When a husband and wife are expecting a child, they send out announcements to family and friends. They want others to experience the joy they have, and to rejoice with them in their excitement of adding to their family! These notes are beautifully crafted for the wonderful news!

When God's plan for sending His Son to be born, there was great excitement and joy! Every year we celebrate the birth of Jesus! God even wrote an announcement of the event that was coming in a book and sent it out to family and friends!

In this message we are going to look at that announcement!

It only takes one generation to have the God of all creation forgotten! And have people not know who is the Savior of all mankind! The message today shows how we can recognize the need and share the truth of the Gospel of Salvation to a lost and dying world. There is a time of judgment coming when God will call home to heaven, those who received salvation, and the casting into the Lake of Fire those who have rejected His salvation.

You have heard the saying, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade". There are times in our lives that we start out with a plan to look for opportunities to serve the Lord. As we begin to do, we can see the Lord at work! Sometimes things seem to go very wrong and we find ourselves at odds with the authorities. When this happens, "make lemonade!"

This passage gives us the encouragement and power to continue to use every opportunity to serve our Lord.

We all have a mission in life. Some people have a mission of making lots of money, some for gaining knowledge, some want to be in the spotlight, and others seek to lead a quiet life. As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, being saved by His grace, our mission in life should be wrapped up in knowing Him and serving Him! Jeremiah 9:23, 24 says, "Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD." It is not only the primary mission in our life, but we should ask the Lord how to expand this mission.

Value is something that is subject to the person. You have heard the saying, “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure”. The value of something is based on its part in the plan that you want to accomplish. Someone can discard something that has no value to them, while another person sees great, or intrinsic value in the discarded item. This same kind of thing happens with people in the church. Every believer in Jesus has value in the body of Christ. Even though not obvious to all, there is a place for all.

There are over 300 denominations in the United States. It is a way that some of God's people have figured out how to keep people under their thumb, and be subjected to one sided, false, or subjective teaching. It produces division among God's people, and unsettles the soul of many believers. Today's message shows how this can happen and how to resolve these issues.

In our current day, there is a barrage of many gods that have become acceptable and embraced as real! It started back with what seemed like a harmless portrayal of superheros. They began with the likes of superman, batman, flash. They all possessed superhuman powers. Unfortunately, they added many who were created in the line of Greek Mythology, like wonder woman, fashioned after the goddess diana, thor, after the god of thunder, aqua man, from the god posiden. Many of these were created by those who came from higher education, who were pagan in their beliefs and created, or recreated the gods of myth, which have their origins in the demonic. Listen to how we can persevere against error today!

In a battleground situation there is always the chance for part of the troops to take on friendly fire. It happens when the made group of soldiers are not aware of the movements of another. There are times in the church where the religious people start shooting at those who would bring Good News about freedom in Christ.

In the past 2000 years we have made the church of our Lord Jesus Christ into a religious business. We have divided it up into sections, appointed people over each section, trying to make it a well oiled machine that does nothing.

We need to get back to the basics of what the church is here for and get on track to do what we should be doing, equipping the saints for service to God wherever God places them.

We have wars and rumors of wars, unrest at every turn, and we have those who follow man instead of the word of God! These are unsettled times that we live! How are we, as believers, supposed to live? God's word gives us some great insight into this situation. As we know, God's word has all the answers if we will listen.