Merry Christmas, everyone. My name is Michael Olson, and I'm one of the pastors here at 1122.

We're so glad you're listening to this sermon podcast today, and we're going to do something that we don't

normally do, so we wanted to make sure you knew before the message plays. During our Christmas Eve Eve

Services, we played a video that sets up Pastor

Jobi's message and that he references multiple times throughout his sermon. We're including

this video in the video version of the sermon this week, so please take a minute and watch

the video before continuing to listen to the sermon. Thanks.

Amen and amen.

Merry Christmas, Church. How's everybody doing?

If you got your Bibles,

go to Matthew chapter one. I'll meet you there in you got your Bibles, go to Matthew

Chapter 1. I'll meet you there in about six minutes. Hey, the reason we show that video

to you, by the way, Henry Mullis is now on staff here at the Church of 1122, and he

runs all the video ministry stuff. And he's not used to being on that end of the camera,

but we made him. And by we, it means I, and I don't really care what our staff likes we just make

them do stuff and so and here's why man because that is the Christmas story that yet Jesus was

born in a manger but that boy that baby grows up to be a man and hangs on a tree to forgive us

of our sin and that is the gospel.

In fact, John says it this way in 1 John chapter 4.

He says, in this is love.

In this, the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his son into the world so that we might live through him.

In this is love.

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