Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR000919
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00:07 >> FROM ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, "THE CARTER REPORT" 00:09 PRESENTS THE LIVING WORD AROUND THE WORLD. 00:17 >> HELLO, FRIEND. 00:18 I'M JOHN CARTER WITH SOME AMAZING NEWS FOR YOU. 00:22 A FEW DAYS AGO, A MAN CAME TO THIS CHURCH. 00:25 HE CAME TO SEE ME BECAUSE HE'S HEARD ABOUT 00:27 "THE CARTER REPORT." 00:28 HE CAME FROM COMMUNIST CHINA AND HE CAME WITH A MESSAGE. 00:33 HE SAID, "WE'VE GOT OVER THERE 1.2 BILLION SOULS AND THESE 00:39 PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THE TRUTHS ABOUT JESUS 00:43 AND THE GREAT TRUTHS OF THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES." 00:46 HE SAID TO ME, "WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THE CARTER REPORT, AND 00:50 WE WANT YOU TO BE OUR PARTNERS IN THE PREACHING OF 00:53 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE." 00:56 I SAID, "WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?" 00:58 HE SAID, "IT'S NOT CLEAR. 01:00 WE'VE GOT TO PRAY AND WE'VE GOT TO STRATEGIZE, BUT WE'VE GOT 01:04 SOME PLANS." 01:05 I SAID TO HIM, "YOU CAN COUNT ON US BECAUSE WE CAN HEAR THE 01:10 VOICE OF GOD CALLING TO US TO WORK FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE, 01:15 1.2 BILLION PEOPLE." 01:17 PLEASE PRAY FOR CHINA. 01:19 TODAY I WAS TALKING TO A MAN FROM ANOTHER VAST COUNTRY, THE 01:23 LAND OF INDIA, A LAND WITH MORE THAN A BILLION LOST SOULS WHO 01:28 NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS. 01:31 THIS MAN'S NAME IS PASTOR JOHNSON JACOB. 01:34 WHY IS HE OVER HERE IN ARCADIA AT THE CARTER REPORT CENTER? 01:38 BECAUSE HE IS TRANSLATING OUR MATERIAL, OUR EVANGELISTIC 01:42 SERMONS INTO THE TELUGU LANGUAGE BECAUSE WE ARE 01:47 BROADCASTING THROUGH TELEVISION OVER THERE IN THAT VAST LAND. 01:51 MY FRIEND, THE DOORS ARE OPENING EVERYWHERE. 01:55 PLEASE JOIN WITH US AND PRAY WITH US. 01:58 AND WRITE TO ME, JOHN CARTER, POST OFFICE BOX 1900, 02:02 THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA, 91358. 02:06 THANK YOU IN JESUS' NAME. 02:10 >> IT'S BEEN A GLOOMY OLD YEAR, WHAT WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 02:14 AND WARS STILL GOING ON IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. 02:18 AND I THINK IT'S TIME FOR SOME GOOD NEWS, DON'T YOU? 02:22 AND WE FIND IT IN LUKE 2, WHERE DR. LUKE WRITES ABOUT SHEPHERDS 02:26 WATCHING THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT, WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN 02:29 AN ANGEL APPEARS. 02:30 AND AT FIRST, THE SHEPHERDS ARE AFRAID BECAUSE PERHAPS THEY'RE 02:35 THINKING, "THIS ANGEL HAS TAKEN A WRONG TURN. 02:37 HE SHOULD BE WITH THE CHURCH LEADERS, NOT US." 02:40 OR ELSE PERHAPS THEY'RE SHAKING IN THEIR SHOES AND THINKING, 02:44 "WELL, PERHAPS HE'S COME TO JUDGE US." 02:47 BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT LONG BECAUSE, TO THEIR 02:50 ASTONISHMENT, THE ANGEL BEGINS TO SPEAK AND THEY HEAR 02:54 THE GREATEST FRONT PAGE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ALL TIME. 02:58 "FEAR NOT, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, 03:03 WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. 03:06 FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, 03:09 WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD." 03:12 WE NOTICED FIRSTLY THAT THE ANGEL ALLEVIATES THEIR FEARS 03:15 BY SAYING, "FEAR NOT." 03:17 AND YOU KNOW WHEN THE GOSPEL COMES INTO OUR HEART, IT SWEEPS 03:19 ALL FEAR AWAY AND REPLACES IT WITH PEACE AND JOY. 03:24 AS PSALM 27:1 SAYS, "THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION. 03:28 WHOM SHALL I FEAR? 03:29 THE LORD IS THE STRONGHOLD OF MY LIFE. 03:32 OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID?" 03:34 ON HEARING THE GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY, THE SHEPHERDS RUSH 03:36 INTO BETHLEHEM TO FIND THE BABY WHO WAS TO GROW UP TO BE 03:40 THE SAVIOR OF ALL PEOPLE. 03:42 THERE HAVE BEEN MANY OVER THE YEARS WHO HAVE WRITTEN GREAT 03:45 HYMNS ABOUT THIS JOYFUL EVENT. 03:47 IN THE LATE 1600s, A MELODY COMPOSED BY JOHANN SCHOP, 03:51 WORDS BY MARTIN JANICE, AND REARRANGED BY 03:54 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH BECAME THE BEAUTIFUL PIECE 03:58 "JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING." 04:00 ANOTHER FAMOUS HYMN WRITER WAS ISAAC WATTS, WHO IN 1717 WROTE 04:06 "JOY TO THE WORLD," A SONG THAT ANNOUNCES THAT INDEED OUR LORD 04:10 AND SAVIOR HAS COME. 04:11 A THIRD AND WELL-KNOWN HYMN IS "JOYFUL, JOYFUL WE ADORE THEE," 04:15 WHICH GOES ON TO SAY, "GOD OF GLORY, LORD OF LOVE," 04:20 WORDS THAT COULD HAVE ONLY BEEN WRITTEN UNDER INSPIRATION. 04:23 THE WORDS WERE WRITTEN IN 1907 BY AMERICAN HENRY VAN DYKE 04:28 AND WERE SET TO THE MUSIC OF A HYMN WRITTEN BY BEETHOVEN. 04:32 THE WORDS THE ANGEL ANNOUNCED SO LONG AGO FINDS US STILL 04:36 SINGING THESE JOYFUL SONGS TODAY. 04:40 AND AS A DEMONSTRATION OF THIS JOYFUL NEWS, WE AS A CHURCH 04:42 WITH MANY OTHER CHURCHES WANT TO HELP THOSE IN NEED OF SOME 04:47 JOY AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. 04:49 AND THIS YEAR, WE HAVE DECIDED TO WORK WITH CHILDREN'S HUNGER 04:52 FUND AND THEY GIVE OUT BOXES AND WE FILL THEM UP WITH FOOD, 04:57 NON-PERISHABLES, AND THEN THEY DELIVER THEM TO PEOPLE WHO NEED 05:01 THEM, NOT ONLY HERE IN THE U.S., BUT IN OTHER COUNTRIES 05:04 AROUND THE WORLD. 05:05 AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU IN THIS CHURCH WHO ARE TAKING 05:09 A PART IN THAT PROGRAM. 05:11 LET'S HELP TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT. 05:14 FEAR NOT, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, 05:19 FOR UNTO YOU, OVER 2000 YEARS AGO NOW, WAS BORN IN THE CITY 05:24 OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH WAS AND IS CHRIST THE LORD. 05:29 AMEN. 05:31 [APPLAUDING] 05:35 >> TOPIC TODAY IS "SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?" 05:41 EVEN THOUGH IT'S GOT NOTHING REALLY TO DO WITH THE BIRTH 05:44 OF CHRIST, SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS? 05:48 I WANT YOU TO KNOW I LIKE CHRISTMAS. 05:54 YOU KNOW WHY I LIKE CHRISTMAS? 05:57 'CAUSE AT CHRISTMASTIME WE GO TO SAN FRANCISCO, 06:01 AND THERE I SEE MY DAUGHTERS. 06:05 AND I ONLY SEE THEM USUALLY ONCE A YEAR, UNLESS SOME 06:09 CATASTROPHE HAPPENS, BUT I LIKE CHRISTMAS BECAUSE I GET 06:13 TOGETHER WITH MY FAMILY. 06:17 AND FOR MANY, MANY PEOPLE, IT'S THE SAME. 06:19 YOU KNOW WHAT MARK TWAIN SAID ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO, TO PEOPLE 06:23 IN SAN FRANCISCO? 06:24 HE SAID THE COLDEST WINTER HE'D EVER SPENT IN HIS LIFE WAS 06:30 A SUMMER IN SAN FRANCISCO. 06:35 YOU KNOW WHAT THEIR WINTERS ARE LIKE. 06:38 IT'S A COLD, WET--BUT IT'S GREAT BECAUSE YOU GET TO SEE 06:42 LOVED ONES. 06:44 I LOVE GIVING GIFTS. 06:48 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE IN THIS CHURCH A CHRISTMAS TREE AND 06:52 GIVE GIFTS TO PEOPLE WHO WOULDN'T GET THEM OTHERWISE. 06:59 REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID. 07:02 JESUS SAID, "IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE." 07:11 AND THE GREATEST BLESSING THAT YOU CAN GET IS GIVING SOMETHING 07:16 TO SOMEBODY ELSE. 07:18 NOW TODAY WE HAVE SOME SPECIAL GUESTS IN OUR AUDIENCE, 07:23 CAROL AND GARY AND SAM. 07:26 AND THEY'RE GOING TO COME UP TO THE FRONT NOW. 07:29 I WANT YOU TO WELCOME CAROL AND SAM AND GARY. 07:35 [APPLAUDING] 07:39 DON'T THEY LOOK NICE? 07:42 DON'T THEY LOOK NICE? 07:43 YEAH, THANK YOU. 07:44 THEY LOOK NICE. 07:45 AND WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE NOT GONNA STAND OR ANYTHING. 07:49 WE'RE GONNA BOW OUR HEADS AND CAROL IS GOING TO SAY A PRAYER 07:53 OF BLESSING FOR ALL THE FAMILIES IN THE CHURCH, 07:57 INCLUDING THE FIRST FAMILY. 08:02 SO WE'RE GONNA BOW OUR HEADS AND CAROL IS GONNA SAY A PRAYER 08:05 FOR US. 08:06 WE CAN JUST STAND HERE. 08:07 IT'LL BE FINE. 08:09 >> OUR FATHER, BLESSED BE YOUR NAME. 08:13 WE'RE GATHERED HERE TODAY WITH GRATITUDE IN OUR HEARTS, FOR 08:17 YOU ARE THE FATHER WHO FORGIVES OUR INIQUITIES AND HEALS OUR 08:21 DISEASES. 08:23 MAY THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON DWELL IN OUR 08:27 HEARTS ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 08:30 ON THIS SABBATH DAY, WE ASK FOR SPECIAL BLESSINGS FOR OUR 08:35 CHURCH FAMILIES. 08:38 RENEW OUR MINDS SO THAT WE MAY BE TRULY TRANSFORMED TO DO YOUR 08:43 WILL. 08:44 FATHER, YOU KNOW OUR NEEDS AND WE PRAISE YOU FOR YOUR GRACE 08:49 AND MERCY UPON US. 08:52 WE ALSO ASK FOR SPECIAL BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION 08:56 FOR THE FIRST FAMILY, PRESIDENT OBAMA, 09:01 HIS WIFE MICHELLE, AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS. 09:04 PLEASE OPEN PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEART AND FILL HIM WITH 09:08 THE HOLY SPIRIT AS HE LEADS OUR COUNTRY. 09:12 PLEASE ALSO BE WITH PASTOR CARTER TODAY 09:15 AS HE OPENS YOUR WORD. 09:17 LOVING LORD, FOREVER WE WILL LOVE YOU. 09:20 FOREVER WE WILL STAND. 09:22 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 09:25 >> AMEN, AMEN. 09:26 THANK YOU, CAROL. 09:27 WE'RE PROUD OF YOU. 09:29 AND GARY, THANK YOU. 09:30 TAKE IT WITH YOU AS A GIFT. 09:36 SO OUR TOPIC IS "SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS?" 09:41 DECEMBER 25. 09:43 THE TEXT--YOU CANNOT GET A BETTER TEXT THAN THIS TEXT. 09:46 COME IN YOUR BIBLES TO THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 9:6. 09:51 THIS IS THE THEME TEXT. 09:53 ISAIAH 9:6. 09:56 I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAME IN LATE TODAY. 09:58 I DO CARE IF YOU DON'T GET A BIBLE AND TURN TO IT BECAUSE 10:01 THIS IS A BIBLE-READING, BIBLE-BELIEVING, 10:04 BIBLE-OBEYING CHURCH. 10:06 SO WE'RE TURNING TO ISAIAH 9:6. 10:12 AND THE GOSPEL PROPHET 2,700 YEARS AGO SAID--THIS IS 10:17 THE GREAT PROPHECY. 10:18 "FOR TO US A CHILD IS BORN, TO US A SON IS GIVEN, 10:24 AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE ON HIS SHOULDERS. 10:27 AND HE WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, 10:31 EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE." 10:34 AND OF COURSE, THIS PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED IN ONLY ONE 10:38 PERSON AND WE KNOW WHO THAT PERSON WAS. 10:42 THAT PERSON IS THE LORD JESUS. 10:45 AND THE BIBLE CALLS HIM HERE THESE WONDERFUL NAMES. 10:48 HE IS CALLED WONDERFUL AND HE IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL 10:53 PERSON. 10:54 WONDERFUL COUNSELOR CAN BE TRANSLATED JUST WONDERFUL 10:59 COMMA COUNSELOR. 11:02 OR IT CAN BE TRANSLATED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR. 11:07 HE'S THE PERSON YOU GO TO IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU OUGHT 11:09 TO DO. 11:10 WONDERFUL COUNSELOR. 11:12 THEN THE BIBLE CALLS HIM MIGHTY GOD. 11:16 THESE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST WORDS. 11:19 MIGHTY GOD. 11:21 AND HE IS EVEN CALLED HERE EVERLASTING. 11:26 EVERLASTING. 11:27 HE HAD NO BEGINNING. 11:29 HE HAS NO ENDING. 11:30 EVERLASTING FATHER. 11:32 AND THEN YOU HAVE THOSE WONDERFUL WORDS THAT WE NEED 11:36 IN THE NATION, IN OUR HOMES, AND IN OUR HEARTS. 11:40 PRINCE OF PEACE. 11:43 THESE WORDS ARE FULFILLED IN ONLY ONE PERSON, 11:48 THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 11:50 BUT THE QUESTION IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER TODAY, 11:53 AND IT'S A PERTINENT QUESTION, SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS? 11:59 IS IT A HOLY DAY, AS HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY OUR FRIENDS IN THE 12:04 GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH? 12:06 IS IT A HOLY DAY? 12:09 I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU TODAY ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF 12:11 GOD IT IS NOT A HOLY DAY, BUT A HOLIDAY. 12:19 SO KEEP CHRISTMAS AS YOU WOULD ANY OTHER HOLIDAY, 12:25 WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. 12:27 JESUS, AND WE SAY THIS WITHOUT FEAR OF CONTRADICTION, 12:32 WAS NOT BORN ON DECEMBER 25. 12:36 AND I CAN GIVE YOU MANY REASONS, BUT HERE ARE TWO. 12:39 NUMBER ONE, BECAUSE OF THE ROMAN CENSUS. 12:43 COME OVER HERE TO LUKE 2:1-4. 12:45 TURN FAST TO THE TEXT BECAUSE IN THIS CHURCH WE HAVE LOTS 12:50 OF TEXTS. 12:51 LOTS OF TEXTS BECAUSE OUR AUTHORITY IS THE BIBLE. 12:55 LUKE 2:1. 12:58 "IN THOSE DAYS CAESAR AUGUSTUS ISSUED A DECREE THAT A CENSUS 13:02 SHOULD BE TAKEN OF THE ENTIRE ROMAN WORLD." 13:06 AND VERSE 4, "SO JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM THE TOWN OF 13:09 NAZARETH IN GALILEE TO JUDEA, TO BETHLEHEM THE TOWN OF DAVID, 13:15 BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO THE HOUSE AND LINE OF DAVID." 13:19 HE WENT THERE TO REGISTER, THE BIBLE SAYS, WITH MARY. 13:24 LISTEN, NO ROMAN LEADER, NO CAESAR, NO EMPEROR WOULD EVER 13:34 HAVE A CENSUS IN THE DEAD OF WINTER BECAUSE THE ROADS WERE 13:40 IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE SNOW. 13:44 AND DECEMBER 25 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE IS THE MIDDLE 13:49 OF WINTER. 13:50 THEREFORE, HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BORN IN THE MIDDLE 13:52 OF WINTER. 13:53 AND IF YOU COME TO CHAPTER 2, THE SAME CHAPTER, VERSES 8-16, 14:00 IT GIVES YOU A SECOND REASON. 14:03 BECAUSE HE WAS BORN WHEN THE SHEPHERDS WERE IN THE FIELDS. 14:07 CHAPTER 2:8-16, "AND THERE WERE SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE 14:11 FIELDS NEARBY, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCKS AT NIGHT. 14:15 AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO THEM AND THE GLORY OF 14:18 THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, AND THEY WERE TERRIFIED. 14:21 BUT THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID. 14:24 I BRING YOU GOSPEL NEWS. 14:26 I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY THAT WILL BE FOR ALL 14:31 THE PEOPLE. 14:32 TODAY IN THE TOWN OF DAVID A SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN TO YOU; 14:35 HE IS CHRIST THE LORD. 14:38 THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU. 14:39 YOU WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN CLOTHS AND LYING IN A MANGER.' 14:44 SUDDENLY A GREAT COMPANY OF THE HEAVENLY HOST APPEARED WITH THE 14:47 ANGEL, PRAISING GOD AND SAYING, 'GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, 14:53 AND ON EARTH PEACE TO MEN ON WHOM IS FAVOR RESTS.' 14:57 WHEN THE ANGELS HAD LEFT THEM AND GONE INTO HEAVEN, THE 15:01 SHEPHERDS SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, 'LET'S GO TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE 15:05 THIS THING THAT HAS HAPPENED, WHICH THE LORD HAS 15:07 TOLD US ABOUT.'" I HAVE BEEN IN JERUSALEM IN 15:12 DECEMBER, WHERE THEY GET SNOW AND SLEET. 15:17 IT IS FREEZING COLD. 15:19 THE SHEPHERDS ARE NEVER OUT IN THE FIELDS WITH THEIR SHEEP 15:25 AT CHRISTMASTIME. 15:28 AND SO IT IS AS PLAIN AS THE NOSE ON YOUR FACE THAT 15:34 CHRIST WAS NOT BORN DECEMBER 25. 15:39 THIS LEADS US, LOGICALLY, TO THE QUESTION: WHO WAS BORN 15:45 DECEMBER 25? 15:49 WHO WAS BORN? 15:51 NOT THE SON OF GOD, BUT THE SUN GOD. 15:58 THE SUN GOD, THE CHIEF GOD OF THE PAGANS, WAS BORN 16:04 ON DECEMBER 25. 16:08 I WOULD HAVE YOU TURN TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL 8:14-16. 16:13 THE BIBLE MAKES IT PLAIN THAT MANY, MANY PEOPLE, THE MAJORITY 16:17 OF THE PEOPLE BACK THERE WERE SUN WORSHIPPERS. 16:21 EZEKIEL 8:14-16. 16:27 EZEKIEL 8:14-16. 16:33 THIS ILLUSTRATES THE PREVALENCE OF SUN WORSHIP. 16:37 "THEN HE BROUGHT ME TO THE ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH GATE OF 16:40 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND I SAW WOMEN SITTING THERE, 16:44 MOURNING FOR TAMMUZ. 16:47 HE SAID TO ME, 'DO YOU SEE THIS, SON OF MAN? 16:50 YOU WILL SEE THINGS THAT ARE EVEN MORE DETESTABLE THAN THIS.' 16:53 HE THEN BROUGHT ME INTO THE INNER COURT OF THE HOUSE OF THE 16:56 LORD, AND THERE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE TEMPLE, BETWEEN 17:01 THE PORTICO AND THE ALTAR, WERE ABOUT 25 MEN. 17:05 WITH THEIR BACKS TOWARDS THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AND THEIR 17:09 FACES TOWARDS THE EAST, THEY WERE BOWING DOWN TO THE SUN 17:13 IN THE EAST." 17:16 THE WORLD BACK THERE WAS A SUN WORSHIPING WORLD. 17:25 DECEMBER 25 COMES FROM THE WINTER SOLSTICE. 17:31 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, IT IS THE MIDDLE OF WINTER. 17:38 DECEMBER 24, AS THE PAGANS LOOKED OUT TOWARDS THEIR GOD, 17:44 THEY SAW THAT THE SUN WAS AT THE LOWEST SPOT AND THEY CRIED 17:47 OUT, "OUR SUN IS DYING!" 17:50 HENCE THE WOMEN WOULD WEEP FOR TAMMUZ. 17:53 HE WAS DYING. 17:55 BUT ON DECEMBER 25, HE WAS BORN IN A GLORIOUS RESURRECTION AND 18:02 THEY SAID, "IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE SUN." 18:08 AND THUS YOU CAN SEE HOW DECEMBER 25 CAME INTO 18:13 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 18:14 IT IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF HOW PAGANISM INVADED THE CHURCH. 18:22 GO TO ROME AND LOOK AT THE PICTURES OF SUN WORSHIP THAT 18:28 YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN. 18:32 AND SO DECEMBER 25 I WOULD TELL YOU ON THE AUTHORITY OF 18:37 SCRIPTURE IS NOT A HOLY DAY. 18:41 IT IS A HOLIDAY BECAUSE OUR LORD WAS NOT BORN DECEMBER 25. 18:52 I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT REMIND YOU OF THE GREAT TRUTH 19:01 THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE HOLY DAY IN SCRIPTURE THAT IS RELEVANT 19:06 TO US. 19:12 THERE IS ONLY ONE HOLY DAY IN SCRIPTURE THAT IS RELEVANT 19:16 TO US TODAY AND THAT IS THE COMMANDMENT THAT PREACHES 19:21 THE GOSPEL. 19:25 DID YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING? 19:27 NOW I WANT TO SAY THIS TO YOU TODAY WITH ALL THE GRACE 19:31 IN MY SOUL. 19:34 LISTEN, WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS. 19:41 AND MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND IN THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN 19:46 CHURCH ARE IGNORANT OF THE GREAT FACTS OF HISTORY, 19:52 THE FACTS OF THE BIBLE, AND THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD. 20:01 THE ONLY DAY THAT IS IMPORTANT AS FAR AS GOD IS CONCERNED IS 20:06 THE COMMANDMENTS THAT PREACHES THE GOSPEL. 20:09 COME OVER HERE TO HEBREWS 4. 20:12 HEBREWS 4:9-10, MY DEAR FRIENDS. 20:18 HEBREWS 4:9-10. 20:25 HEBREWS 4:9, THE WRITER OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS SAYS, 20:33 "THERE REMAINS, THEN, A SABBATH-REST FOR THE PEOPLE 20:40 OF GOD." 20:41 LOOK AT VERSE 4. 20:43 "FOR SOMEWHERE HE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY IN THESE 20:46 WORDS: 'AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORKS.'" 20:51 AND THE WRITER SAYS THERE REMAINS A SABBATH-REST TO 20:56 THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 20:57 VERSE 10, "FOR ANYONE WHO ENTERS GOD'S REST ALSO RESTS 21:03 FROM HIS OWN WORK, JUST AS GOD DID FROM HIS OWN." 21:08 I WANT TO SAY TO MY FRIEND WHO SAYS THAT WE ARE LEGALISTS 21:14 BECAUSE WE KEEP THE SABBATH, I WOULD SAY TO YOU, "SHOW ME ONE 21:19 TEXT IN THE BIBLE WHERE SUNDAY IS A SYMBOL OF THE SABBATH. 21:26 IT'S NOT THERE." 21:29 THE SABBATH IS THE ONLY THING THAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS REGARD 21:35 THAT POINTS TO THE GOSPEL. 21:39 BECAUSE WHEN A PERSON COMES TO CHRIST AND CEASES FROM HIS 21:44 OWN WORKS AND TRUSTS IN THE COMPLETED WORKS OF CHRIST, 21:50 THAT PERSON, MY FRIEND, ENJOYS THE GOSPEL REST. 21:57 AND UNLESS YOU'VE GOT THE GOSPEL IN YOUR HEART, 21:59 YOU CAN'T KEEP THE SABBATH. 22:03 NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, "I FIND IT VERY, VERY HARD TO KEEP 22:06 THE SABBATH. 22:07 IT'S A BURDEN TO ME." 22:08 IT IS BECAUSE, MY FRIEND, YOU HAVEN'T ENTERED INTO REST. 22:14 BUT WHEN YOU ENTER INTO CHRIST'S REST AND YOU'VE GOT 22:19 THE GOSPEL IN YOUR SOUL, THEN YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THE REST 22:22 OF THE SABBATH. 22:24 AND WHAT THIS POOR, SAD, SICK, IGNORANT OLD WORLD NEEDS IS 22:32 THE GOSPEL OF JESUS. 22:34 NOW COME OVER HERE TO MATTHEW 11:28 AND ONWARDS. 22:40 MATTHEW 11:28 AND ONWARDS. 22:48 MATTHEW 11:28 AND ONWARDS. 22:50 OUR BLESSED LORD SAID THESE UNFORGETTABLE WORDS. 22:55 "COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND BURDENED, AND I WILL 23:03 GIVE YOU REST. 23:04 TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN OF ME, FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY 23:10 IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. 23:16 FOR MY YOKE IS EASY AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT." 23:22 WHEN I WAS A BOY GOING THROUGH AVONDALE COLLEGE AND MY FIRST 23:25 YEAR AT AVONDALE, I TURNED 17 YEARS OF AGE. 23:31 I HAD A JOB WORKING AT THE SHF, THE SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD 23:36 COMPANY, ONE OF THE BIGGEST ENTERPRISES IN 23:40 THE SOUTH PACIFIC. 23:41 AND WE OWN IT. 23:44 IT WAS MY JOB TO HELP RUN THIS BIG PRINTING PRESS 23:48 AT NIGHTTIME. 23:50 AND THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN DO WITH A PRINTING PRESS. 23:53 ONCE IT'S UP AND RUNNING, YOU'VE JUST GOT TO WATCH IT. 23:58 AND DURING THE LONG WATCHES OF THE NIGHT, I COMMITTED PASSAGES 24:02 OF SCRIPTURE TO MY MIND AND TO MY MEMORY. 24:08 I WANT TO TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING. 24:10 UNLESS YOU ARE COMMITTING PASSAGES EVERY DAY OF SCRIPTURE 24:17 TO YOUR MEMORY, YOU'LL FIND THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE REST 24:22 OF THE GOSPEL. 24:25 THE GOSPEL IS LIKE QUICKSILVER. 24:30 IT'S BEAUTIFUL, BUT IT'S EASY TO LOSE IT. 24:35 MARTIN LUTHER SAID HE WAS AFRAID OF LOSING THE GOSPEL A 24:39 DOZEN TIMES IN THE DAY BECAUSE WE BY NATURE ARE OPPOSED 24:44 TO THE GOSPEL. 24:49 BUT THE SABBATH DAY IS THE GREAT SYMBOL OF THE GOSPEL. 24:54 I THANK GOD FOR THE GOSPEL. 24:57 I THANK GOD FOR THE SABBATH. 25:01 ONE OF THE GREATEST THEOLOGIANS OF OUR MODERN TIMES, 25:04 KARL BARTH, IN ONE OF HIS GREAT BOOKS QUOTED DE QUERVAIN, 25:11 WHO SAID THESE WORDS. 25:13 "WHEN THE HOLY DAY," AND BARTH QUOTED THESE WORDS WITH 25:18 AFFIRMATION, "WHEN THE HOLY DAY BECOMES THE DAY OF MAN, SOCIETY 25:27 AND HUMANITY WITHER AWAY AND THE DEMONS RULE." 25:38 YOU WONDER WHAT'S WRONG TODAY IN AMERICA, WHY EVERYTHING 25:42 SEEMS TO BE CHAOTIC, WHY MEN WHO OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER 25:48 SEEM TO BE MAKING SUCH HORRENDOUS DECISIONS? 25:54 IT'S BECAUSE THE HOLY DAY HAS BECOME THE DAY OF MAN AND 25:58 SOCIETY AND HUMANITY ARE WITHERING AWAY AND THE DEMONS 26:05 ARE RULING. 26:06 THAT GREAT ADVENTIST SCHOLAR, DR. SAM BAKIOKI, WHO STUDIED 26:11 FOR HIS DOCTORATE AT THE PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY 26:16 IN ROME, AND WHO RECEIVED FROM THE POPE'S HAND A GOLD MEDAL 26:22 BECAUSE HE WROTE HIS THESIS ON HOW THE CHURCH OF ROME CHANGED 26:26 THE SABBATH FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. 26:30 THE POPE GAVE HIM A GOLD MEDAL FOR IT. 26:32 MY SUNDAY KEEPING FRIENDS, YOU MAY NOT BE CERTAIN ABOUT IT, 26:37 BUT THE POPE IS. 26:41 AND DR. BAKIOKI, AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE PASSED AWAY RECENTLY. 26:47 HE SAID, "THE SABBATH IS A WINDOW ON ETERNITY, 26:52 A HOLIDAY WITH GOD." 26:56 IF YOU WONDER WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR OWN LIVES IN THIS CHURCH, 26:59 WHY YOU'RE SO FRANTIC, WHY YOU'RE RUSHING AND YOU'RE 27:02 TEARING AND YOU GOT NO PEACE IN YOUR SOULS, MAYBE YOU'VE 27:06 FORGOTTEN THE ONLY COMMANDMENT THAT'S PREFACED BY 27:08 THE WORD REMEMBER. 27:12 AND ALMIGHTY GOD SAID IT. 27:16 MOST FOLKS ARE NOT AWARE OF THE FACT THAT JESUS OUR LORD RISKED 27:24 HIS LIFE AND MISSION TO SHOW THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SABBATH. 27:30 DID YOU KNOW THAT? 27:32 THERE ARE SEVEN MIRACLES RECORDED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 27:36 OF THE SABBATH DAY, SEVEN. 27:40 AND THUS JESUS PROCLAIMED THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, THE REST 27:45 DAY, THE DAY OF LIBERATION, THE DAY FOR FEEDING THE HUNGRY, 27:50 THE DAY FOR SAVING LOST SOULS, THE DAY FOR HEALING SICK BODIES, 27:56 AND CALMING TROUBLED MINDS. 28:01 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TALK ABOUT AS YOU HAVE LUNCH TODAY? 28:07 IS IT GOING TO BE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OR 28:11 THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT HAS 28:15 DONE WRONG THAT YOU DON'T LIKE? 28:19 CAN I REMIND YOU THAT POLITICS ON THE SABBATH DAY IS A SIN 28:25 AGAINST CHRIST? 28:28 REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY, MY FRIENDS. 28:36 IT IS GOD'S DAY. 28:37 OH, YOU SAY, "WELL, I SNEAK INTO CHURCH AT QUARTER TO 12 28:41 OR HALF PAST 11 AND I GIVE GOD HIS DUE. 28:45 I GIVE HIM AT LEAST AN HOUR, BUT I GET OUT AS THEY TAKE 28:48 THE OFFERING." 28:51 MY FRIEND, THAT IS NOT KEEPING THE SABBATH. 28:55 IT SHOWS THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE GOSPEL REST 28:59 IN YOUR OWN SOUL. 29:03 AND AS THE SUN SINKS BENEATH THE HILLS AT FRIDAY SUNSET, WE 29:09 OUGHT TO REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY. 29:13 AND IT LASTS FOR 24 HOURS. 29:17 IT IS THE LORD'S HOLY DAY. 29:20 YOU KNOW WHY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT INTO CAPTIVITY 29:23 AND LOST THEIR WAY? 29:26 BECAUSE THEY BROKE THE SABBATH. 29:28 YOU CAN READ THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS. 29:33 THAT'S THE DAY WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER. 29:35 ARE YOU REMEMBERING IT? 29:39 SHALL WE KEEP CHRISTMAS? 29:42 WE SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH AS GOD'S HOLY DAY AND ENJOY 29:47 CHRISTMAS AS A HOLIDAY. 29:50 LET ME SAY IT AGAIN. 29:51 WE SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH AS GOD'S HOLY DAY AND ENJOY 29:58 CHRISTMAS AS A HOLIDAY. 30:03 WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER OUR LORD JESUS EVERY DAY, 30:07 INCLUDING DECEMBER 25. 30:11 SOME FOLKS SAY, "WELL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DO THAT, 30:14 YOU'RE BEING A PAGAN." 30:16 YOU'RE PAGAN BECAUSE YOU REMEMBER JESUS DECEMBER 25? 30:21 WE SHOULD REMEMBER HIM EVERY DAY. 30:24 I ASK MY FRIENDS THE QUESTION. 30:27 IS IT A BAD THING THAT A PAGAN OLD WORLD PAUSES ONCE A YEAR 30:35 TO ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS? 30:38 IS THAT SUCH A BAD THING? 30:44 THE DATE OF CHRIST'S BIRTH IS NOT REVEALED IN THE BIBLE 30:47 BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT IMPORTANT. 30:50 BUT ONE THING IS IMPORTANT AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO GET 30:55 INTO YOUR HEARTS TODAY. 30:57 UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN. 30:59 UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN. 31:01 AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, 31:04 MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. 31:09 WHEN HE WAS BORN IS NOT OF CONSEQUENCE. 31:13 WHAT IS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE IS THAT THE SON OF GOD CAME 31:18 DOWN, THE BLESSED TRUTH OF THE INCARNATION. 31:25 COME OVER HERE TO HEBREWS 1:1-4. 31:30 HEBREWS 1:1-4, DEAR HEARTS AND GENTLE PEOPLE. 31:36 "IN THE PAST GOD SPOKE TO OUR FOREFATHERS THROUGH THE 31:39 PROPHETS AT MANY TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS, BUT IN THESE LAST 31:43 DAYS HE HAS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE APPOINTED HEIR 31:47 OF ALL THINGS, AND THROUGH WHOM HE MADE THE UNIVERSE." 31:51 HE'S THE CREATOR. 31:52 "THE SON IS THE RADIANCE OF GOD'S GLORY AND THE EXACT 31:56 REPRESENTATION OF HIS BEING, SUSTAINING ALL THINGS 31:59 BY HIS POWERFUL WORD. 32:02 AFTER HE HAD PROVIDED PURIFICATION FOR SINS, 32:05 HE SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY IN HEAVEN. 32:11 SO HE BECAME AS MUCH SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS AS THE NAME 32:15 HE HAS INHERITED IS SUPERIOR TO THEIRS." 32:19 LOOK AT VERSE 6. 32:21 "AND AGAIN, WHEN GOD BRINGS HIS FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD, 32:25 HE SAYS, 'LET ALL GOD'S ANGELS WORSHIP HIM.'" 32:30 AND THEN VERSE 8, LOOK AT VERSE 8. 32:32 "BUT ABOUT THE SON HE SAYS, 'YOUR THRONE, O GOD, WILL LAST 32:37 FOR EVER AND EVER, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE 32:42 THE SCEPTER OF YOUR KINGDOM. 32:45 YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED WICKEDNESS; THEREFORE 32:49 GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS SET YOU ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS BY 32:52 ANOINTING YOU WITH THE OIL OF JOY.' 32:56 HE ALSO SAYS," GOD THE FATHER SAYS TO THE SON, "'IN THE 32:59 BEGINNING, O LORD, YOU LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, 33:04 AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.'" 33:09 I WOULD REMIND YOU TODAY, MY BELOVED FRIENDS HERE IN 33:13 CALIFORNIA, THAT JESUS IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP. 33:20 I BELIEVE IN THE BLESSED TRINITY, GOD THE FATHER, 33:24 GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. 33:27 AND WHEN GOD THE SON COMES INTO THE WORLD, BORN OF THE BLESSED 33:33 VIRGIN MARY, THE FATHER GIVES A COMMAND. 33:37 "LET ALL THE ANGELS WORSHIP HIM." 33:39 AND THEY FALL DOWN AND THEY WORSHIP HIM BECAUSE HE'S WORTHY 33:44 OF WORSHIP. 33:46 HE IS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. 33:50 THE BIBLE SAYS--CALLS HIM GOD WHOSE THRONE IS ETERNAL. 33:54 AND WHEN THE FATHER TURNS TO OUR BLESSED LORD AND SAYS, 33:59 "AND YOU, O LORD, LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, 34:04 AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS," MY FRIEND, 34:07 YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS. 34:11 THE WRITER THERE IS QUOTING PSALM 102. 34:16 AND IN PSALM 102, THIS WORD IS USED FOR LORD. 34:25 IT IS THE WORD THAT THE WONDERFUL JEWISH PEOPLE, THOSE 34:30 WHO REALLY BELIEVE THE BIBLE, WILL NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE 34:33 THAT NAME. 34:35 IT IS THE NAME THAT THEY BELIEVE SHOULD NEVER BE 34:38 PRONOUNCED BECAUSE IT'S THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, 34:43 YAHWEH. 34:47 SAY IT WITH REVERENCE. 34:50 REMEMBER, GOD IS HOLY. 34:52 AND WHEN JESUS COMES INTO THE WORLD, THE FATHER SAYS, 34:57 "AND YOU, YAHWEH, LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, 35:05 AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS." 35:08 SO I SAY O COME LET US ADORE HIM. 35:14 COME WITH ME TO MATTHEW 1. 35:17 WE'RE GOING TO READ THE GRAND OLD STORY. 35:20 MATTHEW 1:18-25. 35:28 MATTHEW 1:18-25. 35:35 WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW A GREAT CUSTOM. 35:40 WE'RE GOING TO STAND AND READ THE SCRIPTURE. 35:43 PLEASE STAND WITH ME, MATTHEW 1. 35:49 AND JUST KEEP PACE WITH ME. 35:51 I WANT YOU ALL TO STAND, PLEASE, AS WE READ THE 35:54 SCRIPTURE, OUT OF REVERENCE FOR THE SCRIPTURE. 36:00 THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD. 36:02 MATTHEW 1:18. 36:05 "THIS IS HOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST CAME ABOUT: 36:08 HIS MOTHER MARY WAS PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO JOSEPH, 36:12 BUT BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, SHE WAS FOUND TO BE WITH 36:14 CHILD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 36:16 BECAUSE JOSEPH HER HUSBAND WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN AND DID NOT 36:20 WANT TO EXPOSE HER TO PUBLIC DISGRACE, HE HAD IN MIND 36:23 TO DIVORCE HER QUIETLY. 36:25 BUT AFTER HE HAD CONSIDERED THIS, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD 36:28 APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM AND SAID, 'JOSEPH SON OF DAVID, DO 36:33 NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE MARY HOME AS YOUR WIFE, BECAUSE WHAT 36:37 IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT. 36:40 SHE WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND YOU ARE TO GIVE HIM 36:43 THE NAME JESUS, BECAUSE HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE 36:46 FROM THEIR SINS.' ALL THIS TOOK PLACE TO FULFILL 36:50 WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID THROUGH THE PROPHET: 'THE VIRGIN WILL 36:53 BE WITH CHILD AND WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND THEY WILL 36:57 CALL HIM IMMANUEL, WHICH MEANS GOD WITH US. 37:01 WHEN JOSEPH WOKE UP, HE DID WHAT THE ANGEL OF THE LORD HAD 37:04 COMMANDED HIM AND TOOK MARY HOME AS HIS WIFE. 37:08 BUT HE HAD NO UNION WITH HER UNTIL SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A SON. 37:12 AND HE GAVE HIM THE NAME JESUS." 37:15 CHAPTER 2, VERSES 1-11 TOGETHER. 37:18 "AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA, DURING THE 37:22 TIME OF KING HEROD, MAGI FROM THE EAST CAME TO JERUSALEM AND 37:26 ASKED, 'WHERE IS THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN BORN KING OF THE JEWS? 37:29 WE SAW HIS STAR IN THE EAST AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM.' 37:34 WHEN KING HEROD HEARD THIS HE WAS DISTURBED, AND ALL 37:37 JERUSALEM WITH HIM. 37:39 WHEN HE HAD CALLED TOGETHER ALL THE PEOPLE'S CHIEF PRIESTS 37:42 AND THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW, HE ASKED THEM WHERE THE CHRIST 37:45 WAS TO BE BORN. 37:47 'IN BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA,' THEY REPLIED, 'FOR THIS IS WHAT THE 37:50 PROPHET HAS WRITTEN: BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF 37:53 JUDEA, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR 37:58 OUT OF YOUILL COME A RULER WHO WILL BE THE SHEPHERD 38:01 OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.' THEN HEROD CALLED THE MAGI 38:05 SECRETLY AND FOUND OUT FROM THEM THE EXACT TIME 38:10 THE STAR HAD APPEARED. 38:12 HE SENT THEM TO BETHLEHEM AND SAID, 'GO AND MAKE A CAREFUL 38:16 SEARCH FOR THE CHILD. 38:18 AS SOON AS YOU FIND HIM, REPORT TO ME THAT I, TOO, 38:21 MAY GO AND WORSHIP HIM.' AFTER THEY HAD HEARD THE KING, 38:26 THEY WENT ON THEIR WAY, AND THE STAR THEY HAD SEEN IN THE EAST 38:29 WENT AHEAD OF THEM UNTIL IT STOPPED OVER THE PLACE WHERE 38:32 THE CHILD WAS. 38:34 WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY WERE OVERJOYED. 38:37 ON COMING TO THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE CHILD WITH HIS MOTHER 38:40 MARY, AND THEY BOWED DOWN AND WORSHIPED HIM. 38:45 THEN THEY OPENED THEIR TREASURES AND PRESENTED HIM 38:48 WITH GIFTS OF GOLD AND OF INCENSE AND OF MYRRH." 38:53 AND MAY THE LORD ADD HIS BLESSING TO THE PUBLIC READING 38:56 OF HIS WORD. 38:57 PLEASE BE SEATED. 39:02 AND SO THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE WAS A LITTLE PEASANT GIRL 39:08 AND HER NAME WAS MARY AND SHE WAS A VIRGIN. 39:11 AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HER AND THUS THE PROPHECY 39:16 WAS FULFILLED. 39:17 UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN. 39:19 UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN. 39:21 AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, 39:24 MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. 39:31 AND IT WAS A HOLY NIGHT, INDEED IT WAS, WHEN THE SON OF GOD 39:37 CAME DOWN TO TABERNACLE IN HUMAN FLESH. 39:42 PASTOR AND MRS. O'CONNOR ARE GOING TO COME. 39:46 THEY'RE GOING TO SING TO US ABOUT THE BLESSED NIGHT OF THAT 39:51 WONDERFUL OCCASION WHEN JESUS, THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, 39:57 CAME DOWN FROM GLORY AND HE CAME DOWN TO AN AWFUL PLACE 40:03 AND HE WAS BORN IN A MANGER. 40:08 [MUSIC] 40:15 ♪ O HOLY NIGHT, THE STARS ARE ♪ ♪ BRIGHTLY SHINING. ♪ 40:24 ♪ IT IS THE NIGHT OF OUR DEAR ♪ ♪ SAVIOR'S BIRTH. ♪ 40:34 ♪ LONG LAY THE WORLD ♪ ♪ IN SIN AND ERROR PINING ♪ 40:42 ♪ 'TIL HE APPEARED ♪ ♪ AND THE SOUL FELT ITS WORTH. ♪ 40:51 ♪ A THRILL OF HOPE, ♪ ♪ THE WEARY WORLD REJOICES. ♪ 40:58 ♪ FOR YONDER BREAKS ♪ ♪ A NEW AND GLORIOUS MORN. ♪ 41:05 ♪ FALL ON YOUR KNEES ♪ ♪ AND HEAR THE ANGEL VOICES. ♪ 41:19 ♪ O NIGHT DIVINE, ♪ ♪ O NIGHT ♪ 41:29 ♪ WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN. ♪ ♪ O NIGHT DIVINE, ♪ 41:39 ♪ O NIGHT, ♪ ♪ O NIGHT DIVINE. ♪ 41:49 [MUSIC] 42:05 ♪ TRULY HE TAUGHT US ♪ ♪ TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. ♪ 42:13 ♪ HIS LAW IS LOVE ♪ ♪ AND HIS GOSPEL IS PEACE. ♪ 42:23 ♪ CHAINS SHALL HE BREAK FOR ♪ ♪ THE SLAVE IS OUR BROTHER. ♪ 42:31 ♪ AND IN HIS NAME ALL ♪ ♪ OPPRESSION SHALL CEASE. ♪ 42:39 ♪ SWEET HYMNS OF JOY IN ♪ ♪ GRATEFUL CHORUS RAISE WE. ♪ 42:46 ♪ LET ALL WITHIN US PRAISE ♪ ♪ HIS HOLY NAME. ♪ 42:53 ♪ CHRIST IS THE LORD. ♪ ♪ THEN EVER, EVER PRAISE WE. ♪ 43:07 ♪ HIS POWER AND GLORY ♪ ♪ EVERMORE PROCLAIM. ♪ 43:20 ♪ HIS POWER AND GLORY ♪ ♪ EVERMORE PROCLAIM. ♪♪ 43:59 [APPLAUDING] 44:05 >> DO WE REALLY GET IT, THAT THIS LITTLE BABY, BORN OF 44:10 THE BLESSED VIRGIN, WAS GOD? 44:15 WHY DID HE COME? 44:17 BECAUSE SOMETHING AWFUL AND DREADFUL HAD HAPPENED 44:19 TO THE WORLD. 44:21 SIN HAD INVADED THE WORLD. 44:23 IT'S INVADED YOU AND ME. 44:26 IT'S WHY WE'RE INDIFFERENT TO GOD. 44:28 IT'S WHY OUR HEARTS ARE COLD AND WHY WE ARE NATURALLY 44:31 REBELLIOUS AND UNSPIRITUAL, WHY WE JUST DON'T WANT TO READ 44:36 OUR BIBLE, BECAUSE IT GOES AGAINST US. 44:41 WHY DID HE COME? 44:43 I HAVE RECEIVED DURING MY MINISTRY SOME EMERGENCY CALLS. 44:47 SOMEONE IS DYING. 44:50 PHONE RINGS. 44:51 "SOMEONE IS DYING, COME." 44:52 SO I ANSWER THE CALL. 44:55 WHEN I WAS IN RUSSIA LAST JANUARY, A MESSAGE WAS 44:59 BROUGHT TO ME. 45:00 "A LITTLE BABY BOY IS DYING IN THE HOSPITAL. 45:03 COME, HE'S DYING. 45:04 COME PRAY FOR--" I ANSWERED THE CALL. 45:08 AND THEN WHEN I WAS IN ODESSA, UKRAINE, A LITTLE BOY THIS HIGH 45:14 IS DYING OF CANCER. 45:16 "PLEASE COME. 45:19 I ANSWERED THE CALL. 45:21 I WANT YOU TO KNOW JESUS ANSWERED THE CALL. 45:27 THERE'S A FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER. 45:30 I THINK--I MAY BE WRONG. 45:31 I THINK HIS NAME WAS ELISHA KANE. 45:34 SOME OF HIS MEN WERE TRAPPED. 45:36 THEY WERE FREEZING TO DEATH. 45:39 HE MARCHED FOR 3 DAYS, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD A HEART 45:41 CONDITION. 45:43 HE WAS DYING HIMSELF. 45:44 WHEN HE GOT INTO THE CAVE, MEN WHO WERE FREEZING, CRAZED WITH 45:50 THE COLD, GASP OUT, "WE KNEW YOU WOULD COME, BROTHER." 45:55 THAT'S WHY HE CAME. 45:58 HE CAME BECAUSE OF A DESPERATE NEED, TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT 46:02 WHICH WAS LOST. 46:04 HE CAME TO SHOW US THE HEART OF GOD, THAT GOD IS NOT A CRANKY 46:10 OLD MAN, THAT GOD IS KIND AND COMPASSIONATE. 46:18 HE EVEN WASHED THE FEET OF JUDAS, THE BETRAYER. 46:23 HE'S A MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN YOU AND I COULD 46:25 EVER COMPREHEND. 46:27 ONE GREAT THEOLOGIAN SAID THERE ARE GREAT--TWO GREAT TRUTHS 46:31 THAT EVERY ONE OF US MUST LEARN, BUT MOST OF US HAVEN'T 46:33 GOT A CLUE ABOUT. 46:35 NUMBER ONE, MAN IS MUCH WORSE THAN HE EVER FEARED TO THINK, 46:44 BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER THAN HE EVER DARED TO HOPE. 46:51 THAT'S WHY HE CAME. 46:53 HE CAME TO RANSOM US FROM FEAR, DEATH, AND THE GRAVE. 46:59 HE WAS NOT BORN TO LIVE, YOU KNOW. 47:03 HE WAS BORN TO DIE. 47:09 LISTEN TO THE POEM. 47:13 "THE LOVE OF GOD IS GREATER FAR THAN TONGUE OF PEN 47:17 CAN EVER TELL. 47:19 IT GOES BEYOND THE HIGHEST STAR. 47:23 IT REACHES TO THE LOWEST HELL. 47:27 THE GUILTY PAIR, BOWED DOWN WITH CARE, GOD GAVE HIS SON 47:32 TO WIN. 47:35 HIS ERRING CHILD HE RECONCILED AND PARDONED FROM HIS SIN. 47:42 WHEN YEARS OF TIME SHALL PASS AWAY AND EARTHLY THRONES AND 47:47 KINGDOMS FALL, WHEN MEN WHO HEAR REFUSE TO PRAY, ON ROCKS 47:53 AND HILLS AND MOUNTAINS CALL, GOD'S LOVE, SO SURE, 47:58 SHALL STILL ENDURE, ALL MEASURELESS AND STRONG. 48:04 REDEEMING GRACE TO ADAM'S RACE, THE SAINTS' AND ANGELS' SONG." 48:12 COULD WE WITH INK THE OCEAN FILL AND WERE THE SKIES OF 48:20 PARCHMENT MADE, WERE EVERY STOCK ON EARTH A QUILL AND 48:28 EVERY MAN A SCRIBE BY TRADE, TO WRITE THE LOVE OF GOD ABOVE 48:38 WOULD DRAIN THE OCEAN WIDE. 48:43 NOR COULD THE SCROLL CONTAIN THE WHOLE, THOUGH STRETCHED 48:49 FROM SKY TO SKY. 48:52 O LOVE OF GOD, HOW RICH AND PURE, HOW MEASURELESS 49:03 AND STRONG. 49:06 IT SHALL FOREVERMORE ENDURE THE SAINTS' AND ANGEL'S SONG." 49:18 FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN. 49:23 UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN. 49:27 AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, 49:34 MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. 49:45 O COME, LET US ADORE HIM, CHRIST THE LORD. 49:57 O COME, LET US ADORE HIM, CHRIST THE LORD. 50:09 WHEN HE BRINGS THE FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD, HE SAYS THAT 50:14 ALL OF THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM. 50:20 OUR FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE INCARNATION. 50:29 WE THANK YOU WITH ALL OUR HEARTS THAT WHEN WE 50:34 INDIVIDUALLY, BECAUSE OF OUR COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL 50:40 SINFULNESS, WHEN WE MADE SUCH A MESS OF OUR LIVES AND WHEN WE 50:46 POLLUTED THIS PLANET SO THAT NOW THE PLANET IS GROANING 50:50 IN ITS AGONIES, WE THANK YOU. 50:55 WHEN NIGHT WAS AS BLACK AS COULD BE, THE CRY OF A LITTLE 51:02 BABY BOY BROKE THE STILLNESS IN A SHED, WE WOULD SAY, 51:11 IN A BACKSTREET IN BETHLEHEM. 51:16 AND THERE EL SHADDAI, YAHWEH, ELOHIM, THE ONE WHO HAD NO 51:25 BEGINNING, THE GREAT CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE TOOK THE FORM-- 51:32 NO, NOT TOOK THE FORM. 51:34 HE BECAME A MAN AND LIVED AMONG US. 51:40 WE THANK YOU THAT HE CAME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH 51:43 WAS LOST. 51:45 AND OUR FATHER, AT THIS CHRISTMASTIME AND EVERY DAY, WE 51:53 SHALL REMEMBER HIM AND WE SHALL ADORE HIM AND WE SHALL WORSHIP 51:59 HIM, CHRIST THE LORD. 52:03 HOW MANY TODAY WILL RAISE A HAND TOWARDS HEAVEN AND SAY, 52:09 "I WORSHIP YOU TODAY, MY BLESSED SAVIOR. 52:14 I THANK YOU TODAY. 52:17 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN BRING TODAY, MY LORD, BUT I BRING 52:22 GRATITUDE. 52:25 MAY AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE BE BORN IN THIS OLD SINNER'S 52:29 HEART TODAY." 52:31 FILL US TODAY WITH GRATITUDE AND HELP US TO UNDERSTAND 52:38 THAT WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. 52:42 GIVE US SOME FEELING IN OUR HEARTS TODAY. 52:49 MELT THE COLD, FRIGID HEARTS AND FILL US WITH LOVE FOR HIM 52:56 TODAY. 52:59 O COME, LET US ADORE HIM. 53:03 BLESS THIS CONGREGATION TODAY. 53:05 WE ARE HERE ON OUR KNEES. 53:08 WE WORSHIP YOU, O LIVING CHRIST. 53:11 WE PRAISE YOU, WE BLESS YOU. 53:15 WE'RE THANKFUL, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN, AMEN. 53:27 ♪ HE IS HERE. ♪ ♪ THE SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN, ♪ 53:37 ♪ THE ONE WE'VE WAITED FOR, ♪ ♪ SURROUNDED BY OUR PRAISES. ♪ 53:53 ♪ HE IS HERE, ♪ ♪ THE PROMISE OF OUR KING. ♪ 54:04 ♪ TO YOU OUR LIVES WE BRING. ♪ ♪ LET YOUR GLORY ♪ 54:12 ♪ BE REVEALED. ♪ 54:21 ♪ JOY TO THE WORLD. ♪ ♪ PEACE TO ALL WHO LOVE HIM. ♪ 54:34 ♪ THE SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN ♪ ♪ AND ALL OF HEAVEN SMILES. ♪ 54:48 ♪ GLORY TO GOD. ♪ ♪ BRING AN OFFERING TO YOU. ♪ 55:01 ♪ JOIN WITH ALL THE ANGELS ♪ ♪ SINGING HALLELUJAH. ♪ 55:21 ♪ HE IS HERE. ♪ ♪ THE SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN, ♪ 55:31 ♪ THE ONE WE'VE WAITED FOR, ♪ ♪ SURROUNDED BY OUR PRAISES. ♪ 55:47 ♪ HE IS HERE, ♪ ♪ THE PROMISE OF OUR KING. ♪ 55:58 ♪ TO YOU OUR LIVES WE BRING. ♪ ♪ LET YOUR GLORY ♪ 56:06 ♪ BE REVEALED. ♪ 56:16 ♪ JOY TO THE WORLD. ♪ ♪ PEACE TO ALL WHO LOVE HIM. ♪ 56:28 ♪ THE SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN ♪ ♪ AND ALL OF HEAVEN SMILES. ♪ 56:42 ♪ GLORY TO GOD. ♪ ♪ BRING AN OFFERING TO YOU. ♪ 56:55 ♪ JOIN WITH ALL THE ANGELS ♪ ♪ SINGING HALLELUJAH. ♪ 57:15 [MUSIC] ♪ HALLELUJAH. ♪ 57:31 ♪ O HALLELUJAH. ♪ [MUSIC] 57:44 ♪ O HALLELUJAH. ♪♪ |
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