Hi, I'm Rick Warren and Merry Christmas.

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This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today, we bring our series called Behold the Best News Ever to a Close.

In this final lesson, Rick looks into the Bible and shares the good news that God really wants us to

behold this Christmas. Before we get started, we want to let you know that very

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message called Behold the Best News Ever.

In Acts chapter 1, it says this, when Jesus at finish speaking these things,

they beheld him being taken up into the sky until they could no longer see him past the clouds.

This is called the Ascension. He's going back up to heaven. It says as they continued to gaze

at the sky, two men dressed in white appeared, likely angels. The one said, why are you still

staring at the sky? This same Jesus that you just saw taken from you up into the heaven will

return one day in the same way that you saw him leave in the same way that you saw him leave.

Now this leads us to the fourth part of God's story. Okay, and here's here's number four.

Here's the fourth thing you need to think about this, Christus. Behold, God's plan for the universe

and for you isn't finished yet. It's not done. Jesus will return to complete God's plan and take

us to heaven. Now if he comes in our lifetime that'll happen that way. If he comes in after we've

already dead and we're already in heaven, it'll be forever those who are there. But Jesus said,

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