgotten them.

God tells His people,

in spite of all of this,

that there will be a new relationship,

that there will be a new covenant.

And God tells them,

in spite of all of this,

is that they do have a hope

and very specifically,

a hope for a future.

In Christ Jesus,

there is a hope for today

because there is a hope for the future.

You and I,

in our earthly perspectives,

we look at hope

in a moment by moment,

event by event,

calendar charted date

by calendar charted date.

But God sees hope

in the span of eternity.

God sees hope

in the fulfillment of this plan.

God sees the brokenness

of this world

and gives us

not a momentary passing glimpse

of what hope could be

for a moment,

but hope that will sustain forever.

And to be frank

and to be honest,

oftentimes that hope

does not take away

your hurt in the temporary,

but it places the fact

that our hurt is temporary

in the context

of all of the goodness

of what God has

of what God has

for eternity.

Sometimes,

the moment

can seem overwhelming,

but the moment

isn't all-powerful.

Sometimes,

the moment

can seem all-consumed,

but the moment

does not hold

your eternity

in its hand.

That what God

gives us

as his followers

of Jesus

is a hope

for a future.

It's not a hope

that I wish

it would happen.

It's a hope

in the confidence

that above

all things

I know

that this

will happen.

And then we see

our last

in verses 19

through 23.

It says,

But when Herod died,

behold,

an angel of the Lord

appeared in a dream

to Joseph

in Egypt,

saying,

Rise,

take the child

and his mother

and go to the land

of Israel

for those

who sought

the child's life

are dead.

And he rose

and took the child

and his mother

and went

to the land

of Israel.

But when he heard

that Archelaus

was reigning

over Judea

in place

of his father

Herod,

he was afraid

to go there.

And being warned

in a dream,

he withdrew

to the district

of Galilee.

And he went

and lived

in a city

called Nazareth

so that what

was spoken

by the prophets

might be fulfilled

that he was

called a Nazarene.

So after some time,

Herod dies.

Herod dies

and God tells

Joseph

that he can

return to Israel.

But instead

of going to Judea,

Joseph decides

because of Herod's

son who's put

into place

that Joseph

takes his family

to Galilee

and specifically

to Nazareth.

Now is this

by chance?

No,

this is by

the sovereign

hand of God

as is spoken

in verse 23.

And he went

and lived

in a city

called Nazareth

so that what

was spoken

by the prophets

might be fulfilled

that he

would be called

a Nazarene.

What we find

through this

is that through

Jesus there

is salvation.

Through Jesus

there is

salvation.

now while

this verse

doesn't

specifically

align

with one

specific

verse

or passage

of scripture

in verse 23

it says

and he went

and lived

in a city

called Nazareth

so that what

was spoken

by the prophets

might be fulfilled

that he

would be

called

a Nazarene.

Here's what's

interesting for us

about Nazareth.

We know

of Nazareth

from the Bible.

We know

of Nazareth

that this is

what Jesus

was spoken

of as.

We see this

that he is

the man

from Galilee.

Jesus of Nazareth

is within his name

but that during

the time of Christ

Nazareth

was not a

respected place.

Nazareth

was a place

known for

its poverty.

In fact

in John

John 1:26

chapter 1

verse 26

someone asks

a question

can anything

good

even come

out of Nazareth?

I don't know

where you grew up

but you know

certain towns

can kind of

carry with it

a reputation

or an expectation

of where they are

and so people

will think

that nothing

good can come

from there

that's the lowest

of the low

you would never

want to go there

you would never

want to be a part

of or associated

with that

and that's

what Nazareth

is known for

and this speaks

to how

not only

the people

were perceived

and the area

that they were

perceived

but it's speaking

to how Jesus

would be

and in so many

ways

still to this

day

is perceived

and you're like

no brother

that's

that's not

at all

how Jesus

is perceived

that's not

at all

how Jesus

is thought

of

Jesus

is respected

even by people

who aren't

followers of

Christ

he's looked

at us

as good

he's looked

at us

as kind

he's looked

at us

as loving

but look

what Isaiah

53

3 says

he was

despised

and rejected

by men

a man

of sorrows

and acquainted

with grief

and as one

from whom

men hid

their faces

he was

despised

I'll catch

this

and we

esteemed

him not

you see

there's a lot

of actions

of the person

of Jesus

that people

want to draw

to

the miracles

that he performed

we see that

the kindness

that he spoke

we see that

but it's not

just what

Jesus did

it's the truth

in who Jesus

is

because in

every action

that he did

in every word

that he spoke

in every piece

of the embodiment

of his character

is pointing people

to the truth

that he's

the savior

that he is

the Messiah

but he didn't

just come

to die

he came

because he's

a king

he came

because he is

the king

and in that

he calls

your allegiance

and this king

will build

his kingdom

not by

the conquering

of their hands

not by

the works

of his people

but through

what he will do

what he will

become

and what he

will offer

Isaiah 53

continues on

in verse 4

surely he has

borne our griefs

and carried

our sorrows

yet we

esteemed him

stricken

smitten

by God

and afflicted

but he

was pierced

for our

transgressions

he

was

crushed

for our

iniquities

upon him

was the

chastisement

that brought

us peace

and with

his wounds

we are

healed

all

we

like

sheep

have gone

astray

and turned

everyone

to his

own way

and the

Lord

has laid

on him

the iniquity

of us

all

you see

because of

our sin

because of

our sin

nature

we

have

rejected

him

and in

our

rejection

of him

he

came

to

die

for us

I'm

going to

ask our

worship team

if they'll

go ahead

and make

their way

up here

this morning

I want

to ask

you three

questions

as we

go into

our time

of response

today

question

number one

within our

condition

we have

rejected

him

in our

condition

we have

said

that he

is not

what we

desire

apart from

Christ

so today

will you

not

reject

him

but today

instead

will you

receive

him

will you

receive

Jesus

Christ

as your

Lord

and Savior

will you

receive

him

of what

he did

on the

cross

of

Calvary

for you

will you

surrender

to him

confessing

of your

sins

repenting

of your

sin

and declaring

your

desperation

for a

Savior

will you

receive

him

today

will you

not

reject

him

but

instead

today

will you

surrender

him

you see

it's not

just about

a momentary

surrender

for salvation

but it's

a daily

surrender

to him

that he

is not

just our

Savior

but he

is our

Lord

that we

come before

him

that he

is the

king of

kings

the lord

of lords

that he

is Christ

and that

we surrender

to him

and so not

all that

we have

all that

we've

done

all that

we are

that we've

surrendered

to him

and today

will you

not reject

him

instead

will you

worship

him

will you

worship

him

will you

worship

him

when it

hurts

will you

worship

him

when it's

hard

will you

worship

him

when it

seems

unfair

will you

worship

him

when it

seems

difficult

will you

worship

him

not on

what you

have

but will

you

worship

him

through

the

spirit

of

God

that

is

in

you

and

I'm

not

talking

about

an

outward

expression

of singing

a song

I'm

not

simply

talking

about

an

outward

expression

of

raising

hands

but

I'm

talking

about

a

worship

that

is

at

the

core

of

your

heart

I

imagine

if you'll

leave

with me

some

freedom

within

this

that

Joseph's

plan

was not

to go

to

Egypt

and

I

imagine

in the

difficulty

in the

haste

that

that

morning

of

worship

for

him

was

not

filled

with

God

I'm

so

glad

this

is

what

is

happening

to me

and

I'm

so

glad

about

this

is

what

happened

to my

family

but it

was in

his

obedience

to do

what

God

has

called

him

to do

I

know

this

time

can

be

difficult

in

your

struggle

today

please

know

that

the

Christmas

story

is

not

just

about

it's

the

most

wonderful

time

of

the

year

but

the

Christmas

story

is

that

through

your

struggle

Jesus

offers

you

freedom

for

your

sin

hope

for

eternity

and

salvation

for

your

soul

would

you

pray

with

me

God

I

come

to

you

this

morning

word

fresh

from

the

excitement

of

gathering

together

and

for

breakfast

eating

cookies

and

brownies

donuts

and

cinnamon

rolls

and

sausage

balls

and all

the

things

that

were

there

Lord

and

just

the

laughter

that

was

heard

the

excitement

that's

there

but

God

there's

also

so

much

more

Lord

and

you

know

what's

going

on

where

we

are

what

people

are

experiencing

and

they're

in the

struggle

but

God

in the

struggle

Lord

I

pray

that

we'll

make a

choice

to

cling

to

to

draw

near

not

to

push

away

from

you

Jesus

so

as

you

hold

us

in

your

hand

may

we

cling

tightly

to

you

may

the

Christmas

season

remind

us

about

more

than

just

the

good

but

remind

us

God

that

you

are

good

in

every

season

of

our

life

that

you

bring

freedom

you

bring

hope

you

bring

salvation

in

Christ's

name

we

pray

amen

that's

it

for

this

week's

message

be

sure

to

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back

next

week

for

a

new

episode

and

in

the

meantime

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