If that's okay. I feel very loud. Good morning everyone. This this evening, just before I get going here, for the longest night service at 6:30 this evening, it's not only for those who have had a like someone who's lost a loved one. Certainly, it's for those, but it could just be that you're feeling down. Some people find Christmas time hard. They may not have even lost a loved one, but they just find the season difficult. If that's you, you're welcome to join us tonight. We trust that there will be encouragement as we sing together, as we hear testimony together and as we sit under the word of God together.
You're welcome to join us for that. So, just so you know, take your Bibles if you will, go to Psalm 8. There was a young boy who went to a local store with his mom, normally a very verbose outgoing young boy. He was there in the store with his mom and the the shop owner came and he was a large sizable tall man. Kind of like Jeremy here, just a tall How tall are you, Jeremy? >> 62.
>> 6'2. Yeah. So, something around that. And and the boy looked at him and thought, "Wow, this is a tall gentleman." And the gentleman looked at the boy and he had compassion. He had a jar filled with suckers there. And he said, "Go ahead, young man. Take some suckers." And the young man shook his head and pulled back. And so the the the man said, "Go ahead." And he he kind of hid behind his mom. And this was very unusual for this boy. So the the man said, "Here, I'll he he grabbed his the suckers with his hand. He pulled out a bunch and he gave them to the boy." Off they went.
And outside the store, the mom said to the boy, "Son, why did you do that? You're normally not like that. Why Why didn't you take some suckers?" To which the boy said, "Because his hand is way bigger than mine. >> >> to using your noodle. But he could see the magnitude of this man before him and the hand of this man was so much greater than his own. And in the text we're going to look at today, we are going to see as we come now to our the Sunday before Christmas, the magnitude of our God in comparison to us.
And it should humble us and at the same time fill us with thanksgiving. So Psalm 8 reads this way. I'm going to read the whole psalm to the choir master according to the gith a psalm of David. Oh Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes to steal the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxmen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. This is a glorious psalm.
And you'll notice if if you if you as we read it, I'm sure you saw it. There's this repeating refrain in verse one and then again in verse nine. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You can call this also an inclusio. There's your fancy word for the day. Yeah, I'm sure you can hear in the word inclusio what it probably means. That there's an inclusion here. That when some when a passage starts and ends with the same phrase or eerily similar wording that then sets the tone for what the primary theme of the passage is.
You see once you see them you see them everywhere in scripture actually and in fact there's entire books of the Bible that have inclusio. Let me give you one example because it's Christmas time. Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew chapter 1 verse 23, the angel says you shall call his name Jesus which means or you shall call name his name Emanuel which means what? God with us. And what's the very that's chapter 1 23 the very last words of the gospel of Matthew going right to the end chapter 28.
I will be with you to the very end of the age. So what's the primary theme of the gospel of Matthew? God with us. It's not the only theme, but it's the primary theme of the Gospel of Matthew because we know that by the inclusio. What's the primary theme of Psalm 8? How majestic is your name in all the earth. That's the theme of Psalm 8. It makes preaching it really easy because the theme is built right into it, but it's glorious. It's wonderful. So, how majestic is his name in all the earth?
Well, we see it in the psalm here and in part by the looking at the works of the heavens. Now, the reformer John Rogers, he actually when preaching this, he would say, "Oh Lord, our governor," instead of, "Oh Lord, our Lord." Because the phrase, "Oh Lord, our Lord," implied in the Hebrew is the one who is doing the work of lordship. The one who is actively our Lord. That is to say, he's governing. Oh Lord, our governor, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
We saw that actually in the psalm that Peter read for us. I don't know if you noticed it there in Psalm 148, just verse 13. Let me draw your attention there. Psalm 148:13 in case you missed it when he was reading it. Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is exalted. His majesty is above earth and heaven. His royal reign is above earth and heaven. And it's all the earth. Notice notice that in our psalm, the whole earth, it reminds me of that incredible moment we read about in Isaiah 6 when when Isaiah catches this vision of the Lord.
He sees the Lord. And in Isaiah 6:3, the angels who were before him say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory." And we see that here in Psalm 8. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. And now he's going to reveal how majestic his name is in all the earth. And one of the first things we see is what we see there at the end of verse one.
You have set your glory above the heavens. And then verse three, when I look at your heavens. Now you notice the plural there. Your glories above the heavens. And and then he says when I look at your heavens. So in Jewish culture, they understand there to be three three heavens. The first heaven is the one that we indwell the atmosphere. The second heaven would be the the the cosmos, the stars, the moon, the the galaxies. That's the second heaven.
And then the third heaven is the heaven of God. That's why we read in 2 Corinthians 12, Paul says, "I know a man who was caught up into the third heaven where God dwells." Well, here he says, "Your glory is above the heavens." So, it's above the heavens and presumably on the heavens. In the heavens. And then he says this, the when I look at your heavens, verse three, the work of your fingers.
So that is to say, God is the one who constructed these heavens, the moon and the stars which you have set in place. When I look at them. Some translations, I believe the New American Standard and I think it's the NIV says, "When I consider the the moon and the stars, when I consider your heavens." That and that Hebrew word there can mean to to inspect, to really dig into it. So, let's do that. Just just a few things.
If you are a conspiracy theorist, you're probably going to throw at everything I'm about to say. But I I hold these I I believe these things to be true. On the day of Adam and Eve's creation, which friends was day six of the world, there is no gap theory. There's a reason why it's still called a theory because there's no proof. Day six was literally day six. And on day six when Adam and Eve were created, if they had sent a messenger from the sun, if a messenger started from the sun to travel to Neptune to tell Neptune that God created man on Earth, and if they left the day of Adam and Eve's creation on day six, traveling at a rate of 50 miles per hour, day and night without stop, without end, that traveler still would not have made it yet to Neptune.
Isn't that astonishing? The distance to the galactic center of the Milky Way from planet Earth is approximately 26,000 lightyear. And there are between somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars in this galaxy. It's estimated that there are billions perhaps trillions of galaxies and in our galaxy alone there are approximately 100 to 400 billion stars just in this galaxy at the central core of our galaxy the Milky Way there is what's called a super massive black hole the estimated mass of this black hole is the approximate size of 4.3 million suns.
And it's estimated that the Milky Way moves through space at an estimated rate of 343 miles per second. Not per hour, not per year, per second. And you and I don't feel a thing when I consider the moon and the stars and all that God created with the with his mouth in a moment. Look at his response.
Then what is man that you are mindful of him? Is that not a great question? When I consider these things and I am just giving you the tip of the iceberg. When we consider the created world and the incredible enormity of it and splendor of it and exquisite detail of it and then I think God's mindful of me. I'm nothing. I'm a know.
But built into the implication here in verse four is that he is mindful of us. That's what the psalmist is getting. That's what David is getting at here. When I consider these things, what is man that you're mindful of him? Implying he is mindful of me. Is that not humbling? God is the one who oversees all of this and he cares for you. He's mindful of you and me. This ought to stop us in our tracks with great thanksgiving when we consider the kindness and love that emanates from God.
If it were me and I had created all of that and and I hold it all together and it's me overseeing it all, you know what I'd be saying? You guys figure it out. I've done enough. But that's not our God. He's mindful of us. That is extraordinary. How majestic is his name in all the earth. Now he carries on in in displaying his majesty through the praise of children.
Have you ever heard the phrase out of the mouth of babes? Right? The whole world uses that phrase. Atheists use that phrase out of the mouth of babes. That's a direct quote from Psalm 8:2. Out of the mouth of babies, or I think it's the King James who uses uses the phrase babes. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes to steal the enemy and the avenger. This is significant. We ought not pass it by. Children will sing the praise of God. Why?
Well, they have not yet got that filter that we as adults have. They haven't got that jaded heart that we as adults can have. They have not yet learned to overanalyze. Oh, the blessing of not overanalyzing. And children haven't learned that yet. You present truth to them. They say, "Oh, okay." And they believe it and they talk about it. You tell children about Jesus. And they go to kindergarten.
Guess what they're going to be doing? Let me tell you about Jesus. And they start telling their teacher, the principal, their friends, their neighbors, this is what they do. And there's a simplicity to the worship of children. The there's an authenticity to it that is glorious and wonderful. And God declares his praise so often through the mouth of these little ones. This is why we read what we read. I think in in Matthew chapter 18 listen what we read here Matthew 18 1-4 we read this at at that time the disciples came to Jesus saying who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven can you just hear that right the adults in the room am I greater or is he greater I'm pretty sure I'm greater right like you can hear the conversation right and calling to him a child he put him in the midst of them and said truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven. Why?
Kids don't care if they're the greatest. They just want to be around the one who is the greatest. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. This is a beautiful thing. I I remember when we were teaching our kids memory verses when they're little there. We have a video. One of our children, I won't mention their name. This is a number of years ago now. We have it on video. We're teach. They were learning a verse from Philippians. Do everything without complaining or arguing. And so we were videoing this.
And so she was saying the verse and it was really cute because she couldn't say Philippians and she was saying Philippians. And so it was super cute. And then she says the verse and then unprompted she says, "Stop complaining with God and trust Jesus with all of your heart. Awesome. Like our hearts welled up. That was the best sermon we heard all year. Out of the mouth of babes. This is a beautiful thing. God has a way of using what we would consider weak and helpless to speak truth to those who consider themselves strong.
1 Corinthians chapter 1 makes that abundantly clear. 1 Corinthians 1, I'll just read you one of the verses. We could read many verses that speak to this, but just verse 27. God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. We often would look at children and little ones and we'd think, "Ah, they're kind of weak." But God will use the weak to shame the strong as they declare truth with their lips.
I am convinced that this is why we have the world so intently trying to teach children things that oppose God. There might not be many more things that bring about hatred for Christ like hearing children praise the Lord to an unregenerate heart. You want proof of that? Go with me if you will to the book of Matthew chapter 21. Matthew 21:15-16.
So this is after Jesus has cleansed the temple. And this is what we read here. When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying out in the temple, hosana to the son of David, they were what? Indignant, furious. And they said, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read?
Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise." And here he is quoting Psalm 8. And but they were livid. This is why the evolutionary thought is being foisted upon our children that they would not declare that God created the heavens and the earth. This is why the transgender agenda is being foed upon the children that they would not recognize that God made them male and female and he made marriage to be what it is. And when someone comes along and speaks plain truth that that God's truth to that world, there is anger and there's intensity, there's heat because they want to stop children from praising God and glorifying him and exalting him and making much of him.
And so it's important upon us as Christian moms and dads to teach our children the ways of the Lord. It's not a magic bullet. Can't guarantee your children are going to follow the Lord, but we certainly increase their odds of following the Lord if we teach them in our home. We need to teach children about the Lord that they would declare his praise. And we saw an example of that. We by we I mean those who are seniors and me and Bryce and Joe. About just over a week ago right here we had a whole bunch.
We had our seniors lunching. There was some eating and there was some singing downstairs and then many of our seniors came upstairs and some of you were here for that. And when you gathered up here, the a homeschool co-op that meets in our church every week, they put they've worked feverishly on a on a play and they put that play on here and shared the gospel with our seniors, many of whom are unsaved. And they heard the praise of God out of the mouth of young ones. That's awesome. This is good.
This is what we need to see. And so, brothers and sisters, friends, we need to teach our children. That's why Deuteronomy 6, what's referred to often as the shama here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. If you carry on in Deuteronomy 6, it says, "You shall teach your children when you're lying down, when you're getting up, when you're going along the way, teach your children that the about the Lord our God." And so, I'm going to pause here for a moment. Adults, you're welcome to listen in, but I want to talk to the kids.
Kids, I want you to hear me. Are you ready for this? All right. So, imagine this. Jesus, we heard of Jesus, right? Right. He was born in Bethlehem, right? >> Yes. I hear that, Nolan. I hear that. Yes. All right. He's born in Beth. But did you know that that's not where he started? >> Yeah. He didn't start there. Jesus the Bible tells us in John chapter 1 and Colossians 1 that Jesus is the one who created the world.
There's nothing that he didn't create which means he has always existed. He's always been there was no starting point for Jesus. So before Bethlehem, Jesus was in heaven with God the Father with the angels worshiping and praising him. Wouldn't that be awesome? Yeah. But then he left heaven to come here. Well, why would he do that? Well, here's the thing.
We kids, all of you, me, too, we've all sinned. You know what sin is? The Bible says the the the fancy word for sin means missing the mark. So, have any of you kids ever done archery? Yeah. You like it? Yeah. It's awesome. I'm terrible at it, but it's fun. Right. So, you got maybe you've done gone to camp or whatever and you've had a bullseye in the distance and you take your bow and arrow and you sometimes miss, right? You miss the target. Well, sin is more than that.
Sin would be like, let's say there's the target over here and you have your bow and arrow, right? And you pull it back and you turn and you shoot it straight into the woods the opposite direction. That's what sin is. When we when we go directly against what God has said. And the Bible says we've all done that. We've all sinned. And so I can't save myself. You can't save yourself. There had to be someone who could live a perfect life. And Jesus came to do that. He came and lived a perfect life. No sin.
No sin. And then he died on the cross. The Bible says that there has to be the our there has to be blood shed. There has to be blood that's poured out to to save us from our sin. And Jesus did that. But good news, kids, he didn't stay dead. You can you if you could find his tomb where they the tomb is a fancy word for a like a grave. If you could find it, there's nobody there. If you go look for it, nobody's in there because he rose from the dead three days later.
He was seen by over 500 people after he died alive. And you know what he did? He defeated sin. He rose from the dead and said, "Haha, I win. I'm alive. Death cannot hold me." and everyone who repents. So that means to turn from that sinful life you've been living and turn to Christ and believe him by faith. Everyone who repents and believes upon Jesus Christ believes that yes, Jesus is who the Bible says he is.
I believe him and I'm going to live my life for him. Everyone who repents and believes is saved. And now you can be assured of going home to be with him in heaven. That's the only way to be in heaven is to trust and believe in Jesus because he went 40 days or so after he rose from the dead. He went back into heaven. He ascended. They actually watched him go up into the clouds. Can you imagine being a disciple watching that? But he said, "I'm coming back." One day Jesus is coming back and he's going to take to heaven with him all those who have put their trust in him.
And today, even this day, kids, you can believe upon him. And let people know as the old song we're going to sing later says, "Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is Lord." So out of the mouth of children, out of the mouth of babes, he has ordained praise. You know what else he's done to show how majestic his name is in all the earth? He has restored dominion. There's the restoration of dominion. As this psalm carries on, we see both a here and now and a there and then reality to this psalm.
What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man, that you care for him? That's an interesting little phrase. We read verses four and five. We we read a quoted for us in Hebrews chapter 2. I'm going to just take you there for a moment. Hebrews 2, picking it up in verse 6. It says this. It has been testified somewhere.
What is man that you are mindful of him? Or the son of man that you care for him? For you made him a little lower than the angels. You've crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. And at present we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. Now look at verse 9. But we see him for who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus.
So who is it that we're speaking about here in Psalm 8? Jesus. And you and me. And you might say, "What? Are you not a son of man?" If you No one here was, there's no virgin birth here. We're all son of man. Because look at what it says. The There are some things that should ring some bells for you when you're reading this. The son of man is certainly a descriptor of Jesus.
We know that because it was his favorite designation of himself actually in the New Testament. In Daniel chapter 7, we read son of man as as a as a designator of who the Messiah would be, the Christ, the coming Christ. In Daniel 7 13 and 14, if you go to Mark, for example, 14 61 and 62, Jesus refers to himself as the son of man. This one who was coming who was to be the Messiah, the Christ. But notice, I'm I'm going to do our verses a little bit out of order.
I'm sorry to the guys in the back. I'm I'm doing them out of order here. But notice though that there are some there's some phrasing here that should remind you of you and I of humanity. You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings. Crowned him with glory and honor. And actually, we are crowned with glory and honor. There is a faulty lie that the world is foisting upon us that says we're we're all animals. We're all we're all animals.
We're you know we're no we're just higher level animals than the dogs and the cats. Wrong answer. We are made in the image of God and we have been crowned with glory and honor in that way. And notice what it says in verse six. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxmen, beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
So you've given him dominion over this. Now bearing that thought in mind, go to Genesis 1. Look at what we read in verse 26 of Genesis 1. Then God said, "Let us make man or mankind in our image, after our likeness, and let them mankind have what? Dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So, who has dominion? We do.
And so there is this sense of when when David here is penning this where there are certainly mankind in view, he's made us a little lower than the angel. By the way, scripture always interprets scripture. Always remember that. So I think it's Vince mentioned to me in the CSB I think uses the phrase verse five, you have yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings. The CSB says God, right? A little lower than God. You may have a footnote by the phrase heavenly beings in verse 5. And the the Hebrew word there is Elohim.
So God does fit there. You made him a little lower than God. But Hebrews 2 quoting Psalm 8 says multiple times, you've made him lower than the angels. Angelos is the Greek word there in Hebrews 2. And so scripture interprets scripture. The word Elohim is this high, lofty, heavenly being most normally associated with God, but it can mean angels. And Hebrews 2 informs us that it's angels.
And so anyways, you've made him a little lower than the angels. Well, that can describe you and I as well. And you've given them dominion over the works of his hands. That can describe you and I as well. And yet simultaneously this is obviously referring primarily to Jesus Christ. He is the son of man. The son of man. This is a messianic psalm that we ought not miss. 1 Corinthians 15.
I want to pick it up for you there in verse 25. There we read this. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For God has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when it says all things are put in subjection, it is plain that he is expect he has accepted who put all things in subjection under him.
When all things are subjected to him, then the son himself also will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him that God may be all in all. In other words, the son there's there there is this submission within the within the triune Godhead. The son is submissive to the father, but the son is the one who will reign and all things will be put under his feet. As Psalm 110 says that Pastor Bryce preached a few weeks ago, he is reigning and ruling and yet he was made a little lower than the heavenly beings. Can you imagine that?
As I was telling the kids earlier, he existed for all eternity in heaven and then came here. That's difficult. That would be like to put it in our terms today if you lived in a palatial mansion. You had all the all the money that you could possibly have. You had everything that your heart's desire could be and you left that to go live on East Hastings Street for the rest of your life.
And he did that for me and you. Look at what we read in Philippians chapter 2. Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus. Who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men, and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. He humbled himself became became obedient to the point of death even death on a cross. This is our God who left the splendor of eternal heaven to be with us for a time and for a purpose.
This is our God, our dominion. Though we still exercise a measure of dominion, anyone who owns a dog should know we have dominion. Now, some of you, your dog might rule your home. It shouldn't be that way, though. You must rule over it. You must have dominion over the dog or your horse or whatever animal you have, your pet turtle, whatever. You need to have dominion over that.
But our dominion was marred, negatively affected by sin. It is a broken dominion. The first Adam is the reason why it was destroyed because of sin and so it needed to be restored. And the second Adam or the last Adam, Jesus Christ, restored dominion. This is good news.
This is good news. Here we have Psalm 8 really is a hinge between the the now and the then. Genesis 3 we hear we hear about sin. We hear about that brokenness about that dominion being marred and affected negatively and broken down. But there in Genesis 3:15 we read this prophecy to the enemy. There's the seed of man coming or seed of the woman pardon me.
That's coming and you'll bruise his head or heal, pardon me, you'll bruise his heel, but he will crush your head. And then as you move forward to John chapter 16, he says, "In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart what I have overcome the world." And he did so by destroying sin and death. Now, we still live in a world filled with sin. We still live in a world filled with death, but it's defeated. And the culmination of that is something we will experience one day for all those only for those who are in Christ.
But this this has been a restoration process not process a restoration work that Jesus Christ has done to restore the dominion of man. And it has been restored but the full culmination of that is yet to come. But it will come. That he so we read here in Psalm 8, you have given him dominion. So he gave us dominion. It was marred and destroyed. But he gave Jesus dominion that will never end.
You put all things under his feet. Psalm 110. That will never end. The sheep, the birds, the ox, and the beasts, the fish of the sea, whatever passes passes along the paths of the sea. That's an interesting phrase. Along the paths of the sea. You know that place where no one can ever go. No one has been, no one's ever seen the paths of the sea. No one can go that low, that deep. But even that creation is under his dominion. And by God's grace, we because of what Jesus Christ has done will one day reign with him. Dominion restored.
Revelation 1, we read this starting in verse 5. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God forever. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. And in Ro Romans 5 it says that we will reign with him forever. This is good news. The message of Christmas is that this God came for the expressed purpose of restoring that which was broken by sin and redeeming and freeing a people that were in bondage to sin.
And he has done it perfectly. Born of a virgin, born under the law to redeem those who are under the law. Praise God for that. What is man that you are mindful of us? Is that not true? Does that ring in your heart? What is man that he is mindful of us? He has ordained that we praise him now and for all eternity by this wondrous work. It was in 1193 that King Richard I also known as Richard the Lionhe Heart was returning from leading a crusade in the Holy Land.
As he was returning however through Europe, Leopold V captured him in Austria. The Holy Roman Emperor demanded a ransom for his release and the ransom price was 150,000 marks. You might say, "What does that mean?" That is the equivalent to three tons of silver. Now, even in our day, three tons of silver is a lot. Imagine that day. But this was the ransom price.
It was enormous. But the people of England loved King Richard and so they began to raise the money. There are many nobles in that time who gave up their entire fortune for the release of King Richard. And eventually they did raise it all. And this is where we get our phrase, a king's ransom from. Now think about this. That phrase, a king's ransom, could be better applied to you and I.
Except for it wasn't the king that needed to be ransomed. It was you and me. And he, not us, he paid the steepest, most lavish, most expensive ransom price ever. He bore my wrath in my place that I could be free, that I could have that dominion restored, that I could reign with him for eternity. This is the King who ransomed me. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
So, Father, I pray that indeed we would have this refrain in our minds as we peer into the starry skies at night. As we look at your sunrises and sunsets, as we view the vast beauty of the mountains, as we consider the gospel, may we declare in our hearts, how majestic is your name in all the earth. Thank you, Lord, for what you have done. You have ordained it that we would praise you, young and old alike. May your name be ever on our lips.
May we indeed go and tell it on the mountains and on on the plateaus and the prairies wherever we are that Jesus Christ is Lord. And we pray that we would fix our eyes upon you as we enter into the remainder of our Christmas season. And so we ask these things in Jesus name. Amen. Please stand.
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