Christmas Moments - #1 - God The Father's Perspective

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One is my my son had to have open chest surgery. His his sternum and had attached to his backbone when he is born and so he was we had to wait till he was about nine and they had to open up his chest and take his sternum off his backbone and I and I can remember standing.

You know what the operating room doors as you would say goodbye to your son like your nine-year-old son and he's going off to have this unbelievable surgery and and and can you imagine not. Father's heart as he's saying goodbye to Jesus on that Christmas morning, so to speak, however, that worked out that that he was that he was letting them go in. There is another way that I want to possibly think about that is that I love the celebrate Passover Seder's and one of the ways that I do that is is a group of guys and I actually slaughter a Passover lamb specifically for the reason that we we want to get a feel of what all is involved in the actual sacrifice that God went through and and every time.

If you've ever held that knife and I know this may sound weird but it's so meaningful to me personally that I've held that knife and thought about what Abraham felt like that day when he had the knife in the he probably slaughtered the number of sheep in his life.

Who knows how many and now he's got the knife at his sons throat and God not and this was on Mount Moriah. By the way, and so when you look at where Golgotha is is is the proposed work.

Moriah actually is here you're gonna find that oh my goodness is like at the same place and all my goodness this sheep that ended up with a crown of thorns and its head. You know it was it was locked up in the thorns you know the father's painting a picture, not just for Isaac to go through a mean for Abraham and Isaac to go through this test you he was painting a picture of what the what the father would experience a crisp