Well, Merry Christmas, everybody.

All right.

When Pastor Jobi called me and said, you're up, had a couple thoughts.

One thought that came to my mind was in 2 Timothy 4.2.

It says, be ready, end season and out of season. So I did what you should do

when you get that last minute call. I went and pulled a paper towel out and wrote my sermon notes

down. So this sermon is brought to you by bounty. And the second thought that I had comes from Isaiah 5511, which is the promise that the Lord said,

my word will not return void, but it will accomplish exactly what I set out for it to do.

And so, listen, our hope is not in these amazing paper towel, serving notes.

Our hope is in the sure promise that as we dive into the scriptures,

God is going to do what he promised to do, and it will not return void.

Amen?

Amen.

Now, listen, I love Christmas.

One of the things that I love about Christmas is I love

Christmas stockings. Anybody else a big stocking fan? Yeah? Anybody? Raise my hands. Let me see.

Come on. Where are my stocking fans? I love, here's why I love stockings. Because it can go one of two ways.

Right? You're laughing because you know what I'm saying. I mean, it can, the one because it can go one of two ways right you're laughing because you know what I'm saying I mean it can the one way it can go is it can go like dollar store

janky or it can go awesome like the whole Christmas tree got shoved in your stocking and when

Chris Kristen and I were first married, I was in seminary, we were both working jobs,

and we were broke.

I mean, not two pennies to rub together.

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