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Valley Gospel
Christ: The True Light
A star, a cradle, a whisper of ancient promises—and a child already honored as King. Join Daniel Johnson as he unpacks the story of a baby who reveals every heart. We open the Scriptures to follow the Magi to Bethlehem, listen with Simeon in the temple, and hear Anna’s clear word about redemption. Along the way, we connect the dots Matthew and Luke highlight, showing how Micah’s ruler from of old and Ezekiel’s divine Shepherd converge in the birth of Jesus. The moment is tender, but the claim is bold: before he spoke a sermon or worked a miracle, his arrival fulfilled what the prophets promised.
We walk through the thread of light that runs from Isaiah’s Servant Songs to the manger: a servant who brings justice, opens blind eyes, and becomes salvation to the ends of the earth. Simeon calls the infant “a light for revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of Israel,” while Mary learns that a sword will pierce her soul—an arrow pointing to the cross. This isn’t seasonal sentiment. It is the unveiling of identity: fully human, born in time; fully divine, from everlasting; the true light who reveals every heart.
The story crescendos with the resurrection, the public seal that the Shepherd still gathers scattered sheep and that the promises hold. Faith rests not on wishful thinking but on a risen Lord and the countless lives changed by his light. And the invitation is personal: there must be a nativity in every heart. Receive the One who brings life, step out of the shadows, and walk in his light with hope and courage.
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Hello. Welcome to Valley Gospel Church. We are a non-denominational Pentecostal church located in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Our sole mission is to present the living truth of a risen Lord, Jesus Christ, to a remnant church and a lost world. Let's get into the service recorded live at Valley Gospel Church.
SPEAKER_01:All right. Going over this message, too, it is, even though we're a couple days after Christmas, it is Christmassy about Jesus' birth. So that's good. But looking over it, not even diving into his minute Jesus' ministry or anything like that, it kind of plays out like almost like a deity of Christ, just of his divineness and who he is. And it's not even about his ministry or him or anything like that. It's just his birth. So we'll touch on different things today in that. But uh it's just cool to see how it all plays out in God's hand before Jesus even spoke a word. And uh it just speaks to who Jesus is. So uh we'll pray and then we'll get started. Father, thank you so much for everything that you do. Father, I just ask you to clear all the thoughts and everything, the craziness in my brain that I could just focus on you. I pray, Father, for your children out here, my brothers and sisters, that you would just clear their mind as well, that they could hear and receive your word. I pray, Holy Spirit, that you have your way here today. We surrender everything to you, Lord, and Lord, you know there's nothing good in me but you, and I just thank you for the things that you do. Thank you for your forgiveness of sins. Thank you for your son, your salvation. Thank you for your promises that you are faithful to deliver, Lord. Thank you that you promised a savior for all of us, a redeemer, Lord. You promised to make a way, and thank you that Jesus Christ is that way. Thank you for sending your son, the one who loves us and gave himself for us, to make a way for sinners like us, Lord, to be together with you forever. And we just thank you and we love you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen. All right. So preach's message the uh the other week about Balaam's prophecy of a star out of Jacob and a scepter out of Israel reminded me and set me on this little journey of Jesus' birth, and in Matthew, where the Magi or the wise men followed a star to Jerusalem to find the one who was born king of the Jews. The wise men followed his star, this child's star, and it led them to Jesus, where they worshiped him as king. Jesus is a child no older than two, being worshipped as king, and it was all orchestrated by God his Father. Thinking of Jesus and his birth around the Christmas time, going back and looking at the story of his birth, being a part of the traditions in the church, like we had here, his church, with the uh with the Christmas Eve services, the candlelights, and uh the special songs that we sing around this time. And around here, I know it didn't last as long, but I always look forward to in my in my head picturing the nativity with uh a white snow that covers everything on the ground, even though it kind of came early and didn't last till Christmas this year, but that's the way I picture it in my head, and that's what I look forward to each year. Remembering the beginning where Jesus was born and looking at how profound this event was for not only that time, but for all time. Because all of time, past, present, and future, was affected with the birth of Jesus, one baby. So I wanted to look at Jesus' birth today in both Matthew and Luke and highlight some of the things going on in the story and look at some of the amazing signs that God gives, that God gives to us, not only to show us, but to prove just who this baby Jesus was and is, and we'll save the is to come part for later. But we're going to connect his birth with some important Old Testament scriptures, some prophecies that show and allude to the one who was to come from of old, along with their coming to pass in and with the birth of Jesus the Christ. And the message for today is Christ the true light. So this is Christ the true light. So we have two main scriptures for today, one in Matthew 2 and one in Luke 2. But we'll start in Matthew 2, 1 to 6. So when you get there, if you'll open up your Bibles and stand for the reading of God's Word, I'll read and then we'll uh we'll dive in and see what uh what the Holy Ghost got for today. Amen. Amen. Alright, we're gonna start Matthew 2, 1 to 6. And we'll go Matthew and Luke, and then we're gonna jump to the prophecies are Micah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, mainly just those three. All right, so Matthew 2, 1 to 6. Now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and have come to worship him. When Herod the king heard this he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and the scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. So they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet, but you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah are not the least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. You may be seated. So who will who will shepherd my people Israel? Now Herod inquired of them the chief priests and the scribes of where this Christ was to be born. So you see, Matthew is showing us that by this statement from the wise men that this child they are searching for is already to be understood as the Christ, which if you know the Old Testament, you know how much this means to them. And then look at verse 6, where he says, But you, Bethlehem in the land of Judah, are not the least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. Matthew is quoting a prophecy that is given in Micah 5.2, but he doesn't quote it fully, and he adds something to it. So let's look at Micah 5.2. It's just uh a couple pages back, right at the end of the Old Testament. Micah 5.2, and uh Micah says, But you Bethlehem Ephratha, which is another name for Bethlehem, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. Now Matthew adds to the ending here in Micah. He didn't completely finish the prophecy because he knew when he quoted over half of it that everyone around would know exactly what scripture he's talking about. Most of all these people had the scripture even memorized. So they would know what scripture it was and be able to know that from of old from everlasting, the end of this would be understood as well. Matthew knows they'll finish the scripture with from of old from everlasting, and that that would be understood. But the Holy Ghost adds something to the prophecy, or he just connects another dot, let's say, something else that should already be known. And this comes out of Ezekiel 34, and this says that the ruler will also shepherd my people, Israel. This added piece of scripture from Ezekiel is a profound statement where God Himself says that He that God Himself will deliver his people. He says, It will be me myself, Yahweh, that will be this shepherd. And I'll turn to Ezekiel real quick. Ezekiel 34. And I'll read right so right before this, it's Ezekiel 34, 11 and 12, is where God said this, but right before this in 34, and you can read the whole thing, I'll just skip through it. But one to five is where God's speaking to the uh the uh leaders in Israel, the shepherds at the time, and this is what the Lord says. He says, And the word of the Lord came to me, and this is to Ezekiel, and he says, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds, woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves, should not the shepherds feed the flocks, you eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock, the weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost, but with force and cruelty you have ruled them, so there were scattered because there was no shepherd. So God says in verse eleven, skip down to eleven, he says, For thus says the Lord God, indeed I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out my sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day. God says, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out. I will deliver them from all the places they've been scattered. Jesus is the good shepherd who is God, and he is still seeking out his lost sheep then and today. Matthew is connecting the fact that this child who was to be born, the Christ, who these wise men have come in search of by following this star, his star, is not only from of old, from everlasting, but if you still don't get it, Matthew says, I'll make it even plainer for you. He throws in Ezekiel, where God says plainly, I myself, God Almighty, Yahweh, will seek for my sheep. I will shepherd my people. The Holy Spirit, by connecting these two Old Testament prophecies with the birth of Jesus, is saying that Jesus is the baby, Jesus, this baby, is the Christ, the anointed one that was to come, and that he is God Himself who will gather his lost and scattered sheep like a shepherd. These connections all through the New Testament, like this, Paul does it, Matthew, all the all the gospels where they connect Old Testament prophecies and put them together. This is called uh this connection is called stringing pearls. And I love that whole concept stringing pearls. It just is so fitting for the pearl of great price, right? And where you connect these scriptures, they might be in different places in the Bible, but their context or the idea they're getting at connects them. And you're just putting them together. It's not to make up new ideas contrary to God's word, but it connects what is already to be understood in the scripture, like what Matthew is doing here. And it's all through the New Testament. These connections, these ideas about the Messiah, the Christ, Matthew is making, is taught all through the Old Testament. This ruler of Israel, the star out of Jacob, would be from of old, from everlasting, from eternity, from days past. He would shepherd Israel and he would be God. This ruler from Bethlehem, whose origins are from of old, from everlasting, shows his eternal, divine nature before his human birth, which is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The eternal Son of God who came into time, who stepped into time, but pre-existed as proven in Scripture. Showing Jesus' dual nature, a human born in time in Bethlehem, but divine with timeless origins. Matthew is trying to show and connect the dots for everyone he's writing to, so they can see and understand all this from Scripture and that it isn't some out-of-the-blue new thing that the disciples are just making up. And there's more. And now Luke shows Jesus as more of a light, bringing more of a light that bringing in the Gentiles or the non-Jews as well as the Jews. And our second scripture for today is Luke 2, 22 to 32. Luke 2, 22 to 32. I'll read 21 just so you know who we're talking about. And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. Now, when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought him, Jesus, to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. As it is written in the law of the Lord, every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord, and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord. A pair of turtle a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons. And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the consolation of Israel is just the fulfillment of Old Testament promises that God made to the children of Israel, the promise which was fulfilled in the Messiah or the Christ. So you could say he was waiting for the promised one, the anointed servant, the Messiah or the Christ. And now pay attention as we read the rest. See how much, first off, is the Holy Spirit God? Yes. Amen. So look and watch whose hands moving in all this from here on. Right after waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him, and it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. So he came by the Holy Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to the To do for him according to all these customs of the law. Simeon took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepar prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel. Wow. The Lord's Christ or the Lord's Messiah. Simeon was told by God, the Holy Ghost, that he wouldn't see death till he saw the anointed one from God, the consolation of Israel, the fulfillment of God's promises to his people. The Messiah, the Christ, both mean the same thing, the anointed one, the one who would bring salvation. God allowed Simeon to hold the Messiah in his arms. Simeon saw the fulfillment of all the hopes and the dreams of the Jewish people down through the centuries. After all those years of praying and waiting, Simeon was overjoyed with his eyes fixed on this baby, Jesus, God's salvation. Now in verse 33, it says, Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of of Jesus. Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against. Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. Simeon tells Mary that a sword shall pierce through her own soul too, because of this child. And I'm sure in Mary's life with Jesus, she had many heartaches and ups and downs, but the greatest by far, the sword that would pierce her soul, would be the cross. Where she stood with a couple other followers and watched what was about to happen to her son Jesus on the cross. When he stepped into our place, took our sin and suffered and died for us, they killed Jesus for claiming to be God and sent by God. And Mary couldn't say a word because she knew it was true. That had to be the sword that pierced her. And then it says that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. And I think John captures this thought when he says, and this is the condemnation, the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practice evil, for everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. Jesus, a light, this light, the light, to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and also who would be the glory of his people Israel, but also the revealer of people's hearts. Verse 36 says, Now there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Finuel of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age and had lived with the husband seven years from her virginity, and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And coming in, coming in that instant, she gave thanks to the Lord and spoke of him, Jesus, to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem. So Anna walks in right as all of this with the baby Jesus and Simeon is going on. And then she gives thanks to God and told everyone who was looking for redemption in Jerusalem about this baby Jesus. Now, we might read right over redemption in Jerusalem and just keep going and not think how deep that is. But redemption, you can't say redemption without thinking about Redeemer and ransom, because they all go together. Redemption is the act of being set free or saved, and it comes at the hand of a Redeemer who pays a ransom. The ransom is the payment, the redemption is the result of that payment. Jesus paid it all. Jesus, our Redeemer, the one who has claimed to us because we are his, gave his life as a ransom so we could be set free. Jesus paid for our redemption, our freedom with his life on the cross. And before any of this, any of these things could happen, a prophet, a prophetess of God says this about a baby in the temple. Anyone looking for redemption in Jerusalem, she told them about and pointed them to a baby named Jesus. Wow, that just to think of that, staring at a baby and all these proclamations given over top of him by God and angels of the Lord, and hadn't it was all God and had nothing to do with men. This baby Jesus, a light, glory, redemption, salvation, the Messiah, the Christ, the consolation of Israel, all of that in just these couple of verses we've just looked at, and all spoken over and about a tiny baby who couldn't do anything, not even for himself yet. Showing God's miraculous hand in all of this. And Luke talks about Simeon's Holy Ghost-inspired prophecy of this baby, Jesus, being a light to the Gentiles. And just like Matthew, Luke draws on Old Testament scriptures and prophecy that the people should know. And he helps us connect some of the dots. And there are a whole bunch, but we're just going to look at a couple of them. First, there are the four servant songs, they're called in Isaiah, and you should check them all out. But they're all about this anointed servant of the Lord, who, as proven in the New Testament, come to rest on Jesus. They're found in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, and 52, and 53 together. The book of Luke connects these and shows us that Jesus is him. Isaiah 42, 1 to 6, 1, 6, and 7. I'm going to read real quick. 1 so you know who he's talking about. Behold, my servant whom I uphold, my elect one in whom my soul delights. I have put my spirit upon him. He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. And then skip up to 6. I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand. I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles, to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house. My servant, the Lord's servant, will bring justice and a light to open blind eyes to the Gentiles, which was prophesied over the baby Jesus by God. Isaiah 49, 6 is the next one. Isaiah 49, 6 says, indeed, he says, It is it is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the Gentiles that you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth. You, my servant, will raise up the tribes of Jacob, restore some of Israel, and also be a light to the Gentiles, and you shall be my salvation to the ends of the earth. Who does that sound like? There is only one name given under heaven by which we can be saved, and that's the name of Jesus. The New Testament shows all of this. It confirms all this is about Jesus. And remember Simeon's words in verse 30, for my eyes have seen your salvation, Lord. And he says this as he's staring and holding the baby Jesus. It all comes to rest on Jesus' life, his ministry, and his death and resurrection. All this is proven, fact, from God, by Jesus' resurrection from the dead. And I love what Paul says that summarizes all of this that we've been going over. And he says it when he's on trial before King Agrippa in Acts 26. He says, I saw a vision from God and was not disobedient. So I went out and preached to the Jew and then to the Gentiles that they should repent, turn to God, and do the works befitting repentance. And for doing this, the Jews in the temple grabbed me and they tried to kill me. But God helped me. So I continue to obey God and preach to both small and great. And here it is. Saying the same thing the prophets and Moses said, that the Christ, who we've just proven through Scripture, is Jesus, declared to us by God, not man, so that Jesus would suffer, that he would be the first to rise from the dead and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles. Paul said, I don't know why you're mad at me. This is nothing new. I'm just saying what they said before me. Jesus Himself said, I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. The light of life is him. Jesus. He is the life and the light. In him was life, and that life was the light of man. We shine and radiate a light only by his spirit in us and following him. Matthew and Luke, both Gospels are showing everyone who reads them just exactly who this baby born in Bethlehem is. By connecting Jesus' birth, his ministry, his death, and resurrection to Micah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, just to name a couple, God has shown us that Jesus is the one that was to come from long ago. That he has always been, but was born into time to fulfill everything that was written. He is the Christ, the Messiah, the good shepherd that is God, Emmanuel, God with us. He would be a ruler, a light to the Gentiles. He would save his people from their sins. He is the consolation of Israel. He is the Lord's Christ. He is Jesus. Hallelujah. What a name. Jesus. The Holy Ghost has just wrapped up the entire gospel in one name. In the birth of one baby, born of a virgin, and his name is Jesus. Wow. What a present, what a gift. But like we said, all of this comes to rest on the finished work of Christ, the cross, his death and resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus proves everything else to be true. The Bible says, if Christ be not raised, then our preaching is useless, and so is your faith. But Paul said that Jesus was raised and showed himself openly to Caiphus, to the apostles, to over 500 brothers and sisters who are still alive right now when he was writing this, to James, and last of all, to Paul himself. The proof of Jesus' resurrection is clearly seen in the changed lives of all those who said they saw him. The apostles who willingly died preaching the gospel along with his brothers who didn't believe beforehand. And the evidence is even more overwhelming today. When those lost and scattered sheep are still to this day, right now, being gathered by the Good Shepherd, and the proof is the same. All the changed lives. People who were one way and after meeting him, Jesus, are now totally different. People who didn't believe, stuck in sin and shame, set free, and have had the light of the world birthed in their heart. And I'll close with this. Just like that quiet Bethlehem scene, that miraculous birth that we just read about has to happen in us too. I read something David Jeremiah wrote, and he said that as we think on all these things that we read, that miracle that happened in Bethlehem has to happen in our hearts. There must be a nativity in every human heart. The perfect coming to dwell in the imperfect, for we cannot give birth to him or his goodness on our own efforts. We need him to enter our lives miraculously, still and quiet, just as he did on that night in Bethlehem. We need Jesus, the light of the world, to be born in our hearts. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for listening.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. We pray it was an encouragement and a blessing to you. You can contact us at Valley Gospel Church, 1069, Butler Logan Road, Springdale, Pennsylvania, 15144. We invite you to listen to this week's worship service that follows and tune in for next week's podcast.
SPEAKER_02:Hebrews 13, 15 says, Through Jesus, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise. It could be a sacrifice in a hard time, it could be a sacrifice to use you joyful, but continually offer God that sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. Come on, Steph.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, hallelujah! We can glorify my Lord. We bring the sacrament to pray into the house of the Lord. We bring the sacrifice to pray into the house of the Lord. And we are up to you the sacrament. It says of a skill. And we are up to you. The sacrament says of praise. We bring the sacrament into the house of the Lord. We bring the sacrament into the house of the Lord. And we are up to you. I want to win the turf. I want to do it. I want to swim in the swimming. I will enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and I will enter his court with praise. Oh, church, be thankful to him and bless his holy name. Oh, we gotta sing it again. I will enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart. I will enter his courts with praise. I will say this is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice, for he has made me glad. And I will rejoice, for he has made me glad, he has made me glad, he has made me glad, and I will rejoice, for he has made me glad. To sing praises unto thy name. To give thanks unto the Lord, it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, to sing praises unto the name. Let's sing it again. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, to sing praises unto the name. We came to glorify your name, Lord. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you for as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. Oh come on, church. Let's keep on praising him. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Let's sing it again. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Give praise to the Lord. Make known among the nations what he has done. I will exalt you, my God the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna to the King. I came to glorify His name. I came to glorify His name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify His name. Come on and sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna to the King of Kings. Come on, Anna, sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna to the King, the King, Sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna to the King. I came to blame his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Oh what a mighty God we serve. What a mighty God! What a mighty God we serve. Angels bow before him. Heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God we serve. Oh yes, Lord. Hallelujah, Jesus. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust him, will not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song. And he has become my salvation. Yes, Lord. Well working on the building. And its true foundation. I'm holding up the blood stain. Better for my love. Well, whenever you're tired, tired, tired, working on the building. I'm going up to heaven. Oh Lord to get my reward. Well I'm working on the building. And it's a true foundation. I'm holding up the blood stain. Okay for my love. Well the never get tight, tag, tight. I'm going up to heaven. Oh Lord, you get everyone. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Yes, Jesus. Hallelujah to the last. Lift Jesus higher. Lift Jesus higher. Lift him up for the world to see. Lift Jesus higher. Lift him up for the world to see. He said, If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw home unto me. A voice of one calling in the desert, prepare the way for the Lord. Make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him. And all the people of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be. Come on and sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna to the King. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, daughter of Jerusalem. See your king comes to you. Righteous and having salvation. Gentle and riding on a donkey. Oh hallelujah. Jesus, we give you all the praise this morning. We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. And we offer up to you the sacrifices of thanksgiving. And we offer up to you the sacrifices of praise. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. To sing praises.