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of December 2025. And tonight uh Whoa. producer is none other Then the incredible. Kennedy Pyholski. Hey, Kennedy.

How you doing, Pastor? Doing okay. I just you feeling better b feeling better from last week? Oh yeah, oh yeah. I got uh two good eyes now.

Oh, nice. I can see what I'm doing. And so, um, anyhow, I just heard the news and I can't believe it. I just heard the woman on the news saying that in that shooting that took place with all those people That it was believed. That the shooter had a gun.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's broken. That's crazy. Who would have thought? Yeah.

uh give that woman run her for Congress. Yeah, but whatever. We have a lot to get to tonight. I've got a very interesting program. And um The title of this message tonight.

It was an eternity before Christmas. It was an eternity before Christmas, Boydabetch. You're scratching your head on that one, huh? Um Maybe a little bit, yeah.

Well, we're gonna start. In the Gospel of John, chapter one. And this passage of scripture here predates every other. passage of scripture in the Bible. This predates Genesis one.

And so Maybe you can tell me why. Ready? In the beginning. Was the word And the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

Before I go Back to that. Just say here that. Matthew, Maluk, and Bark. were synoptic, they were what we call the synoptic gospels. And I mean, you believe there's Shinopty growth?

I'm not a hundred percent sure what synoptic means. Are you kidding me? You don't know what's the number.

Well Actually, synaptic means to view things together. In other words, you've used Things and how they relate to each other or independently how each one independently relates to the others. Does that make sense? Yeah. I do that with with some of the folks in the church.

That's how we view 'em, okay. But anyhow. Here Uh The Gospel of John is completely different. It's out there totally by itself. Do you know why?

Um no, why? Before I go any further, what is it you do know? I know that a shooter probably had a gun. All right, there you go. You're there, all right, very good.

Okay.

Now the guy's for a gem. It was written thirty years after the other three. The fact Um All the other Apostles, the writers have already been martyred. John was the only one left alive. And we'll get to that too because The Lord Jesus had predicted that he had said over.

In the John twenty one verses twenty through twenty Three. that that was going to happen. And so Here it's completely different. in a way it portrays the Lord Jesus. Let's um Here.

Oh In this In fact, deals with his deity, his deity and the fact that he's a Savior in the salvation. In fact, the words believe in life. In the Gospel of John, I use more in the Gospel of John than the other three Gospels combined. And so Let's go back to it. In the beginning.

All right. Here. What do you think? The definition of the beginning is Um Where where stuff starts.

Okay.

Well It it it deals with the preexistence. You see, the way the reason this Pre-exist No. Genesis one Is because in Genesis 1, it starts with creation, doesn't it?

So, this was even before that, before time, before anything. Yes. This goes back. back before the creation. And now think about this.

Did you ever think about this? Here, Christ was the Creator God. And the universe without it can't just. Try to wrap your mind around.

Something without end, the universe without end. Where th there's it just to me, You could just sit there and think, how could that possibly be? But then again There are a lot of things out there that are far, far beyond. Our imagination, anything that we can actually. Yeah, anything that we can even comprehend, there's a lot out there.

I mean, yeah, I mean. Can you think about that for a minute?

So here Hear the Lord Jesus. what it was pre-existence. Mm-hmm. And of course Because um In the beginning was the word. That's no logos.

And by the way, That was just one of over a dozen Names for the Lord Jesus. He had over he's referred to as been over a dozen times names just in this gospel. Oh. And so here. Was It was the word.

That's the Logos. That's the Word. And he was with God. And it was God. Show yeah.

How do you how do New It's playing that. Um Well Jesus and God are are the same. Um It got kind of I guess separated himself to Create Jesus on earth. in a way.

Well, well No, because Christ was not a created being. He was he was preexistent. But when he became flesh Yeah. Like that.

So But Here The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, we see. What is the fullness of the godhead and what? When Christ appeared Bible D. He saw the fullness of the Godhead bodily in Christ. Mm-hmm.

And so Going back to this. Eternity There was never ever a time. When God didn't exist. Mm-hmm. God existed before anything.

In fact, he tells you Uh both here and and um In Hebrews twelve Or Hebrews one, two through 10 in Colossians 1. Twelve through eighteen other. Yeah. Everything that was created, Christ created. He created everything that was.

So It worked here. That God the Father. gave the marching orders. God the Son carried him out the Holy Ghost. always provided the power to do that.

We see that from Genesis to Revelation. Until Begin. The word beginning. Um It goes back to the origin. And that's really Really, something that's hard to wrap the brain around because.

There was never a time. When God did not exist.

So how do we How do we put that as The origin.

Well that was in the beginning. But yet there was There was never really a beginning. If God was preexistent, it always existed, right?

Well, I guess I guess the beginning I in this in this would have to refer to Before creation.

Well, yeah.

So, I mean, God existed before creation, and then everything else. Was created by God, so before He created everything else would be the beginning. And he didn't create time at that time either. You know, so there was no like. There's no way to measure.

time or anything, you know, like there was just Existing Are you okay? Excuse me. The Cranberry juice went out of the wrong tube.

So the definition of time is what? We're talking about The definition of time from happening to happening, from occurrence to occurrence. From point A to point B.

So This is the measurement of time. And again, like I said, that's why it's so hard to wrap your brain around when. Scripture tells you That There was never ever Any time when God didn't exist, God existed. It's what you call preexistent. B.

And so Let's see what we're getting. Into the deep water here. Are you there? I I I think you cut off for a minute there. What were you saying?

Getting into kind of we're kind of getting into the deep water here. I mean, really, this is This is the type of thing that the boy's going to just do. This is where God is. God's ways is so much higher than man's ways. And today with With all of the technology that man has come up with, AI All of this is simply child's play compared to God's technology, huh?

Compared to God's power, yeah. He goes on to say. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life. And life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in the darkness. and the darkness comprehended it not.

So what do you think the Dartens was? Um I guess everything That was I mean it it would have to be nothing, you know, 'cause It was precreation, so Whatever. when it says and the darkness comprehended is not The dark in the minds of what they call the sin-blinded men. Could not. Because they They would not.

Um They wouldn't come to the light when it was offered to them, so We go back and we see In the days of Noah Winoa offered it for 120 years, and what did they do? They rejected it. What do you think? Why do you think Israel wanted a king? And instead of the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, what why do you think they wanted a human king?

Because a human king would probably be more lenient to the ways of sin. Yeah, yeah, that's cute. Ed.

So Men loved the darkness rather than light, and that's why they wanted a king, because. They wanted someone who Would allow them the pleasures of sin for a season, huh? And so I want to jump now. Over to Matthew chapter one. I'm going to check again.

We've we've been having problems here with our internet and Once it's back up, it's down, we're going through an alternative route right now. I'll hook up on the Internet. How am I coming in, Kenny? I could hear you. I mean, it's it's not Not as clear because you're over the phone, but Um yeah, if we can hook up the Com Rex, that would definitely help but Um I mean you're sounding good, I can hear you, you know.

keep trying. Yeah, I'm not seeing anything connecting on my end here.

Well, it it comes up over h in in here. But it it doesn't stay up long. It it comes up for just an instant and then it's gone. But anyhow, Let's go over to Matthew chapter 1. We'll just do the best we can, huh?

Mm-hmm. It was third, With verse 16 in Matthew chapter 1. And Jacob begot Joseph. The husband of Mary. of whom was born Jesus.

Who is called Christ. No.

So, all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations. And from David until they carry away into Babylon are 14 generations. and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ of fourteen generations.

Now In every one of those Uh Generations In forty-three generations or forty-two generations, I should say. They always started with the father begotting the son. And then that father begetting the next son until we get. Down here to the f forty third time. And the forty-third time.

Is and Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary. And so It goes from Joseph, but it doesn't say. Then Joseph took God Jesus and says Of whom But born Jesus to his called the Christ. And so, where do you think that is?

Well, because Joseph wasn't his father. That's right. Mm-hmm. I'm very, very careful here in this passage to make sure that.

So here In this passage. in this genealogy that you have, as we go through you know, going to genealogists are kind of boring, really. But uh Here There are five women that are mentioned. that are in the royal lineage. of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And started with um you have Um Tamar Ray had Really? And that's cheaper. And then the last Mary, no. Uh, a whole of those women. Um Well, actually, not all of them, but there's some of them.

Why? Did have Real good backgrounds. But they were in the God looks and the hearts of people, doesn't he? And And so here, and of course the last one was Mary who It was The greatest of all, wasn't she? Mm-hmm.

The Bible says of all the women that were ever born, Mary would be the The blessed the most blessed of all women. Yeah, well, I mean That makes perfect sense if That's who you're gonna choose to be the mother of Jesus. Absolutely.

So God chose her. Not by anything that she ever did, but by looking upon her heart, huh? It was probably more so everything she didn't do. Yeah. And in fact, you know, it was the The dream for all the young Jewish women to be the one who brought in the Messiah, who gave birth to the Messiah.

In the course we we know that that was always submission Over. In Isaiah. A chapter. Uh seven verse fourteen.

So here We go on and we say no in the The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise But as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together. She was found with child. of the Holy Ghost. Oh, hi. He writes a factory on the album.

Uh that I've known for years. And this guy. He he went to church every Sunday and of course he was a friend of mine but It's from the old school. Yeah. He was a C Catholic man, he wants, you know, the They went through all the the rituals.

But one day we were talking and I was talking about The Blessed Virgin Mary and um He said, Oh, he said no, he says. You know what happened, don't you? It was one of those Roman soldiers. Wait, what? Yeah, and I can't believe that.

That this fellow, you know, here. The boy, I'm gonna tell you. That's treading on dangerous ground, isn't it? Absolutely.

Um Well, I mean, first of all. You know, they referred to her as Mary and the mother of God. Of course. God has no mother, okay. But No.

But you don't. You don't bring disrespect. No.

Mary was not the eternal virgin, she was a virgin until after Christ was born. Uh, and then because how do we know that?

Well, Jesus had brothers and sisters, or half brothers and sisters, yeah. And the Bible tells you that she remained a virgin until. The word Jesus was born. And so here And Joseph, her husband, being a just man, not willing to make her a public example. was minded to put her away privately.

What the what could have he done? Because, you know, Um In the I'm kind of When when you were betrothed as they were, Here That was the equivalent. Of marriage with the exception of a consummation. I mean, once you were betrothed, that was like being so Here had she been she would have been found with child by another man. What could have Joseph actually had done?

Well he could have Called it all off and And at that point, in that time, I mean, she. Might have gotten stoned or Yeah, there's he could have had a stone one. And uh At that time, of course. Here he being where it says being it. He minded to put her away privately meaning to divorce her privately.

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream. Saint Joseph The son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary, Thy wife For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. What is Uh There you The real extreme message there. Let me read that again. While he thought on these things, behold, the.

Angel of the Lord appeared. What does that tell you? Um That tells you that God was intervening. Right, the angel of the Lord is a Christophany. It's Christophany.

Whenever it's referred to as the angel of the Lord, not an angel. But the angel It's always referring to the Lord Jesus. in a Christophany, one form or another. And so he appeared to Joseph the Lord himself. In a green Now here's an amazing thing because Here we have The omnipresent Lord.

The omnipresent Lord Jesus. There you go. is appearing To Joseph in the dream. And he's telling Joseph about that babe that is in the womb. of Mary, which is going to be him.

He's going to become flesh. And um I mean this is, you know. You talk about miraculous, right? I mean, not only is he appearing To Joseph there, but he's also.

So What if What if you what if that happened to you?

Okay, what if Uh You found out that uh Uh your wife was You're good. You were espoused or you just got married and or and she was already pregnant. I would probably be thinking along the same lines as Joseph there. Yeah. And then in a dream The Lord Jesus appears.

I mean, that dream would have had to have been really realistic, wouldn't it? Oh, it would have had to have been extremely vivid. Yeah. So it goes on. And she shall bring forth a son.

and shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

Now the Hebrew for that word Jesus is Yahushua. Yahushua in the Hebrew. Um And of course meaning Jesus Uh no.

So he says he would be Save Jesus, for he shall save his people that word for salvation. In the Hebrew Here's Yeshua.

So you've got Yahushua and Is sure.

So Yahoo Show up is the Source of Yeshua. Which means salvation. And so, in fact. Here Actually This is the first uh use of in the word A Saviour in the New Testament, did you know that?

Well, I mean this is the first Uh The first book of the New Testament.

So, I mean, if it's the first time that Matthew said save, then it would be the first. Yep. Do you know how many Um References Of the names of the Lord Jesus. Here. Um In the New Testament.

In the New Testament, um Yep. Didn't you just say fourteen? No, there's No, I've I've there's over a dozen names to use, but They're used. A hundred and forty four times. Forty-four times.

And that's a Yeah. Yeah, that's driving it home. And so He goes on to say now. All of this was done. There might be a facil which is spoken of the Lord.

By the prophet saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth the son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel. Which being interpreted as God with us, and that's in Isaiah. Chapter seven, verse fourteen, when it's referring to Emmanuel, the Lord Jesus. Meta Virgin, and by the way. You hear that word for virgin earth.

Farther than this. Parthy that's here. There's a lot of Controversy that the left, the liberals, have tried to say, but let me tell you. That word is never used for anything. It has no other meaning.

Then for a virgin. A virgin woman has no other meaning. Yeah, they always try to twist and manipulate everything. Absolutely.

And so it goes on to say. The Joseph He raised from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took him into his wife. And new or not.

So she had. brought forth do her not until she had until she had brought forth the firstborn son, And he called his name Jesus.

Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king. there came wise men From the east is Jerusalem. These were Magi, weren't they? Mm-hmm. They came from Persia.

And so they were part of a a priestly caste. And so They would be considered to be like kings.

Now Here Let me read that again, okay?

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod, The king, behold, recame wise men, From Jerusalem. Uh Did that say came three wise men, or did it just say came wiseman? It just says wiseman. That's right. Why do why is it that Today we we we always see in all the Christmas cards and all the if it's three wise men.

Are three kings. I don't know. Does it i in any other texts? Yeah. Does it an announce that there were three of them or?

No, the reason is The reason is because there's three gifts that are mentioned. Oh, okay. And so this uh and that's where where you have that And so If there were four of them there would be four gifts, they wouldn't come empty-handed.

Well When you have Kings, Kingston. Don't travel by themselves.

Okay.

They always have an entourage with them. Yeah. So that there were probably you know, possibly over a hundred people.

Next game. Yeah, but they weren't. They weren't noted because they were servants or you know Part of the entourage, as you would say. No, but there might have been There might have been ten kings, we don't know. You usually seven or ten.

is a good number, but uh But Because of the three gifts. That's why we always hear of three Kings, the dwarf So he goes oversea. Say where is He that was born. King of the Jews. For we have seen his star in the east and have come to worship him.

Um Where did they come up with this idea that he was going to be the king of the Jews? Um wasn't that prophecy? Yep. through the prophecy, through the scripture. In effect, Uh And being wise men, they would have known it.

Absolutely.

In several different places in scripture. In fact, in Micah 5:2. You know, it talks about and that's where they knew that he would be born. In Bethlehem. When Herod the king had heard these things.

He was troubled in all Jerusalem. Who did Herod the king? consider himself to be. Um yep heep. considered himself to be a god.

Well, the king of the Jews, he was a a half breed he was a Herodian, which was a half breed Jew. But Caesar had appointed him to be They allow to be the king of the Jews there. And so he saw them coming to where is the king of the Jews and He saw them uh mentioning the baby Jesus as a threat, then, to him.

Well, yeah, when they came asking the king of the Jews, so Till Herod How much do you think that that would these people 'cause we s we've seen how uh treacherous how treacherous these people could be, especially when we saw look at the um The the Ahab and Jezebel and their family, the treachery in their family. Especially with you know, their daught their children. Oh, well, anyone who values power become ve usually becomes very treacherous when there's a threat to it. threat to that power. I mean, sh look at our Look at her political system, you know.

All you got to do is look at Democrats and how they act when they're no longer in quote unquote power.

Well, yeah, you're absolutely right. But in this case, Herod here. He had three of his own sons and their mother all three killed because he feared that they were they were going to a treason or and they're going to be a a coup. And he feared that they would Would kill you. To take his throat.

And when he had gathered all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, Together. He demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said it to him in Bethlehem of Judea, where it is written by the prophet. End up. I just told you there, Micah five two is one of the places.

And now Bethlehem In the land I'm viewed. Art thou the least among the Quinces? of Judah, for out of thee shall come a governor It shall my people Israel. Then Herod They had privately called the wise men and inquired of them diligently. We're coming soldiers.

The star What time the star appeared? What about that star? No.

Well, I'm gonna tell you, though, you've gotta More brilliant. What that star is, then kinda has life. Yeah. And uh what do you think it is? The star?

Um I think it's probably the Glory of God. just shining down on the people. I don't know. Uh you creation scientists admit. They're saying that there was a conjunction of Jupiter and Catherine.

And it was actually, others say it was a supernova star. You know, that's when those stars burn out. And they become very, very bright when they burn out. And then uh Others Uh Actually, they some say it's a comment, but just a comment, okay. Yeah, that doesn't make sense though, because doesn't it Doesn't it stay for a while?

Yeah. It's not flying across the sky, is it? No.

Right.

Well, again, everything about this was supernatural. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't think it was just a a An actual, like, quote unquote star, you know, out in the night sky that just all of a sudden appeared, you know. I mean, I I I know that that that's how it That's how it looked. Because that's what they said.

You know, that's why they're calling it a star. But I don't know. I believe that that's just. the power of God, you know, shining down on the people.

Well. They followed remember, they followed this star from the east. All the way from Persia. And uh So It goes on to say And he sent them to Bethlehem. and said, Go and search diligently for the young child.

And when you have found him, bring me word again. that I may come and worship Them also. Mm-hmm. Boy, he sounds like a Democrat, don't he? You know.

You, the boy.

So when they had heard the king, They departed, and lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them.

So he came and stood over. where the young child was. And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

Now, Every everywhere. I d I the couple doesn't Uh Christmas cards.

So With minativity scene. And here you're gonna have this little bitty baby. In this crib. In the manger, and you're going to have the three Magi standing there with some shepherds, and Joseph and Mary. What's wrong with that scene?

Well, because it's that wouldn't be accurate. Because this would it would have been well after He was a a baby.

Well, yeah, at this time he was an infant. He was at least two years of age. And they were in a house. Yeah. And so we and here And when they were come to the house, They saw the young child and Mary, his mother, and they fell down and they worshipped him.

And when they had opened their treasures, and this is where. You come up with the three kings, the three magis. They presented unto him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And so, here. When you take a look at that.

The gifts of gold, frankness, and mirror. Um, what is do you know what gold represented? Wealth? Right, it was the gift that was fit for a king, okay? Uh it was like Right.

You you gave gold to the king, so the the gold represented his wealth. or his king his deity, his kingship.

Okay.

Um What about Frankincent? Um Would that be Which was used, wasn't one of these like in oil? Was that myrrh? Uh Yeah. Frankincense too.

Break and sense is what they use. It also they What annoyed. Uh the priests We're back. Was it anointed with frankincense?

So it represented his priestly ministry, his priestly ministry. And what about A myrrh? What did what did they use myrrh for? Was that for healing? For help.

On Sunday morning, the resurrection, they came to bring him. to wrap him with It's a preservative to preserve. Oh okay.

Well, that again, that was Uh that was not that was uh That was before that was during when they put him in the tomb. But they wanted to So anoint him. Remember when Mary forded Upon his feet. And the apostles got a little upset.

So you're wasting that, right? What did Jesus tell her? Um I don't know. No help. They said we could have sold that for a lot of money and given it to the poor.

Jesus said, You'll have the poor with you always, but me, you know, I'm not going to be here with you always, okay? And so That was for burial. He goes on to say Here And being warned of God in the dream. That they should not return to Herod, they departed to their own country another way. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord.

Here we go again with the angel of the Lord. Am I still coming in over okay? Yeah, yeah, I hear you.

Okay.

All right. I we still don't have any internet over in this room here. Uh And when the angel was departed, he behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take. the young child and his mother And flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring the word. For Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

And so He goes on to say. And when he arose. He took the young child. And his mother, by night. and departed into Egypt.

Well that, you know. In those days, you know, you're riding on the back of a colt. You know? And uh That was The land was filled with robbers. Mm-hmm.

And so it it had to be some tough going for them. But of course, They kind of had some uh Mm-hmm.

Well, they had their own protection. Absolutely.

And it was there until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophets, saying. Out of Egypt am I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked at the wise men, was exceedingly wroth. And he set forth and slew all the children that were born in Bethlehem, And in all the coast thereof, from two years old. and under according to the time which he had.

A diligent required of the wise men. It was fulfilled. That was spoken of. By Jeremiah the prophet saying, In Rama. Was there a voice heard?

lamentations and weeping, and great mourning. Rachel weeping for her children. And she would not be comforted because they are not. Why do you think he said that? Why do you think that they're talking about Rachel weeping for her children?

Uh because they were these were descendants. That we're being Slaughtered. Yeah. Just because they were born within the time frame of. of Jesus To where Herod was trying to to wipe him out.

Well, Rachel had long, long, long been dead by this time. Um And she had been dead for you. Centuries. Mm-hmm. So Uh here.

is because Rachel died there in Bethlehem. That's where she was di buried. And Hmm. Her children. Uh Yeah.

a lot of residents, a lot of her children. And grandchildren, the grandchildren would be. there in Bethlehem. Yeah, so It goes on to say. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph.

An Egypt saying, Arise and take the young child of his mother. and go into the land of Israel, For they are dead if one sought the the young child's life. And he arose and he took the young child and his mother. and came into the land of Israel. And when he heard the menu, Good.

Archila. Archival was But Archilias. That's a good one to put out. Wayne. In Judea In the room of his father, Herod.

He was afraid to go thither. notwithstanding being warned of God in a dream, He turned aside into the parts of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in the city called Nazareth. That it might be the film which was spoken. By the prophets, he shall be Called a Nazarene.

And so Now here Just, you know, the miraculous thing that happened. There and and we have an extremely accurate report of all events. And so Here. It's just prophecy after prophecy being fulfilled. Yeah.

Joseph actually intended to return to to the house in Bethlehem. where they had been living before they had to take their quick flight to Egypt. Instead, a response to another divine warning. Again he took the family back to Nazareth, where they had lived. Before journeying to Bethlehem.

What was what was said about Nazareth, when when they said that was that's Jesus. of Nazareth What did the people say there? About Nazareth. No, I was Uh w wouldn't it be k kind of considered like a poor area? Yeah, can anything good come from Nazareth?

Can anything good come from Nazareth? What they would say. And here it's still This is a The first part of a good Christmas story.

Next week I'm going to pick it up in Luke. Which is a Really Jose and Tull. you know, in much, much greater detail. But in the Gospel of John here, Again, the book of John is unique in so many different ways.

Now, I wanted to go back. I wanted to jump over very quickly to what we mentioned earlier. When Jesus had uh prophesies to Peter because Peter Remember, now this is after the Lord had risen. has resurrected. And here He had come along and he looked out and there was Peter And the Apostles, they were out there.

And they're boats fishing. And the Lord Jesus came along. Yeah and uh Well we just win. Therefore Well, let me just start here. But when morning was.

was now come. Jesus stood on the shore. But the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. And Jesus said unto them, Children, Have you any meat? They answered him no.

And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship. And you should fight him. Can you imagine you're out there all night fishing they've been out there all night? And here Peter, you know, he's the great fisherman, right? And you've got this guy telling you.

Just to cast the net on the right side of the boat. 'Cause they don't know it's the Lord. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter, It is the Lord. Who is that?

as he looked. Uh was that um Was that Yeah, John.

Okay, that's what I was thinking. Yeah. So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his Father's coded to him. for he was naked. and did cast himself into the sea.

And uh the other disciples came in. A little ship. for they were not far off from land. and as it were two hundred cubits, gregging the net with efficiency. And as soon as they were come to the land they saw a fire of coals there and fish laid thereupon and bread.

And Jesus said unto them, Bring are the fish which you have now caught. And Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of great fishes. A hundred and fifty and three. That's what they were all. Were so many yet it was not broken.

I mean, these weren't little minnows, these were big fish. And Jesus said unto them, Come and die. And none of the disciples durst ask him. Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.

Jesus then cometh and taketh bread and giveth them, and fish likewise. This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples after that he was risen from the dead.

So here though. What does that tell you? Uh about our glorified bodies. Uh they're not gonna resemble really us as we are now.

Well, Jesus was eating fish. You'll be able to eat, right? Yeah. Yeah, you'll certainly be able to eat. Yeah, and uh and so here That is So when So when they had drained, Jesus said to Simon, Now here you go, Buddhists.

Put yourself in Peter's place, okay? Peter, Simon.

Son of Jonas lovest not me more than these. He said unto him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my lambs. He said unto him again a second time, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He said unto him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.

He said unto them, Feed my sheep. And he said unto him a third time, Simon, son of Joseph, love is me. Peter was grieved because he sent it to him the third time. Why do you think he said it to him the third time? Uh, because he denied him three times?

Right, that's exactly right. And And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus. Say to him, Feed my sheep.

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself and walkest whither thou wouldst, but when Thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands. and another shall guard thee. And carry thee whither thou wouldst not. Do you know what that means? Um Let me read it to you again.

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself. and walk as weather thou wouldst but when thou shalt be old, Thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee. and carry thee where thou wittest not. Peter's death, how Peter died. Yeah, yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking.

Yeah. This made him signify by what depth. He should glorify God. And when he had spoken thus, He said unto him, Follow me. Then Peter turning about saith the disciple whom Jesus loved following.

was named on the west At supper, it said Lord which It is he that betrayeth thee. Peter State himself saved. To Jesus Lord. And what shall this man do? And Jesus said unto him, If I will that he Tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

Follow me, okay, so. He was talking about, he was making a point there. that John was going to live longer than the others. And How John almost died? No.

He was boiled he was put boiled in oil, but he survived in the island of Paduas. Then then went this saying abroad, Among them I learned That this disciple should not die. Yet Jesus did. Not unto him, he shall not die, but if I will. That he tarried till I come.

What is it to thee?

So, the Lord did not say that he wasn't going to die. He just said he was that if he decides that he doesn't. Whose business is that? It's God's business, right? Yeah, absolutely.

Now, here's these next two verses say a lot. This is the disciple which testifieth of these things. and wrote these things And we know that this testimony is true. And there are also many other things. With Jesus did that which Now think about this.

Think about this here. Because you don't Yeah. Uh Will God All things are possible. And now remember this. You know, we have a history of what God wanted us to know.

of what he did from creation. Mm-hmm. But remember Existed Um Eternally. Uh From creation from Genesis One.

So today How many, many, many, many times of that amount of time? They got exist. And what did he do? I mean, God is an activist, isn't he? And and so here's what he says.

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, that which, if They should be written everyone. I suppose that even The world itself cannot contain the books. That should be written. Another word. And and think about that.

We say, you know, I mean, don't tell me, no, listen. Uh Eternity is a long, long time, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, we kn we know We take a look out there, we see. Millions and billions of planets and things we know that he made those. We don't know what he put on those planets, do we? No, not at all. And so I mean there's Way, way, way, way, way more.

That we don't know. than what we do know, huh? Mm-hmm. And the good thing about Eternity Being with the Lord through eternity is what have all of eternity. Tell Wern.

how these miraculous, miraculous things were done, huh? Yeah, can you imagine? I mean, just all that knowledge, learning all that. That'll be amazing. Yeah, I I still, you know, can't even comprehend Heaven No end.

No end to the universe. Yeah. of anything being without an end. What's you know, there's there's Uh You know, because without in our lives, Everything starts and ends. But But no No end, where it just goes on and on and on and on forever.

But we'll have all of eternity if we're. Saved. Yeah. See That's the big difference between those that receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. And believe me, the Bible is full of absolutes, isn't it?

Oh, it absolutely is. Yes. Yeah. And so Those that receive Christ as their Lord and Savior will have all of eternity. To learn these things.

By the way, they'll be with people I mean, they're going to be with people going back to Adam. Yeah. We'll be able to beat Adam and Eve, right? How many people will we meet and learn the histories and have all of this this during? All of eternity.

And what we're We're doing all of these wondrous, amazing uh beyond comprehensive things Those the vast majority of people In the world today. I'm not gonna And so well are they? The vast majority of people are going to reject the Lord Jesus Christ. And they will suffer for it. Yeah.

And we keep telling 'em and we keep trying over and over to tell 'em. That that they need to repent and call upon the name of the Lord, huh? Yeah. Ed You know Right. I don't know how it would it'd be possible To read and study the word of God and not believe it.

I just I I just I can't fathom. The accuracy, the amount of knowledge, the Intellect. In those Prophets of old. Yeah. Absolutely.

And so But While we're here, we know what we have to do. The Great Commission is called the Great Commission for a reason, isn't it? And so that's mission one. Mission one for us is the great commission. Preach the gospel, teach the gospel, and baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

How am I? And so we're coming up to the end of the program, aren't we? See how our life is is is so controlled by time.

Okay.

Yes, absolutely. But when we when we leave there and we enter into eternity, Time will have no effect on us anymore, will it? Absolutely.

There'll be n no point to it. And speaking of that, how much time do I have? About fifteen seconds. And then I want to say good night. God bless.

God bless. It always, always, always. Let's do it. Ready? T Fighting the Right.

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