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I'm at 9:36.

Glad you're here with us this morning.

As we worship Our God together, thankful for your attendance, thankful for your devotion.

And it's always good to be assembled with Brothers and Sisters in Christ were thankful for that.

And before I get underway, let's go to God In Prayer.

Loving father in Heaven.

We We thank you so much for your word.

And as we consider your word, we understand that your son, Jesus.

Our savior was called the word, the Lagos.

That he came to show the world what you are like.

it at He came to explain who you were.

But then, father, we know that the word.

Who is Jesus also?

Gave us the word teaching.

We call the gospel.

Baltimore, so thankful.

For the word of Christ.

Weatherby Christ himself.

Or his word that he has provided for us through the scriptures.

And father were thankful for both.

We know without the one, there is not the other.

The father, we thank you for the scriptures that you have provided.

We know that you have told us.

In your own word.

That your word is living.

And Powerful.

That your word is life-giving.

That your word is Faith giving.

I know your word is life-changing.

Lord, we ask that you would help us all.

To hunger.

And thirst.

For righteousness.

A truth.

And as we study this morning, Father, we pray that our hearts and Minds who are settled here today.

Be filled with the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ and father Wilde.

The world.

Emphasizes the birth of Christ at this time.

Today and every Sunday every first day of the week, father.

You have desired for us to remember his death until he comes.

We know that Jesus was indeed born.

In order to die for our sins.

And not only for our sins, but the sins of the entire world and he had to do so on a cruel Cross of Calvary.

Father.

We thank you for your love.

We thank you for your word and we thank you, Father, for always being with us in Jesus name, we pray.

Amen.

As you can see her title of our lesson, this morning is gift-wrapped and I don't know about you, but you got a nice present for somebody, then he always want to kind of make it more special and you want to make it look nice and presentable.

And so you by the pretty wrapping paper and you put it in the wrapping paper, but if you like me, you just give the store-bought bag to the person with the item because I cannot wrap presents to save my life course.

They do make those bags and you can put them in a bag and I suppose, I could break down and buy those but What's the point?

We'll just give him a gift from the store bought bag, but it is a time where we can be with our family and we can share with our family and friends.

And it's so that's always always a good time when we could be with our family and friends at this time of year.

And it's the time of expressing love.

It's the time of expressing kindness toward others, the Christmas season as it's called first day of Christmas Day, and then there's Christmas season.

And then you go back to the history and you'll learn that there's 12 Days of Christmas.

But that wasn't good enough.

So, he needed 30 Days of Christmas, you know, from the point of Thanksgiving on work.

And then now you have 90 days out, 120 days of Christmas is beginning in July.

As you can see, from all the TV shows on QVC and HSN where they have Christmas in July, but we learned because Christmas has become so commercialized, right?

It's no longer the idea of Jesus, but it is about presents and it is about spending money on others and it's about spending the amount of money on the right gift to give to that individual.

And so indeed has become commercialized.

But as we consider the idea of Christmas Elvis, once said, why can't everyday be like Christmas.

Why Can't This Feeling?

Go on endlessly for if everyday could be like Christmas?

What a Wonderful World?

This would be?

That's true.

But, unfortunately, it's not just about December 25th, and it's not about the time.

Between Thanksgiving and the 25th, and it's not about from September to December, and it's not from July to December, and it's not from January to January every day of every year.

God desires that day to be a Christmas day.

He desires us to show Jesus Christ to the world every day, and he desires us to show love, we are to love God and love others, not just on the Christmas day, not just in a Christmas season, not just in a particular.

Of time, but every day, Everyday, it's so we are to give them ourselves.

Not just monetarily, but of ourselves to others everyday, we are consider others better than ourselves.

That's called humility everyday.

We humble ourselves before God.

You're better than me.

That's the attitude that we are to have toward others and ourselves had it, right.

It's not just a one-way Street and there was some reciprocation there and the world would be better off.

And so it is our responsibility to teach others.

The way to have that reciprocity, the way to have that two-way street because the only way folks are going to know it is when they submit to Christ.

That's the only way we know it and that's the only way they're going to do it.

And so we have to bring them Jesus Christ and not only through teaching.

But also when our example, In our daily lives.

People need to see who we are as children of God, and his followers of Jesus Christ, but regarding the idea of Christmas being commercialized and so forth about make a buck, make a buck.

Well, I'm going to be your hero film clip from one of my favorite movies Miracle on 34th Street.

Thank you.

Make a buck, make a, but that's what it turns into.

You know, that's the way religion has gone.

And it's not do.

We can see in the day of Christ.

When Jesus went to Temple, what did happen.

The religion of God, that turned into a money-making scheme in the Temple.

And so, Jesus had to go over and turn out all over the tables in the money changers and show them that this was a brother in the house of God in a prayer.

And so religion, along the way has been corrupted and the thought of Jesus.

As also, the been corrupted and that we take the idea of the concept of the birth of Christ and turn it into a money-making Ponzi scheme.

If you will, in about how we spend our money and tell her eyes were talking about gift wrap.

What were talking about is the birth of Christ that was wrapped in promise.

The birth of Christ that was wrapped in Scandal and the birth of Christ that was wrapped in love.

And so, as we think about Wrapped in promise.

You can't help but think of going back to the Book of Genesis.