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Just fills with your joy.

And Lord, we just thank you for all the blessings and the love.

And just the amazing.

Joy that you provide for our lives.

In Jesus name, we pray.

Amen.

Words will be on the screen also.

We stay on his way saying.

Play for Christ.

Proclaim.

Thank you.

Please.

Be seated.

Number 217 away in the manger.

Sweet.

No crying.

He makes me by my cradle till morning.

Handsome.

a 240 Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

Cries cries.

Late in time.

Behold Him come.

For the newborn.

Sing the first verse of The First Noel.

The snow.

No, no.

Volume six.

Stand with me as we sang first.

Two verses of Joy to the World.

Repeat the sounding Joy, repeat, the sounding Joy repeat.

Thank you.

Please.

Be seated.

He knows I Was preparing for this and thinking about Christmas.

Of course something we all think about his gifts.

But we all get that one gift every year.

That isn't exactly what we expected may be what we wanted.

I mean if you ever had you know where you hoped that something would come in the mail, you know before Christmas.

Maybe you were a little late on your Christmas shopping this year.

That could have been a real problem.

I know.

James had to tell Jalen that a one of her Christmas presents is now a birthday present because it never quite made it here.

But you know, when things like that happen, when you're hoping for something, and it doesn't happen.

It's disappointing.

You know, maybe it's a phone call.

You're hoping to get her an email about something or text to come through.

You know, you're wanting to hear something or receive something at a certain time.

So you're hoping it's going to be there, but then something happens.

And you're disappointed, you know, expecting something to happen and then it doesn't.

Well, that's the very definition of disappointment.

Using the word, hope in those context when I say you hope to get something.

That's not the way, the Bible uses the word hope.

You know, there isn't a sense of failed.

Hope biblically.

When the Bible talks about hope it is always hope that is already been accomplished.

You know, my favorite definition of hope that I've heard of in the Bible is Hope is the absolute expectation of coming.

Good.

A pretty general definition but a pretty awesome one.

Also your biblical.

Hope is a sure thing.

Biblical.

Hope will never disappoint biblical.

Hope is always there and always fulfilled.

Yeah, that's why we start with Advent.

And we start the Christmas calendar with it because it starts to build that, hope it's a perfect reminder of building up to that.

Hope.

In Hope is the gift that never disappoints.

You know, no matter the weight, no matter the suffering, no matter what happens.

We will not be disappointed because our hope is based upon the work of God.

And it may not necessarily be something that we always fully understand.

But our hope is in knowing that God is good.

And that God is going to bless us.

No matter what the circumstances are.

You know, the Christmas song that the Joe will sing for us here in a few minutes of O, Holy Night.

We find the following line, a thrill of Hope, the weary World rejoices.

You know, if there's ever been a time of a weary world, I think this year would, I definitely qualify, you know, we thought 2020 was the worst but 2021.

It's kind of lag.

I think people feel more weary from everything this year than they did last year.

And you know this, I thought about it, you know, many generations have dealt with things that have made them weary, you know, other things that have happened in our society like the depression, like the great Wars, all those things.

I'm sure had people thinking it can't get any worse than this.

But where was their hope based?

You know, if we look at the price story, we see you know that line, a thrill of Hope, a weary World rejoices.

It was into a dark World.

Shrouded in sin, that Christ was born.

It was when God bird that salvation light in that manger, and if you really think about that story, you know, it sounds.

2. Amazing.

But it should be.

Think of the hope that, that story is filled with.

You know, it's only fitting that with the birth of Christ that one of the main metaphors that's used in the Bible to talk about hope.

Is pregnancy.

you know, Paul applies this in Romans 8 and we talked about a little bit my message last week, you know, as he kind of talks about the things that we experience in life in the trials and the difficulties that are there and he Compares them to the experience of Childbirth.

You know, he talks about how it can be really difficult to go through circumstances in life, not knowing how it's going to end up.

But you know, that's the exciting thing about childbirth is a mother can endure the Pains of childbirth because she is joyfully expectant of that child.

That is to come.

Pause trying to tell us that when we Face trials in life, we should feel the same way.

We should have that same joyful expectation knowing that no matter what we might go through.

God is going to bless us in it.

And God is going to birth something out of that better than anything that we could imagine.

You know, it's always this great.