well merry christmas, merry christmas to everyone of you, this is the last day of advent and this is so good to be in the house of the Lord with you all tonight to worship him to lift up our praise to him and to hear from him and his word and I just want to say real quickly to the parents. We I know this is a special occasion. We have the little kids in here with us, don’t be embarrassed by their little sounds, they are a reminder to us of life and vitality and our savior came once as a little babe and that is so amazing to me and so tonight as we gather in in the name of our savior, I want to say yet again merry christmas to you, merry christmas man, have you ever considered why we say merry christmas, have you ever thought about that? Is it simply a traditional holiday saying that we just toss around? No, there’s something more to it isn’t it? We say merry christmas because we wish and we hope for the recipient to be full of joy and happiness and cheerfulness at the revelation of the Lord, jesus christ and him have him come to the earth, we say merry christmas because we want you to be full of joy at the revelation of the Lord jesus christ so we say merry christmas and yet too many people during this time of the year, they feel the very opposite of joyfulness of cheerfulness of happiness, they feel pain disappointment, frustration, a time of the year. What we ought to be full of cheer is for too many people a time of despair. Okay, and there may be a few of you in this room tonight who are in that place, maybe you said merry christmas, but inside you are well acquainted with your pain and disappointment and hurt and my goal for you tonight. It’s for you to drink deeply of the hope that we have in christ is for you to see him with fresh eyes and for you to drink so deeply of his hope and his life. It will set you free of the very things that you’re feeling right now and for others of you, you may actually be in a good place in your soul. I still want you also to drink deeply tonight of the hope that we have in christ. I want you to drink so deeply of this hope that it will overflow from your life into the lives of those around you, so that you would encourage them to have hope in christ. I want to offer you encouragement to drink deeply of the hope that we have in christ tonight. I want you to leave here tonight with the kind of hope that we find in hebrews chapter six verse 19. It says hope is an anchor for the soul, the kind of hope that we have in christ that anchors your soul in every circumstance, I want you to be able to say with the Apostle paul as he said to the the church and colossi christ in me the hope of Glory, I want you to drink deeply of this hope and I want you to experience it in such a way that it anchors your soul and then it spills over into the lives of those around you. And so tonight I’ve entitled this teaching the incarnation of hope. Now that word incarnation, it simply means that God has come in the flesh. God almighty God has come in human form and because he has come in human form, we always have hope, We always have hope. We always have hope. God incarnate is for us. Hope. So I’m going to talk about the incarnation of hope because the bible directs us to have hope in God, the kind of hope that reflects a confident expectation or a solid assurance regarding future outcomes. That means right where you are at a hope in God that allows you to have a confident expectation of the outcome, a solid assurance that your God is good and that the outcome will be for your good and his glory. And because God has come in the flesh, we always have this kind of hope. And so tonight you need to drink deeply of this. I want to I want you to turn with me in your bibles to Isaiah chapter nine we’re gonna read verses six…