morning. So a church family, Good morning, merry christmas. My name is dan if I’ve not met you, I’m one of the elders here. So glad that you’re here. We’re thankful for this time. We thank you for this season. Um, and today we get to kick off our advent teaching series and those of you who are familiar with where our church has been the last several months, walking through primarily the gospel of luke. What we are going to circle back around to some of those early chapters in luke to make this advent series uh, worthwhile for you. So for some of you, you kinda gotta dust off your those teachings from, you know what, a couple of years ago now. Um, we’re on the deliberate pace through the gospel of luke. I’ll just say that alright, the deliberate pace. So, but anyway, I’m excited to kick off this series this morning and I’m so excited that I told myself that it wouldn’t be wise to begin this morning’s teaching by making a joke about the huskers and the season that our beloved huskers had. And I was also reminded that we just walked through a miniseries entitled Love Well and that wouldn’t be loving you all well if I made that joke. But I do understand that you guys have had lots of practice on loving Well because you root for the huskers. So I will say that right, hey man or ouch, right, You can say one or the other. But really this season is for me one of the most fun seasons this advent season coming off. Thanksgiving. Looking forward to christmas and then a New Year is one of the most fun seasons for me, I know that there’s a lot of stress that people have to deal with. There’s travel. There’s a lot of different things that happen unexpectedly during, during this time that can sour this season. And our hope is that through this advent teaching series that you will stand firm on the truth of God’s word and that you will learn to rejoice in this season even as we sang this morning, even when times are hard that you’ll be able to rejoice in this season. On that note, I want to talk a little bit about advent in the history of it. Before I jump into our passage, advent simply means the coming or the arrival of a notable person or event, the coming or arrival, the notable person or event for God’s people, especially the characters that we read about in the bible. Many of them waited for thousands of years for the arrival of God’s messiah God’s machine, Doc, the anointed one that would save God’s people that would restore God’s people back to a blast relationship with God and usher in the kingdom of God in a life changing and powerful way and waited thousands of years. In fact, when you survey the old testament, which is, I kind of want to give you a brief survey of the old testament. Really. It’s not a survey, but here’s some passages to kind of help. You see the Messianic promise as it was understood by characters in the bible and by characters. I don’t mean fictional characters. I mean people who were living on this earth hoping and waiting for God’s machine shock to appear Beginning with Adam and Eve Genesis 3 15 we’re told that the machine would be the seed of the woman, that he would crush the head of the serpent that would mark a return back to paradise and a return back to this place of a blessed relationship with God. Now the seed of the woman that’s important even as we think about the advent season and the person of mary. Secondly, we see what Abraham who’s one of the patriarchs right, Abraham Isaac and Jacob, they’re called the patriarchs right with Abraham. He understood this promise, this coming of God’s machine doc as the offspring who would overcome his enemies, he would possess the gates of his enemies and in him all the nations of the earth would be blessed. This is what he looked forward to. This was the advent that …