Christ Un-barred - Sunday Service - His Return is Promised

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ We shout out your praise. We were the beggars, now we're royalty. We were the prisoners, now we're running free. We are forgiven, accepted, redeemed by His grace. Let the house of the Lord sing praise. We were the prisoners, now we're royalty. We were the prisoners, now we're running free. We are forgiven, accepted, redeemed by His grace. Let the house of the Lord sing praise.

I go to the house of God, I go to the house of my Lord. No puedo callarlo, declaro tu poder. I go to the house of God, Él está presente aquí. No puedo callarlo, declaro tu poder. There's joy in the house of the Lord. There's joy in the house of the Lord today. And we won't be quiet. We shout out your praise. There's joy in the house of the Lord. Our God is surely in this place. And we won't be quiet. We shout out your praise. Oh, oh, oh. We shout out your praise. Thank you, Lord. We shout out your praise. Oh, oh, oh. Declaro tu poder. Declaro tu poder. Declaro tu poder. Declaro tu poder. Gracias, Señor. Declaro tu poder. Aleluya. Gracias, Señor. Te adoramos, Señor. Thank you, precious Lord. You are so holy, precious Lord. A thousand generations have fallen down in worship to sing the song of ages to the land.

And all who've gone before us, all who will believe, will sing the song of ages to the land. Your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all. All thrones and dominions, all powers and positions, your name stands above them all. Hear the angels cry. Holy, all creation cry. Holy, you are lifted high. Holy, holy forever. Si te he perdonado y tienes salvación, canta al Cordero que bendició. Si te he libertado y su nombre he puesto en ti, canta al Cordero que bendició. Canta el hermoso siempre. Abre, canta la nieve. Santo, la mala creación. Santo, exaltado Dios. Santo, santo por siempre. Hear your people sing. Holy to the King of kings. Holy, you will always be Holy, holy forever Tu nombre es mi santo Tu nombre es mi santo Tu nombre es mi santo Tu nombre es Tu nombre sobre todo es Tu nombre sobre todo es

Your name is the highest Your name is the greatest Your name stands above them all All thrones and dominions All powers and positions Your name stands above them all And the angels cry Holy, all creation cry Holy, you are lifted high Holy, holy forever Hear your people sing Holy, to the King of kings Holy, you will always be Holy, holy forever Canta el ángel Santo, clama la creación Santo, exaltado Dios Santo, santo por siempre Exaltado Dios Santo, santo por siempre Gracias Señor Holy, holy forever Thank you Lord You are glorious Holy, holy forever Thank you Lord Exaltado Santo, santo por siempre Gracias Señor Every day is your day precious Lord

Forever Forever Have your way in this place Lord Thank you God bless you Please go ahead and quickly stretch your legs Stand up and say hi to somebody Also everyone watching El Pando God bless you Those of you on YouTube that are watching by screen Thank you so much for viewing us You can be watching anyone else or doing something else But you're here with us We appreciate each and every one of you Thank you so much Now, Sister Lydia, Angel, Diana, Armando Is Lorena here also? Yeah, she can come up real quick Just a quick introduction So as they're coming up This is our amazing friend, brother, sister, everything Pastor Al, Sister Lydia, thank you so much. They've been with us for many, many years, and many more to come. Amen. Oh, Diana's with the kids? All right. As you guys know also that, or don't know, my name's Pastor David, or David. I know, she's translating.

She's not on a phone call, she's translating. And this church started in 2011 in the basement of my house with 20 chairs. And just God has been so good, and He's continued to grow and grow and grow, and just allowed us to be able to disciple so many of you, and we appreciate it. Hi. I am truly blessed with just the family, the extended family, that He has given us, our spiritual family. And today's this very special day for me because I have my children here, which is amazing to me. It's just an amazing feeling just to know that they're here to share in this moment with me. But I just love, love each and every one of you guys so much and just thank you for always just being here with us and just sharing every hardship, every joy, every tear, every moment with us, because it seems like you guys are just here every week, and you guys go through it with us. And there's moments that we're kind of just going through the motions, but you guys are here with us, and thank you for being here. I didn't give you guys a chance to say hi to yourselves. Okay. God bless you. Welcome, everyone that's here. Just like Pastor says, we've been here at House of Rest

for about nine years, something like that, or around through there. And we're just blessed. We're well-fed here, and we're committed. I love my family here at House of Rest, and I just wanna welcome everyone, all my girls that come in, thank you for coming. And God bless you. My name is Al, Pastor Al. You know, we came to this church just to visit, and Pastor said something that touched my heart. He said, the pulpit belongs to Jesus. And I said, I'm staying there, you know? But the thing is, Pastor has preached so many sermons that have touched my heart. You know, and if you have not heard him speak, I urge you to sit down and listen, because when he opens his mouth, the Lord is speaking. Amen, amen, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. We were here originally when first started. I remember when my brother planted this church, then we served here for about three years,

roughly, then we left, and then we recently came back in January and been plugged in with so many new faces and so many old. And so it is our privilege just to serve with you, be with you, labor along with you, you know, cry with you, as we said, and laugh with you this past year, and just excited for the growth of what's coming for next year. So God bless you, you and your family, and all of you guys that are spending Christmas locally or at a distance. Lord bless you, be with you, and we're excited to see you in 2026. Well, God bless you guys. My name's Armando Iniguez, and this is my wife, Lorena Iniguez. We pastor the Spanish congregation next door. We have the privilege to be able to be the leaders there and be able to work with Pastor David and Sister Sharon. It's been a great blessing. And every time we come to this place, there's a joy in our heart to be able to serve our community and to serve the people, because that's what God wants, amen? And we're, how do you say, we're joyful and excited, because we know that God is gonna do great things in the Spanish service as well, amen? Hi, my name's Lorena Iniguez,

and I just wanna thank everyone for being here, and we just really are thankful that you guys are here. And I just wanna share that, I'm just excited what I'm seeing, and I've seen throughout the years what God is doing, and he's gonna continue to do. So if you're going through something, or just keep coming, keep coming, and God's gonna do it. I've seen so many miracles. And I've been here with Pastor David and Sister Sharon for a few years already, even before they got married. And it's a blessing, you know, they really truly love each and every one of you guys. And then, God just did a miracle. I want to say that I had to have, I'm going to take this moment to give God glory. But, you know, I had to have emergency surgery just this Tuesday, well actually Wednesday morning. I went in for a pain, really bad pain. The doctors did CT scans on the ground. It was, you know, they clearly said my ovary was twisted. I had so much pain. It was like a labor pain. It was so bad. So they said, okay, everybody got together. The OBGYN, the surgeons, everybody took me in emergency. When they went in there, they said it looked like nothing had happened.

Usually, it'll be like purple or bruised or something. And it was perfectly normal. And I know that that was God. Yeah, thank you for all your prayers. They got married here with us, too. Amen. So in case you guys are, the reason we had bilingual is because usually at the same time we have English service here at 10, the other sanctuary across the hallway has Spanish service at 10. But we wanted to combine them. And we're just really excited because right now there are Spanish leaders. But this April, they will be licensed under Grace International. All right. A little bit? Yeah. The splendor of the King. Oh, the majesty that all the earth rejoice. All the earth rejoice. He wraps himself in light. And darkness tries to hide. And trembles at His voice. Trembles at His voice. How great is our God. Sing with me, how great is our God. And oh, we'll see how great, how great is our God. Age to age He stands. And time is in His hands.

Beginning and the end. Beginning and the end. The God with three in one. Father, Spirit, Son. The Lion and the Lamb. The Lion and the Lamb. How great is our God. Sing with me, how great is our God. And oh, we'll see how great, how great is our God. You're the name above all names. Worthy of all praise. And my heart will sing, how great is our God. You're the name above all names. Worthy of all praise. And my heart will sing, how great is our God. How great is our God, sing with me. How great is our God, and all will see. How great, how great is our God. How great is our God, sing with me. How great is our God, and all will see. How great, how great is our God. How great is our God, sing with me. How great is our God, and all will see. How great, how great is our God. How great is our God, sing with me. How great is our God, and all will see. How great, how great is our God. Hey neighbor, do you need a hand? I'm good, thanks. Don't worry, I'm coming. Santa's little helper's on his way. Hey, ha ha. So you got the star that'll guide Kris Kringle to your chimney. Good move, my man.

Oh, uh, no, it's the star of Bethlehem. Right, yeah, Bethlehem, North Pole, same thing, right? Nope, uh, no, uh, sorry, it's the star that, you know, the Magi. Right, Magi. What is the Magi? I found something on the web about emojis, check it out. The Magi? The, uh, the wise men who came to see the Messiah. The Christ? The, uh, son of God. Yeah. Him? Yeah. Then he would grow up to become Santa. No, no, no. He's gonna grow up and he's gonna pay for the sins of the world. Guess that'd be a pretty hefty price tag, huh? Hmm, yeah. That's why it's called Christmas. Christ-mas. Well I wish you would have told me all this before I spent my Christmas bonus on all that junk over there. Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas. No, hey, I... You look like my Santa! Merry Christmas. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I play my best part in fa-la-la-la-la I play my best part in fa-la-la-la-la I play my best part in fa-la-la-la-la I play my best part in fa-la-la-la-la I play my best part in fa-la-la-la-la Happy birthday to you! I'm so glad it's Christmas All the tassels and lights and the presents are nice But the real gift is you Happy birthday, Jesus I'm so glad it's Christmas All the carol and bells make the holiday swell And it's all about you Happy birthday, Jesus Jesus, I love you Happy birthday, Jesus I'm so glad it's Christmas All the tassels and lights and the presents are nice

But the real gift is you Happy birthday, Jesus I'm so glad it's Christmas All the carol and bells make the holiday swell And it's all about you Happy birthday, Jesus Jesus, I love you I love you, Jesus Applause Hey Ed, come check out my North Star Christmas tree-topper at Levitates Is this a gummy bear? Yeah, we lost baby Jesus. Hey, check out these LED lights. I have them synced up to a 76 hour all Christmas music playlist. There's my little Christmas DJ. So, are you waiting until Christmas is over so you can go buy a new nativity set when they're on sale? Huh? No. Oh no. We lost baby Jesus like 11 years ago. Is baby Jesus always a gummy bear? Oh, no, oh, we trade it out every year. Yeah, like last year it was a tiny troll doll. And the year before that we used a dog treat. They were the perfect size, but Dalton kept taking them and eating them. You mean your dog kept stealing them? No, my son Dalton, he loves those dog treats. Especially the peanut butter ones. There was one year that we used a doll head. That was creepy. We made a modeling clay Baby Jesus. The dog took that one too. One year we got desperate and used an ice cube.

That was a mess and a mess. Yeah, just seems like everything we try to replace Baby Jesus with never lasts. Say that again. Everything we try to replace Baby Jesus with never seems to last. And? And what? Say it again slowly. Why? Just do it dulcimo, slowly, do it. I don't understand what's happening. Just do it. This is getting weird. Say it! Fine. But when I'm done saying this, you're gonna march in here and you're gonna watch my star levitate. Fine, fine, fine, fine, do it. Fine. Everything we try to replace Baby Jesus with never seems to, oh, yep, there it is. Okay, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Lord. Oh. Oh. Thank you. Thank you.

Good morning, everyone. Is it, what a wonderful savior. What a wonderful savior. Well, we're gonna take you to a land across the bay, across the sea, and we're gonna take you to a little place called Hawaii. And you got some wonderful singers up here, not me. So anyway, here we go. Thank you. ♪ Minnekenakka is a wise way to say Merry Christmas to you ♪ ♪ That's the island greetings that we send to you ♪ ♪ From the land where palm trees sway ♪ ♪ Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright ♪ ♪ The sun will shine by day and all the stars at night ♪ ♪ Minnekenakka is a wise way to say Merry Christmas to you ♪ ♪ Minnekenakka is a thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day ♪ ♪ That's the island greeting that we send to you ♪ ♪ From the land where palm trees sway ♪ ♪ Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright ♪ ♪ The sun will shine by day and all the stars at night ♪ ♪ Melikalikimaka is a wise way to say Merry Christmas to you ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright ♪ ♪ The sun will shine by day and all the stars at night ♪ ♪ Melikalikimaka is a wise way to say Merry Christmas to you ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Melikalikimaka is a thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day ♪ ♪ That's the island greeting that we send to you ♪ ♪ From the land where palm trees sway ♪ ♪ Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright ♪

♪♪ Christmas will be green and bright, the sun will shine by day, and all the stars at night. Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way, to say Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you. Alright! Woo! We did it, we did it. Came through like gangbusters, man. Alright. You guys enjoying yourselves? Amen, thank you. Kids did amazing. Kids did great, but of course we have some more stuff for you, but we can't get through without a message. As you guys can tell, I don't know if you noticed, but remember this coming year it's going to be the church where we bring our Bibles in, because now it's a lot brighter. Now you can read your Bibles. So thanks to Abraham for installing them. And, but because we have so much more for you, first of all let me say this, is that after service, if you have children, don't forget that we have gifts for them. And man, it gets chaotic. We're going to try to control that. We're learning from the last few years on how to do that, so just, it's going to be great. But I want to just, I want to pray, and just share this message, and I pray that it blesses you, and most of all that it makes you think. Lord God, I thank you for this opportunity to share your word. I thank you for each and every person that's here. And I thank you, Lord, the fact that we can come together to celebrate your birth, Lord. We give you all honor and all glory. In Jesus' name, amen. Today's message is titled, His Return is Promised. His return is promised. I want to just start off with a couple little footnotes, because it, Christmas is a strange time sometimes for, for believers. Because there's so many within the spectrum of going all out and just decorating your house, and compared to, oh, we don't have a tree, we don't celebrate Christmas, I'm super Christian.

And I want to just address that right away. I just want to say that Christmas, where we celebrate, is not the actual birthday of Jesus, just so we know. But I do want to say this, is that we know he was born. We know that he was born, and it's a beautiful thing that the world can come together on a specific day to say, we're going to celebrate the birth of Christ. You know, so that's number one, it's a beautiful thing. Another thing that I want to say is a lot of times, many people have said that, that there's, there's why that date, or, and there's a lot of suspicion and, and things like that, that that was a pagan, a pagan God's birthday and things like that. And I want to just quickly share something is that, you know, kingdoms of the past, when they have conquered other kingdoms, the first thing they do is go to that kingdom's temples, and they build their temples on top of theirs. Because if you can crush the spirit of a nation, and build upon their gods, it demoralizes the people. So even if way back somebody celebrated what we consider Christmas, a pagan, a pagan's birthday, what Christianity did was say this, we are because we are bringing in the kingdom of God. And we are building on top of the kingdoms and gods of a false idol. And I'll say this. If there was another idol that people worshipped on this day, what's his name? You don't know exactly, that's the point, is that on this day, the entire world, obviously we know we're a little early, a few days early, because it falls on during the week, but my point is this, is that it's important, I think it's important for the world, it's important for the nation to come together and recognize the birth of Christ, of who it is that we worship. And you know, usually a lot of times, as a pastor, as a preacher, on our Christmas service, it's like, oh let's talk about the birth of Christ, let's talk about those things, which are important, and I'm going to skim through some of those, just to show you, because this is important, what I'm about to show you, because I'm going to end this with a question. In Isaiah 7, 14, it says this, for instance, because there was many prophecies about the Messiah coming before he was born, Isaiah 7, 14 says, therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign, behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name, Emmanuel, and you're like, well that doesn't say Jesus, you know, Emmanuel means God with us, so this was, we're talking roughly 700 years before Christ, that the prophet Isaiah was given a word, that a virgin is going to conceive a son, and that son will be God with us, God in the flesh, hundreds of years before. Another one, Micah chapter 5, verse 2, it's another prophecy, and it says, but you, oh Bethlehem, talking about the small city of Bethlehem where Jesus was born, it says, who

are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be the ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. Now, you've got to understand Bethlehem is, for instance, those of you that live here, it would be, you would think that if somebody great was going to be born, it would be in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, something like that, but instead it would be like somebody great is going to be born out of Livingston, Bakersfield, you know, somebody from Livingston is like, hey, why are you dissing us, sorry, I'll say Empire. Oh, man, I can't say nothing, but this prophecy, not only the first one that says, from a virgin shall conceive a son, not only does it say from Bethlehem, but Isaiah 9, 6 says this other one, we could go on and on and on, these are just the three I wanted to choose. Again, hundreds of years before Christ was born, it says, for to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. So, these are just three prophecies, but there are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament that point to the birth of Christ, the life of Christ, the death of Christ, and the resurrection of Christ, over 300 prophecies, that's a lot. So, how many of you, I'm going to ask a question, and this isn't the main question I'm going to ask at the end, but how many of you believe that Jesus was born? Okay, okay, not every hand went up, not sure if you're in the right church, but I will say this, I'm confident to say, for the most part, the reason you're here on this Sunday morning, not only on this Sunday morning, but on this Christmas service, is because you're here to celebrate, to acknowledge, to know that Jesus, the Christ, the one that was born in Bethlehem, the one that was born from a virgin, was conceived, he was born, the whole world worships him. That's why we're here, that's why we're here together, this is our Christmas service. Now, if we are all confident of that, that means that we believe in the 300 plus prophecies, or else we wouldn't be here, because we're not here because it's a make-believe thing, we're not here because it's a children's thing, we're here because the Savior was born. Why did he have to be born of a virgin? Man was infected with sin from the time of Adam and Eve,

and somebody had to come and save us and break us free from it. If he had been born through the seed of a man, he would have been born in sin. That's why the Bible says that, it says here that it had to be from a virgin because he would then not be infected with that sin, would grow up and set us free from that sin. That's why that's important. So, here's my question. If we're here, Christmas service, Sunday service, we believe in Jesus, that means we, then by default we believe in the 300 plus prophecies that the Old Testament said. Some of it written 1,000 years before he came, 700 years before he came, 500 years before he came, 400 years before he came, all of these prophecies. You know, the Bible even says that, I mean the likelihood that one person will fulfill just 20, forget the 300, that one person will fulfill all, just 20 of them, would be the same impossibility of getting silver dollar coins, filling up the state of Texas all the way up to here, grabbing one of them, put a Sharpie on it, putting a blindfold on, throwing that somewhere in Texas, somebody else getting a blindfold, that person, and then them telling them, listen, you gotta pick the one with the Sharpie out of all the state of Texas, up to your waist, but you only get one shot to pick the right coin.

The likelihood, the likelihood of that happening are the same odds that one person would fulfill 20 prophecies. Jesus fulfilled 20 in one day. The impossibility that he fulfilled 300 plus, there's no questions asked. Well, if the 300 plus prophecies came true, and that's what we're here to do today, then I got a question for you. What do we do with his other prophecies that say he's coming again? See, we can't be all super celebrating Christmas, and it's a, oh, Jesus is the reason for the season, because in essence, we're saying we believe all those prophecies, but if we live otherwise, then we don't believe the prophecies for his second coming. It's kind of one of those, you believe it all, or you don't believe it at all. That's what it comes down to. I'm gonna read a couple of verses. Acts 1, 11. Jesus already was crucified. He's already resurrected. He's standing there with his believers, and he says, and the Bible says that he began to ascend up into heaven, and as they're looking up, watching him go, there's an angel standing there that says, men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?

This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. That's prophecy, and the same way you see him go up is the same way he's going to come down. He's going to come back. Here's another one. Matthew 24, 36 through 44. This is Jesus talking. It says, but concerning that day and hour, nobody knows. Nobody knows when he's coming back, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Remember, Noah was told to build an ark because a flood was coming. He wasn't told when, he didn't know how. He just told build an ark and tell, compel people to come in. Verse 38 says, for as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage. In other words, people were just living their life, going to the mall, going to Target, going to the movies, doing this, doing that, going to Best Buy, going to restaurants, marrying and falling in love and having children. That's what was happening at the time before the flood. Like today, just like now. We're gonna celebrate and be with our families

and have dinners and all these things. And those are beautiful things to have. He says, in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day when Noah entered the ark. And they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away. So will the coming of the son of man be. This is Jesus saying this. He says, I'm coming back. He says, then two men will be in the field. One will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill. one will be taken and one left again this is jesus saying he says therefore stay awake stay awake for you do not know on what day your lord is coming but know this that if the master of the house had known in one part of the night the thief was coming he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into therefore you also must be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect yeah i know it's not a fluffy christmas message i'm not here to give fluffy christian messages christmas message i'm here to give you what the truth says because if i'm going to get some of you in here once a year you're going to hear the gospel in luke in luke chapter 21 25 28 here's another prophecy jesus speaking again he says there will be signs in sun there will be signs in sun and moon and stars and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves does it feel like our nations are in distress right now 26 says people fainting with fear and with foreboding about what is coming on the world does that sound like today for the powers of the heavens will be shaken and and then they will see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory

now when these things begin to take place straighten up raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near so what is jesus saying he says when you start to see the nations quake when you start to see the nations in distress and and people are freaking out don't know what to do he says get yourselves ready because he's coming right in john 5 28 29 again he says do not marvel at this for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and they will come out those who have done good to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment remember we're here to celebrate christmas because we believe in the 300 plus prophecies of the old testament and if we really believe those prophecies then we need to listen to these prophecies because you can't believe in one and not the other that would make no sense two more verses so i want to continue with our program but hebrews chapter 9 27 and 29 says this and just as it is appointed for man to die once and after that comes the judgment so christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him see this is the thing about the old testament the old testament in essence gave you the law the 10 commandments most of us know it by the 10 commandments it gave you laws but here's the problem is when you're given a law doesn't help you to not break the law just tells you what not to break and what makes it hard is the fact that when all these laws are given because there's more than 10 commandments is actually 300 plus laws and and god told the people of israel he says these are your laws to follow but if you break one you break them all well that ain't fair can you imagine if you broke one law here in america you broke them all we'd all be in prison i know some of you sped over here somebody did a hollywood stop at a stop sign red light red light you know you sped through that right when it turned you're laughing because it happened huh stephanie all the way over here break one law you break them all man that's rough so the old testament is pointing out that here's the laws but there's nothing to keep you here's the beauty of christ because once christ came he fulfilled the law he completed the law because if if you broke one you broke them all so he says i will fulfill them all and through me i will set you free that is that that's what grace means

that's why it's exciting to celebrate the birth of christ because if he were never birthed we would never have any freedom from this infection of sin that we were born in but because he came he made a way for us to be free for us to be set free. That's a celebration, man. The last verse, it's a promise that he makes to us. In John chapter 14, verses one through three, Jesus says, don't let your hearts be troubled. And maybe right now in this season, maybe it's a great season, maybe it's not. Maybe Christmas is a time where you start thinking about the people you've lost or the things you don't have or the bills you can't pay. You're embarrassed to show up to family meetings because you don't have any gifts and your heart's troubled. Or maybe just the direction of your life where you lost your job or just things ain't happening. You feel like you're hitting a dead end everywhere you go, everywhere you turn, the doors are slamming shut in your face. Whoever it may be, whatever it is, your situation, I want this verse to speak into your heart. And Jesus says, let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me because in my Father's house are many rooms. And if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again. And I will take you to myself

that where I am, you may be also. So the 300 plus prophecies talking about Jesus being born, his life, his burial, his resurrection, all came true down to the very town that he was born in. There was prophecies of him coming into Jerusalem on a donkey. There was prophecies that he would be nailed, that his hands and feet would be pierced. Yet the Roman way of executing was, Rome wasn't even in existence when that scripture was written, Psalm 22. So many prophecy after prophecy after prophecy came true. So I just got to leave with that question. What do we do with the prophecies now about his second coming? Because you can't celebrate one and live as if the other isn't true. So what do we do with this? It's a choice. You can't celebrate Christmas unless you believe. And if you believe, how can you continue to live a life with Christ? You know, and I know you're here, many of you, because it is a Christmas service. But what good is it if I don't share this with you? Do I want your children to have gifts? Heck yeah. Do I enjoy it? Man, that was beautiful, the children. Because every child is a blessing from God.

Every single child is a blessing from God. And it's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing for even our young people, our adults, everybody to share what they're sharing. But ultimately, if it is truly the reason, Jesus is the reason for the people to share, for the season, then we gotta share the message. And I gotta give this opportunity for anyone that if you wanna surrender your life to the Lord, what better time than Christmas Day service? Whether you're here, whether you're watching through your screen, guys, thousands of people are going to watch this in prisons across America. Every single one of our services, Bible studies and podcasts. Our Thanksgiving one, I think it's like 98,000 views, just that one service. So I always wanna give an opportunity for anyone watching, anyone here, that today's a day of salvation. Tomorrow's not promised. There's no specific way to get saved, but there is, I can guide you in that prayer. Can we just quickly stand really quick before we continue? And if that is you, I'm not gonna have you walk up front, nothing like that, but I just want you to stay where you're at. Those of you on screen, those of you that are watching through YouTube,

please stand wherever it is that you're at. And the Bible says in Romans 10, 9, that if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, you shall be saved. So there's no specific prayer, but I can guide you in that prayer. And I'll tell you what, man, I love everything that's happening today, but my highlight would be if somebody gets saved, man. That's the highlight of this whole thing because the Bible says that all of heaven rejoices when one sinner repents. And I know it's not common to have an altar call for Christmas service, but hey, we're not called to do things like anybody else. So if that is you, repeat after me. already saved don't repeat it you're already saved come on man and if this and if everybody's saved this whole building praise god i know people will be repeating it as they watch it on the screen and just bow our heads let's just respect and repeat after me if that is you and say lord god i repent of all my sins i believe you died on the cross and after three days i believe you rose again we celebrate you because without you i would still be lost take out my heart of stone and give me a brand new heart inspire me live inside of me and let me walk out in my life what you are teaching me in jesus name amen amen let's give the lord a hand we could all have a seat and we're going to continue our program thank you so much

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because he will save his people from their sins. So, Jesus? Jesus. May I? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. How fix burnt ham. Okay. You know what? Forget it. Pizza delivery Christmas Eve. No problem. I need water. Jesus, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory be to you alone, King who reigns from an angel's throne. My life, my praise, everything I owe to Jesus, the King on a manger's throne. You could have marched in all your glory to the heart of Rome, a shoulder of splendid light they'd never know. But you wrote a better story in humble Bethlehem, creator in the arms of common men. You will die for our redemption, you will rise so we can live. Glory be to you alone, King who reigns from an angel's throne. My life, my praise, everything I owe to Jesus. He is the King on a major throne. From heaven to the cradle. From cradle to the cross. Let heaven and nature sing. This is our King. But the cradle couldn't hold Him. Our God has overcome.

Let heaven and nature sing. This is our King. From heaven to the cradle. From cradle to the cross. Let heaven and nature sing. This is our King. But the cradle couldn't hold Him. Our God has overcome. Let heaven and nature sing. This is our King. All hail the King. All hail the King. All hail the King. Glory be to You alone. King who reigns from a major throne. My life, my praise, everything I owe. To Jesus, the King on a major throne. My life, my praise, everything I owe. To Jesus, the King on a major throne. To Jesus, the King on a major throne. Thank You, Lord. Hallelujah. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Behold the King has come. Divinity incarnate. Creator of the world. Breathing our air. Behold what light has come. In the dark cannot contain it.

The Savior of the world is finally here. Come, let us adore Him. Come, let us adore Him. For He alone is worthy. Christ the Lord. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ We give you all the glory. We give you all the glory. We give you all the glory in Christ the Lord. We praise your name forever. We praise your name forever. We praise your name forever in Christ the Lord. Come, let us adore Him. Come, let us adore Him. For He alone is worthy, Christ the Lord. Come, let us adore Him. Come, let us adore Him. For He alone is worthy, Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord. O holy night, when God as man descended unto us to erase the stain of sin and put an end to wrath. The entire world thrills with hope on this night that gives it a Savior. My people, kneel down and await your deliverance. For Christ has come. The Redeemer is here. May the ardent light of our faith guide us all to the cradle of the infant. As in ancient times a brilliant star guided kings from the east. The King of Kings was born in a humble manger. He has broken every bond. The earth is free and heaven is open. He sees a brother where there was only a slave. His love unites those that iron had chained. Who will tell Him of our gratitude? For all of us, He is born. For all of us, He suffers and dies. And for all of us, He lives again. My people, stand up. Sing of your deliverance. Shout for joy and sing praise to the Redeemer.

This holy night, this night divine, come and praise His name forever. His power and glory evermore proclaim. Amen. Did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water? Mary, did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters? Did you know that your baby boy has come to save us all? To make you new, this child that you delivered will soon deliver you. Mary, did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man? Mary, did you know that your baby boy will calm the storm with his hand? Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod? And when you kiss your little baby, you've kissed the face of God. Mary, did you know? The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again. The lame will leap, the dumb will speak the praises of the Lamb. Mary, did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation? Mary, did you know that your baby boy will one day rule the nation? Did you know that your baby boy was heaven's perfect Lamb? And the sleeping child you're holding is the great I Am? Mary, did you know? Did you know? All right, amen. Are the kids not amazing? Can I call the teachers up? Can I call the worship team up? Can I call those who were involved today? Except for the flash mob, I know there's too many of y'all. I'll call you all up, but I call the choir. Those who just really, really were coming day in and day out, to just the helpers, the volunteers who just helped Sister Jessica, just really with practicing and put so much together,

I just want to thank each and every one of you, because we're going to do our little tradition right now. How many know that it takes a village, guys? It takes a village. And House Arrest is a village now. It's amazing how God has just tremendously just expanded our family, and we're just really, really blessed that you guys have truly entrusted your children to the house of God and just allowed these teachers to do so much with your children. It's such a blessing because they come, they grow, they've been poured into. But right now, what we're going to do is we are going to do something that we love to do, and we just want to wish you a happy, happy and merry Christmas and a happy new year, and we're going to do it Feliz Navidad style. How about that? Their bells are ready. Kids, are you guys ready? Yes? Okay, turn my mic on, too. What? Oh, can somebody turn on my little, turn on my switch, Raven. Here. You're gonna sing Feliz Navidad. Test, all right. All right, let's do it. Okay. Where's my blondie at? Come here, girl. Come here, mija. We're gonna sing Feliz Navidad. Ready?

Let's go. One, two, three, hit it! Yeah! Jam it up! I don't know how to do this song. Let's go! You gotta know it. When we release the kids, please stay seated until we release you guys. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ I wanna wish a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ From the bottom of my heart ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ From the bottom of my heart ♪ ♪ Feliz Navidad ♪ ♪ Feliz Navidad ♪ ♪ Feliz Navidad, prospero año y feliz Navidad ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ Feliz Navidad ♪ ♪ Feliz Navidad, prospero año y feliz Navidad ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪

♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ From the bottom of my heart ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ ♪ I wanna wish you a merry Christmas ♪ Children are gonna be released, but I need you guys to stay here, stay put. I'm gonna give you guys some instructions. Hallelujah, thank you. Amen, if you like this content that we're doing, this is the perfect way to share it with your family, is this same video is on our YouTube channel. Yes. So they can find us, call your family, call your relatives, your neighbor, whoever it is that you call or write letters to, and let them know that they can find our content on House of Rest Church on YouTube. And also they can check out our website at www.houseofrestchurch.com. Yeah, let them know, guys, that there's a lot of content for them to look at. We have devotionals, daily devotionals, which are Monday through Friday. And guys, we have our sermons as well, so much content for them to look at as well. And we have our services, which are 10 o'clock every Sunday morning. And then we have our Bible studies, which are Wednesdays at seven o'clock.

Whatever video we're uploading to you, we're also uploading to the YouTube channel. That way you can tell your friends, your family, that way they can watch exactly what it is that you're watching. So thank you so much, and see you guys later. Bye, guys.