said won't he do it yes he will welcome to the Sizzy Larson live Sunday edition totally different

format just you and me a little cup of, scooting in a little bit, and going for a deeper life conversation.

I want to talk with you now, since we're on our last Sunday before the big Christmas week, about living the promised life.

I will be drawing from my Advent devotional prepare him room.

This is a quote from John Eldridge. I love it so much. He said, if you woke each morning and your

heart leapt with hope, knowing that the renewal of all things was just around the corner,

might even come today, you'd be one happy person. If you knew in every fiber of your being that

nothing is lost, everything will be restored to you, and then some, you'd be one happy person. If you knew in every fiber of your being that nothing is lost,

everything will be restored to you and then some, you would be armored against discouragement and

despair. If your heart's imagination were filled with rich expectations of all the goodness coming

to you, your confidence would be contagious. You would be unstoppable, revolutionary, end quote. I love that so much.

I want to look again at the beginning of the Christmas story in Luke's gospel. The angel Gabriel

appeared to young Mary proclaimed greetings, favored woman. The Lord is with you. Don't you think it's interesting how whenever

angels appear in scripture, fear and terror tend to follow? I mean, like every time,

nobody's like, oh, it's you. They all go weak. They all go face down. Or they just tremble,

and they're terrified. I imagine the glow, the power, the earthly phenomena are just enough to make anybody tremble and they're terrified. I imagine the glow, the power, the earthly phenomena are just enough

to make anybody tremble and quake. So at first, Mary feels some fear. But then she settles into the

idea that the Lord God Almighty was about to enter the world through her. I mean, try to get

your mind around that. God's call on Mary's life

was certainly not an easy one. Yet she'd come to know a love that was out of this world,

and that would change her and multitudes forever. Even so I want you to consider the cultural norms of

that time. Mary was a virgin. Pledge to Mary Joseph, who was a

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