He Is Written - 12.21. 2025 (9AM) - Pastor Terrance Richmond

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I got some news for some of you in 2026.

My praise is going to be more radical.

Before Jesus was born, he was written.

We called this day for us themed.

He is written a kind of play on words of it is finished and it

is written. But I just thought, no, it isn't

written. He is written.

He was written. The Bible says in the beginning

was the word. Christmas is not the beginning

of the story. It's seal.

It's the seal of the story. I'll say it again, Christmas is

not the beginning of the story. They'll put it up.

It is the seal of the story. A lot of people think, oh, a

baby was born, This began something.

No, no, no, no. When Jesus was born, right there

in the Manger was the seal to the story.

Christmas is not a God improv or impromptu.

It's promise executed from the books of Genesis to Malachi.

Scripture is not guessing if a king will come.

From the book of Genesis to Malachi.

Scripture is declaring and decreeing how, when, and why he

must come. The Bible does not present Jesus

as an idea or possibility. It presents him as

inevitability. He is announced as fulfilment.

I like to say it like this. He is the full seal meant for

yours and I salvation on earth as it is in heaven.

He is the full seal meant. Yeah, I like that.

I like playing with words. I got the freedom to play with

words. The word was in the beginning

with me. Yeah, I was there.

You was there in the beginning. Go read Genesis, David says in

Psalm 40, verse 7. Then said I behold, I come in

Psalms 40:7

the volume of the book. It is written of me.

Watch this. This is not Jesus writing this,

this is David. It's very important you

understand that this is David, a king writing this, because at

this point, Israel in its history, watch this.

The Torah, the law of Moses already has been written.

Understand this and back then Deuteronomy tells us that kings

were required somebody shout out required to write for themselves

a copy of the law. Deuteronomy tells us this in

verse 17. It says, and when he sits on his

royal throne, he shall write himself a copy of this law in a

book out of what is before the Levitical priest Scripture.

Watch this Scripture then and now governs identity.

It governs calling, and it governs kingship.

Scripture was not just something, you know how today we

just read it for inspiration. We kind of in some ways put

scripture alongside fortune cookies, right, Right.

Scripture is just another prophet, another rabbi, another

guru, whatever you want to call him.

Another man who was good wrote some stuff and left it behind

for us to guide our lives. There's some of you in here that

take a little bit of here, a little bit from here, a little

bit from there. You'll mix horoscopes, you'll

mix fortune cookies, you'll mix whatever, the comics that you'll

mix whatever. But the word is pure.

Nothing compares to the word. You can't idolize wisdom over

the word. The Word is the Word, and so

Scripture governs identity calling and kingship.

So in this day, every king had to write this down.

In God's Kingdom, authority flows from our submission to

what is written. I'm going to say it again.

In God's Kingdom, authority flows to our submission to

what's written. You have no authority beyond

what you're submitted to. So some of you want to cast out

demons and pray for the sick, but you have not submitted to

the Word. And you can't just submit to to

Scripture that benefits you, but you don't submit to the full

counsel of the Word of God. This is why I will go back

again. He says this, he says in the

fullness of the book, the full volume of the book, it is

written of me. The king back then did not rule

above the word. Watch this.

The king ruled under the word. You get this.

It's very important for where we're going.

The king did not rule above the word.

The king ruled under the word. So when David says in the volume

of the book it is written of me, he is acknowledging that his

life and kingship are submitted to what God watch this has

already written. His life is submitted.

Some people just going to put the title slide back up there

because some people keep waiting for the thing to come up.

You guys are spoiled. Just look for the thing to come

up in the volume of the book. David is saying as King I my

life and everything about it is submitted to what's written.

Somebody say written, it's already down, it's already said,

it's already established, it's already committed.

It, it, it, it's done. It is written and my life is

submitted to what is written, what is proven Jesus.

Watch this. David submitted his life to what

was written. Jesus fulfilled what was

written. David lived under the scroll.

Jesus was the scroll that that phrase volume of the book in

Hebrew means. Watch this full scroll.

Complete record, finished manuscript.

Are you following me? This is very important for us to

get because this relates to our lives, because we partial

Christian. Well, ain't no such thing here

to tell you. You're fully saved.

Whether you fully obey the word or not, you're fully saved.

Jesus didn't do a partial job. The blood fully saved you.

But this word volume of the book means full scroll, complete

record the finished manuscript. Hebrews 10/5 through 7.

Watch this. Remember David said it in Psalm.

Watch this we see in Hebrews who says it?

Then I said, behold, here I am coming to do your will, oh God,

to fulfill what is written of me in the volume of the book.

This whole context, Jesus is actually recorded to repeat what

David wrote. And if Jesus is still finding

himself in the book, submitting himself to what is written, who

are we to keep revising based on the times we're in and how we

feel? This is very important.

Then I said, behold, here I am, coming to do your will.

In other words, what I've come to do has already been

established, what I've come to do has already been done, what

I've come to do has already been approved, and my ability to do

it has already been proven. But what if I told you what God

has called you to do and created you to do has been approved and

proven already? So why are you spending your

time on all these conferences trying to find purpose, but you

celebrating Christmas? Bible says before I formed you

in your mama's womb, I knew you. You was approved.

Shouldn't you be trying to figure out what you was approved

for, Right. You can't just go to the to the

to the car lot and say I was approved.

You can't go to buy a house and say I was approved.

They need to know what you was approved.

What for? I don't, I don't need to just

know what I was made for. I need to know what I was

approved for. Am I talking to a few people on

this Sunday before Christmas? Watch this.

This means that David spoke it partially, Jesus fulfilled it

completely. David spoke it partially, Jesus

fulfilled it completely. David aligned, but Jesus

embodied. Jesus was the scroll David was

submitted under. Jesus wasn't sent to see what

would happen, but Jesus was sent to fulfill what was already

written. This is very important.

His birth was fulfillment. Now figuring that out, No, no,

no, somebody say fulfillment. Your life is meant to fulfill a

written word. So I need to discover the word

written for me. And your, your, your, your

favorite influencer might not have the word written for you.

Jesus was the binding of the book.

You, you got a book in it and the pages start falling out and

you try your best to, to, to to keep them on.

What I gave somebody one of my old Bibles like, like I toe that

Bible up. That's good news when you tear

the Bible up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they were going to get a rebound for me, but it was

missing some scriptures in there.

Somebody say it was missing some scriptures.

Now the good thing is the scriptures that was missing

wasn't missing out of me because the Holy Spirit bound them to my

soul right? The word got bound to my mind.

OK, but but but it but but Jesus was the binding of the book in

scripture to write is to establish covenant.

I don't know what you write for, but whenever God wrote

something, it was to establish covenant, which mean whatever he

wrote is mines. If I can find it in the book,

it's mines. If I can find that I've been

healed, it's mines. If I can find poverty has been

broken, it's mines. If I can find that the devil do

not have a legal right to continue to bring hell in my

life, guess what? Victory is mine.

Somebody say it's mine. Somebody say it's mines.

To write is to guarantee fulfillment.

To to write is to guarantee fulfillment.

What was recorded in ink was sealed in flesh.

What was recorded in ink was fulfilled in flesh.

Watch this. God does not write

possibilities. God writes promises, right?

A lot of people out here, they want to marry, they want to

date, they want to work, they want to start potential.

Yeah, yeah. Find promise before you start

serving somebody else's potential, right?

Two people with potential, if they haven't found promise,

guess what? You're going to have potential,

potential plus potential mean potential.

God does not write possibilities.

God writes promises. Watch this.

God does not write intentions. God writes outcomes.

You know, people will say I intended, I intended on.

I know, I know I was late, but I intended on being on time,

right? I I know I tried to cook a good

meal for you last night, but it was my intention to make some

good pasta, right? Anybody ever left you at

intention? How many people have been

disappointed by intention? Yeah.

Yeah. Hallelujah.

Watch it. God does not write intentions.

Intention is not covenant, right?

Intention is engagement, not marriage.

Why don't you start? Just because you put a ring on

my finger, do not start acting a fool.

Come on, put this in your rule book, ladies.

Just because you put a ring on my finger does not mean you got

to stop dating me or opening the door for me and being kind to

me. You can't act a fool because a

ring on my finger. That ring does not mean

covenant. It means I intend to be in

covenant with you. Intending to be in covenant is

not what covenants you ever intend to be cute, but you

failed at it. Ladies, when you put your makeup

on, it don't work out how you intended it to work out.

You get what I'm saying? You ever try to put them?

You intended them lashes to fit right on your face, but they the

weep. You get what I'm saying?

Amen. Right, fellas?

You intended to keep a full set of hair for all your life, but.

But it didn't work out that way. It didn't work out that way.

I intended to have fat waves all my life, but intention to get

your ball head? Yeah, God does not the other day

just real quick because I got to get back.

But the other day I was, I, you know, I was in between the

blessing. I was in between the in between

the blessing. I was Sunday fresh shave Monday,

Tuesday we let it go a little bit.

But but you, you, you get what I'm saying?

You get what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

To by by time Tuesday come, that intention keeps coming back.

And so I was playing around and I I lined it up.

But how many people know that line is back a little bit

further than what it used to be? And so I just lined it up to

show my wife and be like, girl, Remember Me at the wedding day?

Yeah. And then she was like.

Uh, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Shave that off right now.

God does not write intentions. God writes outcomes.

Watch this. When God puts something in

writing, he does not revise it. Somebody say praise God.

He didn't revise the promise. He does not delay it, nor does

he forget it. I'll put thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. When God put something in

writing, he does not write. He don't.

You know when you change a check, you got to put your

initials on it. No, God writes it.

Once it's finished, it's over. He wrote, you're healed by his

stripes. It's over.

You are, you are blessed coming in, blessed coming out.

Guess what, it's over. It is what it is.

Somebody say it's written. Watch this.

How do I know this? Because it's written.

Watch what Isaiah says. The grass Withers, the flower

fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Somebody say forever. Ever.

Yeah, forever. Ever, forever.

Ever. Come on.

Somebody say forever. The grass Withers, the flower

fades, but the word of God will stand forever.

Watch this. It didn't just say last forever.

It's it'll stand forever, right? I don't care what storm comes

through the city. The word's still going to be

standing. That's why I put that oak tree

up right? It it don't matter how the wind

blow. Watch, the word may lean in my

life, but it's going to pop back up It it's not going to be

uprooted. The word will never be uprooted.

He can't change his mind about your healing.

So so watch this. The good news.

If your life does not look like what he said, it means it ain't

over. Somebody say it's not over.

So the birth of Jesus was not heaven's emotional reaction to

humanity's sin and chaos. Like, like man didn't just start

acting a fool and God was like, oh right, didn't go how it

intended. Hear what I'm telling you?

God wasn't saying it didn't go how it intended.

So, so, so, so, so, so when sin broke out, when Adam and Eve

fell, when humanity fell, and then when Jesus came, God was

not responding to sin like it caught him off guard.

I'm here to tell somebody, I'm not trying to give you a sin

free pass. I'm trying to give you a grace

free pass that that that your sin has not caught God off guard

where you are has not caught God off guard.

Watch this So the birth of Jesus was not heaven having an

emotional reaction to humanity's sin and chaos.

It was God reminding us that everything I said, I'm still

standing on it. Watch this.

Jesus's birth was God saying everything I've said.

I'm standing on it. He was not responding to man's

sin when Jesus was born, he said.

I'm reminding you that everything, everything that I

said, all the books of the prophets, whole Old Testament

was pointing to this day. I'm coming to get my kids.

I didn't make you for this failure.

I'm coming to get my kids. Everything that I've said, I

still stand on. Somebody say I'm standing on

business. Yeah, not everybody that say

they standing on business, standing on business, but God is

somebody say God is watch this. The Manger is not and was not

sentiment. It's the father's signature.

The Manger is signature. We've made Christmas this little

cute little thing, sweet little baby.

Jeez, we we have, we have water. Christmas down so much.

The world think they can celebrate it the same way we do.

Everybody decorating their front yards, every store playing

Christian music. Yeah, right.

You got you. You got adult stores playing

Christmas music. Why you put your head like that,

babe. Right.

We keeping it real. We talk about how the world, how

we've made what we've made what we've allowed the world to make

Christmas. We've made it right.

Here's the compel right here. I got convicted and I told my

kids, I told my family. Look, we supposed we supposed to

be. I told everybody.

I said, I said, I told everybody.

I told everybody, somebody say everybody.

I told everybody that if you're going, if you're going to

purchase the Richmonds a gift this year, give us money.

I'm not being picky, I'm just being specific.

Give us money. Why?

Because we want our family to go to Italy next year.

So I don't want a Nike sweatshirt.

I don't I don't that that that all that adds up.

So I'm telling you, I'm being specific.

I'm believing right, right. Our family, our kids is getting

older. Watch this.

So, so it's like cool. And so some people blessed us

with some with some seed. They dawned on me kids, family,

we're not doing Christmas the same way every dime is going to

the remnant for Christmas. I want to, I want to, I want to

help build God's house for Christmas for the first time in

my I'm about to sew. I bless my kids 12 months out of

the year. I can't take that little bit of

money that and, and if you used to, if you're in here and you're

used to giving, getting a gift from the Richmond family, you're

not getting one this year. We're giving it to the remnant.

If you planned on blessing the Richmond family, give it to the

remnant. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

what? Getting through the ribbon is

not going to be easy. It's going to take sacrifice.

Getting Jesus through the cross was not easy.

It takes sacrifice. And so for me, I'm like, no, no,

no. And the kids was like absolutely

dad, absolutely. We go, no, no, no, watch this.

I'm going to sow the intended seed and watch God do do Italy

bigger 'cause that's I'm, I'm sowing from the desire of my

heart. I'm not.

And I'm doing it with joy. I'm a cheerful giver, right?

I was talking to another family. They said the same thing.

They said PT we not we not buying y'all nothing.

I'm like, please, the the biggest blessing you can give

your pastor this year is take this burden off of my shoulders.

No, no, no, not a bad burden at all.

No, it's time. It's time.

And the amount, watch this, the amount of money that all of us

collectively are spending for Christmas.

Guess what? It would be enough to get

through the ribbon. That's the offering compelled.

You don't have to do it today. Amen.

All right. All right.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

The Manger. Watch this.

The Manger is the Father's statement to his kids saying

everything that I said. I meant it.

I meant it. This is what faith is.

You believe God meant what He said and you act like it.

Watch this. You actually don't even got to

question it. You got to read it and believe

it. You got to get understanding to

apply your life to it, but you don't know how to get

understanding to believe it. It ain't changing.

You notice how many times you question God, the word you, when

you open your Bible back up, it was still there.

Did somebody say it's still there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Manger is not some cute

nursery moment or illustration. Watch this.

The Manger is a legal moment. Christmas, you can picture it as

a courtroom. The Manger scene.

It's a legal moment. It's a stamped moment.

It's a moment of certification. It is God stepping into humanity

or human history and saying I am not sending another prophet.

I am not extending another warning.

I am not delaying my promise. I am not postponing my promise.

I am not revising my word. Watch this.

I am putting my word into flesh. I am stepping in myself.

I am stepping in myself. So when the Word stepped into

flesh and pitched his tent among us, 4 promises moved from

prophecy to possession. How many promises?

44 Promises went from prophecy to possession.

Number one was the promise of presence sealed.

It went from God with us to God within us, God with us to God

within us #2 the promise of redemption.

Salvation became inevitable sealed.

Redemption sealed. When Jesus was born, redemption

was sealed. And thirdly, the promise of

authority. Watch this.

Adam and Eve lost the keys. Jesus came to give us keys back.

That's a whole nother topic we've preached on it.

The Kingdom, the promise of authority, the Kingdom entered

the earth. We know, we know, we know, John,

repent. For the Kingdom of heaven is at

hand. And then #4 the promise of

you'll get it at the end #1 the promise of presence.

Isaiah 714 says it this way. Therefore the Lord Himself shall

give you a sign. Behold, the young woman who is

unmarried and a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and

shall call his name Emmanuel. I think we were singing that

name earlier, Emmanuel. It went like that.

God with us. That's our song too, Amen.

That's our song too. We make good songs here at Love

Quest. His name, Emmanuel.

Somebody say God with us. Somebody say God with us,

Somebody say God within us. John 114 says And the Word

became flesh, human, Incarnate, and tabernacled, fixed his tent

of flesh, lived a while among us.

Somebody say among us, the first promise is the promise of

presence. When Jesus was born, not when he

died, not when he rose, when he was born, the promise of

presence was sealed. Before Jesus, God visited with

Jesus, God moved in. God moved in.

God moved in before Jesus. God visited all the way up to

Malachi. Jesus comes on the scene no

longer. God visited.

God moved in. God did not send help, He came

himself. That's that's deep right there.

He didn't send help, He came himself.

Watch this. Watch this for all the

insecurity in the room. Who are you that God would come

himself for you? Make make sure this is the last

year you sell yourself cheap. Watch this some of y'all, y'all

date and Mary down Hallelujah. Speak the truth pastor.

Speak the truth pastor. You date and Mary down because

that's where you always looking at yourself.

Hallelujah. I didn't come for all that on

Christmas. It's not Christmas, it's the

Sunday before Christmas. God did not send help, He came

himself. Emmanuel is not potential, He is

proximity. He's not a potential Savior.

He is Savior with us. Presence was sealed at the birth

of Jesus. Here's how crazy presence is.

Mary walks in the room and her little barren womb, little baby

John leaves because presence returned to earth.

Watch this. John did not leap because an

Angel walked in the room. He leaped because the Savior

walked in the room. That's how powerful presence is.

Hebrews 13 Watch this. For he God himself has said, I

will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you

without support. I like this part.

I will not, I will not, I will not.

I didn't even add those. I will not.

It is written, I will not, I will not, I will not in any

degree leave you helpless. Have you ever felt helpless?

Feeling helpless and being helpless is two different

things. It's OK to feel helpless

sometime, but I want to hear, I want to tell you today, you are

not helpless. There's no situation you will

ever face that help is not present.

Watch this. Help is not coming.

Help is present in any degree. Leave you helpless, nor forsake,

nor let you down. Relax my hold on you.

Assuredly not. Hallelujah #2 the promise of

redemption. Salvation became inevitable.

Matthew once said she will bear a son, and you shall call his

name Jesus. The Greek form of the Hebrew

Joshua, which means Savior for he will save his people from

their sins, that is prevent them from failing and missing the

true end and scope of life, which is God.

Sounds like a simple purpose right there.

What's my purpose? Worship God.

Why? Why do I worship him?

Because his presence, He inhabits the praise of his

people. Watch this.

The cross enforced what heaven had already decided.

The cross enforced what heaven already decided before the found

date. This is very important.

The cross enforced What we're about to see is some of you guys

first times ever seeing this. The cross enforced what heaven

already decided. I love God in his word.

Revelations 13. All inhabitants of the earth

will worship the beast, all whose names have not been

written in the Lamb's book of life.

The Lamb who was slain from the creation or the foundation of

the world. Oh, so you mean that good day on

Calvary was fulfillment of the word?

Wait a minute, before the foundations of the earth a lamb

was slain. Not on Easter.

Yeah, that quiet you thought. Let's go back to the saving.

You thought your Adam and Eve falling.

You thought that God was responding because he didn't

plan for that. God didn't plan for saving us

because he knew what he put in US.

So you didn't know. Before you even stepped into

your sin, a lamb was slain. Before you was even born, a lamb

was slain. Before the foundations of the

world, a lamb was slain. Oh so you mean God went to the

end and then said, let's come back to the beginning.

I'm going to let y'all walk through my finished work.

This is why trying to live outside of what God has already

written is is absolutely really sad insanity.

Because God has finished your life.

You're trying to find your life outside of the finished work.

Why would any fool start over? Right?

Your sin makes you think you got to start from scratch.

No, you just got to get back in alignment right there.

That's in the Bible. You can go home, look at it in

all translations. You can look at it in your

phone. You can go, you go wherever you

want in the world. Find a Bible hotels wherever you

want to go and look at Revelations 13 and it's going to

tell you the Lamb who was slain from the creation, the

foundation of the world. So when Jesus comes, he's the

Lamb that was slain. He's just fulfilling the written

word. So This is why you are free from

condemnation. Before you could even ever feel

guilt, Price was paid. What?

What your sin was considered before you sinned.

It's like a good parent, a kid about to go on a trip and it's

like I'm a, I'm a hide some little, some extra little

goodies in the bag because I know they're going to call and

ask for some, some goodies because they're going to eat

their goodies too fast. They go, mom, can you send me

some money? You're going to say, baby, I

packed you some extra goodies at the bottom of the bag over in

the corner because I knew you was going to need it.

I knew you was going to eat your food too fast.

I gave you 3 days worth of food. You ate it all in one day.

That's why I packed some extra goodies.

That's, that's a, that's a good father, that's a good mother.

They know their kids and the Lord knew from the foundation.

So, so watch this when Jesus says it's finished, watch this.

And when God rest on the 7th day, why was everything good?

Watch this. Why was everything very good?

Because nothing could be messed up.

Not just because it looked good. Then it got ugly.

Then he like, oh, crap, I got to cover.

I got to put some makeup on. Oh, they got a black eye.

I got to put some shades on. No, no, no, no.

It was very good. Because it couldn't be messed

up. Somebody in here got to get

this. You can't mess it up.

Watch this. You cannot experience it, but

you can't mess it up. You ain't that powerful nor is

your sin. Watch this.

So Christmas ain't about a beginning.

Christmas is a day of fulfillment.

Then the world say we're going to celebrate Christmas 1st and

we're going to put everything on sale.

Kind of not. It's just going to be lower than

what we told you what we sold it to you at first, but we still

making profit off of the sale And then and then we going to do

Easter and that's the order. You remember Jesus.

So then we got to do all this extra stuff for people for

Christmas, but we still walk out of here not knowing that

Christmas really ain't about a baby.

It's about a savior. Watch this.

He was savior in Mary's womb. He wasn't savior on the cross.

That's why he said it's finished.

I came to fulfill before Mary held the promise.

Heaven had already weighed the cost.

Before Mary had a crib, Jesus had a cross.

What you talking about, PT? OK, I know it's 9:00 AM.

Brains are waking up. Didn't have a chance to get your

coffee. Let's go back before the

foundations of the world. A lamb was slain.

Now let's go forward. Before Mary had a crib, Jesus

had a cross. Watch it.

The blood of Jesus wasn't God reacting to sin, it was God's

original intent to seal his love.

Premeditated sacrifice is coming.

Premeditated sacrifice. Premeditated sacrifice.

Pre planned predestined sacrifice.

So this doesn't give you a license to go up.

Well, since he already knew, let me go on here and act a fool.

No, no, no, no, no. This, this.

This is to cause you to fall in love with him, not to act a

fool. This is not.

This is where you don't take grace in vain.

Redemption made its first move before the foundations of the

world took its first breath in Bethlehem and it's last breath

on Calgary Calvary. Watch this, Watch this.

Redemption made its first move before the foundations of the

world. Redemption took its first breath

in Bethlehem and Redemption took his last breath on Calvary.

Mary carried the beginning and the end.

I love the Bible. Oh, I forgot to pray.

Lord, give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation, please.

Mary carried the beginning and the end in her belly.

Mary literally carried the beginning and the end.

A lamb had been slain. Although a lamb was kicking in

her belly, he was only coming out of the womb to fulfill what

was written so naturally. Watch this beginning, Son,

child, the end. Savior Mary carry the beginning

and the end. The peace settled in eternity

was unveiled in a stable in Bethlehem.

Peace settled, stable. You know what peace comes to do.

It comes to settle you and stabilize you.

Anyone who is unstable or has an unstable mind, you are.

You don't have the peace of God. Peace comes to settle you.

Watch this. Peace settles you more than

income can settle you. In ways a friend can't settle

you down, in ways marijuana can't settle you down, in ways a

drag on a cigarette can't settle you down.

It can stabilize your mind more than a sip of whiskey for all

your whiskey drinkers in here. It can stabilize you.

Peace settled in eternity was unveiled.

Peace had already been ours. It was settled.

It was done. In the beginning was the Word.

A lamb was slain. Peace came, stabilized us.

How do I know that? Because it's written for to you

is born this day in the town of David, a Savior who is Christ,

the Messiah, the Lord. Somebody say Jesus, hell didn't

lose at the cross, it lost at the crib, at the crib.

When you coming over to the crib, some of y'all don't use

that language without getting you.

Yeah, but the crib it lost at the crib.

Hell didn't lose at the cross, it lost at the crib.

Bloodline was changed at the crib.

This is what I want you to see you in it because he's also

talking about you when you was born.

Your bloodline was changed forever.

Watch this. I did not, I did not become the

interruption in my bloodline. I was born the interruption in

my bloodline and asked my Mama how much the interruption in her

life. I was.

Hell didn't lose at the cross and lost at the crib.

Bloodline changed forever. Watch this.

I like this one. I like this one.

The cross took the quest out of question and gave the quest to

love that. That's so profound right there.

That's so profound right there. The cross took the quest out of

question. Watch this.

You no longer got a question because it's written, it's sure,

it's covenant, it's blood on it. When Jesus was born, watch this.

There's no more questioning. The cross took the crib, took

the quest out of question. He gave the quest to love.

Hell was deceited, defeated from the cradle to the grave.

No, no, no, Hell wasn't defeated at the cross.

See, this is what I'm trying to help.

So a few of you, just a few of y'all, a few of y'all, a few of

y'all is, is that when you were born, Hell lost.

You wasn't supposed to be here. So when you came out the womb,

that was your victory cry. And that's why since you've been

born or since you've been living, the enemy has been

trying to change your mind or to not get you to see how much of A

victory you are. But you, you are a victory.

I'll say it again, you are a victory.

Walking since redemption was sealed.

Bondage can appeal, right? What is an appeal?

I wish. Elder John.

What? What is an appeal?

Right. What?

What is an appeal? That's his daughter.

Amen. Right.

Right. Watch this.

Watch this. This is the revelation you got

to get. Is that your bondage?

Your old man? It can't appeal.

It has. It can't get back in your life.

It has watched this since Jesus came.

My bondage has no legal right to stay in my life.

So you can believe the lies and stay bound all you want to.

You can let your marriage keep failing.

You can let your mouth stay dirty.

But if you are a believer of the Most High the moment Jesus came

in your life, your bondage has no legal right to stay in your

life. All bondage has an expiration

date. All bondage has an expiration

date. That's why.

That's why the third promise is the promise of authority.

See, I can say that with authority, not just because it

was written, but the authority of the written word lives in me,

so I can say it and believe it. Some of y'all looking at me like

that's good for you, buddy. Wait a minute.

I thought that was good for us. The Word's good for us.

Not just me because I'm a pastor, I got authority.

No, I got authority because the Word.

And if you believe the Word, guess what?

The Word carries authority. So if I'm submitted, remember

the king, I'm living a life under the Word.

So me being up here, the reason I could walk in authority

because I am fulfilling what was written about me.

This is what God said I was going to do.

This is how God said I'm going to use my breath.

This is how God said I'm going to walk this earth.

This is how God said I'm going to interrupt my bloodline.

Watch this. Me standing up here is evidence

I found me in the Word. For those that still looking for

them, open up the book. You will find you.

How do I know that it's in the word?

He says if you try to find yourself first, you'll never

find yourself. But if you look for me, you'll

find both you and me. So my authority comes from a

submitted life to the word, not approval of you, the promise of

authority. The Kingdom entered the earth,

Isaiah. Now watch this.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given, and the

government shall be up on his shoulders.

The government. Somebody say the government.

Yeah, yeah. Jesus wasn't born as a baby to

be adored. He was born a king to rule and a

savior that redeems. It's coming up, it's coming up,

it's coming up. There we go.

Jesus wasn't born as a baby to be adored.

He was born a king to rule and a savior that redeems.

Matthew 1 and saying the appointed period of time is

fulfilled, completed and the Kingdom of God is at what hand?

Jesus isn't decorations on a tree, but deliverance on a tree.

Yeah, He's not just the yo-yo, you got your little tree.

Do you got revelations of, of the tree that saved your life?

I know you got pretty ornaments and cookies and frosties, the

snowmans on your tree and then but, but do you 11 months out of

the year have a revelation of what took place on that cross

for you can't talk about the crib without talking about the

cross. I know the world try to separate

them four months apart, but they go together.

Christmas tries to illustrate him gentle, but truth is he's

governmental. He's governmental.

So we walking around here and then the kids are cute and all

of that, but where's your authority?

Do your kids know authority? I know they know Santa Claus.

Do they know authority? Do they?

Do they see you walking in victory?

Do they see discipline over your mouth?

Do they see you take communion as much as you take a sip?

Hallelujah. Next slide, please.

When the Prince of Peace entered earth, heaven took jurisdiction.

I pray in 2026 more Kingdom kids arise.

The birth of Jesus didn't stop darkness's influence, but it did

suddenly snatch its authority. How do I know that?

Because it's written. He came with authority and

conferred it. His reign commissions us, and

yet we didn't earn it. The crown that he wears

establishes we heirs, and the ground that we walk on is a

grace that we share. He came with authority and

conferred it. His reign commissions us, and

yet we didn't earn it. The crown that he wears

establishes we heirs, and the ground that we walk on is a

grace that we share. How do I know?

Colossians 2 says, and God disarmed.

That's where some people would shout.

God disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged

against us. Some of y'all walking around

gonna walk out of here with your hands behind your back to the

lies of the enemy and the scripture right here.

I could take this to the bank. God disarmed.

So. So you mean that if God disarmed

whatever's been holding me, I can unlock my arms and walk in

freedom? God disarmed the principalities

and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold

display and public example of them in triumphing over them.

In him and in it the cross, right, Right.

Say, in him, his life, in him, and in it the cross.

In him, and in it the cross. So we're not even talking about

the triumph didn't just come at the cross, it came in Him.

The authority was sealed. I pray in Jesus name that in

2026 you walk in greater authorities first starting over

your life, that you stop being so feeble minded and weak minded

and believing lives and wave lies and wavering, being tossed

to and fro and any little thing easily offended, easy to quit.

No, no, no. Take authority over your life.

Why? Because authority has been

sealed. Authority is not coming.

It has been sealed. So now presence is sealed.

Yeah. Redemption is sealed.

Yep. And now authority is sealed.

Yeah, and because presence is sealed, redemption is sealed,

and authority is sealed. Now you can settle down.

Because when the king establishes his rule, peace is

not optional, it's inevitable. Come on.

Can somebody say that with me? Peace is not optional, it's

inevitable. Come on, tell your neighbor.

Peace is not optional, it's inevitable.

Watch this. The angels didn't wait until the

cross to announce peace. They declared it at the crib.

They declared it at the crib, right?

Wait, wait, wait. We put so praise God for the

cross, but we don't realize the cross was the doorway to the

Holy Ghost. Watch this the angels didn't

wait until the cross to announce peace.

They declared it at the crib. And that's why.

What's this number four? It's the promise Peace.

We're back to what we started 3 weeks ago.

Peace is the crowning stone of the Kingdom.

Peace is merely, it's not merely our inheritance, but also it's

our legal reality. Peace, our peace is a legal

reality. We actually have a right to this

piece now, close with it, with this.

We're going to pick up on Peace Christmas Eve #4 watch this.

Then suddenly there appeared with the Angel and army of the

troops of heaven a heavenly knighthood, praising God and

saying glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among

men. Watch, watch this, this is this

is at the crib. This is an announcement at the

crib. This is not an announcement at

the cross. And because God announces it,

the availability and the inevitability is right there at

the crib. And that's why these fools that

crucified Jesus didn't even understand.

They crucified their peace, for He himself is our peace in our

bond of unity. We'll leave you with this one.

The angels do not say. Peace will come after

transformation, after systems improve.

Peace will come after the Roman Empire collapses.

No, in the presence of my enemies, peace is there.

In the presence of my most anxious moments, peace is there.

The angels announce peace is here, not peace is coming.

We got on the airplane the other day, my wife and I, I think it

was for the first time ever, pilot came on the speaker.

I always assume it's going to be turbulence.

I'm just going to assume that. But this time he told me.

He said, yeah, we're going to go up.

There's just some rough winds and we're going to go up.

It's going to be some rough turbulence tonight.

And I said in the name of Jesus, what's this?

I pray every time, my wife, only you, you pray.

And I pray a very specific prayer.

Lord, I thank you in the name of Jesus that you have dispatched

your ministering angels. Watch this specific to the left

wing, the right wing, the nose of the plane, the tail of the

plane, the belly of the plane, the spine of the plane, in the

cockpit, and in every row in every aisle.

I declare this plane will not go off the ground until you have

deemed it safe to go in the air. If it goes in the air, I trust

that you've already approved its safety.

I declare in the name of Jesus that you split the red seas of

the sky, and I declare we are safe.

Your servants will go from this city to that city.

So we declare safe ascension, safe dissension in the name of

Jesus, and we get off the plane over here.

This guy. That was smoother than last

night, huh? I looked at my wife.

We said, yeah, because we was on the plane.

Watch this. Wherever we go, we bring angels.

That's, that's the authority that we have.

Yeah, not tonight. And and and then and then we,

we, we come back and he don't warn us.

And then it's turbulence like crazy.

The other guy warned us. We came against it.

This guy didn't warn us. It was cover Lance, but my, my,

it didn't shift. Right.

Because this revelation of peace is made for the turbulence,

right? Some folks can't fly without

having a drink. Man, you better sip that Shalom.

And for all you drinkers, if there's a drink out there called

Shalom, I'm not giving you a permission to drink Shalom, OK?

I'm talking about the peace of God that transcends all

understanding. I declare, lift your hands.

Christmas is not God giving us one promise.

It is God keeping many at once. And so, Father, in the name of

Jesus, come on today we do not come asking if you'll keep your

word. We come standing on the fact

that you already have kept your word.

Come on, open your mouth. You are not a God who's cleaning

up mistakes. You are not improvising.

You are not a God who retracts. You are not a God who forgets.

You are the God who writes and then steps into time to fulfill

what you wrote. And today we stand before you

under an open heaven and an open declaration and we declare, come

on, it is written. He is written.

Jesus, we acknowledge you as the word made flesh, the promise

embodied, the yes of heaven walking on earth.

We thank you, Jesus, that when you were born, distance ended,

rescue began, authority shifted, and peace was established.

We thank you that Christmas is not nostalgia, it is covenant in

the name of Jesus, so we now decree, because you were born,

We are not abandoned, we are not unseen, we are not walking

alone. We declare Emmanuel over every

home, over every mind, over every season of isolation and

silence. Let every lie of distance be

broken. Let every orphan spirit be

displaced. Father, you are with us, and you

will never believe us nor forsake us.

And we decree in the mighty name of Jesus because the Savior was

born. Bondage has an expiration date.

We declare freedom over cycles that outlive their authority, we

declare forgiveness over shame that overstayed its welcome, and

we declare deliverance over patterns That said, this is just

how it is. No, no, no, no, no, no.

We come against it. What sin started Grace is

finishing. What hell planned redemption is.

Reversing salvation is not pending.

Salvation is active. Come on, Saints.

Come on, Saints. And now we decree because the

government rests on your shoulders, Jesus, Every

illegitimate authority must move now in the name of Jesus.

We speak to fear. You no longer rule.

We speak to darkness. Your lease is up.

We speak to confusion. Your voice is revoked.

We declare that the Kingdom of God has jurisdiction in our

lives, in our families, in our city, and in this house called

Love Quest. Another king is on the throne,

and his name is Jesus. So Father, seal this word.

Let what what was written in heaven be enforced on earth.

Let every promise connected to Christ find agreement in US, and

as we leave this place, we do not leave wondering, we leave

knowing. If you kept these promises, you

will keep every other one. So we declare.

It is written, it is sealed, it is settled when we declare.

Presence is mind, Redemption is mind, authority is minds, peace

is minds. If you truly believe that, give

God a big old shout about it. Hallelujah.

Lift your hands right where you are and take 60 seconds and pray

your own prayer. Pray the word of God with the

authority of Jesus. We break the bondage of anxiety.

If that's you, put those words of authority over in your mouth.

Speak what the Word says. If you're dealing with sickness,

the Word says by his stripes, I am the healed and not the sick.

I am not just healed, I am the healed.

Come on, 30 more seconds. Take authority over your family.

Take authority over your finances.

Come on. End this year with authority.

End this year knowing your rights.

Come on, 10 more seconds. All over the room, lift your

hands right where you are. All over the room, lift your

hands right where you are. And I just want you to declare

over yourself, I have a legal right to wholeness.

Look at your neighbors, say you have a legal right to wholeness.

So from this day, come on, I need to see you walking in

wholeness. Come on, I break the spirit of

fragmentation and I speak wholeness over your life in the

mighty name of Jesus. Come on, give your neighbor and

Jesus a big old round of applause of praise.

While they're walking on stage, can you make some noise for Love

Quest International Choir please?

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