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Well, good morning.

Merry Christmas.

This is a day that we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And to be here, together, this morning to celebrate, we got some birthday cake in the back after the service this morning.

I listen, you hear you say?

It's 10 in the morning too early for cake.

It's like saying it's too early for ice cream.

There's no ice cream that I know of, but there is cake.

So if you don't want to eat cake at 11, take it home with you please.

Cuz there's a lot of cake back there.

Have you noticed and either that you're going to get a Big Slice.

Okay?

But no, take some cake with you.

And in the celebrate, the birth of Jesus had a great celebration last night for our Christmas Eve service weather.

Pretty much a packed house, so always a good time together together.

Today, we're going to be looking at the birth of Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter one.

So if you have your Bibles good to have the Kellogg's.

What does all the way from cold Tennessee?

Brought the warm weather with them, I guess.

It's good to have them with this busy with this a day and back in the area with family.

So keep some folks in our church and prayer.

Danny Bailey is with us, continue to keep him in prayer as he heals up from his lung surgery.

He's got reserved seating this morning Ron Ron.

Almost stole that seat from you then you got to you and Ron got to do that with.

No.

But they're good to have Danny with us.

Keep Leslie Sanders son in prayer as she is headed to her father's this morning, maybe already be there.

I don't know.

But the going to visit with her father and Chris Aldi is with his family.

This morning, keep him in prayer.

Diane's azzaro, in prayer, and also continue to pray for Sandy rivenburgh.

I heard yesterday, she's back in the hospital in Florida.

She's got a an abscess from surgery, she had so keep them in prayer and Ron delameter son, Eric in prayer as he's dealing with some cancer as well.

So there's a lot of things in this world that we pray about it and pray for and I'm sure I miss some things out there that maybe I should know if I forgot it.

God knows but we'll remind me and I'll continue to keep them in prayer but the things that this time of year brings to mind for many of those of you who don't have a loved one with you, this Christmas or whatever's been for many years that that loved ones not been a part of your Christmas celebration.

And I'm not saying this to Pat myself on the back, I just had a few free days.

I could do this.

I I drove the rivenburgh car to Florida for them earlier in the week Monday.

And Tuesday, I drove down to Florida and flew back and it was cold down there just so, you know, okay.

It was a man On the very front of the airplane, Southwest.

I got that little more legroom that the bulkhead, and I'm walking in and there was this older gentleman, this young kid in the seat in between and I just happened is that seat available.

They don't give you seating on Southwest, you just go in and get a seat where you want, unless you have pre-arranged that and then gentleman says, go right ahead, come right in and sit down next to him.

He began to talk with me and share with me a little bit of his life.

He was flying from Tampa back to going to Arlington into we flew into Baltimore.

He was going to Arlington to spend some time with his wife.

His wife died a year ago.

She's buried in Arlington Cemetery.

He was the military person.

She was not but they allowed her to be buried there because of his service to our country.

Not anybody gets buried in Arlington.

I know that.

So this guy had some high-class position In our country.

Nicest guy in the world 92 years of age sharing with me.

His life sharing with me, some things going on that he himself.

Had kidney failure and, you know, he's going to Arlington spend time with his wife and I'm thinking, wow.

That this is my first intuition sitting in this chair.

Don't really know the guy he's getting me his whole life story.

And yet the whole flight from Tampa to Baltimore.

We we talked and we chatted Who's the what, what about the kid on the other side?

Yeah, we talked with him too.

And the only answer we got from the kid next to us, he was looking out the window.

He was flying from Tampa to Baltimore.

His mom is picking him up.

She lived in, Hanover Pennsylvania.

She was coming to pick him up.

So we would talk to this kid me and my new friend on my right and the answer that we would always get from this guy.

When we asked him a question was maybe

You have siblings, Maybe.

Are you the oldest Maybe?

so this guy speaks across looks over, is that the only word, you know, maybe You got an answer, maybe.

So I'm thinking that maybe his family told him.

If you get on the airplane and somebody's trying to talk to you just don't give him any information.

Just say maybe he was good at it.

By the end of the flight.

However, we got him to talk.

His name is Ian.

You did have some siblings.

He was living in Florida with his dad and his grandparents going to visit his mom for Christmas.

And I said, well, how long have you lived in Florida and only a year?

He's lived in Florida and he's not sure whether he likes it there or not.

He wants to be back with my I'm not sure.

So we're communicating with this guy.

You can just get trying to encourage him.

And I'm sitting in the middle of these two and having a conversation.

Both ways.

And the guy on my right, the older gentleman and he's listening to everything we have to say he's chiming in as well.

This guy is going to visit his wife in the cemetery.

This disc is from a broken home and going to visit with Mom for a few weeks.

And I'm going and coming back to a wife family and grandkids and wonderful church.

And I'm thinking to myself,

I've got a pretty good.

Life is good for me but not everybody has it good.

some people are dealing with some trials, and tribulations this Christmas season that some of us have no clue about

And that's where I wanted to go to, with this passage this morning that we find in Matthew chapter 1, the story.

Of our Lord and savior and back verse 18, 2 verse 25.

So now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows.

A mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

Saint Joseph, her husband being a just man was not wanting to make her a public example.

Was minded to put her away secretly, but while you thought about these things, we hold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.

Sing Joseph, son of David do not be afraid to take to you.