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Speaker 1 00:00:05 How are we all doing? We okay? Yeah. It's good to have you here. I'm excited to be sharing God's world with you this morning. Uh, if you're new here, massive, welcome to you. While we're super glad you're here, aren't we, church? And, uh, it's good to be here. Uh, who's got the Christmas trees up already? Anyone? Okay. There's more of you than the first service. Who hasn't got the Christmas trees up yet? Yes. Oh, wow. Full of Grinch is in the room here. Look at this. Uh, we've got ours up. Um, so you can judge me all you like. That's absolutely fine. Prepare him room. Everyone say prepare him room and high five, two people and say prepare him room. Come on, let's do it. Prepare him room. Prepare him room.
Speaker 1 00:00:49 Prepare him room. We've just finished a, uh, wonderful event called, uh, prepare Him Room. And uh, last week we had three days of 12 hours of worship throughout, uh, Wednesday, first the of Friday and just beautiful to be able to honor the king. The reason why we did that is because we want to ensure as a church that this Christmas, as we move into all the plans and activities that we have, what we also know that you will have, that the heart, uh, of what we want to stay true to is that Christmas is about the birth of us Savior to the world. And his name is Jesus. Amen. And, uh, we want to make sure that we do everything possible to prepare him room so that he can have space and room in our lives and our heart to be able to minister tours, to be able to overflow from our lives.
Speaker 1 00:01:33 Um, Christmas is in a fascinating season. You know, um, is one of the only moments really where the whole nation, pretty much there are that abouts, um, celebrates what we know is about Jesus. For them it might be about gifts and presence and materialism, but for us, we know it's about Jesus. But a wonderful opportunity, uh, makes itself apparent to us all where the whole nation gathers together on one day. And we know we have the opportunity to be able to tell them the reason why they're gathering an amazing opportunity for the whole nation to come together to celebrate something that we can say, this is the reason that we celebrate Christmas is because we need a savior. Amen. We need a Messiah. We needed someone to come and redeem us and heal us and set us free. And we have found that in Emmanuel, God who is with us, the one who came into the brokenness of the world, a holy God who you think would abstain from the brokenness of humanity, but instead moves towards it because he has a deep love for the world and a deep love for your and my life.
Speaker 1 00:02:34 That's the reason of Christmas, right? Isaiah chapter seven, uh, puts it like this. A virgin will uh, bear a child and a son and she will call him Emmanuel, God who is with us, with us in every challenge with us, in every battle with us, in every twist and turn that this life so often brings. We have a God that is got a, a name that declares that he is with us in every season and in every moment. Fascinating thought though, when we look at the, the story of Jesus in the Bible, it's a fascinating thought that the very name given to Jesus, which literally means God being with us. When he first came into this world, we know that nobody wanted him. A fascinating thought that when Mary and Joseph were looking for a room to be able to give birth to the God that wants to be with the people, there was nowhere for these people to lay their head.
Speaker 1 00:03:33 Nowhere for them to go everywhere was full everywhere. Had no spare rooms. There was nowhere for Jesus to come and tune. In fact, homelessness was effectively the avenue that Jesus came into this world. Fascinating thought. Fascinating thought that the king of kings and the Lord of Lords, the Messiah savior of the world had had nowhere to go at all. Luke chapter two, verse seven says, Mary gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She rats him in cloths and placed him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them. The king of the universe, the creator of all the world, the one who was there at the beginning when they spoke life and out of his mouth came the suns and the moons and the starts, the one whose imprint is on our lives as we were made in the image of the triune God, that very God, the one who is the coming messiah, the savior majestic in fashion, full of splendor and holiness and power.
Speaker 1 00:04:32 When he first comes and enters into this world, no one would take him. Him. No red carpet rolled out, no palace for the king of kings. The dwelling. In fact, rejection was the first encounter that Jesus had when he came into this earth. Imagine that. Imagine knowing what you and I know of who this baby was and no one would take him in. Imagine the God, the creator of all the world in human flesh and nowhere would open the door to allow him to come in. Now, of course, 2000 years ago when this took place, nobody knew who this baby was to everyone that they knocked on the door asking if they could find a place to stay, they just saw it as another man and wife pregnant with a baby. They, they didn't assume, didn't know who this baby was going to be. They had little idea that in front of them at very moment in the womb was the, was the savior the coming king?
Speaker 1 00:05:30 They had no idea. But you and I, knowing what we know right now, knowing exactly who Jesus is, knowing exactly that he was in that fashion at that moment, the coming king, the creator of all the world, the Messiah, who has set most of our lives free in this room, the one who we worship this morning, the one who we gather around knowing what we know. Surely if that was to take place today, we would all welcome him in, right? We'd all open our doors going, oh my gosh, like what an honor it is for Jesus the baby, to come and be a guest in my home. Come on in, we'd open the doors, we'd literally roll out the red carpet. We would be of reverence and all, wouldn't we? If that takes place, surely that's what would happen in our lives. We would, we'd prepare him room, right? Or, or would we?
Speaker 1 00:06:22 I guess the better question is do we, do we prepare room for, for the one who is the creator of all the world? Do we open our hearts and our lives and our doors to the one who is the savior of our souls? It's a more prominent question to ask when we approach Christmas, right? Of all the activities we've got going on, friends, family, food and presence and all those things are good things and we'll enjoy them. But in that moment, are we preparing in room? It's an interesting question for us to ask ourself. And I guess this morning what I, what I wanna do is, is I wanna look at a letter that Jesus himself, after he had done these things, lived his perfect life, died on, on the cross in brutal fashion for our sins. Rose again, lived with the disciples for 40 him more days and now is at the right hand of the Father.
Speaker 1 00:07:19 After that, he wrote a letter to a church. It's an amazing letter. And in fact, I would say that this letter could be a letter that would be written to the western church in this day and age. It's a letter that was written to a specific church 2000 years ago, a letter that holds great importance. And it's from a book that many of you who have been following Jesus for a while probably avoid every now and then cuz a little bit scary. It's from a book called Revelation, an interesting book Revelation if you're not a Christian in the room, revelations fooled with all kinds of prophetic and poetic language, graphic language. And Jesus himself writes, writes a letter to a specific church. And I want us to read this letter today as if he might have been speaking to the western church that we find ourselves of in this moment.
Speaker 1 00:08:00 Because the whole point of this letter to this church is speaking about what we're talking about today, which is prepare him room. And effectively Jesus is trying to get across to this church. He uses graphic and detailed language of a church that might be doing lots of good things, but inside they're perhaps not preparing him room. Perhaps they've gone off kilter with all their activities and doings just like Christmas so often is for many of us, and they lose the centrality of what the purpose of church is and the purpose of Christmas is, which is to prepare room for the coming king Jesus, the Messiah of the world. I wanna pre-warn you before we read this, some of you will have read this language before, you'll have read this letter before. And if you like me, I read it when I was 16 years old and it's been imprinted on my heart ever since.
Speaker 1 00:08:47 It, it scares me a little bit, if I'm honest when I read it, it's it's graphic language and Jesus is speaking about something very, very specific. And here's, here's what it is. A lukewarm faith. A lukewarm faith. Put your hands, if you've ever read the scripture of, you know, I have a heart in a cold and lukewarm, okay, lots of you have. If you haven't, I'm gonna help you. And if you have, hopefully help you unpack what Jesus was actually saying, the reason why he used such graphic language. And what I wanna do is, as we read it, your eyes are gonna go straight to the problem of the letter. But I want to try help you in this moment as we read it, to not just see the problem, but to see the promise. How many people know that every problem we encounter, there's often a promise from God, uh, beyond it.
Speaker 1 00:09:28 Every trial we go through, there's a result and a meaning for it behind it. And here, Jesus right into the church and he highlights a problem within them, but he's more bothered about saying, Hey, if you can get past this problem, there's an amazing promise for you to have. I have a suspicion that this Christmas, but even potentially beyond it, as we move into next year, the problem, the solution and the promise that Jesus gifts to this church may become apparent in some of your lives, but may become apparent in the Western church as well. Can we read it together? I said, okay, brace yourself. It's from Revelation chapter three. If you've got a Bible, feel free to turn there and we'll read 'em. Froms verse 14 up to 22, it's gonna come on the screen here. It says to the angel of the church in Lao decir, Lao decir is the church that is right into, it's a specific area.
Speaker 1 00:10:22 I'm gonna highlight that, uh, in a little bit as I do some teaching on it. And it says these words, these are the words, the amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. In other words, this is Jesus's words Now to the church, this is a letter that I'm writing to you and I want you to understand what's happening that you might not be able to see. Verse 15, I know your deeds, you are neither hot nor cold, and I wish that you would just be one or the other. So because you are Luke warm, neither hot nor cold, I'm about to spit you out of my mouth. That sounds quite heavy, doesn't it? Right? A little bit graphic there and you say, I'm rich, I've acquired wealth. I don't need anything else in my life. But you don't realize that actually your wretched pitfall, poor, blind, and naked.
Speaker 1 00:11:12 I counsel you, I plead with you. I ask of you, buy from me gold that is refined in fire so that you can actually become rich and white clothes to wear, that you can cover your shameful nakedness and salve to put in your eyes so you can actually see Jesus here is pleading with the church to come to him for the things that they feel like they need. Those who I love and I rebuke, I discipline. So be, earn, be quick, quickly turn away from these things and repent. Here's the, here's the solution and promise. I want you to lean into these words. Here I am. I stand at the door and knock. And if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they will eat with me to the one who is victorious. I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my father on his throne, whoever has ears to hear, let him hear that, which the spirit of the Lord says, who's read those words before?
Speaker 1 00:12:16 Wow. Lots of you there. Hey, well, I'm hoping to just bring some light to it because it can feel quite heavy as we read those words, you might have felt like, oh my gosh, like how, how are we gonna get through this? I thought we was gonna do Christmas with a fairy lights in the tree in the corner, and on con Sean speaking about Jesus gonna spit us out from your mouth for lukewarm faith. Right? It's not very uplifting, it's not very helpful. But but bear with me because what I want you to see here is I want you to see three things from this, this story, this letter to the church, and we're gonna speak about the lukewarm thing. I'm gonna give you a bit of understanding of what's actually happening because it might not be appearing to what you think it is. There's something specific in detail that was happening in the church of Le Desia that we need to know to understand that which Jesus is trying to get us across.
Speaker 1 00:12:58 Okay? Secondly, I wanna talk about the solution and the solutions. The beautiful part of this story, the beautiful part of the gospel, is that every time we face a battle, God gives us solutions to overcome those battles. Amen? There are always way throughs the trials and difficulties of life. And God himself called himself Emmanuel because he promised to be with us in every step of the life of our journey. That's the beautiful aspect of what the gospel's about. You're not alone. If you've walked into this room this morning feeling lonely and alone, I've got good news to you. The gospel has a remedy to your loneliness, and it's found that a person called Jesus who said, he'll be with you every step of the way. Amen. And then there's this beautiful promise that God brings. If you can overcome the problem, accept my solution, you will encounter the promise of God over your life that I believe is over this church.
Speaker 1 00:13:50 And I believe it's over your life as well individually. Can I get an amen in the house? Come on, let's have a look at the problem. The one that we all looked at, we, we, we can clearly see what the problem is. It's, it's Luke warmness, this word called lukewarm. Many of you'll have said it before, many of you'll have felt it before. Many of you in your journey are following, Jesus will be perhaps even sometimes fearful that perhaps your your Luke warm. And in our context, in our situation, it's really easy to be lukewarm. Can I be really honest with you for a moment? This sounds absolutely ridiculous, but Christmas for me is one of the seasons where it's easy for me to become lukewarm. Can I? Is that, that is crazy to even say that the moment that we celebrate the birth of Jesus coming into this world is also one of the most easiest moments for my life to become lukewarm crazy.
Speaker 1 00:14:40 But I believe a plan from the enemy over all our lives. He doesn't want us to remember what Christmas is about, but we are here as a church putting our foot down and saying to all the world, Christmas is about Jesus and Jesus only. Amen. Amen. He's the reason what we need. He's what we need in our lives. We've got the answer to the remedy of the longing of your soul. And it's found in Jesus and Jesus alone. And the the enemy comes along and he and he tries to make us in this moment, forget those things. And there's nothing wrong with the things that we necessarily do at Christmas. It's good to spend time with friends and family. It's good to be loving to one and over and given if gifts. It's good to come around a table and feast together. I'm not against any of those things and I love a pigs and blankets myself.
Speaker 1 00:15:19 I promise you anyone knows me. You know that's true. But the reality is, is in the midst of all those great and wonderful activities, there's been times in my life where Jesus has taken a second place and often the reason why he's taken a second place is because I'm tired. I feel like I need a break over Christmas. Some of you are kind of going, yeah, I'm there as well. Like I'm looking forward to seeing people that I don't get to spend a lot of time with. A lot of the time I'm looking forward to the roast and the presence and all those things that happen. But in my life, Jesus often in that moment been the second, the second priority. And I've tried every now and then to give him a thanks. I wake up and I say, happy birthday, Jesus. Right? I do all those things.
Speaker 1 00:15:59 But, but what if this year God is trying to get our attention that the difference this year for Christmas is not that we would celebrate secondary things, but we would fix our heart on the priority of Christmas. That is Jesus Christ. What if he's trying to get our attention once again of saying, this is one of the most beautiful opportunities for you to be able to share with people around your table the reason for Christmas. That is Jesus. Well, in order for to do that, we have to get past this problem. Luke warmness. I know your deeds. You need a cold nor hot. I wish you were either one of those. It'd be much simpler if you were cold or hot. So because you are Luke warm, even not hot nor cold, I'm about to spit you out of my mouth. Now, Jesus sounds aggressive there, doesn't he?
Speaker 1 00:16:38 God sounds quite angry at us. It's graphic language, it's language that we'd look at. I'm go, oh my gosh, I don't want Jesus to do that to me. And it's understandable that we'd think that way. It gives the reason of why Luke warmness is in our life. You say, I'm rich, I've acquired wealth and don't need anything. In other words, you're focusing on things that aren't Jesus. You're putting him in the second place of your life. God has to be number one in our hearts and our lives. Now, something to really understand, this is a specific letter to a specific church, church and Leo Desia. Leo <unk> was actually a really wealthy and rich place. It was an affluent place. It was a city that was known for its financial structures. You would go there and be in awe with all the buildings and everything they were doing with the finances.
Speaker 1 00:17:26 In fact, the church that Jesus is right into here, they would appear to be a really, really good church. Can I be honest with you here? You wouldn't think it reading that. But the church was actually doing loads of good things. They were growing. They had the greatest buildings, they had lots of finances, they had lots of people coming through to be part of that church. The area itself was really doing well and there was, there was growing, um, in their finances and in their community, and people were moving to the area because of how good it was. But they had one particular problem. The area of this church had one particular problem. And here's the problem. They didn't have a water source.
Speaker 1 00:18:05 Nowhere in the area had water source. Leo Desia couldn't supply water to the people that live there. So in their innovative thinking and in their ways of trying to combat this, they came up with something that in my eyes, is a really, really good, good thought and good idea. I wanna show you a little map. This is the way it is right now. You could go there and see these places, Leo, to see you can even see the ruins of what I'm about to talk about. It is a real life thing. And just, uh, below it is this place called Colossi. And Colossi had this beautiful, beautiful system of cool, refreshing water. You know those moments on a summer day where you just love a glass of water, nothing quench your thirst, just like it. Well, Colossi had exactly that. People would go there to Colossi and they would drink the natural spring cool water of Colossi and they would be refreshed almost immediately and then just above it.
Speaker 1 00:19:01 Here you have here apples. And in this place here, they had beautiful heated water. They had warm springs and people would travel from afar to go to this place and be in the warm springs. In fact, people felt as they encountered the warm springs of hi apples, they would be healed. Healed from all kinds of different things. So people would travel there all the time. And Leo Desia being cut in edge, having finances, they thought, well, this is genius. Why don't we be build a piping system so you can find pipes And uh, uh, literally right now as you go there, there are remains of pipes that are still in place. And what they did is they built pipes from here to bring the hot, refreshing, healing water of hily. And then from here, colossi all the way up to the north, they built this piping system where this cool, refreshing, uh, refreshing water would come.
Speaker 1 00:19:50 And they had this desire, if we can get the hot water and the cool water from here, we've sold all of our problems. Now, Jesus, writing the letter to this church knew exactly that this was taking place. In fact, it's likely that this letter was written as these pipes had just been built and the water had just starting to be fulled to Leo Dir One problem, though the cool, refreshing water from Colossi was great. Everyone was drinking it and being refreshed. But unfortunately the hot, the hot water from hi uppers here coming down, by the time it got to Leo Decia, it had become lukewarm.
Speaker 1 00:20:26 The water had gone from being hot and healing to lukewarm. And as people were drinking the lukewarm water, they were becoming sick. Now get this, Jesus is using cultural references to try and get his point across to the followers of, and what he's not saying is, you need to be on hot fiery for Jesus or cold and don't know him or don't be in the middle. He's not saying that. What Jesus is saying to the church is, I would rather you be life giving and refreshing like the cool waters of colossi or healing and hot, like the hot waters. But what I don't want is I don't want you to drink the lukewarm water because you are becoming sick. Jesus uses this language then, doesn't He, of saying, I will spit you out of my mouth as soon as he says that the Church of Leia.
Speaker 1 00:21:20 They know exactly what Jesus is saying because all the people are drinking the lukewarm water and they're what? They're becoming sick. This changes the way we view this passage of scripture. And here's why. So often we read this passage of scripture and we believe that God is angry at us. We read it and we see the problem and we think, oh my gosh, if I'm just lukewarm, God's angry at me, he's gonna chew me up and spit me out, and I'm gonna be there on the ground just begging for mercy. But actually, if we understand what God is actually trying to say, he's not saying that our Luke warmness brings anger to the heart of God. He's saying, our Luke warmness brings sickness to the heart of God. That changes everything because anger and frustration may bring momentary change. But when a hearts are aligned to not want to cause sickness to God, it may just bring eternal change. In other words, let me, let me put it as bluntly as I can. The Luke warmness of our faith causes the heart of God to ache for us so much so that it makes him feel sick when he's close to us.
Speaker 1 00:22:40 Now, breathe for a moment. We've got past the problem. Okay? We've done it. We've identified what the problem is. We understand that Luke warmness in our faith when we don't prepare him room, it aches the heart of God. But here's the good news to every problem, God provides a solution. And here's, here's the solution. Jesus says these words to those whom I love and rebuke and discipline. So be honest and repent. Turn away from the decluttering of your life. Shift things out of your heart that don't need to be there. Make me the central focus, prepare, prepare me room for I walk. Here I am. I stand at the door and knock.
Speaker 1 00:23:33 I stand at the door and I knock on the door of your heart. I stand at the door and I knock at the door of this church. I stand at the door and I knock on the door of your life. And I ask, please, please let me in. Please let me into your situation. Please let me into your Luke warmness. Please let me in to your trial and difficulty. Please let me in as I knock on the door, open it and allow me to come in. You see the message of Christmas, the message of what we celebrate is not that God is repulsed by our sin, but we celebrate the Emmanuel God with us who moves close to our sin because he has a solution for us to be able to overcome it. The beauty of Jesus Christ and the beauty of the holiness of our God is he has such a perfect plan for this church and for your life that he doesn't leave you to wallow in your sin or Luke warmness, but he moves towards you so he can lead you through it. The beauty of the gospel, the beauty of the Christmas message is that God is with you. Even when you don't want him to be with you.
Speaker 1 00:24:33 He's with you even when you are not aware that he is with you. He's with you in every trial, every battle, every circumstance. We have a God who stands at the door and he knocks.
Speaker 1 00:24:47 No if you could come up, mate, this is the the solution that he, that he brings. This is the solution that he brings to the Luke warmness that we can so often have in our lives. I heard a quote recently from, from a person online and, and I loved what it said, it, it speaks about the prodigal son. Anyone know the story? The prodigal son, Luke chapter 15 and the prodigal son and leaves the father's house and leaves the father. And then he, he comes back after he is been in the pigs, Dan and spent all his money, uh, partying and, and Jesus is, is portrayed as the Father who welcomes him home with loving arms. And I heard this quote recently that I believe just helps us understand some of these things to do what could be Luke warmness that can come into our hearts at times at at Christmas. And here's what it says. The older brother, anyone remember him in the Prodigal son story, the older brother in the prodigal son shows us that we can be in the father's home and still be far from the father's heart. The older brother shows us that we can be in the father's home and still are far from the father's heart.
Speaker 1 00:26:02 Activity is a terrible replacement for intimacy. Here's the scariest aspect of Luke warmness that, that I've encountered in my life. The scariest reality of having a lukewarm faith that's not all in, that's not preparing room for Jesus to come and be with me. That's not got him is the highest priority in my life. That's not, he's my first love, my only love, the one who I desire of all my things. Here's the scariest reality that I've found in my life to do with Luke warmness. The greatest concern I have is not that I might just be Luke
Speaker 0 00:26:42 Warm.
Speaker 1 00:26:44 The greatest concern I have is that I would be lukewarm and not do anything about it. To know that I am afar from the heart of the Father to know that he's knocking at my door and I'm not doing everything possible. To let the king of kings in to know that I am bound, trapped, and captured to the ways of this world. And as Jesus stands there knocking, I know it, but I won't do anything about it to whom I love and discipline. Be earnest and repent. For here I am, I stand at the door and I knock.
Speaker 0 00:27:36 There's
Speaker 1 00:27:37 A great problem.
Speaker 1 00:27:38 And God comes through with a great solution. This is the story of the gospel, right? We've sinned. We've all fallen short from the glory of God. Jesus comes perfect, spotless lives. A life dies on a cross for your sins so that you can have eternity in relationship with him. He rises and resurrects from the grave. He sits at the right hand of the Father. And now we find ourselves here where the kingdom of God is here, but not quite yet. It's not a full power yet. But we see an incensing, the kingdom of God around us. We're seeing and sensing that the solution that Jesus brought works, it makes a difference in our lives. It makes a difference in the lives around us. We sense it. We feel it. The beauty, the beauty of this story and the beauty of the gospel is that when we acknowledge our Luke warmness and when we accept his solution, God gives us beautiful promises. And he blesses us with beautiful promises.
Speaker 1 00:28:32 He blesses them over our lives and he blesses them over the church. And I'm a strong believer that individual churches as though we are one, they're a specific promises placed over individual churches. And I wanna be honest, I believe this church has specific promises. I believe it has promises that lay over it. And as you are part of this church, those promises are aligned to your life as well. They're aligned to our community. They're aligned to our call, they're aligned to our mission. They're aligning to our purpose of why we are here at this moment in history at this time. No mistake has been made. You're here for a reason. And part of that reason is to unlock the promises that God has over your life. It's to unlock the promises that God has over this church. And that's the beauty of accepting his solution. And in this story here in the story where Jesus comes and identifies the problem, brings the solution, he then goes on to tell us of a beautiful, beautiful promise that I believe is apparent and being made known to us today. And here's, here's the promise. It's a greater revelation of intimacy with Jesus.
Speaker 1 00:29:42 And some of us that might think could have been a bit more surely like revival, thousands of people coming to the church like great speakers and preachers. Could it not be any of any of that stuff?
Speaker 0 00:29:54 Perhaps
Speaker 1 00:29:55 It is, perhaps it isn't. But what I'm sensing in my spirit and what I'm seeing taking place in in people's lives is that God is first revealing tours as followers of Jesus. That he has a promise over your life that you would know that he's close.
Speaker 1 00:30:17 For those that open the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they, they will eat with me to the one who is victorious. That's who I call victorious, the one who opens the door. I will give the right to sit with me on my phone just as I was victorious and sat down with my father on his throne. You see our sin and our Luke warmness, it is not a repellent. The promise that God has over your life. God's strong enough to be able to combat the Luke warmness of our faith. He's strong enough to be able to lead us through the tensions and difficulties of our life. He's strong enough to be with us in the deepest darkest of valleys just as much as he is. When we're on the mountaintop day in Oland are wonderful, right? And I'm gonna end with this. He says these words about the gospels and about the life of Jesus. He says the cumulative testimony of the gospels, if he was to find a main headline of the way the gospels are, Matthew, Martin, Luke, and John, you put them together, the cumulative testimony. The resounding, resounding theme is that when Jesus Christ walks with us and he sees the fallenness of the world all about him,
Speaker 1 00:31:25 The brokenness and the Luke Warmthness all around him, his deepest impulse, his most visible instinct is to move towards that sin and suffering, not to move away from it. Friends, I want to encourage you this morning that Jesus is knocking on the door of your life and he's asking whether you're gonna let him in.
Speaker 0 00:31:58 He's
Speaker 1 00:31:59 Knocking on the door of your heart and he's asking this Christmas, will you let me in at the table? And you might have been a Christian for 50, 60 years and the reality and truth is the same promise and the same solution still rings true. Will you let him in?
Speaker 0 00:32:19 Will
Speaker 1 00:32:19 You prepare him room?
Speaker 0 00:32:21 Will
Speaker 1 00:32:22 You overcome the problem of Luke warmness? Accept the solution that he's knocking on your door and invite Jesus into your table and say, come feast with me Lord. Let me sit at your feet. Let me know your heart. Let me know your character and your love. Let me be impacted by the way you see me. Let me know how you view me. Let me know the promises and the details you have over my life. Let me know the purpose and the plan. Nothing else matters. Nothing else matters. Only you. We sing the songs, we know the verses. But the reality is, is it's truthful for our lives. This day. Here I am, I stand at the door and I knock those who open. I will come in and I will feast with. And they are the people I will call victorious. They are the people, no greater intimacy. They are the people I will bless and strengthen and be with every moment of their lives. All we have to do is prepare him, which is stand with.
