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Ed Young TV | HD-EYTV2151 | December 24, 2021
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- partners of "Ed Young Television."
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- Welcome to the international broadcast ministry of Ed Young.
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- Here at "Ed Young Television," our mission is to make the
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- complex simple, as he speaks truth to people in ways they can
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- understand and apply to their everyday lives.
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- And now, here's pastor, author, and speaker, Pastor Ed Young.
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- Ed Young: Christmas is fun, isn't it?
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- And Christmas is a time that we like to watch movies.
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- You notice that?
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- There's so many movies out there.
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- We love to watch movies.
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- On the count of three, I want you to name your favorite
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- Christmas movie.
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- You got it?
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- So, when I say three, you just blurt out the title of your
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- favorite movie.
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- One, that's right, you and me, two, three, "It's A
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- Wonderful Life."
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- Whoa, I heard a lot of different movies.
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- Do you sometimes get overwhelmed with the choices?
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- Now and then, Lisa and I will, like, go on Netflix, or Hulu, or
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- Amazon Prime, whatever it is, and we're scrolling, and
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- scrolling and scrolling, and after about 20 minutes, we're
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- like, "Let's just go to bed."
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- We're overwhelmed with choices.
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- I have a confession to make, and this is sort of embarrassing.
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- In fact, I've never made this confession, but I thought since
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- we're in church, I'm gonna go ahead and make this confession.
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- I have been in a movie before, did you know that?
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- Some of you might go, "Yeah," others are like, "What?"
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- Yeah, yeah, I was in a movie.
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- Years ago in 2006, some friends of mine who sort of bankrolled a
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- children's film invited me to the set of this movie.
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- And now looking back, I know they were just setting me up to
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- be in the movie, because the director walked up to me while I
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- was on the set, he was like, "Hey, you're Ed Young from
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- Fellowship Church, right?"
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- I said, "Right," he said, "We have a part for you in
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- this movie."
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- I was like, "No, no, no, I'm not gonna be in a movie."
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- He goes, "No, no, we really want you to be in a movie."
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- So finally I acquiesced, and I said, Okay, "I'll be in
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- the movie."
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- It's a small role, a supporting role.
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- I played a veterinarian.
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- I guess the guy knew I loved animals, so I was pretty much in
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- this film, and there were some pretty reputable actors
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- and actresses.
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- Patrick Muldoon, some of you who are in your 40s, I'm not yet 40,
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- so I wouldn't know, but some of you in your 40s would recognize
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- his name.
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- Janine Turner, "Cliffhanger," "Northern Exposure."
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- I was with them in this movie, so I thought I would just show
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- you an excerpt of my acting debut, if you don't mind.
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- It's embarrassing, but I do just want to show you this.
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- And this movie, again, low-budget, family film, the
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- title, "Miracle Dogs Too," watch.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Zach: You think that's him?
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- Hi, I'm Zach.
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- I'm the one that called you.
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- Ed: Zach, how are you doing?
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- I'm John Moore, and man was I happy to hear from you.
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- Well, I got some friends who want to say thanks.
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- These puppies were miracle dogs, too.
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- Yeah, and you can have any one you want.
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- Zach: Mom? female: Sarah?
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- Sarah: It's okay.
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- female: Really?
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- Okay, which one do you want?
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- Zach: I'll let Sarah choose.
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- Sarah: Oh, I like this little guy.
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- Zach: Maybe the rest of the puppies can go with Doctor Jeff.
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- Then he can take 'em to Rockin' Oldies whenever one of the
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- patients needs to feel better.
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- Dr. Jeff: You know what?
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- I actually have a lot of room at my place and I think that's very
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- good idea, if that's okay with you, John?
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- Ed: Sounds great to me.
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- Dr. Jeff: Well, it looks like we got some new dogs.
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- female: Oh, the little one is left, how cute.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Ed: I'd like to thank Sony Pictures, Dreamworks, and
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- Steven Spielberg.
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- I know that was sad, but I gave it my best shot.
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- I was in a supporting role in "Miracle Dogs Too."
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- I would argue that Christmas is a movie.
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- Did you hear that?
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- Christmas is a full-length feature film, and the God of the
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- universe invites us to the set, to stand there and to watch and
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- listen to what happened, to what unfolded.
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- And then on top of that, our great God invites you and me,
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- check this out, and how beautiful is this?
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- To play a supporting role in this movie.
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- Christmas is a movie.
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- We get a chance to check out what happened, the storyline,
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- the script, and you're invited, I'm invited, to play a role in
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- this film.
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- If you have your Bibles, turn to the Book of Luke,
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- Luke chapter 2.
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- If you don't, you can follow along on View A Verse.
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- Luke chapter 2, and this story is familiar to most people, or
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- maybe you've never heard it before.
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- Listen to this, listen to this script.
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- "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the
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- field, keeping watch over their flock at night.
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- And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of
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- the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid."
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- What does this word "glory" mean?
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- When we glorify something, we give something high esteem, we
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- honor something.
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- The glory of God is the sum of all of his attributes, that's
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- the glory of God.
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- God is glory.
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- It's like his nickname, Glory, that's God.
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- The Bible is an unfolding story of God's glory, and as we have
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- heard before, and maybe this is brand new to you, we're here to
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- give God glory, to reflect everything in our lives back
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- to God.
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- That's why we're here.
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- So to glorify God means I honor him, I mirror back to him in
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- everything I do, say, touch, and feel, his actions
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- and attributes.
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- So, glory is something we're gonna read in this story a lot.
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- "And the glory of the Lord shone round about them."
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- These angels had traveled in from outside the universe.
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- Sometimes we think that God is maybe just above where the
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- airliners fly, you know, maybe at 50.000 feet or whatever.
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- God is magnificent, he's omnipotent,
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- omnipresent, omniscience.
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- If we realized how big God is, they would blow a circuit.
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- Outside the universe.
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- So, in a nanosecond, think about this, angels flying through
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- hundreds of billions of stars, looking for the Milky
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- Way galaxy.
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- He sees one galaxy, "No, that's not it," another galaxy, "No,
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- that's not it."
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- And finally, "Oh, yeah, the Milky Way, there is the little
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- star called the sun, and there's that blue planet, and
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- there's Bethlehem.
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- No, no, we're gonna be outside in a little shepherd's field
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- outside of Bethlehem."
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- That's what happened.
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- The angels were giving God glory, and they had so much
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- glory on them they had to wipe the glory off their windshield.
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- I just made that up.
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- "And the angel said to them," verse 10, "Fear not, for behold
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- I bring you good tidings of great joy."
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- Isn't that wonderful?
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- Good tidings of great joy.
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- "And this shall be to all people," doesn't matter if
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- you're on welfare or a billionaire, red, yellow, black,
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- and white, they are all precious in the sight of God.
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- "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior
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- which is Jesus Christ the Lord."
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- Had we needed a political figure, God would have
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- sent that.
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- Had we needed a king, God would have sent that.
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- Had we needed celebrity, God would've sent that.
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- Our greatest need was and is a Savior, and that is who
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- God sent.
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- It's a miracle.
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- No one can really understand it, of God becoming flesh.
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- It's called the incarnation, the Creator becoming the creature.
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- If you're gonna talk about love, if you want to talk about
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- ridiculous grace and mercy, that's our great God doing that.
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- God is glory.
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- So what cold is to ice, what wet is to water, glory is to God.
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- Water doesn't look for wet.
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- Ice doesn't go, "Man, where's some cold?"
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- It just is.
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- God's not, "Man, I really need more glory," he is glory.
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- This angel cruises in in a nanosecond, appears to the
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- shepherds, and he said.
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- "This is good news for all people.
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- For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which
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- is Christ the Lord.
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- And this shall be a sign unto you.
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- You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling cloths."
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- Just white cloths.
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- And I like to think about these white cloths as sort of a
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- surrender flag, because it's all about peace, right?
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- "Lying in a manger."
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- Thinkin' about the manger as the table where the peace treaty was
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- signed, because when we have the peace of God in our lives, it
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- always relates to peace with God.
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- So, when I have peace with God, then I'll have the peace of God.
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- And during this time, there was the famous Pax Romana.
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- It was instituted in 27 B.C.
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- where you had political peace, but there was still a war going
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- on inside the soul and the heart of people's lives.
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- So yeah, we can technically, in our culture today, be peaceful,
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- but you know as well as I do, there's a battle going on, and
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- the only way we can experience peace is to know the Prince
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- of Peace.
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- The only way is to make peace with God, and that is why God
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- sent Jesus.
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- So, it's not just the cradle, Christmas is the cradle, the
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- cross, and the crypt.
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- So, "This shall be a sign unto you.
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- You'll find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in
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- a manger.
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- And suddenly," now this is crazy.
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- A whole squadron, a whole squad of angels fly in now, and
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- they're giving this one angel support.
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- A chorus breaks out that would embarrass Kanye's choir.
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- Anyway, "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
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- the heavenly hosts, praising God and saying," okay, here's what
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- I'm going to talk about just for 11 minutes and 43 seconds.
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- This is it, this is it.
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- Two things the angel said with this massive choir that would
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- embarrass Kanye's choir, Okay, "Glory to God in the highest,
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- that's the first thing."
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- So, this massive choir, who had the residue of glory all over
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- them because they've been worshiping God, they said,
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- "Glory to God in the highest."
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- Now, I'm sure the Angels are going, "Oh, that's at the top of
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- our playlist.
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- We've been singing that forever and ever."
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- Well, then they added something.
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- So, the top billing is, "Glory to God in the highest," the
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- second billing is, "And on Earth peace, goodwill toward men."
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- First thing, "Glory to God," second thing, "Peace on earth,
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- goodwill toward men," drop the mic.
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- That's it, "Glory to God in the highest."
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- God is massive, he's sovereign.
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- God is about glory.
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- God's glory is intrinsic, we've been talking about.
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- It's self-perpetuating, self-containing.
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- His glory is independent.
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- He doesn't need glory from you or me to feel and to get
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- more glory.
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- He is, he is glory.
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- Here's the great part about Christmas.
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- God's glory is invitational.
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- God didn't sit back, he did something, he took action.
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- He knew that our sins had separated us from God, and he
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- did something to take care of our sin by sending the star of
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- the show, because the star pointed the shepherds and the
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- wise men to Jesus, right?
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- And that star was and is Jesus.
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- So again, we get a chance to just stand on the set and watch
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- the show.
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- "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill
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- toward men."
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- So if I glorify God, if I reflect him in everything I do,
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- say, touch, and feel, then I'll have the peace of God that
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- surpasses all understanding.
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- But I can't get peace and goodwill until first of all I'm
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- glorifying God.
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- But if you're like me, I want to invert that.
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- I want to say, "No, no, no, God, this is not your movie, it's
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- my movie.
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- I'm the star, and yeah, I can invite you in."
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- So we put the subplot to the plot, and the subplot gets all
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- messed up because we're in charge, we think, and God's not,
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- and we'll go, "God, you can come into my life and kinda hang out,
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- but it's still about me.
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- And when you can serve me, and help me, and take care of me,
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- everything is cool.
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- But it's my story, it's my movie."
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- We all have that temptation, don't we, to invert that, to
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- take the plot and put it into the subplot, and the subplot and
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- put it into the plot, to flip the script?
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- As I mentioned earlier, it's crazy how many categories of
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- movies there are.
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- And in God's full-length, forever film called "Life That
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- Lasts Forever and Ever," because all of us will live forever in
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- one of two places, the Bible says.
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- Did you know that?
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- So, it's this full-length feature film that lasts forever.
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- In this film, there's drama, think about the drama.
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- God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, with the freedom
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- of choice.
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- They were glorifying God, yet they chose to flip the script.
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- They were like, "You know what?
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- It's about us, and it's not about you, God?"
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- So, they put themselves over God, that attitude the Bible
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- calls sin.
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- Sin is not just, "Hey, my bad.
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- I need a mulligan on that one.
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- I screwed up.
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- I made a mistake."
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- Sin is committing cosmic treason, because the number one
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- character quality about God is holiness, holiness, it's
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- not love.
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- Obviously, God has a holy love, we know that.
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- He's so pure, he's so righteous, he couldn't even glance at sin.
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- Sin has to have a payment.
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- Adam and Eve messed up, and all of creation, they were like,
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- "What, what's God gonna do?
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- They sinned, they messed up," and God did something.
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- God took the life of an innocent animal, a third party, spilling
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- it's blood, using the garments.
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- Don't you love this coat?
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- Thank you, using the garments of the animal to cover
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- their nakedness.
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- A foreshadowing of a coming attraction that will culminate
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- in the sacrificial system, I'm talkin' about drama now.
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- They were killing animals, innocent animals, to atone for
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- the sins of other, and this whole thing was culminated when
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- Jesus came and died on the cross for the sins of the World.
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- That, my friend, is some serious, serious drama.
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- Think about Lucifer.
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- We now call him the devil.
- 00:17:45.944 --> 00:17:47.312
- In heaven, his whole job description was to give
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- God glory.
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- He inverted the script, he flipped the script.
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- He was like, "No, no, I want the glory," and because of that, he
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- was kicked out of heaven, and he took a third of the angels with
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- him, which are now the demons.
- 00:18:03.629 --> 00:18:07.699
- So, we have the drama of this story, we have the horror
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- of sin.
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- I'm a sinner and you're a sinner.
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- Everybody messes up.
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- No one taught me how to sin, I just know how to do it.
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- So, we all have a conscience, don't we?
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- We all know when we've messed up.
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- We all know Romans 3:23 when we've fallen short of
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- God's glory.
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- And if you're like me, I like to compare myself to people who are
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- far worse sinners than me.
- 00:18:43.101 --> 00:18:45.637
- I'm like, "Oh, I'm a lot better than him, yeah him.
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- Oh, I'm a lot better than her, yeah, yeah."
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- Well, I feel you, I understand what you're saying.
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- Sin though is sin, and sin separates us from God.
- 00:18:55.147 --> 00:18:58.650
- So, what did God do?
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- God being about glory, God being holy, God could've said, "You
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- know what?
- 00:19:03.322 --> 00:19:04.690
- This is a crazy situation.
- 00:19:04.690 --> 00:19:06.258
- It went totally south.
- 00:19:06.258 --> 00:19:07.659
- People are off the reservation.
- 00:19:07.659 --> 00:19:09.628
- This movie's not what I wanted it to be.
- 00:19:09.628 --> 00:19:11.563
- I'm just gonna sit back in my glory and do what I am going
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- to do."
- 00:19:15.667 --> 00:19:17.035
- God didn't do that.
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- His glory is intrinsic, his glory is independent.
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- Also, his glory is invitational as I said earlier.
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- He couldn't stand the thought of people that matter to him living
- 00:19:26.845 --> 00:19:31.083
- separate from him, so he formulated an amazing script, an
- 00:19:31.083 --> 00:19:38.624
- amazing storyline, action and adventure.
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- He sent his only Son, Jesus, to live a perfect life, a righteous
- 00:19:42.094 --> 00:19:48.834
- life, which means pristine.
- 00:19:48.834 --> 00:19:52.404
- And at 33 years of age, he died on the cross for your sins and
- 00:19:52.404 --> 00:19:57.309
- mine, something that no one here will ever deserve.
- 00:19:57.309 --> 00:20:00.012
- I don't deserve it.
- 00:20:00.012 --> 00:20:01.346
- On my best day I don't deserve it.
- 00:20:01.346 --> 00:20:02.748
- I can tell you that.
- 00:20:02.748 --> 00:20:05.217
- And because of that, God made up the distance, the sin he took
- 00:20:05.217 --> 00:20:10.589
- care of that between ourselves and God, thereby giving us an
- 00:20:10.589 --> 00:20:14.626
- opportunity to make a decision.
- 00:20:14.626 --> 00:20:19.831
- I gotta ask you, have you made that decision?
- 00:20:19.831 --> 00:20:23.735
- Because God supernaturally has set you up to be here
- 00:20:23.735 --> 00:20:29.074
- experiencing this, just like I was set up by the people that
- 00:20:29.074 --> 00:20:32.411
- bankrolled that film.
- 00:20:32.411 --> 00:20:34.012
- You've been set up.
- 00:20:34.012 --> 00:20:36.148
- God has supernaturally synchronized you to be here to
- 00:20:36.148 --> 00:20:40.252
- hear this message, and I've gotta ask you, have you accepted
- 00:20:40.252 --> 00:20:44.189
- your role?
- 00:20:44.189 --> 00:20:45.791
- It's not the starring role, but have you accepted your role?
- 00:20:45.791 --> 00:20:49.828
- Now, some of you here are like, "Yeah, yeah, I have accepted
- 00:20:49.828 --> 00:20:53.398
- this role.
- 00:20:53.398 --> 00:20:54.766
- I am a follower of Christ."
- 00:20:54.766 --> 00:20:56.835
- Awesome, you ever seen these A-listers on the red carpet?
- 00:20:56.835 --> 00:21:05.143
- People are like, "Who are you wearing?
- 00:21:05.143 --> 00:21:07.746
- Who are you wearing?"
- 00:21:07.746 --> 00:21:09.081
- and they'll name all these designers.
- 00:21:09.081 --> 00:21:12.084
- I love this coat right here.
- 00:21:12.084 --> 00:21:14.252
- A friend of mine made this coat for me.
- 00:21:14.252 --> 00:21:17.289
- Hadley's, is this sweet or what?
- 00:21:17.289 --> 00:21:19.091
- His tailor made it for me.
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- I mean, look at the workmanship here.
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- You know what the Bible says to those of us who are followers
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- of Christ?
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- This is a verse about fashion.
- 00:21:34.239 --> 00:21:36.274
- Galatians chapter 3 verse 27, let's read it together, one,
- 00:21:36.274 --> 00:21:40.345
- two, three.
- 00:21:40.345 --> 00:21:41.747
- "For all of you who were baptized into Christ have
- 00:21:41.747 --> 00:21:46.818
- clothed yourselves with Christ."
- 00:21:46.818 --> 00:21:50.989
- I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus, not because of my good
- 00:21:50.989 --> 00:21:55.293
- works, it's because of Jesus.
- 00:21:55.293 --> 00:21:57.095
- So, when God sees me, he sees this coat of righteousness.
- 00:21:57.095 --> 00:22:04.636
- Alright, great, I'm robed in righteousness.
- 00:22:04.636 --> 00:22:08.006
- I'm clothed in righteousness.
- 00:22:08.006 --> 00:22:09.374
- But what are you doing with the gift that God's given you?
- 00:22:09.374 --> 00:22:14.913
- I mean, are you wearing it?
- 00:22:14.913 --> 00:22:18.116
- That's a great question, because you know Christians will be
- 00:22:18.116 --> 00:22:21.052
- judged one day?
- 00:22:21.052 --> 00:22:24.689
- I know, it's not popular to talk about, but it's like the
- 00:22:24.689 --> 00:22:26.992
- Academy Awards.
- 00:22:26.992 --> 00:22:28.360
- Were gonna be awarded in heaven based on how we wore what
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- we wore.
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- Because God has a great role for everyone here, and the question
- 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:41.106
- is, have you accepted the role?
- 00:22:41.106 --> 00:22:43.708
- Okay, you have, but what are you doing as an actor or actress?
- 00:22:43.708 --> 00:22:52.284
- We'll be judged based on the talent and the opportunities
- 00:22:52.284 --> 00:22:55.187
- that God has given us.
- 00:22:55.187 --> 00:22:56.688
- Also too, and that has nothing to do with whether you go to
- 00:22:56.688 --> 00:23:01.460
- heaven or not.
- 00:23:01.460 --> 00:23:02.794
- Let me say that again.
- 00:23:02.794 --> 00:23:04.162
- If you're clothed in Christ, you're goin' to heaven.
- 00:23:04.162 --> 00:23:05.497
- Let me just say that, categorically,
- 00:23:05.497 --> 00:23:07.766
- unequivocally, irrevocably.
- 00:23:07.766 --> 00:23:10.402
- Now, let's talk about another judgment.
- 00:23:10.402 --> 00:23:11.736
- The other judgment will be those here who have not accepted
- 00:23:11.736 --> 00:23:15.807
- this role.
- 00:23:15.807 --> 00:23:17.709
- And God doesn't slam dunk anybody to a forever without
- 00:23:17.709 --> 00:23:21.313
- him, but if we kept him at bay all during our journey here on
- 00:23:21.313 --> 00:23:27.085
- planet earth, when we die, we'll live in separation from God
- 00:23:27.085 --> 00:23:31.990
- for eternity.
- 00:23:31.990 --> 00:23:36.595
- That's just the Christmas story.
- 00:23:36.595 --> 00:23:39.564
- That's just the script.
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- So, I want you to notice something.
- 00:23:42.434 --> 00:23:46.304
- One movie, glory, one villain, Satan, one script, the Bible,
- 00:23:46.304 --> 00:23:56.781
- one star, Jesus, one audience, God, and one theme, the rescue.
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- What, my friend, are you doing with the role that God has
- 00:24:12.330 --> 00:24:20.805
- offered you through Christ?
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- Let's pray together.
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- Father, thank you so much for this experience.
- 00:24:26.011 --> 00:24:29.514
- I thank you for the opportunity that we all have to live in
- 00:24:29.514 --> 00:24:34.886
- concert with you, to live by your movie.
- 00:24:34.886 --> 00:24:38.089
- And Father, I pray that all of us would understand this movie
- 00:24:38.089 --> 00:24:43.295
- is about you, God, and we have an opportunity to play a
- 00:24:43.295 --> 00:24:47.232
- supporting role.
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- But Father, I thank you that you love us so much that you have a
- 00:24:49.734 --> 00:24:52.203
- role for our soul, and during this time as our heads are bowed
- 00:24:52.203 --> 00:24:57.175
- and eyes are closed, if you want to pray and accept this role
- 00:24:57.175 --> 00:25:03.615
- that God has for you in this movie that lasts forever, you
- 00:25:03.615 --> 00:25:08.687
- can pray this prayer with me, and it will happen for you.
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- This is not my prayer, this is a prayer that I prayed years ago,
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- but I can help you pray this prayer.
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- Just say these words after me.
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- Just say, "God," you can say it silently.
- 00:25:19.998 --> 00:25:24.102
- "I don't know a lot about you, but I believe to the best of my
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- ability that you sent Jesus to die on the cross for my sins,
- 00:25:28.840 --> 00:25:35.914
- and to rise again.
- 00:25:35.914 --> 00:25:39.050
- And I've been watching this movie, this storyline, and right
- 00:25:39.050 --> 00:25:46.691
- now I realize God that you have a role for me, and that role was
- 00:25:46.691 --> 00:25:49.661
- made possible through Christ, so I step into that role.
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- I ask you, Jesus Christ," just say that, "To come into my life.
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- I give you everything I am and everything I'll ever be."
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