Right, well, good evening and welcome Meli Kaliki Makkah. Merry Christmas. We're so very glad that you're

joining with us for our Christmas Eve service and trust that you'll be blessed that you did. I don't know if you know this or not, but Christmas Eve is actually in the Bible. Yeah. What? It is. Adam says, it's Christmas Eve.

Yes, sir.

You know, I actually thought about that.

I thought, maybe not.

And then I thought, you know what, why not?

I think it's been about three years since I used that one.

We have a lot of new people.

And so that was for you.

Those of you that have heard that before, that wasn't for you, it was for the new people. And they're the only ones that laughed at that, but whatever.

I love Christmas.

I love Christmas so much.

And you know it's interesting because the world has really waged war against Christmas, right?

And it's getting worse and certainly this year was no exception.

I always get a kick out of whenever somebody says, happy holidays.

Oh, that's your reaction?

Okay, that's my reaction too.

Initially, my reaction is,

it's Merry Christmas.

In Jesus' name, of course, right?

Because you want to have the joy, you know, joy to the world.

But what they don't realize is that when they say happy holidays, what they're actually

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