The Human Jesus: A Review of ‘Sunday Service’ by Paul Francis Lanier

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[00:08:47] Everybody blessed in the house. Does anyone have a living, breathing testimony? In your spirit, man. We're not at January 1 yet, but already right towards the end on a Christmas Sunday. Is there anybody that can say, looking back at that January, looking back at that February, I got to be honest with you. I wasn't so sure that the Lord was going to bring or if he was, how he was going to do it. And I got to tell you, some folk
[00:09:19] walking with me then I ain't seen him in a while I had a certain job I don't have that job anymore I lived in a particular house that's not my space anymore there's so much moving parts changes but

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[00:09:35] God has been faithful he's been the same yesterday today and forever and every time my life was shaking my god was sure every time i was wondering and almost wandering he never left me he never
[00:09:53] forsook me he stuck closer than a brother so i've gathered with the saints this morning to say god is good to his people and his people shall be good unto him this morning i gotta tell you some of you

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[00:10:16] look right now some of you sound like right now like you went up under the tree and what you thought was going to be under there wasn't under there if you couldn't spend one penny this whole season and if no one spent one cent on
[00:10:48] you in this season could this still be the best Christmas of your life that my salvation is so great be that my testimony is growing of his healing pray you don't understand I was in the hospitals some would say earlier this
[00:11:21] year ain't no more doctors were looking at diagnosis and and speaking words over for my life but the breathing

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[00:11:31] word of God slapped that devil off of me and I'm well and I'm whole and I'm here to declare he's a healer

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[00:11:41] God is a healer God is a deliverer you got to understand something my son been strung out a while and he would try to shake that devil off of him but every time he would about
[00:11:53] get back on his feet

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[00:11:55] the enemy would slap him back but I've come to declare my God is the deliverer I ain't lost in a bottle I ain't lost in a syringe I ain't lost with no powder up my nose
[00:12:09] I'm lit, I'm on fire I'm slapped crazy for the goodness and the greatness of God, I'm filled with the spirit, I ain't filled

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[00:12:19] with no, you're still looking under somebody else's tree right now so why don't you get ready we're gonna blow the trumpet and you're gonna shout like everything you needed is yours that every promise is true somebody can look at me this morning say look i ain't even got no tree
[00:13:07] and i don't see no presence but all year long he's been unwrapping his and here's a blessing and here's a blessing and here's you another he didn't wait to december All February he was awesome
[00:13:23] Come June and July he was the Lord Oh did he ever heal my body Did he restore my family Has he reconciled all things So get ready to make your Christmas Praise unto God Focus on nothing but his goodness and his greatness
[00:13:46] One, two, three, release

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[00:13:51] The emphasis of this morning is

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[00:14:57] that he didn't send down nectar from heaven to forgive me but he took Mary's blood that came through Jesus flesh blood that came through Jesus and yet did not have the seed of man within it
[00:15:21] but the seed of the Holy Spirit so that when we drink this blood I command by God now a transfusion if you can't believe it you're in the wrong place if you can't know that that
[00:15:44] this is so much more than what you've imagined before this is the beating heart of god towards

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[00:15:50] you there's healing in his blood the body drop it again about to start singing some songs to declare

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[00:16:39] the joy of the lord because of his coming because of his abiding presence I want you as much as you know them I want you to sing them with us okay and I want to look into the camera right now to people who are watching in this city
[00:16:57] throughout the nation and the world those who will be listening and watching even later today and to the tonight whatever the name is of the devil who's trying to paralyze your faith torment your mind strip from you the knowledge of his great love this gathering right here has
[00:17:20] been assigned strategically to come through a little lens into your world and tell you God so loved you that he gave his only begotten son that if you will believe in him you ain't never going to hell and you can dwell in heaven now for eternal life does not begin when you
[00:17:46] breathe your last eternal life begins the moment god breathes his first inside you so let the

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[00:17:54] church rejoice and give him some glory this morning when it comes around it's the sound of an offering when it hits the ground it's bound to make nature sing glory to the king to the king of kings
[00:18:30] can you hear the flight of celestial laughter every day and night you can hear it ring Dancing with delight and forever after

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[00:18:39] In the living light of the King of Kings Can you hear the B.S.C. of the King of Kings Rejoice and lift up your Come into this space this morning

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[00:21:05] With the singular Harding you In the mighty name

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[00:21:20] Sing Years ago, I was sitting in our dining room

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[00:32:06] Where I had a keyboard, a little Korg keyboard Made a track for a song About that Israel about that manger, about the shepherds, about the wise men, about the angelic host, about the return of the Messiah.
[00:32:22] Just about every year since then, we've been singing it.
[00:32:25] Now I want you to sing with the chorus.
[00:32:27] The chorus is simple enough.
[00:32:28] Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
[00:32:31] And as the mad scientist begins to play the organ.
[00:32:35] I've turned around so I can read my words.
[00:32:44] I can write them.
[00:32:45] I just can't remember them.
[00:32:57] I want you to worship with this.
[00:32:59] It tells the story of your faith, our faith, of the Messiah, the incarnation, the coming of Jesus, the return of the Lord.
[00:33:37] In the land of Israel was the birth of Christ the Savior, and He's called Emmanuel.
[00:33:46] Oh, hallelujah.
[00:33:52] In the days of Savior's birth, they beheld the Lamb of glory, the hope of the Lord.
[00:34:18] They were singing high.

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[00:34:22] 25 years ago, maybe 30, Pastor Debbie and I were in a service in Cleveland, Tennessee,

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[00:37:20] and the Christ Church Choir was singing.
[00:37:24] I'd never heard the song, and it marked.
[00:37:30] I even said I think I'd give away every song I've ever written if I could have written this one.
[00:37:34] And Josh sings the solo, and I said to him, you'll never sing a song that matters more than this one.
[00:37:40] And it's far beyond a Christmas song.
[00:37:43] In fact, it's not noted as such.
[00:37:45] Probably would lean more into the Passion of Christ, Holy Week.
[00:37:50] But it speaks to us every day.
[00:37:53] Every day.
[00:37:54] All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
[00:38:00] Every one of us.
[00:38:02] John says, not to the world, but to the people, little children.
[00:38:07] Sin not.
[00:38:08] but if you do sin i done lawyered you up you have an advocate you have an attorney with the father so we come here this morning and we sing this song on this day consecrated
[00:38:30] for the messiah's birth who was the lamb of god the shepherds came who were these shepherds these were specifically the shepherds with the particular task of remaining in a certain region where they could care for certain sheep and not just any sheep that people would eat
[00:38:48] these were the sacrificial lambs that would be taken at a certain time just a few miles to Jerusalem and sacrificed in the temple in that space so as we sing about the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world we say Lord on me on

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[00:39:09] on us on them on it Lord have mercy for our sin we repent oh Lord we believe your holy word voice of the multitude declaring the goodness the greatness of God singing glory to God in the

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[00:44:30] highest there was one then there were many there's one and there are many in this space and we sing this song this morning oh if i had a thousand times i would dedicate every one of them to
[00:44:47] praising the messiah every one of them to thanking god for sending him to my every one of them for thanking him for staying once he showed up and saw how bad we really were he could have left
[00:45:02] but he stayed he came and he stayed and he died i could have spent 670 i could have i could have spent 900 on the resurrection i could have spent i could have spent 962 tongues on just the ascension
[00:45:17] oh for it but i don't have those but with the one i've got everybody sit with me with the tongue i have and the breath I have I shall praise the Lord all the days of my life

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[00:45:31] saying Angie this morning my goodness they made me a dance position in all of

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[00:53:49] this house this morning do you see them passing by me I could feel the wind against me but they were powerful filled with the Holy Spirit my god if you're not feeling Christmas in here, I can't help you. We have been celebrating all month. That's one of
[00:54:05] the things, it's one of the many things I love about Hope. One of the trio's already sitting over there like she's got it all together. Thank you for your ministry this morning.
[00:54:15] Every people group in this house, the men started us off with a breakfast together, the women and their teas. The young people were in our home last Sunday evening. There were 5,700 hundred young people in our house. I'm still finding glitter and sprinkles and food and all
[00:54:37] of it. And it was wonderful. And, uh, thank you to Brian and Heather. Also, they, they got in their house. Um, and then our children had their Hanukkah party this past Thursday evening. Thank you to all the teachers and all the leadership that invested in that. So everybody has partied,
[00:54:57] Uh, everybody has partied this month. And so, um, there will obviously be no midweek man to manna this Thursday night or next Thursday night, because it'll be Christmas day and new year's day.
[00:55:13] But then we start back strong. We will be here next Sunday, obviously. And then we begin the fast January 4th. And some of you are thinking I have feasted so much. I just need to get myself back
[00:55:26] together. And, and it would be easy for others looking on to say, well, you're just trying to lose weight because you went crazy during the holidays. Listen, if all you're doing is losing weight, that's all you'll get out of it. But it is right that the people of God, after we feasted,
[00:55:44] listen, how many of y'all been feasting? Like I have eaten my weight and white Christmas mix.
[00:55:50] But, uh, but as we feasted to say at the beginning of the year, you know what? I have overindulged.
[00:55:55] I have enjoyed myself and I am getting my priorities back.
[00:56:00] This is a temple of the living God.
[00:56:02] I'm getting myself back in alignment with what I believe.
[00:56:06] I belong to God.
[00:56:08] He is the priority of my life.
[00:56:09] So it's not just about pushing away from the table.
[00:56:12] It's about pushing into God, pressing into God, spending more time talking to him, reading his word, being with him.
[00:56:21] That's the difference.
[00:56:22] a diet changes how you look a fast changes how you see that's what we're doing come January 4th so feast to your heart's desire this week somebody said at the Christmas tea there were a bunch of us
[00:56:39] ladies standing in the circle and they said we can't wait we are so ready we can't wait for January 4th and as we're saying that we're all stuffing our faces and I said somebody needs to
[00:56:47] take a picture of this moment and about three days in remind us of this moment when we said this it's going to be wonderful and if you don't understand listen bishop and myself we will say
[00:56:59] he will say often we we were christians for many many many years decades and did not fast so if you're into this and you're thinking i don't really even know what they're talking about stay close stay tuned and you'll catch up it's not bad that you don't understand at all we were
[00:57:18] where you are. Just stay close and keep your ears open and you will go with us and it'll change your life. Lastly, you see the beautiful backdrops out there. Get pictures. Some of my favorite things
[00:57:30] is looking back at the memories and seeing pictures of you from years gone by. So grab your family and friends and get a picture. This really is the last thing. I don't know if you've
[00:57:40] seen angel studios has come out with a movie at the theaters about david and it's animated they have poured their all into it they're they truly are the david and disney is the goliath and disney is so intimidated and scared that this movie is going to hurt them is going to
[00:58:04] compete with them that they've put out intentionally put out three different movies to try to be the Goliath and swallow up this movie. So if you have some free time this week and you have children, take them to see David. It is so well done. It is a phenomenal
[00:58:21] movie for children. It's geared toward children, but adults will enjoy it too.
[00:58:27] I'd be daggone if the Goliath of our time will take on David and win. So take your children, take your friends take your family my all-time favorite composer of music and

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[00:58:41] singer is at the keyboard your all-time favorite composer is waiting for the lyrics to come up on the screen as I said I can write them I can't remember them y'all y'all got any lyrics up there I sent this morning that'll work just
[00:59:14] making sure they did the right one. Okay.
[00:59:18] Angels came and filled, shepherds bowed before his majesty. Angels when Christ is born. Can I sing it again?
[01:00:54] Angels came and glory filled the heavens, shepherds bowed before his majesty.
[01:01:22] of angels will heaven sing Christ is born of kings now magnify we lift up high our savior

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[01:04:37] and our lord 36 years ago we were pastoring in a little community a few little songs for

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[01:11:46] children to sing Christmas Sunday there and I wrote that song for that Christmas and had my baby sister pastor Connie come and sing it and she sang it my wife was pregnant and on this day 36 years ago a little boy and a little girl were
[01:12:26] born too soon and died too soon and so in the same week i asked my sister to return and to sing that song for their service so if i tended to cling to you a little more this morning when i walked

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[01:12:59] through here and hugging all over the people you just felt real good today from nine months

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[01:13:21] of gestation from that grave garden nine months later God birthed this house of hope this people now I need to tell you as I look at you now there has never been one time in our 35 years together not one there's never been one time that
[01:14:13] I've looked into your eyes and not been fully assured, entirely convinced that I had heard from his heart for this gathering. That's remarkable. But lest someone jump to some flesh assumption, let me quickly address it. I speak those words not to pat myself on the back

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[01:14:53] Like the Apostle Paul said, I am the chief among sinners.
[01:14:58] I know my frailties.
[01:15:00] I know my failures.
[01:15:02] I know what I can do and what I can't do.

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[01:15:06] And I am fully convinced.
[01:15:08] He has never allowed me to stand on this platform, to stand behind this sacred desk and look into the faces of the people in this space without declaring into you as fully and faithfully as I know how.
[01:15:22] God loves you so much.
[01:15:25] Eternity is too long for anybody to stand on this platform or gather in this place without knowing.

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[01:15:33] Thus saith the Lord is being released in this place.
[01:15:38] So, so when I write to you on a Friday or on a Saturday and I say, beloved, hope, I've heard from heaven about you.
[01:15:54] I'm not bragging to an unbelieving world I'm not trying to create a pep rally for churchites I'm declaring to the faithful of this house that God has done it again that God looked down from his heaven
[01:16:09] and said I'm determined you shall know my word my will my way you shall not wonder you shall not wander but you shall know I love my people and I got something to say to your life you didn't expect that on a Christmas

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[01:16:35] Sunday I don't know who your God is who is your Jesus anyway on this Christmas Sunday when rightly believers focus upon the incarnation when heaven became human when eternity became embryo when the son of God
[01:17:09] became the son of Mary the trauma I confess to you for much of my own life I didn't know so much about Jesus of Nazareth the church and I love the church not just this congregation
[01:17:25] but growing up in the midst of the peoples that my father would pastor listening to him preach growing up in Sunday school every Wednesday night every BBS I thank them, but honestly, they spoke to me primarily about Jesus Christ, not Jesus of Nazareth.
[01:17:46] What's the difference?
[01:17:48] Jesus of Nazareth speaks to Mary's son, Mary's baby, who was born in Bethlehem, little boy in a manger.
[01:17:58] But when we speak of Jesus Christ, the word Christos, where we first get the word Moshiach, or we get the word Messiah, It's speaking of the Son of God who has come to earth.
[01:18:09] And so much of my life, I knew about Jesus Christ and how to worship him and celebrate his presence and his power.
[01:18:20] But I knew shamefully little about Jesus of Nazareth.
[01:18:25] But every time somebody would talk about Jesus, it was the Son of God rather than the Son of Mary.
[01:18:31] I would hear about the miracles and they were fantastic especially being in Pentecost in the church of God I would hear about the miracles where God would touch him and use him and he could walk on the water
[01:18:43] and break five loaves and fishes the work of redemption of him dying upon the cross and what the blood that we took a moment ago means for my healing, my deliverance, my provision and every
[01:18:55] good and perfect gift that is found in redemption i would hear them talk about the power of the resurrection not that his flesh did a thing but the power of the holy spirit that raised him triumphantly as a corpse i would hear about the
[01:19:11] return of the messiah the lamb of god who takes away the lion of the tribe of judah how he shall put his head on his heel on the head of the enemy and slap that devil out i don't mean to sound
[01:19:24] cruel but to be honest with you my own understanding of israel and the jewish people for me israel and the jewish people were about as alive as moses and david i had studied them i had heard about them i knew about moses and his staff turning into a serpent i knew
[01:19:49] that he stood at the red sea and it divorced by the wind of god and two and a half million jews I knew that and it was foundational to my faith but it was somehow so far detached I couldn't
[01:20:01] hardly imagine them breathing the same kind of oxygen that I was breathing I I knew about David and his sheep I knew about Goliath and the lion and the bear that he was able to break with his
[01:20:12] bare hands I knew about him being the king and writing the psalms but again it all seemed so historic so archaic that it did not seem relevant to who I was I was unaware

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[01:20:24] I didn't know the soil of Israel

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[01:20:31] or the soul I didn't know the living or the land the people or the place my faith was so heavenly with Jesus Christ the anointed one the son of God that the horizontal Jesus of Nazareth
[01:20:52] Mary's boy I didn't connect to me as much And when I'd hear about moments as a boy About Jewish people Or Israel in my life I really didn't connect the dots I didn't understand it
[01:21:08] It was just too other for me I even knew in 1968 When Bobby was assassinated in California On his way to Chicago By a Jordanian named Sirhan Sirhan I knew that he was assassinated because he had stood on the Senate floor and supported arming Israel in the 67 war.
[01:21:28] I knew that, but I watched scenes of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 in Israel.
[01:21:37] I know what Yom Kippur was.
[01:21:38] I never heard of Yom Kippur in my life.
[01:21:41] I was almost 13 years of age.
[01:21:42] I still can't explain to you because I spent so much of my time in Jacksonville, North Carolina specifically watching television of the Vietnam War where kids in my classroom in the first and second and third grade
[01:21:54] their fathers, young fathers, the average age of a soldier being killed was 19 years of age and these young mothers in that church of God in Jacksonville, North Carolina whose husbands were gone and they might not see them for 18 months
[01:22:07] they might not see them at all and I would watch these scenes of Vietnam But when I would see these scenes of Yom Kippur, I cannot put it I could if I sat here now and tried to say well, what was the difference as far as the military?
[01:22:17] I don't know that I don't know The complexion the the aura that I don't know. It just was different for me. I remember when my uncle Jimmy Boyd mama's brother pastor in 1970 went to Israel
[01:22:37] people won't go on and we Israel in 1970 and this is he went there when when it was between the 67 war and the 73 war and he would try to tell us stuff and it did not register in my...
[01:22:51] I'd listen to prophecy preachers.
[01:22:53] The end times and they would talk about Israel and they would talk about Antichrist and they would talk about Jesus' return.
[01:23:00] But it all seemed so in another realm that I did not connect the dots.
[01:23:04] I honestly was one perishing for a lack of knowledge.
[01:23:08] I learned more about Jesus of Nazareth, the flesh, the Jew, from Yael and from serving in the fellowship and from time spent in Israel than I did the church.
[01:23:29] And that's terrible.
[01:23:31] That's why I'm so grateful to Pastor Christy, Ms. Kilman, our entire kingdom education ministry that's teaching our children.
[01:23:38] Not only to celebrate the greatness of the Son of God, but to also recognize this baby, this boy, this teenager, this man.
[01:23:53] Can I read to you the Bible?
[01:23:54] Can we still do that?
[01:23:55] 2 John, this is what I'm wanting to talk to you About how important the fleshiness is 2 John chapter 1 verse 7 says Many deceivers have gone out into the world People who, what, didn't acknowledge Yeshua
[01:24:16] The Messiah's coming as a human being Wait a minute, why not?
[01:24:22] You know that he's the son of God You know he sat upon the throne You know in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
[01:24:32] The same was in the beginning with God.
[01:24:34] All of that's about Jesus.
[01:24:35] In the beginning was the Word, Jesus.
[01:24:37] And Jesus was with God and Jesus was God.
[01:24:40] And the same was without Him, Jesus was not anything made that was made.
[01:24:44] In Him was light and this life was the light.
[01:24:46] And you know that in the same chapter it says, And the Word, that God, became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory.
[01:24:54] The glory is of the only begotten of the father Full of grace and truth

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[01:24:57] But he says here John says here There's deceivers Who are deceived Like a malignant cancer Spreading their deception And have gone out into the world People who don't acknowledge Jesus or Yeshua the Messiah Is coming

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[01:25:17] As a human being Such as a person Such a person is a deceiver And an anti-messiah John says in 1 John chapter 4, dear friends, don't trust every spirit.
[01:25:30] On the contrary, test the spirit.
[01:25:31] Use your discernment to see whether they are from God.

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[01:25:34] Because there's many false prophets have gone out into the world.
[01:25:38] Here is how you'll know and recognize the spirit of God.

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[01:25:42] Every spirit which acknowledges that Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, came as a human being is from God.
[01:25:50] And every spirit which does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God.
[01:25:55] in fact this is the spirit of anti-messiah you have heard that he is coming but i'm telling you he's here already the writer of hebrews which is a book that was written to jews who had become
[01:26:05] messianic they had begun they had begun to believe that jesus is the messiah it was specifically written to jews in the new testament hebrews chapter 2 verse 4 therefore since the children share a common physical all of us physical common characteristics of being human beings
[01:26:23] God sent Jesus he became like them like us and shared the same human nature so that by his death

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[01:26:31] he might render ineffective the one who had power over death he said for the enemy to be defeated it was requiring more than the son of God coming and putting his heel but the son of God coming
[01:26:47] through bethlehem that the baby jesus could grow up and he could and then he looks at you and he says greater works than these shall you do because i'm going back to the father how is your heel doing

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[01:27:02] lately timothy paul says to timothy great beyond all question is the formerly hidden truth and underlying our faith and this is what he says he was manifested talking about the son of god physically and proved righteous spiritually seen by angels and proclaimed by the nations and
[01:27:25] trusted through the world and raised up in glory to heaven he sweat became his drops of blood but that born a miracle his sweat did not become bloody because he was the son of god
[01:27:44] his sweat became bloody because he was the son of mary he was a human being flesh and blood it is a

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[01:27:52] medical not a miracle it is a medical phenomena that if you pray with such intensity and focus and you put your body in this contorted state you could do it even now that your own capillaries would rupture it has nothing to do with
[01:28:10] angels ascending or descending it has to do with the fact that you have put your physicality in such a bind that what once was sweat now ruptures as blood he was on the cross and he said I'm thirsty he wasn't thirsty because he was the son
[01:28:31] of God God has no needs in his heaven he was thirsty because he was Mary's baby boy who had grown to be a man it was his physicality it was Mary's baby that was

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[01:28:45] thirsty much of what forgive me much of what jesus said that we find so paradoxical that we find so revelatory that we find so extraordinary much of what he did which was so miraculous such

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[01:29:01] demonstrations of heavenly power that ran through mary's son took place against the backdrop

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[01:29:10] of the holy days now i'm gonna be honest with you i'm 65 years old i didn't know nothing about no holy days what's called in the hebrew the moedim i knew kinda that the last supper
[01:29:26] was the passover meal i kind of got that what we don't know until you start reading the gospels again was time and again when jesus would say something that confounded when he would do something that left people in awe it was at a specific event of old testament significance
[01:29:48] where God instituted the festivals, and he was saying, I am the bread of life.
[01:29:56] I am the light of the world.
[01:30:00] I am the way, the truth, and the life.
[01:30:03] And if I know what the Jewish Jesus was talking about as he grew up, I know what he did in the manger.
[01:30:12] I know at 12 years of age, he was in the temple, and he was being born mitzvah.
[01:30:16] I know that.
[01:30:17] But then he showed up 18 years later.
[01:30:19] What happened in the 18 years?
[01:30:20] He was learning.
[01:30:22] He was learning the festivals.
[01:30:24] He was learning the scriptures.
[01:30:26] What scriptures?
[01:30:26] The Hebrew scriptures, the Old Testament.
[01:30:27] There was no New Testament.

[01:30:31] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:30:31] And then he would take those verses and say to them, you know this well as a Jew.
[01:30:40] You know these festivals.
[01:30:41] You show up every year in accordance, in observance,

[01:30:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:30:45] with what God has decreed in Leviticus, in Exodus.
[01:30:49] but I'm telling you the fulfillment of them so he took the body and the blood which was just the bread and the wine and he said take and drink for this is

[01:31:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[01:31:03] my blood take and eat for this is my flesh now like so many of you who've

[01:31:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:31:17] been you're about to go on the second trip or the third trip to Israel second 33 went and about 40 ish are going 40 who 43 in February are going what the effect of this is that we can barely speak the names of the towns and cities
[01:31:38] now without something leaping in our spirit when you hear Bethlehem when you hear Judea when you hear Samaria will you hear almost like John and Elizabeth's belly, leaping when Jesus comes in the room shrouded in womb. And I think there's a lot of other
[01:31:59] pew people, like myself was, who now are as clueless as I was. And it has tragic consequences in our time, our nation, our generations.
[01:32:14] Every generation has a giant. All the way back to the Hebrew Scriptures. There were the Amalekites. There were the Philistines.
[01:32:23] we've been talking about Elijah and will return next week has bailed and his you've got Islam now committed to three primaries and that is building mosques running for office and having babies fill the spiritual vacuum that the
[01:32:46] church has abdicated the church reminds me looking now at the civil war taking place in the church not speaking about hope hopefully it's not but if it is it's we're part because we're part of it the church reminds me of the twins of
[01:33:04] Rebecca's belly one is human and fails and makes mistakes and but the Lord opens his heaven and Jacob sees the angels ascending and descending and Jacob whose name was changed to Israel when he wrestled against an angel and an
[01:33:21] angel put God's name on him that's one that's one side of the church there's another part that's Esau got just as much DNA of Isaac and Rebecca in him but siding with the enemy ends up marrying the enemy just to torment his family
[01:33:42] while he's still carrying covenant blood in his veins if every pew person really believed our beliefs

[01:33:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:33:52] in the one breathing word of God in the one creator of heaven and earth in the one Messiah of the manger in the one savior of the cross in the one Lord of the empty tomb
[01:34:08] in the one king upon the throne in the one salvation of Calvary in the one church of the living God If churches, church folk, believed our beliefs, cults would crumble and the new age would be nothing but old lies.

[01:34:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:34:35] On this Christmas Sunday, I got to ask myself and maybe answer it by the word.
[01:34:42] Was he really born in Bethlehem, Israel?
[01:34:48] Did he grow up in Nazareth, Israel?
[01:34:54] Did he perform 80% of his ministry in the Galilee of Israel?
[01:35:00] Was he crucified outside the gates of the holy city of Jerusalem?
[01:35:04] Israel.
[01:35:05] Does your Bible say, prophetically, that Jesus, no longer simply the Lamb of God, but now the Lion from the tribe of Judah.

[01:35:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:35:15] Does your Bible say that there's coming a moment when he shall return, not to Manhattan, not to Moscow.
[01:35:26] not to beijing come in a moment when he shall place his feet upon the mouth of olives in israel you ain't got to like it just remember it so you'll know what you're looking at when you see

[01:35:41] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:35:41] it on the news and there's something more i got to know yeshua wasn't born in bethlehem israel because that's where their travels ended that day well we'll stop here because you're pregnant And the donkey's tired
[01:36:07] And this is as good a place to stop as any That wasn't why And it wasn't because Joseph was from Bethlehem They stopped in Bethlehem Because the Old Testament prophet Micah Saw it And said it centuries
[01:36:26] Before Jesus' birth Jesus didn't ride a donkey Into Jerusalem, Israel Because the people loved him

[01:36:36] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:36:36] But because the Hebrew prophet zechariah told us 500 years before jesus heard hosanna hosanna and david's words in 118

[01:36:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:36:50] blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord when jesus was dying upon the cross and he cried

[01:36:56] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:36:56] out outside the walls of jerusalem my god my god why have you forsaken me it wasn't simply that his heart was broken and he wondered but it's because king david had prophesied it in psalm 22 your

[01:37:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:37:13] messiah the jewish jesus was jew is jew will forever be flesh listen there's a church in nazareth i can't i shouldn't probably say this but i detest that space because they try to be so open
[01:37:28] that they have Jesus in every ethnicity.
[01:37:34] Hear me.
[01:37:36] All ethnicities flow from the one God.
[01:37:41] And God is all of it.
[01:37:44] God is black, white, Latino, Asian, whatever.
[01:37:47] All of that flows from heaven, from God.

[01:37:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:37:52] But Jesus, who was conceived in a Jewish womb, Born in a Jewish town Lived a Jewish life in a Jewish place He is not white He ain't He's not Asian He ain't Latino He is exclusively
[01:38:14] I'm sorry

[01:38:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[01:38:18] So when you go in a church

[01:38:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:38:25] And you see there's a black Jesus And there's a Latino Jesus But where's the real Jesus Messiah Yeshua fulfilled more than 300 Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures I had somebody say to me one time,
[01:38:46] why do you spend so much time in the Hebrew Bible?
[01:38:48] Yeah, well, they didn't say that.
[01:38:49] They didn't use that phrase.
[01:38:50] Why do you spend so much time in the Old Testament?
[01:38:52] Because Jesus is all in there.

[01:38:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[01:38:57] What?
[01:39:02] Jesus is in the Old Testament?
[01:39:06] I'm going to have to talk to mom about that.
[01:39:09] You know, my uncle's a preacher.
[01:39:11] I'm going to ask him.

[01:39:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:39:15] Open yours.
[01:39:18] Start with the Gospels.
[01:39:19] And find every time Jesus quoted Scripture, scripture. There won't no scripture, but the Old Testament. It is the root. The New Testament is the fruit. And the sight and sound of the church today is the result and consequence of rootless
[01:39:44] fruit. Flipping from here to there, trying out this gospel, espousing this revelation.
[01:39:53] Can't be settled nowhere because they don't know who they are because they don't know who their jesus is that's why thursday night we had the altar up here and we have a menorah and a crucifix
[01:40:08] we don't have those up here because we're trying to be open or tolerant but because together they are the seed of abraham to israel as i am to the church there is no manger let me quickly and try
[01:40:35] in 30 seconds to say what that's all about that's hanukkah is is an october 7th that took place 200 100 years before Jesus.
[01:40:44] It was when a man by the name of Antiochus Epiphanes came in, offered a pig on the altar, killed every priest and anyone that wouldn't eat pork.
[01:40:55] He would not allow circumcision, speaking Hebrew, all the Jewish, the typical things that you would see through every persecution.
[01:41:04] And yet Jesus, born 2000 years ago.
[01:41:10] Well, where's Hanukkah?
[01:41:14] Where's Hanukkah in the Bible?
[01:41:18] Look in John chapter 10, where we know this verse.

[01:41:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:41:26] The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.
[01:41:30] But I have come that you might have life and that you might have.
[01:41:38] Boy, I like that part of that chapter, don't you?
[01:41:40] I like me some John chapter 10 when he's talking to me 2,000 years later

[01:41:47] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:41:47] And it's telling me abundant life is my like me some Jesus right then and there My problem is when I go down to verse 22 in the same chapter Right while I'm tooth picking my blessings in my mouth
[01:42:01] Yeah The Bible says your Bible says That Jesus was in the temple in Jerusalem And when was he there he was there depending on the verse the version you used the translation used it might say he was there
[01:42:27] on the day of the celebration of the dedication.
[01:42:30] What was that about?
[01:42:31] When the Jews got the temple back 200 years, when they came, and I told you about what they did with the pork and the pig and the whole thing, when that ended, as it always will,
[01:42:43] when that ended, they rededicated.
[01:42:45] They had a menorah, and there were some Pentecostals in that group because they knew how to light a candle and it keep on burning for eight days, and that's why you have the menorah.
[01:42:57] Jesus was there to celebrate Hanukkah.
[01:43:00] When you look, it's the feast of dedication, the rededication of the temple, the festival of lights.
[01:43:06] Or when you look and you study it just a little bit, you'll see that it says it was Hanukkah.
[01:43:11] He was a Jew.
[01:43:12] Well, you expect him to be during Hanukkah.
[01:43:15] But in the rededication, without the menorah, there is no manger.
[01:43:25] Without Hanukkah, there is no Christmas.
[01:43:28] Without the eighth day miracle where they went and got some oil and came found out that the menorah the whole thing was lit still without that eighth day miracle there's no third day miracle jesus was a traumatizer i'm sorry you got that little lamb
[01:43:46] thing going on and that sweet do you he don't rock your boat even though it's sinking he don't bother you you know some folk they'll still go to church but they're about as useless as a toothpick in a
[01:43:58] fast. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Jesus was the traumatizer. Folk, we celebrate. We've been doing a bunch. There's a lot of folk didn't like Jesus. If everybody likes you, you ain't living right. If they ain't making fun of your Pentecost, you ain't got none. Accomplish that she should be

[01:44:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:44:29] delivered. She gave birth. He was God in eternity. He was prophesied by Gabriel. He was conceived in Mary's womb he was delivered in a manger he was named by Joseph he was awed by the shepherds he was blessed by Simeon and Anna he was worshipped by the
[01:44:54] wise men he was feared by Herod he was protected by the angel but every part of it was a fulfillment of the Word of God spoken let me tell you something the

[01:45:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:45:13] same drama is playing out now you got folk on one side that'll say Jesus was a good teacher philosopher I agree that historically he was born in a place called Israel but I don't think there was anything divine about him there's
[01:45:36] nothing to have ain't no God in him that's one side there's other side that say oh he was God I worship Him I celebrate and they don't have a clue What to do with the flesh of him other than to celebrate when their flesh is healed because his flesh was nailed to the cross
[01:45:57] We ain't got time to be wrong medically. We are enduring

[01:46:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:46:06] experiencing the same kind of mayhem and crisis That they did then But you need to hurt believe me when I tell you hell can't stop the return of the Messiah any more than Haman could destroy the Jewish people or Pharaoh could prevent
[01:46:29] the Red Sea from opening any more than Herod could massacre the manger or Pilate could keep the keys of the tomb and you need to know that Jesus didn't come simply to deliver us but to dwell in us he didn't want to just liberate us but

[01:46:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:46:49] to live in you in 2017 you became part of the board of directors for the fellowship two years later you sat at the heart of the table I don't like the phrase head of the table sat at the heart of the table as chairman you saw
[01:47:19] Israel up one side and down the other Ukraine less than a week after the war started you were helping Jews get out get home you've been in Poland at Auschwitz. You helped Jews get out of anti-Semitic Paris where the glorious synagogue sure was being
[01:47:41] destroyed. But on October 21st, my wife and I was at the water and I just felt, not because anybody did something wrong, they didn't do nothing wrong. Not because somebody said something to hurt me,
[01:47:58] ain't nobody hurt me. They did nothing but bless me and help me. I never got, if you ever hear somebody say well Bishop got rich or you in the presence of a liar if that's true I want to know
[01:48:11] where's my money and what you do with I never got paid one penny for doing a live for doing prayer calls for traveling or any of them other things I never you can't make you can't receive
[01:48:24] they can't give an offering or money or salary or remuneration to a 501c3 chairman of the board they take non-profit very seriously and I did not so it was all great but on midnight at midnight
[01:48:42] I sent a note to Yael and I simply said it's time exactly a month before she had been here we talked for two or three days wonderful conversation I love Yael she's amazing she's extraordinary she has so far she's so far exceeded what even her father could have imagined for her
[01:49:06] So there's absolutely nothing negative to say about it anyway.
[01:49:10] People don't know what to do with it.
[01:49:12] But what really happened?
[01:49:13] Just because your life's screwed up don't mean ours is.
[01:49:21] October 28th, the Lord said, I want you to do a 21-day fast.
[01:49:26] Just water.
[01:49:29] And you know, because fasting is a part of this, and come January, the first Sunday, we're going to have a 21-day Daniel fast, which means we're simply going to, it's going to be a kingdom kosher.
[01:49:39] Certain foods we will eat.
[01:49:41] Certain things we will not eat.
[01:49:42] so nobody gonna starve but in in this 21 day that he told me to fast i didn't eat nothing just drank water and as i started it the lord i had been and you know so well i've been working on a book about
[01:49:56] fasting for years but i never could get the release of the lord and i didn't know it until this 21 day fast when i stepped in this 21 day fast i started seeing two things one you were
[01:50:10] to write this book on fasting now because you've been throughout israel you've experienced the jewishness you've seen anti-semitism you have all now that fits into the conversation the narrative of a fast number two as you get into it you're going to discover that the fasts are always about
[01:50:26] generations i didn't i didn't know that and as i was in those 21 days the lord showed me not Not Moses' 40-day, not Elijah's 40-day, not Jesus' 40-day fast, or the 21, or the 10, or even a 7.
[01:50:51] The Lord started showing me fasts that were much smaller, and the power was unbelievable.
[01:50:58] And I said to you, from this moment on, I want you to begin thinking that there's more power in your living in 10 four-day fasts than one 40-day fast.
[01:51:10] Don't let the enemy come in and make you feel guilty. Well, I can't even do 40 if I can't do four days I hear can you think you could do four hours?
[01:51:22] Four hours. I'm not criticizing anybody I'm not minimize because what the Lord began to show me is that the pivot points that changed everything in the Hebrew scriptures of the Old Testament in the Christian scriptures of the New Testament in my life and you're the pivot point that changes
[01:51:37] everything in our faith didn't take place just when this international moment and of consequence when you got 40 day or 21 It was when a man or a woman quietly didn't eat, and the Bible don't even call it a fast.
[01:51:51] So I started calling them hidden fasts, but consequential.
[01:51:58] We talked about Saul in the Christian scriptures, how he was trying to kill all the Christians, and the light hit him.
[01:52:05] And for three days, he didn't eat.
[01:52:10] Three days, he didn't eat or drink.
[01:52:13] And it was at that moment that the revelation came to him.
[01:52:16] No longer are you pursuing Christians to kill them.
[01:52:19] You're pursuing everybody else to tell them that Jesus is Lord.
[01:52:23] He became the apostle to the Gentile world to his knowing in a three-day fast.
[01:52:31] Though the Bible doesn't say three-day fast.
[01:52:32] It just says he didn't eat for three days.
[01:52:36] We talked about Hannah.
[01:52:38] I'm not going through all that.
[01:52:39] But how she got up from the table.
[01:52:41] She pushed away from the table for the sake of the altar.
[01:52:44] That's always my little personal definition.
[01:52:46] Pushing away from the table for the sake of the altar.
[01:52:48] she did not eat with her family even a covenant meal and walked into the tabernacle and in what could have been an hour maybe maybe two she went in there and said i want a son my belly is betraying
[01:53:00] me i haven't been able to conceive i haven't been able to birth it's something that goes on with all the covenant women of the hebrew scriptures you got sarah you got rebecca you got rachel i can't
[01:53:08] have the baby and the priest ely looks at her and says oh you're gonna be and she leaves that place and goes maybe an hour maybe two hours but she goes home with her husband comes back she's pregnant
[01:53:21] she has a son his name is samuel he's the one who anoints saul to become the first king of israel anoints david to become the second king this man of such consequence he would sleep by the
[01:53:34] ark of the covenant all this took place because a woman skipped one she was able to take a famine of the heart and release it as a fast unto God. We're talking about the widow of Zarephath. I'm
[01:53:51] not going to get into that, but watch this. And I'm through here. Philippians. How am I doing on time? You've been so patient. Oh man, I'm doing really good. Okay. Five, 10 minutes. So you can
[01:54:11] tell everybody we didn't even stay till 12 o'clock today. Philippians Paul says in chapter two, Watch this my garden let your attitude toward one another be governed by your being in Union with the Messiah
[01:54:35] Yeshua Though he Jesus was in the form of God Did I read all those other verses while ago?
[01:54:48] Okay, though. He was in the form of God He didn't regard equality with God Something to be possessed by force I'm divine I'm omnipresent I can go anywhere matter of fact I don't have to go
[01:55:05] God never has to go anywhere because he already exists everywhere you can't teach an omniscient God anything because he already knows all things he's the personification of wisdom he can't forget unless he wants to not forget my sins
[01:55:18] and then I say hey have at it and I say to you don't go fishing when he says I've cast them in the sea of forgetfulness you leave my sin alone I'll leave yours alone
[01:55:29] and trust me neither one of us want to find one another's he's already God he's omnipotent he can do all things he's eternal he's always been always shall be I'm talking about Jesus before he was Jesus
[01:55:48] he was the son of God exclusively eternally begotten nice and crazy he was eternally that's a strange phrase extraordinary he was eternally begotten he was always coming forth from the father forever see he didn't do that
[01:56:03] with Mary she had labor she gave birth and that was it but he's always begotten and being begotten from the father i just say i'm the son of god i don't go what's this on the
[01:56:23] contrary i wish i had capped this part he emptied himself underline it highlight it circle it these are three or whichever translation you use two whatever the greek word is kenosis and it is simply saying he poured out what he poured out he was all god he was all that stuff
[01:56:51] we just said a moment ago omniscient omnipresent omnipotent all them things but he poured out all of that so he could come be with me and identify because i'm not omnipotent and i can't be
[01:57:05] everywhere at the same time and i can't know all things so he poured out his godness as the son of god to become mary's baby oh my sweet lord in heaven what did you did you know this was in the
[01:57:23] bible on the contrary he emptied himself in that he took the form of a slave by becoming like human beings are and when he appeared as a human being he humbled himself the son of god never been a
[01:57:38] him a traumatic exchange as from he humbled himself still more by becoming obedient even to death death on a stake the cross as a criminal therefore god raised him up now you know the rest
[01:57:56] it is and gave him a name that's above every name that at the name of jesus yeshua every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory now you've heard these
[01:58:14] words and you you know them but this is the part i didn't oh this is just slapping me he emptied himself what does that mean it means god fasted first we push back from the table for the sake
[01:58:40] of the altar he pushed back from the throne for the sake of the manger jesus said just before goes back to heaven after all this he says return to me john 17 5 return to me the glory i once had

[01:59:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:59:03] but i fasted it to that manger i couldn't bring that glory to these people i couldn't bring that glory in this living realm i took the glory that's the glory and i'm gonna lay it

[01:59:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:59:34] right here so I can go down there because that won't fit down here not the way I'm but the word became flesh and we beheld and he does what he does for 33 years and just before it goes back to heaven he said now father I did
[02:00:04] everything you told me to do would you I fasted I didn't handle angels worshiping me i didn't use my omnip omnipotence i could do all things but i couldn't do all things while i was here why was that time when he said not even the sun knows the day or the hour because i choose
[02:00:27] not to know because i'm mary's son right now i'm mary's baby right now i can't be in saigon and in jerusalem at this i'm not i'm not present as mary's son but if you would lord restore to me
[02:00:43] the glory i fasted the glory i had that glory for 33 years restored to me what i gave up to you and for them he was slain here the thing and i'm done he was slain before the founding
[02:01:07] well if he was slain before the founding then he lived in the mind of god before the founding

[02:01:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[02:01:15] in the mind of God he was born

[02:01:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[02:01:18] before the founding

[02:01:21] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[02:01:21] he was conceived

[02:01:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[02:01:24] Deborah Lynn before the founding crucify him before the founding if he ain't conceived before the founding and he couldn't be conceived without fasting that glory well I didn't but I do now so I'm telling the precious people of this house
[02:02:11] when you and I talk about fasting and you bring it up to folk and they'll say to you oh don't you know we don't have to do that now we're going to look at something else later
[02:02:26] not now, not today but in the next two or three weeks talking about the hidden fast I never even read that but the Lord, I'm going to tell you what happened when the Lord gave me that revelation
[02:02:36] my wife and I was in the car I was riding, she was driving I was especially near the throne no she ain't No, she's not. One of my babies, Pastor Kalen or Paul, one of them used to close their eyes and say, can you see me now?
[02:03:14] Too many folk in the church think if they close their eyes, God can't see you.
[02:03:22] That'll be what somebody puts on Facebook today.
[02:03:25] Last little thing. But while I was tarrying, feeling ever so nearer to the throne, the Lord gave me that revelation.
[02:03:38] so once I pried my fingernails from that leather I went home and wrote it out there before the founding of the world we didn't invent fasting Moses is the first person in your bible officially
[02:03:58] that ever fasted but before Moses mama met a daddy before he created scooped up the earth and spat in and call it an ocean for he groomed the mountains with his fingertips he had already fasted because
[02:04:22] we don't know much about the flesh unless we get an isaiah 53 he was bruised the chastisement of our flesh was and by his stripes how did that happen because he fasted the glory and we don't
[02:04:43] get no glory if we try to hold on to any of it but if we give it all to him he lets us has anybody had the glory today anybody felt the presence of god today there's two things one jazz
[02:05:08] is getting ready to come and dance to a song she danced to and i love it so much michael w smith song where the anchoress said all is well all shall be well and all manner of things shall be
[02:05:27] well and then let me remind you of midnight mass christmas eve when all them children gonna have their pajamas on up on this platform and they bring their orphans and put them in the manger
[02:05:43] we'll be sitting here reading the christmas story with your babies hey that's gonna be all right ain't it it's gonna be all right i see a christmas eve midnight mass but first worship with jazz
[02:06:00] as she dismisses us with all is well.