Amen and amen. Merry Christmas Church. Hope you well. That's kind of intense, isn't it?

For Christmas? Well, it's going to set us up good. Hey, Merry Christmas. We are in week three of this series

that we're studying. We call, Behold, our king. It's about Christophonies. That's just a pre-incarnate

appearance of Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, because what I want us to do is the church is be prepared on Christmas Day to behold our king.

Because while it is true that the word became flesh and dwelt among us and that Jesus, the second person of the Trinity was born among us and humbled himself in the form of a baby in a manger. He does not say a baby in a manger.

He's our Savior. A Messiah. He died on the cross. He's resurrected. Currently, he's sitting at the

right hand of God the Father. And one day, he will establish his kingdom. He'll crack over in the

heavens. A trumpet will blast and he will turn with like tattoos and swords. It's going to be

awesome. And so we have to be ready. Now, last week,

well, let me just say this. Thank you for all the Christmas cards this week. If you weren't here

last week, I talked about the insecurity and ego of Joshua, and I said there's nothing that

illustrates ego and insecurity at Christmas like the modern day Christmas card.

All right? And so I got about 600 of them this week. And so because it brings out insecurity

because you've got to decide what picture to use and do I look good in this one. And every time

you determine whether a picture is good or not, you're only looking at you. That's just true.

And then also the thing that brings out the insecurity is like, who do you send one to? You bought a box of 100, but you got 111 people on

your list. And then, sure enough, right after you send them out, somebody sends you one, and you're like,

now we've got to send them one. Okay, so there's all this insecurity. And it also highlights our ego because nothing, nothing says ego like, you know what would bless you, a picture of me and

my family.

Here it is.

Okay, so.

And I said, don't send me one, so I got about 600 this week.

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