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Let's open our Bibles to the book of Isaiah or some of my friends across a certain pond says Isaiah.

You can open your Bible to the major prophet.

We're going to look at Isaiah chapter 9 verses 1 through 7. I'll be reading from the English Standard Version.

And if you would either in your own text or on the screen, I stand 91.

But there will be, no Gloom for her who was in anguish, in the former time.

He brought into contempt, the land of zebulun in the, in the later time.

He is the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, the nation.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.

You have multiplied.

They Rejoice before you as, with joy at the market.

Are there glad when they divide the spoil for the Yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor you have broken as on the day of Midian for every boot to the tramping warrior in battle to Malt.

And every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

And the government shall be upon his shoulder.

And his name Shall be Called wonderful, counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting father Prince.

Of the increase of his government and peace.

There will be no and on the throne of David and over his kingdom to establish and to update with Justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore the Zeal of the Lord of hosts.

This is God's word.

I invite you to take your seat.

As a family, this last stuff this last number of weeks on Friday or Saturday.

We have been turning to our team that has virtual forced and we have watched with a with quite a bit of anticipation.

If I'm honest, the latest episode of the Star Wars TV show known as the Mandalorian.

Any any the Mandalorian centers around of the fictional Star Wars Universe?

Well, those characters are nowhere to be seen.

And in fact, the only recognized was someone that only those, which were interested referred to as Yoda has no relation to your character in the original Star Wars Trilogy book just like Yoda in a smaller version of him and it was until the later part of the first in the second season that he was simply referred to as the child.

Tell me something interesting about the child, a warrior known as the Mandalorian or Mando goes across the Galaxy, with this child.

A couple of times, a child does something magnificent in spectacular, but for the most part, she is just along for the ride.

Tommy hero of the series do farm.

It's either something about child.

There is something about the that comes with new birth and the promise of a light ahead of you.

Magnify this b**** child, who appears to be a baby is 15 years old.

And so the promise that he might live to be very much in maybe nine hundred years or so like the older Yoda, in the anticipation of who and what's a child might become in this made-up universe.

In addition to the patient that many of us tune in each week, online to watch the new episode and see what might unfold for this child.

It was just last Friday, the week, watchers into the patient's, we heard that the child has a name.

Someone that is identifiable, someone that is memorable and someone that has a history that we can identify.

The nation of Israel had a history, but their future.

Looks bleak.

If you remember, if you'll turn back in your mind with me, the book of Deuteronomy, and then Joshua Judges, and then 1st and 2nd Kings.

You remember that.

This is the history of Israel unfold, and we come to a King.

Who was not, let's just say in the list of the Good King.

We come to the king of Judah, the southern Kingdom.

That is the better Kingdom.

And we have a king whose name was Amy had.

In Asia.

Well.

He did the best he could like.

But anyhow was worried about a power in the east, in fact still was Israel.

His cousin King if you will and where the surrounding smaller Nations surrounding, the Mediterranean Sea, was the vast Empire of Assyria.

In a stereo over a hundred years earlier had been defeated.

They have been stopped by a coalition of Israel and Judah and the other neighbors.

Including area.

Israel.

And they had stopped abuse.

Empire at Damascus capital city of Syria.

I never stopped to do it again.

Party of two kingdoms.

Plus another Israel and Syria decided that they would attack and they would attack the southern Kingdom.

That is Judah.

And they would then form a coalition because they would be over you.

And they would dare Force Assyrian advanced in the prize of the Eastern Empires.

The 8th century.

Into it was it isn't this Invasion promise that the book of Isaiah.

The first part of the book of Isaiah is written and it's written to the nation of Israel.

It is in fact that the prophet Isaiah was given by God and then was later written down as the prophets word to the nation of Israel.

We could study this book for years easily as a congregation.

We won't yet.

But today, we rest in Isaiah 9 and I can tell you this that.

Is Nick buddy place to park by myself for a little while?

You'll notice that I have titled not just the sermon, but the entire series, "a great light."

There is no great light in this photo single Christmas bulb like one from when I was a kid.

We celebrate a great light but we settle for a Christmas twinkle.

We say we will give gifts to all and instead of allowing the greatest gift of all Jesus Christ to be the focus of our celebration.

Our family gets excited about a PlayStation 5 or 12 or whatever is out now.

That we will take a look.

Here is the great light Jesus Christ!

Crazy amount of luminance.

He gives off in our life amount to that of a small incandescent bulb.

Antique green.

Blue red, baby, yellow.

For my favorite, the classic white.

This passage is riddled with.

Any pregnant with maybe I could use that term anticipation in imagery and when you and I settled for a great light, it's a little bit and we settle for Christmas.

20 is a little bit like last week's tournament, which I'm sure everybody memorized by now.

We'll just pretend that people are laughing online.

And that is to say that we look for our God in Thanksgiving, which is what we celebrated, just a few days ago, right Thanksgiving.

And we looked we take.

Thank you so much, but then instead of thanking God for The Ultimate Gift, Jesus Christ in our life.

We say God.

Thank you for the turkey and thank you for thank you for the

But we neglected to thank God in spite of our circumstances, instead.

We often thank God, because of our circumstances and it's also in this passage that we find out that motivation, should be to thank God because of who he is not because of what we have.

what's over here to 9 verse 10, who was in English, and he brought into the land of nebulon and the Land of Nod, and if we spent 45 minutes on the first couple of verses,

I'm looking at my music screen.

This is a map of the nations of Israel when they settled so you can see the top of town and Debbie when we're going to zoom in on that just a little bit.

Not Italian.

Zebulon is here at the top, going to put that there for context of a reason.

In the form of zebulun and the Land of Nod.

Holly.

But in the later time, he has made glorious the way of the sea.

You see the way of the sea.