to kind of use scripture to release this message today.

It's almost a sort of a holy warning.

And I want to share it with you.

Matthew 2, verse 13, says, when they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, get up.

Take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.

Stay there until I tell you for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.

So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,

where he stayed until the death of Herod and was so fulfilled

what the Lord has said through the prophet, out of Egypt, I have called my son.

I want to stop the reading of scripture right there, and the clause of concern is found

in verse number 13, where it says the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, take the child and his

mother and escape. Everybody say escape. Come on, say it like you mean. It say escape. Escape to

Egypt. I want to talk from this subject in our time together. Who can I run to? Clap your hands, 1230. If you're ready for the word, who can I run to?

Family, this story here in Matthew Chapter 2 shows us something very significant about our Savior.

This story found in this scripture shows us that the God of Scripture is the God

who orchestrates escapes.

The Advent or the coming of Jesus reveals to us a God who invades earth, who interrupts

and intervenes in human history for the purpose of getting humanity out of a predicament

that humanity could not get itself out of.

The good news of the gospel reveals to us that God is the God that is able to get us out of whatever we are into, no matter how we got into it. And what I just articulated should be exciting and should

invoke, evoke enthusiasm from those of us who are seated in this sacred space because this

truth suggests that just because we feel trapped doesn't mean we are trapped and just because we can't see a way

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