12/21/25 Christmas Service

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MERRY CHRISTMAS CHURCH GET UP ON

YOUR FEET LET'S GIVE OUR KING SOME PRAISE

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HALLELUJAH, LORD GOD IN HEAVEN. WE WORSHIP YOU. THANK YOU LORD.

WE BLESS YOU HEAVENLY FATHER. AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE

GREATEST GIFT THAT WAS EVER GIVEN. WHEN YOU GAVE US JESUS

AND WHEN JESUS CAME HE AGREED TO BE THE BABY BORN IN THE MANGER,

ONLY TO DIE FOR US ALL. WE LOVE YOU. WE HONOR YOU. AND ALL THOSE

THAT REALLY LOVE GOD SAID, AMEN! THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD.

NOW, HERE'S THE THING THOUGH. I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM UP IN

THE RAFTERS. I DIDN'T HEAR, NO, SERIOUSLY, I DIDN'T HEAR

ANYTHING. RAFTER SECTION, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING. SO I TRIED

AGAIN. ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE GOD SAID, AMEN! MAN, NOW I HEARD

IT. YOU GUYS ARE KIND OF LIKE THE SUBWOOFER, YOU KNOW? OH,

THAT'S FUNNY. YEAH, I CAN HEAR IT. ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY'S GOT

THEIR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DONE? YES, SIR. YOU DO? ONLY LIKE

THREE PEOPLE HERE. HOW MANY OF YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR SHOPPING

DONE YET? THAT'S A LOT. OH, NO. LOOK AT ALL THESE HANDS. THAT'S

A LOT. SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? FIGHT THE CROWDS. DO YOU ALL

HAVE PLANS? I THINK IT'S TOO LATE FOR AN AMAZON ORDER. OH,

REALLY? I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S A FEW OVERNIGHT

ONES, MAYBE. LISTEN, THERE'S A FAMOUS MOVIE I REALLY LIKE. IT'S

"JINGLE ALL THE WAY." HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN THAT

MOVIE? AND LET THAT BE A HINT TO ALL OF YOU WHO DON'T HAVE YOUR

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DONE, YOU KNOW. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU

GET YOUR ITEMS, SO. WELL, WE GOT OUR BOYS OVER HERE. COME OVER

HERE, GUYS. WE FOUND THESE GUYS IN THE ALLEY. COME ON OUT. MATT,

YOU CAN GO ON MAMA'S SIDE THERE. AND HE BROUGHT WHO'D YOU BRING?

HEY, JONATHAN. BROUGHT THE LITTLE MAN. HI, PAKI. HOW ARE

YA? ARE YOU GONNA SAY HI TO EVERYBODY? IT'S CHRISTMAS. WE

SHOULD'VE BROUGHT OUR DOGS. BUT THEN, I DID ONE YEAR, AND

SOMEBODY SAID, "OH, YOU SHOULD KEEP DOGS OUT OF YOU KNOW,

ANIMALS NO, ANIMALS OUT OF THE CHURCH." AND I THOUGHT, "WELL,

EVERY CHRISTMAS PLAY, THE PEOPLE BRING CAMELS

AND STUFF." RIGHT. AND I BROUGHT THIS ANIMAL, SO I GUESS, YOU

KNOW, WE GOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING? SO, HE OKAY, I GOT TO

SAY, THIS IS THE BEST SMELLING DOG I'VE EVER

(LAUGHTER)

SO, WHAT'S HIS NAME, MATT? HE SMELLS LIKE HIGH END COLOGNE.

WHAT'S HIS NAME, MATT? HIS NAME IS PACKER.

WHY PACKER? WELL, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, BUT YOU

KNOW. FROM LAST NIGHT. YEAH, HE'S A BETTER PACKER THAN THE

OTHER ONES. YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. GOOD POINT. ANYTHING YOU WANT TO

SAY? WELL, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY, AND JUST BLESSINGS TO

EVERYBODY, AND EVERYBODY THAT I'M SURE TRAVELED INTO FOR THE

CHRISTMAS SEASON AND SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY AND STUFF. SO I

SEE MY GUY MARQUISE OUT THERE AND PASTOR ANTHONY. YOU GUYS ARE

FRESHY, FRESHY. I LIKE THAT. GOOD. AWESOME. SO MERRY

CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY. AND YOU KNOW, JOHN, I ALREADY KNOW YOU

AND DAD ARE PUTTING THAT PUZZLE TOGETHER, SO AIN'T GETTING DONE.

WELL, LET'S GO AHEAD AND SO LET'S BRING JOHN HE HAS

SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT PUZZLE. HE CAME IN ALL THE WAY

WHAT WAS JOHN WAS GOING TO RESPOND ABOUT THE PUZZLE? I JUST

SAID, WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO PUT IT AWAY, I THINK. IT'S TOO

HARD. SO HE BROUGHT ME THIS WAIT, IT'S FINALLY TOO HARD. IT

IS, IT IS. LET ME DO THIS, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE'RE

MISSING OUR FAMILY HERE. SO I JUST WANT TO BRING ALL OF YOU

THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD. WE'RE SO HONORED THAT YOU

JOINED US TODAY AS OUR FAMILY. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU. AGAIN, I

FOUND THESE GUYS IN THE ALLEY AND OFFERED THEM FREE LUNCH AND

THEY DECIDED TO COME IN. BUT THESE ARE OUR BOYS. THIS IS

PACKER. I WAS GOING TO BRING MY DOGS, BUT

ANYWAY. BY THE WAY, TALKING ABOUT DOGS, I GOT,

BRENDA GOT HERBIE THIS LITTLE IGLOO THING, OUR LITTLE SHIH TZU

GUY. HE LIKES THAT. YEAH, PACKER CAME OVER LAST NIGHT AND TRIED

TO OWN IT. HE DID. ALL RIGHT. SO, JOHN, BIG MAN, YOU'RE HERE,

YOUR FRIEND, KYLIE, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AS WELL. GOD

BLESS YOU. NOW TELL US ABOUT THIS PUZZLE BECAUSE EVERY YEAR

OUR TRADITION IS WE GET A PUZZLE. ANYBODY HAVE A

TRADITION? AND THIS YEAR HE DECIDED TO BRING THIS PUZZLE

THAT HAS A LITTLE TRAIN ON IT, LIKE IN THE MOUNTAIN. AND WE'RE

GONNA DO A LITTLE TRAIN. I THINK YOU WERE ON THAT TRAIN. IT IS SO

HARD. IT IS GONNA TAKE A YEAR. SO WHAT'S OUR PLAN? I THINK

WE'RE GONNA PUT IT AWAY. PUT IT AWAY. WE'RE PUZZLED BY IT, YOU

KNOW. MATT AND I, DO WE DO PUZZLES? NO. NO. NO. WE WERE

PRETTY DISTRACTED. YEAH, NO, I KNOW. WE WERE THROWING SHOES AT

THE TV. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MICAH PARSONS TEARS HIS ACL.

ANYBODY FROM OUT OF TOWN? I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO GREET YOU.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? AND DON'T SAY IOWA, YOU KNOW. SOMEBODY

FROM OUT OF TOWN? SOUTH DAKOTA. ALL RIGHT, YAY, THAT'S AWESOME.

ANYBODY ELSE? KANSAS CITY, WELCOME. WELCOME. ANYBODY ELSE

IN THE RAFTERS? GOT MORE OVER THERE. WHERE? OH, I SEE. WHERE

ARE YOU FROM? NORTHERN IOWA. OKAY, THAT'LL WORK. THAT'S FAR

AWAY. DES MOINES? ALL RIGHT, DES MOINES. THAT'S A COUPLE HOURS

AWAY. ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY IN THE RAFTER SECTION? WE'RE TRYING

TO SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE. BETHLEHEM? ANYBODY FROM

BETHLEHEM? WHERE ARE YOU FROM? RIGHT THERE. OHIO. OHIO.

WELCOME. WOW. ANYBODY ELSE? WELCOME. NOW, I GOT TO SAY THIS.

I GOT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO SOMEBODY. MARK, WHERE ARE YOU

AT? VAN WILLEN, WHERE ARE YOU AT? MARK, ARE YOU IN THE RAFTER

SECTION? WHERE ARE YOU AT? SO BRENDA, THIS IS A WOW! GOOD TO

SEE YOU. SO WAY BACK WHEN I GOT SING, HE WAS PART OF A BAND,

ALIEN. IS THAT RIGHT? AND YOU GUYS NEVER ASKED ME TO SING. BUT

I USED TO REMEMBER I DID THE COMEDY STUFF. REMEMBER THAT?

YEAH, HE WROTE A COMIC STRIP CALLED MUTZVI. YEAH, I WROTE I

DID MUTZVI BACK THEN. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS. DID YOU KNOW

THAT? NO. THANKS FOR COMING BY, MAN. THAT WAS LIKE I GOT SAVED

IN '84, AND THESE WERE THE GUYS THAT WERE INFLUENTIAL IN MY WALK

WITH GOD. AND THEIR BAND WAS LIKE PETRA. Y'ALL REMEMBER

PETRA? DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? ARE YOU STILL A ROCKER? NO, DON'T

TELL ME YOU'RE SITTING ON A ROCKER NOW.

(LAUGHING)

ALWAYS A ROCKER. ALL RIGHT, ANYWAY, GREAT TO SEE YOU. ALL

RIGHT, I THINK WE NEED TO WORSHIP THE LORD. ANY CLOSING

COMMENTS FROM THE BOYS? I JUST THINK MAYBE FOR CHRISTMAS, WE

NEED TO LOOK AT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR Y'ALL. YEAH, I DO TOO. WELL,

I DO HAVE ONE, BUT I DON'T THINK I SHOULD PUT IT TOGETHER. AN

EASIER ONE, IT'S ALL GOOD. ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE PUZZLED

OUT. WE'RE PUZZLED OUT. BUT KEEP PRAYING FOR JOHN. GIVE US ONE

QUICK UPDATE. UFC, HOW'S THAT GOING? I'M HOPING EARLY NEXT

YEAR I'LL GET A CALL. SO JUST STAYING READY FOR WHATEVER

HAPPENS. THAT'S REALLY EXCITING. OK. WE GOT THE KIDDOS THAT ARE

GOING TO SING TO US. YOU THINK WE SHOULD INTERVIEW THEM THIS

YEAR? YES. I THINK WE SHOULD INTERVIEW THEM. 100%. MATT,

WOULD YOU PRAY OVER THE SERVICE? YEAH. DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE

JUST THANK YOU, LORD, FOR TODAY, LORD, AND THIS BEAUTIFUL

SERVICE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, LORD. WE THANK

YOU, LORD, FOR YOU, LORD, WHO IS THE GREATEST BIRTH OF ALL TIME,

LORD. AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU CAME, LORD, AS A BABY

IN A MANGER, AND YOU DIED FOR OUR SINS, AND YOU ROSE AGAIN,

AND NOW YOU'RE SEATED NEXT TO YOUR FATHER AT THE RIGHT HAND,

LORD. AND SO NOW WE CAN JOIN YOU IN HEAVEN, LORD, BECAUSE OF THAT

ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, LORD. SO WE CELEBRATE YOU THIS SEASON, LORD,

AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THE BLESSINGS AND FAVOR THAT COMES

UPON EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IN THIS ROOM AND WATCHING ONLINE,

IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. ALL RIGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO? LIFT THOSE

HANDS TO HEAVEN. SAY, "LORD, IT'S CHRISTMAS." AND THAT MEANS

I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU MY VERY BEST PRAISE. COME ON, LET'S

SHOUT LIKE WE BELIEVE IT AND PRAISE THE LORD. MERRY

CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY. ANYBODY GRATEFUL FOR JESUS? I SAID, IS

ANYBODY GRATEFUL FOR JESUS THIS MORNING? LET'S LIFT UP THE NAME,

EH? PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER.

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CAN YOU SING, "HEY, HEARD TELL"?

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WE THANK YOU FOR JESUS. HEY.

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COME ON YOU, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW EMMANUEL IS HERE

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JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE.

HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY.

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HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY.

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HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY.

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JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE.

HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM TO SAY THROW CARES

AWAY. JESUS IS HERE. HARK HEAR THE BELLS ALL SEEM

TO SAY THROW CARES AWAY JESUS IS HERE. JESUS IS HERE.

YOU’VE COME, YOU'VE COME EMMANUEL.

AND RANSOMED CAPTIVE ISRAEL.

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COME ON, GIVE HIM SOME GLORY THIS MORNING

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WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. COME ON. WE WORSHIP YOU ALL OVER

THE WORLD. LET'S ADORE JESUS. EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US. WE

WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE'VE COME TO ADORE YOU. WE'VE

COME TO ADORE YOU. WE’VE COME TO MAGNIFY YOUR NAME, KING OF

KINGS, LORD OF LORDS. WE'VE COME. WE'VE COME TO ADORE YOU.

COME ON. LET'S SING IT AGAIN ALL OVER THE WORLD. IMAGINE THE WISE

MEN AS THEY CAME AND THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES AND THEY

WORSHIPED THIS KING. COME ON. WORSHIP. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE GIVE

YOU ALL THE GLORY. YOU'RE CHRIST THE LORD. COME ON, OPEN YOUR

HEART AND TELL YOUR KING. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE

WORSHIP YOU. WE ADORE YOU. WE ADORE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. WE

ADORE YOUR BEAUTY, YOUR SACRIFICE, YOUR LOVE. WE WORSHIP

YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU, MASTER. COME ON, FROM YOUR HEART,

WORSHIP HIM. IF YOU'RE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIA, WORSHIP HIM.

RUSSIA, WHATEVER STATE, CITY, NATION. WORSHIP HIM. WE WORSHIP

YOU, JESUS. WE ADORE YOU AND WE HONOR YOU TODAY. I WANT YOU TO

SAY THIS, SAY, "LORD, I OPEN MY HEART TO YOU FOR YOU TO BE MY

LORD, MY GOD, MY FRIEND. I GIVE YOU MY HEART, MY LIFE, AND IN

RETURN I WILL HONOR YOU. I WILL SERVE YOU. I WILL OBEY YOU. I

WILL LOVE YOU. AND I WILL TELL OTHERS OF HOW GREAT YOU ARE. AND

IF YOU LOVE GOD, TELL HIM. JUST TELL HIM. SAY, "GOD, I LOVE YOU.

I LOVE YOU, GOD. I LOVE YOU, GOD. I LOVE YOU, YESHUA, JESUS,

MY LORD. AND I LOVE YOU, MY WONDERFUL FATHER." AND I LOVE

YOU, HOLY SPIRIT. I BLESS YOU. AND I'VE COME HERE TODAY TO

ADORE YOU. I THINK WE SHOULD SAY ONE OTHER THING TO HIM. WE

SHOULD SAY, THANK YOU. THERE'S NOTHING GREATER, I THINK, THAN

PROBABLY DELIGHTS THE HEART OF GOD BESIDES TELLING HIM THAT YOU

LOVE HIM. BUT I THINK HE REALLY, REALLY LIKES IT WHEN WE COME

WITH A GRATEFUL HEART, A THANKFUL HEART. HOW MANY OF YOU

EVER GIVEN A GIFT AT CHRISTMAS AND THE PERSON THAT IS RECEIVING

IT, THEY'RE NOT GRATEFUL? IT JUST MAKES WHAT YOU GAVE JUST

SEEMS SO UNAPPRECIATIVE. GOD GAVE EVERYTHING TO US WHEN HE

GAVE US JESUS. AND I THINK THE LEAST THING WE COULD DO IS SAY

THANK YOU. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD, I

WANT YOU TO DO THE SAME. SAY, "LORD, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM

OF MY HEART. AMEN." WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS? NOW, YOU CAN

GIVE HIM ONE MORE WORSHIP OF HONOR AND THANKSGIVING. WELL, I

WANT YOU TO GREET ONE ANOTHER, AND THEN I WANT YOU TO, WHEN YOU

GREET THEM, ASK THEM THEIR NAME. IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW IT,

AND THEY JUST SAY, "I BET I KNOW." I BET I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE

GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS, AND SEE IF YOU CAN BE IN THE RANGE,

OKAY? WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING.

MAYBE PUT IN THE COMMENTS WHAT YOU THINK

YOU'RE GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS. MAYBE YOU'RE GETTING A HORSE.

BUT WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND WE'RE SO HONORED

THAT YOU JOINED US WITH THIS SERVICE TODAY.

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WELL, GOOD MORNING AND MERRY CHRISTMAS. I KNOW IT'S, YOU

KNOW, STILL A FEW DAYS AWAY, SO IF YOU GOT SOME LAST MINUTE

SHOPPING TO DO, YOU HAVE A FEW DAYS TO DO THAT. HOWEVER, THIS

IS THE LAST SERVICE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, SO MERRY CHRISTMAS TO

YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND ALL OF YOU ONLINE AS WELL. IF THIS IS

YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING WITH US, WE WANNA MAKE YOU FEEL

WELCOME. I ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVED A BLUE GIFT BAG. IF

YOU DID NOT, PLEASE WAVE YOUR HAND AND I'M SURE THEY HAVE

THOSE AVAILABLE FOR YOU. INSIDE THE BLUE GIFT BAG, THERE'S SOME

GOODIES WE'VE TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU, AS WELL AS A GUEST

REGISTRY PACKET. IT HAS A PICTURE OF THE STAGE ON THE

FRONT OF IT, SO PLEASE PULL THAT OUT AT THIS TIME IF YOU CAN.

BECAUSE INSIDE THAT, THERE'S SOME INFORMATION WE WANT TO SEND

HOME WITH YOU, AS WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE "STAY CONNECTED"

CARD ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE. GO AHEAD AND TEAR THAT OFF. FILL IT

OUT, DROP IT IN THE OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY IN JUST

A FEW MOMENTS. I JUST WANTED TO SEND YOU A THANK YOU FOR COMING

TO SEE US THIS MORNING, AND MAKE SURE YOU STAY CONNECTED WITH

EVERYTHING WE HAVE GOING ON AT THE CHURCH IN 2026. BECAUSE WE

ARE, NEXT YEAR, NO, WE HAVE ONE MORE EVENT THAT STARTS IN THIS

YEAR. THAT IS THE NEW YEAR'S EVE SERVICE, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO

MISS OUT ON THAT EITHER, RIGHT? SO BE HERE FOR THAT, BE HERE

ONLINE FOR THAT AS WELL. IF YOU ARE WATCHING ONLINE, WE THANK

YOU FOR WATCHING, AND MAKE SURE YOU GET CONNECTED TO ONE OF OUR

GREAT PLATFORMS, BUT NAMELY, OUR MAIN PLATFORM IS ONEVOICETV,

ONEVOICETV.NET, OR DOWNLOAD THE ONE VOICE TV APP TO YOUR

DEVICES. THEY'RE ALL RIGHT THERE THAT YOU CAN CONNECT ON, SO BE

SURE TO GET CONNECTED THERE, AND YOU CAN GET BLESSED BY LOTS OF

GREAT CONTENT. GET REAL WITH HANK, DAY OF THE DECREE, GAME

CHANGERS, LOTS OF OTHER PARTNER PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE

AS WELL, SO PLEASE GET CONNECTED. YOU CAN WATCH

SERVICES LIVE AND ARCHIVED AS WELL, SO PLEASE GET OUT THERE,

GET SET UP. YOU CAN CHAT WITH PEOPLE OUT THERE NOW, BOTH ON

THE APP AND ON OVTV.NET. SO GO TO ONEVOICETV.NET OR DOWNLOAD

THE APP TO YOUR DEVICES, AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED BY IT, AMEN? I

HOPE YOU GIVE ALL OF OUR GUESTS HERE AN ONLINE HAND.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

AS PASTOR BRENDA COMES. SHE WASN'T QUITE PAYING ATTENTION.

YOU DISTRACTED ME. HERE'S PASTOR BRENDA. PRAISE THE LORD, ALL

RIGHT, AMEN AND AMEN AND AMEN. I DO WANNA MENTION ABOUT THE NEW

YEAR'S EVE SERVICE. IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED A PRAYER REQUEST,

GO TO HANKANDBRENDA.ORG, SUBMIT THAT, AND WE ARE GONNA HAVE ALL

OF THOSE, OF COURSE, UP HERE ON THE PLATFORM. SO YOU STILL HAVE

TIME TO SUBMIT THOSE. PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW, THERE MAY BE A

LITTLE TIGHT ON THE MAIL AT THIS POINT, BUT YOU CAN SURELY SUBMIT

THOSE ELECTRONICALLY. WE'LL GET 'EM PRINTED HERE, AND WE'RE

GONNA BRING ALL THOSE OUT, AND ALL THE STAFF, WE'RE GONNA PRAY

OVER THOSE, AND JUST BELIEVE GOD WITH YOU FOR YOUR 2026 TO BE AN

AMAZING YEAR, RIGHT? AND IF YOU HAD SOME HARDSHIP IN 2025, DON'T

LOOK ON THE PAST, RIGHT? LET'S PRESS TOWARD THE FUTURE. I THINK

THAT IS SO KEY. AMEN TO THAT. HOW MANY OF YOU AGREE WITH THAT?

PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, I WANNA GET RIGHT INTO THE OFFERING

'CAUSE WE WANNA GIVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR OUR KIDS TO COME OUT

AND THEY'RE GONNA MINISTER TO US POWERFULLY. HOW MANY OF YOU

ENJOY THAT EVERY YEAR? SO EXCITED. THEY DO SUCH A GOOD

JOB. AND BY THE WAY, KUDOS TO OUR CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT WHO

YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE. THEY DO SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THE

YOUNG PEOPLE. SO, BUT LET ME, I'M JUST GONNA PUT UP OUR

OFFERING SCRIPTURE. I'LL BE BRIEF TODAY. AND OF COURSE, THIS

JUST GOES ALONG WITH CHRISTMAS. MATTHEW 2, CHAPTER 2, TALKING

ABOUT THE MAGI. YOU KNOW, GOD EVEN WOVE GIVING INTO CHRISTMAS.

THINK ABOUT THAT. AND BECAUSE GIVING IS A PRIORITY, IT IS SO

IMPORTANT. IT'S JESUS GAVE, RIGHT? SO GIVING IS JUST A PART

OF EVERYTHING WE SEE IN THE BIBLE, OUR FINANCES, OUR TIME,

OUR HEARTS. GOD DESERVES OUR BEST. AND I ALWAYS SAY IT LIKE

THIS. IF THIS WAS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH, WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE TO

JESUS? WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM? AND THAT IS THE MOST

IMPORTANT THING. MATTHEW 2:2 SAYING, THIS WAS THE MAGI. THEY

Matthew 2:2

SAID, WHERE IS HE THAT'S BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE HAVE

SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST. NOW, I'M NOT A HISTORIAN BY ANY

STRETCH, BUT THERE IS SOME STUDY THAT SAYS, FIRST OF ALL, THAT

THESE WISE MEN TRAVELED PROBABLY ABOUT 800 OR 900 MILES TO GET TO

WHERE JESUS WAS. NOW, BACK IN THAT DAY, THEY WERE LIKE GOING

ON FOOT, AND WITH CAMELS AND DONKEYS AND WHATEVER. YOU KNOW,

SO I DID A LITTLE LOOK. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE. BUT, YOU KNOW,

THAT DISTANCE IS PROBABLY FROM LIKE SOUTH DAKOTA TO DALLAS. YOU

THINK ABOUT WALKING THAT ON FOOT. AND SO THEN I HAD TO LOOK

UP. I JUST HAD TO KNOW HOW MANY HOURS WOULD IT TAKE YOU TO WALK

FROM SOUTH DAKOTA TO DALLAS. WELL, YOU COULDN'T WALK 24

HOURS. IT SAID ABOUT 300 HOURS OF WALKING. BUT IF YOU DID 10, 8

HOURS A DAY MAYBE, THEY'VE GOT TO STOP AND FEED THEIR ANIMALS,

ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU KNOW, THE PRACTICAL THINGS. AND I

THOUGHT, THAT WOULD TAKE THEM ABOUT A MONTH. YOU THINK ABOUT

THAT. AND THEN JUST GETTING READY FOR THE TRIP, THEY HAD TO

PLAN. NOW RICK RENNER, HOW MANY OF YOU EVER READ SOME OF HIS

STUFF ON CHRISTMAS? HE TALKS ABOUT HOW OBVIOUSLY MANY

HISTORIANS HAVE SAID IT WASN'T JUST THREE MAGI. IT WAS A WHOLE

PROCESSION OF PEOPLE THAT CAME IN VAST NUMBER. THAT'S WHY HEROD

FELT SO THREATENED. IT WASN'T JUST A COUPLE LITTLE GUYS THAT

CAME. AND OF COURSE, WE KNOW THE BIBLE INDICATES RIGHT HERE, EVEN

IN MATTHEW, THAT THE MAGI DIDN'T COME TO THE STABLE. IT SAYS THAT

HEROD HAD CALCULATED FROM THE TIME THAT THE STAR APPEARED. AND

THAT'S WHY HE KILLED ALL THE CHILDREN UNDER TWO YEARS OLD.

BUT THE FUNNY THING IS, YOU THINK ABOUT FOR A MINUTE THE

PREPARATION THAT IT TOOK FOR THIS PROCESSION TO COME, FOR

THEM TO PLAN THEIR TREASURES. AND BY THE WAY, HISTORY TELLS US

IT WASN'T LIKE THREE LITTLE BULLS OF A LITTLE GOLD. IT WAS

ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN THE ENTIRE MINISTRY OF JESUS THROUGH HIS

ALL THE WAY TO HIS CRUCIFIXION, THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH WEALTH. WE

KNOW JESUS HAD A TREASURY. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT. HE HAD A

TREASURER THAT WAS STEALING FROM THE BAG. JUDAS, RIGHT? AND SO

THERE HAD TO BE ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BAG FOR IT NOT TO BE THAT

NOTICEABLE IF HE WAS TAKING A LITTLE BIT OUT ALL THE TIME.

JUDAS, RIGHT? SO THERE WAS WEALTH. THEY AT ONE POINT HAD

OFFERED TO GO AND PURCHASE FOR THE MULTITUDE FOOD. SO YOU THINK

ABOUT THOSE SCRIPTURES. SO THIS WAS A THE MAGI COMING WAS A

MAJOR PLANNED EVENT. AND IT TOOK THEM PROBABLY WEEKS, MAYBE

MONTHS, OF SEEING THE STAR AND GOING AND TRAVELING THAT WHOLE

MONTH WITH ALL OF THE TREASURES THAT THEY BROUGHT. IMAGINE THE

PREPARATION IT TOOK FOR THAT. I MEAN, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR OUR

KIDS SING HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. AND I THINK ABOUT HOW

MUCH PRACTICE THEY PUT, OR OUR FLAGGERS THAT WERE UP HERE

TODAY, THEY PRACTICED. BY THE WAY, THE WORSHIP TEAM TODAY,

AMAZING JOB FROM THEM. AND ALL THAT PREPARATION. SO IT JUST

REMINDS ME THAT THESE MAGI PREPARED. THEY PLANNED. THEY

PACKED UP THINGS. AND IN FACT, VERSE 11, IT SAYS IN THE NEW

LIVING OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, IT SAYS THAT THEY OPENED THEIR

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TREASURE CHESTS. SO THAT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, NOT LITTLE

BOXES. THEY HAD BIG TREASURE CHESTS. AND THE REASON I SAY ALL

THAT, IT JUST REMINDS US THAT WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING, WE

SHOULDN'T, AND AS WE GO INTO 2026, BE HAPHAZARD ABOUT THAT.

THEY PLANNED, THEY PREPARED. SO MY ENCOURAGEMENT ON THIS

CHRISTMAS TO YOU ON YOUR OFFERINGS, YOUR TITHES, IS PLAN.

PLAN HOW YOU WANT TO GIVE TO GOD. DON'T JUST, YOU KNOW,

HAPHAZARD, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE DEVIL, THE

ENEMY, LIFE'S ISSUES ARE ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO TAKE FROM YOU

YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS. SO THIS IS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO US TO PLAN

AHEAD. PLAN YOUR 2026. DON'T JUST PLAN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO

PAY YOUR CAR OFF, RIGHT? PLAN HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE TO GOD.

AND THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT OF THAT IF WE WOULD

PLAN THOSE THINGS, JUST LIKE THE MAGI DID. AND SO TO ME, THAT'S

THE MESSAGE OF WHAT THEY BROUGHT. THEY PLANNED. THEY

PREPARED. THEY THOUGHT AHEAD. AND SO AS WE LOOK AT 2026, THIS

CHRISTMAS, LET THE MESSAGE OF THE MAGI REMIND US. LET'S PLAN

AND PREPARE. AND YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THEY GOT THIRSTY AND HUNGRY

ALONG THE WAY. YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE LIKE HUMAN NATURE, THERE

MIGHT'VE BEEN TIMES THAT THEY THOUGHT, LET'S JUST TURN BACK,

RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE WEATHER'S NOT COOPERATING,

THINGS AREN'T GOING RIGHT, AND THEY WANTED TO JUST GO BACK AND

QUIT. AND MAYBE THAT WAS, I MEAN, THE BIBLE DOESN'T TELL US

THAT, BUT MAYBE THAT WAS THE CASE. I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE

YOU, DON'T LET LIFE KEEP YOU FROM SERVING GOD WITH YOUR WHOLE

HEART, NUMBER ONE, IN 2026. NUMBER TWO, DON'T LET IT KEEP

YOU FROM PREPARING HOW YOU WANT TO HONOR GOD IN YOUR GIVING, AND

ESPECIALLY FINANCIALLY. BUT ALL THE AREAS OF OUR LIFE IS SO

IMPORTANT. AMEN? AMEN? ALL RIGHT, ARE YOU READY TO GIVE

THIS MORNING? ALL RIGHT, THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THAT GIVING

INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN AND ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO GIVE.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE BUILDING FUND. AND IF YOU WANT

TO GET YOUR LAST OFFERINGS OF 2025, SOME OF YOU ARE TRYING TO

GET THOSE IN BEFORE THE YEAR CLOSES, AND YOU ARE MAILING, IT

JUST NEEDS TO BE IN THE MAIL BY THE 31ST. SO GET THAT POSTMARKED

ON TIME. AND THEN BY MIDNIGHT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, THOSE NEED TO

ALL BE SUBMITTED TO GET ON YOUR 2025 GIVING RECORD. SO I ALWAYS

LIKE TO MAKE MENTION OF THAT. AND BY THE WAY, OUR FIRST FRUITS

OFFERING IS AVAILABLE. SO IF YOU'RE WANTING TO SOW THOSE

FIRST FRUITS INTO 20, THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO PREPARE, RIGHT? LET

YOUR GIVING GO BEFORE YOU. THAT FUND IS OUT THERE SO YOU CAN

LOOK FOR THE FIRST FRUITS 2026 AND YOU CAN GIVE INTO THAT AS

WELL. AND BY THE WAY, AS THE USHERS ARE SERVING YOU, I WILL

JUST SAY, AND THEY'RE GIVING YOU YOUR OFFERING ENVELOPES. I WILL

JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING FAITHFUL IN 2025 FROM PASTOR AND

MYSELF. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR FAMILY. THANK YOU FOR

ALL YOU DO FOR THE TABERNACLE, FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE KINGDOM

OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. YOU ARE THE BEST PEOPLE.

INTERNET, IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU WE'RE ABLE TO BUILD THIS

BEAUTIFUL TABERNACLE TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER. PASTOR

AND I, WE GET UP EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES SO GRATEFUL, SO

THANKFUL, AND SO HONORING OF GOD AND WHAT HE DID THROUGH YOU. SO

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A GREAT YEAR. GOD BLESS YOU. WELL, IF

YOU HAVE YOUR GIVING, LET'S GET READY, LET'S STAND. EVERYBODY

STAND. AND IF YOU'RE USING YOUR PHONE, YOU CAN GET YOUR PHONE

OUT, HOLD IT UP HIGH, HOLD UP YOUR ENVELOPE. YOU CAN DO THAT

AS WELL. JUST HOLD IT UP, TREAT IT LIKE THIS IS YOUR STATEMENT.

THIS IS YOUR PREPARATION FOR A BRAND NEW YEAR, AMEN? FATHER, I

THANK YOU FOR EVERY PERSON HERE AND ONLINE THAT IS GIVING.

FATHER, THAT IS PREPARING FOR 2026, JUST LIKE THE MAGI DID.

THEY ARE PREPARING, THEY'RE GIVING, THEIR OFFERINGS, THEIR

TITHES. AND FATHER, WE JUST WANNA SAY YOU ARE SO DESERVING.

YOU DESERVE OUR BEST, JUST LIKE THEY GAVE. AND SO GOD, THAT'S

WHAT WE'RE HERE AND WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TODAY, TO GIVE YOU OUR

BEST. AND WE JUST SAY, THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU FOR

COMING. THANK YOU FOR GIVING YOUR LIVES SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE

TO GO TO HELL. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WE WANNA SAY THANK YOU. AND

WE HONOR YOU WITH OUR GIVING TODAY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN AND

AMEN. CAN WE DO OUR FINAL DECREE OF THIS YEAR? YOU WANNA DO THAT

TOGETHER? ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO QUICKLY SO WE CAN GET THE KIDS

UP HERE. SAY IT WITH ME. WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND MINISTRY

OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, EXPANDED AND DEBT

FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY THAT WE

HAVE TO EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT BE BUILT UP AND

FINISHED. WE SAY THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED FOR THE

LORD IS BUILDING THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH EXCESS AND

OVERFLOW. LORD, YOU ARE PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE

CALL UPON YOU, LORD OF HOSTS, TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE

AND RAISE UP MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE

ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL

QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THAT WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE

DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE DECREE MINISTRY AND

CAMPUS BE EXPANDED NOW. HALLELUJAH. GIVE GOD A PRAISE

AS YOU GIVE. AND WHILE THE USHERS BEGIN TO

SERVE YOU, LET'S WELCOME OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.

(MUSIC)

LONG AGO, ONE QUIET NIGHT, ALL OF CREATION BEGAN TO STIR. NOT

JUST THE STARS, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE, BUT EVEN THE ANIMALS

TOO. YOU SEE, THEY KNEW A VERY SPECIAL BABY WAS ABOUT TO BE

BORN. AND NOT JUST ANY BABY, THE MESSIAH, THE KING, THE SAVIOR OF

THE WORLD. AND SO THE ANIMALS BEGAN TO PREPARE. ALL RIGHT

TEAM, WE GOT A BIG JOB. THE MESSIAH WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING

FOR IS BEING BORN AT BETHLEHEM. AND WE'VE GOT TO GET THERE. OUR

SAVIOR, OUR KING, A ROYAL BABY WITH TEENY TINY TOES, I MUST

SIMPLY SEE THIS. THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE BORN?

WELL, OF COURSE, ONLY THE PROPHESIED IT FOR 400 YEARS. OH,

HI. I WALKED ALL THE WAY FROM THE DESERT. MY FEET HURT, MY

BACK HURTS, AND SOMEONE PUT GRANOLA IN MY HUMP. ARE Y'ALL ON

YOUR WAY TO SEE THE MESSIAH? WE SURE ARE. I'M SO EXCITED TO MEET

THE KING OF KINGS. CAN YOU BELIEVE GOD IS COMING TO BE WITH

US? CAN I COME ALONG WITH YOU? WELL, OF COURSE, THE MORE THE

MERRIER. OK, DID EVERYONE BRING THEIR SNACKS? I BROUGHT A SOCK.

WAIT, NO. OH, YEP. JUST A SOCK. WAIT, DO WE EAT SOCKS NOW?

ENOUGH CHATTER. WE NEED TO MOVE. WE GOT A KING TO MEET. LA LA LA,

IT'S CHRISTMAS. VINNY, IS THAT YOU? CARL? VINNY, MY LONG LOST

COUSIN. ARE YOU ON YOUR WAY TO MEET THE MESSIAH? I SURE AM. CAN

YOU BELIEVE IT? JESUS, THE MESSIAH, IS COMING TO SAVE US. I

KNOW. I'M SO JOYFUL. ME TOO. HEY, GRANDMA AND GRANDMA ARE ON

THEIR WAY. UNCLE HENRY AND AUNT MIDGET ARE FLYING IN FROM

JERICHO. COUSIN NERO, THE TURTLE, IS ON HIS WAY FROM

NATHURISH. IT'S GOING TO BE A GRAND PARTY FULL OF SO MUCH JOY.

LET'S NOT BE LATE. THE STARS ARE OUT, THE ANGELS ARE SINGING, AND

I'VE REACHED MY HALLELUJAH POSE. THIS IS IT, TEAM.

ALL CREATION HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

MOMENT. THE ONE WHO WILL BRING PEACE. THE ONE

WHO WILL LIKE MY SOCK. THE ONE WHO BRINGS LIGHT IN THE

DARKNESS. ONE THAT SEES LITTLE CREATURES JUST LIKE ME. EVERYONE

READY? ALL CREATURES HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT. AS

READY AS I'LL EVER BE. LET'S GO WORSHIP THE NEWBORN KING AND

MAYBE SIT DOWN AFTERWARD. I BROUGHT A GIFT. IT'S THIS SOCK.

OH, STEPHEN, HE DOESN'T NEED A GIFT. HE JUST WANTS US. AND SO

WITH EXCITEMENT, LAUGHTER, AND JOY IN THEIR HEARTS, THE ANIMALS

MADE THEIR WAY TO THE STABLE, AND NOT TO SEE A THRONE OR A

PALACE, BUT TO SEE GOD WRAPPED IN CLOTH, LYING IN A MANGER. SO,

IN MANY WAYS, JESUS, GOD PROMISED HE'D SEND A SAVIOR, AND

HE'S HERE. FA LA LA LA IT'S CHRISTMAS. LONG AGO IN

BETHLEHEM'S NIGHT A BABY WAS BORN A SHINING LIGHT. NOT JUST

PEOPLE, STARS AND SHEEP, WAITING FOR THE KING IN A MANGER DEEP.

DONKEYS DANCING, THE FLEW HIGH AS SAVIOR WAS COMING FROM THE

SKY. EVEN CAMELS FROM FAR AWAY HURRIED TO SEE THE KING THAT

DAY. CREATION CHEERED, THE WAY IT WAS DONE, GOD HAS SENT HIS

ONLY SON. NOT IN A CASTLE, BUT SOFT AND SMALL, JESUS CAME TO

SAVE US ALL. NO CROWN OF GOLD, NO ROYAL BED, JUST A TINY HEAD.

YET ALL THE EARTH BEGAN TO SING FOR JESUS CHRIST,

OUR NEWBORN KING. PEACE HAD COME AND LOVE WAS NEAR,

THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD WAS HERE. SO LET US SHOUT AND

SING TODAY, FA-LA-LA-ELUJAH, CHRIST IS BORN. HOORAY!

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

ONE NIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS. ONE STAR SHINING THE BRIGHTEST.

HEAVEN COULDN’T CONTAIN THE GREATEST NEWS. SHEPHERDS

COULDN’T BELIEVER IT, WISEMEN WANTED TO SEE IT, GOD WAS

SENDING HHIS ONLY SON TO EARTH. CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND THE

ANGELS SINGING OUT. JOY, SING AND SHOUT IT. TELL ALL THE WORLD

ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH US, GOD IS WITH US! JOY, THIS IS THE

SEASON, NOW WE HAVE A REASON. GOD IS WITH US AND THIS IS

CHRISTMAS! FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA-

LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS

CHRISTMAS! JESUS BORN IN A MANGER, JESUS HE IS A SAVIOR HE

IS SHOWING THE WORLD THE LOVE OF GOD.

CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND. THE ANGELS SINGING OUT! JOY, SING

AND SHOUT IT. TELL THE ALL WORLD ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH US, SING

GOD IS WITH US. JOY, THIS IS THE SEASON. NOW WE HAVE A REASON.

GOD IS WITH US AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS.

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS! TELL ALL YOUR

FRIENDS, TELL EVERYONE, EVERYONE. COME CELEBRATE. IT’S

JUST BEGUN, JUST BEGUN. PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR CAUSE IT’S

CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE. GET READY TO MOVE CAUSE WE KNOW IT’S TRUE!

JOY! SING AND SHOUT IT TELL ALL THE WORLD ABOUT IT. GOD IS WITH

US, SING GOD IS WITH US. JOY, THIS IS THE SEASON. NOW WE HAVE

A REASON. GOD IS WITH US. AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS!

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS!

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH LA- LA-LA-LA-LE-LUJAH

FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LELUJAH THIS IS CHRISTMAS!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

WE NEED TO GIVE THESE GUYS A BIG HAND CLAP. I THINK YOU GUYS NEED

TO BOW. WATCH YOU, LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT, YOU GUYS

ARE FAMOUS. WOW. HOW DO YOU FEEL BEING ALL OVER THE

WORLD, LIVE TELEVISION, A MOVIE STAR NOW? AWESOME. YEAH, YEAH.

IS THERE A WAY WE COULD GET YOUR AUTOGRAPH? NO.

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

HOW ABOUT YOU? NO. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WE CAN JUST GET

YOUR AUTOGRAPH? YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE YOUR

NAME. THAT'S WHAT IT IS. I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE

YOUR NAME. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO WRITE YOUR NAME? YES. YES. YES,

ALL RIGHT, BUT HERE'S THE THING, GUYS. SO AS I WAS OVER THERE ON

THE FRONT ROW, I WAS THINKING, SOON AS THE CHRISTMAS SINGING IS

DONE, YOU ALL WILL FORGET YOUR MOVES. 'CAUSE SOME OF YOU HAD

SOME LIKE DANCE MOVES. YEAH, YEAH. COME ON, YOU, SHOW US, YOU

KNOW, YOU GOTTA BACK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT. SHOW US YOUR DANCE

MOVE. WHOA, LOOK AT THAT. ALL RIGHT, LOOK AT THAT. NOW, I WANT

TO YOU GUYS WANT ME TO TEACH YOU ONE? ALL RIGHT, IT GOES LIKE

THIS. READY? ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY DO THAT. READY? I

MEAN, LOOK AT THIS. WELL, WHERE'S YOUR DANCE MOVE? ARE YOU

DOING A DANCE MOVE? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DANCE? WHO CAN DO A

REALLY COOL MOVE? YOU ALREADY DID? OH, YOU ALREADY DID YOUR...

SO YOU'RE RETIRED AS A MOVIE STAR NOW? HOW ABOUT YOU? SHOW US

WHAT YOU GOT. NO. NO? HOW ABOUT YOU? YES. OKAY, GO FOR IT. LET'S

SEE YOUR MOVE. OH MY GOODNESS, BREAK IT DOWN! YOU LOOK

LIKE YOU GOT SOME MOVES, MAN. NO, I DON'T. YOU

DON'T HAVE ANY MOVES? WERE YOU BORN WITHOUT ANY MOVES?

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? ALL RIGHT, READY? TRY THIS ONE. WANNA TRY

THAT ONE? YOU DON'T WANNA TRY THAT ONE? ALL RIGHT, WHO'S GOT

SOME MOVES? I GOT IT. YOU, OH, OH, WHAT DO YOU GOT?

THAT IS, I'VE SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE. IS THAT CALLED

THE RABBIT? NO, IT'S THE FROG. OH, IT'S THE FROG. HOW ABOUT

YOU? LET ME SEE YOUR DANCE MOVE. COME ON UP HERE. ALL RIGHT. OH,

LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THIS. OH, MY GOODNESS. WOW, DO YOU WORK

THAT HARD TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM? NAH, YOU DON'T CLEAN YOUR ROOM.

OH, YOU WANT ME TO BACK UP? NOW, HERE, YOU GOT TO BACK UP,

BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO FALL DOWN THERE. OK, DO YOUR COOLEST

MOVE. WOW, LOOK AT THAT. OH, HIS SHOE FELL OFF. OH, MY GOODNESS.

YOU GOT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER, YOU GOT TO MAKE SURE YOU GOT THE

SHOE. THAT'S OK. LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR THE SHOELESS DANCE GUY.

ALL RIGHT, ONE MORE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DANCE LIKE? OK, NOW

YOU GOT TO BACK UP. OK, HERE WE GO. READY, ONE WAIT, LET ME

COUNT TO LIKE LET ME COUNT TO ONE MILLION. OK, I'M GOING TO

START. 1, 2 THEN YOU COULD DANCE AT THE 1 OH, SHOULD I JUST MAKE

IT LIKE 10? OK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. OK, GO. OH, MY

GOODNESS. OH, THAT IS, ARE YOU LIKE A BALLERINA, A GYMNAST? NO,

DON'T TRY IT, YOU MIGHT SPLIT YOUR PANTS THERE, BUDDY. OKAY,

WELL, THAT'S OKAY, ALL RIGHT. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK PASTOR

HANK SHOULD TRY THAT? YEAH! GO ASK YOUR PARENTS TO, I DON'T

KNOW, I BETTER NOT. ALL RIGHT, WELL LET ME ASK YOU GUYS THIS

BEFORE WE LET YOU GO. WHERE'S CARL THE CAMEL? COME ON UP HERE,

CARL. I GOTTA ASK YOU A QUESTION. HOW MANY OF YOU, NOW

LOOK, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING ALL OVER THE WORLD RIGHT

HERE, CARL, AND THEY ARE WONDERING IF YOU REALLY DO HAVE

GRANOLA IN THAT BACKPACK. DID THAT GET BY THE OFFICERS? DID

THAT GET BY SECURITY? I MEAN DO YOU WANNA SHOW US WHAT'S IN

THERE? WOULD YOU RATHER NOT? I GUESS SO. WHAT IS IT, YOUR

PAJAMAS? CLEAN SOCKS? I DON'T KNOW, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, MAKE

SURE, WAIT, WAIT, MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK FIRST, THINK THERE'S

AN ANIMAL IN THERE. WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU GOT AN OLD STEEL

SANDWICH IN THERE. WHAT IS THAT? BED SHEET. BED SHEET? YEAH.

YEAH, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST KEEP THE ZIPPER ON THAT. THAT'S JUST

GONNA KEEP THAT. WOW, WHERE'S THE GUY WITH THE SOCK? ALL

RIGHT, SEE, THE PLAY'S OVER AND YOU LOST YOUR SOCKS. OH YEAH,

MAN, YOU THINK IF THE PLAY'S STILL ON, YOU SHOULD GO GET YOUR

SOCK, MAYBE? YEAH, MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO GET YOUR SOCK. YEAH,

GO AHEAD AND GET YOUR SOCK, BRING IT UP HERE. LET ME SEE IT,

WHAT'S INSIDE OF THIS? MAN, DID YOU WASH THAT THING? IS THIS

JONATHAN, MY SON'S SOCKS? THIS SMELLS EXACTLY THE WAY HIS SOCKS

ARE, YOU KNOW? HOW MANY KNOW? YEP, THAT'S JOHN'S SOCKS. WHAT

ARE YOU GONNA GET FOR CHRISTMAS? LEGOS. LEGOS, OH, I COULD GO

FOR, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA GET CASH? CASH, OH,

LOOK AT ALL THE MONEY GIFTS. WELL, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK

YOU'RE GONNA GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE ASKED FOR? OOH, WHAT DID

YOU ASK FOR? A MILLION, I WANT TO GET A MILLION. THAT'S GREAT,

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU GOT? A MILLION LEGO SETS. HOW ABOUT

YOU? I THINK I GOT SOMETHING SONIC Y. SOMETHING THAT INCLUDES

SONIC. HOW ABOUT YOU? LIKE, I DON'T REALLY WANT TO SAY THIS,

BUT OKAY, THEN DON'T SAY IT, OKAY, 'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOUR

PARENTS ARE WATCHING, WE WANT 'EM TO COME BACK NEXT WEEK,

OKAY. WHAT DID YOU GET? I ASKED FOR LEGOS. LEGOS, OKAY. IS THAT

LIKE THE WAFFLES LEGO, MY EGGO, REMEMBER THAT? OKAY, WHAT'D YOU

GET? I DON'T KNOW. YOU DON'T KNOW? YOU GOT YOUR HAND UP. I

GOT A THING THAT HAS A REAL MICROPHONE ON IT. OH, A REAL

MICROPHONE, LIKE MAYBE A REAL MICROPHONE THING? OH, I KNOW THE

REAL MICROPHONE THING. I WANTED THAT REAL MICROPHONE THING TOO.

WHAT'D YOU GET? I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I GOT, BUT I WON A

GRAND PIANO. OH YEAH, AND I WON A HORSE. NO, YOU CAN'T SAY IT

BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK I GOT A LEGO SET. WOW. OKAY, I SEE

YOUR HAND. I GOT LIKE A GIANT CAT LUNA THAT'S LIKE ABOUT LIKE

RIGHT HERE. OH, YEAH, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED WHATEVER THAT WAS.

I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE WHAT I GOT YET, BUT I DO WANT A RECORD

PLAYER. OH ALL RIGHT. WELL, LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR OUR KIDS

TODAY. HOPEFULLY YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANTED.

LET'S DO ONE MORE DANCE MOVE FOR THE AUDIENCE WITH PASTOR HANK.

READY? ONE, TWO, THREE, GO. ONE, TWO, THREE, GO. DANCE, MOVE.

WHAT, YOU GUYS ARE JUST STANDING THERE. COME ON, HELP ME OUT. YOU

GOTTA FACE THAT WAY. READY? EVERYBODY DO THE MOVES. DO YOUR

OWN MOVES. READY, ONE, TWO, THREE. JOY OF CHRISTMAS, MOVE.

YEAH. DON'T LEAVE ME UP HERE BY MYSELF. ALL RIGHT, GUYS. OKAY,

ALL RIGHT, THAT'S REALLY GOOD. I'M GONNA HAVE THESE GUYS NEXT

YEAR. EVERYBODY ELSE, YOU GOTTA PRACTICE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GIVE

IT UP FOR THE KIDS. GREAT JOB. I HOPE YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU

WANTED AND MORE, ESPECIALLY THE CASH STUFF, RIGHT? ALL RIGHT,

WE'LL SEE YA. YOU'RE LOOKING SHARP, MAN. YEAH, YOU LOOK

REALLY SHARP. YOU RUNNING FOR WHAT, CITY COUNCIL? NOTHING LIKE

THAT? SCHOOL BOARD? I DON'T KNOW, FIFTH GRADE? OKAY, ANYWAY,

NICE TO MEET YA. THANK YOU. OKAY, YOU GOT MY VOTE. IT'S

ALWAYS GREAT TO INTERVIEW 'EM, ISN'T IT? HEY, GREAT BRAIN, I'M

GONNA GIVE THIS TO YOU REAL QUICK. ALL RIGHT. ISN'T THAT

FUN? THAT'S A LOT OF FUN. I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY OF 'EM

COULD ACTUALLY DANCE, MAN. 'CAUSE I WATCH YOU GUYS OUT

THERE, AND YOU DON'T HAVE IT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY GET

THEIR DANCE MOVES. OH, STOP, OH, STOP, YOU KNOW. BUT BOY, I TELL

YOU, THE BEST PART OF THAT WAS JOHN, HOW DID I JUST GOT TO ASK,

JONATHAN, HOW DID YOU GET YOUR SOCK UP HERE THAT STUNK SO BAD?

THAT WAS REALLY THANK YOU FOR HELPING OUT WITH THE CHRISTMAS

PLAY THIS YEAR BY YOUR STINKY, DIRTY SOCK THERE, JOHN.

SO IT'S AMAZING. WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE

COULD DEADLIFT ALMOST 900 POUNDS. BUT THE LAUNDRY

BASKET, HE JUST COULD NEVER GET UP TO HIS...

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

HE KNOWS I'M ONLY MESSING WITH HIM, BUT IT'S GREAT TO HAVE MY

BOYS HERE, AND I LOVE 'EM. WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF FUN. MAMA'S

GONNA DO A LOT OF COOKING, ISN'T SHE? SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE FUN.

WE'RE GONNA GO DOWN AND DO A GAMING THING, AND WHEN I PLAY

MATTHEW, LIKE, WHAT IS IT, LIKE, MADDEN, THEY CALL IT? THEY CALL

IT MAD BECAUSE YOU GET MAD. HE BEATS ME LIKE 180 TO LIKE THREE.

BUT TAKE IT EASY ON ME THIS YEAR, MATT. ALL RIGHT, WELL,

BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I JUST WANNA REMIND YOU, YOU STILL HAVE

TIME TO GET YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS. I WANNA SHOW YOU THIS, MY

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. WE HAVE SOME NEW ONES THAT HAD COME OUT. MY

P.I. GUS SERIES, THAT'S THE PIG THERE. AND THEN MUTT'S FEE AND

HELP WANTED, I THINK THAT'S LIKE THE SIXTH OR SEVENTH ONE,

RACHEL, IN THE SERIES. AND THEN WE'VE GOT MY NEW CAPTAIN ZEPTO,

FAST FOOD SLOWDOWN. THESE ARE REALLY, REALLY HILARIOUS. AND

THEN THOSE ARE ALL THE CHARACTERS THAT I CREATED. AND

ACTUALLY, JACOB, ARE YOU IN HERE, JACOB BLACKBURN? HEY,

THERE HE IS, HE'S RUNNING THE CAMERA. SO I SAID, JACOB, IS

THERE ANY WAY, YOU HAVE A 3D PRINTER, COULD YOU PRINT THOSE

OFF 3D? SO HE GOT THEM LIKE TWO INCHES, I'VE BEEN PAINTING THEM.

AND I WANNA SHOW YOU BECAUSE I THINK WE SHOULD RALLY TOGETHER

AND PUT THESE IN TOYS FOR KIDS, LIKE LITTLE FIGURINES. SO I'M

KINDA, YEAH, I HAVE THIS LITTLE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? MY

MAGNIFYING GLASS THING AND I'VE BEEN PAINTING THEM. AND SO IF

I'M LOOKING AT YOU LIKE THIS TODAY, IT'S 'CAUSE, YEAH, THAT'S

THE REASON, THAT IS THE REASON. SO ANYWAY, WELL, WANNA MAKE SURE

THAT YOU GET ALL OF THOSE. WELL, LET'S BEGIN MY MESSAGE TODAY. I

DO WANNA CHECK, I KNOW SHE MENTIONED SHE MIGHT COME OR

WATCH ONLINE, BUT I MET SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY AT ONE OF THE

PLACES OF BUSINESS THAT I WAS AT. NORMA, IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY

TODAY. IS NORMA HERE OR IS SHE WATCHING ONLINE? NORMA, IF

YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AND IF YOU'RE HERE AND

I DON'T SEE YOUR HAND, WE WOULD LOVE TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

YOU. WHOSE BIRTHDAY, ANYBODY'S BIRTHDAY TODAY BESIDES GOD?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY. WE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I'M NOT GONNA SING,

OTHERWISE WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE LEAVE. BUT ALL RIGHT, BEFORE WE

GET STARTED THOUGH, I DO WANNA MENTION, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A

BOARD MEETING AT ONE OF THE CHRISTMAS SERVICES. THE PASTOR

GOT UP AND HE BEGAN TO SAY, "AFTER THE SERVICE, IMMEDIATELY,

"THERE WILL BE A BOARD MEETING IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH." AND

SO THE SERVICE WENT ON FOR QUITE A WHILE, AND FINALLY IT WAS

OVER. THE PASTOR FINISHED HIS MESSAGE AFTER SIX CLOSINGS. YOU

KNOW PASTOR BRENDA, RIGHT? AND SO THEY BEGAN TO GATHER FOR

THEIR BOARD MEETING, AND THERE WAS THIS GUY THAT SHOWED UP, AND

HE'S STANDING THERE. AND THEY'RE ALL THERE AT THE MEETING LOOKING

AT HIM 'CAUSE HE WAS A VISITOR, AND THEY SAID, "SIR," THE

PASTOR SAID, "SIR, WE KNOW IT'S YOUR FIRST SUNDAY HERE, "BUT

THIS IS A BOARD MEETING." HE SAID, "OH YEAH, FROM

THE TIME YOUR SERMON STARTED "TO THE TIME IT ENDED,

I WAS AS BORED AS THEY COME, "SO I THOUGHT I WOULD."

(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

WAS THAT A GOOD ONE? YOU LIKE THAT? OKAY, ONLINE, IF YOU LIKED

IT BETTER THAN THEY JUST REACTED IN HERE, PUT YOUR HAND UP AND

WAVE. IF YOU DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GOOD, SAY, "JOHN, WASH YOUR

SOCKS," AND THAT'LL BE THE MESSAGE, ALL RIGHT, THE CODE.

ALL RIGHT, I WANT US TO TALK TODAY ABOUT CHRISTMAS, MAYBE IN

A TOPIC THAT PERHAPS YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT. AND WE'RE GONNA

TALK TODAY ABOUT CHRISTMAS PRESERVATION OR CHRISTMAS

PROTECTION. YOU KNOW, THIS TIME OF YEAR, IT'S AMAZING HOW

SOMETIMES PEOPLE, THEY GET INTO FEAR, RIGHT, GETTING THEIR

SHOPPING DONE, OR MAYBE THEY'RE HEARING THE LATEST NEWS THAT ARE

GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD, AND PEOPLE TEND TO SLIDE INTO FEAR.

AND WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A JOYOUS TIME OF YEAR, PEOPLE ARE

NOT HAPPY, THEY'RE AFRAID, THEY'RE UPTIGHT. BUT I WANNA

TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE, BUT WHAT I THOUGHT I

WOULD DO IS LET YOU HEAR THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS BY ONE OF

THE GREATEST CLIPS THAT FOREVER PUT A MARK ON MY LIFE GROWING

UP. ARE YOU READY? LET'S PLAY THE VIDEO. IS THERE ANYONE WHO

KNOWS WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT? SURE, CHARLIE BROWN, I

CAN TELL YOU WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT. LIGHTS, PLEASE. AND

THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS, ABIDING 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 SHONE ROUND

ABOUT THEM. AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID, AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO

THEM, FEAR NOT; FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY,

WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN

THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD. AND

THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU. YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED

IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, 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, AND

GOODWILL TOWARD MEN." THAT'S WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT,

CHARLIE BROWN. ALL RIGHT, I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU'D LIKE THAT.

THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT TO HAVE WHOLESOME CARTOONS AGAIN. THAT

IS A CLASSIC. HOW MANY OF YOU DID THAT MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR

LIFE GROWING UP? AND IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE.

MAYBE YOU WATCHED IT RECENTLY. BUT I WANT TO DRAW OUR ATTENTION

TO LUKE CHAPTER TWO, AND I WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT LINUS WAS

QUOTING. THE ANGELS OF THE LORD, THE BIBLE SAID THE HOST OF

HEAVEN, SHOWED UP THAT DAY IN FRONT OF THE SHEPHERDS. AND I

WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT WASN'T JUST A BUNCH OF ANGELS.

THESE WERE THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN. AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE'S

A POWERFUL VERSE IN THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH THAT SAYS, "IT'S NOT

BY OUR MIGHT, IT'S NOT BY OUR POWER, BUT IT'S BY MY SPIRIT,

SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS." AND THE WORD "LORD OF HOSTS" IS THE

LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES. THAT'S WHAT ONE OF GOD'S NAME IS

DEFINED AS, "LORD OF HOSTS," THE LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES. SO THESE

THAT SHOWED UP, THE HOSTS WERE PART OF THE ANGELIC ARMIES OF

HEAVEN. THESE WERE POWERFUL WARRIORS. THESE WERE POWERFUL

SOLDIERS IN GOD'S HEAVENLY ARMY THAT SHOWED UP TO MAKE THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT. BUT LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER TWO, AND I WANT US TO

LOOK AT THIS IN VERSE 13, THAT LINUS QUOTED, "AND SUDDENLY

THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL "A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOSTS

PRAISING GOD. "AND THEY BEGAN TO SAY, 'GLORY TO GOD IN THE

HIGHEST "'AND ON EARTH, PEACE, NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN,

"'AND GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN.'" NOW I WANT US TO UNDERSTAND

SOMETHING, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, THAT THAT

MESSAGE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN, HASN'T

CHANGED. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE

PEACE BETWEEN NATIONS, PEACE BETWEEN PEOPLE. WHAT IT

LITERALLY MEANS IS THAT WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD BECAUSE OF JESUS.

AND THEN SOME OF US, AS WE'RE READING THIS TODAY, YOU NEED TO

ASK YOURSELF, ARE YOU AT PEACE WITH GOD? ARE THINGS RIGHT IN

YOUR LIFE? ARE THINGS RIGHT IN YOUR HEART? BECAUSE HAVING PEACE

WITH GOD, YOU'RE GONNA FIND, IS ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING,

GRATIFYING THINGS THAT YOU CAN HAVE IN YOUR LIFE. AND ONLY

JESUS CAN BRING THAT PEACE, BUT PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS

MEN. BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE IT IN CONTEXT OF DIVINE PRESERVATION

OR PROTECTION. NOW YOU MIGHT BE ASKING, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE

WATCHING, WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF PRESERVATION? THE DEFINITION

OF PRESERVATION IS TO KEEP SAFE, TO KEEP FROM INJURY, TO KEEP

FROM HARM, TO KEEP FROM DESTRUCTION, TO PROTECT, TO KEEP

ALIVE, TO KEEP SOMETHING INTACT. AND SO I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT

PART OF THE MESSAGE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN, WAS

A MESSAGE THAT WHEN GOD HAS INJECTED HIMSELF IN THE EARTH

THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THAT OUR PROMISE AND OUR BENEFITS THEN IS

WE HAVE PRESERVATION, WE HAVE PROTECTION. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT

THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. OFTENTIMES

AT CHRISTMAS TIME, WE EXCHANGE GIFTS. HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE

RECEIVING GIFTS? THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO

RECEIVE, BUT BOY, I LIKE RECEIVING GIFTS. HOW MANY OF YOU

LIKE RECEIVING GIFTS? NOW REALLY THOUGH, THE OLDER YOU GET, I

DON'T KNOW IF I LIKE RECEIVING THEM AS MUCH BECAUSE REALLY,

WHAT DO PEOPLE GET YOU WHEN YOU GET MY AGE, RIGHT? ANOTHER

COFFEE CUP, ANOTHER PAIR OF SOCKS, RIGHT? A TIE THAT YOU

DON'T WEAR. IT'S JUST HARDER. HOW MANY OF YOU FIND IT HARD TO

SHOP FOR YOUR PARENTS OR FOR PEOPLE, YOUR SPOUSE, THE OLDER

YOU GET? JUST YOU RUN OUT OF OPTIONS, RIGHT? BUT ONE THING

THAT GOD DID IS HE GAVE US A GIFT AND HE GAVE US A GIFT IN

JESUS CHRIST. AND WHEN HE WAS BORN IN THAT MANGER AND THEN

LATER ON JESUS DIED ON THAT CROSS, I WANNA SHOW YOU THE GIFT

PACKAGE THAT HAS PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION IN IT. I WANT YOU

TO LOOK AT PSALM 103. IN FACT, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING,

THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE NOT TO FORGET THIS GIFT PACKAGE. SO YOU

COULD SAY THIS, WHEN YOU ASK JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART,

THIS IS WHAT THE CONTENTS OF THAT PACKAGE IS. PSALM 103,

Psalms 103:1

VERSE 1, IT SAYS, BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL, BLESS THE LORD,

O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT THE GIFTS. FORGET NOT THAT PACKAGE

THAT YOU GOT. WE CALL IT CHRISTMAS DAY, BUT WATCH THIS.

BLESS HIS HOLY NAME AND DON'T FORGET HIS BENEFITS, VERSE THREE

TELLS US WHAT THEY ARE. GOD HAS FORGIVEN US OF ALL OUR SINS, ALL

OUR INIQUITIES. IT USES THE WORD INIQUITIES BECAUSE WHAT THAT

MEANS IS PURPOSEFUL SIN, STUFF THAT WE'VE DONE INTENTIONALLY ON

PURPOSE. BUT NOTICE THE OTHER THING, HE HEALS ALL OF OUR

DISEASES. WE DON'T HAVE TO BE SICK, WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE A

LIFE FILLED WITH DISEASE. WHO'S REDEEMED OUR LIFE, NOW LOOK AT

THIS, THIS IS PROTECTION, THIS IS PRESERVATION, THAT IS PART OF

YOUR CHRISTMAS PACKAGE. HE'S REDEEMED OUR LIFE FROM

DESTRUCTION. THAT'S ACCIDENTS, THAT'S INJURIES, THAT'S

TRAGEDIES, THAT'S CALAMITIES, THAT'S TURMOIL, THAT'S TRAUMA.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE A LIFE OF THOSE THINGS. HE'S CROWNED YOU

WITH LOVING KINDNESS. THAT WORD CROWN IS LIKE, HE'S SURROUNDED

YOU. YOU TALK ABOUT PRESERVATION, TO KEEP YOU FROM

INJURY, TO KEEP YOU FROM HARM, TO KEEP YOU INTACT. THAT'S

EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CROWNED WITH HIS TENDER MERCY

AND HIS LOVING KINDNESS. NOTICE THE NEXT THING. HE SAID HE

SATISFIES YOUR MOUTH WITH GOOD THINGS, M&MS, GELATO, AND A LOT

OF OTHER THINGS, SO THAT YOUR YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE.

IN OTHER WORDS, AS YOU GET OLDER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BENT

OVER AND WALK LIKE, REMEMBER TIM CONWAY, I'M A COMING, REMEMBER,

HE COULD BARELY GET THERE? YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT IN

OLD AGE. YOU CAN HAVE RENEWED YOUTH. SO THIS IS OUR BENEFIT

PACKAGE. NOW, ONE THING, THOUGH, THAT HE DIDN'T SAY THAT WE ARE

PROTECTED OR PRESERVED FROM, ARE YOU READY, IS PERSECUTION. JESUS

SAID PERSECUTION WOULD COME, BUT ONE THING THAT HE SAID HE'S

PRESERVED OUR LIFE FROM IS FROM EVIL, FROM SICKNESS, FROM

DISEASE, FROM THINGS THAT ARE COMING IN A DESTRUCTIVE MANNER

TO STEAL AND KILL AND DESTROY. SO I WANT YOU TO THINK

DIFFERENTLY THIS CHRISTMAS THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED A GIFT FROM GOD.

YOU'VE RECEIVED PRESERVATION. YOU'VE RECEIVED PROTECTION. YOU

SAY, WELL, HOW DO I KNOW THAT? LOOK AT ISAIAH CHAPTER SEVEN.

WHEN THE PROPHETS CAME TO THE EARTH, THEY BEGAN TO PROPHESY.

AND THEY BEGAN TO DECLARE OUT OF THEIR MOUTH CONTINUAL PROPHETIC

WORDS THAT WERE SIGNS THAT WOULD POINT TO THIS PERSON, THIS

MESSIAH, GOD COMING IN HUMAN FORM, GOD COMING IN THE FLESH,

HIS SON COMING TO BE BORN IN A WOMB OF A VIRGIN, AND THEN TO BE

PLACED INTO A MANGER, AND THEN LATER ON TO DIE ON A CROSS, AND

THEN THREE DAYS LATER TO RISE AGAIN. THIS PROPHET ISAIAH BEGAN

TO SPEAK, AND NOTICE THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. HE SAID,

"THE LORD HIMSELF IS GONNA GIVE YOU A SIGN, "AND YOU'RE GONNA

KNOW WHEN GOD HAS COME INTO THE EARTH "WITH HIS GIFT. "BEHOLD, A

VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE, AND SHE WILL BEAR A SON." NOW NOTICE THE

NAME WE SANG ABOUT THIS TODAY. "SHE'LL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL."

YOU SAY, "WELL, IS THAT A NAME OF A CHURCH?" NO, CHURCHES NAME

THEMSELVES AFTER THIS WORD, EMMANUEL. IT MEANS GOD WITH US.

YOU TALK ABOUT PRESERVATION, IF GOD IS WITH YOU. YOU TALK ABOUT

PROTECTION, IF GOD IS WITH YOU, THEN THE BIBLE SAYS WHO CAN BE

AGAINST YOU? LOOK AT THIS SCRIPTURE IN ROMANS CHAPTER

EIGHT. HE'S EMMANUEL, HE'S GOD, OUR PROTECTOR. HE'S GOD, THE ONE

WHO BRINGS PRESERVATION. GOD IS THE BIG GUY, RIGHT? HOW MANY OF

YOU, WHEN YOU EVER GOT IN A FIGHT, MAYBE NOT JONATHAN, HE

WOULD SAY, I'M GONNA GO GET MY DAD. JOHN WOULD JUST TAKE CARE

OF IT HIMSELF, BUT HERE'S THE POINT. ANYBODY SAY, I'M GONNA GO

GET MY DAD? DID YOU EVER USE THAT? YOU HAVE GOD ON YOUR SIDE.

YOU HAVE PRESERVATION, YOU HAVE PROTECTION. ROMANS CHAPTER

EIGHT, PUT THAT SCRIPTURE UP. LOOK AT EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.

THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS, BUT IT SAYS, WHAT SHALL WE SAY IF GOD

BE FOR US, WHO OR WHAT CAN BE AGAINST US? I WANT YOU TO LOOK

UP TO HEAVEN AND SAY, THANK YOU, EMMANUEL. I RECEIVE PROTECTION.

I RECEIVE PRESERVATION. THAT MEANS NO HARM, NO EVIL, NO

PLAGUE, NOTHING OF EVIL CAN COME NEAR ME. I HAVE CHRISTMAS

PRESERVATION YEAR ROUND, EVERY DAY, ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.

THAT'S YOUR PROMISE. NOW NOTICE THIS ONE, THIS IS SO POWERFUL.

LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2, IN VERSE 10. THE ANGELS SHOW UP AND

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NOTICE WHAT THEY SAID. "DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR I BRING YOU GOOD

NEWS "THAT WILL CAUSE GREAT JOY FOR ALL PEOPLE." NOW, ONE OF THE

THINGS THAT WE CAN SEE HERE IS THE MESSAGE REGARDING DON'T

FEAR. I TALKED TO YOU JUST A MINUTE AGO, AND I TALKED ABOUT

HOW SO MANY PEOPLE THIS TIME OF YEAR ARE AFRAID. IF YOU

UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS EMMANUEL, WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? IF YOU

UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS WITH YOU WHEN YOU SAY, "JESUS, COME INTO

MY HEART," AND YOU RECEIVE THAT GIFT THAT HE GAVE OF HIS LIFE,

THERE'S A PROTECTION PACKAGE, A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY, A

HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE THAT GOES, A HEALTH PLAN FOR ALL YOUR

FLESH, YOUR CHILDREN, EVERYTHING THAT CONCERNS YOU IS PART OF

THIS PRESERVATION AND THIS PROTECTION. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER

Luke 1:31

1 VERSE 31 AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THE

ANGEL SAID. NOTICE ANOTHER PROPHETIC WORD. THE ANGEL OF THE

LORD SHOWS UP IN LUKE CHAPTER 1 VERSE 31 AND SAYS TO MARY, "YOU

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WILL CONCEIVE "AND YOU'LL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON." AND NOTICE THE

NAME FROM HEAVEN, THE INTEL THAT CAME FROM HEAVEN. YOU ARE GOING

TO CALL THIS SON, THIS CHILD, JESUS. WHAT DOES THE NAME JESUS

MEAN, ANYBODY KNOW? YESHUA, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? MEANS SALVATION.

WELL, TO SAVE YOU FROM WHAT? FROM YOURSELF. HOW MANY OF YOU

NEEDED TO BE SAVED FROM YOURSELF? 'CAUSE YOU WERE GOING

ON A HIGHWAY FAST TO HELL. YOU WERE GOING ON A HIGHWAY FAST TO

NOWHERE. I TELL YOU, BEFORE I MET JESUS, I GOT SAVED. I GAVE

MY HEART TO JESUS AT 18, MY LIFE WAS GOING NOWHERE. BUT SOON AS I

ACCEPTED JESUS, IT SEEMED LIKE FOR A WHILE IT WASN'T GOING

ANYWHERE EITHER, BUT THEN SALVATION, JESUS STEPPED IN AND

BEGAN TO DIRECT MY LIFE. BUT THINK ABOUT JUST HIS NAME,

EMMANUEL, GOD WITH ME, GOD FOR ME, BUT NOW HIS NAME IS JESUS'

SALVATION. IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S COME TO SAVE YOU FROM WHAT?

SICKNESS, DISEASE, TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES, DESTRUCTION.

REMEMBER YOUR GIFT PACKAGE, YOUR BENEFITS I JUST SHOWED YOU IN

PSALM 103? JESUS HAS COME AND HE'S PURCHASED FOR YOU

PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, LONG LIFE AND HEALTH AND BLESSING.

IT'S ALL PART OF YOUR SALVATION GIFT. MY QUESTION IS, DO WE

REALLY KNOW WHAT WE GOT FOR CHRISTMAS? I REMEMBER, MY KIDS

PROBABLY WON'T MIND ME SAYING THIS, BUT I REMEMBER EVERY YEAR,

WE WOULD JUST GIVE 'EM CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AFTER CHRISTMAS

PRESENTS AFTER CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. AND THEY'D OPEN 'EM

ALL UP, THEY LOVED TO OPEN UP CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. BUT THERE

WAS ALWAYS ONE OR TWO THAT THEY WOULD JUST GRAVITATE TO, AND THE

OTHER ONES WOULD STAY RIGHT THERE BY THE CHRISTMAS TREE. AND

WE'D HAVE TO TELL 'EM, "HEY, YOU STILL GOT OTHER PRESENTS HERE."

AND THEN ALL YEAR LONG, THOSE PRESENTS WOULD STILL NOT BE AS

WONDERFUL AS MAYBE TWO THAT THEY RECEIVED. WELL, WE DON'T WANNA

DO THAT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SALVATION PACKAGE, OUR

PRESERVATION PACKAGE. WE DON'T WANNA JUST PUT IT ASIDE, FORGET

ABOUT IT, RIGHT? BE INTERESTED IN JUST, HEY MAN, I'M GETTING A

MANSION IN HEAVEN SIDE, RIGHT? I'M GETTING ETERNAL LIFE. I HAVE

FORGIVENESS OF SIN. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, BUT THERE'S STILL

SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH. AND WHAT YOU HAVE

IS YOU HAVE A CHRISTMAS PACKAGE OF EVERYTHING THAT INCLUDED WHAT

I SHOWED YOU AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING IN PSALM 103.

FORGIVENESS OF SIN, HEALTH AND HEALING. YOU'RE PROTECTED,

YOU'RE PRESERVED. AND LET'S GO BACK TO THE BOOK OF LUKE. AND

LET'S LOOK ABOUT THIS FEAR, BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE GET INTO

FEAR, THEY BEGIN TO OPEN UP A DOOR THAT BEGINS TO GIVE ACCESS

TO THE ENEMY, THE DEVIL, TO TRY TO GET AT YOUR PRESERVATION, TO

GET AT YOUR PEACE, TO GET AT THE GOODWILL OF GOD THAT HAS BEEN

PAID FOR, TO TRY TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE, TO TRY TO MAKE

YOUR LIFE A STRUGGLE, TO BRING YOU FROM ONE HARDSHIP TO ANOTHER

HARDSHIP, TO WHERE ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S JUST ONE CYCLE AFTER

ANOTHER THAT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE AND MORE SPINNING OUT OF

CONTROL. BUT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT FEAR IS NOT OF GOD, GOD IS

A FAITH GOD, HE'S NOT A FEAR GOD. FEAR IS OF THE DEVIL.

SPIRITS OF FEAR, DEMONIC ENTITIES LOVE TO GET YOU OUT OF

FAITH, TO GET YOU IN A PLACE WHERE YOU SAY THINGS LIKE, OH,

I'M AFRAID OF THAT, I DON'T WANNA DO THAT, I'M NOT GONNA DO

THAT. YOU LISTEN TO SOMETHING ON THE NEWS AND THE NEXT THING YOU

KNOW WHAT, YOU EXPECT SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN TO YOU, YOUR

HOUSE, YOUR BODY, THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I MEAN, JUST

LISTEN TO THE COMMERCIALS THAT ARE ON. I MEAN, YOU CAN'T EVEN

WATCH ANYTHING ANYMORE WITHOUT ABOUT, WHAT, 20 DIFFERENT

COMMERCIALS THAT ALL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ALL THEIR MEDICATIONS

AND THINGS THAT IS THE LATEST, GREATEST, YOU EVER NOTICE IT'S

THE LATEST, GREATEST ANSWER AND CURE TO YOUR PROBLEM, RIGHT? AND

THEN FIVE MINUTES OF WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE IT. IF YOU TAKE

ACCELERATION, OR IF YOU TAKE ACCELERATE, I'LL JUST MAKE A

NOTE, IF YOU TAKE ACCELERATE, IT'LL HELP YOUR RASH. AND THEN

LATER ON, HERE'S WHAT YOU HEAR, BUT PLEASE REMEMBER, IF YOU TAKE

ACCELERATE, YOU MAY HAVE SUDDEN URGES TO BARK LIKE A DOG. YOU

MAY HAVE URGES TO GO OUT INTO YOUR GARAGE AND SPEND HOURS WITH

YOUR GARAGE DOOR, OPENING AND CLOSING YOUR GARAGE DOOR. YOU

MAY YELL AT YOUR NEIGHBORS AND EVEN, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE LIKE,

WHY WOULD I WANT TO TAKE THAT? THINK I'LL KEEP THE RASH, RIGHT?

BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THINGS IF YOU LISTEN TO IT AFTER A WHILE, YOU

WATCH THE NEWS AND YOU HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON, PEOPLE LOSING

THEIR LIVES, NATIONS AT WAR, PEOPLE AT WAR, LOONIES THAT ARE

TRYING TO PRESS THEIR AGENDA. IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU CAN GET

INTO FEAR AND THINK THAT THERE'S NOTHING GOOD THAT'S GOING TO

HAPPEN AT ANY TIME SOON OR AT ALL. I MEAN, I KNOW PEOPLE,

THEY'RE ALL LIKE, "WELL, I'M JUST WAITING FOR JESUS TO COME

AGAIN BECAUSE THE EARTH IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND-BASKET.” WELL,

YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND CLIMB IN THAT HAND-BASKET, BUT I'M NOT

GOING TO. I DON'T SEE THINGS THAT WAY. I HAVE A PRESERVATION

PACKAGE FROM GOD. AND AS LONG AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN THE

EARTH BEFORE JESUS RETURNS, I HAVE A COVENANT RIGHT BY

BLOODSHED FOR PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION. AND SO DO YOU. THE

ONLY THING, LIKE I SAID, THAT YOU DON'T HAVE IS YOU DON'T HAVE

PROTECTION FROM PERSECUTION. PERSECUTION WILL COME, JESUS

SAID, FOR THE WORD'S SAKE. NOW WATCH LUKE CHAPTER 1, LOOK AT

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MARY. THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SHOWS UP AND SAYS, "FEAR NOT,

MARY, FOR YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD." NOW STOP RIGHT THERE.

WHAT IS THERE TO FEAR IF YOU HAVE IMMANUEL? WHAT IS THERE TO

FEAR IF YOU'VE REALLY ASKED AND ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST INTO YOUR

HEART? YOU HAVE FAVOR WITH GOD. GOD IS FOR YOU. THEN DO WE

REALLY NEED TO BE AFRAID THAT WE'RE NEVER GONNA MAKE IT? OR DO

WE REALLY NEED TO BE AFRAID THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME GREAT

CALAMITY'S GONNA HAPPEN AND GOD IS GONNA SOMEHOW FORGET ABOUT

ME? WE HAVE TO GO GET A CAVE, GET THAT FOOD WHERE YOU ADD

WATER. IT'S A SPONGE, BUT THEY PUT EGG POWDER ON IT, WAFFLE MIX

POWDER ON IT, RIGHT? AND PEOPLE ARE EATING, YOU KNOW, SPONGES.

AND THEN WHEN THEY, YOU KNOW, SPONGE CAKE AND ALL THAT. AND

THEN WHEN THEY EAT IT, IT EXPANDS IN THEIR STOMACH AND

IT'S SUPPOSED TO KEEP YOU FROM HAVING HUNGER WHEN YOU'RE OUT

HIDING IN A CAVE. AND NOBODY'S TO KNOW WHERE YOU'RE AT AS YOU

MAKE YOUR CELL PHONE CALLS FROM THE CAVE.

(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

BUT THINK ABOUT WHEN THE ANGEL CAME TO MARY AND SAID, "MARY,

HEY, DON'T FEAR. YOU FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD." CAN YOU IMAGINE? THE

WOMEN AND THE YOUNG GIRLS THERE IN ISRAEL, THEY ALL DREAMT ABOUT

BEING THE ONE THAT WOULD BE THE VIRGIN THAT WOULD CONCEIVE,

CARRYING THE MESSIAH. AND NOW IT'S HER. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN

SHE'S LIKE, "OKAY, HOW IS THIS GONNA WORK ON SOCIAL MEDIA? HOW

IS THIS GONNA WORK IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE? TELLING EVERYBODY,

"YEAH, THIS BUMP IS, YEAH, THERE WAS NO MAN INVOLVED." TRY THAT.

"I DIDN'T DO IT." "MM HMM." "NO, REALLY, HONESTLY. ME AND JOSEPH,

WE'VE BEEN BEHAVING." "MM HMM." NO, NONE ON YOUR LIFE. THINK

ABOUT THE PUBLIC SCRUTINY SHE WAS ABOUT TO RECEIVE. JOSEPH,

LOOK AT THE MESSAGE TO HIM, AND IT'S THE MESSAGE TO YOU AS WELL.

WHY AM I SHARING THIS? BECAUSE IF GOD SENT THIS MESSAGE TO MARY

AND JOSEPH, AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE SHEPHERDS, IT'S BECAUSE FEAR

IS THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT WILL TRY TO GET AT YOUR GIFT

PACKAGE AND TAKE YOUR PRESERVATION RIGHTS, YOUR

PROTECTIVE RIGHTS FROM YOU. BECAUSE YOU'LL START DOUBTING,

YOU'LL START THINKING THAT GOD ISN'T FOR YOU OR HE'S NOT GONNA

COME THROUGH. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSES 19 THROUGH 20.

Matthew 1:19–20

THEN JOSEPH, HER HUSBAND, BEING A JUST MAN AND NOT WILLING TO

MAKE HER A PUBLIC EXAMPLE, WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY

PRIVATELY. BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE

ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM. NOTICE, "JOSEPH,

SON OF DAVID, DON'T YOU DARE FEAR TO TAKE MARY TO BE YOUR

WIFE, FOR THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS BY THE HOLY

GHOST." LOOK AT THE SHEPHERDS. NOW, HERE'S WHAT'S AMAZING. YOU

KNOW, THE SHEPHERDS WERE OUT THERE ON THEIR HILLSIDE, AND

THEY WERE LISTENING TO "OOH" TIDE CAROLS. OOH, OR YOU, OR

OOH. THEY CALL 'EM AN OOH. I DON'T THINK YOU'D LIKE THAT.

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT MARY AND JOSEPH, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE

ANGEL APPEARED, AND THEY WENT TO THE MANGER, IT WAS TO CAUSE THEM

TO HAVE A STABLE RELATIONSHIP. SO I JUST THOUGHT I WOULD THROW

THAT OUT THERE FOR YOU THAT ARE WANTING TO. YOU ARE ALL IN A

CHRISTMAS MOOD. NOTHING I'M SAYING IS GOING OVER, JUST OKAY.

LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER TWO. DON'T BE AFRAID. THE ANGEL SAID, "I

BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY "THAT WILL BE FOR ALL PEOPLE."

NOW, I WANNA SAY THIS BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS

IMPORTANT IS THE MESSAGE THAT WAS GIVEN. NOTICE, LET'S

CONTINUE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSES 10 THROUGH 12. MAYBE

Luke 2:10–12

YOU HAVEN'T CONSIDERED THIS. THE ANGEL BEGINS TO SAY, "DON'T

FEAR." BUT THEN I WANT YOU TO SEE HE PUTS SOMETHING IN THE

MESSAGE FROM GOD THAT SHOULD GIVE ALL OF US A SENSE OF

COMFORT, A SENSE OF PEACE, A SENSE OF KNOWING, A SENSE OF

FAITH. LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD, YOU ARE PROTECTING ME. I GET IN

MY CAR, I HAVE THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT OF PRESERVATION. GOD, WHEN

I'M AT MY HOUSE, I HAVE PRESERVATION. WHEN I'M GOING

ABOUT MY DAY, I HAVE PRESERVATION. NOTICE WHAT THE

ANGEL SAID, LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. AND THE ANGEL SAID, "FEAR

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NOT, "I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, "WHICH SHALL BE TO

ALL PEOPLE." NOW WATCH THIS, "FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY

"IN THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD, "AND THIS SHALL

BE A SIGN UNTO YOU." NOW THERE'S ANOTHER SIGN. NOTICE THIS, MAYBE

YOU'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF IT IN THIS CONTEXT OF PRESERVATION OR

PROTECTION, BUT NOTICE WHAT THE ANGEL SAID. YOU'RE GONNA FIND A

BABE, YOU'RE GONNA FIND A LITTLE BABY WRAPPED IN SWADDLING

CLOTHES, UNDERLINE THAT, LYING IN A MANGER. NOW YOU SAY, WHAT

DOES SWADDLING CLOTHES HAVE TO DO WITH PRESERVATION OR

PROTECTION? GOD FROM THE BEGINNING WAS TRYING TO SAY,

LOOK, I'M COMING TO GIVE YOU THIS CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT

THAT'LL TAKE 33 YEARS BEFORE YOU CAN OPEN IT. IT'S GOT A DIE ON

THE CROSS, JESUS, AND THEN AFTER THAT YOU GET THIS FULL PACKAGE

AND YOU GET PRESERVATION BUT HE'S TRYING TO GIVE US A HINT.

SWADDLING CLOTHES, WHY WOULD THEY PUT A LITTLE BABY IN

SWADDLING CLOTHES? WHY WOULD THEY WRAP THAT CHILD IN

SWADDLING CLOTHES? IT WAS TO BRING PRESERVATION, IT WAS TO

BRING PROTECTION BECAUSE WITHOUT THE SWADDLING OF THOSE CLOTHING

AROUND THAT CHILD, THAT CHILD IS VERY VULNERABLE. WHAT'S THE

FIRST THING, COME ON, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GIVEN BIRTH? HOW

MANY HUSBANDS WERE THERE WHEN THEY GAVE BIRTH? THE FIRST THING

THEY DO IS CLEAN THAT BABY UP AND IMMEDIATELY WRAP THAT CHILD

IN SWADDLING CLOTHES AS A SIGN OF PRESERVATION, PROTECTION. SO

YOU HAVE, WATCH THIS, OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE LITERAL BODY

OF JESUS, HE HAD A WRAPPING, A SWADDLING AROUND HIM. AT HIS

DEATH IN THE GRAVE, THEY WRAPPED HIM AGAIN SO THAT YOU, THE BODY

OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH, YOU ARE HIS BODY, RIGHT? THOSE OF YOU

THAT ARE WATCHING. YOU ARE ALSO SWADDLED NOW. YOU ARE WRAPPED IN

THE COVENANT OF HIS PROTECTION, OF HIS PEACE, OF HIS MERCY, OF

HIS FORGIVENESS, OF HIS HEALING. HOW MANY OF YOU SEE THAT? LET ME

GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF SWADDLING. SWADDLING CLOTHES

WERE FOR LAMBS AND BABIES, WHICH SYMBOLIZED BOTH THE BABY'S

VULNERABILITY THAT NEEDED PHYSICAL PROTECTION, BUT IT WAS

AROUND THE BODY OF THE BABY OR THE BODY OF CHRIST. IN THE SAME

WAY, THE CHURCH OR THE BODY OF CHRIST, WE ARE SWADDLED IN THE

BLESSING OF OUR SALVATION. WE ARE PROTECTED THROUGH JESUS'

DEATH AND RESURRECTION. LOOK AT PSALM 91, 9 THROUGH 10. TALK

ABOUT THESE SWADDLING VERSES. PSALM 91, LOOK AT WHAT IT SAYS.

THIS IS PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION, SWADDLING. BECAUSE

THOU HAS MADE THE LORD, WHICH IS MY REFUGE, EVEN THE MOST HIGH IS

MY HABITATION. VERSE 10, HERE'S THE SWADDLING. NO EVIL CAN COME

NEAR YOU. THAT'S PRESERVATION, THAT'S PROTECTION. AND NEITHER

SHALL ANY SICKNESS, DISEASE, COVID VARIANT NUMBER 16,

WHATEVER IT IS, IT CANNOT COME NEAR YOU OR YOUR HOUSE. LOOK AT

ANOTHER ONE. PSALM 23, VERSE 1, "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. "I

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SHALL NOT WANT," AND IT BEGINS TO TALK ABOUT, EVEN THOUGH YOU

WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, EVEN THOUGH

THERE'S SOME FRIGHTENING THINGS, SOME FEARFUL THINGS, I AM WITH

YOU, THAT'S PART OF PRESERVATION THAT HE GIVES TO YOU AS THE GOOD

SHEPHERD. PSALM 103, WE ALREADY QUOTED IT, LOOK AT VERSE 4. PART

OF THE SWADDLING THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR YOU IS YOUR

CHRISTMAS GIFT. PSALM 103, VERSE 4, HE'S REDEEMED, HE'S PAID FOR

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IT THROUGH HIS BLOOD. YOUR LIFE IS FREE FROM DESTRUCTION,

TRAGEDIES, CALAMITIES, COME ON, HIGH WINDS WHEN THEY COME INTO

YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, INTO YOUR CITY, INTO YOUR STATE, INTO YOUR

NATION. HE'S REDEEMED YOUR LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION AND HE'S

SWADDLED YOU AS HE SURROUNDED YOU, WRAPPED YOU WITH LOVING

KINDNESS AND TENDER MERCY. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 10, VERSE 9,

Luke 10:9

JESUS OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH SAID, "LISTEN, I'VE GIVEN YOU

AUTHORITY "TO TREAD UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS "AND OVER

ALL THE POWERS OF THE DEVIL. "THE DEVIL IS NOT ALL THAT

POWERFUL. "AND BY NO MEANS, BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN SWALLOWED,"

LUKE 10:19, "BECAUSE OF THAT, NO HARM CAN COME NEAR YOU. "NOTHING

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CAN HARM OR INJURE YOU." THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS. PUT IT

UP AGAIN, "BEHOLD, PAY ATTENTION, "I GIVE YOU POWER TO

TREAD UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS "OVER ALL THE POWERS

OF THE ENEMY, "BECAUSE YOU'RE SWADDLED, "JUST LIKE THE BODY OF

CHRIST WAS. "YOU AS MY BODY, YOU'RE SWADDLED, "AND BY NO

MEANS SHALL ANYTHING HURT YOU." AMEN. JONATHAN, I PRAY SOMEBODY

DOESN'T PRAY THAT WHEN YOU GO IN THE RING WITH THEM. BY NO MEANS

SHALL ANYTHING HURT ME. I AM UFC SWADDLE MAN.

(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

JUST BE CAREFUL, JOHN, ALL RIGHT? I WANNA SHOW YOU ANOTHER

ONE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 1, VERSE 35. THIS ONE IS SO

Luke 1:35

POWERFUL. LOOK AT THE MESSAGE. IT CONTINUES FROM THE ANGEL. AND

IN VERSE 35, NOTICE WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS TO MARY. I WANT YOU

TO SEE THIS SWADDLING. AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, "THE HOLY

GHOST SHALL COME UPON YOU." AND NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THESE

WORDS. "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST." OKAY, MOUNT EVEREST IS

WHAT? IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. GOD IS THE HIGHEST THERE IS.

THERE IS NOTHING AND NO ONE HIGHER THAN GOD. AND SO NOTICE

WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS. "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST, THE MOST HIGH,

"SHALL WHAT? SWADDLE YOU, SHALL OVERSHADOW YOU." JUST LIKE THE

LITTLE BABY THAT YOU'RE GONNA WRAP IN SWADDLING CLOTHES,

YOU'RE GONNA PLACE HIM IN THE MANGER, GOD IS GONNA PLACE YOU

IN THE MANGER OF BLESSING, THE MANGER OF COVENANT, AND YOU'RE

GONNA BE SWADDLED. YOU ARE GOING TO BE OVERSHADOWED. NOW NOTICE A

SHADOW, THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THERE IS NO GREATER

POWER, THERE'S NO GREATER ENTITY THAN GOD IS GONNA OVERSHADOW THE

VERY BODY OF CHRIST IN THE WHAT? WOMB OF MARY. YOU SAY, WELL,

THAT WAS JUST FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS CATHOLIC.

(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

RIGHT? NO, IT'S THE SAME PROMISE FOR YOU. NOW, I WANT YOU TO PUT

THAT VERSE BACK UP. THIS IS POWERFUL. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT

LITERALLY MEANS? THE SHADOW OF THE HIGHEST? IT LITERALLY MEANS

THIS, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, BECAUSE IT'S THE

SHADOW OF THE HIGHEST, IT IS THE MOST POWER AVAILABLE, GREATER

THAN ALL NUCLEAR POWER, ATOMIC POWER. IT IS THE GREATEST POWER

AVAILABLE, GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE CALL NUCLEAR, ATOMIC,

WHATEVER. IT IS THE GREATEST POWER AVAILABLE, CONTAINED IN

THE EARTH WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. THAT'S HOW MUCH SWADDLING OF THE

PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE'S LIKE, I AM COMING TO WATCH

OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST, LITERALLY, AND IT'S SO MUCH

POWER, IF I DON'T CONTAIN IT, IT'LL BLOW UP THE WORLD. AND

IT'S GREATER THAN ATOMIC, IT'S GREATER THAN NUCLEAR, 'CAUSE WHO

MADE NUCLEAR POWER? GOD DID. WE TAPPED INTO THE SCIENCE OF IT,

BUT GOD MADE IT. AND HE'S SAYING MY SHADOW, MY SWADDLING, OVER

THE LITERAL BODY OF CHRIST IS THE MOST CONTAINED POWER

AVAILABLE IN EARTH WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. SO IF MARY HAD

THIS OVER HER WOMB, PREGNANT WOMEN, THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT A

CHILD, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE CHILDREN, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE

MARRIED, YOU NEED TO PRAY THIS. GOD, I PRAY FOR THAT SAME

OVERSHADOWING, THAT SAME SWADDLING TO BE OVER MY CHILD,

OVER MY BABY, OVER MY SPOUSE, OVER MY CAR, OVER MY HOME.

YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, CAN I DO THAT? LOOK AT PSALM 91. THERE IS

THIS SHADOW. LOOK AT PSALM 91, VERSE ONE THROUGH TWO. IT'S PART

OF YOUR COVENANT PACKAGE. HE THAT DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE

OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL, NOTICE HE'S THE MOST HIGH, AND IF HE'S

THE MOST HIGH, HIS SHADOW IS THE MOST HIGH'S SHADOW. IT'S THE

MOST CONTAINED POWER AVAILABLE THAT RESTRAINS THE DEVIL THAT HE

WOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT TRYING TO VIOLATE IT. THAT'S THE KIND

OF PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION YOU HAVE. IT SAYS THE SECRET

PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW, THE

PRESENCE, THE OVERSHADOWING OF GOD. VERSE TWO, LOOK AT VERSE

TWO. AND I'LL SAY TO THE LORD, HE'S MY REFUGE, HE'S MY GOD,

HE'S EMMANUEL. I'LL PUT MY TRUST THERE AND I WON'T EVEN BE

AFRAID. LOOK AT ACTS CHAPTER FIVE, SAME WORD. YOU THINK, WELL

THAT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, MARY, SHE WAS CATHOLIC. AND NO, LOOK AT

THE APOSTLE PAUL, ACTS CHAPTER 5. THIS SAYS IN VERSE 15, IN SO

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MUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK IN THE STREETS, THEY LAID

THE SICK ON THE BEDS, THEY LAID THE SICK ON COUCHES, THAT THE

SHADOW, WHICH WAS THE PRESENCE OF THE MOST HIGH, THAT WORD

SHADOW IS THE SAME WORD THAT THE ANGEL SAID WOULD OVERSHADOW

MARY'S WOMB, IS NOW THE SAME WORD, THE SAME SHADOW OF THE

HIGHEST, THE SAME MOST CONTAINED POWER AVAILABLE IN THE EARTH

WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP, WAS UPON PETER AND OVERSHADOWED THEM. AND

NOTICE THE NEXT VERSE, THEY GOT HEALED. SO WHEN YOU SAY THE

SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, THAT IS NO JOKE. THAT SHOULDN'T

BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. WHEN YOU WALK ABOUT YOUR DAY AND YOU KNOW THAT

YOU HAVE GOD ON THE INSIDE OF YOU AND GOD UPON YOU, YOU NEED

TO UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A PRESERVATION PACKAGE. YOU HAVE

GOD OVERSHADOWING YOU. WHAT CAN MEN DO UNTO ME, THE SCRIPTURE

SAYS. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 17, JESUS.

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HE'S NOW UP IN VERSE FIVE, HE'S BEING TRANSFIGURED, HE'S BEING

CHANGED, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT SAYS THERE BEGAN TO BE AN

OVERSHADOWING, A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM. SAME WORD,

SAME PRINCIPLE, THE MOST CONTAINED POWER IN EXISTENCE

AVAILABLE TO MAN WITHOUT BLOWING IT UP. AND NOTICE VERSE SIX, HOW

THE DISCIPLES RESPONDED. MAN, THEY WERE SO AFRAID. THEY FELL

ON THEIR FACE, THEY WERE SO AFRAID. THIS POWER IS NOTHING TO

MESS WITH. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID OUT OF HIS MOUTH, "YOU HAVE SO

MUCH POWER AND AUTHORITY THAT I'M GIVING TO YOU "THAT BY NO

MEANS SHALL ANYTHING HARM OR INJURE YOU." YOU NEED TO START

BEING ABSOLUTELY A PERSON WHO KNOWS YOUR GIFT PACKAGE. WHAT

WAS GIVEN TO YOU AS WE SAY ON THAT CHRISTMAS DAY, WHATEVER DAY

THAT WAS? YOU HAVE PRESERVATION. YOU'RE TO HAVE A LIFE OF

GOODWILL FROM GOD AND PEACE BECAUSE IT'S PART OF YOUR

BENEFITS. I'M GONNA WRAP THIS UP. IF THEY COULD START COMING,

PASTOR DOUG, AND YOU CAN COME TO THE PIANO. LOOK AT THIS ONE. THE

NEXT ONE IS ANGELS. HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANGEL? JUST

LOOK OVER AT BRENDA. YOU CAN SEE AN ANGEL RIGHT THERE. THERE'S

WHAT AN ANGEL LOOKS LIKE. SEE AN ANGEL, THAT'S WHAT SHE LOOKS

LIKE. BUT HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANGEL OF THE ANGEL KIND?

LIKE, YOU KNOW, RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'VE SEEN AN ANGEL. NO,

RAISE YOUR HAND, I WANNA SEE IT. OH, WOW, THAT'S GREAT. THOSE OF

YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU COULD PUT LIKE A HAND UP, I'D LOVE TO

KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN AN ANGEL. I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAS MAKING,

I HAD OREO COOKIES AND MILK, AND I WAS CREATING A BOWL AND I HAD

MILK AND I WAS WALKING OUT, WE HAD A CEILING AT A HOUSE THAT WE

USED TO LIVE IN YEARS AGO, IT WAS ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW, 14 FOOT

HIGH, BRENDA, AND I WAS WALKING OUT WITH THE MILK AND WITH THE

OREOS, AND I LOOKED OVER AS I WALKED OUT AND THERE WAS, AS

TALL AS THE 14 FOOT HIGH CEILING WAS THIS ANGEL. I MEAN, HE WAS

ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP AND HIS SHOULDERS WERE VERY, VERY

WIDE. AND AS SOON AS I SAW HIM, I WAS STARTLED. I WENT LIKE THIS

AND I SPILLED EVERYTHING. I'VE SEEN ANGELS. AND I TELL YOU,

THEY'RE NOTHING TO MESS WITH. AMEN? I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE WITH A

LITTLE HEART AND A LITTLE NAKED BABY BOTTOM. I'VE NEVER SEEN

THOSE. AND THAT DOESN'T LOOK VERY DANGEROUS TO ME. I LIKE THE

ONES THAT LOOK DANGEROUS, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, I LIKE WHAT ONE GUY

SAID. HE MET HIS ANGELS AND THEY WERE, I THINK THEIR NAMES WERE

SPIKE AND FANG. I THINK HE MADE THAT UP. ALL RIGHT, YOU READY?

ARE YOU ALL HERE TODAY OR IS IT JUST YOU GOT SHOPPING TO DO? ALL

RIGHT. I LOVE ANGELS AND YOU KNOW, BY THE WAY, I FOUND OUT

ANGELS REALLY, REALLY ARE GREAT AT GIFT WRAPPING. DO YOU KNOW

ANGELS ARE GREAT AT GIFT WRAPPING? WELL, IT'S EASY WHEN

YOU HAVE DIVINE PRESENCE. BUT IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE DIVINE

PRESENCE TO HELP THEM IN THEIR CHRISTMAS WRAPPING, THEN THEY

JUST WING IT. YOU KNOW, SO WE'LL JUST KIND OF KEEP THAT ONE AS WE

GO ON. BUT I WANT YOU TO LOOK HERE AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2. JOHN,

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DID YOU EVEN SMIRK AT THAT? OKAY. MATTHEW CHAPTER 2:13

THROUGH 15, AND 19 THROUGH 21 AS WE GET READY TO CLOSE. LOOK AT

THIS. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2. "AND WHEN THEY DEPARTED, BEHOLD,

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THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM." AND BY

THE WAY, GOD DOES USE DREAMS TO PROTECT YOU. HOW MANY HAVE EVER

HAD A DREAM WHERE YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT MEANT, BUT

YOU WERE GONNA DO SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA BUY

SOMETHING, MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA TAKE A JOB, YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE

TO TAKE THE JOB, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HAD A DREAM, AND IN

THE DREAM YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE JOB, YOU WEREN'T

SUPPOSED TO BUY THAT HOUSE, YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO MARRY THAT

PERSON, RIGHT? YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO STAY HOME, BUT YOU

WERE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO GO TO CHURCH THAT SUNDAY. YOU KNOW,

STUFF LIKE THAT, RIGHT? RIGHT. YOU WERE NOT TO GET A CAT,

THEY'RE DEMONIC. YOU WERE TO GET A DOG, YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF

DREAMS. YEAH, YOU KNOW WHICH ONES I'M TALKING ABOUT. YEAH,

OKAY, YOU CAN WOO ALL DAY LONG, WE'RE ALMOST DONE. NOW HERE'S

THE THING. DREAMS, GOD GAVE DREAMS TO THE WISE MEN. YOU EVER

READ THAT IN MATTHEW 2? LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, LOOK AT VERSE

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10. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING TO ME, I

WAS READING THIS. AND IT'S JUST A THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT THAT YOU

COULD THEOLOGICALLY THINK ABOUT THEOLOGICALLY. DOES THAT MAKE

SENSE? AND WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED WITH GREAT

SEED AND GREAT JOY. VERSE 11, WATCH THIS. WHEN THEY WERE

COMING TO THE HOUSE, NOTICE THIS WAS LIKE 2 YEARS OR SO BEYOND

THE MANGER 'CAUSE THEY WERE NOW IN THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE YOUNG

CHILD. BEFORE IN THE MANGER, HE WAS A BABY. AND THEY WORSHIPED

HIM, THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES, PRESENTED UNTO HIM

GIFTS, NOTICE PLURAL, GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. LOOK AT

VERSE 12. NOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, LOOK AT THIS. AND

BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A WHAT? IN A DREAM, THAT'S PRESERVATION.

THAT'S PROTECTION. SEE, ALL THROUGH THE CHRISTMAS STORY IS

PRESERVATION, PROTECTION. AND SAID, THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN TO

HEROD. THEY DEPARTED INTO THEIR OWN COUNTRY. NOW KEEP THAT UP

THERE. BUT IT SAYS BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM. HOW MANY WAS

WARNED IN A DREAM? THAT'S MY THEOLOGICAL QUESTION. IT DIDN'T

SAY ONE OF THE GUYS, MURR OR FRANK, WAS WARNED IN A DREAM.

NO, IT SAYS, AND BEING WARNED OF GOD. WHAT, ALL OF THEM? DON'T

THINK THAT GOD CAN'T GET A MESSAGE TO YOU IF NEEDED. WE

GOTTA QUIT DOUBTING, QUIT GETTING IN FEAR, QUIT GETTING

FRUSTRATED, NEGATIVE. SAY, GOD, I NEED DIRECTION. EXPECT IT. IF

GOD CAN DO THIS IN A DREAM, WHAT CAN HE DO FOR YOU? LOOK AT VERSE

13 AGAIN, BEING WARNED IN A DREAM. JOSEPH SAID, "TAKE THE

CHILD AND FLEE INTO EGYPT." LOOK AT VERSE 19 NOW AGAIN, NOTICE

THE ANGELS SHOW UP. "AND WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL

OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM AGAIN TO JOSEPH." SO GOD USES

ANGELS. YOU SAY, WELL, THAT'S JUST THEM. LOOK AT PSALM 91,

Psalms 91:11

VERSE 11, PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION PACKAGE IS YOU HAVE

A GIFT IN THAT GIFT, IN THAT PACKAGE THAT WAS GIVEN, THE

SWADDLING CLOTHES OF THE CHILD THAT WOULD NOW BE WRAPPED IN THE

TOMB IS SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT AVAILABLE.

AND IT'S THROUGH SALVATION. FOR HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE

OVER YOU. AND WHAT ARE THOSE ANGELS SUPPOSED TO DO? PROTECT

YOU, KEEP YOU IN SOME OF YOUR WAYS. ALL YOUR WAYS. NOW, ONE

THING I WOULDN'T DO IS PROVOKE MY ANGEL TO WRATH, THE BIBLE

SAID. DON'T DO THINGS LIKE SINNING AND THEN EXPECT THE

ANGEL TO PROTECT YOU. RIGHT, DON'T GO OUT AND DO WICKED

THINGS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, ANGEL, I'M ABOUT TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW,

SO I NEED YOU TO BACK ME UP. OKAY, NO, ANGELS AREN'T GONNA BE

IN THE GETAWAY CAR WHILE YOU HOLD SOMETHING UP.

(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

PART OF THE ACCESSORIES TO THE CRIME. RIGHT? SO ALL YOUR WAYS,

EXCEPT YOU GOTTA NOT PROVOKE HIM TO WRATH. LET'S MAKE SURE THAT

WE DO THINGS RIGHT. LOOK AT HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, PART OF YOUR

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INHERITANCE. PART OF YOUR LEGAL RIGHT. PART OF WHAT WAS LEFT TO

YOU FROM YOUR FATHER AND YOUR ELDER BROTHER, JESUS. HEBREWS

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CHAPTER 1, LOOK AT VERSE 14. HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, ARE THEY

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NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS, ANGELS? AND NOTICE WHAT THEY'RE

SENT FOR, TO MINISTER FOR THEM. EVERY TIME YOU GUYS ARE OUT

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, YOU NEED TO BE PRAYING, "FATHER, THANK YOU

FOR YOUR ANGELS." EVERY TIME YOU GET IN THE CAR, "FATHER, THANK

YOU FOR YOUR ANGELS." EVERY TIME YOUR WIFE ASKS IF YOU COULD DO

THE DISHES, SAY, "HONEY, THE ANGELS GOT IT."

(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

RIGHT? YEAH, I MIGHT TRY THAT IN 2026. I'LL LET YOU KNOW NEXT

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE HOW THAT WORKED. BRENDA, I DON'T THINK I

CAN DO THAT TODAY. LET THE ANGELS HANDLE IT. I'M COMING UP

WITH GREAT STUFF TODAY, AND YOU ARE BARELY WITH ME. OK, LAST ONE

I WANT TO SHOW YOU BEFORE PASTOR DOUG COMES AND CLOSES OUR

SERVICE. LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. MAYBE YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT

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THIS. YOU'VE GOT THE SWADDLING OF THE CLOTHES. YOU'VE GOT THE

MESSAGE, DON'T FEAR. YOU'VE GOT THE MESSAGE, EMMANUEL, GOD IS

WITH YOU AND FOR YOU. YOU HAVE HIS NAME. HIS NAME IS JESUS.

THERE'S NO GREATER NAME. YOU HAVE ANGELS AND DREAMS. COME ON,

MAN. WHY CAN WE HAVE THIS? LOOK AT LUKE CHAPTER 2. I WANT YOU TO

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STAND TO YOUR FEET. LAST SCRIPTURE I READ. AND WHEN 8

DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED NOTICE THE WORD 8 DAYS. 8 IS A VERY

INTERESTING NUMBER IN SCRIPTURE. 8 IS A HUNGER WORD. 8, THEY ATE.

NEVERMIND, NO IT ISN'T. I JUST MADE THAT UP. THAT WAS, I SAID A

BAD ONE TO SEE IF YOU WOULD LIKE IT MORE THAN ALL THE GREAT ONES

THAT I SAID. BUT WHEN 8 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED, 8 IS THE

NUMBER OF RESURRECTION, 8 IS THE NUMBER OF NEW BEGINNINGS, 8 IS

THE NUMBER OF COVENANT. NOW WATCH THIS, WHY DID THEY DO

THIS? AND I WAS READING THIS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT KEPT SPEAKING TO

ME SAYING, "HANK, YOU'RE READING OVER SOMETHING." AND I'M LIKE,

"OKAY, WHAT'S UP?" I READ EACH WORD AGAIN AND I BEGAN TO LOOK

AT IT. WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT LUKE 21 THROUGH 24 VERY QUICKLY. WHEN

8 DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED, NOTICE UNDERLINED THE CIRCUMCISING OF

THE CHILD. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO CIRCUMCISE THE CHILD? BECAUSE IT

HAD TO DO WITH COVENANT, RIGHT? AND ALL THE BLESSINGS OF

ABRAHAM, THAT GOD PROMISED TO ABRAHAM. AND PART OF WHAT GOD

PROMISED TO ABRAHAM WAS FAVOR, PROTECTION. GENESIS 15:15 WAS

Genesis 15:15

PRESERVATION. HE SAID, "LOOK, ABRAHAM, YOU'RE GONNA GO IN

PEACE "WHEN YOU DIE." THAT MEANS NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN.

AND BY THE WAY, ABRAHAM, WHEN YOU DO DIE, IT'S GONNA BE IN

PEACE, NOT IN THE JAWS OF DEATH OR SICKNESS, DISEASE, OR RESULT

OF A TRAGEDY, CALAMITY, ACCIDENT. YOU'RE GONNA GO IN

PEACE, GENESIS 15:15, ABRAHAM, AND YOU'RE GONNA GO IN A GOOD

Genesis 15:15

OLD AGE. AND THEN IF YOU FLIP OVER TO 10 CHAPTERS LATER, IN

GENESIS 25, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, IT SAYS THAT

ABRAHAM DIED AN OLD MAN AND WAS BURIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE IN HIS

GRAVE. IT WAS FULFILLED, ALL BECAUSE OF COVENANT. SO HERE

THEY HAVE THIS BABY. THEY PUT HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES. THE

HOLY SPIRIT OVERSHADOWS THE CHILD, AND YET THEY UNDERSTAND

IF THEY ARE GOING TO REALLY MAINTAIN THIS AND HAVE LEGAL

AUTHORITY BACKED BY GOD THAT THE ENEMY CANNOT EXACT UPON, THEY

NEED TO GET UNDER COVENANT. THEY NEED TO PUT THIS CHILD UNDER THE

COVENANT. YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR BODY UNDER THE COVENANT. YOU

NEED TO PUT YOUR CHILDREN UNDER THE COVENANT. YOU NEED TO OPEN

YOUR BIBLE UP WHEN YOU HAVE A PRODIGAL AND SAY, NO, NO, NO,

NO, GOD, I'M IN COVENANT WITH YOU. AND THE BIBLE SAYS, MY

COVENANT THAT MY CHILDREN SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD, TEACH MY

KIDS. YOU START GETTING THE SNIFFLES, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,

NO, NO, NO, I HAVE A COVENANT. ISAIAH 53 SAYS, I'M ALREADY

HEALED. FIRST PETER 2:24 SAYS, BY THE WHIPS THAT WERE ON JESUS'

1 Peter 2:24

BACK, WE ARE OR WE WERE HEALED. WHEN YOU HAVE BILLS COMING,

NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. MY COVENANT IS A COVENANT OF PROVISION,

EPHESIANS 3:20. GOD, YOU ALWAYS DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY BEYOND

Ephesians 3:20

ALL I COULD ASK OR THINK. COME ON. SO NOTICE WHAT THEY DID,

LUKE 2, VERSE 21, WE'RE GONNA END WITH THIS. EIGHT DAYS WERE

Luke 2:21

ACCOMPLISHED AND THEY CIRCUMCISED THE YOUNG CHILD,

BRINGING HIM UNDER THE COVENANT OF ABRAHAM. HIS NAME WAS CALLED

JESUS. THERE IT IS AGAIN, SALVATION, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF

THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB. SO THE

ANGEL BROUGHT FORTH THE NAME, VERSE 22, AND WHEN THE DAYS OF

THE PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES, UNDERLINE

THAT. THIS IS WHAT GOD KEPT SAYING TO ME. NOTICE HOW MANY

TIMES IT SAYS THE LAW OF MOSES. IT WAS TO SHOW THE READER THAT

THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING TO, IN THOSE DAYS, YOU COULD SAY,

WALK IN THE WORD. OBEY THE BIBLE, OBEY THE COVENANT, OBEY

THE COMMAND OF GOD. SO NOTICE IT SAYS IT THE FIRST TIME.

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, ACCORDING TO THE LAW, MOSES WAS

ACCOMPLISHED. THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM TO PRESENT HIM TO

THE LORD. VERSE 23, "AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD,

"EVERY MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB "SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE

LORD." NOW LOOK AT VERSE 24. "AND TO OFFER A SACRIFICE

ACCORDING TO THAT "WHICH IS SAID IN THE LAW OF THE LORD." THEY

WERE WORD, BIBLE THUMPERS, YOU COULD SAY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTOOD,

MAN. THEY'VE GOT AN OVERSHADOWING. THEY'VE GOT A

PACKAGE. THEY'VE GOTTA TAKE CARE OF THIS CHILD. THEY'VE GOT A

RESPONSIBILITY, SO WE BETTER WALK IN THE WORD. WE BETTER WALK

ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT OF GOD. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? JESUS

PROVIDED ALL OF THIS. YOU HAVE A COVENANT WITH GOD, AND WE HAVE

TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BELONGS TO US. REMEMBER, HE'S FORGIVEN YOU

OF EVERY AND ALL SIN AND INIQUITY. HE'S HEALED YOU OF

EVERY DISEASE, PSALM 103. HE'S REDEEMED YOU, PROTECTED YOU,

PRESERVED YOU FROM DESTRUCTIONS AND TRAGEDIES AND CALAMITIES.

HE'S CROWNED YOU BY PRESERVING YOU, SWADDLING YOU,

OVERSHADOWING YOU WITH LOVING KINDNESS AND TENDER MERCIES.

WHEN YOU EAT SOMETHING, HE SATISFIED YOUR MOUTH WITH GOOD

THINGS. AND AS YOU AGE AND EVERY DAY, YOU HAVE YOUTHFULNESS LIKE

THE EAGLE. IT'S ALL PART OF YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT JESUS PAID

FOR. LET'S PRAY. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT

WAS GIVEN, THAT YOU LOVED THIS WORLD, YOU LOVED US, THAT YOU

GAVE THAT GIFT, JESUS CHRIST, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES UPON HIM

WOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. AND WE THANK

YOU THAT THE GREATEST GIFT EVER WAS JESUS COMING. BORN IN A

MANGER BUT ALSO CAME TO DIE. THAT WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME

OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. LORD, WE RECEIVE OF THAT PACKAGE

TODAY. AND IF WE ARE ALREADY BORN AGAIN, WE'VE ALREADY

ACCEPTED JESUS AND WE'RE NOT USING OR THANKING YOU OR

STANDING FIRM IN OUR PRESERVATION RIGHTS THAT WERE

PROVIDED TO US AND FOR US. I ASK YOU TO SHOW US THE WAY, GOD,

THAT WE'LL BEGIN TO DO IT. NOW, WITH EVERY HEAD BOWED AND EVERY

EYE CLOSED, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, THOSE OF YOU

THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM, I WANNA TALK VERY SERIOUSLY TO YOU. ONE

OF THE GREATEST THINGS THAT YOU ARE PRESERVED FROM IS ETERNAL

DAMNATION. GOD DOES NOT SEND ANYONE TO HELL. IN FACT, JESUS

EVEN MADE IT CLEAR THAT HELL WAS CREATED, NOT FOR US, THAT WAS

NOT WHY IT WAS THERE. IT WAS CREATED FOR THE DEVIL AND ALL

THE FALLEN ANGELS, DEMONS. BUT SIN CANNOT BE IN THE PRESENCE OF

GOD. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE A

PRESERVATION PACKAGE OF ETERNAL LIFE, IT COMES BY ASKING JESUS

TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS AND TO COME INTO YOUR HEART. I WANT YOU TO

DO SOMETHING VERY BOLD. THIS IS PART OF YOUR PRESERVATION

PACKAGE NOW. YOU'RE UNWRAPPING YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT WAS

GIVEN BY GOD HIMSELF AS EMMANUEL. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY

OR YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, YOU COULD PUT YOUR HAND UP. IF

YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU SAY, "PREACHER, PRAY FOR ME." I WANT

TO RECEIVE THAT FREE GIFT OF GOD. I WANT TO ACCEPT JESUS

CHRIST IN MY HEART. I WANT THAT FORGIVENESS OF SIN AND ETERNAL

LIFE. ARE YOU HERE TODAY? ANYBODY HERE? PUT YOUR HAND UP

IF THAT'S YOU. I DON'T SEE ANY HANDS. PUT IT UP HIGH SO I CAN

SEE. THERE'S ONE HAND. GOD BLESS YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. ANYBODY

ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE ONLINE?

PASTOR DOUG, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO COME, AND I'M GONNA ASK YOU

TO LEAD THEM IN A PRAYER OF ASKING JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR

HEART. NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU, BEFORE HE PRAYS, YOU COULD

HONESTLY SAY, I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY? HOW MANY OF YOU

LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE SWADDLED AS THE BODY OF CHRIST?

THE OVERSHADOWING OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. SO VERY

QUICKLY, PASTOR DOUG'S GONNA GIVE YOU INSTRUCTION ON WHAT TO

DO REGARDING JESUS CHRIST AND SALVATION. GO AHEAD, PASTOR.

AMEN. ALTAR TEAM, IF YOU RUN UP HERE QUICKLY, WE'RE GONNA PRAY

TODAY, AND THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ONLINE, WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, YOU

CAN PRAY RIGHT ALONG WITH ME. JESUS HEARS YOU WHEREVER YOU'RE

AT. YOU CAN HAVE HIM BECOME THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE TODAY RIGHT

WHERE YOU'RE AT. EVERY WEEK THAT HAPPENS, PEOPLE RECEIVE JESUS

CHRIST ACROSS THIS NATION JUST BY PRAYING THIS PRAYER, AND YOU

CAN JOIN IN WITH US. THE ONE THAT RAISED YOUR HAND TODAY, IF

YOU'LL COME UP HERE QUICKLY, OUR ALTAR TEAM HAS SOME INFORMATION

FOR YOU. THEY'LL GIVE YOU THAT AND MINISTER TO YOU AND MAKE

SURE THAT YOU HAVE INFORMATION THAT WOULD HELP YOU IN YOUR WALK

WITH THE LORD, AND YOU CAN CALL OUR PRAYER LINE ALSO. BUT LET'S

PRAY TODAY. I'M GONNA ASK EVERYONE TO BOW YOUR HEADS AND

JUST PRAY OUT LOUD AND MEAN IT WITH YOUR HEART. JESUS WILL COME

INTO YOUR HEART AND BE YOUR SAVIOR TODAY, JUST LIKE THIS ONE

THAT'S COMING UP HERE. JUST REPEAT AFTER ME, FATHER IN

HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS. THANK YOU THAT HE CAME

NOT ONLY AS A BABY, BUT HE GREW UP AND HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO

REDEEM US FROM THE SIN AND CURSE THAT WE WERE UNDER ON THIS

EARTH. THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR COMING TO SAVE ME. I REPENT OF

MY SIN. I ASK YOU TO BE THE LORD AND SAVIOR OF MY LIFE. I WANT TO

SPEND ETERNITY WITH YOU IN HEAVEN. I NOW SAY, LORD, I WILL

SERVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, IN DILIGENCE, THROUGHOUT THE

REMAINDER OF MY LIFE, AND SOMEDAY I'LL BE IN HEAVEN WITH

YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS. AMEN. IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY,

I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO CALL OUR PRAYER LINE, 855 777 7907.

THEY'LL SEND YOU THE SAME INFORMATION THAT THIS LADY IS

RECEIVING UP HERE TODAY, AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR THAT. ONE MORE

QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE I LET YOU GO. IT'S ONLY 11:03. WE'RE

DOING GOOD TODAY, SO YOU'VE GOT LOTS OF TIME. WASN'T THAT A

GREAT MESSAGE ON PRESERVATION? THAT'S ONE WORTH WATCHING OVER

AND OVER. JUST A COUPLE THINGS. REMEMBER THAT MIDWEEK RECHARGE

THIS WEEK IS ONLINE ONLY. THERE'LL BE NO IN HOUSE SERVICES

THIS WEEK ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. TUNE IN ONLINE FOR OUR HEART TO

YOUR HOME FOR OUR MIDWEEK RECHARGE PROGRAM. AND THEN, JUST

AS ANOTHER REMINDER, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, PASTOR HANK WILL

BE DOING A SPECIAL FLASHPOINT BROADCAST, SO YOU CAN TUNE IN TO

FLASHPOINT LIVE, 7 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, AND SEE PASTOR HANK

AND THE OTHER GUESTS ON THAT. WELL, GOD BLESS YOU,

THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY. HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS.

WE'LL SEE YOU BACK IN THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY.

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