hello my friends welcome to follow him favorite this is our last follow him favorites of the Old Testament year and it's the time we say Merry Christmas to you because it's our Christmas lesson I'm here with my festive co-host John by the way and John Merry Christmas to you hopefully you're having a wonderful holiday season. Why don't pray for our fallen favorites this year why do we give a little a Christmas message I know that I can't remember if we've done this one before but I know you do a beautiful lesson on the three levels of Christmas why don't you walk us through that there was a church news editorial written by man named William be smart and it was. What a great name cuz it sounds like a sentence William be smart but it's something we've all known but maybe hasn't been articulated before is that Christmas has about three levels and level one is the Santa Claus level reindeer and stockings by the tree and Christmas trees and all those wonderful
 things that make it so fun and festive nothing important part of Christmas and it's important part and I love it and watch the Christmas shows like everyone else in that level 2 he said he called it the Silent Night level about the baby Jesus and the wise men coming and the shepherd's hearing the announcement singing Silent Night which we all love to it's a beautiful time and I love singing those hymns about that night when Christ was born so level one level one is Santa Claus level to level two is Silent Night level at night you know I've heard someone say before John approaching the lord of the universe can be intimidating for some people kneeling down and praying to the lord of the universe can be a little bit scary and so every year he gives us a chance to approach him as a little baby can be a little bit easier and their mind like mr. Krueger remember mr. Krueger's Christmas at the protein that little baby in and expressing love for that little baby can be something that you can do during Christmas but maybe you can't do it another time
 those little nativity scenes that we have all over remind us of event that had been prophesied forever and finally came in the shepherd's got to hear about it not to other people but from an angel and him went immediately to go find him and that will you be smart said something kind of profound he said but if you keep Christ in the manger you'll be unfulfilled and we're not here talking about it unless there was the level 3 of Christmas and that's the Lord level he called it we not even call it Easter the resurrected Christ who performed his work suffered for our sins are problems are infirmities everything because of him we'll all live again and we wouldn't have level one or two if it weren't for that level 3 it's kind of fun and I could ask our listeners is your singing Christmas carols watch for level two and three in the hymns that you're singing cuz they're will be things about the newborn a Christ and there will also be things that do they call him the Lord and the Savior and those things kind of came later in his life
 so you'll see him both it's kind of fun for me I think to watch foremast cuz I seen the Christmas songs at church right I like that level 3 John because this is what makes Christ different than anybody else a lot of people have been born but nobody's been resurrected nobody had died and came back to life so you're right there let's not keep Christ in the manger let's get to the the major event that makes Christianity what it is and I didn't Easter the resurrection of the Lord and that's why after Easter we were so glad he had been born at all so glad that he came but it's so it's right to celebrate level to look Christ the lord is is is born but then level 3 Christ the Lord is risen today that's it's fun to see those all together I like it at all three levels well from follow him to all of you we hope you have a joyous level one Christmas we hope you have a reverent level to Christmas and we hope you have a powerful level 3 Christmas how about that well said so Merry Christmas from all the
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