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Or does it just feel like it just feels that way like 18 years 20 not quite 25 yet not quite 25 years but it's that time of year again we have been on this planet traveling around the sun together now for $2324.00 times and this time of year comes around every year on the Grinch the guy in the house but this is actually a season when a lot of people are getting well but let me be honest they get sick and tired of all the Christmas music and the Christmas decorations the carols playing in the department store the t.v. Commercials nonstop advertising nonstop cooking company coming over you got to go to a school concert if you're a parent and listen to the squeaky read band play the the Christmas hits that nobody wants to hear and getting you know you get dragged from one Christmas thing to the other and it's hands down the most stressful holiday season of the year for a lot of people like nobody likes Christmas right no I strongly object so I like going to the Christmas condo in the morning and those kids squeak through their instrument a character or a plot play those things it's awful if I need an aspirin after I'm done at the school you know they're not meant to be perfect it's the cute yeah we dress them up and bathrobes with towels on their heads oh I miss those years those are adorable Well here's what I do like here's what I do like you know I'm kind of a Grinch of kind of a bug the only holiday I genuinely like is Thanksgiving but but at the Christmas season at least for a few weeks most people who would never otherwise darken a church door would never otherwise crack a Bible would never otherwise talk about God they're willing to spend a few minutes talking about Jesus or at least you know hearing about Jesus right and it seems like most of the year now talking openly about your faith is kind of to boo people will tell you oh you're a Christian you're a bigot you're intolerant you're closed minded You're a simpleton but they all kind of soften up at the Christmas season. The rest of the year they say look Christians that's everything that's wrong with the world as you people write and maybe they've met some Christians that come and justify that claim but but at this time of year all of a sudden it's cool to be a Christian a kid for. A week or 2 and you know when those claymation specials are coming on t.v. And all that stuff that I can't stand by I speak to how people are willing So here's what I want to do today let's cash in on that people want to talk about Jesus we love talking about Jesus and so I'm willing just for today just for today to talk about some Christmassy kind of things Ok We're going to relax a little bit I've got my shoes off I might even put my feet up on the table and will relax a little bit I'll put on my my really ugly Christmas sweater and we'll make this a special holiday episode of disclosure has its own to sound one day I knew you were going to say yeah I love Christmas and I love talking about the wonderful notorious from the Bible I love part every part of that part's good but I'm the only guy in the house you know this is totally a female holiday guys call and write in and tell me your Christmas experience if you're the only man in the house I want to hear from you I'm sure there are a few men out there who enjoy Christmas a couple at least least one they love the bill afterwards when the women are done we get the bill yeah who get a bill of our How is that I paid it and now you do have a bill that may go down as the most sex or statement in the history of the voice of pretty when you guys are done having her fun the man has to pay the bill. Because I was born in the wrong house I was born in the rocks please send your complaint letters to box 999 Loveland Colorado care of Jeanne I don't want those Ok but tell me you know you do love the holiday season we all know Jesus wasn't actually born on December 25 we know that but tell me you know tell me about your Everybody gets nostalgic Tell me about some of your favorite holiday memories everybody does get nostalgic that's true well holiday memories I have wonderful memories of when our daughters were little but if you stay nostalgic let me think back when I was a kid I think we all love to look back on our childhood and 6070 years ago. Little last little little tiny bit less but. There is one kind of unique memory I have from Christmas that has really stuck with me over. Years and that was I think I must've been in the 5th or 6th grade if I recall probably about 12 maybe 13 years at the oldest and I remember getting my 1st calligraphy set for Christmas and as you know I ended up doing click through middle school and high school had an art teacher that taught a whole class so I was my 1st taste of something that became a real love for me and I remember opening that probably on Christmas morning but I really remember is the 1st for some reason that evening it's the only memory I have of both my grandfathers being together I'm sure probably when I was very young they were together with me at some point but this is the only memory I have so I vividly recall lying on the floor in the living room scribbling with my new clothes and a notebook and looking up at the couch in front of me and there's the little cream love sleep love see you remember them when those loves these later. That your parents gave us were they were well. Ancient But at that time they're relatively new so I'm looking up and there are both my grandfather seated on this love seat so I'm watching them and they're talking to each other so both of these men were World War 2 vets So there's my dad's dad my grampa Harry we called him he was born in England emigrated to Canada as a young man and then when the war broke out he actually went back to England serving with the Canadian Forces and he was stationed there in England for a while 6 months maybe a year and half time to meet a woman my grandmother get married and and by $44.00 he's married and they're already expecting my dad so he's there stationed and eventually toward the end of the war he is deployed and he serves as the communications man the signal man and he serves with the allied forces there at the battle. Of Monte Cassino So he's there in Italy right so there he is he I can still picture him as sharing war stories of reliving these memories and then beside him is my mother's father my granddad who you have met my grandpa I loved him so he served with the Canadian Forces he was part of the raid on France that happened in the summer 42 that was sort of a pivotal moment in World War 2 as we know many of those soldiers were Canadian The majority of the soldiers were for Canadian and many were killed he obviously survived he drove a tank and he was captured and he was a p.o.w. For 2 years so there are these 2 men that I loved and they're talking and I can see my grampa Harry has these wonderful memories and my grandad's trying to one up his war experience was so much more difficult and more harsh manner and then or not know you know this man or not you know to try and one up each other in a story they were there what happened I can see my granddad getting irritated and annoyed by my grampa Harry who's so laid back and just talking and it was wonderful as a young child I just absolutely loved it in his stock has stuck with me vividly to this day well that is such a nice story I would try to think what is my favorite Christmas memory. And all I can think of is a really bitter memory bittering remember yeah absolutely I asked for you know my parents are immigrants from Holland and I asked for skis for Christmas and you know skis were expensive back in the Whenever I was a kid back in the 1920 s. And these are expensive here and I thought oh I don't never get skis and so I asked for them anyway and and so as I go looking through all these presents that are wrapped tore us present shake. Me as a kid like if you give me a birthday present to shake it 1st and see what's in it 1st to try and guess we even once we even once you write your complaint letters to Gene buster for what I'm about to say but. I don't want snuck downstairs and. And slipped the tape open on a couple of gifts and I looked inside and then we wrapped them yeah absolutely right but we knew exactly what was in there since that's why when I started to experience in Christmas with your family your mom would double triple shaft doctors she would dive and because we would slit open take. But so I go downstairs and here's this long package I can't believe I'm getting skis there are skis there for me I can't believe I'm going to get skis and then I look at the label it's for my brother. It's for my brother is like I can't believe it he didn't even ask for skis like I didn't expect to get them their expense if I didn't expect that at all and there it is he this such a selfish self-absorbed memory and maybe 8 or 9 years old and I remember getting angry I stormed out of the house I'm out in the snow in the cold it's like why would they give my brother skis nobody likes my brother anyway and a link sorry for yours Yeah feeling sorry for myself and there's no there's no long skinny package for me under that tree and all that's so I'm really upset in turns out it was a hockey stick anyway so the total Canadian story told Canadian story a Canadian story yeah and so it was a hockey stick and so there you go I was that selfish kid and there's one of the things you know we know Jesus was born on December 25th there's no question about it in the actual date has some pagan roots so there are 2 groups of Christians one group a Christian says we're not celebrating Christmas at all and it makes sense for Biblical point of view all of a crime levels of that mind in you can say yeah I won't do that others say look you know the date was pagan but it is the birth of Jesus Son so that there are 2 groups of Christians and they should stay out of each other's hair frankly but there I was exhibiting the most negative traits of the Hell of the season being selfish and self-absorbed and and so on here here's what we're going to do we're coming up against a break gene and what we're going to do is some years ago we did a t.v. Special right across the continent Canada the us on Christmas yes a.b.c. Special and I talked in that and there I delivered a message a Christmas message a seasonal message that talked about the birth of Christ but emphasized the fact that Jesus was actually in existence long before he was born and had dialogue with the human race and that the birth of Christ was actually a thousands of year long process and the answer to everybody's dreams I think the title of that message was peace on earth so what we're going to do I think you know we're getting close to a break that was done I think it 1st aired on a.b.c. T.v. It's been on other networks since and I think it was in the Washington d.c. Area where we did that yes it was yeah and so it's a message it's going to take up the next segment of the program and we're going to come what's going to happen when we come out of it you're going to hear me preaching and it's not that I'm standing on the desk in the. Studio preaching this is a seasonal message that I delivered in the Washington d.c. Area some time ago I'm hoping people will get out their Bibles and follow along and see where Jesus was all those years leading up to his birth and why the birth of Christ is so significant this is God becoming a human being God stepping into our world directly as one of us fully God fully human Jesus intervening in the affairs of man and giving himself completely not just his life at the cross but giving him his whole self to the human race for all time so that message is called Peace on Earth after the break you'll hear that it'll just begin when we come back from the break in the meantime I want you to listen to the special offer from the people of the voice of prophecy This is something you don't want to take advantage of so grab a pen and paper and when we come back the message peace on earth. 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There's an unusual passage in the Old Testament prophet of had guy of the Prophet refers to the coming Messiah as the desire of all nations and of course that's not one of the better known titles for Jesus and it's certainly not one of the ones that you expect to hear at Christmas time what you want to Christmas time is the prophet Isaiah wonderful counselor Prince of Peace unto us a child is born but Ag I goes down a completely different path had colds Jesus the desire of all nations and if you want to understand why he might call Jesus the desire of all nations in my humble opinion one of the best places to start looking is in Exodus Chapter 33 now I know again Exodus 33 is not what you expected Christmas time you want Matthew Chapter one you want Luke chapter 2 but I think if you'll bear with me for a moment you'll see that both Exodus 33 and had guys start to make some really good Christmas since in Exodus Chapter 33 Moses is out in the desert and there are hundreds of thousands of people relying on him with their very lives and he's beginning to feel the weight of leadership the pressure of leading these people and he wants to a little bit more from God He wants to know that God is especially close because he's responsible and so he's standing on the mountaintop he's as close to God as you can physically get and God has failed just inside the clouds and an Exodus 33 Moses begins to plead with God Please come out from behind the clouds let me see just a little bit more of you I need to see your face I feel completely alone out here in the wilderness plays more Lord I know you're real I saw the miracles I saw what happened in pharaohs palace I saw you in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night I saw the waters of the Red Sea part but I need something more I got to know that you're close I'd need you please god step out from behind the cloud. Those I would love to I would love to get closer to you I would love to step out but you don't understand I can't do it my presence used to be a delight to your 1st parents in Eden they love to have me come in the cool of the evening I was a delight to you then but ever since sin ever since you were separated from me my presence has become a consuming fire Moses I would dearly love to step out from behind the cloud but if I did it would kill you I can't do it please there's got to be something you can give me some token of your presence I need to see something. The cry of the whole human race we look out into space through a telescope and we see vast empty regions and we look back at this tiny blue marble that we live on and we ask the question Are we really alone here because while our planet is small the problems seem big to my by myself Lord please. Now how in the world is Exodus 33 a Christmas story let me ask you question who exactly is Moses speaking to inside the cloud 1st Corinthians 10 leaves no doubt about it Paul tells us point blank that the presence in the cloud that followed Israel across the desert was none other than Jesus Christ that's who's in the clouds and Moses on the mountain is getting his 1st glimpse of the baby who would be born in Bethlehem some 1500 years later he's starting to see Jesus and once you start to see Jesus once you start to grasp who he is you never get enough the desire in your heart just builds and builds Lord please show me something I need