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WE EXIST TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW JESUS AND FIND PURPOSE

HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER NEW YEARS EVE 2019 GOING INTO 2020?

— Seems like 7 years ago — optimistic?

—PICTURE OF EMILY AND I — disappointed?

— how do you handle disappointments?

Disappointed by God? — Marriage?

— Kids? — Depression? — Anxiety?

— No one planned on 15 days to slow the spread turning into 15 months and now who knows how long.

MOST POWERFUL CHRISTMAS STORY IN LUKE 2 — 400 YEARS SINCE GOD HAD SPOKEN

Did we need a teacher?

A Counselor? no we needed forgiveness so he sent a savior

A sign is an object that points to a message — the sign sent wasn’t what we would expect — He sent a baby — Born in a hollowed out cave — wrapped in rags —

PEACE ON EARTH — This story continues and seems like anything BUT peace.

— What happens when you’re doing everything you think is right yet still disappointed?

Heart Wrenching Story — Young Couple that navigates what feels like betrayal, deceit, devastating news.—

VERY REAL PEOPLE WITH HOPES AND DREAMS — Face trial and disappointment all while trusting and following God

ROMANTIC COMEDY JOSEPH AND MARY

THEY HAD PLANS AND GOD INTERRUPTED THOSE PLANS — Angel — Baby — conceived by HS — “MAY IT BE DONE” — Joe is gonna be so pumped — IS SHE A LIAR A CHEATER CRAZY OR ALL THREE?

HEBREW MARRIAGE HAD TWO STAGES — KIDDUSHIN AND HUPPAH — This was binding and you were technically already married — Ceremony and the.... huppah comes later

INVITATIONS HAVE GONE OUT — CALL OFF THE WHOLE THING — He trusted Mary… and she did this?

— Life is so different

THINK ABOUT MARY? — Didn’t do anything wrong — exactly what God wanted.

— Now Divorce?

Shame?

— “GOD WHERE ARE YOU?

I SAID YES.

THIS ISN’T FAIR” — ARE YOU FACING SOMETHING THAT ISN’T WHAT YOU PLANNED?

YOU DON’T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAN TO TRUST THAT GOD HAS A PURPOSE

PEOPLE OPINIONS CAN’T STOP GOD’S PURPOSE — PANDEMIC CAN’T — DISAPPOINTMENT CAN’T

YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT WITH GOD MUGHT ACTUALLY BE A DIVINE APPOINTMENT FROM GOD

THERE WILL BE TIMES WHERE YOU MIGHT WONDER WHERE GOD IS — YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT MIGHT BE GOD TRYING TO DO SOMETHING

INSERT STORY ABOUT DISAPPOINTMENT BEING A GOD APPOINTMENT

RIGHT WHEN THEY START GETTING THINGS TOGETHER CSAR ISSUES A DECREE TO HEAD BACK TO HOMETOWN — This was SUPER inconvenient — 90 mile trip on donkey — 2 weeks — pregnant… — 2 weeks no income — through the desert — freezing at night — valley of Jordan river — robbers —

NO PLACE TO STAY — And don’t picture the manger scene like you see today that looks like Chip and Joanna designed it — Birth with no help — Shepherds come and want to see this baby — Herrod sends out decree that the baby needs to be killed so now they are on the run — ALL BECAUSE THEY DID WHAT GOD ASKED THEM TO DO — SOUNDS MORE LIKE HELL ON EARTH THAN PEACE ON EARTH

FAST FORWARD TO THE CROSS — MARY 33 YEARS LATER — THE GIRL WHO SAID YES NOW SEE’S HER SON WHO HAS NEVER SINNED STRIPPED AND NAILED TO A CROSS — AND WATCHES HIM DIE....

YOU DON’T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAN WHEN YOU HAVE FAITH AND UNDERSTAND HIS CHARACTER — He loves you — he has plans for you — HIS PURPOSE AND WILL ARE ALWAYS BETTER

YOU MAY HAVE A PLAN — MARY AND JOSEPH HAD A PLAN — BUT GOD HAD A PURPOSE

YOU WERE THAT PURPOSE!

HIS NAME IS JESUS — HE IS THE LAMB OF GOD — HE CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE IN OUR PLACE — WE CAN NOW HAVE THE PEACE OF GOD