"Mary, Did You Know" Part 3 - Pastor Raymond Woodward

I love you Jesus don't I give you praise I give you praise I give you praise thank if you pray amen you may be seated this morning master Jack just showed me a picture on his phone you remember I can't I think it was the last night of missions conference brother Darrell Westall came up to pastor Anthony mang and it was here speaking and brought a picture of his brother on his cell phone very very very sick in ICU America was needed or he wouldn't survive basically and pastor held up that phone remember and he led us in prayer over that need and pastor Jack to show me that picture but he also showed me another picture yesterday that man was baptized the pastor mark Noel and Gary were so thankful for that that's a real miracle folks we're so grateful to the Lord we are in the final part of a three-part series here at CCC called mary did you know and i hope you've enjoyed the series and been impacted by it hope you've learned a few things about the christmas story that maybe you didn't know before and so today i want to launch into that last part and praying that the Lord would speak to us pastors not to be a long time this morning but I do want to give you something from the word of the Lord it lasted just a moment but it literally defined every minute that would follow it was a hundred and thirteen years ago today December the 18th that the Dayton Daily News ran this article Dayton boys emulate great santos dumont santos dumont was an early brazilian pioneer of hot air balloons spent most of his life in europe and was well known for all of his flying machines hot air balloons and dirigible x' and different machines that floated in the air because of the gas that was used this short article covered less than a quarter page in the Dayton Daily News and it certainly wasn't given front-page headline for the very busy busy week before Christmas rather the news of man's first successful motorized flight was relegated to page 8 of the paper and an adjacent advertisement for to court blue and white enamel Stu pans was far more prominent on the page that seller may and company they advise shoppers to follow the crowds to their East 5th Street location in Dayton and they build their business as quote the store that set the town a talkin the front page lead headline for December the 18th 1903 wasn't anything about the Wright brothers or their motorized flight it was quote stores are filled with Christmas shoppers now that headline wasn't all that newsworthy given our century of hindsight if only the citizens of Dayton Ohio had actually realized what the real news was that day today 113 years ago you see it was the day before that Dayton natives Wilbur and Orville Wright had made the very first successful manned motorized flight somewhere near Kitty Hawk North Carolina actually this pair of professional bicycle mechanics that's what they were they were also self-taught engineers they actually made four flights on December 17 1903 the first flight was a mere hop of twelve seconds but the last one that was the one that did it all it was 852 feet it was a jaunt that lasted 59 seconds almost a minute in the air and with their success the age of air travel literally began that relatively simple biplane gave way to Sopwith camels and Kurtis Jenny's to dc-3s and 707s to Gulf streams and Learjets to Air Canada and United Airlines to massive airports like O'Hare and Heathrow it even led the way to Gemini and Apollo and to a man on the oonh and to an International Space Station all because two unlikely pioneers led the way to a complete change in our thinking perhaps you've seen some film I know I have some of the early attempts at manned flights moustache gentleman in there Victorian suits getting on crazy-looking contraptions they flapped wings and they pedaled belt-driven propellers and they bounced around ridiculously in what would be called probably a gyrocopter it's amusing now to watch there's only a few little short clips a film that have survived it's kind of funny but it wasn't funny back then many people lost their lives in this search for the secret to flight and the reason they look so silly to us today is because we instinctively know that they didn't understand the fundamental principle of flight today we understand that all the flapping and running and jumping was useless it wasn't until the Wright brothers learned how to apply what's called Bernoulli's principle of pressure differentials they began using a curved wing edge and that's when takeoffs stopped looking like a clown act and the course of human history was changed forever on December 17th 1903 at 10:35 a.m. before that moment in time which happened 113 years ago just yesterday those well-intentioned aviators could not have succeeded end of story period they couldn't have succeeded because they weren't dealing at all with reality they had a very faulty theoretical model and so they just couldn't get their contraptions to fly now every day commercial airlines around the world carry about 3 million people most of their passengers don't ever think about the amazing principles of aerodynamics that are actually keeping them in the air I know Beverly doesn't about them I returned from Australia this week a round trip of over 20,000 miles and landed in Fredericton very early on the same day that the Wright brothers made their first flight I spent most of the trip on an aircraft when you fly a lot you have you get weird I have waited all year long to fly on the Dreamliner Air Canada's new Dreamliner and I was in business class and I would say it was slightly more comfortable than the Wright brothers first flight was just slightly I got to listen to music I got to read I get to watch whatever I wanted to watch I get to eat some great food in the air nice hot food I have whatever I wanted to drink non-alcoholic I even got to lay down and sleep it was wonderful and my seat looked just exactly like that so I would say we owe an incredible debt today to the Wright brothers and they didn't travel 20,000 miles they traveled 852 feet for 59 seconds and that little one minute jaunt changed the course of history forever it lasted just a moment but it defined every minute that followed on the evening of December 17 1903 long before we ever had Air Canada and all of this Orville and Wilbur were so excited that they telegraphed this message to their father a man named Bishop Milton Wright he lived back in Dayton they were working in North Carolina and they wrote to their dad Bishop Milton Wright a United Church minister they wrote to him a telegram success for flights Thursday morning all against 21 mile wind started from level with engine power alone they didn't run off a cliff they didn't do any of that craziness they just started from level with just engine power the telegram continues average speed through air 31 miles longest flight 59 seconds inform the press home for Christmas so it's not that the Dayton Daily News didn't know about the big news it's just that they didn't value the big news in all the busyness surrounding the Christmas season and that is maybe the one thing about their story that sounds very familiar to us today the Bible tells us and the Christmas story the reading we always do it always begins with Luke chapter 2 verse 1 and it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed and the Bible is not just a supernatural book it's also a super accurate book and so it sets everything in history and this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria and all went to be taxed every one into his own City now that is a fact of history so you see the decree had come down from Caesar Augustus the Roman Emperor Emperor himself that the citizens of every nation that the Empire occupied should be taxed and that presented a very delicate problem for Cyrenius who was the local governor because how do you get a nation of committed monotheists they've only believed in one God a nation of monotheists like Israel how do you get them to cooperate with Caesars edict that they now become registered taxpayers to Rome which is an empire of committed polytheists they believe in many gods is distasteful and disgusting to the Jewish people Cyrenius knew that there would be a revolt if he directly forced his subjects to pay funds to a Roman Empire that was pagan but the governor of Syria Cyrenius he was he was pretty clever so he came up with this ingenious solution he would marry Caesars decree to a custom that was already built into the Jewish life you see generations before Israel's beloved King David had already taken a sin is according to the various tribes of Israel and that was the solution the people would travel to the place of their birth for the census and while they were at home they would register and they would also be taxed you see he knew that they had grown up and moved away and grown apart and so by going back to the village of their birth they would now be among people that they hardly knew anymore and nobody would be able to mount a rebellion or revolt against Cesar's decree because they were in unfamiliar surroundings it was a brilliant plan and so that's how we come to the Christmas story because although Joseph lived in Nazareth in the region of Galilee he was descended from the great King David himself and thus Joseph was Judean by birth so when that edict came he and Mary set off for Bethlehem the City of David the closer they got you know the story we read it every year the closer they got the more travelers clogged the streets and in the long line of dispersed judyann's all trying to find just a place to lodge for the night in a tiny village it seemed like Joseph and Mary were certainly among those bringing up the rear jokes have asked around but he couldn't find a place to stay certainly not at the end that was packed with travelers every room was full except for a stable it wasn't much but it was dry and warm and at least had the potential to offer Mary a comfortable place to sleep besides they were tired after the long journey with a pregnant lady almost due to give birth it had been a long journey from Nazareth and so this humble place would have to do Luke means for us every time we read it to see the irony in his account of the first Christmas the world of that day is busy big important priorities Caesar is consolidating his empire he's filling his coffers with wealth and Cyrenius he's scheming he's wanting to hold on to the perks of his governorship he has to please the emperor the residents of Bethlehem they're all occupied you know how it is it Christmas they're trying to find room for everybody that's come to visit they're trying to get the nuisance of Caesar census over and then get everybody out of their house and get back to life that's normal as quickly as possible you know how it is the owners of the inn are thrilled at their good fortune that has befallen them due to all the swarming masses of customers and everybody's willing to pay top dollar for even the most meager accommodations life is busy Bethlehem is busy and the Empire is busy and the first Christmas like ours is very very busy but in the middle of the busyness God had been preparing a birth in the middle of the mundane God had been preparing a miracle and it all begun 9 months earlier when a very ordinary virgin girl named Mary had a very extraordinary conversation with an archangel named Gabriel not your usual run-of-the-mill occurrence Mary's response to God's announcement of the Incarnation was first one of astonishment and then one of humble acceptance and we read it in the previous chapter in Luke chapter 1 this is where the Christmas story really begins then said Mary under the angel how shall this be used tell me I'm going to bear a son how shall this be seeing I know not a man and the angel answered and said unto her the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing that is born which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God and Mary if you want to know that this is really going to happen let me tell you something your cousin Elizabeth she's also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy the first Christmas wasn't just about one impossible birth it was actually about to impossible births and Elizabeth who once was called barren it's now six months into a pregnancy this elderly lady and she's going to bear a son that we know as John the Baptist and he will be the forerunner of Mary's son who will be called Jesus it's all supernatural and the angel says to Mary with very powerful words for with God nothing shall be impossible and Mary said at that point well then if with God nothing's impossible then I'm just going to accept this I'm gonna just humble myself and give myself to God's promise behold the handmaid of the Lord be it unto me according to thy word and that's when the angel departed from her and that's when the first Christmas really began Mary exclaimed to the angel but but this is humanly impossible and the angel said Mary you're absolutely right but with God nothing is impossible what is humanly impossible with man is totally possible with God and so sure enough nine months later the greatest miracle in human history happened as God robed himself in a body of flesh and he was born in Bethlehem but just like with the Wright brothers that miraculous news was totally overlooked by people who were simply far too busy to notice something as seemingly insignificant as a baby's birth babies are only important after all to their parents and their family and a few friends they're not important in the scheme of things unless that baby happens to be God robed in flesh and so the people around the first Christmas they missed this miraculous moment entirely they didn't realize that this would be the moment that would define every minute of human history that followed that God in his word he has two words that measure moments two words the first word is a Greek word Chronos Chronos means time that is measured by the clock it's the time we operate on you probably put a little extra Chronos time into your day-to-day to get your driveway cleaned out and get to church it's time measured by the clock but God has a second word for measuring moments in Scripture and that is Kairos another Greek word Kairos isn't like Chronos Chronos comes and goes every day it's measured by your wristwatch and your alarm clock it's measured by your smartphone its measured by your calendar that's Chronos but Kairos means time that is measured by special moments of visitation from God now the key to a Kairos moment is you have to take advantage of it when it happens or you lose it forever and that's what happened at the first Christmas for many people it was a special moment of visitation from God and because they didn't acknowledge it and they didn't submit to it and they didn't embrace it they lost it forever and we read sad verses in scripture like John 1 verse 11 he came unto his own but his own received him not now God has those two words and they measure moments but God also has two words in the scripture that promise power the first is exuse 'ya which means authority and then there's another greek word in the scripture that measures power and promises power to us and it's Dunamis which means ability and the key here is that God only gives us his ability when we like Mary submit to his authority if you submit to God's Authority if you obey his word and you embrace his promise he gives you Dunamis he gives you his ability and so these are God's words the first two they measure moments the second couple of words they promise power and we see them all in one little familiar passage in the first chapter of the book of Acts verse 7 and verse 8 Jesus said to his disciples it's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father is put in own power in other words that's really not your business but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and under the uttermost part of the earth you see the disciples in the first chapter the opening verses of the book of Acts they had just asked Jesus a very Jewish question when are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel when are you going to bring Israel back to prominence and Jesus answer was strange to them but it's very profound when you look at the rest of the Bible Jesus says it's not for you to determine to distinguish between the Chronos and the Kairos you won't recognize the times the Chronos you won't recognize that from Kairos God's special season of visitation see disciples the thing about you is as you go about your daily life it's awfully easy to miss a Kairos moment because you're so busy in your Chronos moment it's so easy to miss a moment of special visitation from God because your calendar is too full and your day-timer is too full and your appointment book is too full you miss Kairos because you're too tied up in Chronos you miss God sees them because you're too tied up in the times and then Jesus said but I have a promise for you and it will turn everything around you shall receive power you can't control Chronos and Kairos 1 just keeps rolling over and over and all of us get older every day that we live and there are some really depressing statistics that I could give you but it's Christmas I'll spare you but let me just say we're all getting a little bit older because Chronos doesn't stop the watch keeps ticking Chronos doesn't stop the calendar pages they just keep flipping and Jesus said to his disciples you don't know how many Chronos days you've got measured on this earth and neither do you know when special moments of visitation from God are going to come because God has put them in his own power they're in his authority they're in his exuse eeeh God has that in his own authority you don't control it you don't get to pick it you can't plan it you can't program it because God puts that in his own authority but here's one thing you can do you shall receive power you can't receive God's Authority but here's what you can receive you can receive God's ability into your life you can receive his Dunamis you can't do anything about time that marches on you can't do anything to create a moment of visitation from God in your life he holds that in his own authority but he's going to give you something he's going to give you ability he's going to give you Dunamis he's going to give you power it's not his authority but it's his power that he's going to share with you and when the Holy Ghost comes upon you just like the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary when the Holy Ghost comes on you it is the moment that changes every minute to come in your life you see the disciples they were looking at the physical Kingdom of Israel that's what they were interested in but Jesus said there's something far greater happening here when you receive the Holy Ghost it's going to change you in such a way that God can use you now to bring about his seasons of visitation and so this is this is the deal Jesus is actually promising the disciples the new birth here the Holy Ghost the new birth in your life and in mind the new birth in the life of every person you love that new birth is the moment that we work for and pray for and strive for that's the reason our church exists that's the reason that the team was out putting door hangers on doors and praying over them this week that's the reason that we sing and preach and pray and witness and work that's the reason we built a building that's the reason we give to support missionaries is because we know that the new birth in any life is the moment that defines every minute that follows it changes everything people don't notice it they hardly give it enough credit and we come here every week and we're like we're like children playing with some huge wonderful thing we're like some of the children on the airplane that I was on this week they're totally oblivious to the fact that they're 38,000 feet in the air flying over the ocean there they're complaining because they didn't get two crackers they're so tied up with the trivial they've missed the miracle I try to give this sermon to Beverly every time I want her to go somewhere with me in a plane you know it's a miracle it's awesome it's incredible it's safe most of all is safe and and and we we can get so tied up in the mundane and so you've got these little kids that they're totally just missing the idea that we're on an airplane we're in a metal tube traveling hundreds of miles an hour and we're doing what took the Wright brothers what would have taken them more than the rest of their lives flying at the speed they were flying in eight hundred and fifty-two increments now we do it in a few hours that we go to the other side of the planet what used to take weeks and even months to do by boat we now do in hours that's the new birth in our lives we come here every week we're a Pentecostal church we'd love to worship we'd love to give we'd love to sing we love preaching we love to get around the altar we love to pray with each other but do you realize what kind of power God has placed in his church do you realize that we do everything that we do so that somebody somewhere in your family or in somebody else's family can experience the moment called the new birth because just like Jesus birth on this planet changed every moment to come forever the new birth in any human life changes every moment that follows that moment the married believe God's promise but she had no idea how he was going to perform it how shall this be how in the world can a virgin teenage girl give birth to a baby but Mary accepted at face value the words of Gabriel for with God nothing shall be impossible if anybody should believe that Scripture it's the Apostolic Church that gets to be part of this wonderful thing called the Church of the Living God around the earth that is not just true for Mary 2,000 years ago that's true for me and for you and for our church family and for our missionaries and for everybody else that's filled with the Holy Ghost with our God nothing shall be impossible come on back to music if you would Mary's very last recorded words in Scripture she doesn't say a whole lot in Scripture in fact almost everything we read of Mary speaking is is around this moment here the moment when the angel appears the first moments of this wonderful story that we call the Nativity there's another little instance when Jesus is he's left behind you remember this in the temple and they travel and then they come back and they ask him you know what's gonna win a hunting he says I don't you know I must be about my father's business but after that moment Mary only has one more spot in Scripture where she says anything that's recorded it's very early in Jesus ministry in fact when John writes his gospel it's in Chapter two it's that early in Jesus ministry it's actually the moment of his first miracle and his mom is there she's cheering him on she's telling everybody what her boy can do and they run out of wine at this wedding and she makes a beeline for Jesus because if anybody knew who Jesus was if anybody knew that Jesus truly was virgin born if anybody knew that Jesus actually was God manifest in the flesh it was the woman the young girl who carried him in her womb for nine months it was the young mother that watched that boy grow up to be a man for thirty three and a half years she knew if nobody else believed and if nobody else knew what he can do she knew what he can do and the very last recorded words of Mary in Scripture are in the opening chapter of the Gospel of John and there at the first miracle Jesus ever performs at the wedding in Cana of Galilee which she turns to a group of servants she says whatever he says to you that's what you need to do whatever my son tells you to do just do it and it'll be okay that's Mary's last words to the great history of Scripture it Mary's last words to us today whatever Jesus says to you to do for heaven's sake and for your sake just do it if Jesus tells you to give it up for heaven sake give it up if Jesus tells you to live this way for heaven sake and for your sake live this way if Jesus tells you you can have the Holy Ghost you can take it to the bank you can have the Holy Ghost if Jesus says I'm healer you can take it to the bank he can do anything those are Mary's last recorded words whatever Jesus says to you do it but Mary does make one more appearance in Scripture she's at the cross she must have been so much in agony but we have no recorded words from her but then she makes her very last appearance and Matthew doesn't tell us about this mark doesn't John doesn't but see Luke wrote more than just one book Luke wrote a gospel and then he wrote a sequel the Gospel tells us what Jesus did the sequel tells us what Jesus church did it's called the book of Acts and Mary's last appearance isn't in one of the Gospels it's in the Upper Room with all the disciples do you realize what that means especially for all of our precious Catholic friends who who go above and beyond and honoring Mary do you realize what that means that means that Mary the one we call the Virgin Mary she was there in the upper room for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost do you know what that means that means that the Virgin Mary she spoke in other tongues as God's Spirit gave her the utterance do you know what that means that means that Mary although she had given birth to the Messiah she still needed to be baptized and she was baptized in the name of her son Jesus Christ for the remission of her sins because Mary wasn't sinless Mary was just like us except she believed what Jesus acts 1:14 the very last appearance of Mary in the scripture these all continued with one Accord in prayer and supplication with the women it's very clear here and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren Mary was there on Pentecost our series for this three weeks has been mary did you know mary did you know that there wouldn't be just one supernatural birth in your life but because of the first supernatural birth when you gave birth to Jesus who was the Messiah when you gave birth to Jesus who was God robed in flesh did you ever dream Mary that there would actually be a second supernatural birth in your future you carried Jesus for nine months as God incarnated himself robed himself in flesh thirty three and a half years later Mary got to carry Jesus in her spirit for the rest of her life she had to supernatural births in her life one she bore God a body of flesh to inhabit and to dwell in but secondly Mary was born again of the water and the spirit like every other Christian in the New Testament in your Bible mary did you know that there would be a second time around when god would be born in you mary did you ever guess that that would be available to the who soever will see today we have the same power in us that Mary had overshadow her it is the experience that happens in just a moment when we received the baptism of the Holy Ghost Pentecostals that moment changes every moment to come in your life that is why we are here that is why we preach and that is why we celebrate Christmas because the message of the first Christmas wasn't just for the first Christmas the message of the first Christmas that God could be born in a virgin that was just a foreshadowing of this message that God can be born in any person that's here any person in your family any person that you love any person that you know it just takes a supernatural birth and because of the first supernatural birth that we celebrate at Christmas every other supernatural birth every one and you receive the Holy Ghost you receive God's ability in you when you receive the Holy Ghost you receive more than a little blessing or a little experience or a little emotional thrill when you receive the Holy Ghost God who has the authority over all of heaven and all of earth God puts some of his ability in you and when you submit to God's Authority you get his ability do you realize who you are you are the Church of the Living God you say but we're just a church congregation we're just kind of in a snowy cold have-not province in the corner of Canada no we're not we're plugged into the supernatural power that is beyond belief we're plugged into a power that can take any life in this community I don't care how bound they are I don't care how destroyed they are I don't care how evil they've been it can take any life in this community and it can turn it around because of the ability of God that rests in this church to preach the gospel and to share their testimony the greatest gift you can give anybody at Christmas is the gift of your testimony the greatest if you can give anybody every other day of the year is the gift of your testimony that's why the Holy Ghost was given the Holy Ghost wasn't given so we can have more exciting Pentecostal services we can feel a quiver in our liver that's not why the Holy Ghost was given the Holy Ghost was given so the testimony of what God has done for you could be shared throughout the world that's why we have missionaries that's why we have pastors and preachers and evangelist but that's why we have saints of God and that's why we have people that teach ESL and that's why we have people that run buses and that's why we have Sunday school teachers and that's why we have youth ministry and that's why we have everything else that we do the gift of the church to our city is not more religion the gift of our church to our city is not more activity the gift of our church to our city is not good living people that don't cause any trouble for the police or the mayor or whoever that's not the greatest gift the church gives to our city the greatest gift the church gives to our city is this testimony that God has been born in me and God can be born in you I experienced the moment a miraculous new birth I experienced the moment that changed every minute to come for the rest of my life I experienced the moment that took my life from not being able to fly at all to a life that's going to fly to heaven on rapture day I experienced the moment that changes everything and here's the message of the church and you can too I've been healed so you can be healed I've been delivered so you can be delivered if God could do it for me God can do it for you that's the greatest Christmas gift this church could ever give to our city and to our province and our nation and our world because God's been born in us and he can be born in them it's the moment that changes every moment that follows I know it's Sunday morning and I know we're kind of a little sparse in our attendance today I got that we had bad weather no problem but Jesus didn't have us all make the effort to come here so we could just go through a ritual and go home Jesus showed up so he could touch somebody's life to them Jesus showed up so he could heal somebody's body today Jesus showed up so he could ease the pain of a troubled mind today Jesus showed up so he could deliver somebody from an addiction today Jesus showed up so he can heal a relationship today Jesus showed up so he can fill somebody with the power of the Holy Ghost today Jesus came here with intention we just going to sometimes just shake ourselves and realize what's really going on here we're like kids on an airplane we don't even realize that the church is flying it is the most powerful entity on the planet there's incredible things happening all around the world and we're just kind of like at one end of an extension cord plugged into incredible power and sometimes we forget your prayer accomplishes great things for God your faithfulness and you're giving your sacrifice they're not in vain you're plugged into something that impacts the world I wish you would lift your hands and lift your voice in the presence of God and in the presence of his people and in the presence of his power and in the presence of his blessing and in the presence of his spirit I wish you just lift your hands and give God praise in this room this morning better look what I've I guess something about that guy if you can't think of anything else to pray for heaven sake thank God for the moment of your new birth it changed everything some of you walked to church this morning with precious little babies in your arms those little babies their lives are forever changed because of the new birth you experienced they were born into a mighty different family than it could have been or it should have been or it would have been before Jesus came but I both winded up I guess someone that I go to get busts son would you stand with me Church please don't get ready to go yet we'll deal with weather and cars and snow in a minute but right now would you lift up your hands right now [Music] son L of ahora que pasa yalla follow Pelham and anuses Sunday rabbinate olaparib assessor rotolo Karev is so terrible lalala Carla voiceover hey a liqueur Abaza edye level OSHA seven de la cabeza so the lava hot Rebecca celebrated of Corvus Jesus it's a little bit of a strange Sunday bad weather and people can't get here and we dug ourselves out and we clean the car off and we came so it feels a little different oh god what if this is the moment for somebody that changes every moment to come but if this is the moment when you want to fill somebody with your spirit but if this is the moment when you want to heal somebody of that disease that they're so scared of what if this is the moment when you want to break the shackles of an addiction in somebody's life that's so hidden away from everybody here but it's got them snared and bound what if this is the moment Jesus when you want to send healing into a home what if this is the moment nobody expected the moment the first time it happened and sadly a lot of times people don't expect that moment of visitation when it happens today but Jesus not us we know that with our God nothing shall be impossible we know that where your name is and where your blood is that where your spirit is and where your word is anything can happen so God I speak your name over this church right now I speak the name of Jesus over the closing moments of this service be born in us again Jesus be born in us again and because you're born in us be born in somebody else use us as your church I pray [Music] Kathy we're good for a second church I need you to lift up your voice one more time in God's presence right now everybody everybody everybody what I'm aria thanks Abba he wrote animal a cat the Arab a lot o local rabbi yesterday Rebecca Rama yes mindo collaboration of Shiva rotala karna Basha the greatest Christmas gift you could give yourself or your family your spouse your children your parents your siblings the greatest Christmas gift you could give anybody is to let God do what he wants to do in your life if you'll submit to his authority he'll give you his ability he'll give you ability to conquer that he'll give you ability to be delivered from that he'll give you ability to be healed he'll give you ability to heal a home a relationship a marriage of friendship he'll give you the thing that you're praying for if you'll submit to his authority he'll give you his ability come on church come on Church come on church you're doing good come on eleven rotella Patrick and MOU Sabah they don't have a river get about your Saba while we're praying just takes somebody by the hand if there's nobody standing next to you move somewhere take somebody by the hand and let's lift all those hands together right now if you'd help pastor lift all those hands together right now husbands and wives and young people and seniors just just lift those hands together right now in the name of Jesus I pray over this group of people that came to this church house on this Sunday morning on this cold wintry day Jesus right now we are in the presence of the Almighty God who split time in half and came to earth and you were born in Mary but that was not the only miraculous birth that was just the first one you were born and Mary again on the day of Pentecost you were born in a hundred and twenty and then it was three thousand and then it was five thousand and now today it's millions and millions all around the world filled with your spirit and Jesus we're part of that number we have a right to expect the miraculous because if you could do it once for anybody you can do it again for anybody and so God we pray right now that you would do what only you can do with you nothing is impossible with you nothing is impossible and so I speak to a sickness in this room this morning and on the authority of the name of Jesus I speak to that sickness and I command that sickness to leave right now in the name of Jesus and never return Gobbo look under his ass other men don't don't look got a base you suffer with man it's impossible but with God nothing shall be impossible I [Applause] speak to an unresolvable situation in a family that's here this morning or is represented here this morning I speak to that situation that counseling can't fix I speak to that situation that arguing can't fix I speak to that situation that all kinds of effort can't fix and I speak to it in the name of Jesus and I say to that situation you are no match for the name of Jesus you are no match for Emmanuel God with us with us in the middle of our problems and with us in the middle of our hurts with us in the middle of our pain and with us in the middle of our difficulties you are no match for the name of Jesus so I speak to that situation this morning and I command it in the name of Jesus to be turned around and reversed and diminished and a let peace dwell there and let love dwell their data kiss so stop but I thought if you will submit to God's authority he will give you his ability if you will take a moment out of your time today he will give you a moment of his visitation men don't look at ma a story Baja in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name let's go Loco you bus yes sir God has been born in us and we exist so he can be born in somebody else so before we leave this morning I'd like every person that's filled with the Holy Ghost here today I'd like you to lift up your voice and pray for somebody that is not here in the building it could be a backslidden child it could be a friend at work it could be somebody that you care for and you love very much but they don't know the Lord like you know the Lord lift up their voice you're their name right now with your voice lift up their name right now in the presence of Jesus lift up their name right now and pray the promise of God over them adabo no solo cord a messy asaba antenna below Tokarev is totally basa then Road Allah by yesterday a botanist so durable otoko abbas Jessa I worship you Jesus I worship you Jesus I worship you Jesus you can do anything you can do anything Heriberto Torah Carol beer Sasha would you just honor the Lord one more time with your worship and with your prayer we're not going to rush out of his presence we want to make sure that the Lord is finished this morning we don't want to be finished before he's finished church just one more time I know it's Sunday morning just one more time lift up that prayer lift up that praise Dana de la boqueria Psel Baba a toulebonne a McCoy image a son or a better Korea hammer paisa Stu Revelator color washes [Music] holla holla back we miss yes [Applause] - NVIDIA sub Jesus I thank you for the privilege of standing in this pulpit this morning thank you for the privilege of preaching the people that get it and believe it and know it and love it Jesus I thank you for the honor I'll be a filled with the Holy Ghost it never gets old it never gets old Jesus be born in me again today be born in me again this week I need you Jesus or God that new birth it changed every moment father ah some of you intercessors faster just gives you Liberty to do what you do if anybody needs to slip out there at liberty to do that we're not trying to hold anybody but my goodness let's just follow the moving of the Spirit let's follow the leading of the Holy Ghost for a minute you don't know what your prayer could be birthing right now let alone a better car washes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus they're not sure so I can't ever see there are the homes about the epidermis [Music] anything abusive two hours [Music] oh you're heavy yes you should tell about the baby available sooner better but the other booster care about you she sues disobey they pushed us thank you Jesus all these fine young men that sit up here and worship and praise God every service I want you guys to come over here in the middle if you would for me please if you need a touch in your body pastor is not trying to hold you in fact you're at liberty to go anytime but these young men they worship God they pray they're so faithful I'm so proud of them they're gonna be our prayer warriors this morning if you need a touch in your body if you need a miracle in your family I'm gonna ask you to come to the altar this morning and these young men are gonna lay hands on you and we're just gonna end service here at the altar I'd love to see anybody that you have a Chronos moment to come to the altar God could give you the moment this morning that changes every moment to come so if you have a need in your family in your body in your life I want you to come they're gonna sing something just softly in the background and we're gonna worship God and if you need to leave you can leave but there's folks coming already guys I just want you to turn around you can all pray for them folks let's end service at the altar this morning if the greatest thing you could do is give yourself a fresh to Jesus in the week leading up to Christmas this is the moment it changes every moment to come these young men are just gonna lay hands on everybody that's here pray for you it is not in their words it is not in their voice it's just in the presence of Jesus that's [Music]

Channel: Capital Community Church

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Keywords: preach, preaching, sermon, capital, community, church, ccc, fredericton, nb, new, brunswick, canada, upc, upci, united, pentecostal, pentecost, mary, did, you, know, pastor, raymond, woodward, christmas, series

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Length: 58min 11sec (3491 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 20 2016