Praise
the Lord for this day. Those of you who live in the region, join us for our
weekly Television outreach this evening at 7 PM on Time Warner Cable channel 4.
We are just two moths away from Christmas Eve 2014. The stores are being decked
out with Christmas decorations. It is getting brilliant out there. We are
getting ready for the annual Living Nativity to be presented at the Center Court
of the Oakdale Mall, in Johnson City. It will be held from 4 to 7PM on Saturday
the 20th of December. We are planning for a "Flash Mob" of The Hallelujah
Chorus of the Handel's Messiah. It will be sung live at 6:30 PM. We are
inviting all singers and musicians to join us. It is an amazing setting in the
center court of the mall on one of the biggest shopping days of the season. We
will also singing various Christmas carols as our friend Yancey
Moore accompanies on the grand Piano. All our friends and neighbors from all
churches and denominations are warmly invited. It will be a great time of
praise and worship. Our Lord loves to dwell in the praises of His people.
Please do mark your calendars. The Downtown singers will be presenting Handel's
Messiah live on the 19th and 20th of December at 8 PM. It is all about
celebration and proclamation.
We are
bombarded with news of terrorism and wars all around the world. It appears
that Satan is having a heyday. We get concerned and afraid. Everywhere you
look, wars are being fought. Wars perpetually occur, and people are always
willing to fight. Beginning with Genesis
3,
the Bible tells a story about a warrior, who is coincidentally is also known as
the Prince of Peace. He is the only warrior that is capable of winning this
war. He alone will have the victory, and He alone will bring us everlasting
peace.
The
story begins in a garden, the Garden of Eden, a place of perfect peace. There
were only two people in the garden, a man named Adam and a woman named Eve.
They were at perfect peace with God, with each other, and with themselves. Then
something happened. To this day, it is the most tragic event in human history,
an event which plunged our world into a conflict that we continue to fight
today.
God's
solution to this problem is wrapped up in a single verse in Genesis
3
that provides hope for the entire world, "And I will put enmity between you and
the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you
will strike his heel."
Amazingly, peace is wrapped up in a promise and
a prophecy. This verse promises that a warrior will come to rescue us from
conflict; it prophesies that this warrior is none other than Jesus
Christ.
In
Christ,
Brown
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