Well, amen and amen. And Merry Christmas Church of 1122. You have found your way to one of the 66 1122 Christmas Eve services at 26 different locations over this weekend. I'm glad you found your way here.

I want to give a special shout out, though, to our brothers at Union Correctional

at Columbia Correctional and to our sisters at Duval Correctional. We love you. You're part of the family.

You are not forgotten. As well as a shout out to the 11-20 tours at our 11 services that meet

every single week at the senior facilities all around town.

Can we welcome them to our Christmas Eve service too?

It's a really big deal.

Well, Merry Christmas.

The reason that we have gathered here is to celebrate the landed invasion that Jesus

came on a rescue mission for you and for me.

And that's why we showed Joe's story, because it's the most important message that you

will ever hear that Joe came to the place where he realized that when Jesus died on the

cross, it counted for him.

And when he breathed his last here on earth, the next time he inhaled, he was in the

very presence of the Almighty God, and he was not in a broken body,

and he was not facing pain and suffering. He was face to face with his Lord and Savior,

Jesus Christ, and he began to join with the angels singing, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God

Almighty who was and is and is to come. Amen. Amen. And that is the message of Christmas. Now, if you got your

Bibles, and I hope you do, we're going to be in Luke chapter 2. And if you didn't bring a Bible,

I have a gift for you. If you don't have a Bible of your very own, there is one in the seat back

in front of you, or if the Bible that you have, your grandmother gave to you back in the day and the zipper has been rusted shut for a couple of decades and you hadn't read it or maybe it looks like it was written by Shakespeare by the

these before thine except after thou and you can't understand it we have an ESV Bible in the

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