Speaker 1: Wasn't that good? I promised you, I promise you. Ah helujah,
Speaker 1: so good fun. Miss Wolfe was beautiful, Katie had Lissa
Speaker 1: Nitro and refined team. You're amazing. Thanks for investing your
Speaker 1: kids like that. So good, so good part of them,
Speaker 1: so good, so fun. I want to read a little
Speaker 1: bit about John Schaffter, want to you a little bit
Speaker 1: out of Isaiah Long, and then we'll close this morning.
Speaker 1: Don jap John, the man sent from God whose name
Speaker 1: is Jean. He came as a witness testify concerning that light,
Speaker 1: so that through him all might leave. He himself was
Speaker 1: not the light. He came only as a witness to
Speaker 1: the light, the night that gives light. Everyone was coming
Speaker 1: into the world. He was in the world. And though
Speaker 1: the world's made through him, the world did not recognim.
Speaker 1: He can't to that which was his own. His own
Speaker 1: did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him,
Speaker 1: to those who believe in his name, he gave the
Speaker 1: right to become children of God, sons and God, not sleves,
Speaker 1: but sons and daughters, children of God. Children born not
Speaker 1: of natural descent, nor human decision, or of a husband's will,
Speaker 1: but born of God. Churchive over your heart to receive Jesus,
Speaker 1: and in doing so you've received the light of all men.
Speaker 1: In doing so you've received not slavery, not slavery tod
Speaker 1: or rules, or you've received sonship. You really the end
Speaker 1: it comes to live within you. I'm born in experience,
Speaker 1: born not of the will of man, born of God.
Speaker 1: This is experience, it's rebirth. It's what we call being
Speaker 1: again because when we're born naturally born, separated from God,
Speaker 1: and we're called to be born again, that is to
Speaker 1: get decision. Nobody forces on you. It's kind of interesting
Speaker 1: that we're born in unrighteousness, but we can choose be
Speaker 1: born again. Isn't it interesting that we you know, righteousness
Speaker 1: wasn't forced on you. Come on, think about that. Righteousness
Speaker 1: doesn't forced on you. So you can decide to be
Speaker 1: born again. You can decide to be born of God,
Speaker 1: born from above, born of the spirit. This is what
Speaker 1: God has givens and sin his son. And it's good news, goodness.
Speaker 1: You know the word all means goodness. No bro in church.
Speaker 1: For years I didn't know that, and maybe I needed
Speaker 1: my head again. But some moason it felt me there
Speaker 1: was such a bad news but the gospel actually means
Speaker 1: good news, and the good news of the gospel was
Speaker 1: first player by Isaiah in chapter sixty one. I want
Speaker 1: to read a little bit of it to you. This
Speaker 1: is the good news of gospel of the king godbel
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom. So when we think about what does
Speaker 1: the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven look like, it's
Speaker 1: the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. And it's an
Speaker 1: increasing where in our heart and lives and in the earth.
Speaker 1: And I love that we don't have to be I
Speaker 1: love that the gospel being good news delivers is out
Speaker 1: of peasant Isn't that good? Now? Isaiah? That on purpose
Speaker 1: because so many churches still are under the influence of hesimism,
Speaker 1: so many Christians are still under the influence of pessimism.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why is because there's a
Speaker 1: doctrine out there that says that the increase of the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven on earth doesn't actually happen until after
Speaker 1: He comes the second time. The opponents all over in
Speaker 1: Christianity telling you, telling uh that the Kingdom of Heaven
Speaker 1: will start we out the second time, not per time,
Speaker 1: but the second time becn some time that's when the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven on earth will in Greece. But that
Speaker 1: isn't what Isaiah said in chapter nine. We read it
Speaker 1: earlier today. This isn't what Jesus said. That isn't really
Speaker 1: what the words said. Now is the time for the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of heaven to a trice. Now the time for
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven to a tries in our hearts
Speaker 1: and in to intries in the earth. And the very
Speaker 1: p' setting here in this environment day proves that it's
Speaker 1: already been happening for two thousand years and it's a
Speaker 1: continued heaven. So I love that Isaiah chapter nine starts
Speaker 1: by saying, no more gloom and no more doom. Isn't
Speaker 1: that good? Wow? Because a child is born, unto us,
Speaker 1: no more gloom. Because a child is born, that's when
Speaker 1: the kingdom of on earth had it's began it. And
Speaker 1: here's what he declared concern himself. This is idea Isaiah
Speaker 1: chapter sixty one. It's the messianics. It's the passage about
Speaker 1: the Mossaiah coming. It's one of those wonderful passages as
Speaker 1: to what Jesus stood up and read as the German
Speaker 1: Luke chapter four. Matthew. Chapter four records he was in
Speaker 1: chapter three of both of those books. We're told about
Speaker 1: he baptized in water, but chapter four about his first
Speaker 1: sur and after he was baptized and water, the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit descended upon him a dove. And then he was
Speaker 1: led into the wilderness and for pretty days faceted, and
Speaker 1: at the end of that period was tested by the enemy,
Speaker 1: and he prayled right out of that he his for sermon,
Speaker 1: and he walked into the Senegal again. He asked a
Speaker 1: scroll of Isaiah. They handed him the school and he
Speaker 1: turned Isaiah sixty one. Now it didn't have numbers in
Speaker 1: those days, but he turned to now is numbered as
Speaker 1: sixty one. And hear what he said. The spirit of
Speaker 1: the Solar Lord is opony, because the Lord has anointed
Speaker 1: me to proclaim good news to the poor. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just poor and spirit. It wasn't just more at heart.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just those that he's claiming liberty to or
Speaker 1: good news who he was proclaiming good news to the boar.
Speaker 1: Because he had come shaped every system poverty, systems that
Speaker 1: were cast system, systems that help people in poverty. He
Speaker 1: can't break every one of them. Down and to bring
Speaker 1: liberty for the lossing of God over every person. You know,
Speaker 1: the gender nations didn't even have. It was to prosper
Speaker 1: under the blessings God. Only Israel knew what it was
Speaker 1: to prosper the blessings of God. What he came proclaiming
Speaker 1: was for every person. He goes on, he says he
Speaker 1: has me to bind up the broken hearted. He broken
Speaker 1: hearted people here. We've all been broken heart We've all
Speaker 1: experienced heartbreak. We've all experienced brokenness of a relationship, of jury,
Speaker 1: of abuse, of harm, no matter what the harm is.
Speaker 1: Jesus has come to bund up that wound with the
Speaker 1: ointment of His anointance of that brikanness, to bring healing.
Speaker 1: And he has set me to proclaim freedom for the captives. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all of us. We've all been had captive by something.
Speaker 1: It's good news. They longer have to be captive, to
Speaker 1: fear the rejection to a circumstance it made a victim.
Speaker 1: We don't have beheld captive to any vice or any
Speaker 1: negative thought, or any addition. He has come to declare
Speaker 1: freedom to every captive and release from markness, all who
Speaker 1: are released from markness. For the prisoners. We come out
Speaker 1: of arness, We come out of the prison of darkness
Speaker 1: into the light of His lorry. And then he goes
Speaker 1: on to proclaim the air of Lord's favor. That's got
Speaker 1: to be my favorites or eritict proclaimed the Lord the
Speaker 1: year Lord's favor is. It's a Jewish terminology that goes
Speaker 1: all the back to the Torah first books, to the Bible.
Speaker 1: He was actually bring reference to the jubilee the fiftieth year.
Speaker 1: If he recountered the seven years of seven and then
Speaker 1: it's forty nine, so then on fiftieth year they celebrate
Speaker 1: the Julie, and the Julie is the year of the
Speaker 1: Lord of Earth. And in the year of Jubilee, all
Speaker 1: that surfing them, everything is restored to every man. Every
Speaker 1: person receives reetoration. And he was announce not just a
Speaker 1: day of jubilee, but he was announcing a perpetually over
Speaker 1: mancome that good news, the good news of Gospel of
Speaker 1: Heaven is the good news of Heaven on earth. And
Speaker 1: it's the year of God's favor this year and next
Speaker 1: year and the next year. And no one can take
Speaker 1: the favor of God from you. He announced the perpetual Julie,
Speaker 1: that we could live in it and experience it. Isn't
Speaker 1: that amazing? He closed the passage before he rolled a roll,
Speaker 1: and he says to proclaim the day of vengeance of
Speaker 1: our God had come from those who mourn. He came
Speaker 1: to declare the vengeance of our God of our armies,
Speaker 1: even though we had been our partners. Is that amazing?
Speaker 1: If you partnered with fear, that was really an enemy
Speaker 1: wanted to take you down. If you partnered with poverd
Speaker 1: that was an enemy. It wanted to take you down.
Speaker 1: If you partnered with depression, that was an enemy that
Speaker 1: wanted to take you down. If you've partnered with any
Speaker 1: addiction that you're ashamed of, that was an enemy that
Speaker 1: wanted to take you down. Jesus put those under your feet.
Speaker 1: Jesus came to be your vengeance against those enemies. Jesus
Speaker 1: came to do something that we were strong enough to
Speaker 1: do ourselves. And that's goodness. I wasn't wrong enough to
Speaker 1: overcome the enemies. But He's done it on my behalf,
Speaker 1: and I ended his victory. I enter into him, I
Speaker 1: enter into his victory over my enemies, and I acknowledge
Speaker 1: him and how I'm partnering with him instead of partnering
Speaker 1: with my enemies. Doesn't send the good news. Wow, what
Speaker 1: was you saying with me this morning? I want to
Speaker 1: invite you this morning as we close. I want to
Speaker 1: invite you this morning to close, to welcome the leader
Speaker 1: of the good news. Live a little bit beer in
Speaker 1: your heart. I zen nine. The increase of his government
Speaker 1: of peace, there will be no end. Everyone in this room,
Speaker 1: in being me, everyone could open our hearse up a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger this season. Everyone has combow another need season.
Speaker 1: Every one of us could find a door to a
Speaker 1: room that's been locked and kept him out of it,
Speaker 1: and we could open that this season, and we could
Speaker 1: welcome not his judgment. He's not coming to judge, not
Speaker 1: his condemnation. He's not coming condned. He's coming with shilloon.
Speaker 1: He's coming with his hit from above. He's coming with
Speaker 1: coaching that lead us beside seal Waters coaching. It will
Speaker 1: cause us to have no coaching that will restore us all.
Speaker 1: It's him. He's the master shepherd. He came in that stable,
Speaker 1: but then he's the king of our hearts. I'm invited
Speaker 1: you and pray with me right now. Father, we welcome
Speaker 1: you right now to bring more of Jesus into our hearts.
Speaker 1: Wish to mind if you want to, and if you will,
Speaker 1: don't have to be loud, but I love it if
Speaker 1: you would seal all this moment yourself in prayer. Father,
Speaker 1: we thank you the Shaloam of the Christ, the Shalom Chambrin,
Speaker 1: and we welcome, we welome you right now. We welcome
Speaker 1: you in our hearts a bigger way. We want our
Speaker 1: hearts to grow and increase in love of the Lord
Speaker 1: in the season. We want the increase of your shalom
Speaker 1: to come and sell here and we'll give you please
Speaker 1: right now and give you room and we just see come.
Speaker 1: Let this season be a season of transformation and grace
Speaker 1: in Jesus name. And everybody's said, I'm gonna ask the
Speaker 1: prayer team to come, and they're just going to come
Speaker 1: up to the front. There's gonna be a few of
Speaker 1: them up here, just lingering. If you paid that prayer
Speaker 1: this morning and you meant it, If you prayed that
Speaker 1: prayer this morning and you know that God's doing something
Speaker 1: in your heart, you're feeling it right now, I want
Speaker 1: you to come. We're going to close with the wordship,
Speaker 1: long we go. We're in overs to get out of here.
Speaker 1: So the Parideam is going to be here, just a mister,
Speaker 1: just to pay. If this is your morning, this is
Speaker 1: your morning to go deeper in Him. This is your
Speaker 1: mourn to increase in the shalom of Lord. This is
Speaker 1: your morning to open your heart and open the order heart.
Speaker 1: Come be prayed for mister too. Father, we bless your
Speaker 1: people this Christmas Eve, and we thank you for this
Speaker 1: giving to day in Jesus name. Amen, God bless you.