Preparing Hearts for the True Meaning of Christmas
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"In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was the governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Euteria and Draconitus, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of the Lord came to John, son of Zechariah, in the wilderness." [00:00:09] (27 seconds)
"He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight." [00:00:36] (20 seconds)
"The prophets saw the destruction of Jerusalem, the exile in Babylon, as the moral consequence of the choices the nation had made. They made wrong choices, trusting in material things, in arms and in idols and in money, rather than trusting God." [00:02:34] (18 seconds)
"John doesn't tell them to go to church more often, to read the Bible more, to give more money to the church or anything like that, or to say more prayers. He says, do you think that you can claim to be children of Abraham by just leaning on your religious credentials? Forget it." [00:06:28] (19 seconds)
"All of your church attendance, your vested choirs, your sanctuaries that you worship in, your tithes, your offerings, the prayers, the hymns, and the sermons don't mean anything because your ritual without your repentance is a joke." [00:06:53] (19 seconds)
"If you want to prepare yourself for the new age, become alert to the terrible... the terrible gap between the rich and the poor, the disenfranchised, the disinherited, the so-called bolts left out of the rising tides now sinking slowly beneath the surface." [00:07:11] (18 seconds)
"Whoever has two coats must share with him who has none. And whoever has food must do likewise." [00:07:36] (9 seconds)
"Getting ready for Christmas means getting ready for the new world that John sees surrounding the Nazarene, strolling toward him through the desert blaze and pictures in it, a revolutionary ethic as if we live in a world turned upside down and backwards." [00:10:01] (17 seconds)
"The heart of Christmas is love. The world is dying for lack of love. It's why sometimes we sing, Jesus loves me, this I know." [00:13:09] (10 seconds)
"Repentance is not just remorse for something you've done in the past. It's not just feeling sorry for something you did or didn't do. In the Greek, the word we say is repent is metanoia, and its literal translation is to turn around, to change your direction." [00:15:21] (20 seconds)
"I believe that God gives every generation, every person an opportunity to repent. to choose a new life and a new future." [00:17:02] (10 seconds)
"The Star of Peace is rising in the Christmas sky with the possibility of a new future coming to each one of us in every nation. We must choose now. We must repent." [00:20:09] (15 seconds)
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"He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight." [00:00:36] (20 seconds)
"The prophets saw the destruction of Jerusalem, the exile in Babylon, as the moral consequence of the choices the nation had made. They made wrong choices, trusting in material things, in arms and in idols and in money, rather than trusting God." [00:02:34] (18 seconds)
"John doesn't tell them to go to church more often, to read the Bible more, to give more money to the church or anything like that, or to say more prayers. He says, do you think that you can claim to be children of Abraham by just leaning on your religious credentials? Forget it." [00:06:28] (19 seconds)
"All of your church attendance, your vested choirs, your sanctuaries that you worship in, your tithes, your offerings, the prayers, the hymns, and the sermons don't mean anything because your ritual without your repentance is a joke." [00:06:53] (19 seconds)
"If you want to prepare yourself for the new age, become alert to the terrible... the terrible gap between the rich and the poor, the disenfranchised, the disinherited, the so-called bolts left out of the rising tides now sinking slowly beneath the surface." [00:07:11] (18 seconds)
"Whoever has two coats must share with him who has none. And whoever has food must do likewise." [00:07:36] (9 seconds)
"Getting ready for Christmas means getting ready for the new world that John sees surrounding the Nazarene, strolling toward him through the desert blaze and pictures in it, a revolutionary ethic as if we live in a world turned upside down and backwards." [00:10:01] (17 seconds)
"The heart of Christmas is love. The world is dying for lack of love. It's why sometimes we sing, Jesus loves me, this I know." [00:13:09] (10 seconds)
"Repentance is not just remorse for something you've done in the past. It's not just feeling sorry for something you did or didn't do. In the Greek, the word we say is repent is metanoia, and its literal translation is to turn around, to change your direction." [00:15:21] (20 seconds)
"I believe that God gives every generation, every person an opportunity to repent. to choose a new life and a new future." [00:17:02] (10 seconds)
"The Star of Peace is rising in the Christmas sky with the possibility of a new future coming to each one of us in every nation. We must choose now. We must repent." [00:20:09] (15 seconds)
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