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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Genealogy of Jesus | December 24, 2024
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- Ed young: now, the birth of jesus christ was as follows.
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- When his mother mary had been betrothed to joseph,
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- Before they came together,
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- She was found to be with child by the holy spirit
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- And joseph, her husband,
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- Being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her,
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- Planned to send her away secretly.
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- But when he had considered this,
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- Behold, an angel of the lord appeared to him
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- In a dream saying, "joseph, son of david,
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- Do not be afraid to take mary as your wife.
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- For the child who has been conceived in her
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- Is of the holy spirit.
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- She will bear son, you shall call his name jesus
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- For he will save his people from their sins."
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- Now, all of this took place to fulfill what was spoken
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- By the lord through the prophet.
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- "behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son
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- And they shall call his name emmanuel
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- Which translated means god with us.
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- Throughout the celebration of christmas,
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- I want you to proclaim your faith
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- And that every time i say emmanuel,
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- You will answer god with us.
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- Emmanuel.
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- - [congregation] god with us.
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- - emanuel.
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- - [congregation] god with us.
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- - during this holy season of christmas,
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- My favorite christmas carol
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- And perhaps most of yours is "silent night,
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- Holy night,
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- All is calm, all is bright.
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- Round yon virgin, mother and child."
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- You know we have heard that so much,
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- We forgotten the virgin part of christianity.
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- Jesus was born not through a man
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- But exclusively through mary, virgin mary,
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- Who was conceived by the holy spirit.
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- Notice that in genesis, god gave us man without a woman.
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- In christmas, god gave us a man without a man.
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- The virgin birth, we forget that, we sing it,
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- We believe it, but can we verify it?
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- One professor told me in seminary,
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- "oh, it's just a biographical fact."
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- How foolishly ignorant he was.
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- Christmas,
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- Easter.
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- That's sort of the brackets of the life of jesus, isn't it?
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- Christmas miracle,
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- The virgin mary conceived, christmas miracle.
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- Easter miracle, jesus who was crucified was resurrected.
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- So it's a miracle of christmas
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- And the miracle of easter
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- Surrounds the life of jesus christ.
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- So we come to christmas and we say,
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- Oh, i believe by faith
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- That mary was conceived by the holy spirit.
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- But is there evidence?
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- Is there historical evidence?
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- Is there some verification of this?
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- And the answer is absolutely
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- And you never guess where you find it.
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- If i were a wagering man, which i'm not,
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- I would bet you that no one here
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- Has heard a thorough going sermons on the genealogies,
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- All the begets, begets, begets,
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- You remember that part?
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- Son of, father of, son of, father of, begets.
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- We see these listings of names in the bible
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- And we say, what is that all about?
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- I want you to see that two of the prophecies
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- Concerning jesus are clearly taught
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- And fulfilled and understood
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- As we look at all the genealogy
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- That we find in matthew chapter one
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- And in luke chapter three.
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- So we see these listings,
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- These family trees are so vital
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- And so very, very important.
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- Open your bibles, if you would, to book of matthew
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- And you look at verse one all the way through verse 17
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- And it's those begets,
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- Son of, son of, father of, begets.
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- What in the world is that all about?
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- Why is this the opening chapter of the life of jesus?
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- I can tell you why.
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- Because of all the prophecies
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- That were put in place thousands of years before his birth,
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- There are two taught here that are major indeed.
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- You see, the jews were big on genealogies.
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- A lot of people here are
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- And the jews kept those genealogies
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- Because they believed the messiah would come.
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- Messiah was prophesied almost 90 times in the old testament.
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- Many of the prophecies
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- Are called major prophecies
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- And two of them are here.
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- And therefore when all the would-be messiahs would come,
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- All the pretenders, i'm the messiah,
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- I'm the promised one, i fulfill all those prophecies.
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- They could just check that out
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- And see if truly this person
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- Who made such a claim
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- Was indeed god who came down the steps of heaven
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- With a baby in his arms.
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- Was this person genuinely in reality,
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- God wrapped up in human flesh?
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- Was it really emmanuel?
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- - [congregation] god with us.
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- - how do we know that?
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- So we go to the prophecy in matthew,
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- Hope you have your bibles open,
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- And notice it opens with abraham
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- And it goes all the way down,
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- All the way through, significant thing,
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- It goes through david whose son here is solomon, remember?
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- And it goes all the way down to jesus.
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- Now notice something,
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- The pivotal prophecy fulfilled here
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- Is that the messiah would be
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- In the lineage in the family tree of david.
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- That was essential.
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- That was vital.
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- How would someone claim to be messiah
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- And others would say
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- This is indeed the promised one through thousand of years.
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- It would have to go through the lineage of david.
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- And we see this is given here in matthew.
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- By the way, this is the lineage of jesus
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- Through his surrogate father joseph.
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- By the way, matthew and luke go at great extremes
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- Explaining this was a virgin birth.
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- I read a part of that here in our opening passage.
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- And so we have in matthew,
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- The lineage is traced from abraham,
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- Isaac, jacob, through david,
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- And through his royal son solomon.
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- And it goes all the way down through to jesus.
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- And that is the lineage of jesus
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- Through his surrogate father joseph.
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- And we'll see why that is important.
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- Now flip over to luke chapter three.
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- Guys, it's not hard, just turn right, a short right.
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- Get to the third chapter, the 21st,
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- The genealogy of jesus
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- And this genealogy of jesus goes in the opposite direction.
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- Now stay with me.
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- I apologize for you having to think today
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- Because this is vital and it's important
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- And you'll see why in just a minute.
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- He starts, verse 23, "when he began his ministry
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- Jesus himself was about 30 years of age
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- Being as supposed,"
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- The "supposed" remember?
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- "the son of joseph
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- And the son of eli and the son,"
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- He goes down all the way through the sons.
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- And notice here in verse 31, do you see it?
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- Nathan, the son of david,
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- David's oldest son was named nathan.
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- The oldest son always is the heir, right?
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- It is through the oldest son
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- That the lineage comes,
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- That all the passage of genes come.
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- It is through nathan.
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- And so here it goes through nathan
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- And then we see jesus is traced
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- In the opposite direction all the way back
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- To adam in the garden.
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- So you see got one ascension here,
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- Joseph is found in matthew and it goes through david
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- But it goes through his royal son solomon
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- Who had the crown, who had the throne.
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- And then when it goes the opposite way,
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- It begins with jesus and it goes also through david,
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- But through nathan who was his oldest son
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- Who had the legal right to the throne.
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- And then it goes all the way down to adam.
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- So you see here, the royal lineage of jesus
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- And also you see the legal lineage of jesus
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- Both going through david.
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- Also you see,
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- Well, another man i want to introduce you to
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- Back in the lineage found in matthew,
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- Look at it if you would, it's very, very important.
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- Matthew chapter number one, look at verse 12.
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- Jeconiah,
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- Jeconiah is in the lineage there of joseph, jeconiah.
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- You read in jeremiah 22,
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- In 1 chronicles 3 that jeconiah was cursed by god
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- And therefore god said none of his seven sons
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- Would ever be in the lineage of the messiah.
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- He was discounted and therefore it is in matthew,
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- The lineage of joseph,
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- Therefore jeconiah,
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- Joseph could not been the biological father of jesus
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- Because the curse of god was on his lineage.
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- Another evidence proof of the virgin birth.
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- Now if you're confused, i want to awaken you
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- And i want you to look at this graph
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- And i want you to see it again as we try to do it.
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- Look at it.
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- It's so important, you'll see it.
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- Remember what we're doing.
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- We're trying to demonstrate
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- With historical evidence exactly who jesus was
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- And his claim
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- And the reality that he was indeed the messiah.
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- We start with abraham, the left.
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- You work up all the son of, son of, son of,
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- You get to david.
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- He had solomon who was on the throne
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- Though he was not the eldest, remember.
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- This is a royal line of jesus
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- And it goes all the way up to jesus.
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- And you have here in matthew, you have 17 verses
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- Over 2000 years and you have generations 14,
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- 14, 14 that go all the way to jesus.
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- That is the royal line that verifies
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- That jesus was indeed the anointed one, the messiah.
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- And then the other way,
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- This is the lineage of mary, it start with jesus.
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- It goes through david, nathan, and this is the legal line.
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- This is how they would look at the way the heir,
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- The inheritance would be passed down
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- And he traces it all the way back to adam.
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- You see it?
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- Matthew, joseph, royal line,
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- Luke marriage legal line,
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- And see that guy jeconiah
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- I told you about in the 12th verse,
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- This proves that joseph
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- Could not have been the biological father of jesus.
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- He was a surrogate adopted father of jesus
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- And therefore you see through him
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- It is no way in jewish understanding
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- Or in historical understanding
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- That any way joseph could been
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- The biological father of jesus.
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- So we see another evidence of the virgin birth,
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- Are you sorta with me now?
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- - [congregation] yes.
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- - so very, very important.
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- Jesus was the messiah.
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- We see it through the royal line of his surrogate father
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- And through the legal line of his virgin mother
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- And how magnificently that comes together.
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- The reality of the virgin birth,
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- The reality that he absolutely was in the lineage of david.
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- In fact, the line runs out,
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- The family runs out at the end of jesus.
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- That's the end. that's all of it.
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- So there could never be a pretender ever before or after
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- That this indeed was someone else who was the messiah,
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- The son of the living god.
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- How beautiful that is
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- As we seek to understand the fabulous truth of god's word
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- As we understand the sacred significance of christmas.
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- Now, absolutely, those are wise hands together
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- For the lord and what he's revealed to us.
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- Skeptics get blown away when you present this argument.
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- Years ago i was in the basement
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- Of hebrew university in jerusalem
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- And they had all the jewish scholars and rabbis there
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- And a few of us sort of unwashed evangelical christians.
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- And we debated about this point.
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- And when you get to this point,
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- They just throw up their hands
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- And they say, well, "when jesus comes,
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- They believe it'll be his first coming
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- And you believe it's his second coming.
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- And we could say we believe his first coming
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- Because we see prophecy in the old testament
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- And we see it uniquely
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- And perfectly fulfilled in jesus christ."
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- You can't debate that
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- Intellectually, ladies and gentlemen.
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- (congregation applauding)
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- Now, so jesus came what to do?
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- We've already heard in the scripture read,
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- He was given names there in isaiah.
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- Isaiah clearly said he's been born of a virgin.
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- Isaiah 7:14.
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- You know why i remember that verse?
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- My home 714 first avenue,
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- That's where i was born, laurel, mississippi.
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- So i remember 7:14 isaiah
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- That is a prophet that said jesus would be virgin born
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- And he's given a name.
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- A child should be born.
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- What's his name? wonderful?
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- What a name.
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- Counselor, mighty god,
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- Everlasting father, prince of shalom, prince of peace.
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- Jesus came in this world to bring shalom.
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- Now in english translation, shalom means peace.
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- But if you look at the hebrew word, shalom,
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- It has many, many, many layers to it.
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- It means that which is broken
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- Has been brought back together.
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- It means that which is lost has been restored.
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- That means that which has been taken away,
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- There has been restitution
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- And you've heard somebody say,
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- You know i lost this money
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- But somebody came along and made me whole.
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- Have you heard that expression?
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- That's the word shalom in hebrew, god makes us whole
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- When we're broken, we see that there when joseph brothers,
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- He was prime minister of egypt
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- And they came to him and they didn't recognize him
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- And he asked, is my father shalom?
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- He asked three times,
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- Is my father shalom, is my father shalom?
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- He was asking about his father's health.
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- He was asking about his father's mental capacity.
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- He was asking about his father's prosperity.
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- And so when you use hebrew, the word shalom,
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- It means bringing everything together
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- To make a life that is complete,
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- A life that has been scattered
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- Or broken or confused or bruised.
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- Shalom.
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- Jesus came to bring shalom,
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- The high priestly prayer in john chapter 17.
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- Jesus is leaving his legacy.
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- He's writing his last will
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- In a prayer to the heavenly father and he says,
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- "peace i leave with you and peace i give to you."
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- I want to get real personal,
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- Real personal right here this christmas
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- With everybody here,
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- Is any brokenness in your life?
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- Is any confusion in your life?
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- Is there any pain in your life?
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- Is there a problem?
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- It could be marriage, it could be in singleness,
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- It could be in a moral area, it could be an omission.
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- It could be in getting priorities mixed up.
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- Business challenge. i don't know.
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- Is there any kind of confusion
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- Or things that are scattered that you're worried about
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- And confused about and you don't know what to do about?
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- Let me tell you something.
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- This isn't just a preachment.
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- Jesus comes to bring us together
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- And to make us whole and to give us supernatural shalom.
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- Do you have shalom today?
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- Whatever the circumstances,
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- Whatever the medical reports, do you have shalom?
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- If not, the problem would be with me and with you.
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- If i do not have shalom,
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- He said, "i leave it with you and i give it to you."
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- A gift you have to receive, don't you?
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- We have to receive his shalom.
- 00:20:11.889 --> 00:20:15.326
- And he comes together and he heals, he gives peace.
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- And all of a sudden we realize
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- That this thing of christmas, a baby changes everything,
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- And that baby came to give shalom
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- And forgiveness and new life and wholeness.
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- Wholeness.
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- Wouldn't it be great if we all left
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- And said, i'm a whole person today,
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- I'm not scattered any longer.
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- I'm whole. i'm complete.
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- That's what happens
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- When we receive the gift of his peace.
- 00:20:50.594 --> 00:20:55.399
- The resurrected jesus met with his apostles
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- For the first time and he said, "peace i give to you."
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- Isn't that tremendous?
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- I think he would stand up here right now before all of us
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- And he would say, "peace i give to you"
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- But you have to receive it
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- And let his holy spirit do that work in your life.
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- Do we doubt that he's messiah, virgin born,
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- The son of david?
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- You can't debate it,
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- But don't doubt also
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- He's a prince of peace for everybody here.
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- He's just offering it, offering it, a gift.
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- Just receive it and watch the glory of his peace
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- Flow in the darkest, dampest place
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- In which you find yourself.
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- God uses ordinary people.
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- Have you noticed that?
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- He does the biggest and brightest and best
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- Are the most promising.
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- He calls people like you, like me.
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- Why?
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- Because when we trust jesus and learn from him,
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- We experience something amazing
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- And we're changed and made brand new.
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- When ordinary people do extraordinary things
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- They can't say, "you know i did it."
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- It has to be of god.
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- We're no longer bound by sin but free, forgiven,
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- And at peace with god and men.
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- We can experience this true peace this christmas.
- 00:22:34.231 --> 00:22:37.902
- It all begins by saying this simple prayer with me.
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- It's not my prayer.
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- It's your prayer
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- Spoken sincerely to our heavenly father.
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- It would be terrific.
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- It would be terrific in your life as you would say,
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- You know it was on christmas day
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- That the holy spirit convicted me of my sin
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- And i confessed all known sin to the lord
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- And i turned away from all that trash,
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- And i asked jesus christ not only to save me, to salvage me,
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- But to restore me to the purpose what for which i was made.
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- He became lord of my life.
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- Would you like to pray that prayer right now this christmas?
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- It would be a christmas that is in this world
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- But is literally out of this world.
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- As the holy spirit leads,
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- Would you pray these words after me?
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- Dear heavenly father, thank you for loving me.
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- That's right.
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- And thank you for sending your son jesus
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- Into the world who demonstrated how much you love us.
- 00:23:38.729 --> 00:23:44.068
- I believe that he lived a perfect life.
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- That's right, pray it.
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- He died for me.
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- And right now i turn away
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- From all known trash, sin in my life.
- 00:23:52.176 --> 00:23:57.181
- And right now i ask jesus christ to come into my life,
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- To save me from this sin
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- And to become lord of my life from this day forward.
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- Lord, thank you for making me a part of your family.
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- I'm thrilled this christmas as never before.
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- That's right.
- 00:24:18.702 --> 00:24:20.004
- In jesus name.
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- Amen.
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- Listen, if you prayed that simple prayer with me
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- You became a member of the family of god.
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- You're part of the kingdom of god.
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- I can't think of a better way to truly celebrate
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- Christmas day when god visits this planet in human flesh.
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- Not a better way to celebrate than what you've just done.
- 00:24:39.957 --> 00:24:42.993
- You've asked jesus christ to run your life.
- 00:24:42.993 --> 00:24:46.363
- You've run it long enough.
- 00:24:46.363 --> 00:24:47.965
- You've asked him to run your life.
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- He comes in and his spirit gives us the power
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- To live a life that will last now and last forever.
- 00:24:53.003 --> 00:24:58.909
- Now please take a moment.
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- Call the number on your screen.
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- We want to rejoice and celebrate christmas with you
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- In that life changing decision that you just made.
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- To help you begin your winning walk
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- This holy christmas season, new life.
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- And from my family to yours,
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- I want to wish you a very, very first time in god's family,
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- Officially, very, very blessed christmas.
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- This christmas always will be distinctive in your life
- 00:25:31.909 --> 00:25:36.146
- As you prayed that prayer
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- And christ gave you a brand-new beginning.
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- (bright guitar music)
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- Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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- Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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- On earth.
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- But god did not create us to live in
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- A constant state of loneliness.
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- We need community and fellowship
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- With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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