Here's Nancy DeMoss Wogglemouth on what Christmas is really all about.

You can't have salvation without a Savior.

You can't have redemption without a Redeemer.

And the nature of our distress spiritually is such that there is no way that we can save ourselves.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, December 18, 2015.

Nancy is continuing in the series, Zechariah's Hymn.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, on December the 14th, 2005, a dam ruptured in a state park in Missouri,

and as a result, a billion gallons of water were released into this narrow valley, and the water just came gushing through, destroyed everything in its path, including a hardwood forest.

And the park superintendent was a man named Jerry Toops, who with his wife Lisa and their three little children, ages five and under, lived in a house in the park, less than

two miles from the mountain where that dam broke loose. And when the water was released, there came

cascading over their part of the valley, a 30-foot high wall of water, just a wave of water,

like a tsunami. It came crashing down and then back. And in the

process, their house was demolished. Their entire family was swept away. Lisa, the mom had been

up nursing her infant child, and so she clung to that child. And as they were all scattered different

directions, this is in the dark, she managed somewhere

in the process to run across one of her children and grabbed onto that child, but still couldn't

find her three-year-old daughter. And an hour or more later, finally, the volunteer fireman

who had come to the rescue, found, the dad up on top of a

tree, found Lisa the mom and her infant and her five-year-old son clinging to each other in a field,

a half mile away from her house where they'd been swept and then found finally the little girl

lying by herself just whimpering out in a field the five-year-old boy was unconscious most of the

rest of them were in shock they were incoherent took two hours of CPR to revive the five-year-old

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