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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

Last Lap

Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, thank you again for this time of worship.

Thank you God for bringing us through a whole year with 2016 around the corner.

Thank you God for your faithfulness, for your graciousness, for your goodness to us.

And thank you Lord for what David said, to the Lord belongs, escapes from death.

And today we come together to give thanks, to give praise for what you have done for us.

And Lord, together we also want to pray for our church budget as been talked about earlier.

We pray corporately, God, asking for your blessing and your provision.

You are the Great Shepherd in Jesus name.

Amen Name of the Sermon today is called the last lap the last lap How many people when you go home you have somebody in your family that is just So adamant about taking pictures How many people have family members like that?

And this person is just so adamant about taking pictures.

I mean, it's like everyone's just about to go eat or do something and someone's like everyone stay where you're at we're taking a picture right and then when you are sitting there and you're holding that smile for as long as you can they get out another camera from somewhere I don't know where and they began to take more pictures and then they put the camera on a timer and then they go sit Down with you and take that picture right then they exchange a few people and they continue to take pictures How many people had any kind of experience like that this week?

Okay, you know I have somebody in my family like that.

I have 2 cameras and this is 1 of my cameras right here.

Okay, I've been told my iPhone 5 is outdated.

How many people here still have an iPhone 4?

How many people still have a telephone that's connected to a wire into the ground or to the wall?

How many people here don't have an email account?

I don't know when it just stopped working But the front face or the back facing camera the main camera with the flash on it does not work well And all the pictures come out very very grainy I mean really bad and so whenever I'm taking a picture even though I try to focus The camera is just not working well.

I tried cleaning the screen, the glass part of it, still nothing.

The only part of my camera that has a good camera is in the front, the front facing camera.

And oftentimes when I'm taking a picture, what I'll have to do is I'll have to turn the camera around and Somehow guess that it's actually taking a good picture of people Right and so when I'm taking a picture of say my dog or friends or family whatever I'll have to turn the camera around and I'll have to look and then take a picture.

Whenever I try to film a video like parts of the people will be missing from the video because I have to use the front-facing camera like this and take a picture.

You know, cameras are very interesting things.

They pick up on angles and perspectives that sometimes we don't pick up on.

A few months ago, there was an article that came out with about 26 27 pictures whose angles really captured an unusual, let's just say Scene I want you to pay attention to these different angles And I want you to tell me what's unusual about this picture right here.

This girl looks like she has 10 foot long arms.

That arm actually belongs to this kid right here.

I want you to see this picture right here.

OK, tell me what looks off in this picture.

This guy is not sitting on her back right now.

That is actually part of her dress, okay?

He's actually closer to the window, but the picture looks like he is riding her like a horse right now.

I want you to see this picture right here and tell me what looks off in this picture.

This guy in the back is actually part of the family.

He's wearing a shirt or sweater that makes it look like he is actually part of this painting, but he is a real human being.

Yeah, he looks like he has a big back, right?

It's just a bag on a chair in front of him, but he looks like he's got huge shoulders and a wide waist, okay?

It's actually a kid underneath here whose arm is coming out this way but it looks like his arm is broken.

And these shots were not taken in, they're not contrived shots.

It's a antediluvian bird, right, right it's about perspective angles.

Yeah, it looks like the little kid has an adult-sized head, but where is the head of the kid?

His head is right here, but the skin matches so well underneath that shade you can't tell they're 2 separate heads right here but the kids head is right here.

That is not a dog woman fishing That is a woman with red hair and her golden retriever is sticking out its head so it looks like there's a dog lady fishing.

Somebody took this picture, I think in a Train or an airplane, but the woman was sleeping her head was laid back over here.

The dog was alert and it looks like it is 1 of the Egyptian gods, right and Then there's this 1 Anything strange about this 1 It looks like his head is connected to her body.

And he is actually hugging her who seems to like have a man's body right here Okay, and how about this 1 That is not a fish with a human arm.

That is actually a fish that was swimming by when another screwbarber someone Underneath the water under the water was taking a picture.

So it looks like the fish has an arm reaching out to the other fish Right really strange when you look at pictures and sometimes they capture angles That are not meant to be and then it changes the way the picture is supposed to look You see when you look at the story Of Jesus being born there are many different angles that are part of that picture or that scene and different angles can produce Different interpretations.

I want everybody to take their Bible Let's go to the gospel of Luke Chapter 2 and I want you to pick up on some interesting things Luke chapter 2 Remember what I preached about earlier I'm in the I think it was a couple weeks ago that the entirety of the Bible was pointing to the coming of the Messiah.

You look at all the Old Testament, all the prophets, they were pointing forward to this great event, all the great miracles and the preservation.

And so as we're, we're getting ready and closer for the Messiah's advent We would be expecting it's going to be amazing But when he actually shows up the reader is caught off guard because he's supposed to be expecting something Great something powerful something wonderful But when he finally gets to the chapter in which Jesus is born, all of a sudden it can be quite confusing.

Take your Bible, go to Luke chapter 2, I want you to see verse 1.

And it came to pass in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

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