You. Yeah. I you. you you Oh, it's so good to have you here sharing this special day with us and your family. And we have many guests here. We want to recognize you all in just a few moments. And before we get started, a very important thing. Someone would like to go home in a little while. And in the ladies' restroom, they left something very important that's going to allow them to go home. So if that's you, we'll keep them up here for safekeeping. You tell us what kind of a car it is and we'll give it to you. Otherwise, we'll auction your car off later. And that'll be fine. It'll be easy to know. It'll be the one that's left in the parking lot. Well, God bless you. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to stand in just a moment. We're going to take a hymn book. We're going to sing, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. And while we're singing that, We'd like to have the Christmas Volunteer Choir. What is a Christmas Volunteer Choir? Well, that means that if you ever sang anywhere, at any point, any time in your life, then you are welcome to come and be in the Christmas Choir. We're going to sing one song. It's just the chorus. Just the chorus. And you will sing right along. You don't have to worry about having practice or anything like that. All you're singing is the chorus, The Birthday of the King, and it's right in the hymn book. You'll be able to follow right along. And even if it's the first time you've ever sung that song, it's an easy song to sing. You can go home saying, I sang in the choir at Volusia County Baptist Church. So when we start to sing, the folks who normally are in the choir are going to come up and lead the way. You don't have to sit in any particular place. It'll be sprinkled. Guys, girls, it'll be OK. Teenagers, moms, dads, grandparents alike. And so you come and be with us, and we'll have you up here just for a little while, and then we'll have you go back down to your seats after we sing. So let's all stand together. Brother Dave's going to come lead us. 267. 267, you're going to hear him go. As the choir comes on. I heard the bells on Christmas day ring loud and sweet the words we bring of peace on earth and good to men. On that fourth verse. Then filled the bells for loud and deep All right, there's one more verse. Now, there's some of you just lagging behind, and this might be your last opportunity to sing at Volusia County Baptist Church. It might be your visiting time, and you come and join up there with us. Plenty of room for everyone as we sing the last verse. Come on. Come on. Thank you. You may be seated. Amen. God bless you. You may be seated. Thank you so very much. Well, I hope you received a bulletin on the way in, and printed in the bulletin is our Scripture reading, and we can't read too much of the Word of God. We'll be sharing some of this later on in the service, but if you'd look, please, at Luke chapter 2, and if you'll read aloud with us on the bold print, and we'll read this together. I'll begin in verse number 8. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. What a wonderful message for our hearts today, and I'm so glad to have you here in God's house. A joy to serve the Lord together. A lot of folks are just kind of taking it easy today, but let me remind you whose birthday it is we're celebrating. This is Jesus' birthday. And although we don't know that it was exactly December the 25th, and we'll never know that, it's probably good that we don't know that. because we would perhaps worship the day instead of worshiping the Savior, Jesus Christ. And so we do set aside a day for us to worship our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is today. And Brother Randy Taylor, would you come please, sir? I'd like you to lead us in prayer this morning. And we have many folks that are here. You just don't know on a Christmas Day service, you just don't know how many folks are actually going to make the extra effort that a lot of folks, you understand a lot of churches are not having services today. And we're not doing this to prove anything. We're not doing this to try to say that we're spiritual or anything like that. But it just seemed appropriate that on Jesus' birthday that we don't cancel service to worship Him. It just seemed a good thing, an appropriate thing, and I'm glad that you agree with that, and you being here is the reason. Thank you so very much. Brother Randy, God bless you, sir. At least send prayer if you would. Let's pray. Our dear Lord Jesus, thank you. You've been so good to all of us here. That's the reason we come. And now, Lord Jesus, thank you for the time we get to celebrate, Lord, your coming and the reason for your coming. Lord, thank you to God. For the ones here, they could have not come, or they could have gone somewhere else. Well, Lord, thank you. Thank God you brought them here. And now, Lord, I know a pastor has a message that would, Lord, you would want taught. Lord, I pray our hearts would be ready to receive this message. Lord, may we leave here, oh, Lord Jesus, more like you than we came. And Jesus, tell more people about you. Now, Jesus, thank you for you and the songs that will be sung and the way they're sung and the way you're uplifted here. We sure love you, Jesus. Thank you for loving us. In your name we pray. Amen. Well, we're blessed to have instruments praising the Lord. And it's wonderful to have Miki Novakovich back in town. And she's busy teaching. And the Lord's using her in a mighty way. And we're so thankful for what God's doing through her. She's way over here in the orchestra. And so we're going to use our cameras and things to put her up on the screen so that you can see her as she plays beautiful Christmas music. God bless you. You You you You You So, Can you just give us one more chorus? Just go ahead and rest. Go ahead and rest. Could you just go ahead and give us one more chorus? That's the beauty of not recorded music. Just maybe fall on your knees over here, anywhere you want. Anywhere you want to play, Mickey. That'd be just great. do do Well, we're going to do something that you may not have ever done in church before. I don't know. But this is a special day. This is a special day. And so what I'd like to do is, let's sing. We're about to sing something about the birthday of the King. Let's sing Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus. Just if you would, we'll have the instruments drop out. There's our note. Ready? Here we go. Just our voices. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Jesus. Happy birthday to you. We don't normally sing that as a Christmas song, but that's very fitting today. And maybe this might be something you might want to do as a family. I don't know. The Birthday of the King. In the little village of Bethlehem There lay a child one day And the sky was bright with a holy light For the place where Jesus lay Alleluia! Oh, how the angels sang, Alleluia! How it rang! And the sky was bright with a holy light. T'was the birthday of the King. T'was a long, But oh, how much God gave to us that day. From a manger bed, what a kindness lent. What a perfect holy way. Alleluia, how the angels sang. Alleluia, how it rang. And the sky was bright with the holy light. "'Twas the birthday of the King." We're here to celebrate His birthday and to give Him praise, give Him the glory due unto His name. Choir, thank you so much for letting me sing with you all. What a great job! What a beautiful-looking choir! Amen! We ought to have about... Yes! Some of you look so good up here. You'd look good up here every Sunday. You really would. You really would. God bless you. You may be seated. Thank you so much. We have some guests in there. And so we'd like to recognize every person, whether you're in the choir loft or out here. And if we could take a few moments. And family, if you would like to please introduce, if you have some family members as guests, We'd love to have you introduce them. I know you're proud to have them here with you. So we'll start over here on your right, over here. Anybody in these two sections, if you'd just stand and introduce your guest for us. Right back there, yes. They don't have to stand, but you can stand for them. Amen! There is an award for the most guests, I think. Right here. Hey, Gabriel. Oh, bless your heart, buddy. All right. Yes, right here. All the way from Maine. God bless you. Amen. Yes, Don. from Jacksonville. God bless you all. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Yes. Wonderful. From Daytona. Good to be with grandparents. Amen. Amen. Anyone else over here I missed in these two sections? Okay. All right. How about in the middle sections right here? Right here in the middle. Yes, stand up there if you would. They don't have to stand. Wonderful. Good to have you all here. Amen. Anyone else I missed over here in these center sections? Yes, Nathan. Amen. Wonderful. So good. You filled your pew. God bless your hearts. So good to have you all here. Thank you for coming. Who else? Anyone else here in the center sections? All right, how about over here on these two sections over here? Stand up there if you would, by the way. Amen. Wonderful. Congratulations, you two. God bless you. Amen. Yes. From South Carolina, daughter and grandson, so good to have you all here. Amen. Yes. Amen. So good to have you all here. Thank you all for coming today. God bless you. Anyone I missed anywhere? Anyone I missed anywhere? I'm looking. I'm looking. Okay. All right. Well, we're so glad to have you here and want to remind you that on Saturday night, that's of course New Year's Eve, we're having a special Christian film. And we do trust that you could come. It's not a watch night service per se. We'll meet at 6.30 and we'll have some refreshments available. We'll have the film there in the activities building. And you'll be able to have actually popcorn during the movie. And we'll have some hot dogs and things available if you want. And we'll just have a good time of fellowship. And miracles from heaven. is the name of the movie, Miracles from Heaven. And some of you have seen that movie, and so you're going to be repaired. Ladies, you're going to have some tissues in your purse, ready to go. And it's not a chick flick, but it will strum your heart strings like the heart. and the harp that we had played, and that'll be a great thing. And then on Sunday, January 1st, please, please be in church the first day of the year. I can't imagine starting the year off in a better way than to be in God's house and saying, Lord, I'm in church reporting for duty, you know, and start it off the right way. And we'll have calendars for the year available. That'll be a vision day. Vision day. Looking at what God has in store for us. We'll be revealing the theme for the year. And you'll be able to see all the big days throughout the church year. We won't go over everything, but you'll be able to have that available. And here's what we'll do. The calendar costs $10, but I feel very badly about asking you to pay for the whole calendar. I wish that we could just give everyone a calendar, but you can imagine, you know, if we have, oh, I don't know, Do the math. If we had 400 people here and gave them all calendars, that would be quite an investment. So if you could give even $5 towards a calendar. Now, you may spend everything that you have here in the Christmas time, and you'd say, hey, I don't have anything. I don't have a dime. Guess what? We'll let you have one on installments. No, I'm teasing. We'll let you have one. You need to have one of these up on your refrigerator, in your kitchen, or somewhere. You'll really like it. It's full color, professionally done, and full size, and all that kind of thing. So we want you to have this to kind of keep up with what's going on. Pastor Aaron came up with an idea of how you can get it for free. He said that if you bring a guest next Sunday, Just bring the guest's visitor card to the table and you'll get a calendar for free. That means he'll pay for your half. He's not here. But seriously, we'll give it to you for free. We'll give it to you for free. And you give us a visitor card of someone that you invited, a neighbor, a guest. You might tell them, what a way to have a fresh start. Did anybody get a card in Orange City? If you were in Orange City, you were supposed to get a card from the church. Did anybody get a card? Oh, yeah, lots of hands, okay. And we just sent it out letting folks know, reminding them that we're here. And what a good opportunity to have a fresh start and to get in church on January 1st. So anyway, that's a wonderful thing. A lot of other announcements. I'm going to just belay all those. But those two, Saturday night, 6.30 and then also, did it say 6.30 or 7 o'clock on the screen? 6.30. Okay, good. So 6.30 and then you'll be out of here in good time before the crazies get driving. You'll get home before everything gets kind of nasty outside, God willing. You may not need your hymn book for these Christmas carols. Brother Dave's going to come and lead us in quite a few Christmas carols. As he leads us in the carols, the choir may go down. You can go back down to your seats, and you won't need a hymn book. Choir, just keep singing as you're walking, okay? And we'll start off by singing, Joy to the world, the Lord is come. It's page 270, but let's all stand together, and we'll just sing the first verse of these carols. The First Noel. From a thirst no man can quench, And no man could ever quench ♪ Hail, hail to the brave ♪ ♪ On the sea we'll be fishing ♪ ♪ On the ground we'll touch the sky ♪ ♪ And rise again ♪ ♪ Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel Angels from the realms of glory. Chose from the wrath of a holy maker, the poor of the earth, He sits in creation's store, and when the world is silent, He comes and worships. Silent night, holy night! Silent night, holy night, all is calm. Let's sing that through one more time without the instruments. If you know a part, sing it. Wait, wait, wait. Silent Night. Can we give it some ambiance here? Let's pull the lights down, if you would. Pull the house lights down. There you go. Bring it on down. Bring it on down. Yeah, everything. Everything. Ah, that's a little better. That's good. Nice and slow. From your heart. Silent night. Holy night. All is calm, all is bright, Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child. Holy infant so tender and mild, Amen. You may be seated. We're going to change things up just a little bit. And ushers, I want to give you a heads up. We're going to go ahead and do our offering in a moment. So go ahead and make ready if you will. And just gradually, just gradually, you can bring your lights back up, sir. Just nice and slow. What a joy to sing praises unto the Lord, sing these carols. We only get to sing them just occasionally. just a few times in the year and so we we want to cherish this time ushers come on down if you will receive the offering this is our Christmas Day offering birthday for Jesus you might say I hope that you did not forget Jesus on your birthday list this is not about Volusia County Baptist Church This is about worshiping the Lord. And the wise men gave that example. The wise men came and they brought precious things. They brought gold. They brought frankincense. They brought myrrh. We're going to see that in just a few minutes. And they traveled, took great expense, great effort on their part. And the Bible says they went back to their home rejoicing. Rejoicing. So we can be like Ebenezer Scrooge, get all we can, can all we get, and sit on the can. Or we can say, Lord, you have been so good and so gracious to me, to my family, not deserving of a bit of your blessing. I just want to tell you I love you. That's what this is about. That's what this is about. So if God lays that upon your heart, if you're a member, if you're a visitor, normally I don't encourage visitors to take part in the offering. Normally I don't. Okay? But I don't want to hinder you from worshiping the Lord here. Okay? So you're allowed. We're not asking you to, but you're allowed to take part in this time of worship. Let's bow in prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you so very much for all that you've done in our hearts and our lives. Thank you, Lord, for that precious night that you entered this world, this cold, dark, sinful world. and you in your holiness and righteousness, you came to be our Redeemer and our Savior. I pray now that you'll bless both the gifts and the givers. May this be a sweet time. May it be a time that we say to you, I love you. Thank you for being my Savior. We pray this in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen. God bless you. So, You. The. We'll go ahead and make ready. Go ahead and get in place. Rejoice, singers, if you will. And then we'll have a chorus. And then we'll ask all the boys and girls, after all that, to come down front if you want. You can have a front seat. And so I'll call you all down and ask you to take part in that. Listen as the ensemble sings about our Savior, Jesus Christ. It's called this child, this child, separate and apart, different, God in the flesh, to die in our place so that we could be in heaven with the Lord. God bless you. you This child sent from heaven, this child Emmanuel, this child is paradise of our God to dwell. This Child, Son of Mary, This Child, Prince of Peace, This Child, Lord of Mary, The angels would sing, This Child, He's the Son of the Living God. Born a child, a King, in light to all, He raised His child, the Lord of all. This child, our Savior, this child is born again. This child, our Redeemer, is an angel to see. He's the Son of the Living God. Born of child, a King with right to all He brings. This child is Jesus He's the Son of the Living God Born a child, a King With life to all He brings This child, this one The mother's lonely son, this child, this child, a king, a king, to him I pray to sing, this child. O Lord, O Lord, O God, this child. O Lord, O Lord, O God, this child. O Lord, is just one of us. He is Lord of all, King of kings, Lord of all. What a joy. Thank you so very much. And there in your bulletin, you also have the words to a great chorus we love to sing here. It's called Immanuel. His name is called Immanuel. What's that mean? Tell me. God with us. He's God with us. Sing it just from your seats there, then we'll stand. Here we go now. Sing it together from your hearts. Immanuel, Immanuel His name is called Immanuel God with us, revealed in us, His name is called Eve. Okay, now. You probably don't need the words. It's a simple chorus. This time when we stand, I want you to envision and imagine yourself that you're there in Bethlehem. You got the word from the angel, and you have come as a shepherd, and you're standing there, and you're looking at the little Christ child, and you're singing to yourself this song, Emmanuel. His name is called Emmanuel, God with us, the prophesied one. He's here, and I get to see him. Let's stand together. Sing as a worship unto the Lord now, not as a chorus for our church. A worship unto him. Here we go. Emmanuel, Emmanuel His name is called Emmanuel God with us, revealed in us, His name is called Emmanuel. All right. Now, for just a moment, don't lose that whole feeling, okay? But if you would, be friendly one with another. I'm going to ask at this time, moms, dads, if you're okay with your children coming on down front, while we're shaking hands, they can slip on down. They can stay with you if you want, or they can come down here. As we shake hands, fellowship one with another. Go ahead, and mom, dad, if you want to come with your child, that's fine. That's fine, if you want to come with your child. Yeah. Emmanuel, Emmanuel His name is called Emmanuel God with us, revealed in us, His name is called Emmanuel. Well, God bless you. You may be seated. All right. As a church family, we're gathered together to worship the Lord. As a church family, we're setting aside this special time, and I did not try to get you and your family here under false pretenses, and we're not here to pound anybody on the head, nothing like that. We're here to point people to Jesus Christ. He is the Savior. He is the only way to heaven. If there was, think about this, because you know the redemption story, because you know of the great suffering that he went through, why would God have allowed Jesus to go through all of that if there was any other way for someone to go to heaven? He said, Lord, if it would be possible, let this cup pass from me. Jesus himself, he said, if there's any other way, any other way, but there was no other way. That's why he came to die in our place. He came as a babe, and he grew as a youngster like these boys and girls right here. Jesus was your age one day. He was, like this little boy right here. Can you stand by me? Lookie here. Could you imagine that Jesus, Was this size right here? He was a little boy. He played. He was a teenager. You did a very good job helping me. Somebody took your seat. So boys and girls, what we're going to do is this. For every boy and girl, by the way, we have a special gift for you. And on your way out, we want you to have that. And so thank you for coming. But because you're here and down front and things, you're going to have a close-up view. As we read the Christmas story, I invite you to turn with me. The first passage will be Luke chapter 2. And as we read this, the boys and girls will see it come to life before their eyes. Luke chapter 2, the Bible says, 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 this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea under the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you, he shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.' And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them." Boys and girls, this really happened. This really took place. There was a real man named Joseph, and that man named Joseph, he fell in love with a wonderful young lady. named Mary. He asked Mary to be his bride. But you see, God asked Mary to bear the Christ child. And before they were married, she was with child. And she was afraid because she and Joseph had not been married yet. And God told Joseph, don't worry. This child is for me. This is the Messiah. This is the promised one. He has come to be the Savior of mankind." So Joseph protected and took care of Mary, and the little Christ child grew. And sometime later, the Bible tells us in Matthew, the Bible says that there were some wise men that came. In Matthew 2, verse 1, Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born, king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes, the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah? For out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod, when he had privilege, called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he said unto them, and he sent them to Bethlehem and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when ye have found him, bring me word again that I may also come and worship him also. When they had heard the king, they departed. And, lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over the place where the young child was. And when they saw the star, They rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were coming to the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother and fell down and worshiped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh." Boys and girls, do you know why they presented unto him gold and frankincense and myrrh? See, gold was very valuable. Gold was a gift for a king. And it was as if they were saying, yes, we recognize that he, Jesus, is king. He's just a child, but he's the king. The king of kings and lord of lords. And his frankincense, that was a very costly fragrance. And it spoke of his priesthood, that he was our go-between, between us and God. And then myrrh. Myrrh was an advance. It was a preview of the day that he would die, that he would die on the cross for my sins and for yours and the sins of the whole world. Gold and frankincense and myrrh. Do you smell something? Do you smell like something? Don't worry. Nothing's burning. This shouldn't be. But they're burning that incense so that you can kind of smell what it was like in that day. Boys and girls, look up there. Now, this is just us trying to remember in a visible way what took place on that night. The shepherds did come, and they did say, you'll never believe what I saw. I saw angels, and they told me about a babe in a manger. And then we went, and sure enough, the baby was there just like he said. And the wise men, They traveled hundreds of miles because they knew that something special had happened. Would you drop the lights just a little bit and let's sing one more time. Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright. Let's sing it together. Here we go. Silent night, holy night. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? will be dismissed in just a moment, in just a moment, before we change anything or do anything different. You know the phrase, wise men still seek Him? The little voice of a babe will one day be the voice of many waters, the voice of thundering power, the voice of sovereign authority of the Almighty God. The first time He came, He was laid in a manger. The next time he comes, he's sitting on his throne, the throne of David. He's going to rule and he's going to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And everything that this book talks about is going to take place. You say, well, how do you know that? There are so many prophecies that have to be fulfilled that today, We can see exactly, yes, people are crying out for this and crying out for that. They're ready. The stage is all set. And today, just perhaps, God is knocking on your heart's door. And He's doing it with politeness and courtesy and kindness and love. And it's not because you have to. It's because you would want to open your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ. He'll forgive your sin. He'll save your soul. He'll give you purpose in life and a home in heaven. We have to repent of our sin. That's a change of our mind about our ways. God, I'm wrong. You're right. And I'm sorry for my sin. And God, if you'll forgive me, take me to heaven, I'm trusting you to be my Savior. You might be six years old. You might be 67 years old. I don't know. But what better day to invite Jesus Christ into your life and receive the gift of salvation than Christmas Day? We're not going to have an altar call where you come forward. I'm not going to ask you to walk the aisle and come down here. You might be a guest. and you might sense something very real is happening in your heart and life, why not invite Jesus to be your Savior? The Bible says, 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. What you hear now is the voice of a baby, but what you hear inside may be the voice of Almighty God. Would you bow your heads with me, please? Your heads are bowed, your eyes are closed, no one looking. I wonder if you would say, Brother Mark, I don't know what to do. I sense that God is drawing me to himself, but I don't know what to do to receive that gift of salvation. Would you let me help you? If you will pray a prayer from your heart, you can whisper it right there where you're at. With the mouth, confession is made into salvation, the Bible says. Why not receive him today as your Savior? Pray something like this, but mean it from your heart, would you? Dear Lord Jesus, just whisper it to the Lord right now. Dear Lord Jesus, I believe you died on the cross for me. I believe you rose again from the dead, like the Bible says. I'm a sinner, but I ask you to forgive me of all my sins. I'm asking you to be my Lord and my Savior. Come in now into my heart and my life. Save my soul. I'm trusting you, Lord Jesus, to take me to heaven. Thank you for saving me. Our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed. I promise I will not point you out, embarrass you. If I know your name, I will not call it. I won't ask you to come forward. We're going to be dismissed in just a moment. But if you would say with our heads bowed and our eyes closed, Brother Mark, I asked Jesus to save me just then and I meant it from my heart. Would you slip your hand up and take it right back down just so I can rejoice with you? Just slip it up and take it right back down. Would you please? If God dealt with your heart, God bless you. Yes, ma'am. I see that in your hand. Who else? Yes, I prayed that prayer and asked Jesus to save me just then. Just slip it up. I want to rejoice with you. I praise God. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I see those hands. Now, Lord, we're here to worship you. May this be an hour that changes our life. Thank you, Lord, for the image that you gave to us in your precious word. Now, Lord, we're careful in having people act this out, but, Lord, I don't think that you're upset at that. I think you're pleased. because we want people to get the picture and image in their heart and mind of Jesus Christ. Lord, thank you for this time that we've been together. Help us to praise you and worship you, and thank you for giving us a day that we can do that. in Jesus precious name. Amen. Let me look up this way. I'm going to ask if we can, so we avoid the stampede, boys and girls, if you all will go back to your parents now so that way they can find you, okay? And moms and dads, make sure that on the way out that they get that gift bag. Do we have those gift bags? Got them? Okay, all right. They're at the exits, and we want you to have that. There's some candy and things in there, and we want you to have that. I told you one hour. It has been one hour. Let's stand together, please. Thank you for entrusting your family time with us here on Christmas Day. Good to see some folks I haven't seen in a while. Good to see you, Chad. God bless you, buddy. God bless y'all. Shake hands and greet one another on your way out. God bless you and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. God bless you.