Summary
We're here on Thursday, knowing what lies ahead, wishing wanting that we could perhaps change the past, change the history because we know what is coming for Christ, and yet we know that if we changed anything, then we would have no future. I don't know that it's a saying anymore, but but when one person would make a covenant to another where they would say, my word is my bond and that could be trusted or perhaps a covenant to deal is made with a hand shake, a firm hand shake and it's known that because of the person shaking my hand, I can trust the promise being made. Every week we come here and we come to the table and we pray and we make a contract with God that we repent of our sins, we make a contract that we're going to do better, that we're going to be better, that we're going to try harder, but we're just making a contract because we leave the doors and we enter into our daily lives and we find that that contract to repent, to do better, to be better, to try harder, well it's changeable. The ghost of Christmas passed, the ghost of Christmas present and the ghost of Christmas future. And when the ghost of Christmas future comes and he leads him in the future path or to the future of where Scrooge is headed we see that Scrooge meets a very tragic and very dismal and very scary future. And then we come to Israel's future, the future promise that the Lord had made to them in Micah chapter five, where the prophet writes for the Lord, but you O'Bethlehem of Ehrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me, one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from old from ancient days, over and over.
Video citations
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