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Pastor Allen- SSL- "God with us"
And that was when Isaac was born, and his Isaac means laughter, and God promised Abraham a son, and Sarah a son, and sure enough, through divine act of God, they had a wonderful child named Isaac. Manoa and his barren wife gave birth to Samson. We all know the story of Samson and the mighty acts that he had done in Israel. And also Hannah, a barren woman who cried out to God for a child, and God had intervened on her behalf, and she gave birth to Samuel. Samuel was a great prophet, a priest, and a great leader in Israel. You'll not find or study any greater character in the Word of God than Samuel. Samuel's life is one of greatness, and his service towards God and towards his people were great. That was a great birth through Hannah and her husband that God had wrought a wonderful thing. And there's also the story of Zachariah and his barren wife Elizabeth, who was around the age of 60-80 years old when she brought forth a son miraculously by the name of John, John the Baptist. You know, John was such a great man that Jesus said there wasn't a greater born among men than John the Baptist. Well, I say it a lot, ain't it? Amen. What a wonderful, wonderful birth that was and how it changed the whole world. All these that were born that I read to you about is changed, you know, the course of mankind and led us towards God and more knowledge and more understanding of God and his wonderful acts. No birth, however, is more miraculous, more marvelous, more magnificent, more mind-blowing, more memorable, memorable, that has moved mankind more than the birth of any other person that's ever come into the world than the virgin birth of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, the greatest of all times was when Jesus was born of a virgin. Now this is the most important birth in the history of mankind. The birth of Jesus Christ demands it demands our attention because the way that we respond to the one who was born of a virgin will determine where we will spend eternity. You cannot just look at it and turn a deaf ear or a blind eye the way you respond to the virgin birth of Jesus Christ will determine where you will spend eternity. Amen, you must believe it with all your heart that Jesus came into this world born of the virgin Mary the birth of Jesus Christ was miraculous, Mary was a virgin when she conceived Jesus because the child within her was from God himself and she was also a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus she knew not Joseph until Jesus was born to in Bethlehem's manger praise God. Now this is not or ever has been true of the natural birth of anyone else no one else can lay a claim to being born of a virgin outside of Jesus Christ himself what a miracle this is not this is a holy truth not just a holiday truth and let us not drown the truth in this season but instead in this time in this season the let us let us cover the holiday with the truth of the holy birth of Jesus Christ in the world, amen, this is a celebration, amen, the holiday doesn't overtake this holy day that Jesus was born to in to the world to save you and I now look the God who took Eve a motherless woman out of the side of the man by the name of Adam is the same God who also took a fatherless man out of the body of Mary praise God amen what a miracle without an earthly father Jesus was brought in to the world how you taken from the very body of Mary what a miracle has taken place Lord yeah God you know the Christian life is one of miracles somebody said you believe in miracles why can't help but believe in miracles the life of a Christian is a miraculous life to be born again what a great miracle to become a child of God to be born again of the spirit for the spirit to come into your heart take out that old nature that hard heart and give you a new heart and a new desire and make you a new creature creating Christ Jesus is a miracle upon all miracles how come it's hard for us to believe for the blind to see in the day after here in the down the top and I'm the role in the day to raise again when we are experiencing one of the greater miracles that could ever happen to any human being and that he has to become a child of God what a miracle to washes from our seeds there's no one there's nothing there's no way to get rid of sin except through Jesus Christ and I'm amazed that I have saved this morning amen so the birth of Jesus is such a wonderful wonderful miracle the birth the virgin birth of Jesus was planned and prophesied in the scripture by God himself this was God's plan and only God could bring it amen to fulfillment the first look that we have at the virgin birth of Jesus is found in the book of Genesis in chapter number three and verse you know I hope I can I hope you can feel about this really the greatness of it we just get the greatness of what Jesus coming to the earth means into the world to a virgin what a message hallelujah in Genesis three and fifteen and and the Lord spoke into the woman after she had taken a forbidden fruit and he said I will put speaking to the serpent rather I'll put emity between the in the woman and between thy seed and her seed and it shall brew thy head and it thou shalt brew thy heel now this is God for telling of the virgin birth he didn't say anything about man's seed he said her seed man was not included amen the referring to the future virgin birth of Jesus Christ this first in Genesis three and fifteen is known as the true gospel the first presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ through the birth of the woman her seed the virgin birth and then in Isaiah chapter number seven as I read to you this morning a man the virgin birth was as a sign the Lord told that he has that it would be a sign the Lord himself shall give you a sign meaning it would be something unique and special not just any birth it would be a sign for a virgin shall conceive and be with a son and shall call his name Emmanuel seven hundred plus years before it ever happened God had spoken it through the prophet Isaiah and if you want a taste of the gospel in the Old Testament read the book of Isaiah how do you I mean they call it the gospel of the Old Testament why would it be a sign if it was a normal ordinary birth but a virgin given birth would be a true sign from God amen yet the virgin birth of Jesus Christ has been the most challenged contested contradicted criticized countered confronted condemned by the unbelieving than any other birth in the world it's been challenged through the years even among religious circles is not believed among many today but I'm here to declare to be the truth and nothing but the truth that Jesus was born of a virgin Satan has launched attacks through the years to weaken in the water and it down this cardinal truth of the scriptures false stories has been rumored around Mary was with child by a Roman soldier and others continue that a virgin birth is an impossibility thus unbelievers claim that the story could not be true at all but the virgin birth was an impossibility made possible glory be to God and for the devil to try to counterfeit it Buddha's mother claimed that when she conceived Buddha in her womb that a white elephant entered into her belly praise God and Alexander the great mother claims she conceived him through the great god Zeus to the mighty serpent and the devil's always trying to counterfeit and weaken down you know that hey all these pagan gods declare the same and for your god to claim that Jesus was born to a virgin and they try to use that to offset the truth that Jesus was born of a virgin called Mary a man conceived by the Holy Ghost hallelujah glory be to God aren't you glad that you know about this man called Jesus Christ what an impossibility made possible the virgin birth was performed by the power of the Holy Ghost and not by man Luke chapter 1 and verse number 30 and the angel said her fear not Mary for thou's favor with God and behold thou shall conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and thou shall call his name Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and his kingdom there shall be no end then said Mary under the angel how shall this be seen I know not a man and the angel answer and said to her the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall over shall thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the son of God and behold thy cousin Elizabeth she hath conceived a son in her old age and in the six month with her whom it was called barren for with God nothing shall be impossible and Mary said behold the hand made of the Lord be it unto me according the word and the angel departed from her we love God and make a backslidden baptist shout right there the Holy Ghost wrote such a wonderful act the child that was former than her was from the spirit of God what a mystery God made flesh God in the form of a man the word was made flesh amen and dwelt among men praise God all that blessed holy night that Christ was born amen hallelujah deity took on dust and God shrouded himself in flesh and came down to man to save the world hallelujah hallelujah isn't that wonderful and his name shall be called Emmanuel interpreted God with us hallelujah hallelujah Emmanuel with us hail God with us or with us God I'm glad God's with us the invisible God is now in view amen John said we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth the impossible has become possible the unimaginable has come tangible now you can see they've had God in the flesh 100 percent God and 100 percent man the mystery of God walk in among us God with us help me to get you excited over such a boring happening Lord of God hallelujah Santa Claus take the sway and go the other way we're here to celebrate Jesus Christ amen hell yeah there ain't no grits ever go steal my Christmas baby it is impossible amen for that to happen because he was born they meant one of a virgin hell are you conceived by the Holy Ghost brought into the world by the reckless act of God and the world can't do nothing with it he is the Son of God hell yeah Christmas is not found in a present but it's in a person and his name is Emmanuel you'll never know Christmas until you know Christ one man defined Christmas and I love this as God moving into the neighborhood Emmanuel God moved in with us. Sweet Lava God hallelujah. Hey you glad he moved in with you the name Emmanuel is more than a name it's a promise this promise is one of presence and security a promise in the midst of her trials and struggles and adversities that he is with us what a promise Emmanuel God with us this promise of Emmanuel was given in chapter 7 of Isaiah to a king by the name of uh a has of Judea it was during a troubled and fearful times when the Assyrian forces occupied the land that God offered a has a choice he he could trust God amen or suffer defeat the latter part of verse nine says and if you will not believe surely you shall not be established and uh uh uh one letter of that is like this if you do not stand firm in the faith you shall not stand at all and that's what God was telling a has in the troubled time and then he today has amen I want you to I want you to ask of me a sign but a have refused so God gave his own sign and one that would be fulfilled years later at possibly 700 plus years after he has a deceased and he said in verse 14 behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel he meant God's promise a babe for the battle hello you glory be to God I feel shouting all over me this morning praise God hello you a babe for the battle he has was facing a tremendous optical when God made such a promise of a sign you [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] >> Amen, now won't you listen. It was a horrible time when this promise come day has, fear is struck in his heart. Amen, and God gave him such a wonderful prophecy. Amen, look at Isaiah eight and verse seven. Now therefore behold the Lord bringeth upon them the waters of the river strong and many speaking of the land of Judah. Amen, where he has was king, even the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he shall come upon all the channels and go over all the river banks. God said, I sent you a general stream in the prophecy before. Amen from shallow, but you wasn't happy with that and you turn away from God. Now God's allowed these Assyrians to come in and they're gonna wash over you and cover the banks, you're gonna be up to water up to your neck. And he shall pass through Judah. Speaking of the king of Assyria and his army and he shall overflow and go over. He shall reach even to the neck and the stretching out of the wings. He shall feel the breach of the land. Oh, Emmanuel, I know troubles coming, but God, you're with us. I know trials are coming, but God, you're with us. Amen, look down. Amen at verse nine, associate yourselves on you people and you that be broken in pieces and give year. All you for are countries, guard yourself and you shall be broken in pieces. Take cancel together and it shall come to know, speak the word and it shall not stand for God. He's with us. Listen, enemy, you boast and brag, you may have us hemmed up for a spell. Oh, Emmanuel, he's with us. Amen and God's gonna break the hold of the enemy. Amen when God has fulfilled his plan and his purpose and his chastised his nation. Amen, God's gonna, amen, step in and bring us deliverance. I got a message for yay has, I got a sign to give yay has, you're fearful, you're trembling. The adversity is great, the enemy is great, but I am going to give you a sign. Amen, a woman shall a virgin whether shall conceive us child, a son, and shall be born. And his name shall be Emmanuel. God with us. In the most difficult and hard times, God with us, oh my friend, you and I and all of humanity laid helpless and hopeless in our sinful bondage, defeated by our own rebellion, our own stubbornness to give ourselves over to God. But God who was rich in mercy, looked upon our sin-ravist world, amen, and done what we could not do. He came down to us, oh blessed Emmanuel, God came down to us, glory to God, to help us, to deliver us from our sins, to shine a lot to those who sat in darkness. Oh, yeah, praise God, aren't you glad you're free from the grip and the power of sin this morning? Hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah. Not in bondage any longer to sin's ugly grip. Hallelujah, set free because Emmanuel has come down to me. Oh yeah, oh God with us, glory to God, put that in your pipe and smoke it, never get choked on a smoke. Ain't nothing to do about it, ain't no way can turn it back, there's no way can ever erase it, there's no way can stop God's children from ever rejoicing in the fact that Jesus came on that great holy night born of a virgin in Bethlehem of Judea, as it was prophesied that it be born, but his God wrapped in swollen clothes and laid in a manger and the angels broke out singing, "Hallelujah, I said, Hallelujah, I'd pay this message, makes angels sing, he'll make the church rejoice, that we have God with us, God came down to man." Glory be to God, what a joyful season it is to rejoice in our salvation. Hallelujah, I said, Hallelujah, glory to God past the trees, the lives, the tensile, the presence. Hallelujah, past all the running and getting the gathering, the giving, the going, the time to spend and the eating, "Hallelujah, glory to God, there's a manger with you." Glory God out, shining them all, God with us, I'm God he's with us, this morning, I'm God in the person of Jesus Christ, that God makes his abode in our hearts today. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. O blessed Trinity, Hallelujah, amen Father, Son and sweet Holy Ghost, Hallelujah, all working His One, amen to help humanity to find their way back home to God. Nobody should ever die lost. Nobody should ever die hopeless. Nobody should ever die alone. Oh, dear God, I like what they said about Brother David Boggs, you know, getting close to death and he said, "Jesus, is that you?" Somebody else burned witness and he woke up one time and he said, "Hey, I haven't seen you in a long time, but I'll be there in just a few days." Glory be to God. With us, can you believe it? Can you believe it? That God is with you. I'm not talking about praise God, just any God, I'm talking about the only God, the God that got all power. God that spoke the world into existence, told that big sun ball to start shining. Glory be to God, what a mighty God we serve. Hallelujah. I said, "Hallelujah, sin's grip cannot hold you any longer. Won't you make a mind up that you're going to live for Christ? Power of sin is broken when you accept Jesus into your heart and into your life. Hallelujah, death may pluck our loved ones from our lives like a child picking dandelions in a green meadow, but God is with us. When disease and sickness squeeze the strength for our bodies like a mighty python that is cold about its victim, God is with us. When we're summoned by danger and gripped by the tentacles of fear, God is with us. When defeat has left us, the scary is depressed, and down in the dumps, God is with us. When crossing the Red Sea and droning the well, and the three, he bore boys in a fiery furnace, and down in the last den are stories that shall be important lesson. God is with us, raise your hand and praise him. Glory to God. What shall make us fear and trembling when God's with us? There's no situation that he's not greater than. There's no trial that he's not bigger than that trial. There's no sickness that he can't see us through. There by life or by death, God is with us. You know, I was so troubled forever, God saved. I remember getting under conviction, not raised, you know, in a Christian home or knowing anything much about serving God, just what I'd gathered on my own, I guess, through a little bit of years. So I got under conviction, and I went home to my sister or brother's place, and I remember laying my head down the pillow that night, and I was so troubled, and I felt so empty and dark, and I felt like I was going to go to hell. I laid a pillow under my Bible, under my pillow, I'll never forget it. I know that doesn't save you. That sort of thing I know to do at the time, I laid a Bible under my pillow, and tears went off my face onto my pillowcase, and I cried my little self-to-sleep of the 16-year-old boy, not knowing anything much about God at all. I promise God that night, Lord, if you let me live till I get back to church, I'll not walk up the aisle, I'll crawl. If you let me live, then don't let me go to hell. I could have got saved that night. Now I know that, but then I thought I needed to get back to the church house. Amen. This was on a Wednesday, I think, on a Sunday, October the 5th, 1980, I was sitting in that little old church house, and something got a hold of me, and I slipped out the aisle with all of my bashfulness and backwardness. Hey, folks, I wouldn't go out and eat at the rest of the rest of my darling wife sitting back here when we were dating. I wouldn't go out and eat at the rest of the home of head up in public, amen, but this day I got out of the aisle, I put my head down in the carpet on all fours, I crawled up to the front, and I bowed down and gave Jesus my heart, and I'm glad to say this morning with a shout of triumph, "God is with us." Hallelujah. I called my mother that night on the phone, I said, "Ma, you know, Mom got a lot of disturbing phone calls. You know, my brothers in car wrecks and phone gels, amen, and a hot spell and everything else." And I called her this night, and I said, "Mom, guess what? I got saved tonight." She said, "Good, son, I'm happy for you." Hallelujah. I wish somebody leave this house today, he said, "I got saved today, God's with us. I'm proud to be a Christian, I'm glad to be a child of God, I'm happy to be free from the bondage of sin and the darkness of my heart. The light is shining over the inside of me, and I'm saved by the glorious grace of God." Somebody lift your hand and praise Him in the house this morning, "Whoo, amen, God has never forsook me." He said, "I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you, I'll go with you always, God with us." I'm fixing the clothes or glasses coming in here, but he even crossed himself, told his beloved disciples, "It's expedient for you that I go not away. If I go not away, the Comforter will not come, but I'll pray to the Father, and in my name, he'll send you another Comforter, and he shall abide with you forever." Lord, again, forever through all the trials and storms and difficulties and heartaches and pains and disappointments and sorrows and tears, forever through the joy and excitement the thrill, the shouting, the hand gapping, the amen, forever, but he's God through every optical difficulty ever crosses and every cry, "Hallelujah, Father, amen, Hallelujah, He's God with us." Hallelujah in the person, the Holy Ghost, He's coming in the world, the same man, God with us, He's been with me my teenage years, He walked with me through my young manhood, and the end of my twenties, and I started raising my family, and my little children coming up running my feet, God with me, with the end of my thirties, please God, amen, to go to a new fashion of life, and I thought battles, I never thought I'd have to fly, but God with me, with the God in my twenties, amen, come here now, you're going to the road, and raise God, man with my life through, he's been the steward in the difficulties of life, God is with me, and I stepped over the threshold in the '60s, and the devil said, "What are you going to do now? I'm going to do what I've done in my ten years, in my twenties, my thirties, my forties, my You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna shout a man you love. Oh, bless it. Holy, tell, oh, God, He is with us. Hell over it. Hell over it. Have I crossed the threads? Hold my leg raise. I got it in my seventh. I'm gonna shout God with us. Then my my head presses the down pole. I won't say like John Wesley said. Best of all, God with us. That's me. That's with us. That's been the best part of my life. That's been the only life I've had. This God with us. Praise Him right now. I will take nothing for my journey now. I gotta make it to heaven somehow. Somebody said for when God's been hard. No, God's with us. Somebody said, I got a lot of hurt. Servant God. No, God's been with us. Somebody said, I went for a lot of hurt. No, God's been with us. He's turned my sorrow in the joy. And He gave me the glory to praise, to the spirit of Hell in us. I said, God's with us. I praise Him in a good pack. I praise Him in the man. I praise Him in the soul and shining. I praise Him in the clouds. Hang on my head. Hang on my head. God's with us. I'm going to turn this over to our son, who's superintendent. But I am just about excited. Has a little white fat boy can be 60 years old this morning. On this Christmas day, her season headed toward Christmas day, shouting to the world. God is with us. Don't feel sorry for me. I don't want the world to think I'm out for a pity party. Be in the child of God. I'm going to hold my head up high. I'm going to raise my hands up high. I'm going to a high step through the world. I'm suffering from troubles and heartache. I'm going to tell them God's with us. Hallelujah. You come go with us. We'll do you good. Amen. Hallelujah. All you need. Take care of your troubled heart this morning. All you need to sue that troubled man. Amen. Come to fear is the dark. No eternity. It's God with us. Come on. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Say God with us. We may say you can't give back up. Say God with us. Hallelujah. I'm telling this morning. I'm not sad. I'm not dead. I'm not me. I've got to keep all this health. Hallelujah. We're coming off from storm of sickness and disease. I'm sitting down. You don't see me, don't you? God with us. When I carried my steelborn son in a little casket about J.B. and placed him in the ground on day cemetery on Big Count Kentucky, you'll see a headstone there of a little boy that belonged to me and my wife. Laying there in the dust. I cried. And she cried so pitifully. But here we stand. God with us. Hallelujah. I ain't 16 of a lot. I'm about to flip. I'll front stage right here right now. Hallelujah. I feel like brothers, you've traveled him. Young people run all over the world to bon get me. Say if I was young, I'd run to those. I can't. You run for me. What? Come here now. What God are you serving in hell? Hallelujah. If you serve the God of all the universe, the God that rules and dictates all things that rise with the kings and kingdoms. Hallelujah. That could take a nation and toss him like a ball. In the far control. The God that dictates this world is the last. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I said, go right me to God. I feel the Holy Ghost in the hell. I got to turn this thing over to our superintendent. This morning, I'm telling you something. If I didn't have God, I'd get doomed as soon as I could. I wouldn't wait with the hesitate. I wouldn't say I'll think about it. I might or maybe a will or raise God out selling right now. And I'd say, oh, I got to have this amen Your will. Why don't you shake your neighbor's hand and say, God with us. I'm going to try to behave more right now. Come, my good friend. Amen. This time, hang on to it. Don't give it to me. Whatever I say. You shake God. What a message. What a message. You know, when he was in the little bed there, when he was first born, and they gathered around him by the Marvin, and they was just in awe. Little did they know he had one hand on the cradle and one hand on the world. That's the kind of God that we serve. He created the world in six days just by his voice. That's the kind of God that I serve. I'm thankful for the Marvin. Now, one day he said, Dylan, Donald is going to get condemned and going to get down and alter. I'm praying again. His heart right with God. I'm thankful one day conviction found of the Marvin Evans and his heart got right with God. That's the kind of God that I serve, that he is mercy and is love induced forever. God with us. I appreciate that message. Wow. I wish he just kept on. Appreciate God. All right. We turn to the service here. We've got somebody, T.P. and we've got two birthdays. Make a way to P.N.O. if you're mind. Ain't you glad to be in the house of God this morning? Ain't you glad that holiday season's coming the Christmas time, the best time of the year to worship our Savior? I'm so thankful. All right. First birthday is Jacob Nguyen. How old are you, brother? Next birthday is Sister Karen Nguyen's got a birthday. How about when I ask? Okay. Let's see. A happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Every day of the year. May you find Jesus near. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. The best one you've ever had. I'm going to turn over to Pastor when you get started again. Come up here saying, will you? Come right on. I'd like to hear you saying today. Good to have you. Good to have brother Caleb with us. He'll be preaching for us here in a few minutes. Lord's will. If we can contain it, praise God. Holy Ghost, help us. Just stand to your feet with us. Ask God to continue to have His way among us. God and Jesus.