Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your fate. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

And I want to share a brief Christmas message with you today. And don't get me wrong just because I said brief.

For me, brief means something different than it may mean at other churches.

But don't want to take too long.

I understand the demands of this season.

And so let me just share with you from Luke chapter 1, verse 67 through 79. His father,chariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied.

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.

As he said through his holy prophets of long ago, salvation

from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us, to show mercy to our ancestors and to

remember his holy covenant. The oath he swore to our Father Abraham to rescue us from

the hand of our enemies and to enable

us to serve him without fear and holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

And you, my child, would be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before

the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the

forgiveness of their sins because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will

come to us from heaven. Somebody say, here comes heaven. Tell your neighbor, watch out, here it

comes.

40% of you participated when I asked you to touch your neighbor.

You don't like them?

Look at them and say, here it comes.

The priest Zechariah is speaking of the prophet John the Baptist,

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