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We just talked this carol Come Thou Long expected Jesus. You going to keep a hand up. Let's do one more one more. A walkie-talkie great long expected. Jesus is talking about a baby boy. Jesus born. He was born in scandalous conditions to a young woman called Mary. I know you seem pretty unplanned. I'm pretty unexpected. I said we supposed to be asking all question about this carol. What does it mean when he says he's long expected that means a waiting for a really really really long time. So who was expecting him and what were they expecting? Some people who are happy in a long to hurt citykids every last few weeks. Great. I've heard you been reading about a man quote Isaiah Canaan. We tell me who Isaiah is. Yes, he's a prophet. I can't even tell me what it is. current

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They carry out the way to go. Pretty and thank you. I saw it was a prophet because messenger speaking God's words to his people.

I knew I think you've seen that you talked about Jesus being the promised King hundreds of years before he was born. Now we're about to read some words some more ads by this guy, Isaiah written 700 years before Jesus was born before that fast Christmas and he's talking about someone that God is going to send to save his people.

He has no PC or Majesty to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind a man suffering. I'm familiar with pain like one from whom people hide their faces. He was despised and we help him in low esteem.

Sorry, I didn't mean to slide along that fit if you had me. It's not a very Royal picture is it? I want that can't even tell me who this is and the kids to Jesus.

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It's an old sometimes. I wish it was me and some people think it is me, but turn off the United Kingdom. Look at where he was born. This is the Lindo wing of St. Mary's Hospital in London. See the soothing pastel tones account fee on Chantix the bed to the sofa bed the partners to take a snooze on meals are cooked by chefs and a way to comes around every morning to take orders for breakfast lunch and dinner. Those are wine and champagne list and the option of the celebratory off 20 off the breath.

Rooms only 5215 lb night and Suites are they able to apply for them? And I said cost around $10,000 a night. That's really quite different. Isn't it? From what we just read about in Isaiah. No beauty or Majesty. Nothing in Jesus the parents that we should desire him. That what I thought about this despised means to be hated rejected is being teased really really badly and that's what men and women did to him. He was born into suffering. You can tell me what Jesus was born in.

Anyone else yesterday A Manger. I mean, I don't know what major is. Yes. I said yes. It's in the stable. But yes.

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Yeah, that's why I don't eat for disgusting and I should not what that would mean. It sounds lovely sounds like a cradle by we have historical record that Jesus the baby King Jesus the baby was born in the park bond in a feeding trough. Okay, what do you think about when I say the word Christmas? Yes, no. Graceville present scanner

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Toys we will of toys. What in truth that beautifully decorated tree is gorgeous. He wrapped presents all that tasty food to eat during the Christmas. They were pretty poor representations of what the world is like the Jesus born in see none of them. I like his everyday life didn't show up for a celebration you wanting that for a school holiday. He wasn't in a well-decorated rim and shorty he wasn't well fed.

So when you look at this guy one of the truck, I saw his right? We didn't hold him in high esteem. That means you don't think he's worth much and the people around him in his day didn't think that either Now I need three volunteers keep it and if you're able to help me wrap some presents. Show me all the prices for okay, Aaron. will just take you to

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I have no transfer fee. You're not to take one of these presents and you're not to look at it. You're allowed to feel it. And you're not to shake it that you can open it. I want you to answer this question. What are you expecting to have a few have a shake? Maybe hold off and Shake It.

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Trustee was sometimes we got something we expect to shoes when we think it's more ice when I see is tasty sweeties. I'm saying some very modway. This is a bit like Jesus. When you look at him, you see a weak little baby Refugee. I don't see much. Even the Bible predicts that people will look at him and think he's not worth anything. They didn't they wouldn't hold in high esteem about what you said and we did awesome. We need to check our expectations are right. Maybe that little boy in just a normal little boy maybe something much much more than that. Jesus is born into the world. We live in with all its unfairness with people who are mean to each other and try to have him we're in the Bible that Jesus is the son of God. And before he came he was with God ruling over the whole world. And yet he wanted to give all that up to coming into this messy world that we live in. That's the car that we just sang the weather come to us to taste of sadness. He he and his life leading Richards without number born within a castle store. This the Everlasting one that Christ was born the Lord of old.

Do you should have been inspected by the people of this time? They didn't old loads and loads about him and other people but most of them fully wasn't special. I maybe when you hit up for media Christmas Story using the same. But we're going to sing another song just now about that first Christmas Day. As we sing sing this song think about what you make of Jesus was he special or was he just a normal boy and the older children and adults I'll be thinking of it more this for the rest of our gathering so how's everything musicians As we sing about our first Christmas the first riddance what we seen that Jesus is the unexpected baby who should have been expected wishing that he is God come to this world and all its Brokenness. I think it's pretty was posing just here Christmas is a very strange time of year culturally the expectations on us all enormous. Sometimes I can feel the pressure and overwhelming pressure to be happy to feel Christmassy to be. Joyful 3 full of Hope for the year to come from this experience is open this time of year just emphasizes what we once had and now like what we know what it's like. Maybe involves all relationships or friendships. All studies are Health jokes All Families.

Maybe it's more of a disappointment focus on ourselves as we look back at the past year, or maybe even the past decade. We see no change in the way. We wants to change will maybe we didn't sense of purpose in anything we've done with the satisfied and we feel we didn't have any hope for things to get better next year. To others it may feel strange getting all excited about Christmas when we hit 80 and you stories from around the world and Country of terrible things happening. or even when people in other countries, even celebrate Christmas, I was reading about some Christians in North Korea today even have a word for Christmas in that language because they don't celebrate it because it's punishable by Death answer with a lot going on. We sing carols not want no one that was saying today, but does not work our you're probably email all night, and it goes like this. The sign yes indeed.

But Hoops on years of all the years. Oaxaca thank you hopes and fears of all the years on that in Jesus this baby Jesus.

How can I be in some way to Phil's I'm relieved in this baby. Jesus born in a manger. We saw earlier with the kids that Jesus was born in a very different kind of Christmas Day and the one that many of us will celebrate this Wednesday. He came into a broken walls and he exposed himself to the full range with Brokenness. And this is why the details was both are really really important. It means something important with the Cradle of his birth was a feeding trough in a bar a bomb. You're meant to pay attention to the fact that he wasn't in a palace attended to by sevens and chefs. It's important to notice for the first snow of the enter this infant baby's nostrils. We're not oils and perfumes animal.

Jesus was born into suffering. So why did he suffer? Gisborne Refugee born to be hunted down and killed even has a baby boy. He lived a life of suffering and death as he suffered told us that it was essential that he suffered. We just sang that Jesus is born the king of Israel. We sign that multiple times each course. He's pulling the king of Israel say so what kind of King we talkin about here is pretty unexpected for a king to be born in this way into this kind of suffering.

Let's continue reading our texts from Isaiah 53. Sarah's going to come up and read a lot of rust. These buses are describing. Jesus Promised King did not read Isaiah 53 and we'll be reading from vs425 for now.

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering. Yet we considered him punished by God stricken by him and Afflicted, but he was pissed for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was on him and by his wounds we are healed.

Celebration Day on next door Jesus came to his rescue suffers suffers service essential that he suffers t He took up all pain and Hebrew law suffering. What did you rescue us from? This text says that he was pissed for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities to unusual words in their transgressions and iniquities face mean the same thing ready the discard the attitude that we will show it was God's good ways and to go to himself. They mean our rejection of God and the Bible cause that's in. Mason is like you just relaxed explain this plays out from the heart from our hearts into the world around us into the life. We live and produces this kind of suffering that we all Experience day today. The greed of one that leads to another getting hungry the anger one that leads another hurting. The domination of one that leads leaves another hopeless.

This Bible that my reading describes. Our rejection of God is a copycat of our first ancestors who did this tea on men women and all the world is cursed as a result will face suffering in different ways to different degrees as we live in this world. I'm this Christmas time. Sometimes highlights these things. And the problem is RuPaul the problem. I didn't answer miss it. But I caused suffering in other people's lives. By the way. I act speak and live my selfishness impact my family my friends. Madison not she drives me in it not three Drive each one of us, but the problem is it drives us to live lives that live against God's ways is perfect ways. If I look at mine. I didn't even get up tomorrow and after Achilles tendons at times that lingotes. I said a result of this sin is that Justice must be done? Because God cares about right and wrong he cares about running the world. He cares about suffering and he cares about you.

Different ways of dealing with Injustice literally in it pretty Injustice means dealing with Injustice in each of us.

Is bad news for us because each of us in this room is deserving event.

Pretty gloomy for a Christmas sermon, isn't it? BC Jesus? Birth is Birth the worst news in the world and the best news in the world? An understanding birth will change your life forever.

Good news of any other good nice to people who know they need good news. I saw a patient in any lost week with terrible terrible acid reflux terrible chest pain, you're skinny enough at night. I don't have good news for me. I have a tablet that can solve his problem and previous symptoms. Good high rank some my next patient in the waiting room and got him to come at 14 year old boy had had a full but was otherwise pretty healthy and I told him about this tablet very interested. The kid wouldn't have got today at his attention. Please healthy. You didn't need it. Good news is only good news to those who need to know they need good news. Good news is only good news to those who know they need good news. That's what you just said later on in his life. He said this Jesus answered them. It is not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick I'm not come to call the righteous but Sinners to repentance.

Jesus pains that we all need to recognize real sick sick to the call and say he came into this world that first Christmas day not just to start up a relational to give a good life look and live a good life. He went from the wooden crib. They wouldn't cross to save us but he feel there's was from out of here. He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment of a space is on him and by his wounds we are healed. So that's why Jesus came to suffer. He suffered not just in the same way we suffer but he did do that. He suffered by taking on himself or the ramitas Ave in judgment for Austin. God knew what we deserve and because of his love he came to rescue us. He threw that punishment on himself.

That's why Jesus is called Jesus the name means he saves next Carol emphasizes what we've just been thinking about in The Last of Us. It fixes on thinking about what kind of child this is that we're singing about born in a castle stool and living a life of suffering. I'm kind of points to the ultimate purpose of this life. Is what it says Nails Spears child passing through the cross. He bore for me for you hail hail the word made flesh the babe the son of Mary. Let's sing What Child Is This?

What we seen that Jesus is the unexpected kidding. You should have been expected. How many seeing why he suffered he suffered from his wooden crib, so they wouldn't cross from his birth to his death because of his name he saves. What was ready the points? What does any of this really matter to us in 21st century, Edinborough? What am I sick with me that you're walking through George Square. It's August. It's sunny and the festivals are in full swing you bombarded by people shoving flyer of the flyer in your face. Come to my show come to my show come to my show one of them catches your eye. And you know, you're in for it. They Bowl defrost a flyer into your nose. You ignore it or you take it then you ignore it? Because you think you know what it says and you think you know, it won't do you any good?

London newspapers recently carried out an experiment outside circus Chief Station in London a man stealing a busy street corner all night to anyone who returns him with the flyer hundreds and hundreds of events were giving out save the three hours but in the 11 people actually returns to claim that 45 pounds of the fly was about and so they didn't take time to actually read it. They just right away. Chances are in this country that you've had the Nativity Story before the one we've been singing about. You may even have acted as one of the key counters growing up. Have you got any Mary's in the room and he marries? Yes, you got married over here. Guess any Joseph? Alia rj60

You probably had a bit to this story before but I've never actually considered why billions of people around the world actually believe it. What actually have a real hope in what Jesus promises? shooting at Canobie well-meaning fools with the fins There's actually anything in this stuff.

Basara comes out to read this last section considered if you think it describes you correctly and what you make of it all the way it is scribes Jesus. Thanks her. We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has done to our own way. And the lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and Afflicted yet. He didn't open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter and does a sheep before its share is he silent so he did not open his mouth? My oppression and judgment he was taken away yet who would his generation protest it but he was cut off from the land of the living for the transgression of my people. He was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death that he had done. No violence know with any deceit in his mouth.

I think Sarah about often describes Humanity on sheep. I want sent a couple of months working on a sheep farm and Outback Australia. That's me in the background. You can just see things but two things that will always stick in my mind or how stubborn and how she fitted sheet. I remember heading some sheet into a different field as one sheet decided to make a break for it from the main head and she made a dash for this fence. Now she didn't make it through the fence so she dropped into it, but she backed off again and again and again and again and again, she can't go into this fence.

Not story illustrates a little bit about what we're like you reject the ways God of God only wants to live our own way. We look to satisfy all desires somewhere else, maybe in whack and sex and money and holidays. Emami tank farm dissatisfaction with looking for in those things. We keep looking for it and other places we're actually pretty stubborn.

Jesus but he's not o'cools himself the Good Shepherd. He's the one who looks off to his sheep. The one he calls us back to him even within being stubborn being stupid. And he says this Good Shepherd lays his life down for the Sheep.

Even though he's the chef at I thought I told us he becomes like a lamb sacrifice and slotted for the other sheep have gone astray. He was cut off from the land of the living. For the transgression of my people he was punished. That's why he came. That's why he's rather than to Austin 21st century Edinborough the place and second. He predicted the life you would live for infants. You would have and then describe in detail. Is that even though it was all written up how long before crucifixion was devised as a means of execution?

Wonderful at Snowbowl later in the passage. I saw that tells us what is going to happen after all of this. Is what he says after he has suffered. He will see the lights of life and be satisfied by his knowledge. My righteous servant will justify many and he will bear their iniquities.

Jesus wasn't held by deaf altice suffered on the cross. He saw the lights of life. He rise again to prove it conquered death to prove that the cast of Sin could be undone. He will justify many he will he will make right With God all who believe in him. And that's why Jesus this baby king the Good Shepherd office to each of us this Christmas time.

When off the person you came with lost me more about this one more about his life gospels that you're free to take as a gift from us to you can get one from the bookcase over there and it's the great count of who Jesus is what he said what he did and then you can say what what do I make it in? Cuz really if this is true, it's worth so much more than a 5-pound nights.

Why don't take an hour out of your life just to think about that.

You're Christian, and he's a challenge as you consider this suffering of Jesus from his birth to his death. Be a side Sullivant. Be a sad Sullivan let your joy. I want save this. Asia has gifted you be mixed with grief at what it cost him. You are celebrating the man of Soros remember as you celebrate this season, but the one whom you celebrate enjoyed, none of the things that let you make up your celebration. That you will Christmas be shaped and colored are remembering that you have an eternal reason for Joy because the birth life death and resurrection of your humble willing suffering savior.

Last me just a minute. Joy to the World the Lord is come let us receive her King. Let every heart prepare him room. No more let sins and storage gray North Orleans and faster ground. He comes to make His blessings flow for us is found. It's a logical response to such good news to share it if you believe it so that sing this song to God but to each other as well as we head out to share that Joy Joy to the World Peace and