your Bibles, if you would, to Isaiah chapter 7. I trust that you have a wonderful Christmas season. And I'm so glad that I know that sometimes it can make it difficult with all the different things that are going on with family when a holiday like that falls on Sunday, but yet I enjoy it. It just makes it extra special. And we can come and celebrate. Somebody could say, well, I just don't believe it was December 25th, and that's perfectly fine. I don't know that anywhere in the Bible it tells us the day exactly that it was born. As I was coming in this morning, I was just thanking God that He did come and that we do celebrate it. That's what I think was important to me. I think you can celebrate it every day if you want to. Isaiah chapter 7 and verse number 14. Baptist pastor in the 1930s, in a message about the person of Jesus, wrote words that impact us even this day. He was born in an obscure village. The child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter's shop until he was 30. Then for three years, he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He never went to college. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but himself. He was only 33 when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. He wrote, 19 centuries have come and gone. Now we're 21 centuries. He has come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race, and the leader of the column of progress. He went on to say, I am far within the mark when I say that of all the armies that ever marched, of all the navies that ever sailed, of all the parliaments that ever sat, of all the kings that ever reigned put together, have not affected the life of man on earth as that one solitary life. And the reason that one's solitary life made such great impact that the world, even though it is confused, even though many times it will be ignored, even though many times the true meaning may not come through, the majority of the world will celebrate a day that he was born. And the reason is that one's solitary life was an extraordinary life. Nothing and no one is like unto Jesus. His life is validated and verified with the stamp of the divine. Hence our series during this month, The Miracles of Christmas. I'm going to end the series as I began it with a quote of a pastor of years gone by. He said, I believe in a supernatural Christianity. which presents a supernatural Christ who had a supernatural birth, who lived a supernatural life, who died a supernatural death, who arose in a supernatural resurrection, and who is coming again in a supernatural manner. You see, while Jesus was natural in the sense that He was a man, He had a human nature and a human flesh as you and I have, but yet He is supernatural in that He is God. No part of the Christmas story is immersed in more mystery, more marvel, and more miracle than the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Hence, I'm going to preach this morning on the miracle of His birth. Look with me, if you would, in verse number 14 of Isaiah chapter number 7. Notice, he says, Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. This sign is to the entire house of David, the nation of Israel, but yet even beyond them to you and me today. It's a token. It is an identifying mark. He said, The Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel. Let's pray. Father, I thank You for the sweet Spirit today, the wonderful music, Lord, so many guests, and Lord, the faithfulness of Your people here at Calvary that have gathered this morning. Lord, they don't need to hear me. They need to hear from You. I pray, Lord, today that I would speak Your truth, that You would empower Your Word, that You would speak to us from the pages of Scripture, that You would help us to see Jesus today. to exalt Him, to make much of Him. Lord, You said if we lift You up, You'll draw men to You. Lord, I believe You draw sinners to Yourself like You did me one night in 1984. But I believe You even draw Your saints to Yourself. Lord, that we would be closer to You this Christmas and going into a new year than we ever have been before. Lord, if there's someone here without the Savior, I pray they'll come to know Him. Let Jesus be magnified. And Father, You'll be glorified and we'll thank You for it. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Just as no other part of the Christmas story is filled with more mystery and marvel and miracle than the virgin birth of Christ, so I believe no other part of the Christmas story has been more attacked and mocked and ridiculed and denied by the world than the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Now you and I need to understand this morning that when we embrace the miracle of His birth, that Jesus Christ is the virgin-born Son of God, it will first of all fortify our faith in the Bible. It will fortify our faith in the Bible. What do you mean by that, preacher? Well, you see, you need to understand that there are those who would ridicule and deny the very virgin birth of the Son of God. One person made the statement, he was considered a biblical scholar, and he made the statement that the virgin birth of Christ is a biological and scientific impossibility. And I would say, you're right, and that's why God did it. The virgin birth one bishop made the statement is an unthinkable notion. At the Conference of World Religions, those in opposition to Christianity made the statement, they said, if Christians would give up the teaching of the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, then there would be no problem for all religions to come together. Do you know why? Because when you remove the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from Christianity, you have no Christianity. A New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, claimed that a belief in the virgin birth was a leap of faith. Can I help us understand this morning that the virgin birth of Jesus Christ is not incidental. It is fundamental to what you and I believe as Christians. When you do away with the virgin birth, the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, Christianity comes down like a house of cards. Yet the Bible emphatically and unequivocally states that Jesus Christ was and is the virgin-born Son of the living God. God has staked His integrity, His veracity. Matter of fact, everything that you and I would understand as the reality of the Bible, He has staked everything on His person and His Word on the fact of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. It's been revealed in Bible prophecy. I want us to look at a couple passages tonight, this morning if we could. And if I go quicker than what you can find it, that's fine. Now the first one's going to be easy. It's the very first book of the Bible. Would you turn to Genesis chapter number 3? Genesis chapter number 3. And our first parents have sinned. God has slain two animals to clothe them. He's made an atonement for them. He's going to give them the promise of a coming Redeemer, a Messiah. Can I help us understand that this matter of a Messiah dates back further than just Mary and Joseph. It goes back further than just Isaiah. Or maybe even Moses. No, it goes all the way back to the beginning. The very outset and dawn of human history. And there in the garden, before our parents are expelled from the garden, God gives them a promise. Look at Genesis 3 and verse number 15. He said, I will put enmity between thee. He's talking to the serpent. He's pronouncing judgment upon Satan. who has deceived Adam and Eve, our first parents in the garden, and brought sin into the world. He said, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed. He's talking about the spiritual descendants, those who would follow Satan in their rebellion against God. and her seed. Did you see that? Underline those two phrases, thy seed and her seed. It, talking about her seed, shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Like a snake, like a serpent, you're going to bite the heel. There's going to be a wound But can I tell you, when He bruises you, it's not just going to be a wound, it'll be a death blow. It's to crush the serpent's head. Let me just go ahead and go on record and say this morning, the devil may be alive on planet earth, but he's definitely not well. He was defeated at the cross. Did you notice he did not say his, talking about Adam's seed, but her, talking about a woman, the seed of a woman, the offspring of a woman. You see, from the very beginning of redemptive history, God has told us that there's going to be a Redeemer. There's someone going to come and undo everything that Adam did when he sinned against God. There's someone going to come who will save us from our sins and He will be the offspring of a woman. It's the first announcement of the supernatural birth of the Lord Jesus. As a matter of fact, God preached the first Christmas sermon in the Garden of Eden. No sooner had sin entered the world that God revealed that a Savior would come and that He would be born of a woman. You see, up until this point, all seed is mentioned as coming from the man. When you read the begets of Genesis chapter 5, there's not one woman listed. It's man after man. He beget this son. Who beget that son? Who beget that son? But when it come to the Lord Jesus, it was not begotten from a man. but begotten of God through a woman. You see, prophecy is the hallmark of the divine. The Bible is the only book in the world that contains what you and I understand as predictive prophecy. And God shares what will happen hundreds if not thousands of years in advance. God alone knows the end from the beginning. And God from the very beginning said that when my Son comes, He's going to come as the seed of A woman, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ is rooted in the very outset of redemptive history. Now if you would please fast forward to our text verse Isaiah 7 and verse number 14. Isaiah 700 years before Bethlehem's manger will prophesy that Messiah would be born of a virgin. Notice again our text verse. He said, Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign, an identifying mark. This is how you'll know that My Son has come into the world. Behold, a virgin shall conceive. There are those who seek to water that down in modern versions of the Bible and they translate that young woman. They translate that maiden. Do you realize that this word virgin, the Hebrew word that is translated in our King James Bible, virgin, every time it is used in the Bible it always speaks of a young woman A young woman who is chaste, who is pure, who has never known a man in an intimate, sexual way, it can only mean a virgin. Friend, can I tell you to make it anything else is to strike at the heart of what God has told us about His Son coming into the world. God said a virgin would conceive. A son would be born. And His name would be called Immanuel, God with us. That it would be God's method, God's vehicle, God's operandi, so to speak, to bring His Son into the world that God could become man. That He would be Immanuel, God with us. Do you see the deity and the humanity of Jesus all in one verse? Behold, a virgin shall conceive, there's His humanity, that God sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was made in the likeness of men. He took to Himself a human nature and a human body. But, friend, it didn't stop there. He's Emmanuel. That's deity. He's God with us. That's what we celebrate at Christmas time. Jeremiah 31 verse 22, For the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth. A woman shall compass a man. Oh, it's revealed in prophecy, but I want you to notice it's rooted in reality. Will you do me a favor and fast forward to the Gospel of Matthew? Would you do that? Now I'm going to get to some practical stuff in a moment, but do you realize that the very integrity of the Bible is staked on the miraculous birth of the Son of God? He was born naturally as any other child would be born, but yet He was conceived supernaturally. I love Matthew chapter 1. You come to the beginning of the New Testament. Here, the angel is assuring Joseph that what God has done in the life of the young woman that he's engaged to, Mary, who is a virgin, Joseph feels that she's been unfaithful because she's shared with him that she's with child. She tells him that the angel's announcement, no doubt. He's troubled. He's thinking it through. He's thought on these things. And then the angel comes and tells him not to be afraid to take Mary as wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. Joseph, listen, Mary hadn't been... This is God's doing, Joseph. And then He told him the why. Verse 21, And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. God's at work. God's doing something. And I love verse 22, Now all this was done. that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall we be with child, and shall ring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted as God with us." You see, friend, what God promised, He performed. What He revealed has now reality. The hour has come that the revelation has become a realization as Jesus became man. Two thousand years ago, a virgin conceived and bare a son, a baby that was laid in a manger, and that baby was none other than God Himself. You see, it's rooted in the Scriptures. I want to show you something else very quickly if I could. You're going to see a whole line of baguettes in Matthew chapter 1. Matter of fact, there's 39 of them. But I want you to look at verse number 16. Would you look there? The Holy Spirit is careful to help us to understand the origin of the Lord Jesus. Look at verse 16. After 39 begets, and Jacob beget Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Did you notice that Jesus was not born of natural generation? He uses the phrase, "'of whom was born,' not begat." Joseph is referred to as the husband of Mary rather than the father of Jesus. The "'of whom' in verse number 16 is a feminine, singular, personal pronoun. It doesn't refer to Joseph at all, but to Mary, clearly indicating that Jesus was born of Mary only and not Mary and Mary. Joseph, he may have had an earthly mother, but he had no earthly father. Can you fast forward to Luke chapter number 3? Matthew, Mark, Luke. Chapter 3. You have another line of begets. This is the line of Mary. Dr. Luke, who's the writer of this Gospel, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, again affirms the truth of the Scriptures as it relates to the virgin birth of the Son of God. Look at verse number 23. Would you look there? We wonder, why are all these baguettes in the Bible? Well, here's a little nugget in the baguettes. How about that? Look at verse number 23, And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being, watch the parenthesis, as was supposed. the son of Joseph. Joseph was not the natural father, but the adoptive father of Jesus. Now he was a wonderful man, no doubt. He was the man that God chose to raise His Son. Isn't that an amazing thing? But here's what's important to understand. That the Bible without stammer or apology tells us that Jesus was born of a virgin no less than six times in the biblical record of Matthew 1 and Luke chapters 1 and 2. We understand that Mary is called a virgin. You see, friend, can I help you understand something this morning? A person may deny the virgin birth of Jesus, but they cannot disprove it. That's why we ought to say, let God be true and every man a liar. Jesus said not one word that He had given us would fail. The Scripture, He said, cannot be broken. He said heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away. Friend, listen, the Word of the Lord endureth forever. Oh, that's the rejoy of it when you and I understand the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Listen, when men deny the virgin birth, when they mock it, when they attack it, when they ridicule it, friend, it doesn't shake my faith. It affirms my faith in the Word of God. Because what God said, He's performed. And friend, can I tell you, I love what Peter said. And he said, this is the word by which the gospel is preached unto you. Friend, the good news is this, that the virgin birth is true. And the gospel's true because if the virgin birth is a lie, then the gospel's a lie. It'll fortify your faith in the Bible. Number two, let's get practical. Can we do that? It teaches us that nothing is too hard for God. Look back, if you would, Luke chapter number 1. We're sort of spending some time in the Scriptures today. And here's the angel's announcement to Mary that she would conceive and bear a son. That God would perform a biological miracle and create within her womb a human nature and a human body by which the second person of the Trinity would clothe Himself in humanity. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in flesh. Notice, if you would please, in verse number 34. And then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? It wasn't that she questioned what God was going to do. She just didn't understand how. The angel informs her, verse 35, the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee. The power, watch this, the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And I love verse number 37. By the way, verse 36 talked about Elizabeth who was barren going to have a child. And say, listen, just want you to know, God can do anything. I love verse 37. For with God nothing shall be impossible. I just want to go on record this Christmas Eve and say there is nothing too hard for God. Isn't that a blessing? By the way, if the first man Adam got here without a man or a woman, and if God can bring a man into this world without a father or a mother, I don't think He has any trouble bringing a man into the world with a mother only and no father. What do you think? Can I remind us this morning, our God is the Almighty God. He's Almighty. Now to Him that is able, to exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us." You know what we need to stop doing? We need to stop asking, can God? And we need to start affirming, God can. That's what we need to do. Instead of, can God? It needs to be, God can. Aren't you glad God can this morning? I thought about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego as they were getting ready to be thrown in that fiery furnace. And Nebuchadnezzar said, Who's that God that's able to deliver you? And they didn't hesitate. They didn't ask for time to pray about it. They didn't have to go check it out and discuss it. No, they without flinching, without hesitation said, Our God is able. Aren't you glad God's able today? Let me tell you what God's able to do. can take the womb of a virgin and create a body, a human nature and a human body in that womb and bring His Son into the world. A biological miracle defies scientific logic. By the way, that's why it's a miracle. Right? You following me? If it was possible, it wouldn't be a miracle. If it was possible, you don't need God. Let me tell you what this will do. You say, preacher, what does it teach me? It teaches me that my God can do anything. That means He can strengthen me for the journey. Listen, there's times the way gets hard. There's times the mountain's steep. I don't know about you, but there's times that I get weak and weary. There's times that we face things in life and we don't think we're going to make it. I've got good news. There's nothing too hard for God. Christian, you are going to make it. I don't know what 2024 holds. Every time we get ready to end a new year and start another, there's always two types of emotions. There's anticipation, but there's also hesitation. There's anticipation that somehow this is going to be a breakthrough year. Somehow this year's going to be better than any other year. Somehow things are going to change because this year's been really bad. So this coming year, it's got to be really good. But yet there's a hesitation because we don't know, do we? I don't know what's going to happen in 2024 and you don't know what's going to happen in 2024, but I've got good news for you. My God's already in 2024. And the same God that saw me through this year is going to get me through next year. He can strengthen me for the journey. There's people in our church you've had a hard year. There's Christians in this room that you've had struggles like you've never had before. There's people in our church, sweet, precious Christians that have gotten news that's less than desirable, that's actually rearranged and changed the very framework of their lives and their future. And you're wondering how you're going to get through it. And you're wondering if you're even going to make it. I've got good news for you. Your God can see you through. Do you realize the phrase, be strong, as it relates to being strong in the Lord, is found 40 times in the Bible? You know what that tells me? You're not alone. You're not the only one that ever thought they weren't going to make it. Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. We'll give you a verse that I believe will help you. Isaiah 41.10. You ought to remember it. You ought to memorize it. Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, yes, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Christian, you know what the virgin birth of Jesus Christ teaches me? That my God can do anything and He can strengthen me for the journey. Number two, I want you to jot this one down. He can answer your prayers. I love Jeremiah 33, don't you? Call unto me and I will. answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not." Christian, God wants to show you some things in the coming year that you have no idea what your God can do. God's going to show up. God's going to break through. God's going to do some amazing things. Hey, I'm glad that I've got a God who can do anything. He can strengthen me for the journey. He can answer my prayers. He can meet your need. Do you know the same God that feeds the birds and clothes the flowers is the same God that's promised to take care of you? That's why He says take no thought. You know what? There's already some anxiety as we end one year and get ready to begin another one. Can I tell you the virgin birth of Jesus Christ tells me that God's already met my greatest need. That's the need of a Savior. And you know what? Everything else is going to flow out of that. I don't need to worry about a thing because He's got everything. I'm glad somebody sings the song, He's got the whole world in His hands. I've got better news than that, friend. He's got you in His hand, and He's got me in His hand, and nobody can take us out of His hand. Isn't that a blessing? Let me tell you what, a God can do anything. Not only can He strengthen you for the journey. Not only a God that can bring His Son into the world through a miraculous virgin birth. Hey friend, He can answer your prayers. Do you realize that the birth of Jesus through a virgin was an answer to prayers? There were people that were praying and desiring some godly people in the world had lived in a sin-darkened world. And they said, Oh God, would You send Your Son? Oh God, would You send the Messiah? Oh God, would You send the Redeemer? I thought about Simeon. I thought about Anna. They were looking for the Messiah. And friend, you know what? He came. And I'm going to tell you what, there needs to be a generation of Christians in 2024 that ought to be crying out for Jesus to come again. Let me give you this one. You ready? He can meet your need. and He can make a way when there is no way. I'm reminded when the children of Israel stood at the Red Sea, they had an ocean on one side, mountains on the other side. They had the Egyptian army behind them. They didn't have anywhere to go. They were surrounded, so to speak. You know what God told Moses to do? He said, you tell them to go forward. He said, you just tell them to go walk right into that ocean. That's what I want you to do. Isn't that amazing? Moses is going to take a rod, and he's going to stretch forth that rod over the Red Sea, and God's going to part it. And if you think there's a little cow path that they got through, friend, you don't have much of a God. He backed that thing up about 20 miles. They walked across 50,000 abreast. They were kicking up dust. God can make a way. I don't know what you need in your life, but I can tell you this, God can make a way in your life. He can make a way in your marriage. Let me jot this one down real quickly. I'm just going to keep going. He can give you hope for your future. Aren't you glad we're more than conquerors? Aren't you glad that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus? I'm going to tell you, if you read the headlines, you're going to live a discouraged life. I'm hearing it now. Prognosticators. 2024 will be the worst economic on record. 2024 is going to be this. 2024 is going to be that. I'm just going to let you know something, friend. My God's in charge. I don't know what's going to happen in 2024, but I'm going to tell you this. The same God that brought His Son into the world in a miraculous kind of way is the same God that can meet our needs, see us through and give us hope for our future. Let me give you the last one. Are you ready? He can see us to glory. We're kept by the power of God. He which hath begun a good thing in you, Philippians 1.6, shall perform it, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. You know what? I've got good news. The day I stepped on the road to glory, friend, I am guaranteed by God to step off on the other side. Isn't that a blessing? You see, the virgin birth of Jesus, when that angel said to Mary, with God nothing shall be impossible. He didn't just have a message for her. He had a message for us. He was reminding us there's nothing too hard for God. Can I give you the last thing? The virgin birth and when I embrace the miracle of His birth, not only does it fortify my faith in the Bible because God has rooted His integrity and His veracity in the Scriptures. And friend, listen, you and I can trust what God says. He said, Thy word is truth. Anchor yourself to the Word of God. It teaches us, when I embrace the miracle of the virgin birth, it teaches us that nothing is too hard for God. And then here's the third lesson I learned from it. It assures us of the way to heaven. It assures us of the way to heaven. Do you realize that apart from the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, every one of us would be lost? Do you realize that? You see, a thief can't die for another thief. And a murderer can't die for another murderer. They have to die for their own crime. They can't die for anybody else's crime. And for Jesus to die for us, He had to be born of a virgin. Because a sinner cannot take the place of another sinner. Isn't that powerful? You see, you think about the blood right now that flows through your veins. Do you realize the blood of the child is not determined by the mother, but by the father? It's the father that contributes that. Do you know the baby in a mother's womb doesn't share its mother's blood? Through the placenta, the mother shares oxygen and minerals and nutrients and other life-giving necessities for that baby, but not one drop of blood is interchanged between the baby and its mother. That's why when they do a blood test to determine who may or may not have fathered a child, they don't take the father and the mother's blood, they take the father and the baby's blood. It's the Father that determines the blood. And every one of us has the blood of Adam flowing through our veins. It is sinful blood. We have a sinful nature. Wherefore, as by one man's sin entered into the world, and death by sin, And so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Every time we go to a graveyard, it's a reminder of the curse of sin on the human race, that we're sinners, that the wages of sin is death. Now listen to me carefully. Had Jesus been the son of Joseph or any other man for that matter, He would have inherited a sinful nature and He would have been unfit and unqualified to be the Savior of the world. That's why Satan hates the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Because if he can do away with the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, he's done away with the Savior. But Jesus was born of a virgin. He had an earthly mother, but not an earthly father. Do you realize the blood that flowed through his veins, it was human blood, but it was sinless blood. It was innocent blood. It was pure, powerful, and precious. That's why the Bible tells me that were to take heed, he says, take heed to yourselves and the flock of God, to pastors over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, listeneth, which he hath purchased with his own blood. I John 1.7, The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all, not some sin, not most sin, not many of our sins, but all sin. Remember what Peter said? You're not redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without spot and without blemish. Had Jesus been born like every other person's been born, He would not have been without blemish. He could not have been the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. If the virgin birth is a lie, we're in our sins and we're hopeless. And what we're doing here today is a waste of time. Do you realize the blood of Jesus is the only detergent in the universe that can wash away the stain of sin in our lives? Oh, thank God for the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Thank God that Mary said, be it unto me according to Thy Word. I don't understand it. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand all of it, but God, if this is what You want, then that's what I want. You do what You need to do. And then Mary through her submission became the vehicle through which God would use the life of a virgin to bring His Son, the Savior, into the world to save sinners like you and me. Friend, it's not incidental. This stuff we're talking about today, the miracle of His birth, it is fundamental to everything we hold dear. Jesus became what we are that He might make us what He is. The Son of God became the Son of Man that He might take the sons and daughters of men and make us the sons and daughters of God. That's the miracle of Christmas. But as many as received Him, to them gave you power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Preacher, what do you learn from the miracle of His birth? Oh, it fortifies my faith in the Bible. I don't have any doubt. With every fiber of my being, I believe every word from cover to cover, and I even believe the cover because it says Holy Bible. How about that? Thy Word is truth. It teaches you. Listen, at this Christmas time, I want you to know something. You're going to need this. It's going to teach you that your God can do anything. He can do anything. Nothing's too hard for God. Don't quit praying. Don't quit trusting. Don't quit serving. Don't quit loving. You just keep on keeping on because you're God's able. and then it assures us of the way to heaven. Friend, the good news of Christmas is that you and I can spend eternity with God. We don't have to go to hell. We can go to heaven through His Son, Jesus Christ. What a gift. Oh, friend, listen. You take everything else away. You remove the decorations. You remove all of it. Friend, can I tell you, it's still worth celebrating. Amen. Let's bow our heads in prayer.