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Mark Dr School Ministries. And remember, it's all about Jesus.

Well, happy birthday Jesus and Merry Christmas, the first ever Christmas Eve service here at the Trinity Church.

If you are new you are surrounded with some wonderful people and I just want to thank our church family you guys are

amazing it's been an extraordinary year. Things are going great and isn't it fun to be together tonight?

Amen?

Well my gift for you is a short sermon. If you're a first-time visitor and you come back, this is a one-time only gift.

You'll get a little short sermon for me. I hope you guys are ready for Christmas tomorrow.

You start to think about it, all the preparation and planning that goes into Christmas and actually and

all the preparation and planning that goes into Christmas and actually God is the one who started planning for the first Christmas

and so what I want to do briefly perhaps tonight for you, don't want to lie, but perhaps for you, start in the

first book of the Bible, Genesis.

We're going to go all the way to the last book of the Old Testament, and we're going to go all the way to the last book of the Old Testament,

and we're going to see all the ways that God promised, planned, and prepared people

for the first Christmas.

And so I'll give you a brief overview, but we're going to be talking from the Bible. If you're new, this is the word of God. This is the book that God wrote.

This is the only perfect thing on the earth. It's not speculation about God. It's revelation from God. And when this book was written,

unlike any other book that's been written in the history of the world, this book tells us the future in great detail.

In fact, 25% of the Bible at the time of its writing

was prophetic in nature preparing God's people

for the future because God wrote the Bible, God knows the future,

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