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Thanks for joining and Merry Christmas. Before we jump into today's reading assignment, we need your help. The cool part about Join the Journey is that we are reading the Bible together. And everything we do, whether it's

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30 seconds, go. Go. Go. All right, Revelation 10 and 11.

Where do you turn when all hope seems lost?

I don't know if you've noticed, but every year at Christmas, worship pastors decide they're going to lead their congregations in a different breed of worship music.

That is to say, that during the holiday season, we sing Christmas songs at church.

Now hear me, I love it. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, actually,

because we use the Christmas season to remind ourselves and declare back to God as we worship through

song some very important truths. And a lot of the truths that we declare throughout the Christmas

season actually recall a decent amount of what we read in Revelation. Think about it. There's the song,

O come all ye faithful, where we sing, O come and behold him, born the king of angels. What about joy to the

world? He, Jesus, rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness

and the wonders of his love. And then there's O Holy Night. His law is love and his gospel is peace.

Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother, and his name all oppression shall cease it'll stop fall on

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