WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:10.560 I have to confess that I generally always enjoyed the Christmas season and all of the stuff, most of the stuff anyway. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.160 I like Christmas movies for example. 3 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:24.960 I enjoy Christmas movies, I think, and I have been thinking critically about it for the past few weeks, trying to figure out, why do I like Christmas movies? 4 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:36.400 Well, one reason, it is probably changing now, but for most of my lifetime you could watch a Christmas movie and it’s a pretty safe movie to watch. 5 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:40.340 It’s a family-focused movie. 6 00:00:40.340 --> 00:00:47.330 And usually there’s no, until recently, there’s no blasphemy in these movies. 7 00:00:47.330 --> 00:00:52.680 They, the emphasis of just about all of these movies is on family. 8 00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:56.320 And they almost always have a redemptive element. 9 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:15.820 Even going back to A Christmas Carol , with Ebenezer Scrooge being a cold-hearted, selfish guy who’s after the next dollar and all of that, and the misery that he causes Bob Cratchit and his family and all those things. 10 00:01:15.820 --> 00:01:24.460 And how with three ghosts who come to him, you know, three spirits who come to him, he’s changed through that. 11 00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:29.940 But the emphasis is on the family and goodwill and those kinds of things. 12 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:39.640 Similar with like a movie like It’s a Wonderful Life where you see someone like George Bailey grow up through the eyes of Clarence Oddbody. 13 00:01:39.640 --> 00:02:02.680 And you see all these things come about, him saving his brother from drowning, and his battle with Mr. Potter and marrying Mary Hatch, and all those things that are involved in the story, and then the crisis of the story and the, you know, the evidence of goodwill and community. 14 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.560 And you know, emphasis on family is not a bad thing. 15 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.000 It really isn’t. 16 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.080 Not in today’s world when family is so neglected. 17 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:14.260 So, I think that’s one of the reasons. 18 00:02:14.260 --> 00:02:30.300 I mean, it’s an aside, you want to aside just cursed to me is that if all, in all the history of the United States of America, right now, if anything family should ever be emphasized, it certainly should be now. 19 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:32.760 Here’s one little statistic on that. 20 00:02:32.760 --> 00:02:33.940 That’s not my topic today. 21 00:02:33.940 --> 00:02:37.060 I’m getting off on it. 22 00:02:37.060 --> 00:02:40.600 Here’s one little statistic I’ll throw out. 23 00:02:40.600 --> 00:02:49.940 If I were to ask you individually, you know, what do you think the percentage of traditional families are in the United States today? 24 00:02:49.940 --> 00:02:53.020 If I were to ask you what that is, what do you think? 25 00:02:53.020 --> 00:02:56.820 You think it’s down to 50% or 40% of traditional family? 26 00:02:56.820 --> 00:02:59.310 A mom and a dad and children in the home. 27 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:01.780 That’s what, that’s what I mean. 28 00:03:01.780 --> 00:03:04.660 What is, what’s the percentage of that now? 29 00:03:04.660 --> 00:03:08.640 I’ll tell you, it’s 17% . 30 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:09.700 17%. 31 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:15.480 And the decline in the past decade has been really significant. 32 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:19.720 So yeah, emphasis on family is not, not a bad thing. 33 00:03:19.720 --> 00:03:27.620 But there’s something that bothers me about the Christmas movies, and it has for years, but especially this year for some reason. 34 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:35.920 And that is that you can watch all these Christmas movies and there’s something missing, or rather, there’s someone that’s missing. 35 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:42.380 If you look up, go to Google and look up the top 25 Christmas movies. 36 00:03:42.380 --> 00:03:45.960 And there’s going to be multiple lists like that. 37 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:56.220 You can look at all of the Christmas movies that’s in most of these lists and you will never come across a movie that mentions the name of Jesus Christ. 38 00:03:56.220 --> 00:04:01.740 And that’s a startling thing to realize. 39 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:07.020 You have someone missing. 40 00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:11.400 And it’s not just someone missing. 41 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.360 It’s, it’s, it’s really significant. 42 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.720 And that’s true for just about all of them. 43 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:19.580 Even even a movie, you know, the movies that I mentioned. 44 00:04:19.580 --> 00:04:27.580 I mean, in It’s a Wonderful Life , you have Janie playing Hark! 45 00:04:27.580 --> 00:04:32.540 The Herald Angels Sing and they’re singing at the end of the movie, Hark! 46 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:36.680 The Herald Angels Sing and giving praise to the newborn King. 47 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:39.140 And that’s something. 48 00:04:39.140 --> 00:04:44.220 But that’s the only mention for as I remember in that movie. 49 00:04:44.220 --> 00:04:49.560 Unless there was something in one of those strange prayers at the beginning. 50 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.820 I can’t remember the name of Jesus being mentioned in that movie. 51 00:04:52.820 --> 00:04:55.660 Or certainly not in A Christmas Carol . 52 00:04:55.660 --> 00:05:41.220 Or in any of the pretty, some of them pretty decent, Hallmark movies, or dozens of movies and all the movies like White Christmas , Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas , the Christmas song, you know, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” Elvis’s “Blue Christmas,” “Walking Around the Christmas Tree.” 53 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:43.160 Those are, those show up on the lists. 54 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.820 Those are the main songs of Christmas. 55 00:05:45.820 --> 00:05:49.860 “Winter Wonderland,” “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” 56 00:05:49.860 --> 00:06:06.620 And so you can have all of these things and you can celebrate Christmas and you know, you can list all your favorite things and have a holly jolly Christmas without ever mentioning the name of Jesus. 57 00:06:06.620 --> 00:06:10.300 And that’s something, or something fundamentally wrong with that. 58 00:06:10.300 --> 00:06:12.200 I mean, isn’t it? 59 00:06:12.200 --> 00:06:14.930 Shouldn’t it be? 60 00:06:14.930 --> 00:06:23.180 And so it’s interesting to me how we’ve come to this thing because people like the idea of Christmas. 61 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:36.440 They really like the idea of joy and peace and goodwill towards men, family celebrations and giving gifts to other people and showing kindness. 62 00:06:36.440 --> 00:06:48.960 And one of the things that comes up in so many of these movies and things, especially recently, more recent years, is the idea of faith and believing. 63 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:50.740 I think that’s really intriguing. 64 00:06:50.740 --> 00:06:52.580 You have to believe. 65 00:06:52.580 --> 00:06:54.240 You’ve got to believe. 66 00:06:54.240 --> 00:07:00.120 What you believe in is not always defined, often if it is defined, it’s Santa Claus. 67 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:10.120 And so you have this idea that’s conveyed in the movie that we really know that Santa Claus is not true, but we’ve got to believe. 68 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:16.640 I think what they’re saying is we’ve got to believe in goodwill and purpose in life. 69 00:07:16.640 --> 00:07:20.480 Even though we know those things aren’t true either. 70 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:30.220 But we have to believe, otherwise what else is there? 71 00:07:30.220 --> 00:07:34.720 So, to have all these things and we neglect Jesus Christ. 72 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:52.120 The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 10:3, “For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.” 73 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:55.400 Jesus is the righteousness that comes from God. 74 00:07:55.400 --> 00:08:01.120 There are a lot of people to think about Jesus and his perfections. 75 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:09.360 A lot of people to think about Jesus stirs their heart to feel guilty. 76 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:14.580 They think about Jesus and his perfections and they feel guilty. 77 00:08:14.580 --> 00:08:17.920 And so they push Jesus out of their thoughts. 78 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:30.090 I think that’s one of the reasons that people like these kinds of movies and favor them over a movie that would talk about Jesus and the genuine, the true Christmas story. 79 00:08:30.090 --> 00:08:35.740 And that’s not, that can’t really surprise us really when you start thinking about it. 80 00:08:35.740 --> 00:08:37.980 I mean, the world hates Christ. 81 00:08:37.980 --> 00:08:43.520 And so why should you celebrate Christ at the time of festival if you hate Christ? 82 00:08:43.520 --> 00:08:48.740 So they hate to mention his name unless it’s in some form of blasphemy. 83 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:51.300 Jesus told us that it would be that way. 84 00:08:51.300 --> 00:08:56.820 He said, “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.” 85 00:08:56.820 --> 00:09:04.860 And later in Matthew 10 he says, “All the nations will hate you because you’re my followers.” 86 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:07.100 So there’s that kind of thing. 87 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:10.020 It’s a given that the world hates Christ. 88 00:09:10.020 --> 00:09:19.420 But the thing that also strikes me is that there are a lot of people who identify as Christians, who aren’t Christians. 89 00:09:19.420 --> 00:09:22.380 And they’re caught up in these things. 90 00:09:22.380 --> 00:09:41.640 For many of us, you know, if you were going to look at your Christmas celebration, I think for many it looks probably looks a lot more like a Christmas Story, the movie, rather than reflecting on the Christmas story of Scripture. 91 00:09:41.640 --> 00:09:43.340 So why is that? 92 00:09:43.340 --> 00:09:47.120 I mean, how does that come about? 93 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:59.440 I think that if I were to ask anyone that that’s true of, a Christian who has caught up in the things of this world and has kind of pushed Christ out of his Christmas. 94 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:04.560 If you called their attention to it, they would say, “Of course. 95 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:08.020 Of course, it’s about Jesus.” 96 00:10:08.020 --> 00:10:10.120 You know, that’s a given. 97 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:14.600 That’s what’s presumed. 98 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.340 I think it’s pretty much the response you would get from most any of them. 99 00:10:18.340 --> 00:10:23.040 It reminded me of an illustration that I heard many, many years ago. 100 00:10:23.040 --> 00:10:24.060 I think it was Piper. 101 00:10:24.060 --> 00:10:42.920 And his illustration he said, “Suppose you ask a man a businessman, a president of a company, say, who under God, who is the most important person in your life?” 102 00:10:42.920 --> 00:10:51.740 And he were to say, “Oh, I think my Vice President for Marketing.” 103 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:58.100 And you say, “Well, what about your wife?” 104 00:10:58.100 --> 00:11:02.680 And he says, “Oh, I just assume that. 105 00:11:02.680 --> 00:11:09.060 You know, that goes without saying.” 106 00:11:09.060 --> 00:11:26.000 You know, it might be that a lot of people would assume that it was wonderful affection and respect for his wife that kept him from coming to mind. 107 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:32.080 But most of us, especially his wife, would think exactly the opposite. 108 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:39.640 The reason she didn’t come to mind is because she’s not of paramount importance to him. 109 00:11:39.640 --> 00:11:48.220 And she goes without saying because in his mind she goes without significance. 110 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:53.040 And so she’s not going to like it. 111 00:11:53.040 --> 00:12:05.140 She doesn’t say, “I feel so loved and honored because my husband never thinks to mention my name among his top priorities. 112 00:12:05.140 --> 00:12:07.640 I’m like the air he breathes. 113 00:12:07.640 --> 00:12:12.060 He never gives me a thought.” 114 00:12:12.060 --> 00:12:13.880 She’s not going to say that. 115 00:12:13.880 --> 00:12:19.560 She’s going to say if I don’t come to mind to talk about then I’m not important to you. 116 00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:26.060 If you think that I’m honored by being taken for granted, then you’re wrong because I’m not. 117 00:12:26.060 --> 00:12:31.680 So Jesus is a very important person. 118 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:34.220 And he shouldn’t be taken for granted. 119 00:12:34.220 --> 00:12:38.060 It’s possible to take important things for granted, like air. 120 00:12:38.060 --> 00:12:44.640 But nothing is honored because it’s taken for granted. 121 00:12:44.640 --> 00:12:55.580 In the book of Isaiah, the passage that I read earlier, God said, “For my name’s sake, I defer my anger. 122 00:12:55.580 --> 00:13:00.630 For the sake of my praise, I restrain it from you. 123 00:13:00.630 --> 00:13:07.340 In order not to cut you off, behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. 124 00:13:07.340 --> 00:13:09.500 I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. 125 00:13:09.500 --> 00:13:21.200 For my own sake, for my own sake, I will act, for how can my name be profaned and my glory I will not give to another.” 126 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.380 So Christ Jesus has shown us mercy. 127 00:13:24.380 --> 00:13:25.830 He’s given us mercy. 128 00:13:25.830 --> 00:13:32.600 An incredible mercy so that we would celebrate, so that we would worship him. 129 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.980 He’s worthy of our worship. 130 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:43.620 Jesus is important and he should not be forgotten or presumed upon or taken for granted. 131 00:13:43.620 --> 00:13:50.500 He’s important because he’s the very focus and the center of the Word of God. 132 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:54.580 He’s the very focus and the center of all of history. 133 00:13:54.580 --> 00:13:59.500 He’s important because he’s the Creator of everything. 134 00:13:59.500 --> 00:14:04.880 Everything that exists in this world is here because of Jesus Christ. 135 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:08.580 John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 136 00:14:08.580 --> 00:14:09.940 He was in the beginning with God. 137 00:14:09.940 --> 00:14:18.840 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him, not one thing came into being that has come into being.” 138 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.640 He’s the creator God. 139 00:14:22.640 --> 00:14:30.340 The beginning of the book of Hebrews says, “Long ago and in many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. 140 00:14:30.340 --> 00:14:36.280 But in these last days, He spoke to us by His Son, whom He appointed an heir of all things. 141 00:14:36.280 --> 00:14:40.980 Through whom also He created the world.” 142 00:14:40.980 --> 00:14:49.280 And then it says, “Jesus upholds all things by the word of His power.” 143 00:14:49.280 --> 00:14:53.920 This world is held together because of the power of Jesus. 144 00:14:53.920 --> 00:15:01.080 The reason that we take our next breath is because of the power of Jesus and He’s holding us, sustaining us together. 145 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.460 That is grace and mercy. 146 00:15:03.460 --> 00:15:07.880 That’s the kindness and grace of God. 147 00:15:07.880 --> 00:15:14.880 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. 148 00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:18.940 Jesus is precious because he’s our wonderful counselor. 149 00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:20.560 He’s our mighty God. 150 00:15:20.560 --> 00:15:24.260 He is the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace. 151 00:15:24.260 --> 00:15:28.200 He’s important and he shouldn’t be taken for granted. 152 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:32.660 He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 153 00:15:32.660 --> 00:15:43.120 In Philippians chapter 2, the Son of God lays down the glories of heaven. 154 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:47.240 And he does that in order to be made in the likeness of men. 155 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.840 That’s the Christmas story. 156 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.060 And he takes the form of a bond slave. 157 00:15:53.060 --> 00:16:02.660 And he humbles himself further by becoming obedient to the point of death, it says, “even death on a cross.” 158 00:16:02.660 --> 00:16:21.780 And then it says this, “For this reason also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth. 159 00:16:21.780 --> 00:16:31.200 And that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” 160 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:35.480 Jesus said that “all power and authority have been given to Him.” 161 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:40.200 He’s the King of Kings and he’s the Lord of Lords. 162 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:45.220 There is no one higher or greater or better or more powerful. 163 00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:50.330 He’s the one who, to whom all judgment has been given. 164 00:16:50.330 --> 00:16:59.140 So Jesus is important because he’s the King of Kings, but he’s important especially for us because he’s the Savior of mankind. 165 00:16:59.140 --> 00:17:01.840 And that’s what the Christmas story is about. 166 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:12.120 Matthew 1:21, “His name Jesus, because his purpose in coming, it was to save, He will save His people from their sins.” 167 00:17:12.120 --> 00:17:14.600 And that’s what Jesus said about himself. 168 00:17:14.600 --> 00:17:20.280 In Luke 19:10 he said, “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” 169 00:17:20.280 --> 00:17:23.100 Why did Jesus come and why was he born in that manger? 170 00:17:23.100 --> 00:17:29.420 Why did such a, the holy Son of God come and enter into this world? 171 00:17:29.420 --> 00:17:36.680 Mark 10:45, it’s, it’s because it’s to give his life a ransom for many. 172 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:41.260 We can’t save ourselves. 173 00:17:41.260 --> 00:18:21.080 We can’t save ourselves by keeping the law. 174 00:18:21.080 --> 00:18:24.840 If you offend in one point, you’re guilty of all. 175 00:18:24.840 --> 00:18:28.820 And we couldn’t save ourselves by keeping the sacrifices. 176 00:18:28.820 --> 00:18:34.600 That was not enough. 177 00:18:34.600 --> 00:18:47.860 For it tells us in Hebrews 10:4, that “it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.” 178 00:18:47.860 --> 00:18:59.740 Therefore, when the Lord Jesus, when the Son of God comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you’ve not desired, but a body you’ve prepared for me. 179 00:18:59.740 --> 00:19:05.000 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, you’ve taken no pleasure. 180 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:13.740 Then I said, ‘Behold, I come in the scroll of the book it is written of me, to do your will, O God.'” 181 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:15.620 That’s why Jesus came. 182 00:19:15.620 --> 00:19:21.070 He came because only he could be the provision for our sin. 183 00:19:21.070 --> 00:19:28.980 For God so loved the world that He gave His Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 184 00:19:28.980 --> 00:19:32.200 Jesus Christ came to be our Savior. 185 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:37.390 He is the Savior of mankind, of everyone who puts their trust in him. 186 00:19:37.390 --> 00:19:47.040 As the carol we sing, “Good Christian men rejoice, with heart and soul and voice, now ye need not fear the grave. 187 00:19:47.040 --> 00:19:50.320 Jesus Christ was born to save.” 188 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:55.880 Calls you one and calls you all to gain His everlasting hall. 189 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:58.440 Christ was born to save. 190 00:19:58.440 --> 00:19:59.300 Christ was born to save. 191 00:19:59.300 --> 00:20:08.280 Jesus said the “Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many.” 192 00:20:08.280 --> 00:20:16.020 He’s important and he’s precious and he should not be taken for granted because he’s our Savior. 193 00:20:16.020 --> 00:20:19.420 The purpose of his coming was to save us. 194 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:22.640 Those are just a few of the reasons that he’s not to be taken for granted. 195 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:30.420 He’s a Creator God, he’s a King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, he’s the only Savior of mankind. 196 00:20:30.420 --> 00:20:39.400 There’s no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. 197 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:47.300 And because of that, God has highly exalted him. 198 00:20:47.300 --> 00:20:55.700 “As I live,” says the Lord, “Every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall give praise to God.” 199 00:20:55.700 --> 00:21:05.580 Romans 10:9, it says, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” 200 00:21:05.580 --> 00:21:27.500 I mean, if, if the foundation of our salvation, I mean, as far as our side of this, and trusting Christ includes confessing his name, we should certainly be doing it, especially this time of the year, wouldn’t you think as we presume to be celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus. 201 00:21:27.500 --> 00:21:37.360 We should never presume on God’s grace or take the name of our Lord Jesus for granted, even in the simplest, most basic things. 202 00:21:37.360 --> 00:21:47.940 A few weeks ago, we were instead, our study of First Corinthians, we spent a week looking at First Corinthians 10:31, it’s a very simple verse. 203 00:21:47.940 --> 00:21:57.300 And in that verse, it’s basically saying that whatever we eat or whatever we drink, or whatever we do in this life, we’re to do it for the glory of God. 204 00:21:57.300 --> 00:22:00.240 The little things in our life. 205 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:05.020 There’s a tragedy that is greater than a Christless Christmas. 206 00:22:05.020 --> 00:22:07.360 Even though as bad as that is, and it’s bad. 207 00:22:07.360 --> 00:22:10.600 There’s the tragedy of a Christless life. 208 00:22:10.600 --> 00:22:20.740 Living just about every day of our life without taking thought to the Lord Jesus Christ. 209 00:22:20.740 --> 00:22:23.970 Jesus didn’t come for that reason. 210 00:22:23.970 --> 00:22:34.180 So, in Romans chapter 15, the Apostle Paul writes, “For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision.” 211 00:22:34.180 --> 00:22:45.440 He became a servant to the Jew on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers. 212 00:22:45.440 --> 00:23:00.040 He came a servant to the Jew to confirm the promises given to the fathers, “and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy, as it is written. 213 00:23:00.040 --> 00:23:09.320 Therefore, I will give praise to You among the Gentiles, and I will sing to Your name.” 214 00:23:09.320 --> 00:23:33.060 Jesus Christ gave up the glories of heaven to enter into this world to purchase a to live a perfect life, the life that we can’t live, and to purchase for us a place in heaven by paying a debt that we cannot, we cannot pay. 215 00:23:33.060 --> 00:23:43.680 And he did that to earn the praise of heaven and to earn our praise. 216 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:50.760 I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will sing to your name. 217 00:23:50.760 --> 00:23:54.100 He’s a precious Savior. 218 00:23:54.100 --> 00:23:59.180 He’s the glorious Lord of Lords and King of Kings. 219 00:23:59.180 --> 00:24:00.640 We need to praise him. 220 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.380 We need to remember him and not forget him. 221 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:06.080 So I want us to do that now. 222 00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:10.920 As we close the service today, I want us to sing another carol. 223 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:17.200 And as we do so, I want us to sing from our heart in praise to the Lord. 224 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.980 He’s our precious Savior. 225 00:24:19.980 --> 00:24:22.900 He’s an extremely important person. 226 00:24:22.900 --> 00:27:05.460 You dare not neglect him or take him for granted. 227 00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:14.040 To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever. 228 00:27:14.040 --> 00:27:14.340 Amen. 229 00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:17.240 In the name of…