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Series B – First Sunday after Christmas – Sunday, December 31, 2017 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:28	the holy Gospel According to Saint Luke Chapter 2 verses 22 through 40.
0:33	when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses they brought Jesus up to Jerusalem
0:39	to present him to the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord every male who first opens the womb Shall be
0:45	Called holy to the Lord and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord a
0:50	pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon and this man was
0:57	righteous and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him and had been
1:03	revealed to him by the holy spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ he came in the
1:10	spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the Child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the
1:16	law he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said Lord now you are letting your servant
1:23	depart in peace according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence
1:29	of All Peoples a light for Revelation to the Gentiles and for the glory of your
1:34	People Israel and his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him and Simeon
1:40	blessed them and said to Mary his mother behold this child is appointed for the fall and the rising of many in Israel
1:46	and for a sign that is opposed and a sword will pierce through your own soul also so that the thoughts from many
1:53	hearts may be revealed and there was a prophetess Anna the daughter of fanuel of the tribe of Astra
2:00	she was advanced in years having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin and then as a widow
2:06	until she was 84. she did not depart from the temple worshiping with fasting
2:11	and prayer night and day and coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all
2:19	who were waiting for the Redemption of Jerusalem and when they had performed everything according to the law of the
2:24	Lord they returned into Galilee to their own town of Nazareth the child grew and
2:30	became strong filled with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him this is the
2:36	gospel of the Lord in the name of Jesus
2:42	I feel like we’re limping along with all the people that are sick today well we’ll just have to make best as we
2:49	can our sermon today is going to be framed from our epistle text and I’m
2:54	going to refer to it several times here again the words from the Apostle Paul written to the churches in galatian
2:59	written To Us by the Holy Spirit when the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son born of woman born
3:08	under the law to redeem those who were under the law I
3:14	have to always point this out the word Redemption there is a slave term the other means to buy somebody off the
3:20	slave block but not for the purpose of you know putting them to work in your own home or on your own Plantation
3:27	instead the purpose here is to purchase them off the slave block for the purpose
3:32	of freeing them and The Story Goes On then here in our text so that we might
3:38	receive get this adoption as sons and although the text doesn’t say it I think
3:44	it’s important to note nowadays since ever since everybody is so gender aware this does mean women too sons and
3:52	daughters and he has sent his Spirit of his son into our hearts crying Abba
3:58	Father now ABBA is an interesting term it’s not quite as familial as Daddy but maybe a
4:07	better way to translate that would be Papa so it’s a little bit more of a term of endearment so you are no longer a
4:13	slave did you hear that you are no longer a slave but you are a son and if
4:19	you are a son then you are an heir through God now to help us kind of get
4:24	what’s going on here in Our Gospel text we see Jesus is busy at work well at
4:30	least passively so I mean what do newborn babies do they nurse
4:36	they fill their diapers they cry repeat that’s pretty much how the cycle goes
4:43	and Mom and Dad aren’t usually getting a lot of sleep this early on and so Jesus
4:49	doesn’t seem to be doing anything much except for being carried around and cared for like young infants are doing
4:55	but there’s far more than that actually going on and our text tells us that but in order to understand why that’s so
5:01	important I’m going to do something that I did last week and that is refer to another
5:06	one of my favorite movies now I do this from time to time you’ll just have to understand how many of you have seen and
5:13	I’ll have to clarify here because I’ll be ambiguous at first how many of you seen the movie A Little Princess maybe
5:19	that caught you off guard yes I do like the movie A Little Princess now there are two versions if you’re not familiar
5:25	one with Shirley Temple uh but the one I’m referring to is the 1995 version with LaSalle Matthews and
5:34	and anyone I’m going to give you guys homework that’s this is what it’s coming down to in order to understand these
5:40	movies my sermons you’re gonna have to get to know some of these movies but the story of the little princess is a
5:46	classic and the reason why is a classic because again it picks up on these very very archival themes that we find in
5:54	scripture and you’ll note that the best movies all tell the same story over and over and over again the characters
6:00	change but generally there is some evil Wicked character there’s an edemic you
6:07	know a time when things are great things go terrible because the villain or villainous shows up and things go bad
6:13	usually the situation gets dire and the hero in one way or another it’s always
6:20	weird how this works out ends up dying and Rising again and then the conclusion of the story
6:27	always results in things being set right well the little princess guess what it’s
6:35	just like that but it’s a wonderful story and the reason why it’s a wonderful story because it’s a story of a father and boy is that tough to find
6:42	nowadays good stories that actually portray fathers properly and well and it’s a father whose wife had died in
6:50	childbirth giving birth to their second child but their first child a little girl her name is Sarah he’s wealthy he’s
6:58	well to do he’s British apparently he’s some into some kind of manufacturing or whatever and he and his daughter travel
7:05	the world and the story picks up with them in a paradise-like place in India and things are going just swimmingly
7:12	well however World War one has broken out and we see the father having to put
7:17	on a uniform and and forming his daughter that she’s going to be sent to
7:23	America to New York to abort School the same boarding school that her mother had
7:28	gone to because it would be safer for her there than for her to stay in Europe while he went and fought the War so they
7:34	dropped her off at the boarding school and as good child stories go like this everybody knows the lady in charge of
7:41	the boarding school is wicked terrible and corrupt and this is how the story
7:46	begins and so we have the daughter she starts off wearing these wonderful brilliant clothes and then having to Don
7:55	the uniform of this boarding school and as The Story Goes her father dies
8:03	in battle the British government confiscates all of his assets and she is
8:08	left penniless this little girl and so the school marm is the wicked woman that
8:13	she is of course she’s jealous of this little girl she decides she’s going to keep her on give her a place to live out
8:19	of Charity but in order to deduce that she becomes the slave of the schoolhouse
8:26	and her and this little African-American girl uh they are wearing thread Bear
8:32	clothes with holes in them they are sleeping in drafty rooms and and living
8:38	under wretched conditions and being worked to the bones with blisters and
8:43	bruises and all right and so this is the story of this great love of a father for his child and then his dying
8:51	but somehow he rises from the dead I won’t explain how you’ll have to watch the movie don’t want to give you the
8:57	spoiler but there is a great resolve in all of this and that is is that eventually they are reunited
9:05	and that father child relationship is restored that is our frame and you’re
9:12	going to see that scripture in our scriptures today actually teach this now to help us out a little bit here I do
9:18	want to show you something from the Gospel of Luke in the gospel Luke Chapter 3 The Gospel of Luke chapter 3
9:24	Luke gives us the genealogy of Jesus
9:29	this is one of two places in scripture where you can find it and I don’t know if it’s just me but when I was a younger
9:35	fellow reading through these genealogies was a wee bit tough it was difficult to
9:42	stay focused I consider this to be one of the dry Gravelly portions of scripture and that being the case I will
9:49	spare you all of the details and we’ll just jump close to the end so we won’t
9:54	have to plow through all of it but you’re going to note that Luke does something very different than Matthew does Matthew in his genealogy gives us
10:01	three sets of 14 generations and he only goes back in as far as Abraham because that’s all that’s necessary is to
10:08	demonstrate that Jesus is of the seed he’s the Seed of Abraham the one that’s promised but Luke does something very
10:15	fascinating he takes it farther back than that so starting in verse 36 of
10:20	chapter 3 we read that shallah was the son of Canaan the son of our poxod and
10:26	the son of Shem the son of Noah the son of lamech the son of Methuselah the son of Enoch the son of Jared the son of
10:33	mahalal the son of Canaan the son of Enos the son of Seth the son of Adam and
10:39	watch the last phrase here the son of God huh have you ever noticed that what was
10:46	Adam’s relationship to God prior to the fall Son of God now this does not mean that
10:54	Adam is deity deity the way Christ is
10:59	however this does show us that man being made in the image of God
11:06	and reflecting the image of God perfectly in creation that our relationship with God prior to the fall
11:15	can best be compared to a father and child we are God’s children
11:23	at least prior to the fall and then with Adam and Eve succumbing to
11:28	The Temptations of the devil to be like God they end up
11:34	putting us all under a curse and Jesus says of those who are fallen in the Gospel of John you are of your father
11:40	the devil and so you’ll note that being put into the Dominion of Darkness being means being put under the tyranny of the
11:47	Devil Himself and our patriarchy switches from God to Lucifer it’s a
11:54	terrible thing but God is not satisfied with this setup if you would and so this is why Christmas is so important and
12:02	wild now again return to our epistle text and hear these words when the fullness of time had come God sent forth
12:08	his son born of woman born under the law to redeem those who are under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons
12:16	and how is it that Jesus teaches us to pray when the disciples come up to Jesus you know they’re doing catechism 101
12:22	with him and so the question comes up which naturally should arise when we pray how do we pray Lord and Jesus says
12:30	when you pray say our father Who Art in Heaven
12:36	Hallowed Be Your Name father you see scripture reveals that God is a
12:44	loving caring concerned Brave strong powerful
12:51	determined father what he lost and what
12:56	we lost in the fall God is determined do whatever it takes is
13:04	necessary to restore that relationship so that he
13:10	like a good father can pick us up in his arms give us a big hug
13:17	like only fathers can do that’s what’s going on and so with this in mind
13:23	this picture in mind let’s take a look at our gospel text now in Luke 2. so there’s Jesus
13:30	doing what infants do nursing
13:35	filling diapers crying repeat
13:42	and he is at this point having to be carried around but something very
13:47	important is happening in this text and don’t miss it because Jesus is hard at
13:52	work he’s hard at work fulfilling the law for us because in order for our
13:59	relationship with our heavenly father to be restored and for us to go from slaves
14:04	of the devil into sin and to death to actually being Sons and Daughters of God
14:10	there’s a great price involved and Jesus in order for to meet that Christ must be
14:16	the Spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world he must be sinless
14:24	that means he must keep God’s law perfectly and you’re going to note that
14:30	what we’re going to hear are details regarding Jesus keeping the law but
14:35	you’re going to note that in order for him to keep these portions of the law he’s going to need his parents
14:41	assistance he’s going to be passively obeying God’s
14:47	law for us and so when we talk about obedience we have to talk about obedience to the law both actively and
14:54	passively and you’ll note that Jesus is the passive obeyer of God’s law here and
15:00	that’s a vital piece of Doctrine but the text goes on to say when the time came for their purification according to the
15:06	law of Moses they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord
15:12	every male who first opens the womb Shall be Called holy to the Lord you’ll
15:19	find that by the way spelled out in very graphic detail in Exodus 13. and you’ll
15:24	note that what God required of Israel remember the last and final plague of
15:30	the plagues of Egypt was the killing of the firstborn and every firstborn would
15:37	have died except that they were Redeemed by the blood of a lamb
15:45	and so moving forward moving forward after The Exodus God required that all
15:51	males who opened the womb that they be set apart and that they
15:56	would be redeemed as well by the blood of a lamb unless and here’s the interesting part
16:04	unless the family to whom that child is born cannot afford
16:12	a lamb and in that case God in the Mosaic confident in The Book of Leviticus
16:18	offers an alternative sacrifice for those who are poverty-stricken the
16:23	alternative sacrifice is a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons and that’s what we find Happening Here
16:31	that in order to fulfill the Mosaic Covenant Mary and Joseph as poverty
16:36	stricken as they are go to the temple to fulfill the obligation of the law which
16:43	Jesus is required to meet in order to redeem him and they cannot even afford
16:50	the lamb that’s how poor they are and the thing I like about this
16:56	is that we can’t afford the lamb either so God has to provide the lamb for us
17:02	and see that’s who Jesus is I think it’s appropriate that they couldn’t offer a lamb for the lamb
17:08	instead they can only offer two turtle doves because Jesus himself is the Lamb who
17:15	will redeem us now while this was happening there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon
17:22	and this man was righteous devout waiting for the consolation of Israel the Holy Spirit was upon him and it had
17:29	been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah and he came
17:36	in the spirit into the temple it’s as if Simeon woke up that morning was brewing
17:41	himself a cup of coffee I mean he’s Jewish after all Hebrews you know they they make coffee just seeing if you’re
17:48	awake just seeing if you’re awake making himself a cup of coffee and the Holy Spirit says to him you better get to the
17:55	temple because what I promised would happen is about to happen and you need to be there and literally the way the
18:01	Greek reads in this it’s as if he’s making a beeline for the temple because he knows he’s about to be late so he
18:07	came in the spirit and when the parents brought in the Child Jesus to do for him listen to these words to do for him
18:13	according to the custom of the law Jesus is obeying the law here
18:19	but he’s doing it passively and his parents are having to assist him fascinating to do for him according to
18:25	the custom of the law Simeon took him up in his arms and he blessed God and said
18:32	now pause there for a second those of you who are familiar with the historic
18:37	liturgy the historic liturgy in the Divine service after communion there is a
18:44	standard post-communion Canticle and the name of that post communion Canticle is called the Midas Lord now you let your
18:52	servant go in peace according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the
18:59	sight of every people a light to reveal you to the Nations and the glory of your People Israel and it always ends with
19:06	the glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and will be forever
19:12	amen It’s a Wonderful post communion Canticle and it’s quite appropriate to sing after communion because those who
19:20	have had the Lord’s supper and tasted and seen that the Lord is good who feasted on his body and blood given and
19:26	shed for them for the Forgiveness of their sins they like Simeon are also recipients and Witnesses of this
19:33	salvation and they are able now to leave here or wherever church is being held knowing
19:41	that they’re going in peace peace with God peace with each other because of what Christ has done
19:48	it’s very fascinating but though the word the lyrics for the neck to Menace come straight out of this text and those
19:54	were the very words that Simeon spoke prophetically so when he picked up little baby Jesus in
20:02	his arms and it is appropriate for us to note here that our salvation
20:10	is brought through the one who has a conception that is different than ours
20:16	you see King David in the Psalms says in sin did my mother conceive me and by
20:23	saying that David was not saying that his mother was an immoral woman when David says in the Psalms in sin did
20:32	my mother conceive me he is confessing that what we confessed this morning at the beginning of the service that we are
20:38	by Nature sinful and unclean that we are sinful from the moment of our conception
20:44	but Jesus conception is different than ours he’s conceived in the womb of the
20:50	virgin by the over shower overshadowing and the power of the Holy Spirit Jesus is the
20:56	one whose conception is different than ours he is Holy he is righteous
21:02	he is the Spotless Lamb of God come to take on the sins of the world
21:09	upon himself and go to the cross and bleed and die for our sins and so this idea
21:15	that Simeon his eyes has seen God’s salvation this is most certainly true he
21:22	has seen the Infant Jesus who will grow to be the man Jesus who will go to the
21:28	Cross so that all of us could be saved and by being saved once again be able to
21:34	cry out to God Papa father and as his father and mother marveled
21:41	and what was said about him Simeon blessed them and said to marry
21:47	his mother it’s important for us to note that everything was not roses and
21:54	unicorns for Mary we know that she’s poverty-stricken and having the Messiah being born from her
22:02	does not result in her receiving a windfall Lottery winning
22:07	she still is unable to pay even for the lamb for Jesus and now Simeon prophesies over Mary and
22:15	says this child is appointed for the fall and the rising of many in Israel
22:21	and for a sign that is opposed indeed how many people today continue to
22:28	vehemently oppose Christ I think about the news that broke right before
22:35	Christmas of course Christmas time is the time when the liberal media wants to stick it to Christianity and there was
22:42	some yahoo feminist who was literally claiming that Mary was a rape victim and
22:48	that the Holy Spirit raped her read the text she gave her consent you know but
22:54	again the sign of Christ is opposed by many and what does the psalmist say why
22:59	do the Nations rage why do the people plot in vain against God’s anointed futile to do so and yet
23:07	the sign of the virgin-born Son of God will be opposed and is still opposed to
23:13	this day and then some very chilling words from Simeon and the sword will
23:19	pierce through your own soul also and this is most certainly true we learn
23:24	from this gospel as well as others that this same Mary
23:29	was present when Jesus was nailed to the cross she was present at the foot of the
23:36	cross when Jesus cried out his last instead it is finished and died she was
23:42	present when the Roman soldier took his Lance and pierced his side and out came
23:47	blood and water the Roman Catholic church has a statue it’s actually quite
23:53	well done it’s called the pieta the pieta depicts Mary at the foot of the
23:59	cross holding the corpse of her son the son of God
24:06	after he had been not down from the cross and the anguish that she must have gone through is written large on her
24:12	face in that statue and every time I see it depicted I can always hear those words from the hymn that we sang last
24:20	Sunday What Child Is This who laid to rest that line that says Nails spear shall pierce
24:27	them through the cross he bore for me for you hail hail the word made flesh
24:32	the babe the son of Mary and so Mary in saying yes to the Holy
24:37	Spirit saying yes to the angel Gabriel may it be done to me as the Lord has said
24:44	it comes at a great cost terrible cost the cost of watching her firstborn son
24:50	being crucified but it was necessary it was necessary because he is the Salvation of Israel it
24:58	was necessary for this to happen for her relationship with God to be restored so
25:04	that the Virgin Mary could say to God you are my father
25:10	that was the cost for her sins for my sins for your sins and so if sword truly
25:18	did pierced her own soul through so that the thoughts from many hearts may be
25:24	revealed another interesting phrase in this prophecy of Simeon and it makes
25:30	perfect sense because Jesus says that when he sent the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit would convict the world of sin
25:36	and unbelief which is exactly what the word of God still continues to do to this day it strips us all bare and shows
25:43	us that we are all guilty and for some reason some people having their hearts
25:50	revealed for the sinful muck filled cesspools that they are
25:56	repent and receive mercy and forgiveness from God While others when the light is shown
26:04	on their hearts persistence sin and unbelief and bear a grudge against the one who would dare to
26:09	tell them that they’re a sinner in need of a savior the text goes on to say that there was a
26:15	prophetess Anna the daughter of fanuel of the tribe of Asher and I think this is a very fascinating thing here because
26:22	there’s a lot of controversy and a lot of error regarding the role of women in the church there is one group of people who say
26:29	that women can be pastors but scripture says they cannot there is another group of people who have an equally opposite
26:36	error who say that women have no right to teach anybody anywhere about Jesus
26:43	whether in church whether in a school whether in their homes that this is the
26:49	job of the men only to which I would say are you familiar with the prophet Asana
26:56	yes women not only have the right they have the duty to tell people about
27:01	Christ and Anna did that she was advanced in years having lived
27:07	with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin in other words she was
27:12	a widow for a long time and then as a widow until she was 84.
27:18	and women back then married 14 years old
27:25	do the math she was in her early 20s when her husband died
27:30	and she remained a widow until she was 84. so she did not depart from the temple
27:35	worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day and coming up at that very hour
27:41	she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the Redemption of Jerusalem
27:48	indeed Christ is announced by both men and women
27:53	the glories of God and his salvation are being proclaimed even to this day by
28:00	men and women and when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord did you
28:06	catch that see that’s what’s going on here you’re saying what’s Jesus doing answer he’s passively keeping the law
28:12	for you so that he can be it can be said of him that he is sinless had Joseph and
28:18	Mary not done these things according to the law who would have been charged with
28:25	the sin Jesus isn’t it interesting there are aspects
28:31	of God’s law you are incapable of keeping yourself
28:37	it must be kept for you makes it seem like that whole law thing is quite Out Of Reach in many ways as
28:42	far as being kept perfectly and it is for every single one of us who are born sinful
28:48	so when they performed everything according to the law of the Lord they returned into Galilee to their own town of Nazareth the child grew became strong
28:55	filled with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him favor of God was upon
29:03	hear again the words of our epistle text I said I would return to it a few times when the fullness of time had come God
29:10	sent forth his son born of woman born under the law to redeem
29:16	those slaves who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons
29:22	and because you are Sons present tense currently now you are Sons God has sent
29:31	the spirit of his son into our hearts crying Papa father
29:36	so you are no longer a Slave you are a son and if you are a son then you are an
29:44	heir through God now I referenced the movie A Little Princess and I think it’s quite fascinating if
29:51	you watch it the 95 version remember 95 it’s color you can see the stark
29:56	contrast Sarah as the slave girl whose clothes are falling apart and have
30:03	holes in them and are that dull beige brown work color because that’s the only
30:10	clothes she’s got but when her father saves her and restores her relationship
30:17	with him and they are reunited he dresses her and that other little slave
30:24	girl in the most brilliant white beautiful clothes you’ve ever seen on a
30:29	little girl she looked like a china doll and see that’s a wonderful depiction of
30:35	Salvation the clothing is all a big part of it and that’s exactly where the prophet Isaiah goes today in our text
30:41	Isaiah says in chapter 61 verse 10 I will greatly rejoice in
30:49	Yahweh my soul shall exalt in my God for he has clothed me with the garments
30:55	of salvation he’s covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decks
31:02	himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress as a bride adorns herself with
31:07	her jewels for as the Earth brings forth its sprouts and as a garden causes what a
31:13	stone in it to sprout up so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to
31:18	sprout up before all the nations and see in the slavery of to sin death and the
31:25	devil we were left practically naked in thread bare fig leaves that barely
31:32	covered up anything falling apart but God in his great salvation because
31:39	of what Christ has done for us in obeying God’s law for us both actively
31:45	and passively because of what he has given as accomplished we now are clothed
31:51	in these garments of Salvation clothed in the very righteousness of Christ and listen to the Brilliance then with which
31:58	these garments of Salvation are described in Isaiah 62 for Zion’s sake I
32:04	will not keep silent for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet until her righteousness Goes Forth as brightness
32:11	her salvation as a burning torch the Nations that shall see your
32:17	righteousness and all the kings Your Glory and you shall be called by a new name
32:23	that the mouth of the Lord will give and you shall be a crown of Beauty in
32:28	the hand of the Lord a royal diadem in the hand
32:34	of your God in the Blackness and coldness of sin
32:40	it’s probably best to describe this is that terrible Christmas gift that no
32:45	kid ever wants a lump of coal have you ever been threatened with that gift
32:51	you keep that up the only thing you’re getting for Christmas is a lump of coal
32:56	fascinating but see our Isaiah text makes it very clear
33:01	and all of pictures of Salvation in scripture make it very clear that that’s
33:06	really what we were because of our sin lumps of coal
33:12	which are only useful for burning in the fire that’s the appropriate use of a lump of
33:17	coal and yet because of what Christ has done for us we learn that being restored and
33:24	now being able to say again of God that he is our father that
33:30	we are described like a royal diadem in God’s hand
33:36	it’s as if because of Christ we’ve gone from being a lump of coal to
33:41	being a diamond you can almost see Jesus and his nails scarred hands taking that lump of coal and pressing it together
33:48	with both of his hands and it no longer being that but being a beautiful diamond
33:54	this is a wonderful picture of salvation of light of clothing of restoration of a
34:01	father and child being restored all of this because this tiny little baby
34:09	was taken to the temple and the Allah was obeyed for him
34:15	so that he can continue to be the Spotless Lamb of God and he continues actively at this point to obey God’s law
34:22	for us to restore to us that lost relationship
34:30	of a loving father and his children and you are those children because you
34:36	are Sons you have been redeemed when the fullness of time had got come God the
34:43	Father sent Jesus our brother born of a woman born under the law to
34:49	set us free from slavery so that we might receive adoption as Sons
34:55	so you’re no longer a Slave you are a brightly brightly clothed wonderfully loved
35:04	by an everlasting steadfast strong amazing father
35:10	in heaven and if you are a son and you are then you are an heir through God
35:19	you have everything you are no longer penniless poor naked
35:24	and destitute Merry Christmas in the name of Jesus
35:30	amen

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