WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.939 Thank you very, very much everyone who took part in that. Thank you for just the hard work that you all put in to doing what a wonderful display. 00:00:11.939 --> 00:00:21.399 Welcome you. If you are here for the very first time, we want to welcome you. We want to assure you that we take the Christmas message very, very seriously. 00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:29.700 In case you're wondering what just happened in the last hour, I want to assure you we take the message of the gospel very, very seriously. 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.579 We just don't take ourselves very seriously. And actually, this is a this is a gathering tradition. 00:00:35.579 --> 00:00:40.640 We've done this. I think this is the third year now. My wife, Christina, is the mastermind in all of this. 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.200 Can we give her a round of applause? 00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:52.620 I want to invite her up in a bit. So but as you can see, such a well-oiled machine in terms of performance. 00:00:52.780 --> 00:00:56.740 Everyone knew their parts. It's just silky smooth. I'm just so, so grateful. 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:03.579 Thank you all for being here, packing here into this room. I know it doesn't feel like Christmas because it's so warm. 00:01:03.579 --> 00:01:08.480 I assure you, we feel the pain, too. It is very, very warm here. 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:13.060 If you don't feel super comfortable, don't hesitate to stand in the back or actually upstairs. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:17.060 Shout out to everyone upstairs who I was with there upstairs. It's super comfortable up there. 00:01:17.380 --> 00:01:19.140 And just really miss you guys here as well. 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:25.060 Christmas. When I say Christmas, what do you think of? What's the first thing that comes to mind, Aaron? 00:01:26.700 --> 00:01:27.060 Jesus. 00:01:27.060 --> 00:01:33.900 Jesus. Boom. Pastor right there. Vincent, when I say Christmas, what's the first thing that comes to mind for you? 00:01:34.700 --> 00:01:35.780 What presents I'm getting. 00:01:35.900 --> 00:01:40.299 What presents you're getting. Wow. Agnes, what presents he's getting. 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:44.359 Kelly, what about you? Christmas, what do you think about? 00:01:45.659 --> 00:01:46.140 The tree. 00:01:46.820 --> 00:01:47.280 The tree. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.920 That tree. That tree. Or that tree. 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:54.239 The Christmas tree. You think? All kinds of trees. All kinds of trees. 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:55.799 Let me go over to this side. 00:01:56.460 --> 00:01:58.019 Darren. Welcome back, Darren. 00:01:59.140 --> 00:01:59.500 Yes. 00:02:00.700 --> 00:02:02.480 How are the sleepless nights? Are they okay? 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:04.680 Manageable. 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:05.859 Oh, okay. That's good. 00:02:06.060 --> 00:02:07.460 What do you think about when you think about Christmas? 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:08.860 Family. 00:02:09.539 --> 00:02:11.800 Family. And I know there's family here as well. Welcome you. 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.340 Christmas is the most intimate time of the year, right? 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:22.740 I mean, the song goes, it's the most wonderful time of the year, but it's this most intimate time of the year where you just get to feel close with those who you love the most. 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:29.219 Or even though you may love them, you also sometimes find them hard to be with, which is why you only see them once a year. 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:39.159 And you have this warmth that comes with Christmas, but then there's also this actually loneliness that comes, right? 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.920 It is honestly sometimes the most lonely time of the year for people. 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:50.059 You can be packed in a room like this and still feel lonely. 00:02:50.679 --> 00:02:51.219 Am I right? 00:02:54.979 --> 00:02:56.119 Loneliness is a real issue. 00:02:56.219 --> 00:02:56.979 I was looking into this. 00:02:57.239 --> 00:02:59.359 Actually, yeah, Christina's dear family is here as well. 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:03.119 Her sisters, her parents, and Rav, I was having a good conversation with him. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.140 And you're a clinical psychiatrist, psychologist. 00:03:08.379 --> 00:03:09.219 Sorry, I always get that wrong. 00:03:09.259 --> 00:03:09.659 Psychologist. 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:13.819 And we were having a really interesting conversation yesterday about the impact of loneliness. 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:21.659 And how actually loneliness itself was, maybe a few years ago, was actually labelled by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic. 00:03:21.659 --> 00:03:22.659 It is a real issue. 00:03:22.659 --> 00:03:23.400 It is a real issue. 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:30.599 And the physical impact, the physical effect of loneliness is akin to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:32.460 It's linked to heart disease. 00:03:32.659 --> 00:03:34.000 It's linked to diabetes. 00:03:34.379 --> 00:03:35.759 It's linked to lung cancer. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:38.159 Loneliness is a real issue. 00:03:39.219 --> 00:03:45.019 It's actually in 2018 when the UK appointed a minister of loneliness. 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:45.180 Loneliness. 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.159 Unfortunately, they only appointed one person, so it was quite a lonely job. 00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:56.000 But they recognise that actually this is a real thing. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:58.439 Have you felt lonely before? 00:03:59.480 --> 00:04:11.379 Just to differentiate and maybe create distinction, there is loneliness when you don't feel as though anyone knows you or cares about you or even sees you, which is different to being alone. 00:04:11.379 --> 00:04:17.439 As I said, you can be in this room filled with people, and in Hong Kong it's filled with people, but still feel lonely. 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:30.560 You can be alone, on your own, and parents of beautiful young children will enjoy the bliss of being alone and feel completely content and not lonely at all. 00:04:30.719 --> 00:04:31.060 Correct? 00:04:32.139 --> 00:04:33.639 I love being alone. 00:04:36.100 --> 00:04:37.139 Loneliness is different. 00:04:37.139 --> 00:04:41.060 But it's something that we must really think about. 00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:46.779 And for those of us in the church, we often wonder, how do we deal with this loneliness? 00:04:48.039 --> 00:04:50.019 There's something in our hearts that cries for this. 00:04:50.779 --> 00:04:55.620 Actually, it was Queenie that shared the quote with me a couple of weeks ago, the Tim Keller quote that I really, really like, which is, 00:04:55.860 --> 00:04:59.000 to be loved and not known is superficial. 00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:00.659 Right? 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:05.200 Because if they love you, but they don't really know you, then it's not really the kind of love that you need. 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:10.680 But to be known, but not loved, that is our greatest fear. 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:20.020 But to be fully known and truly loved, well, that's a little bit like being loved by God. 00:05:20.860 --> 00:05:24.520 It is what we all need in the deepest parts of our hearts. 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:30.199 We all want to feel like we are seen, known, and loved. 00:05:30.579 --> 00:05:36.439 There's a part of us, we all, by the way, if you're struggling with loneliness right here, I want to tell you that you are not alone. 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:37.620 You are not the only one. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.060 The problem with loneliness is it's a bit of a vicious cycle. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.259 The moment you feel lonely, you start to cut people off because you don't feel people understand you. 00:05:45.539 --> 00:05:48.139 So you don't want to open yourself up to them. 00:05:48.139 --> 00:05:51.579 And then they, people looking at you will go, well, actually, they don't want to be known. 00:05:51.819 --> 00:05:52.579 They don't want to be. 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:58.379 And so actually, eventually, that cycle is just a vicious one that just reinforces itself. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.060 And then we have people who are lonelier and lonelier. 00:06:01.139 --> 00:06:06.680 And we live in a time where we are the most connected, but we are also the most lonely. 00:06:08.479 --> 00:06:12.439 When social media does exactly the opposite of what the name says. 00:06:14.579 --> 00:06:16.620 So the question for us is, what do we do about that? 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:17.680 The Bible talks about that. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:28.480 God, before humanity makes a mistake, when they choose to not trust him, he says there's one thing that's not good, which is for man to be alone. 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.019 We were built for community. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:33.540 We were hardwired for that. 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:40.319 And actually, for the longest time in humanity, you were born into a community, about 50 to 150 people. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:41.800 And that would be your people. 00:06:41.899 --> 00:06:43.939 That would be your tribe for the whole of your life. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.139 That's what it was. 00:06:46.139 --> 00:06:51.419 And we would learn how to behave as humans in our community. 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.939 But actually, the loneliness started to creep in. 00:06:54.019 --> 00:07:00.579 The anti-social side started to creep in, not because of social media, but actually in the 50s, something called just social mobility. 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.879 People started moving to different places to travel, to work. 00:07:04.159 --> 00:07:05.060 And so you started moving. 00:07:05.060 --> 00:07:09.740 So that one group of people that you were born into now would constantly change. 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:12.040 And is there a more transient city than Hong Kong? 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:20.360 And so what happened from there is we started to move around and then we started to lose connection with people because we just did. 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:23.120 And now we are all on our phones and on our devices. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:27.020 And we actually struggled to learn how to interact with one another face to face. 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:31.420 The synchronized communication that Jonathan Haidt talks about in his book, The Anxious Generation. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:33.180 Because we've stopped doing that. 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:39.040 Because now how we communicate with people is I will send Rocky a message and then he will leave me on blue tick. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.180 And then he will reply to me in a week or so's time. 00:07:42.300 --> 00:07:46.600 I mean, I'm not bitter about it, but it's just something that he does to me nearly every time I message him. 00:07:48.200 --> 00:07:51.439 And so I don't get to see his reaction when I message him. 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:55.340 And so this is the problem that we have. 00:07:56.020 --> 00:07:58.120 Well then, the problem here is this. 00:07:58.340 --> 00:08:01.100 How does really Christianity solve this? 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:03.439 Or what is really the message of the gospel here? 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.780 The message of the gospel, actually I was asked recently about this. 00:08:05.980 --> 00:08:08.000 What separates Christianity from everything else? 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:08.920 And I'll give you one answer. 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:10.560 Grace. 00:08:11.660 --> 00:08:13.020 And what is that grace? 00:08:13.340 --> 00:08:17.700 It's that actually our creator knows that we were built for community, for communion. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.680 And he came to join us. 00:08:21.500 --> 00:08:23.400 John 1 says the word became flesh. 00:08:23.840 --> 00:08:26.439 The message version says he moved into our neighborhood. 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:30.360 Christianity is the only one where God does not cross his arms and says, 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.340 Hey, can you work your way up to me by being a good person? 00:08:33.580 --> 00:08:34.940 Christianity is the only one that does that. 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:36.560 Christianity is the only one that says, 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:38.860 God says, actually, you can't reach me. 00:08:38.860 --> 00:08:39.899 I will come to you. 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:42.960 And that's why we have the name Emmanuel. 00:08:43.659 --> 00:08:44.500 God with us. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:50.019 If there's one message of the Bible, if there's one message I want you to take away today, 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.000 is that God came to be with you. 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.779 Don't we all ask that question? 00:08:55.779 --> 00:08:56.500 Where is God? 00:08:56.500 --> 00:09:01.460 You look at the fires in Taipo and you go, God, where were you? 00:09:01.460 --> 00:09:08.280 You remember the rejection that you faced on the playground as a child and you go, God, where were you? 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:16.680 You remember the time you were in the library and you received the message that you didn't get the job or the place that you applied for. 00:09:16.800 --> 00:09:18.240 And then you ask God, where are you? 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.580 You look at every tragedy that happens in society. 00:09:21.779 --> 00:09:23.460 And then you go, where are you? 00:09:23.580 --> 00:09:29.100 When I needed you the most, when my heart was the most broken, where were you? 00:09:29.180 --> 00:09:30.639 Isn't that the question that we all ask? 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.980 And the message of the gospel is this. 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:38.419 God responds to that question by saying, I was right there. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:41.679 I was right there. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:50.360 The moment Joe and I lost our father at the dinner table that one night, he was right there. 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:58.759 The moment a parent gives birth to a baby, but then loses the baby immediately, God was there. 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:05.340 The moment there's a fire that cannot be contained, God was there. 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:07.580 Do you believe that? 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:18.740 If there's one message that I want to get to you today is that God has been with you every moment of your life. 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:24.159 In the worst moments when you are the lowest in your life. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:33.679 Or in those happiest moments where you graduated from university, where you got the job that you wanted, where you celebrated your wedding. 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.860 Every single moment, the message is the same. 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:39.439 I am with you. 00:10:41.819 --> 00:10:42.839 I am with you. 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.339 I have always been with you. 00:10:46.340 --> 00:10:50.139 That is the Christian message. 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.139 And that's why we have the name Emmanuel. 00:10:52.660 --> 00:10:53.560 God with us. 00:10:55.259 --> 00:10:56.899 Do you take that word for granted? 00:10:57.740 --> 00:10:58.300 I do. 00:10:58.299 --> 00:11:09.459 This is why my prayer always has been when we do a church service like this, that it won't be a memorial service where we sing and we talk about a person who lived in the past. 00:11:09.459 --> 00:11:13.459 But we actually sing and talk to him because he sat right there. 00:11:13.579 --> 00:11:14.719 Because he sat right there. 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:15.699 Because he is present. 00:11:15.839 --> 00:11:17.159 He is here right now. 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:18.679 Why? 00:11:18.819 --> 00:11:21.120 Because Emmanuel, God with us. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:26.120 Have you been in the presence of someone who you don't feel as though you deserve to be with? 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:33.519 Actually, every time someone meets Jesus in the Bible, they're just blown away. 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:38.399 Just like the spoken word three unwise men shared just then. 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:41.519 That their lives turned upside down, transformed completely. 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.060 When you're in the presence of greatness, something changes in you. 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:46.240 You don't even want to be in. 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.279 You're like, I'm not even worthy to be there. 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:55.120 And yet the God of heaven comes down and spends time with us. 00:11:55.819 --> 00:11:56.579 That is the message. 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:57.319 And what does that do? 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:58.740 Well, he says, I've come. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:00.959 So don't lose heart because I will turn your sorrow. 00:12:01.419 --> 00:12:05.019 That moment that you have been the most sorrowful in your life, I will turn that into joy. 00:12:06.199 --> 00:12:09.459 Romans 8 talks about this, that actually the whole creation is groaning. 00:12:10.819 --> 00:12:11.480 Are you great? 00:12:11.539 --> 00:12:11.879 I'm great. 00:12:11.939 --> 00:12:13.799 Every time I look at the news, I'm like, oh God. 00:12:15.779 --> 00:12:16.559 Where are you? 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:19.500 What are you doing here? 00:12:20.319 --> 00:12:21.459 This doesn't make sense. 00:12:21.539 --> 00:12:22.980 This brokenness doesn't make sense. 00:12:23.059 --> 00:12:24.439 This corruption doesn't make sense. 00:12:24.659 --> 00:12:26.220 And God says, I am here. 00:12:26.579 --> 00:12:32.779 And this pain that you're feeling is the same pain that a pregnant lady who's just about to give birth is going through. 00:12:32.860 --> 00:12:33.699 That there is pain. 00:12:33.839 --> 00:12:34.740 There is sorrow. 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:37.899 But the moment that baby comes, there is life. 00:12:37.980 --> 00:12:38.819 There is joy. 00:12:39.740 --> 00:12:41.519 And I've come to turn sorrow into joy. 00:12:42.220 --> 00:12:43.319 I've come to give you peace. 00:12:43.319 --> 00:12:44.759 A peace that this world cannot give. 00:12:44.819 --> 00:12:46.279 You thought that job would give you peace. 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:47.819 Surprise, it doesn't. 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.579 You thought that number in your bank account would give you peace. 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:53.039 Surprise, it doesn't. 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:56.019 This world cannot give us that peace. 00:12:56.100 --> 00:12:57.419 There is only one who gives that peace. 00:12:57.639 --> 00:12:59.659 And actually, it's a peace that doesn't make sense. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.500 I remember during COVID, during the fifth wave, I remember that's what the Lord, I was so upset. 00:13:04.500 --> 00:13:09.360 Because some of the regulations, some of the lifestyle here, everything was just caving in. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:10.700 I was like, none of this makes sense. 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:11.740 And God says, that's okay. 00:13:12.299 --> 00:13:14.679 Your job is to have a peace that doesn't make sense. 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:21.940 When everyone else is complaining and moaning about everything that's going on, you're supposed to have a peace that doesn't make sense. 00:13:21.940 --> 00:13:24.560 The Bible calls that the peace that surpasses understanding. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:32.879 Can we be people who sit in front of others going, yeah, the world is falling apart, but I have peace that comes from God. 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.039 And then it gives you hope. 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.500 Not hope in things that you can see, but in things that you cannot, knowing that it will come again. 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:45.240 Just like the pregnant lady who's going through the pains of childbirth, but that comes. 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.100 Isn't it interesting that the Bible keeps using that as an analogy? 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.559 What it's saying here is that actually there is pain, but there will be life at the end. 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.759 Where sometimes we are so afraid that there is pain and that will lead to death. 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:57.259 But actually the Bible says, no, no. 00:13:57.659 --> 00:13:59.320 This pain is going to bring out life. 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.620 Life creation is going to be just like how I intended it to be. 00:14:04.860 --> 00:14:06.440 But it does have to go through this pain. 00:14:08.060 --> 00:14:08.980 And finally, love. 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.440 Love the thing that makes the world go around. 00:14:13.040 --> 00:14:15.840 The thing that even the Beatles, the Black Eyed Peas will all sing about. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.280 Everyone's chasing after it. 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:20.560 Everyone wants this and is asking, where is that? 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.040 And we know that love is a person. 00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:24.740 Jesus. 00:14:24.740 --> 00:14:30.940 This love, this peace, this hope, this joy comes to be with us. 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:35.180 And when he is with us, when we are in his presence, there is the fullness of joy. 00:14:35.340 --> 00:14:38.539 When we are in his presence, where his spirit is, there is freedom. 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:39.419 Don't you want that freedom? 00:14:41.100 --> 00:14:41.639 I do. 00:14:43.539 --> 00:14:45.440 And the Christmas message reminds me of that. 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:47.419 God with us. 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:51.639 God is with us. 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:57.659 If you don't know him, can I tell you, that's okay because he knows you. 00:14:58.620 --> 00:15:00.639 And he knows you to the very depths of your soul. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.620 He knows you in the highest moments and the lowest moments. 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.919 And he wants to tell you that he has been with you all along. 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:08.139 And he's standing at the door and he's knocking. 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:10.980 And he's knocking. 00:15:13.019 --> 00:15:15.620 And he gives us this hope, not because he came as a baby. 00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:18.799 It's because he didn't stay in the stable. 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:19.879 He didn't stay in the manger. 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:21.379 He grew up sinless. 00:15:22.179 --> 00:15:23.820 He grew up to show us how to love. 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:25.360 He showed us a different way to live. 00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:28.120 But we actually don't have hope because he did that. 00:15:28.379 --> 00:15:32.480 We have hope because he then went to the cross to die for us. 00:15:34.460 --> 00:15:36.059 Every parent knows this feeling. 00:15:36.340 --> 00:15:38.899 In order to give life to your offspring, you must die to yourself. 00:15:39.439 --> 00:15:42.059 You must have those sleepless nights where you know I want to sleep. 00:15:42.259 --> 00:15:44.659 But in order to sustain you, I will die to myself. 00:15:46.659 --> 00:15:47.960 And so our creator does just that. 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.620 He dies for us. 00:15:52.900 --> 00:15:54.639 And then we don't have hope just because of that. 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.139 We have hope because not only does he die, but then he rises again. 00:16:00.180 --> 00:16:03.080 He came to be with us and he is coming back to be with us again. 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:04.920 That is the hope that should fill us with joy. 00:16:05.160 --> 00:16:07.780 It should free us from all the fears of this world. 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:11.560 Emmanuel. 00:16:12.420 --> 00:16:13.060 God with us. 00:16:13.059 --> 00:16:15.119 We're just about to finish the service now. 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.000 But if I may, I would love to pray for us. 00:16:19.019 --> 00:16:25.679 And I would love to pray for every single person in this room that you would feel the presence of Jesus right here, right now. 00:16:28.019 --> 00:16:29.199 Shall we bow our heads? 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:34.640 Thank you, Lord. 00:16:35.140 --> 00:16:38.360 That because of you, we can be alone, but we don't need to be lonely. 00:16:41.780 --> 00:16:43.259 You moved into our space. 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:44.320 You moved into our neighborhood. 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:49.560 And you had one message. 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:51.860 That I'm with you. 00:16:53.740 --> 00:16:55.600 We lean into that message today. 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:58.540 And we give you thanks. 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:02.180 We give you thanks that 00:17:02.180 --> 00:17:04.900 you are here right now. 00:17:04.900 --> 00:17:08.900 Would you make your presence known and real to us? 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:12.780 In your name we pray. 00:17:14.259 --> 00:17:14.580 Amen.