The Birth Of Hope
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 12/30/2023John 1:14
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez explores the profound hope found in the Incarnation, explaining that Christmas is the celebration of God becoming human to restore our fellowship with Him through unconditional love.
Key points
- •John 1:14 serves as the foundation for the Christmas season, showing that God chose to dwell in a dysfunctional world to bring hope to humanity.
- •The arrival of Jesus was prophesied 700 years before His birth, teaching us that God's word remains true even when the manifestation of His promises seems delayed.
- •Human love is often conditional and easily broken by offense, but God's love is unfiltered and unconditional, choosing to be among us despite our sins.
- •Salvation is a simple proposition: whoever believes in Jesus Christ will not perish but have eternal life, regardless of their past mistakes.
- •The presence of God (Emmanuel) means believers never have to face life's crises, depression, or loneliness alone.
Scripture
Hope
Love
Salvation
Evangelism
Purpose
Life application
This week, reflect on an area of your life where you have lost hope or feel God is late in answering. Consciously decide to trust His timing, remembering that the 700-year delay of the Messiah's birth did not negate God's faithfulness.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you tried to understand God with human reasoning rather than spiritual revelation?
- Why do you think God chose to dwell among us in our 'mess' rather than staying in the splendor of heaven?
- Is there a promise God has spoken over your life that you have given up on because it hasn't happened yet?
- How does the concept of 'Emmanuel' (God with us) change the way you view your current trials or loneliness?
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0:00[Applause]
0:00and you may be seated in the presence of
0:03the
0:05Lord let me quickly draw your attention
0:08to the Book of John
0:111 verse
0:1614 and I'll be reading from the new King
0:19James
0:21translation it says and the word became
0:25flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld
0:29his glory glory in the glory as the only
0:33begotten father full of
0:37grace and
0:40truth let me read that
0:43again and the
0:46word became
0:48flesh and dwelt Among Us and the word
0:53became flesh and dwelt among us and we
0:58beheld is
1:01Glory the glory as the only begotten
1:05father full of grace and
1:09truth I would like to read this passage
1:12from the New Living
1:14Translation because I'm not quite sure
1:16if you got what the word of God is
1:19trying
1:21to share with you this
1:24morning here's what the New Living
1:26Translation says so the word became
1:30watch this now
1:32human the word became
1:37human and made his home among
1:40us he was full of unfailing
1:45love and
1:48faithfulness catch that real quick he
1:51was full of unfailing
1:53love and
1:57faithfulness and we have seen his glory
2:01we've seen his glory and the glory of
2:03the father's one and only
2:08son Let's for a moment talk about the
2:12birth of Hope the birth of
2:16Hope because sitting in this room today
2:18and those of you are
2:20streaming every single day we're all
2:24people
2:25looking for
2:27Hope hoping that we would be a better
2:32person hoping that our situation in life
2:36will be
2:37better hoping that our children will be
2:41successful hoping to find love hoping to
2:44be healed from a disease or a sickness
2:48hoping to get out of debt hoping to have
2:50that perfect job that career hoping that
2:53your business will Thrive hoping that
2:56you'll have a god encounter that you
2:58would experience God God in a way that
3:01is convincing that you will never ever
3:03doubt him again especially in a
3:06society that's battling to understand
3:09this God who will sit in the Splendor of
3:13heaven and watch us spin out of
3:18control we're all looking for
3:21hope you see what we are all about to
3:25celebrate on Christmas Day is all
3:28wrapped in
3:30the hope that we have in
3:33God that we can live victoriously on the
3:37earth tomorrow is all about the hope
3:40that we have in Jesus Christ that we can
3:43live a
3:44life victoriously knowing that God so
3:49loved
3:51us that he is now Among
3:54Us you're never
3:56alone it is said this time of the year a
4:00lot of people get into
4:02depression a lot of people feel lonely a
4:04lot of people feel abandoned a lot of
4:07people uh you know deal with depression
4:11and they they struggle a
4:13lot but I'm here today to tell you that
4:17Christ is Among
4:20Us and you do not have to fight through
4:23life
4:24alone come on
4:27now because the word be became
4:30flesh and dwelt Among Us have you ever
4:34pondered why God found it essential to
4:38dwell Among Us why why would he forsake
4:42the Splendor of heaven and come to a
4:45dysfunctional Place full of sin a place
4:49that is spinning out of control
4:52completely out of his will why would he
4:56do that why it's kind of the same
5:00questions people are asking if God is
5:03God why is he just standing by sitting
5:07by and allowing evil uh to just be
5:11rampant in our world why would he allow
5:14your loved ones to
5:15die why would he allow certain things to
5:18happen and we all get you know angry
5:22with God because we don't always get our
5:25way we don't always you know see the
5:28good in every everything not knowing
5:31that nothing will ever take God by
5:33surprise nothing you may be shocked
5:36about it you may be mourning the death
5:39of a loved one this time of the year you
5:41may be feeling isolated your family may
5:44be you in a dysfunctional uh um position
5:48and so forth but I'm here today to tell
5:50you God is Among Us and there's hope
5:54listen in every crisis that you're
5:56experiencing there is hope that God can
5:59turn it
6:01around because the Bible says all things
6:04work
6:05together for the good I know sometimes
6:09we can't see the good in it but all
6:12things are working together for our good
6:15you see to properly answer the question
6:17I just asked why would God leave the
6:20Splendor of Heaven to come to a
6:22dysfunctional world you will have to
6:25refer to one of the most popular verses
6:30in the Bible it's very simple I remember
6:33as a kid I had to recite it so many
6:37times it is the heartbeat of the word of
6:42God this is really what our faith is
6:46wrapped up
6:47in even if you can't understand any
6:50other parts of the Bible this verse is
6:54so
6:56simple absolutely it's not compl licated
6:59at all I know we get all caught up with
7:02religion I know we get all caught up
7:05with the names of our church and our
7:07doctrinal teachings and so forth and and
7:10should Christians do this and Christians
7:12do that and I know we get all caught up
7:14in that but listen to me ladies and
7:16gentlemen God is not difficult to
7:20understand he's not what the devil will
7:24do is bring us to a place where we get
7:27confused where we don't know God watch
7:29this where we try to understand god with
7:32human
7:34reasoning because I I have to confess to
7:37you if if if you take the spirit of God
7:41and the revelation of God and the wisdom
7:44of God from understanding scripture and
7:46you trying to understand the Bible with
7:49your own intellect none of this makes
7:53sense none of
7:55it that in
7:57Genesis a God just showed up the Earth
8:02never existed nothing was there then
8:05here's the question where did he come
8:07from cuz he can't come from
8:10Heaven it's impossible God did not come
8:13from
8:14Heaven how do I know that in the
8:17beginning he created the heavens and the
8:22Earth so where did he come from and he
8:25just showed up and he just start
8:27speaking and speaking Power of Words he
8:30just starts speaking and everything he
8:33spoke he
8:35formed and then he looked to the dust of
8:39the earth and created a human
8:44being Adam did not come from the womb of
8:48a
8:51woman that doesn't make sense and then
8:55from the man he took a rip and made a
9:00woman I'm trying to figure this
9:03out
9:05huh and then through the scripture we
9:08find all kinds of stuff Moses putting
9:10his Rod against you know in front of
9:12that ocean and it divided and they
9:15walked across on dry
9:18land listen we live near the beach go
9:21down to Fort lale Beach I I dare every
9:24one of you to do it go down to the beach
9:27after service and you get ack and just
9:29put it out and let's see what
9:32happened but the Bible said he did
9:36it and
9:38then all through
9:40history we lost our fellowship with
9:44God you see Adam
9:47sinned and because he violated the laws
9:49of God sin crept into the Earth and man
9:54was separated from God and then God
9:56decided okay let me let you go through
9:58certain practices and rituals to try to
10:01keep you connected with me so just to
10:03give you a quick history of the Bible so
10:05God would allow the children of Israel
10:08his people to go through rituals in
10:10order to be in fellowship with him they
10:13had to find an animal based on his
10:18specification and they had to kill the
10:20animal and take the blood of the animal
10:22and make an altar and sprinkle the blood
10:25and form a ritual to be holy please get
10:29this to be right with
10:32him and even with that we couldn't get
10:36it right oh I got something else for you
10:39we have to keep the Sabbath day Jesus
10:43even said it in the New Testament that
10:45that that that that the Sabbath was made
10:47for
10:48man the only reason for the Sabbath was
10:52that we could not do
10:55right and he said here's what you do six
10:58days days I want you to do everything
11:01but on the seventh day just worship me
11:03just honor me set aside that one day the
11:07purpose for the Sabbath was to bring us
11:09in fellowship with God and we screwed it
11:12up we couldn't even do
11:16it so Jesus God decided with all the
11:22rituals here's what I'm going to
11:24do I'm going to become the hope of
11:27bringing them back in fellowship with
11:31me I'm a firm believer that nobody no
11:35listen to me
11:36carefully
11:38nobody can love a
11:41child like a
11:47parent
11:50nobody when you have given birth to your
11:54child nobody can love that child like
11:58you
11:59[Applause]
12:03nobody some of you won't even understand
12:05this because I know you given up on your
12:07children already they're broken your
12:09heart you're bitter you're angry you're
12:13frustrated and you will not do anything
12:15more for them I'm going somewhere with
12:20this your kids have no hope of you
12:24loving them
12:25right because they broke your heart yes
12:30broke your heart and you've given up on
12:33them you don't care if they die you
12:35don't care if the devil ripped them
12:38apart because they disrespected you they
12:40said something to you and they did
12:43something to you that offended you and
12:46you have turned your back on
12:50them and a't nothing in this
12:54world will make you love them ever
12:57again well let me introduce you
13:01to a love that is
13:10unfiltered let me introduce you to a
13:14God who has demonstrated to us what real
13:19love is all
13:22about because in him we live and move
13:26he've created all of us he has created
13:29all of us we were created in the image
13:32of God every one of you balcony first
13:35floor those of you are streaming we were
13:37all created by God I understand we came
13:40from different woms but we were all
13:42created by
13:46God and I'd love to give everybody the
13:49microphone this morning and I would like
13:53anybody in this room or anybody
13:55streaming to come up here and tell me
13:59from the day you were born till this
14:02moment you have never broken God's
14:10heart you've never done
14:13anything that displeased to
14:17him that you know you know your parents
14:20may not know people may not know but you
14:22know what you've
14:24done you know how you have turned your
14:28back on him you know the stuff you have
14:30said you know all of what you've done
14:35and he also
14:37knows but here's the difference between
14:40human love and God's
14:44love do you not know with all the stuff
14:46that you have
14:48done that this is good that God still
14:53finds
14:55pleasure living among you
15:00oh y'all don't get that
15:04now that he so loved you because the
15:09scripture for me that is kind of the
15:14best verse to
15:17summarize what we're going to celebrate
15:19tomorrow is found in John
15:243:16 work with me here it simple says
15:28for
15:30God so love well let me let me read it
15:33from the New Living Translation for this
15:36is how God loved the world come on now
15:40this is how God loved the world he gave
15:45his one and only son that everyone who
15:50believes in him will not
15:53perish but have eternal life wait a
15:56minute it never said
15:59this is how God loved the
16:01world
16:03okay you need
16:05to name every sin that you have
16:09committed from the day you were born you
16:12need to flush out all of your flaws and
16:15everything before him and then he love
16:19you
16:22uh-uh for this is how God loved the
16:25world in spite of our sins why we were
16:28yet Sinn why we were yet doing dumb
16:30stuff he's never turned his back on
16:33us many of us this year since this year
16:37we know we haven't been in the perfect
16:39will of God Amen sir I mean remember
16:44remember last year 2022 December 31st I
16:49mean how many of you said God I'm going
16:50to do better man in 2023 that's my New
16:53Year's resolution God I'm going to do
16:56better man I'm going to read the Bible
16:57some more more I'm going to go to church
16:59more I'm just going to be kind I'm going
17:02to be nice I'm not going to curse no
17:04more I'm not going to smoke no more I'm
17:06not going to drink no more I'm not come
17:08on now you remember all them pledges you
17:11made to the Lord and by January
17:15[Applause]
17:1915th you forgot your
17:23commitment he didn't stand by and say
17:25let me see how good you've been but
17:28before I love you like
17:31parents some parents they use
17:36their power and their position to
17:41manipulate their
17:46children if you don't do right by
17:50me what if God would have said if you
17:54don't do right by
17:57me
17:59all the scripture says this is how he
18:02loved
18:03us he gave without
18:08questioning his one and only son here's
18:11the good
18:12part this this is I love this it's a
18:16proposition everyone who believes in him
18:20would not perish In this passage of
18:23scripture it is evident that Jesus is
18:26our only hope to escape Eternal death he
18:29says wait a minute I'm going to love you
18:33unconditionally that's the birth of hope
18:36I'm going to love you unconditionally
18:38now it's up to you to believe that I
18:41love
18:44you it's up to you to believe that I
18:48have your best interest at heart it's up
18:50to you to believe that I will never
18:53leave you nor forsake you it's really up
18:56to you it's up to you to believe believe
18:58that I want you to become the best man
19:00that you can ever be the best woman you
19:02can ever be it's up to you to believe
19:05that I want to heal you I want you to
19:07prosper in every area of your life it's
19:09up to you I'm not going to force it on
19:11you it is up to you whosoever believes
19:14in him will not
19:18perish here's the amazing thing about my
19:21faith I can't speak for anybody else as
19:24a preacher of the Gospel this is why I
19:27love love the word of God because my job
19:31as a preacher is not to force you to
19:34believe
19:35God it's not to force you to live
19:38right it's not to force you to accept
19:41him it's not to force you you better go
19:44to church I'd encourage you to do that
19:47it's not to force you to get your act
19:50together that's not my responsibility my
19:53responsibility is to preach it because
19:55the scripture says watch this if you
19:58believe in
20:00him you won't
20:03[Music]
20:04perish if you believe in him you will
20:07have eternal life it's all up to you
20:11because I'm telling you you can mock me
20:14you can mock the preachers and you can
20:17get caught up with the schemes of the
20:19devil to attack the
20:22church to render the church none and
20:26void to make the church be come
20:29irrelevant to make you not believe you
20:32need God you need the assembling of the
20:34Saints to make you walk away from church
20:38thinking that there is no God or if
20:41there's a God he doesn't love you you
20:44see that's a plot of the
20:46enemy because I'm telling you listen to
20:49me carefully I'm telling you the hope of
20:52Christmas is that whosoever believe in
20:56this God that came in human flesh and
21:00die on a cross so that you might have
21:03life if you believe that you won't
21:06perish that's
21:09it that when you die because listen
21:12listen listen I don't care how cute you
21:15are I don't care how much Earthly
21:17possession you have thank God you got
21:19that house thank God you got the car
21:22thank God you got the career and some of
21:24you got a little bit of money stored
21:26away that's wonderful
21:30but you can't take
21:32that to your
21:36grave you
21:39can't I have officiated several
21:44funerals I have yet to
21:46see money in a
21:49casket I have yet to see the deed to a
21:52house the deed to a car I have yet to
21:57see anybody being buried with their
22:01wealth maybe there's an exception if
22:04there is please let me know where
22:05they're
22:08buried just tell me tell me after
22:15church nobody's leaving this planet with
22:18it by the way you came here
22:23naked they're going to put on clothes
22:25that's you didn't come on on this planet
22:27with clothes on
22:30you tell me if a baby that was born with
22:32clothes
22:35on you're going to leave here without
22:39anything so watch this here's my
22:42point you can ignore the presence of God
22:45among
22:46you but I promise you you can dog this
22:50preacher out and every preacher on the
22:53planet you can mock churches all you
22:56want I promise you after death every one
23:01of us are going to have to give an
23:04account
23:06everybody
23:08everybody will stand before the god that
23:11created us and you're going to have to
23:14answer to him what have you done with
23:17your time on the earth when he was among
23:21you did you
23:23believe and did you Embrace his love so
23:27God loved the world that he birth hope
23:30into the world and allowed hope to dwell
23:35Among Us please see
23:37that that whosoever believes in him will
23:41not live a defeated life on the
23:43earth will not eternally
23:47perish so this season my friends is
23:50really all about the grace of God the
23:52truth of God being manifested as the
23:56prophet Isaiah prophesied
23:58that a savior would
24:00come that a savior would come Isaiah
24:047:14 I love this he says
24:08therefore the Lord himself oh didn't
24:12send an
24:13angel the Lord himself will give you a
24:17sign Behold a virgin shall conceive and
24:21bear a son and shall call his name
24:25Emmanuel but wait a minute Emanuel
24:29what is the meaning of the word
24:31Emmanuel God is with us but wait a
24:35minute didn't we just read in in John
24:391:14 and the word became flesh and
24:44dwelt Among
24:48Us Isaiah is
24:51prophesying that wait a minute the child
24:55the Lord himself will give you a sign
24:57behold the Virgin shall conceive and
25:00bear a son and you should call his name
25:04Emanuel that God is with
25:07us that God decided to come on the
25:11planet and said I want to be among
25:16you I want to live this life just like
25:19you I want to take myself the word and
25:23put Flesh on the word and I'm going to
25:26walk through this Earth and I'm going to
25:28show every one of you that it is
25:32possible to live in the human body and
25:35be victorious through
25:39life that's the whole
25:42message so as I conclude this message
25:45this morning I want you to understand
25:49that the coming of Jesus was prophesied
25:53about 700 years before it actually
25:56happened
25:58hm it's very important
26:01here the coming of Jesus was prophesied
26:04about 700 years before it actually took
26:08place think about
26:13that that
26:15God huh wait a minute wait no no wait a
26:18minute no please please work with me
26:20here I don't get it I don't get it the
26:24world was messed
26:25up man could not follow the laws of God
26:28and from generations to
26:32Generations we were missing the
26:36mark and he spoke through his prophet
26:39Isaiah and Isaiah prophesied and he said
26:42therefore the Lord himself will give you
26:45a sign behold the Virgin shall conceive
26:48and bear a son and should call his name
26:50Emmanuel God Among Us okay you would
26:53think the next day the next week the
26:56next year God would fulfill his
27:00promise catch
27:02this the prophet prophesied it but it
27:06never
27:07manifested until
27:10700 years later that's why we always
27:16conclude that God is
27:19late that's why we always conclude that
27:22where is God when I need him because so
27:25many of you God told you that he would
27:27do
27:30something he told you he was going to
27:33heal you heal you he told you he was
27:35going to bless you he told you that he
27:37was going to silence your enemies he
27:39told you he was going to promote you but
27:42but you thought after the
27:45Revelation that he was going to do it in
27:47a
27:49week so you've concluded he's not among
27:52me he doesn't care about me he doesn't
27:54love me he's just leaving me out here
27:57all by by
27:58myself
28:00700 years
28:04later I don't know who this word is for
28:07maybe God is trying to tell you the word
28:09he spoke over your life at the time he
28:13did that word still stands today because
28:17I'm telling you not one drop of God's
28:20word will go
28:23undone he prophesied it and 700 years
28:28later they're witnessing
28:31it Generations after Generations missed
28:35the opportunity to understand watch this
28:38thank you Lord for the Revelation that
28:40when God spoke it with the prophet
28:43Isaiah and he said I'll send me a
28:48son and he will die for your sin he'll
28:51be among you actually the word was
28:54already among
28:56them
28:58got to get this man the moment he
29:01prophesied it you need to understand
29:04before Jesus was born the word was the
29:07word the word is
29:10spirit oh I'm getting all happy by
29:12myself how many you looking at me like
29:13huh where's he going with this I'm
29:15telling you man before Jesus was born
29:18the word was Spirit
29:21formed and the spirit of God the word
29:24was among people but they missed it they
29:27didn't even know God was talking to them
29:29that's why I'm telling you in your
29:31bedroom God is talking to you in your
29:33car God is talking to you on the job
29:36he's talking to you when you're by
29:38yourself he's always talking to
29:43you
29:46always so for 700 years even though they
29:49didn't see the manifestation he was with
29:53them he was just telling them what is to
29:56come
29:58he was with them so based on how we have
30:02drifted away from God the prophet
30:04declared that
30:06[Music]
30:07Emmanuel would be with us to give us
30:12hope that we can be reconnected to
30:17God despite our
30:19sin so when you celebrate
30:23Christmas please see it as the birth of
30:26Hope
30:31tomorrow the dawn of a new new
30:34day please see December
30:3725th as the birth of Hope for those of
30:41you Skeptics and for those of you who
30:45are
30:46saying well I ain't going to celebrate
30:49the
30:49day cuz this crazy as Pagan
30:53religion Jesus wasn't born on no 25th
30:56day of December all that kind of stuff
30:59and Easter and all this stuff and this
31:02Christmas tree they got up in God's
31:03house that's Pagan stuff all that kind
31:06of stuff you know for the for those of
31:07you who want to spend the rest of your
31:11life trying to figure out which
31:16day was he
31:20born keep doing
31:22that I'm going to stick with the fact
31:24that he was born
31:33not only that I know him for myself
31:40myself I know he's real I know he's real
31:44I can tell you testimonies after
31:46testimonies of my encounter with the
31:50Messiah with Emmanuel with Noel he has
31:53spoken to me so many times he has healed
31:56my body glory to God he has pulled me
32:00out of so many dilemmas that I've walked
32:03in I know the man somebody shouted I
32:06know the
32:08man I know him I know him for myself
32:13he's Among Us embrace the fact that he
32:16loves you embrace the fact that he wants
32:19to bless you he's Among Us he is the
32:22breath of
32:26Hope
32:29so tomorrow you celebrate
32:31Christmas knowing that hope is Among
32:34Us that we can believe that tomorrow is
32:38going to be a good day and the next day
32:41is going to be a good day 2024 is going
32:44to be a good year 10 years 20 years
32:48later the Lord is going before us why
32:51because I will look to the hills from
32:54whence cometh my help my help comes from
32:57from the Lord because Emmanuel is Among
33:00Us somebody give the Lord a hand of
33:03Praise this morning he's Among Us he's
33:07Among
33:08Us he's the birth of
33:10hope our hope is in Jesus
33:13Christ yes it is would you bow your
33:18heads and if you could just hold your
33:21position for a
33:23moment I don't care if you're in the
33:24balcony or you're on the first floor
33:27H I don't care if you are
33:30streaming perhaps you have lost your
33:34way perhaps you have lost
33:37hope that your life can turn around to
33:41be Godly that you can become the man or
33:44the woman that God has ordained you to
33:47be maybe you lost your faith in Jesus
33:51Christ I want to introduce you to the
33:54only hope for you
33:58Humanity I'm not introducing you to
34:01religion I'm talking about a
34:03relationship with
34:06God I'm inviting you to a faith
34:09experience for you to
34:11believe and if you would say Pastor like
34:14this woman if you would say Pastor I
34:17want to come and I want to receive Jesus
34:20as Lord of my
34:21life I want you to follow after this
34:25young lady and come down down here and
34:27let's pray to God together and embrace
34:30Hope come on wherever you
34:32are wherever you
34:34are we'll wait on you God bless you come
34:37on down come on down wherever you are
34:40you say I need I need God in my life
34:43today they it don't make no sense I fake
34:45it I need him in my life I need him in
34:48my
34:49life I want to give him the best
34:52Christmas
34:53gift I want to turn my life over to him
34:57come on Church let's celebrate them
34:59let's celebrate them wherever you
35:02are wherever you are Embrace this hope
35:06this
35:07morning Embrace this hope this morning
35:10Embrace this hope this morning we'll
35:13wait on you we'll wait on you we'll wait
35:16on you come on Embrace this hope Embrace
35:20this Hope come on Church you ought to be
35:22celebrating much better than
35:24that you ought to be cele brating much
35:27better than
35:34that God bless you God bless you now
35:38quickly in just a moment I'm going to
35:41ask the the church to join me in
35:43prayer but I want to congratulate you
35:46and being bold especially you being bold
35:49being
35:51bold because this is the best Christmas
35:55gift you can ever give to
35:58God trust
36:00me the
36:05best
36:09amen wonderful bless you bless you bless
36:14you bless you bless
36:25you
36:29thank you young men for coming down cuz
36:32you know what at the end of the day I'm
36:33telling
36:35you Jesus is our only
36:38hope it's our only
36:41hope and when I read that scripture John
36:461:14 that he
36:48came I mean I know me we're people
36:53right and if I enter someone's
36:57house and they open the
37:00door and there's a bad
37:04smell and the house looks
37:08messy and I mean there's a bad smell in
37:11that house I think I'm going to kind of
37:14like okay that's all right I'll come
37:16back another day I'm going somewhere
37:17with this I'm like
37:20nah I won't come in cuz I don't want to
37:23be among the stink the
37:29mou when God looked down and he saw
37:35[Music]
37:41[Music]
37:42you he was like nah that's not how I
37:46created
37:48her how did he get that
37:52dirty how is he smelling like that
37:58he didn't walk
38:01away the word took on flesh and he says
38:05you know
38:07what let me get with him cuz I'm the
38:10only one that can clean up his
38:15smell cuz you see what we
38:18do this is how we try to clean up our
38:21smell our
38:23sin is we put on makeup
38:28find
38:29clothes we take we try to impress
38:33society that we're successful do you
38:35know how many people streaming in this
38:38room today man
38:43externally
38:45what they
38:47fly
38:49hot
38:52sexy
38:54cool but inside
38:58they're not
38:59happy they're
39:01miserable can I just be honest all of
39:04that is a front they faking it cuz we
39:07live in a society fake it till you make
39:09it I don't need to fake
39:11[Music]
39:17nothing but Jesus is so willing to come
39:22and live where you
39:23live to say come on let's get this house
39:26cleaned up come on let's get it cleaned
39:31up cuz when I get done with you see all
39:34them people who said you wouldn't come
39:36out to be anything I'm about to put them
39:39to
39:44shame now here's what you need to
39:46do the Bible says you just simply
39:49confess and you believe we just read it
39:53and when you do that now you got to do
39:55your part after after this this is where
39:57the work begins got to read your Bible
40:00got to pray and please go to church I
40:04would love to have you here at this
40:05church but if you don't like this church
40:07don't live nearby go to church you
40:11cannot survive being your own
40:16pastor and you cannot survive having 10
40:22pastors find the church that God's
40:25attached you to
40:26and grow in your faith I want the
40:29congregation would you stand with me as
40:31we do this together as a
40:33[Music]
40:34family would you stretch your hands
40:37towards these people those of you
40:39streaming if that's you and you're say
40:41Pastor I need pray over my life we're
40:43praying for you right now and I want you
40:45to say the sinner's prayer would you all
40:48repeat this after me say Lord Jesus
40:50Jesus I embrace the free gift of
40:53Salvation I embrace the free gift of
40:55salvation I confess that I'm a sinner I
40:58confess that I'm a sin I need a savior I
41:01need a savior I fully turned my life
41:03over to you I will turn my life home to
41:06you I embrace the word of God I embrace
41:10the word of God I believe that I'm born
41:12again I believe that I'm born again I
41:14believe that I am forgiven I believe
41:16that I forgiven that I am born again
41:19that I am born again I'm a child of the
41:21most high God I'm a child of the most
41:23high God now father thank you for what
41:25you have done in the their lives thank
41:28you that they've made the commitment to
41:30serve you today as a church we're
41:33grateful
41:35today that Lord as we celebrate
41:37Christmas tomorrow we know that you're
41:40among
41:41us we know that the holy
41:44spirit is with
41:46us and therefore when we exit this
41:49building when we log off we can
41:53confidently
41:54say that his spirit spirit is with
41:58us that God we are blessed we're
42:02anointed that we are covered from the
42:04crown of our head to the soier of our
42:06feet that no good thing will you
42:09withhold from
42:10us thank you that you have blessed us to
42:15live to see this year so far and we have
42:19every reason to believe that you're
42:21going to allow us to see December
42:2431st and we will make make a promise to
42:27you when we get back in this house on
42:30next
42:31Sunday nothing will stop us from giving
42:34you the praise nothing will stop us from
42:37honoring you because you came and you
42:41dwelt among us we give you the praise we
42:45give you the honor and we give you the
42:48glory and we declare today that Faith In
42:52Our God will always move mountains out
42:55of our lives in Jesus name amen