Well, it does so wonderfully portray what we're celebrating this time of year and the very

scripture that they referred to more than once. We're told unto us a child is born and unto

us a son is given. The son wasn't born. He existed from eternity past.

The child, the body was born, but the son was given. Hallelujah.

Let's pray and believe the Lord for the next few minutes and whatever he would speak to our hearts about this

great thing that has been done for us, this great gift that's been given us.

Father, we ask you that you would open our eyes and our ears and heart and mind and help us to see

clearer than ever before what you have done for us in giving us the greatest gift of all.

What this means now and for our future.

And we ask that you'd give utterance and anointing and the manifesting and moving

of your spirit and all of us ears and hearts and mind that can perceive and see and know and receive.

And we pray, Lord, that you would be even more seen and more exalted, more glorified in our lives moving forward than in times

past, and that what you have done with the gift you've given to the world would be seen

in us and through us to the world. In Jesus' name, we ask it and we thank you for it. Amen. Thank you, Lord.

I won't have you to turn to too many scriptures today. I'll just, they'll put them up on the

screen for us. But the scripture that we referred to that the children so wonderfully recited,

unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and it's clear who he's talking about.

His name shall be called wonderful.

Somebody say wonderful.

He is wonderful. Thank you, Lord. Wonderful is, you're full of wonder at the gift, at how marvelous, how wonderful the gift is. In John 316,

it says, for God so loved the world that he what? He gave his only begotten son. Every one of those words are important. Before Jesus, excuse me, before the new birth was available, Jesus, the

son of God was the only begotten son of God. And this is the gift that has been given to us.

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