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Michael Youssef | Michael Youssef - Joseph - A Man of Character | December 21, 2024
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- Male: i love about christmas because we
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- Get presents.
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- Female: my mom makes gingerbread men.
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- Male: i like to decorate christmas trees.
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- Male: i like to sing the songs.
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- Female: i like buying presents for my brothers and sisters.
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- Male: i really like all of it, really.
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- Female: our savior was born on christmas day.
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- Male: christmas is about the birth of jesus.
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- Female: christmas is about having fun with your family
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- And friends, but at the same time, praising the lord jesus
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- Our savior.
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- Male: i think christmas is about jesus and family.
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- Male: it's more about giving than receiving.
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- And it's not just about getting what you want on christmas day,
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- It's about seeing others happy about what you got them.
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- Male: christmas, even though we've added on a lot to
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- Christmas, is solely about celebrating the day of jesus's
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- Birth, the savior of our world.
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- Female: i think the meaning of christmas is celebrating jesus.
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- Male: the bible and him being born.
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- Male: i think jesus wants us to focus on him for christmas.
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- Female: i think jesus will want us to focus on how he gave us
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- Such a great gift as sending his son down to the earth to save us
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- From our sins.
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- Dr. michael youssef: blessed christmas season.
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- You know, we celebrate the birth of our lord jesus christ because
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- He came from heaven to save us and redeem us.
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- And what a privilege for us to know him as savior and lord.
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- He said to thomas, he said, you believe in me thomas because you
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- Saw, blessed are those who believe that have not seen.
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- And we are blessed this christmas season.
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- May the lord give you joy.
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- Dr. youssef: there are some wonderful things, amazing things
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- That we can learn from joseph, the adopted father of the lord
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- Jesus christ.
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- You see, culturally and historically, we know
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- That joseph probably was around 16 years old at that time
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- Because that's when boys got married and he was engaged
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- To the virgin mary, who most likely she was 14 years old
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- At the time that they were engaged.
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- Even though jesus was virgin born son of god, and yet many
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- People identified him at that time, now i want to transport
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- You 2,000 years.
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- At that time they identified him as the son of joseph.
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- As a matter of fact, in matthew's gospel, chapter 13,
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- Verses 54 all the way to 56, the jews in the time of jesus
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- Were absolutely mesmerized.
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- Who is this one who's raising the dead, healing the sick,
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- And opening the eyes of the blind?
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- They were absolutely mesmerized by that and they were speechless
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- And they did not know what to say.
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- So they said, is he not the son of the "tekton?"
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- Now, "tekton" is the greek word for any person at that time who
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- Worked with wood.
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- They were saying, isn't he the "tekton's" son?
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- How is he doing all this?
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- See most of these "tektons" at the time, they were known
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- For their patience.
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- They were known for their kindness.
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- So the question is this, what would all that tell us about
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- Joseph, the adopted father of the lord jesus christ?
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- Listen carefully please, because it tells us
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- A great deal.
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- First of all, it tells us that god the father, the father
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- Of our lord jesus christ in heaven, the almighty god,
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- Yahweh, was not going to entrust his one and only eternal son
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- With whom he coexisted before the foundation of the world.
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- He was not gonna entrust him just to anybody.
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- Another question, why did god not choose a priest to be
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- The adopted father?
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- After all he enters into the holy of holies and he
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- Offers sacrifices.
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- Why didn't he choose a lawyer whom they called scribe?
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- He was very learned in all of the jewish laws.
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- Why didn't he entrust a pharisee?
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- My goodness, they were the best when it comes to observing
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- The facade of religion.
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- But no, god the father entrusted his one and only eternal son
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- With whom he coexisted since before eternity
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- To a humble "tekton."
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- Now i want to tell you why.
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- Listen carefully, please.
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- What god the father said a 1000 years before christ
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- Was born in bethlehem of judea is of vital importance
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- Because that reveals to us something about god himself.
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- When god asked the prophet samuel in 1 samuel chapter 16,
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- And he said to him go to the home of jesse and i want you
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- To anoint one of his sons, he's gonna be a king over israel.
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- And samuel was so impressed with the big boys, the learned
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- Boys of jesse, all the older boys.
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- And god said, no, no, no, none of them.
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- There's a little one somewhere.
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- So they waited until little david, the shepherd, came in.
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- And god said, this is the man.
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- And god then taught samuel a lesson, taught all of us
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- A lesson.
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- He said, man looks about the outward appearance.
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- Man's looked at the outward appearance, but god looks upon
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- The heart.
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- And god looked down and he saw the heart of joseph and he said,
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- This humble man is gonna take care of my one and only eternal
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- Son, jesus.
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- Man looks at the outward appearance.
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- And we've been doing it ever since, but god looks
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- At the heart.
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- Now don't miss this, very important, very important.
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- Don't miss it.
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- Fathers, i don't have to tell you this, psychologists
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- Have been telling us this for years, for generations.
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- Fathers play enormous role in shaping our lives.
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- But i want to tell you today on the authority of god's word
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- That knowing and experiencing your heavenly father
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- And the grace of your heavenly father is
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- What matters the most.
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- And our heavenly father deals with us ever so lovingly,
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- Ever so mercifully, and ever so justly.
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- But i also want to tell you this, every father, every
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- Mother, every stepfather, every stepmother, every grandfather,
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- Every grandmother, we have been privileged to raise children
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- For god.
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- Matthew chapter 1, verses 18 and 19 first,
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- Fasten your seatbelt because matthew starts with this
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- Very important event.
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- Event that thousands of years have been waiting for.
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- He starts that event beginning with a scandal.
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- Yep, you heard me right, scandal.
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- This is a scandal of any proportion.
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- While joseph and mary were engaged, mary becomes pregnant
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- And joseph was not the father.
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- That's all he knew.
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- Now i cannot exaggerate to you, just trust me, okay?
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- Not in everything, but in this one.
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- I cannot exaggerate to you the cultural norms of the day,
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- Of the horrendous scandal that was.
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- And joseph's very first reaction to this shocking news,
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- It actually reveals to us who he is.
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- Imagine the shock and imagine his reaction.
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- Now of course, 2,000 years later, all faithful believers
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- In jesus know that mary was faithful, it's not that she
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- Was not faithful to joseph and that mary had to
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- Become pregnant by the holy spirit of god himself.
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- Now we know all of that because we know
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- The old testament prophecies.
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- Seven hundred years before christ, isaiah said,
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- The virgin shall have a child.
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- So we know the old testament.
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- Even though it was 700 years before christ, we know
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- The gospel writers explanation of what had happened.
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- We know the epistles, we're explaining to us why he
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- Has to be sinless in order to deliver and save sinners.
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- We know all of that.
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- We even know that it was absolutely imperative for him
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- Who saves us to be born of a virgin.
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- But put yourself in joseph sandals, okay?
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- Put yourself in his sandals.
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- Think of his first reaction.
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- Think of his first thoughts, first feelings.
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- Think of how this was tormenting to his soul and to his heart
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- And his spirit.
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- We all know now that the rumour-mongers and christ haters
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- Levied false accusations at mary.
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- But in matthew chapter 1, verse 19
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- Makes it very clear that this troubling scenario,
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- This difficult, this scandal is
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- Precisely what joseph thought must have taken place.
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- After all, what does he know?
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- Here's something else i don't want you to miss.
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- Please don't miss this.
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- Verse 19, matthew chapter 1, verse 19.
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- Matthew said, joseph was a righteous man.
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- Joseph was a righteous man.
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- That the next line tells us exactly why he called him
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- A righteous man because he did not want to humiliate mary,
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- He decided to call off the wedding and break off
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- The engagement quietly, quietly.
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- Listen to me.
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- It is of uttermost importance to understand, you'll miss
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- The whole point if you don't, that in jesus, god came
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- From heaven.
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- In jesus, god took on human flesh.
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- In jesus, god entered into humanity.
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- In jesus, god is now divine, human, all at the same time.
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- But at that time, joseph could not comprehend
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- All of that.
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- All he could see is that they have not consummated
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- The marriage and mary's pregnant.
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- And once mary becomes visibly pregnant, oh, the gossips
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- In town.
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- Did you hear? did you hear?
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- Did you hear? did you hear?
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- Did you hear?
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- Question, what would joseph do in those kind of circumstances?
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- If he followed the tradition of the day, he would have gone
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- To the priest and he would have told the priest, i have not
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- Slept with my wife, my betrothed, but she is pregnant
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- And in public square.
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- And then most likely, most probably,
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- Mary would be treated
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- As an adulteress and back then she would be humiliated,
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- Scorned, and her family disgraced forever.
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- But if the situation is reversed and people assume that joseph is
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- The father, in that case, joseph becomes guilty
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- Of the same thing.
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- Is the guilty party.
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- And he would accept the stigma and the shame that goes with it
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- For the rest of his life.
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- So back to matthew 1:19.
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- Joseph, her husband, was a righteous man.
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- He did not want to humiliate her, so he was going to break
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- The engagement quietly.
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- If joseph can teach us anything, and he has a lot to teach us,
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- And especially for us fathers, grandfathers, and husbands, he
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- Teaches us that grace and mercy are god-like characteristics.
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- There is no telling how many times our lord jesus christ as
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- He's growing up as a young baby, then a boy, teenager, there is
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- No telling how many times growing up he observed
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- That characteristics in his adopted father joseph.
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- How often has he seen joseph showing mercy to those who have
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- Wronged him?
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- How many times joseph was gracious to those who
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- Have hurt him.
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- How often joseph exercised forgiveness, so much so that our
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- Lord jesus christ, when he hung on the cross in the midst of his
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- Agony, in the midst of his pain, spiritual and emotional
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- And physical pain, he could cry out to his real father and says,
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- "father, forgive them for they know not what they're doing."
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- Listen, thank god.
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- Good as this all of this is, it's not the end of the story.
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- Thank god.
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- The merciful and gracious heavenly father sent an angel
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- To joseph.
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- Verses 20 and 21, matthew 1: "the angel said, 'joseph,
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- Son of david, do not be afraid to take mary as your wife
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- Because the child she carries was conceived by the holy spirit
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- Of god himself.
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- She shall give birth to a son and you will call him jesus.'"
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- Why?
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- Yeshua, "because his name means savior.
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- Savior.
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- He will save his people from their sin."
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- What did the angel say, don't be afraid?
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- He was saying to him, don't be afraid.
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- Do not be afraid of this mission that god has entrusted you with.
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- Do not be afraid to raise up this child who
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- Is the son of god.
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- Do not be afraid to raise up god's son for he will not only
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- Redeem you, but he's gonna redeem millions of people
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- Through their ages.
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- Do not be afraid to pour yourself into him for he's gonna
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- Pour his life for you and for many.
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- Don't be afraid to embrace god's plan of salvation for the world.
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- Do not be afraid of this enormous responsibility.
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- Do not be afraid to play a major role in god's salvation plan
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- For those who believe in his son.
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- Do not be afraid to nurture this boy because he spiritually
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- Will nurture you and millions of others.
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- So let me ask you this, what about you?
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- What about you?
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- What about you watching around the world, what about you?
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- You've heard god calling you numerous occasions,
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- Numerous christmases or easters or whatever.
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- You've heard the call of god so many times.
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- Somebody witnessed to you about him.
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- Somebody invited you.
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- Come to jesus as your only savior.
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- Come to him out of sin to salvation, out of death to life.
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- Come to him out of guilt and shame to peace and joy.
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- Come to him out of your own preconceived idea of who god is,
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- What god should do or shouldn't do.
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- To come to him and accept his gift of forgiveness
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- And eternal life for you.
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- And probably felt some conviction at the time,
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- But then he let the matter go.
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- Got busy with life, forgot about the fact that god calls everyone
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- Everywhere to repent, for he has appointed a day in which he will
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- Judge the world by this man jesus, and as a proof he raised
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- Him from the dead.
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- What are you afraid of?
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- You might not hear an angel telling you not to be afraid,
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- But surely you hear god himself in his word saying,
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- Don't be afraid.
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- Come to me.
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- I love you.
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- My son died for you.
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- Don't be afraid to commit your life to my son who came
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- From heaven to bear your sin and mine.
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- I don't need to tell you that christmas is not about
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- Celebrations and parties.
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- We made it that way.
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- It's not about gifts and decorations.
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- We made it that way.
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- It's not even about family, as we try to think and family
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- And friends.
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- Good as these things may be.
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- Christmas is about god calling you to come to his son.
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- For that babe in bethlehem, 33 years later died
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- A dreadful death on the cross sinless for sinners.
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- Why?
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- To pay for the wages of all the sins of everyone who
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- Would come to him.
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- Then he rose again from the dead and that victorious resurrection
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- On the third day is to assure us of our own resurrection.
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- Will you accept his call?
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- Will you accept his mission for your life?
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ oh, yeah ♪
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- ♪ the spirit told the prophets and the prophets ♪
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- ♪ spoke the word ♪
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- ♪ that word was spread throughout the land, ♪
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- ♪ prepare the way of the lord. ♪
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- ♪ and the angels told the shepherds ♪
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- ♪ and the shepherds bowed to pray. ♪
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- ♪ then the angels and the shepherds and the wise ♪
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- ♪ man sang this song on christmas day. ♪
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- ♪ they were singin'. ♪
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- ♪ jesus christ is born. come on. ♪
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- ♪ jesus christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ let all of heaven and earth rejoice on ♪
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- ♪ this christmas morn' ♪
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- ♪ jesus christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ the savior of the world. ♪
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- ♪ let all of heaven and earth rejoice, jesus christ is born ♪
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- Male: come on, sing.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ the disciples shared their stories and the bible brought ♪
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- ♪ the truth, that preacher spoke those words to me ♪
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- ♪ and i'm singing them to you. ♪
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- Male: everybody sing it with us, come on.
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- ♪ jesus christ is born. jesus christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ let all of heaven and earth rejoice on ♪
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- ♪ this christmas morn'. ♪
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- ♪ 'cause he died upon the cross and he ♪
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- ♪ conquered death and sin, ♪
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- ♪ he rose up from that grave and he's coming back again. ♪
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- ♪ go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. ♪
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- ♪ go, tell it on the mountain that jesus christ is born. ♪
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- Male: we gonna take it up. here we go.
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- ♪ go, tell it on the mountain, ♪
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- ♪ over the hills and everywhere. ♪
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- ♪ go, tell it on the mountain that jesus christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ that jesus christ is born. ♪♪
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- Male: god bless you, church.
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- Thank you so much for being here with us.
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- God bless you, have a great christmas.
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- Dr. youssef: hello friends.
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- You know, i'm always witnessing one on one, especially
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- To my neighbors.
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- And i had a neighbor and i was sharing christ with him.
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- And he said, "michael, it's too late for me.
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- I'm a heathen."
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- And i said, "you're halfway there.
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- The first step is to acknowledge that you're a sinner."
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- Most people don't want to acknowledge they're sinners.
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- And i tell people, have you told a white lie?
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- Oh, yeah.
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- Well, you're a sinner.
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- Have you fangled with the books?
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- Yes, you're a sinner.
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- And that is the truth.
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- We're all commandment brokers and therefore we need somebody
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- Who kept the commandments perfectly to be able to save us
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- From our sins and the consequences of our sins
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- Which is eternal torment forever and ever and ever.
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- And so salvation is two stages.
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- I acknowledge that i'm a sinner and i cannot save myself and i
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- Need a savior and i go to that savior and said, "forgive me."
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- It's that simple.
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- And then when we receive christ as the only savior, only lord,
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- There is a transformation that's gonna take place on the inside
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- And go from the kingdom of satan to the kingdom of god and be
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- With him in heaven for all of eternity.
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- So if you've come to the point of honesty and acknowledging
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- That you are a person who have broken the commandments of god,
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- The laws of god, you can pray with me.
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- And it sounds so simple, but it's more than simple.
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- It is real.
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- It's serious that you can pray, "lord, i do acknowledge that i'm
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- A sinner and i know the consequences of my sin is hell
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- And therefore i come to you asking for your forgiveness.
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- Forgive me all of my sins.
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- Redeem me by the blood of jesus christ so that i live
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- Here for you and then for eternity i'll be with you."
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- Pray that prayer.
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- Get in touch with me.
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- God bless.
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- Dr. youssef: everyone who comes to christ in repentance
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- And faith would receive eternal life.
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- That's part of our ministry as a couple is to be participants
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- In that.
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- Chris makin: we're so grateful here in australia to be a part
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- Of a global ministry that is passionately proclaiming
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- Uncompromising truth.
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