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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

Angelic Rescue Team

Thank you for what it says in Psalm 46 verse 10 be still and know that I am God Lord, we just worship you because you are the creator of the universe and you understand each person's life God we pray you would minister to us today because we need it.

And we ask in the name of our most faithful High Priest Jesus Christ, Amen.

All right, well it's almost Christmas time.

Have you guys noticed what the stores are already doing?

If you go to Kmart or Walmart or Target, they've already got the Christmas trees out, right?

And It's so interesting when you start thinking about this how this is a very interesting season and a lot of people Had go through unusual will say personality changes Sometimes people become very depressed during Christmas time others become very joyful to many.

It's such a warm time But either way ladies and gentlemen, we should use this time as a way of reaching out to people.

Because some people will only come to church Easter, Christmas, and maybe Halloween.

And we as God's people really need to take advantage of that and use these avenues to try to reach people.

Well, December 14th and the 21st we're going to be doing a very special Christmas program.

It's going to be a little bit of a production and a musical as well.

Many of you guys are involved in this and this is just going to be a wonderful time to invite friends and family to come on out and we're going to make a very special appeal at the end of it.

The dates of those are December 14th and the 21st, and they will take place Sabbath morning.

But December 14th, we're gonna be dealing with the shepherds and their visit to the manger.

And the 21st we're going to be dealing with the wise men and their visit to Jesus.

And this is going to be an extraordinary time to lift up the birth of Jesus.

Well, the name of the sermon today is called the Angelic Rescue Team.

It was kind of a, I'm not really proud of it, It's kind of a botched rescue attempt.

But I was with a group of people on a houseboat.

And somehow, somebody who had decided to swim out a long way decided to come back.

But they got so tired, they seemed to be just straggling in the water and they're just raising their hand up.

And somebody says, hey, help them out, they're drowning.

Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking about this situation.

I had, you know 1 of those giant swimming noodles?

They're about 6 feet tall, they're just like this noodle shape.

In other words, when you jump into the water with these things, they're going to shoot out.

So I thought to myself, oh no, someone's in trouble.

And I jumped in with the noodle to help them.

And as soon as I jumped in, I went down in the water a few feet.

And I looked up when I came out of the water, and the noodle shot out of my hand all the opposite way.

And it was a botched rescue attempt, but I was able to swim and help them out.

But either way, there are a lot of rescues that have been taking place.

When you take a good look at just this typhoon that took place in the Philippines, there are a lot of rescue stories that are coming out of that.

A lot of calamities That are taking place all over the world yet at the same time there are heroes that are emerging You know, what's very interesting is that there's been sort of this popular story that's been going around and it's the story of a Jewish man and He was actually Not a Jewish man.

He was from England and he had a German Jewish background But he was actually involved in the rescue of over 600 Jewish children Now here's the most remarkable thing He didn't tell a soul about it Until years later his wife actually discovered some of this, and it came out what he had done.

He was not somebody who was trying to take a lot of glory to himself.

Well, anyways, there was a special program where he was brought on, and in this special program, he is actually unaware that many of the people that are sitting in the audience are the very people he has rescued.

Here's actually the video clip right now.

Back here is the list of all the children.

And I should tell you that you are actually sitting next to Nicholas Winton.

Yeah, he's still unaware that everybody else in the crowd he also rescued.

APPLAUSE Can I ask, Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?

All right, we can turn those lights back on.

It's sort of a microcosm of what it's going to be when we get to heaven 1 day and Jesus is going to share with us how many people were affected and changed by our ministry here on earth.

But this is a wonderful story about somebody who risked his life, his money, his property, his family to rescue over 600 Jewish children.

You can actually look more into it and go online and find out more about this story.

But I was thinking about rescues this week and I came across this subject about rescue teams in the Bible.

There was actually an angelic rescue team that was sent to help somebody in the Scriptures.

We're going to find out more about this individual's life.

The context of the story is you have a man by the name of Jacob.

He was named after he came out of his mother's womb.

The reason being is when he was coming out of his mother's womb, he seemed to be a little bit mischievous from the day of his birth.

So the word Jacob actually means supplanter or deceiver.

And so, he had this reputation, but yet he himself was godly, but he wasn't perfect.

With Jesus, you can be godly and still not perfect, right?

But as Jacob began to grow older, what happened was there was a little bit jealousy and concern about who would take over the camp after Isaac died.

Jacob tricked his father, pretending that he was the older son Esau and there he received the birthright blessing by fraud.

Well everybody in the camp got very angry at Jacob so you can imagine that Jacob began to go through a lot of different feelings after this event Jacob himself was no longer loved by his brother.

Esau was now looking for revenge and he said to Jacob he said when Esau dies you will die next And can you imagine this now Jacob's reputation was marred in the camp Everyone didn't see Jacob as that faithful younger son.

They saw him as this deceiver and somebody who was not to be trusted And now Jacob causing the stir in the camp the father Isaac realizes what's going on and sends Jacob away.

Look what the Bible says in Genesis chapter 28 verse 5, and so Isaac sent Jacob away and he went to Paddan Aram to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob, and Esau.

And you can imagine, it wasn't like this wonderful, joyous sending away or party like that.

All it was, was this very mournful goodbye.

His reputation was marred, and it seemed to Jacob that the plans and purposes of God for His own life were now ruined.

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