Turned please to Isaiah Chapter 7, put a marker at Isaiah 7, let me say it that way, put a marker please

at Isaiah Chapter 7 and turn to Matthew Chapter 1. So we'll begin reading today in Matthew Chapter 1, but we're going to

flip over to Isaiah Chapter 7. So put a marker at Isaiah 7 and then open your

Bible to Matthew chapter one.

And while you're doing that, let me ask you to do something in the next couple of weeks.

And that is, if you were here in the spring when we did our miracle offering.

I keep hearing these testimonies, you know, here we are coming toward the end of the year now,

and I keep hearing these testimonies from people, they grab me in the hall or see me somewhere and they say let me just tell you what's happened

since we gave that miracle offering I'd like to hear every one of them and so if you have a testimony if you were here

during that time it was in April and we did our miracle offering maybe it's March

or April is in the spring and you have a testimony from that if you will write it and email it to me please.

I'd like to hear that testimony, all right?

Of something that God did in your heart and then how God responded as you gave a sacrificial offering to

and so and the email addresses in the bulletin just sits right here at the church

Robert at gatewayDF.com. We won't talk about today the birth names of Christ. Here's Christmas and we

talk about at Christmas the birthday of Christ and that's wonderful to talk about the

day that he was he was born and to celebrate his birth, but I don't know if you know at his birth he was given two names.

And we are all familiar with one of those names, and you'll recognize the second name when we see

it in scripture but that's what I want to talk about because names in the Bible are

important names signify a destiny that you have in the Bible. In other words God picked out a certain name for his

son and God picked out names, there are many names by the way. We're going to see several

of them in the Bible of day that talk about the Lord Jesus

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