Make Room For Jesus: A TBN Christmas Special

December 5, 2025 | 86:50

Matt and Laurie Crouch welcome worship leaders David and Nicole Binion along with pastors Mike and Kathy Hayes for an inspiring Christmas-themed program. Through heartfelt conversation and powerful music, the guests reflect on the meaning of the season. Pastor Mike Hayes delivers a timely Christmas message, offering hope, encouragement, and a fresh perspective on the birth of Christ.

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| Make Room For Jesus: A TBN Christmas Special | December 5, 2025

♪ (music playing)
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- if jesus is in fact the only begotten son of god
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Then his birth in a manger is the high watermark of all
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History.
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- yes.
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- and it will only be equal by his return to this planet.
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- thank you lord.
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- that's the book end.
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- i love that.
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♪ (music playing)
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♪ let us adore.
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♪ christ the lord.
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- from the time he was born, isaiah said of the increase
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Of his government and peace, there will never be an end.
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You and i are a part of an ever-increasing kingdom.
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♪ yeah, christ the lord.
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♪ (music playing)
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[applause]
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- it is christmas time.
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Merry christmas everybody.
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We welcome you to the praise program tonight, what an
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Amazing night of worship.
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Singing, a little bit of preaching.
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We got a preacher here.
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♪ come let us adore him. ♪
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♪ oh, all ye faithful. ♪
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♪ come joyful, come praising. ♪
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♪ jesus is born in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ oh come and behold him. ♪
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♪ the king of the angels. ♪
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♪ jesus is born in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ jesus is born. ♪
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♪ let us adore. ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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♪ oh clap your hands. ♪
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♪ lift up your voice. ♪
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♪ let us adore christ the lord. ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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♪ oh, come saint or sinner. ♪
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♪ his love knows no limits. ♪
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♪ jesus is born in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ oh, come join the heavens. ♪
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♪ sing worship, sing praises. ♪
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♪ jesus is born in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ jesus is born. ♪
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♪ let us adore. ♪
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♪ let us adore christ the lord. ♪
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♪ oh clap your hands. ♪
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♪ lift up your voice. ♪
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♪ let us adore. ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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♪ oh come let us adore, oh come let us adore. ♪
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♪ oh come let us adore him christ the lord. ♪
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♪ oh come let us adore. ♪
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♪ oh come let us adore him. ♪
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♪ christ the lord! ♪
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♪ let us adore. ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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♪ oh clap your hands. ♪
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♪ lift up your voice. ♪
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♪ let us adore. ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ sing christ the lord! ♪
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♪ yeah! ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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♪ let us adore! ♪
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♪ let us adore. ♪
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[applause]
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- wow.
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- let me just tell you something, let's set the
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Stage for a second.
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We got a piano, we've got singers, we got a preacher.
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You know, at some point, you know, sometimes christmas
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Goes past us too quick we think about having family
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Over and travel schedules and we think about gifts and
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We think about stuff, and when you think
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About it the right way, we are talking about time
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Changing, we are talking about you know one season
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Ending, one dispensation really ending and one
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Beginning, and we're going to try to break that down at
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Some point.
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What are you trying to say to us tonight as we go
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Through this entire evening?
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What is the top line of what we are saying in regard,
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What are we singing about?
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What are we going to be speaking about?
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What are we going to be talking about tonight?
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- we are going to be talking about the whole experience
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Matt, because from the second or third century
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Forward, christmas was a part of what they called
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Adventists or advent.
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And it included his birth, his miracle ministry, his
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Crucifixion, his resurrection, and his coming
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Again.
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And advent really means his comings.
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His appearances.
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His presence.
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So, if you leave christmas standing alone, it's missing
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The other book end because if, and i'm going to make
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This statement not facetiously but for a point.
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If jesus is in fact the only begotten son of god, then
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His birth in a manger is the high watermark of all
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History.
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- yes.
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- and it will only be equaled by his return to
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This planet.
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- thank you lord.
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- that's the book end.
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- i love that.
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- you know this also is one of laurie's favorite things to
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Do in the whole world, if we're at home and david and
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Nicole are at our house, guess what happens around
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The piano, is what's happening.
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- we go to the piano.
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- is what's happening right now.
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- some of the most beautiful times in the whole world.
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- and this program was birthed out of a few weeks
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Ago you were at our house and there was a piano and we
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Started singing and we thought what if we got a
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Beautiful manger scene put on the screen and brought
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Some guests in and some family members, first of all
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Thank you wave to the camera, smile at the camera.
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And by the way there's cameras all over the place
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So they could be tied on you right now so don't be
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Doing something, don't pinch your face up funny, be
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Smiling real big remember whether you have teeth or
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Not, smile for me okay i love that.
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And you are going to be doing a lot of kind of
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Christmas carols and by the way this is a meaningful
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Christmas for us because we have a new little addition
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To our family this little, beautiful little thing
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That's we're going to show off here in a second.
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- we are going to show that little stinky thing off.
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- that's at the time this is airing about eight month old
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Little grandbaby.
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- and those are my children, that's cody and audrey.
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- and his name is shai alexander and those are my
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Babies, my other son is running around somewhere hiding.
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But if you don't have a family you don't, let us be
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Your family.
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- we are going to sit around the piano and praise the
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Lord tonight, you know it would be such a sad thing
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If we went through this season and we just did not
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Stop and worship and we did not stop and praise and we
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Did not stop and think about how the world changed and
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The wonder of it all you know sometimes i think about
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Mary.
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She did not know what was going on, an angel
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Comes, she's a young girl out in the middle of nowhere
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Just under the stars and an angel appears and says you're
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Going to conceive emmanuel.
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God with us that god would choose to come down in a
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Crib as a human being to look us in the eye, and tell
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Us how much he loved us and tell us how to live.
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And tell us that he has redeemed us.
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And then give his life for us and if we did not just
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Take a moment so tonight, i pray that you take this
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Moment, let's do it together.
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If you do not have anybody with you, you have us.
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You have jesus right there.
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Emmanuel, god with us.
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- and don't let that kind of go in one ear and out the
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Other think about what that means god is with us, he is
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With us that means everything that he is, that
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Means healing, that means hope.
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And that means all of the things he paid for on
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The cross is ours.
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So this little moment in time started something
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Brand-new.
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And we are celebrating that tonight.
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What is on your heart just for the whole evening,
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People are deciding whether they are going to spend it
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With us, what's on your mind tonight?
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- i love christmas music, i love and we're going to do
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Some songs, that song i just did i wrote with a friend of
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Mine and all of the songs we are doing except christmas
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Carols are songs that i have written and more than
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Anything i love it when nicole sings christmas.
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I married up for sure.
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- yes you did.
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- vocally.
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And vocally too.
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- you all did, all you men.
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Sorry.
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- he writes them, i sing them.
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So it's a team effort.
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- and i play.
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- that's right you do.
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So beautifully.
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- and we got a preacher here, mike why don't you
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Start us off with something you want to say, and get us
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Going here.
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Because preachers preach is what i understood.
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- well, it is great to be here matt and the atmosphere
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Is perfect and i want to say how happy i am for my
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Christmas this year to have kathy here with me.
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Because for those of you who may not know, kathy took a
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Serious fall in our home and broke her femur in several
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Places, cut part of her femur artery and almost bled to
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Death five minutes more and she would not be here today.
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I am thankful for that.
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God saw to her.
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[applause]
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- and it's so good to have her here and
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Good to be with our dear friends here and i am a
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Preacher, i don't know if i was tried in the court of
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Law if they would find me the of preaching or not.
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I've tried for years.
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I'm not going to preach tonight, i'm going to tell a
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Story.
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I want to talk to about what all advent the comings of
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Christ mean.
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I'd like you to take this journey with me both you and
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This beautiful live audience and those of you at home.
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So let's clarify the difference here between
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Christmas which was called in old english christ mass,
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And the birth of christ the moment the word became
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Flesh.
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The difference in that and advent when we use the word
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Advent it's from an old latin word adventist and it
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Means the comings, the presence, so the advent of
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Christ is a journey that began at bethlehem.
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And as i said earlier to matt, if in fact he is the
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Son of god and we all believe he is, then his
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Birth to this planet in flesh is the high watermark
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Of the events of all of history.
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And it will only be equaled by his return.
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So not a single day advent is the whole season.
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A season of holy waiting, of reflection and preparation,
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The earliest practices date to the fourth century when
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Believers gathered to worship the one who came
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And to practice waiting and hoping, working towards his
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Return.
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Christmas is one day within advent.
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So christmas celebrates the day of the incarnation.
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And advent trains the heart to make room for god's
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Coming.
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Past, present, and future and you're going to hear that
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Statement a number of times today because the key for
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You and i to enjoy all of this power he has dispensed
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In our direction, is to make room.
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You know when i was a little boy, i was riding once with
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My grandmother in the car and we were going somewhere
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And someone had paid for a gigantic billboard and it
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Was that famous picture painted on the billboard of
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Jesus standing in his jesus robe and knocking on a door.
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And there were vines around the door it was an old heavy
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Wooden door.
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And grandma said mike you see that picture, that's
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Called standing at the door and i said yeah it's
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Beautiful, i was 10 years old i did not have a huge amount
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Of art appreciation for old world art but this i will
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Never forget.
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She said mike do you see what is different about
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That picture?
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I looked at it carefully before we sped by and i said
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I don't.
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And she said you got to notice, look before we pass
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It.
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There is no doorknob on the door.
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The doorknob is only on the inside.
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The artist painted it that way to let you know it's up
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To you to invite him in.
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He cannot force his way in the door.
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So what we are going to look at tonight in this beautiful
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Christmas special, are the comings of jesus.
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So when he said i'm the alpha and omega, who is and
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Who was, and who is to come in revelation chapter 1 in
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Verse 8, so there are three advents of christ that we
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Are going to look at tonight.
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One story but three movements if you can see it
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As a beautiful concert.
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One always arriving, god is always in the advent
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Arriving.
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Whether it be as a baby, or a teacher on a donkey, or a
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Conquering hero he's always arriving.
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Secondly, we make room for him because he came in the
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Flesh at bethlehem the lord comes now to us and offers
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To us the holy spirit.
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And that is his coming.
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To make us more than we could ever be.
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So the lord will come again in glory to renew all of
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Creation and bring heaven to earth.
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This is what i call the trinity's dance of making
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Room.
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There is a greek word that theologians use "perichoresis"
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Which means to describe the best they can the divine
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Life.
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Which we did not have a right to participate in and
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The greeks which were the predominant culture because
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The romans had only been in charge for a little while.
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Jesus day was primarily influenced by greek culture.
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The greeks had established for all the world that we
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Are basically in a hopeless situation.
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And death is the final thing.
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So the divine life was something that the greeks
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Said the gods enjoyed but we don't have a right to that.
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We are just humans in a fallen place and death is
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The hope best you can hope for.
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So they coined that phrase and it literally means to
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Make room.
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It is a picture of mutual indwelling and self giving.
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Each person of the trinity pours out love and honor for
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The other, the father into the son, the son into the
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Spirit, the spirit back to the father.
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Love constantly emptying, while i'm teaching greek,
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That's another greek word, theologians call it kenosis,
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And kenosis is the act of continual emptying.
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He pours from the cup but the cup never goes dry.
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The god we relate to is continually pouring.
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Kenosis is he tipped the cup and it never stops.
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How many of you agree that his life in your life has
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Just never stopped?
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It's a pouring and it's a healing and it's making
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Room.
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God's very being is hospitality.
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The incarnation extends the hospitality by inviting
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Humans to share eternal life.
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The son of god became human, so that humans
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Might share in the god life.
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That came from irenaueus in 140 ad a long time ago.
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The adventist trains us to live inside of this welcome.
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What the enemy always wants to do in every major
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Religion other than christianity in the world
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Has painted the picture of a god whatever their form of
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God is that is reluctant, frustrated with us and angry
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And we spend our whole life trying to appeal and appease
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Him to allow us some morsel of good not this god.
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This god is continually giving and pouring out and
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Inviting us to make room, so what should the spiritual
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Posture of advent look like?
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I'm going to give all of you here and in our beautiful
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Audience at home a chance right now to do something
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Wonderful.
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Take a deep breath because that's one of the things
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That advent is about.
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Slow down, resist the world's frenzy.
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Advent is the church learning to breathe again.
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Make the ordinary sacred.
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Resist the spectacle and fear and spiritual
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Sensationalism, i'm sorry to tell you that the world has
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Figured out and they say in the media business in the
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News business if it bleeds it leads.
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Bad news sells, problem is that's not what we are
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Commissioned to sell.
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The gospel of jesus means good news.
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So the only thing we've got to tell is good news.
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So while they busy themselves arranging and
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Producing and pouring bad news 24/7 into our lives let
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Advent be a place to make room, clear a little manger
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Space.
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Pick out a chair by the window take 10 minutes to
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Breathe deep and listen to his voice.
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And then whisper to him, come lord jesus.
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What advent calls us to is grateful remembrance.
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Where we worship, i mentioned my joy of having
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Kathy with me.
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I hope you identify something, more than what
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They sell at walmart.
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That you are thankful for this christmas.
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And i know i have.
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I am thankful for all of you as friends, so assuring
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Presence where we trust and rest.
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And finally hope manifest as anticipation where we wait
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And look for his glorious appearance.
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So we're going to enjoy another song, matt has
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Introduced me as a preacher but he has made me into
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Break me into small pieces host here that i'm going to
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Give a little bit of word there, but i am enjoying so
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Much the music and i'm kidding you because i'm
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Enjoying the format too.
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Let's sing another song.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ this christmas, take a little moment ♪
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♪ to remember the baby in a manger, the promise ♪
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♪ of heaven. ♪
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♪ lift up your eyes, there is hope in the night. ♪
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♪ there is a reason, a reason to sing. ♪
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♪ oh, oh-oh-oh, oh. ♪
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♪ this christmas, take a little breather from the ♪
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♪ madness. ♪
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♪ there's new life in the stillness, and beauty for ♪
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♪ ashes. ♪
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♪ lift up a song, every heart, every home. ♪
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♪ there is a reason. ♪
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♪ a reason to sing, oh! ♪
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♪ jesus, you are the reason to sing, oh. ♪
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♪ jesus, you are the reason we sing, oh. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ jesus, you are the reason we sing, hallelujah. ♪
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♪ jesus, you are the reason we sing, hallelujah ♪
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♪ jesus, you are the reason we sing, oh. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ this christmas, take a little moment to ♪
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♪ remember him. ♪
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[applause]
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- why is advent necessary for us?
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Advent is necessary to make holy things holy again.
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After all holiday means holy day.
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And we don't want to lose that meaning.
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So we remember his first coming, he came to
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Strengthen our resolve to wait for his return, because
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He will come.
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So advent is critical because the world offers
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Cheap substitutes for hope.
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And advent says no.
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Don't put your hope anywhere else, he will come.
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To remind us that god saves time history, he is saved by
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God's presence in past, present, and future.
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To remind us that flesh is not evil, material is not
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Evil, temporality is not evil, for god has joined
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Himself to all of these.
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The scripture strikes at this because here again the
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Greek culture talked what grew out of that was a
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Christian doctrine called dualism which basically
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Teaches that god is good but everything temporal is bad.
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People are bad the earth is bad nature is bad, it's all
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Going to be destroyed and yet we see advent that jesus
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Came and touched and promised to renew all of it.
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He does not think it's bad, he thinks it needs restored.
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He thinks is worth working with.
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I'm glad he decided that for all of us.
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The antichrist of advent is despair,
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Conspiracy, and fear.
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St. john warns us that the spirit denies that jesus
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Came in the flesh.
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There are only four times in the new testament the word
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Antichrist is used and all of them are by the apostle
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John and all of them refer to a spirit that denies the
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Work of the flesh.
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As jesus came to do.
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So that denial of his flesh hides behind several things.
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The notion of cynicism that mocks mystery, spirituality
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That despises bodies, religion that prefers
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Abstraction to incarnation.
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So there is escapism some people feel like there's a
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Time where the good people are going to be taken away
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And everything else is going to be destroyed.
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There is defeatism, which religion teaches there's
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Only a few, there's a small remnant that's going to be
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Saved and the rest is all lost.
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Advent says no.
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God comes in the flesh to touch us, to heal us, to
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Reunite us with his glorious creation.
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God lives in earthen vessels to glorify the ordinary and
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Dignify the dust.
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Why do we celebrate advent?
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Because without advent we risk profaning the ordinary.
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Failing to see god here and now.
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Forgetting the timeline of hope, god has come he is
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Coming and he will come.
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So advent re-orients our gaze from fear to
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Resurrection love.
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Practicing advent keeps the incarnation alive in our
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Imagination.
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After all it should not just be small children who
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Imagine what toys they are going to receive on
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Christmas morning, you know it will be us wide-eyed and
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Filled with hope and beauty and joy and fellowship.
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The simple sacraments of the season.
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Choose ordinary holy practices, shared meals,
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Instead of conspiracy chatter.
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Candlelight instead of constant screams.
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A psalm at bedtime, a whispered prayer at dawn
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The manger is the true axis of the world.
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Everything turns on the baby that was born in
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Bethlehem.
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So we reorients our hope, we turn from constant talk of
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Economy and politics, back to our coming king.
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We resist social media idols and empty performances.
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We need one season that declares enough already, we
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Will not bow to false hopes.
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Advent is that season.
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Christ came as an infant christ is here as a spirit,
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Christ will return as a resurrected king.
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And that's all a part of the advent.
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So there's an invitation to make room on our calendars,
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And our tables, in our churches.
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For the god who already made room for all of us.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ in humble stead a baby lays. ♪
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♪ the stars declare that he has come. ♪
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♪ a virgin holds god's only son. ♪
00:28:48.683 --> 00:28:54.022
♪ shepherds stare and wise men bow. ♪
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♪ angels sing with songs of joy. ♪
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♪ a light is blazing in the night. ♪
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♪ the glory of the promised christ. ♪
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♪ hope awakes, hope awakes. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ heaven smiles on his face. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ can you hear the wondrous sound? ♪
00:29:41.169 --> 00:29:54.816
♪ the silence breaks, creation sighs. ♪
00:29:54.816 --> 00:30:01.256
♪ come and see the word alive. ♪
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♪ infant eyes of majesty. ♪
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♪ tiny hands that hold the world. ♪
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♪ swaddling clothes could never hide. ♪
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♪ the savior born for all mankind. ♪
00:30:24.979 --> 00:30:28.983
♪ hope awakes, hope awakes. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ heaven smiles on his face. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ lift your eyes, offer praise. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ heaven smiles on his face. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ turn your eyes to david's town. ♪
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♪ will you bring your king a gift? ♪
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♪ come and worship and adore. ♪
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♪ age to age, forevermore. ♪
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♪ come and adore, come and adore. ♪
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♪ worship forever. ♪
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♪ come and adore, come and adore. ♪
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♪ worship forever. ♪
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♪ come and adore. ♪
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♪ come and adore, ohh. ♪
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♪ worship forevermore. ♪
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♪ hope awakes, hope awakes. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ heaven smiles on his face. ♪
00:32:48.423 --> 00:32:54.328
♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ lift your eyes, offer praise. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ heaven smiles on his face. ♪
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♪ hope awakes in bethlehem. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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- what a beautiful song are you kidding me?
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That was amazing.
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You know what if you just tuned in, you are watching
00:33:47.048 --> 00:33:50.251
What we love to do.
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This is like the old adage of find something you love
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To do and you will never work a day in your life, and
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This is exactly this broadcast started around
00:34:00.962 --> 00:34:05.666
Our piano a couple weeks ago.
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And we added a little bit of stuff to it.
00:34:08.136 --> 00:34:11.572
We don't have a drum set at our house or we don't have
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A bass player.
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- we are going to bring you next time.
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- we would like to have a company of voices behind us
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All the time but we don't and we don't have an
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Audience most of the time at the house, we are glad you
00:34:22.250 --> 00:34:24.752
Are here, would you wave to the camera and say hi and
00:34:24.752 --> 00:34:27.388
Smile real big for everybody and let them see that we are
00:34:27.388 --> 00:34:32.527
All just kind of doing this and guess what, wherever you
00:34:32.527 --> 00:34:35.596
Are, anywhere in the world...
00:34:35.596 --> 00:34:39.333
You can just jump right in, can you do a little
00:34:39.333 --> 00:34:41.536
Christmas carol, can you break the mood and do
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Something fun here?
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- yes i can.
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- you want fun?
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- yes something fun do whatever you want.
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Do something.
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Singers sing, preachers preach, tv hosts talk and
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Don't really do anything but you guys can.
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- mess it all up.
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♪ oh come all ye faithful.
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- okay audience that's your cue.
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♪ joyful and triumphant. ♪
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♪ oh come ye oh come ye to bethlehem. ♪
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♪ come let me hold him. ♪
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♪ born the king of angels. ♪
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♪ oh, come let us adore him. ♪
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♪ oh come let us adore him. ♪
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♪ christ, the lord. ♪
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- okay something else dave.
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Come on be creative.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ silent night. ♪
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♪ holy night. ♪
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Come on you can sing.
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♪ all is calm. ♪
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♪ all is bright. ♪
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♪ round yon virgin, mother and child. ♪
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♪ holy infant so tender and mild. ♪
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♪ sleep in heavenly peace. ♪
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This is a fun one.
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♪ away in the manger. ♪
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- let's sing jingle bells.
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- come on change it up.
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- okay.
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Be fun for a moment.
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♪ jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. ♪
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♪ oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. ♪
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♪ hey! ♪
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♪ jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way. ♪
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♪ oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. ♪
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♪ rudolph the red nose reindeer. ♪
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♪ had a very shiny nose. ♪
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♪ and if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows. ♪
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♪ all of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him ♪
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♪ names. ♪
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♪ they never let poor rudolph, join in any reindeer games. ♪
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♪ then one foggy christmas eve, santa came to say, ♪
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♪ rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my ♪
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♪ sleigh tonight? ♪
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♪ then how the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with ♪
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♪ glee. ♪
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♪ rudolph the red nose reindeer. ♪
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♪ you will go down in history. ♪
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- okay.
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So, we are touching the hearts of the kids.
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I don't think your mother would've ever approved of us
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Doing that.
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- it's okay she's not here.
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She's in heaven now.
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- she is jingling her bells up there.
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- all right.
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- so we have to do something else for the kids.
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♪ (music playing)
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- i understand you like the song for your grandbaby.
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- yes watch this we'll have a little nativity scene we are
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Going to develop right here right now.
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Watch this.
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♪ - twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder what you ♪
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♪ are. ♪
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♪ up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, ♪
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♪ twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder, what you are. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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- mike you were saying early, figure out something
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You are going to be grateful for and not toys, not
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Something you can buy, this is kind of that thing that
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We are grateful for and his name is shai alexander and
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Grandpa can usually get him to laugh a little bit.
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♪ (music playing)
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- i am grateful for my children.
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This one and this one cody and audrey have--
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- you guys prophesied it, you named him shai.
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- he is a doll.
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- and i love them for giving me this baby.
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- this is the way matt and his guy cody back there and
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His other son around here wherever he is at.
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That's the way they started on tv set right there.
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- yeah.
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- it's amazing it's full circle.
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Look at that.
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It's nice not to be the center of attention.
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And let this guy be.
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- you were the one being thrown up in the air.
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- he is wondering what in the world is going on?
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Another christmas carol let's go.
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- i love you.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ joy to the world. ♪
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♪ the lord has come. ♪
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- okay sing it come on now.
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♪ let earth receive her king. ♪
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♪ let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature ♪
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♪ sing and heaven and nature sing and heaven, and heaven, ♪
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♪ and nature sing. ♪
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♪ he rules the world with truth and grace. ♪
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♪ and makes the nations prove. ♪
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♪ the glories of his righteousness. ♪
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♪ and wonders of his love. ♪
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♪ and wonders, wonders, of his love. ♪
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- you know what i love when i think about christmas and
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I think about you david?
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You would develop an atmosphere of worship with
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One of the christmas carols.
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Which one was that?
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- it was the one we started.
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Oh, come let us adore him.
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- the story is i was at a church in kentucky at a camp
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Meeting in the middle of the summer and the first time i
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Ever heard the song sung in a worship set, i was thrown
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Cause it was a camp meeting, everyone was sweating.
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And we are singing oh come let us adore him but the
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Atmosphere shifted and i was like 15 years old and i was
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Mesmerized by what i was experiencing but i did not
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Know how to articulate.
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But i found myself on our bus the very next day,
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Nobody was there just me and i'm at the back and i was
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Reading my bible and i close the bible and i put my hands
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Up on the closet door and i remembered what happened
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That night and i just started singing oh come let
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Us adore him.
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And it was like the wind of god...
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Came on the back of the bus and i didn't want to move i
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Didn't want to lift a finger, because i did not
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Want it to stop so i just began to practice there,
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Privately every day for a few months.
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And then i found myself at a dead pentecostal church in
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California.
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- do tell.
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- all the songs.
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All the songs this is fresno.
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All the songs we did, all the songs that we did in the
00:43:47.948 --> 00:43:53.053
Bible the high notes, the fast songs weren't working.
00:43:53.053 --> 00:43:55.856
All the emotional buttons we were pushing, weren't
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Working and you know i got to this point where i did
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Not care much about them anymore, i was desperate for
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Me, and for the first time i hit the keyboard and started
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Singing in a church service it opened my eyes and the
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Entire dead church were on their feet with their hands
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Lifted worshiping and i was like this is why i am on
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The planet.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ oh come let us adore him, oh, come let us adore him. ♪
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♪ oh, come let us adore him, christ the lord. ♪
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♪ for he alone is worthy. ♪
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♪ for he alone is worthy christ the lord. ♪
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♪ we will give him all the glory. ♪
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♪ christ the lord. ♪
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[audience]
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- matt, i'm so glad you said that to them about
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The song, all of them that he has written but the last
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One with hope arising.
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I love these old christmas standards because they take
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Us back in our mind but they are not better songs i don't
00:46:06.687 --> 00:46:11.558
Want to hurt anybody's feelings but i want to tell
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You all something that i believe with all my heart.
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You are writing some of the greatest songs ever sung
00:46:15.162 --> 00:46:18.298
About christmas.
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And i want that in my collection for christmas and
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Wherever you download music download this music because
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I could stand a fresh anointing of songs for
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Christmas and you all have provided that in the way you
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Write them and the way you perform them and the way you
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Sing them.
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They are structurally sound, they are beautifully
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Written, they are melodious, they are heart touching, but
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They are anointed and david the way the lord speaks to
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You in a unique way and your spirit that comes through
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Your heart and onto the keyboard and onto the
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Computer and into a studio and into people's lives,
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That's going to continue pouring from you for years
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To come.
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And i almost feel like it would be trite to say
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Because i really feel the spirit of prophecy and i
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Almost feel like if you try to say your best is yet to
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Come because it's almost like that speaks down to
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What you've already done and been, it's been great.
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We are thankful for it.
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But is not going to stop.
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Your purest, your best, your most in tuned, and in touch
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With where the holy spirit is guiding and leading
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His kingdom.
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Because you know when the book of revelation was
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Written, the angel would speak to john about what
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Something look like in heaven but when john looked
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It was not with the angel told him is going to look
00:48:01.935 --> 00:48:04.938
Like.
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It gets confusing to some people but don't be
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Confused.
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This is what i feel in this moment, as the angel said to
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John, matt.
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Come and see the lion of judah that has triumphed and
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Is worthy to unloose the scrolls.
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And that is the future.
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So john says when i heard that i turned and i looked
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He did not see a lion, he said i turned and looked and
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I saw a lamb that had been slaughtered...
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Standing.
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That imagery struck me recently and i could not
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Stop weeping.
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Think of that imagery.
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A lamb that had been slain obviously bloodied from the
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Battle, but standing.
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That's how the lion overcame.
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So john gets a dual picture what that looks like in
00:49:00.994 --> 00:49:04.364
Heaven what that looks like to us.
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And the reason you sing and the reason you say, and the
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Reason you write, is because we are serving the only
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Resurrected king that has ever been and he is the
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Wounded lamb but he is standing.
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He is standing.
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He's not down for the count he's standing.
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I want to tell you to quick stories to compare what we
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Are talking about the manger and pandora's box, you've
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Heard of pandora's box?
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I told you a lot of culture from the greeks came into
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The generation of jesus and the story of pandora's box
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Is it's a greek myth that says that a character named
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Pandora opens a jar or box and out of the jar float
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Billows of sorrow and sickness and death.
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That's what poured out of pandora's box.
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So she was so alarmed that she slammed the lid back on
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The box trapping hope at the bottom.
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So the greeks concluded from the story that the world is
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Hopeless and that death is final.
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Let's compare that greek myth and a myth it is with
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The true story of the manger's trough into the
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World of death and herod, and wickedness and sickness hope
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Is born.
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Paul celebrates it and says about hope in a world that
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Is hopeless god our father abraham against hope
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Believed in hope.
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And then he said to the thessalonians listen do not
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Sorrow as those who have no hope.
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Hope is arising so the christian god is the god of
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Hope there are three dimensions of hope
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Revelatory hope, which causes the angels to
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Proclaim it's coming, hope speaks as a promise and
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There's anticipatory hope it's hope that is glimpsed
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But not grasped.
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It's already and not yet.
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Because we participate in a participatory like mary who
00:51:19.733 --> 00:51:25.305
Held the baby like we just met little shai alexander.
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She held the baby jesus in her arms and nourished it
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And nurtured it.
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Because hope is incarnational partnership
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With god's future.
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The nature of the advent of hope is that hope does not
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Mean how it is is how it will always be but we have a
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Sign a child a shoot of jesse that tells us it's going
00:51:51.364 --> 00:51:58.305
To be all right.
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One of the messages that the church has lost that the
00:52:00.674 --> 00:52:03.710
Fathers of the church knew is that isaiah 9 and 6 had
00:52:03.710 --> 00:52:07.581
Beautiful quote about the prophecy of the coming
00:52:07.581 --> 00:52:10.750
Messiah jesus unto us a child is born, a son is
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Given the government will be up on his shoulders and then
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The next verse he tells us what we must never forget
00:52:16.189 --> 00:52:19.192
From the time he was born isaiah said of the increase
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Of his government and peace there will never be an end.
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You and i are part of an ever increasing kingdom.
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That means the kingdom today is as small as it ever will
00:52:32.505 --> 00:52:37.978
Be because tomorrow it's a little bigger.
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But the kingdom grows by gradual increase.
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And even sometimes prophecy teachers in my humble
00:52:44.784 --> 00:52:49.990
Opinion get a bit carried away, and off course and
00:52:49.990 --> 00:52:55.895
Tend to throw the world's problems and emergencies at
00:52:55.895 --> 00:52:59.199
Us as a sign of what jesus and his kingdom are doing
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:02.602
That's not the sign, russia china, and north korea, iran
00:53:02.602 --> 00:53:06.773
That is not the sign.
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The sign is the ever increasing life of the
00:53:08.541 --> 00:53:12.012
Kingdom it's getting greater than it's ever been.
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That's the sign.
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So advent awakens living hope of wonderful counselor,
00:53:16.583 --> 00:53:21.288
And mighty god and everlasting abba.
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So that's why sammy and the old prophet stood on the
00:53:25.225 --> 00:53:29.162
Porch when jesus was brought in swaddling clothes and
00:53:29.162 --> 00:53:32.966
Laid in his arms and he said okay.
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It's okay for me to die now.
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Because my eyes have seen the answer and the messiah
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If god comes as a baby his salvation is not afraid of
00:53:42.676 --> 00:53:51.017
Vulnerability.
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Not of dependability, and hope comes to us in the
00:53:53.386 --> 00:53:58.391
Innocence of a child.
00:53:58.391 --> 00:54:01.428
I want you to know that our salvation is not fragile and
00:54:01.428 --> 00:54:05.532
God is not afraid you're going to lose it, and it's
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Never going to go away.
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Right there where you are, i understand christmas
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Sadness.
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My late grandmother and my grandfather on my
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Maternal side were divorced, the war destroyed him.
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He was a good man that came home from world war ii
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Destroyed.
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And they could not maintain a marriage he told me once
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Mike i can't live with her, and i can't live without
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Her.
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I don't know what to do with my life.
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So my uncle that was only five years older than me was
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A late child of the marriage, uncle sonny he's
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In heaven now.
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He would tell me the story that grandma would say okay,
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We're going to have christmas this year, go get
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Me a tree.
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So he would go down to the store and he would buy them
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A tree, and he would bring it up the stairs in their
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Little apartment and they'd decorate it and then
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Grandma would get depressed and get to crying about
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Christmas.
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And she said okay donnie take the tree out we are not
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Having christmas.
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So he would drag it down the stairs put it out
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For the trash.
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The next day she said no no bring that tree back
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We're going to have christmas.
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And donnie said most christmases by the time
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Christmas day got there the tree did not have a needle
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Left on it.
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It had been up and down the stairs listen i don't ever
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Want to lose touch with the fact that there are those of
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You out there that don't have a big family around you
00:55:33.987 --> 00:55:37.357
And lots of faith and friends.
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Did you know recently that the longest study
00:55:39.893 --> 00:55:42.695
On happiness ever conducted in world history was just
00:55:42.695 --> 00:55:46.166
Completed it was started in harvard university 80 years
00:55:46.166 --> 00:55:48.902
Ago and they followed 1500 men for 80 years.
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To write a book on happiness, i read the book
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Because i wrote a book on happiness and i want to know
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What is said.
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You know what it said?
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The final conclusion was if you're surrounded by a strong
00:56:03.082 --> 00:56:06.653
And loving family and a network of good friends that
00:56:06.653 --> 00:56:10.657
You are going to live a happier life than those who
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Don't.
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I could've told them that a long time shorter than 80
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Years.
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And here's the problem.
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What do you do if you got no strong family and a network
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Of friends?
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Do you just miserable your way through life?
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No no that's what advent is about.
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It's a song of hope that people who walked in
00:56:32.045 --> 00:56:36.249
Darkness have seen a great light.
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The true light which gives light to everyone came into
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The world.
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Zachariah in 9 and verse 12 i love this verse he said
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Return to your stronghold oh prisoners of hope.
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We don't give up on hope what is the manger's lesson?
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Don't despise the smallest a feeding trough the manger
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Feeds the world and god puts himself where the world eats.
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Advent teaches nourishment through humility.
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Place your emptiness before jesus.
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And receive his fullness.
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The beauty of the anointing that we all feel right now i
00:57:16.456 --> 00:57:20.360
Hope it's visiting you wherever you are you may be
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:24.430
In a prison cell, you may be in a lonely
00:57:24.430 --> 00:57:27.333
Room by yourself you may be in the hospital, you
00:57:27.333 --> 00:57:30.003
May be surrounded by a small family but you've lost your
00:57:30.003 --> 00:57:34.340
Way.
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Times are tough, money is short, but advent tells us a
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Beautiful story.
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He has made room for you.
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They did not make room for him.
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But he has made room for you.
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So look at the end of pandora's story.
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Pandora's story leaves hope locked away but the gospel
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Lifts hope to the surface and places him in our arms
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And says to the world behold when we make room hope
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Awakes.
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Not as concept but as christ himself.
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So what we have to do and what david and nicole do
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With this beautiful song is to make room.
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It's as simple as that.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ no room in the inn for the savior. ♪
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♪ sadly they turned him away. ♪
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♪ send 'em on out to the stable. ♪
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♪ let him be born with the sheep and the hay. ♪
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♪ no room for jesus. ♪
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♪ (music playing)
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♪ no room in our worship for jesus. ♪
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♪ forsaking his will for a stage. ♪
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♪ content to just go through the motions. ♪
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♪ get through the list and we'll call it a day. ♪
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♪ no room for jesus, no room for jesus. ♪
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♪ but i have decided, i'm making room, i'm making ♪
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♪ room. ♪
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♪ here in my heart, oh lord, i'm making room, i'm making ♪
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♪ room. ♪
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♪ come and dwell in me, jesus, never leave. ♪
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♪ i'm making room yes i am oh. ♪
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♪ (music playing)
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♪ the first thing i'll do in the morning, the last thing ♪
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♪ i'll do ev'ry night. ♪
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♪ is build you a throne with my worship. ♪
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♪ i live for communion, no matter the price. ♪
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♪ there's room for jesus, always room for jesus. ♪
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♪ (music playing)
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♪ i have decided, i'm making room, i'm making room. ♪
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♪ here in my heart, o lord, i'm making room, i'm making ♪
01:00:35.054 --> 01:00:43.329
♪ room. ♪
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♪ come and dwell in me, jesus, never leave. ♪
01:00:45.264 --> 01:00:53.673
♪ i'm making room ♪
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♪ (music playing)
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♪ cause i delight, i delight in you. ♪
01:01:06.786 --> 01:01:13.459
♪ all that i want, is found in you. ♪
01:01:13.459 --> 01:01:22.235
♪ i delight, i delight in you. ♪
01:01:22.235 --> 01:01:31.577
♪ all that i want, is found in you. ♪
01:01:31.577 --> 01:01:39.919
♪ sing i delight, i delight in you. ♪
01:01:39.919 --> 01:01:48.027
♪ all that i want, is found in you. ♪
01:01:48.027 --> 01:01:57.036
♪ i delight, i delight in you. ♪
01:01:57.036 --> 01:02:05.945
♪ all that i want, is found in you. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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- you know, matt just a week or two ago after i heard from
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You all about this and was honored to be asked to share
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:30.770
Something in it, i was just having some thought time one
01:02:30.770 --> 01:02:35.675
Morning and my devotional time and i don't think of
01:02:35.675 --> 01:02:40.012
Myself as a poet i am a writer and we are writing a
01:02:40.012 --> 01:02:43.216
Book on the eschatology of hope right now.
01:02:43.216 --> 01:02:45.718
And i called my brilliant theologian partner that
01:02:45.718 --> 01:02:51.891
Rights with me dr. jeff garner and i told him what
01:02:51.891 --> 01:02:55.962
Happened to me and what the lord gave me.
01:02:55.962 --> 01:02:57.430
And i said i feel like this is supposed to become a poem
01:02:57.430 --> 01:03:00.533
About the whole advent, every visit he made from the
01:03:00.533 --> 01:03:03.536
Manger to the cross and the tomb, to the upper room to
01:03:03.536 --> 01:03:10.543
The disciples behind locked doors, to --, and then to
01:03:10.543 --> 01:03:14.247
Enter the new heaven and earth because this is all
01:03:14.247 --> 01:03:20.753
That came to me in my devotional.
01:03:20.753 --> 01:03:22.255
His birth his ministry, his cross, and his tomb.
01:03:22.255 --> 01:03:31.530
And then after all of that he enters the room.
01:03:31.530 --> 01:03:37.670
And i said i got to do something with this.
01:03:37.670 --> 01:03:41.607
So i've written this poem that i want to share with us
01:03:41.607 --> 01:03:46.746
Tonight if that's okay.
01:03:46.746 --> 01:03:48.014
Right in the middle of the song.
01:03:48.014 --> 01:03:49.949
Because i did not know that you were going to do this
01:03:49.949 --> 01:03:53.085
Song but then we spoke to you and said what songs
01:03:53.085 --> 01:03:57.156
Are you doing and will this coordinate with it?
01:03:57.156 --> 01:03:59.492
Would it coordinate is the name of the song and the
01:03:59.492 --> 01:04:03.562
Name of the poem.
01:04:03.562 --> 01:04:04.697
So if you listen to this poem you are going to hear
01:04:04.697 --> 01:04:09.101
In its rhythm the visits to various rooms that jesus had
01:04:09.101 --> 01:04:15.074
Made has made and what is still to come.
01:04:15.074 --> 01:04:18.878
Enjoy it with me.
01:04:18.878 --> 01:04:22.782
Making room.
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No room in the inn said the people of bethlehem the
01:04:25.584 --> 01:04:30.089
Empires know to micah's prophetic hope.
01:04:30.089 --> 01:04:33.993
So the earth opened the cave and the manger strewn with
01:04:33.993 --> 01:04:37.630
Saw, straw with the sheep and the donkeys and camels
01:04:37.630 --> 01:04:42.368
And worshiping all, room was made heavens child wrapped
01:04:42.368 --> 01:04:46.872
In human beneath played because creation always had
01:04:46.872 --> 01:04:52.078
More space for him than empire did.
01:04:52.078 --> 01:04:55.548
Advent set a precedence and ironic wisdom to satan's
01:04:55.548 --> 01:04:59.752
Hiss.
01:04:59.752 --> 01:05:01.620
Every inhospitable door would break open.
01:05:01.620 --> 01:05:06.292
Herod's incredulous ridiculous jealous behest
01:05:06.292 --> 01:05:10.563
Could not stop the kingdom of animals and plants and
01:05:10.563 --> 01:05:14.433
Their sheltering yes.
01:05:14.433 --> 01:05:17.169
Small town lazarus nazareth screamed, get out of here,
01:05:17.169 --> 01:05:21.974
Galilee opened her happy hillsides and glad tiberius
01:05:21.974 --> 01:05:26.612
Shores.
01:05:26.612 --> 01:05:27.913
Religious elites folded their arms and lifted their noses
01:05:27.913 --> 01:05:31.717
Sinners opened their doors as god's gifted and chosen
01:05:31.717 --> 01:05:37.156
Pharisees said not at this table.
01:05:37.156 --> 01:05:41.660
Zakia said, come to my house.
01:05:41.660 --> 01:05:44.363
The temple system pulled its support while the
01:05:44.363 --> 01:05:49.235
Willingness jordan flung open heavens courts everywhere a
01:05:49.235 --> 01:05:53.873
Door closed, a bigger room flung wide open.
01:05:53.873 --> 01:05:56.042
Blind rooms, shame rooms.
01:05:56.042 --> 01:06:03.516
Demon rooms.
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To any and all who would make room they discovered
01:06:04.950 --> 01:06:09.688
All of heaven fulfilled every empty space with grace
01:06:09.688 --> 01:06:13.592
God's face looking at the human race i go to prepare a
01:06:13.592 --> 01:06:18.764
Place for in my father's house are many rooms.
01:06:18.764 --> 01:06:21.634
Outside of time and space room without prejudice and
01:06:21.634 --> 01:06:27.173
When the room of history slammed shut rome and
01:06:27.173 --> 01:06:32.311
Jerusalem's colluding powers said 30 years is enough.
01:06:32.311 --> 01:06:38.250
Jerusalem is ours you there is no room.
01:06:38.250 --> 01:06:42.788
A kick to the curb of via dolorosa penned by nails
01:06:42.788 --> 01:06:49.428
Outside the city gates.
01:06:49.428 --> 01:06:52.565
Out of history's first century page, out of cloth,
01:06:52.565 --> 01:06:56.402
And breath and out of blood, and death like the first
01:06:56.402 --> 01:07:01.140
Advent borrowing a womb so coming to death he had to
01:07:01.140 --> 01:07:05.878
Borrow somebody else's tomb.
01:07:05.878 --> 01:07:08.013
Locked and sealed away in the no room tomb, a century
01:07:08.013 --> 01:07:12.251
Stood guard advent exercised from first century earth's
01:07:12.251 --> 01:07:18.157
Garden the closed door of ad 33 opened up into every
01:07:18.157 --> 01:07:22.628
Century from noah to jonah to each and every persona.
01:07:22.628 --> 01:07:28.534
The river sticks, gehenna smoldering wicks advent came
01:07:28.534 --> 01:07:35.141
Slipping past the guards of sheol, [indiscernible]
01:07:35.141 --> 01:07:39.411
Hades and the hounds of -- through sulfurous gates and
01:07:39.411 --> 01:07:43.282
Torment ascending to the podium and with raised voice
01:07:43.282 --> 01:07:48.988
He preached to noah's generation the great i am is
01:07:48.988 --> 01:07:52.992
The ark of human salvation.
01:07:52.992 --> 01:07:54.693
Christ footsteps of advent heard bringing the gospel of
01:07:54.693 --> 01:07:59.732
Peace.
01:07:59.732 --> 01:08:00.733
Death watched him snatch the satanic keys.
01:08:00.733 --> 01:08:04.470
The death of death hades myth debunked up from the
01:08:04.470 --> 01:08:09.642
Grave out from the tomb earthshaking in its boots.
01:08:09.642 --> 01:08:14.446
Through locked doors past thick walls of fear and
01:08:14.446 --> 01:08:18.751
Shame coming from garden tomb and one leap, back to
01:08:18.751 --> 01:08:22.988
Mount beatitude crisscrossing skies and seas
01:08:22.988 --> 01:08:26.725
With the resurrection feels names and fames and systems
01:08:26.725 --> 01:08:31.697
And forces in its dust.
01:08:31.697 --> 01:08:34.200
Splendid ascension higher and higher seated at the
01:08:34.200 --> 01:08:38.404
Right hand of all power not a small chamber but
01:08:38.404 --> 01:08:41.907
Revelations infinite throne room mercy wide grace
01:08:41.907 --> 01:08:47.680
Running deep prepared for wandering sons and daughters
01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:51.817
And holy exiles and pilgrims and climbing jacob's ladder
01:08:51.817 --> 01:08:57.856
And refugees and fugitives god's nomads of hope the
01:08:57.856 --> 01:09:03.095
Bride who wants the groom who comes advent speaks
01:09:03.095 --> 01:09:07.299
Again i am coming, i am reclaiming my earth, i will
01:09:07.299 --> 01:09:11.537
Unlock graves and waken the dust and call bone to bone
01:09:11.537 --> 01:09:17.676
And breath to breath.
01:09:17.676 --> 01:09:20.145
Sing the stars back into their hymns burst and very
01:09:20.145 --> 01:09:24.516
Heaven and earth and bring the city of lamb light whose
01:09:24.516 --> 01:09:28.687
Gates never closed or the river of life never slows
01:09:28.687 --> 01:09:32.157
But where children skip and laugh and lions keep watch
01:09:32.157 --> 01:09:37.563
With lambs the one who's heard no room in bethlehem
01:09:37.563 --> 01:09:42.468
Turns every no into a banquet hall spacious
01:09:42.468 --> 01:09:48.040
Dwellings drenched in presence i make room here.
01:09:48.040 --> 01:09:53.312
I make room beyond death and make room in you and in
01:09:53.312 --> 01:09:58.584
You and you and me and the father and us.
01:09:58.584 --> 01:10:04.156
And the spirit within.
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The room of god where we all now belong.
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[applause]
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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♪ so i have decided, i am making room. ♪
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♪ i am making room. ♪
01:10:20.739 --> 01:10:24.310
♪ here in my heart i am making room. ♪
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♪ i am making room. ♪
01:10:30.182 --> 01:10:34.553
♪ come and dwell in me jesus never leave. ♪
01:10:34.553 --> 01:10:42.728
♪ i have decided. ♪
01:10:42.728 --> 01:10:50.235
♪ i am making room. ♪
01:10:50.235 --> 01:10:56.008
♪ here in my heart oh lord, i am making room. ♪
01:10:54.173 --> 01:11:02.548
♪ i am making room. ♪
01:11:02.548 --> 01:11:05.050
♪ come and dwell in me. ♪
01:11:05.050 --> 01:11:10.522
♪ jesus never leave. ♪
01:11:10.522 --> 01:11:14.560
♪ let every heart. ♪
01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:24.236
♪ prepare him room. ♪
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♪ i am making room you can live in me jesus. ♪
01:11:31.443 --> 01:11:34.713
♪ you can move in me jesus. ♪
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♪ let every heart. ♪
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♪ prepare him room. ♪
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♪ i am making room. ♪
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♪ making room. ♪
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♪ let every heart. ♪
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♪ prepare him room. ♪
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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- dear friends i appreciate you watching and we are not
01:12:10.149 --> 01:12:12.484
Finished yet, mat and laurie are going to take this in
01:12:12.484 --> 01:12:16.422
Just a moment but i have to acknowledge along with all
01:12:16.422 --> 01:12:19.391
Of you that there is a sweetest presence of jesus.
01:12:19.391 --> 01:12:22.861
This is a beautiful studio and everything is done with
01:12:22.861 --> 01:12:28.934
Excellence but we needed his presence.
01:12:28.934 --> 01:12:32.938
We can do nothing without him.
01:12:32.938 --> 01:12:36.842
And i don't know where you are, i don't know what your
01:12:36.842 --> 01:12:39.711
Situation is it may not be great, but i want to just
01:12:39.711 --> 01:12:43.415
Invite you to pray a prayer with us if you what.
01:12:43.415 --> 01:12:46.718
Because if you have heard anything i hope you've heard
01:12:46.718 --> 01:12:50.055
From this evening songs and message that he's made room
01:12:50.055 --> 01:12:53.692
For you.
01:12:53.692 --> 01:12:56.295
You got a special friend that he's made room for you.
01:12:56.295 --> 01:12:59.865
And i want to ask you to join me in this prayer right
01:12:59.865 --> 01:13:03.735
Now simple as can be say father, thank you for
01:13:03.735 --> 01:13:08.273
Sending jesus born as a baby, worked miracles, crucified
01:13:08.273 --> 01:13:19.485
For nothing.
01:13:19.485 --> 01:13:21.186
Raised from the tomb.
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And is alive today.
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I acknowledge you jesus.
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And i need you in my life.
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Come into my heart, and be lord of my life.
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You are the only resurrected king.
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And you are the lamb that was slain but you are
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Standing.
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For me.
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I receive you now.
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Into my life.
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And the rest of my life, belongs to you.
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In jesus name, and by his grace, i am saved.
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Amen.
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[applause]
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- you know, we started off earlier mike and i said
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Let's go back in the way back machine and kind of
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Remember back to the early days and we both have gray
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Hair so we can't remember exactly when it was but you
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Know we are talking the 80s that we would've known each
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Other, we are talking what is that 40 years now?
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And think back to what a praise program was then,
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As opposed to what we're doing now we're doing the
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Same exact thing we are inviting jesus into the room
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And broadcasting it literally around the world
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And to every you know every continent into places where
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There is electricity and some places there isn't.
01:14:56.014 --> 01:15:00.953
The signal is beaming and the love of jesus we are making
01:15:00.953 --> 01:15:05.324
Room in the entire world for this.
01:15:05.324 --> 01:15:08.260
- well your folks and that was one of their strengths
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They never lost focus on that.
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We all got tickled early because i think it was nicole
01:15:13.498 --> 01:15:16.468
That said i don't know if jan would have let us sing
01:15:16.468 --> 01:15:19.471
Rudolph the red nose reindeer and i said if you
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Had let her lead into the lord she would've.
01:15:22.507 --> 01:15:24.376
But he had to be a saved reindeer because that's
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Where they stayed, they stayed so focused on others
01:15:28.480 --> 01:15:31.783
If you don't mind me taking 30 seconds to tell this
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Story, you called me or i called you at your father's
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Death bed in the hospital, and i had been praying for
01:15:39.391 --> 01:15:43.729
Him and the lord gave me this beautiful word for him.
01:15:43.729 --> 01:15:47.332
And so you put the phone down there and we said hi
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And i said paul i got a word for you it's for you, i
01:15:51.903 --> 01:15:55.407
Shared it with him i thought it was so precious and it
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Was from the lord and it was for him.
01:15:58.810 --> 01:16:00.912
But this is my point paul said well mike, that's a
01:16:00.912 --> 01:16:04.750
Beautiful message.
01:16:04.750 --> 01:16:09.087
But he said i'm not doing the booking on the praise
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Show anymore you will have to check with jan.
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To preach that.
01:16:14.993 --> 01:16:20.399
And i said paul, i did not share that with you to
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Preach on the praise program that's a word for you.
01:16:23.001 --> 01:16:26.605
But right to the end within hours of his passing and
01:16:26.605 --> 01:16:31.810
Going to heaven his thought was let's take everything we
01:16:31.810 --> 01:16:36.915
Hear good about god and let's put it out there for
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People.
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- there it is well we did the same thing we had
01:16:41.119 --> 01:16:44.623
David and nicole around our piano at our house and it
01:16:44.623 --> 01:16:47.626
Turned into this for the world.
01:16:47.626 --> 01:16:48.860
And you know generation after generation after
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Generation.
01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:55.801
After generation.
01:16:55.801 --> 01:16:57.903
That's what god does.
01:16:57.903 --> 01:16:58.970
God pours his love out on every generation in a
01:16:58.970 --> 01:17:03.075
Brand-new way in a beautiful way i look at my kids and i
01:17:03.075 --> 01:17:06.178
Look at my grandkids i look at yours, i look at yours.
01:17:06.178 --> 01:17:09.715
And i just think this continues in such a
01:17:09.715 --> 01:17:14.419
Beautiful beautiful way, that 2000 years ago, the
01:17:14.419 --> 01:17:18.857
World changed.
01:17:18.857 --> 01:17:23.061
We are always waiting for god to do something, god did
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Do something.
01:17:25.197 --> 01:17:27.065
- something really big 2000 years ago.
01:17:27.065 --> 01:17:30.402
It was 2000 years ago for you and me and we will tell
01:17:30.402 --> 01:17:33.271
Him his love forever.
01:17:33.271 --> 01:17:36.942
We will sing of his love forever.
01:17:36.942 --> 01:17:38.577
My children will sing of his love forever my grandbabies
01:17:38.577 --> 01:17:42.614
Will sing of his love forever and so will yours.
01:17:42.614 --> 01:17:45.250
I believe that for you tonight wherever you are in
01:17:45.250 --> 01:17:49.454
This world, our hearts are with you, our faith is for
01:17:49.454 --> 01:17:52.891
You, god is for you.
01:17:52.891 --> 01:17:55.260
Jesus loves you.
01:17:55.260 --> 01:17:56.895
He loves you so much that he came and he died for us.
01:17:56.895 --> 01:18:01.032
And that living hope that we have is so glorious and so
01:18:01.032 --> 01:18:05.437
Powerful and can transform our lives to his kingdom,
01:18:05.437 --> 01:18:10.642
His will be done right here on earth right here in earth,
01:18:10.642 --> 01:18:14.946
Right here for us.
01:18:14.946 --> 01:18:18.283
As it is in heaven.
01:18:18.283 --> 01:18:21.419
- you told the story about my dad that made me think
01:18:21.419 --> 01:18:24.389
And i remember in moments like this he would usually
01:18:24.389 --> 01:18:30.629
During a fundraising thing so pass the offering buckets if
01:18:30.629 --> 01:18:33.431
You would please, we don't have any sorry.
01:18:33.431 --> 01:18:36.301
But it was probably during a telethon and he would say
01:18:36.301 --> 01:18:39.471
Well, when god's people own the whole station we would
01:18:39.471 --> 01:18:43.275
Just go on all night what we've kind of done that on
01:18:43.275 --> 01:18:45.410
The special here if everyone looks at their watch we've
01:18:45.410 --> 01:18:50.248
Gone well past the one hour and if you will give me one
01:18:50.248 --> 01:18:53.185
Or two more songs we will go to the 130 like the old days
01:18:53.185 --> 01:18:57.155
So you got one or two more in you?
01:18:57.155 --> 01:18:59.224
♪ a thousand generations falling down in worship. ♪
01:18:59.224 --> 01:19:03.895
♪ to sing the song of angels. ♪
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♪ and all who have gone before us, and all that will ♪
01:19:10.335 --> 01:19:17.676
♪ believe, will sing the song of ages to the lamb. ♪
01:19:17.676 --> 01:19:22.948
♪ because your name is the highest, your name is the ♪
01:19:22.948 --> 01:19:32.157
♪ greatest. ♪
01:19:32.157 --> 01:19:34.326
♪ your name stands above all. ♪
01:19:34.326 --> 01:19:37.329
♪ above all thrones and dominions. ♪
01:19:37.329 --> 01:19:44.436
♪ all powers and positions. ♪
01:19:44.436 --> 01:19:46.271
♪ your name stands above them all. ♪
01:19:46.271 --> 01:19:51.443
♪ and the angels cry, "holy!" ♪
01:19:51.443 --> 01:20:00.585
♪ all creation cries, "holy!" ♪
01:20:00.585 --> 01:20:04.890
♪ you are lifted high, holy! ♪
01:20:04.890 --> 01:20:11.830
♪ holy forever. ♪
01:20:11.830 --> 01:20:19.738
♪ hear the people sing, holy! ♪
01:20:19.738 --> 01:20:25.343
♪ to the king of kings. ♪
01:20:25.343 --> 01:20:28.213
♪ holy. ♪
01:20:28.213 --> 01:20:33.151
♪ you will always be holy. ♪
01:20:33.151 --> 01:20:38.790
♪ holy forever. ♪
01:20:38.790 --> 01:20:46.498
♪ so if you've been forgiven, if you've been redeemed. ♪
01:20:46.498 --> 01:20:53.571
♪ sing the song forever to the lamb. ♪
01:20:53.571 --> 01:20:57.776
♪ if you walk in freedom, if you bear his name, sing the ♪
01:20:57.776 --> 01:21:08.119
♪ song forever to the lamb. ♪
01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:11.656
♪ we'll sing the song forever and amen. ♪
01:21:11.656 --> 01:21:22.133
♪ and the angels cry, "holy!" ♪
01:21:22.133 --> 01:21:26.338
♪ all creation cries, "holy!" ♪
01:21:26.338 --> 01:21:32.978
♪ you are lifted high, holy! ♪
01:21:32.978 --> 01:21:39.017
♪ holy forever. ♪
01:21:39.017 --> 01:21:42.954
♪ hear the people sing, holy! ♪
01:21:42.954 --> 01:21:53.832
♪ to the king of kings. ♪
01:21:53.832 --> 01:21:57.669
♪ holy. ♪
01:21:57.669 --> 01:21:59.637
♪ you will always be holy. ♪
01:21:59.637 --> 01:22:06.344
♪ holy forever. ♪
01:22:06.344 --> 01:22:10.482
♪ sing this one more time. ♪
01:22:10.482 --> 01:22:13.518
♪ jesus your name is the highest, your name is the ♪
01:22:13.518 --> 01:22:19.624
♪ greatest. ♪
01:22:19.624 --> 01:22:21.459
♪ your name stands above all. ♪
01:22:21.459 --> 01:22:26.364
♪ above all thrones, and dominions. ♪
01:22:26.364 --> 01:22:31.970
♪ all powers and positions. ♪
01:22:31.970 --> 01:22:36.174
♪ your name stands above them all. ♪
01:22:36.174 --> 01:22:42.414
♪ jesus your name is the highest. ♪
01:22:42.414 --> 01:22:47.452
♪ your name is the greatest. ♪
01:22:47.452 --> 01:22:48.987
♪ your name stands above them all. ♪
01:22:48.987 --> 01:22:53.958
♪ and above all powers, and positions your name ♪
01:22:53.958 --> 01:23:07.005
♪ stands above them all. ♪
01:23:07.005 --> 01:23:09.507
♪ and the angels cry, "holy!" ♪
01:23:09.507 --> 01:23:11.843
♪ all creation cries, "holy!" ♪
01:23:11.843 --> 01:23:20.485
♪ you are lifted high, holy! ♪
01:23:20.485 --> 01:23:26.424
♪ holy forever. ♪
01:23:26.424 --> 01:23:32.297
♪ hear the people saying, holy! ♪
01:23:32.297 --> 01:23:42.373
♪ to the king of kings. ♪
01:23:42.373 --> 01:23:45.643
♪ holy. ♪
01:23:45.643 --> 01:23:49.280
♪ you will always be holy. ♪
01:23:49.280 --> 01:23:54.686
♪ holy forever. ♪
01:23:54.686 --> 01:23:59.624
♪ holy are you lord god almighty. ♪
01:23:59.624 --> 01:24:12.637
♪ worthy is the lamb worthy is the lamb come on and sing. ♪
01:24:12.637 --> 01:24:17.408
♪ you are holy, holy are you lord god. ♪
01:24:17.408 --> 01:24:27.852
♪ are you lord god, worthy is the lamb worthy is the lamb ♪
01:24:27.852 --> 01:24:36.961
♪ you are holy. ♪
01:24:36.961 --> 01:24:43.168
♪ holy. ♪
01:24:43.168 --> 01:24:45.937
♪ are you lord god almighty. ♪
01:24:45.937 --> 01:24:52.010
♪ worthy is the lamb. ♪
01:24:52.010 --> 01:24:54.712
♪ worthy is the lamb worthy is the lamb. ♪
01:24:54.712 --> 01:25:00.785
♪ worthy is the lamb, amen. ♪
01:25:00.785 --> 01:25:11.029
♪ (music playing) ♪
01:25:11.029 --> 01:25:11.029

Make Room For Jesus: A TBN Christmas Special

December 5, 2025 | 86:50

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