Something Good Is Coming From This!

beyond Life. But this year, you don't even know the word that God gave me. I don't. This is not stage. I should reveal it to me. Yeah, this is not scripted, and we're doing our own camera work, So I apologize that the angle is off. But this year the Lord led me to the word better. Everybody say better better, like put it in the chat. And we don't mean better than another person, or we don't necessarily mean that.

You know, we're never content, And what we mean by that is is Hag II two nine says that the glory of this present house, what God is doing, will be greater than the glory of the former house. We believe God is always doing something greater. We just have to see it. So I want to thank you in advance for your gifts. Those of you who already support this ministry, you're the reason. You're the reason we get

to preach the gospel. You're the reason that thousands of testimonies that we hear in this ministry are made possible.

And for those of you who are beginning to give, either through a one time year end donation to help us with our expansion, or the best way really through recurring giving, through putting God first with the tide, or maybe an above and beyond offering to say thank you to Him and believe Him for better things in faith, we want to say thank you, and we're standing with you right now as we begin this season of giving called Better Now through the end of the year. Yeah,

thank you so much. Every time you give, it helps us to spread the Gospel to the world and beyond, and we are so thankful for your partnership with us in the gospel. It's going to be an amazing holiday season and I can't wait to hear more about better. It's going to be better, better than you ask her. Imagine if in three twenty we're believing God for you. Now, let's go go to Matthew chapter two. I didn't get to this part last week, but we're gonna pick up

a verse. Well, let's review a little bit of what I did get to. We don't stand the whole time, just stay standing, know while we read the scripture. It'll help you stay awake and it will honor God. So you kill two birds with one stone the scripture in Matthew chapter two. You remember the astrologers we call the wise men, but they were considered pagans by the religious people came to worship this new king. And so they

come and they bring him gifts gold. Frankensens, you know, you know this part Christmas story, but you know it's possible. You can you can have a sentimental feeling about Christmas and completely missed the significance. I've been falling in love with the Christmas story all over again this season, because really it's about faith. It's about faith, and so it's so much more than just Jesus came so you don't have to go to Hell. It's so much more than that.

It's so much more than scented candles. It's so much more than that. If they sold scented candles that smelled like, really what the first Christmas smelled like? With placenta scent and barnyard scent and all that. I'm just trying to tell you the significance of Christmas is often missed by our need you just caught it, Zeke, that was like fifteen seconds late. Man, wake up. But listen, it's complete chaos. Mary and Joseph, the astrologers who aren't even religious people,

they're the ones that are bringing the gifts. You know. It is a crazy story. But let's pick up right here. It says when they verse thirteen Matthew chapter to verse thirteen, when they had gone the Magi, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said this, get up, take the child and his mother, and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.

So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod, and so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet. Out of Egypt, I called my son. Let's go. Now to verse nineteen, this is the part I didn't get to. Last week. After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take

the child's life are dead. So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelais was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets that he would be

called a Nazarene. Here's the prophetic declaration. Today. The Lord said to tell you, I don't know who you are, but God said you needed to hear this. Something good is coming from this, all right, you all ready something good is coming from this. I'm not saying it to be cute. I'm not saying it to be positive. I'm not saying it to be optimistic. I'm not saying it to hype the crowd. But if you believe this. I need you to shout at say something good is coming

from this, Something good is coming from this. Who thank you? Y'all be seated. Let's talk about what that means. Something good is coming from this. If anything, the Christmas story completely flips the script on what we think is and is significant. If you read the Christmas story and only see objects, you have missed the intention of Christmas. If you see the Christmas story and only think of angels, wings,

you have missed the message of Christmas. If you read the Christmas story and only think about what it was like to be Joseph, you've missed the message of Christmas. Because the message is meant to go much deeper than history. It is meant to give you significance for the areas in your life that may not seem significant. I don't

really know what significant is when you're in it. It's true I read this passage at least I've been a pastor sixteen years, at least sixteen times every Christmas and paid attention to everything in the passage except where stuff happened. It was only in preaching last week that I noticed this parallelism in the passage. I'm going to show to you real quick. Just let me teach for a minute. And now I'm gonna declare over your life what God said. Something good is coming from this, But first let me

teach you. It said in verse one of Matthew, Chapter two, verse one, and I bet you knew this already, Jesus was born in Bethlehem. But then it said, if you go all the way to verse fifteen out of Egypt, I called my son. And then if you go even further than that, yeah, go all the way further that all the way to verse twenty three, that one says

he was called a Nazarene. Now I highlighted all of those for you because I know you've got a lot on your mind, and I know you've still got a big list of things that you have to do over the next couple of weeks. But I don't want you to miss this that you can read the Bible, I mean, just all your life here about the Christmas story and missed the significance of Now you probably know what happened Jesus was born. You even know what happened after that

he died, even know what happened after that. He didn't stay dead very long. You can know all of that, and completely missed the significance of born in Bethlehem, out of Egypt and called inn Azarine. And maybe the reason I skipped all of this so long in reading the story is I, this confession, have no sense of direction whatsoever.

I turn on my GPS to get to my mom's house for dinner on Wednesday night, and she lives in Charlotte, and just in case, just in case, I could do it without it, but it just comforts me to have the GBS. And I remember a time before christ when there was no GPS. I remember, I remember the first time that Holly and I got in a big fight in our marriage was her navigating to me over the phone.

It was in that dark period right between when you had a phone in your car but you didn't have GPS in your car, and that was a very dark. It was like the Advent season for us as we were waiting for the deliver And then she bought me a tom Tom for Christmas. Not a tom Tom. We don't have time for all this historical background. The tom Tom was a GPS system, but the maps had to be manually loaded, so there were occasions where the map would not update, and you were driving according to an

old map. I don't even have time to preach about that, because that is some of y'all right now, going off of an old map of who you used to be before christ and still acting like you anyway. Let's see, let's see last Christmas. This is what I was going to say. Last Christmas. We have a holleyen. I have a little tradition. We do Christmas with the kids and then we go have Christmas for ourselves, and we usually like to go to Charleston. It's close enough where I'm from.

I feel the low country vibes and get some fried shrimp Hymen's. I don't order fried Trump. I just eat half of hers and order a grill Trump makes me feel like I've ordered healthy. And we spend a few days in Charston last year, and we're driving home and I set the GPS. I know I should go on my way back to Charlotte from Charleston by now, just to be sure. I set my GPS, but it has a thing on it that if you if you don't.

I don't even know how this happened. It was an accident, but we told it to avoid all major highways and you know, I'm so enjoying talking to my bride about deep spiritual things and you know, contemplating the mysteries of God or whatever, that I don't even notice we are doing this whole trip on back roads, and you know, it's about twenty thirty minutes in, and I'm like, when

are we getting on? I twenty six? And we figured out we had said it to no back roads, and instead of following the fact that I grew up near Charleston and I live in Charlotte for over fifteen years and I should know my way, I'm following blindly following this this God called GPS, and I'm on these back roads. Now. I'm glad it happened because while we were driving on those back roads and I just remembered this. I don't

know if you remember. This is when I turned to Holly and said, you know what I'd like to write a song about, because we're driving through the country, all these little towns and little churches, and it was a thought that it had come to me, but I didn't think to say it until this moment. We're driving through these back roads, and I looked at her and said, I've been thinking I kind of want to write a song called Old Church Basement. What do you think about that?

She said, I think that would be awesome. She said, you mean like describing Yeah. I said, yeah, like going back to the roots of worship. Like I don't know how the song would go yet. I'm gonna have to get Chris to help me and Brandon to help me, and I'm gonna have to figure out how to write it. But it's gonna say something like the lights and stages. I know they're all great, but I remember when we used to praise God in the old church basement. That's why I told her I was gonna I said, I

have an idea, and she said, I love it. She said I can smell it because before we pastored a global Etham, we traveled around on a little ministry team all over little towns like we were driving through in South Carolina, and so while we were driving, we talked about all the things in the old church base, folding metal chairs, watered down punch stale zebra cookies, and things like this. A few weeks later, the idea would become

a song. The song would become the title of an album that we recorded with our friends from Maverick City Music in this room where I'm preaching today, which at the time was empty because we were still in the stages of the pandemic when we couldn't have people in the church regularly, and back in that corner of the room we recorded an entire album that just a few

weeks ago was nominated for a Grammy. But when I was on the back roads talking to Holly about a song I hadn't written, not even knowing who would help me write it or what we would use it for, I was not thinking about a Grammy. I was not thinking about an album. I wasn't really thinking about a song at first. I was just thinking, how could you be so stupid to follow a GPS down these back roads.

But it serves as a lesson, and I'm kind of glad that it malfunctioned or whatever she did to it while I wasn't looking to make it go down the back roads. I'm kind of glad because it taught me there are blessings on the back roads. There are blessings on the back roads. There are blessings in Bethlehem that you don't get in Jerusalem. There are blessings and obscurity that you don't get in popularity. There are blessings in the old church basement. There are blessings and empty rooms.

There are blessings in seasons of uncertainty. There are blessings in times of your life that you're characterized by darkness, and you don't always get in the bright lights. Back roads blessings. They come all the way to Jerusalem following a star. They have traveled for months, these wise men, and they get there just to be told, you're five

miles from Bethlehem. You gotta take the back roads. You've been on the back roads this year, hadn't you the back roads where you don't know any of the good restaurants, The back roads where all of your cliches don't work, and all of your conventional wisdom has been proven to be subject to the sovereignty of God. The back roads. My mom loves this message because she only drives the back roads. This is her favorite sermon that I've ever

preached before in my life. Merry Christmas. Bethlehem was not only on the back roads, but it wasn't big enough to contain the savior of the world. But listen, listen to me. Bigger isn't always better. When I got up and announced we're offering this year, called better, a lot of us immediately thought bigger, more followers, more infant. No, no, no, I didn't say bigger. I purposely didn't say bigger, because God didn't tell me to call the offering bigger. That's

what got the Israelites in trouble. When they were building the temple again in ha God, they thought, because it wasn't bigger, it couldn't be better. And so then when you go through a downsize in any area of your life, you give credit to the devil for that because you think that Jesus should be in Jerusalem, where the temple is, where the chief priest are, where the center of religious life is happening. I mean, that would be the obvious place to go. But they said to the magi, you

gotta go five more miles. Some preacher watching this preach a whole sermon called five more miles. I want you to do it, because sometimes we get so close to the place, but because we won't go from the place that we thought was the place. This is what I'm learning. This is what I'm learning. Okay, you have to have flexible expectations in order to have strong faith. If you don't have flexible expectations, your faith will break the first time that you carry a load that you weren't expecting

to carry. I mean, think about how flexible Mary had to be to give birth in Bethlehem. She didn't go to Bethlehem because there was a good birthing center in Belin with essential oils in Bethlehem and Adulah in Bethlehem. She wasn't going to Bethlehem because she had heard about the spas in Bethlehem. She was going to Bethlehem because they had to go because Caesar Augustus, who ruled the Roman Empire, had called for a census so they could

have higher taxes and more military support. That's why they went to Bethlehem. And yet even the decree of Caesar was subject to the sovereignty of God, because it really was in Caesar's decreed that they be registered in the census that brought him to Bethlehem. It was the sovereignty of God because that's where the Savior had to be born. When you understand this, you can trust a little bit better that God is working all things together in your

life for the good of those who love him. And are called according to His purpose, so subtraction is not always bad. We chose our word for this year, called fruitful, And the next day the Lord spoke to me about pruning. I said, oh Lord, I didn't say pruning. I said fruitful, oranges, apples come quots kiwi's fruitful, banana's great. But he said, the root to fruit is pruning. R O U t e root the root like the route the root the

root rerouting, rerouting, rerouting, rerouting. That's all God is doing when he's pruning your life. He is rerouting. Not the place you expected anyway. I don't want to preach about Bethlehem. I don't talk a little bit about Egypt because for Jesus to have to go to Egypt to escape Herod would have to a Hebrew audience. At least maybe not to ospital to a Hebrew audience. Have been the last place that we expected God to keep his son safe, because it was the place that they spent four hundred

years as slaves. Now Jesus is going back to the place that God brought them out of to fulfill the prophecy in Hoseiah eleven, verse one, Do you like all this stuff from the Bible. Out of Egypt, I called my son. Out of Egypt. Give me verse fifteen one more time. Out of Egypt, I called my son. Jesus had to go through Egypt because the prophet Hosea said, out of Egypt, I have called my son. So on one hand, it looks like Jesus is going to Egypt

to escape hero it. But on the other hand, it looks like Jesus is going through Egypt to fulfill prophecy. And it's really both. It's really both. It's not one or the other. You know how we try to figure out in our lives. Is this random? Is this God? Is this the devil? Is this me? What if it's all of the above, And what if God is bigger than all of it? And see, not only did I want to preach the Christmas Sermon early this year in case we have another strain of something that comes through

and I can't preach anything. I'm just getting ahead on everything, all right. I'm just making sure if something bad happens, you got the word that you need to get through it, because I love you that much and I don't want you to have to fight mountain nourished. So now I want to give you your New Year's message. Just in case anything bad happens. I'm planning to preach more in twenty twenty two. I'm planning to be here, but just in case something bad happens to either one of us,

I want to give you. I want to give you this message. Don't leave Egypt without first exiting through the gift shop. You know, when you go visit somewhere, they put the gift shop where you have to walk through it before you leave, so that if the admission price wasn't enough, that they can shake you down for a little bit more on the way out. You'll notice where I'm preaching right now, so they can shake you down for a little bit more, because God knows you need

another coffee mug. Okay, love your baby. That's my back robe girl right there. Don't worry about it. In twenty years, when the Bible says out of Egypt I have called my son is speaking to you too. It's letting you know that from the place I didn't pay attention to any of this. All I thought about when I felt Christmas was Bethlehem, Oh little town of Bethlehem, Oh evil land of Egypt, the place that God delivered his people from with plagues. He sent his son to to protect him.

Why why did Jesus go to Egypt because Herod was trying to kill him. That's not what I'm asking, that's the human perspective. See, we get stuck on the level of our minds. We're trying to figure out, well, why did they leave me, Why did they say that, Why did they do that? Why am I sick? Why is this happening? Why didn't it work? Why did it fail? You are stuck trying to answer level questions at the level of Harod that can only be answered at the level of Heaven. So before this year ends, Oh man,

I'm excited for a new year. I just can't wait for the old year to be. It's been such a hard year. As if I don't know what's wrong with us, as if we think somehow it's like the new iPhone is gonna make life better, the new year is gonna make life better. You are gonna have the same stupid people in your iPhone thirteen that you had in your iPhone ten. Nothing about the number changing changes you. Twenty twenty two. I'm just ready for a new York. I tell you, mil who I'm ready for it, like the

Lord is waiting on a calendar. So that's why I'm getting near you think early, to let you know you don't have to be in a certain place for God to fulfill his promise over your life. And I'm going to break that down. When my kid starts acting right, I'll be happy. No, I'm saying no. The Lord spoke in Egypt. He brought his son out of Egypt. He spoke to Joseph in Egypt. You still missed it. You

think that God is waiting for stuff to change. You think that joy is going to be when things change, by won't You have got to get it out of Egypt. You have got to learn how to be in a bound place, a broke place, a hard place, a tricky place, a sticky place. Now, when the people of God left Egypt under Moses, the Bible says in Exodus chapter twelve that they didn't just leave Egypt with their heads spelled look. Oh,

we're just so ready to get out of here. It says that they asked the Egyptians give me Exitus twelve. Y'all pay aten, you payten, you give me Exitu twelve. Exitus twelve Exitus twelve. The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for. And so listen to what God's people did. They plundered the Egyptians, and they left Egypt with treasure. They left captivity with treasures. They left darkness with treasures.

Did you know that you need to plunder your depression? Did you know that you need to plunder your anxiety? Did you know that you need to plunder your addiction? Here's what I mean. The same thing that drove you to be such an addict is the same drive by the Holy Spirit that God is going to use to make you ferociously committed to his purpose. I am so don't just get the message. He was born in Bethlehem. Get the message. He was called out of Egypt. Jesus

went back to the place. Jesus went back to the place that represented captivity, and he declared to the place that represented captivity to the people of God, if the Sun makes you free, you will be free in deep Yeah, I'm leaving this year with stronger character. Something good is coming from this. I'm not leaving Egypt until I learn what God mustn't teach me. I'm not leaving twenty twenty one empty hair that I leaving ten people throw your hands up and say something good is coming from this.

Come on, you gotta do the hand motions. Say something good is coming from this. Give me my camera had line online, don't do it. Something boy, it's coming from this. Now. Watch watch, watch, watch, watch, watch. Don't get ahead of me. I didn't teach the hand motions yet. Something God Lord said, you gotta say it like that, and something good. I don't know what something I had. Something hit my life a few weeks ago, and this is where the confession came from. I didn't get this message for you. I

got it for me. Something happened a few weeks ago to me, and I was like, oh God, you need a little sick feeling in your stomach, and then you have a choice whether you're just gonna give into that. And then for me, it's like Netflix, I'll spend two hours shopping and not watch anything. So this thing and it wasn't necessarily a good thing or a bad thing.

It just scared me that I heard about and it was a personal thing, and I thought, well, you could sit there and play this out on a hundred different ways it could go wrong. Or and this is the thought that came to me, what if it works out for your good? What if the devil's a liar and God is true? What if he really does take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it for good. What if that's not just an anthem? What if that

is an actual fact about God's purpose. Now, if you're not carrying Jesus, you can't receive this message, because if you're not carrying Jesus, then you don't know about the purpose of God. And if you don't know about the purpose purpose of God, you will shout over something good to think that it is going to match your exact preference for your life. Where did the shouting go? Y'all need the organ, You need the organ. So what happened

when the news came? I started walking around the house and I just started saying, what I just told you, something good is coming from this. Well, actually I said it different the first time than the Lord corrected me. I said something good can come from this, and the Lord was like, that's a good start. That's a good first draft, all right. So that's my first draft of faith. Something good can come from this. They could never know when life ends. Your lemons somewhere saying that, and the

Lord's like, that's not faith. Something good can come from this, that's just like statistical probability. That's like, is it gonna be a boy or a girl? That's just like flip a coin. Man, it good, it goes something good to come from this, or it could be the end of you. You just leave that open ended like that. So I revised it. I was like, all right, something good we'll come from this. That better, Lord, like that better, Lord. It's not an out loud conversation. This is just in

my heart. I'm acting it out for you how I felt it inside. Okay, And the Lord was like, that's better. But it's not the bull's eye because when you say put this in the chat, something good will come from this, you've still got it out there in the future. So you're still thinking when I get there, I'll praise God. You're still thinking one day I'll have a story to tell about the goodness of God. You're still thinking one day I'll see it. It'll all makes sense in the

sweet bye and bye, and we'll understand it better. Bye and bye. The Lord said, put it on here and now and have the faith to say something good is coming from this now. Fredick, you said your word was fruitful for twenty twenty two. How does God produce fruit? Well, it often involves soil, which is dirty and dark. And the fruit of the spirit is not money and cars and stuff, which is all fine, all right. I like

my car. I like having something to drive that is fast and that starts, because I've had stuff that didn't and I'm glad when mine does. And I don't apologize about any of that. But that's not the fruit of the spirit, snuck of best stuff. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. So how is God gonna bring forth that kind of fruit self control to put me in

a situation where I have to control myself? How's he gonna give me peace by putting me in situations that don't feel peaceful? O, little town of bath Lovehem. No wonder we don't put Egypt at the Manger scene? Why would we want to remind ourself that Jesus was called out of Egypt. Really, it helps me to know that, because when I find myself in Egypt. I can have an eager expectation. That's something good. And this is where I know enough to know that I don't know. I

don't know what. I don't know what. Keep telling God like, we want to have a great Christmas, we want to have a great this, a great that, But we don't even know what great should look like, not in the context of the bigger picture of our life. So we think we know when we think we know where. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, an unexpected place. Oh, I mean even the pregnancy was unplanned. Mary is explaining biology to the Angel. I have not been with the man. How

is this possible? The entire context of this Christmas story is God doesn't ask you, He doesn't need you to tell him about the birds and the bees. Well, Lord, here's how this works. See, this house supposed to be in my life. This all my kids are supposed This is all my family's supposed turn out, This house supposed to be, This is where supposed to work. This is what I'm called to do, This is my ministry, this is my gift. But sometimes stuff in your life is

born in Bethlehem. Sometimes gifts are brought out of Egypt. Let's let's let's do our let's do our title altogether now, little more humble this time. Something good. Now, you see how your hands are right there. That's how you need to approach the next two weeks around all these relatives. Y'all make a meme of me on the youth account doing this. This is your this is your holiday season survival guide. Right here. Something good. I don't know what. I'm not trying to predict it. I'm not trying to

control it. I'm not trying to manipulate it. I'm not trying to script it. Just something good. You know, Adam and Eves got in trouble when they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's when they thought they were God and knew what was good and what wasn't. That's when sin entered. That's when they lost access to the garden. That's when we lose our peace and our joy and our connection with God. But if you can make this confession, let's do it again.

Your hands got tired, get them back up. Something good is coming from this, not that. That's what the Jewish rulers were looking for, a different kind of Messiah. When Messiah comes, when Messiah comes, he'll do this, and he'll do that. But no, no no, no, no no no, you will find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Something good. It's been a hard year. It's been ups

and downs. And you know what, We'll be sitting here at the end of twenty two and I'll say the same thing, and you'll say, a man, again, it's been a hard We'd be up here in twenty fifty seven. I'm gonna be up here in an over bahar year, leaning on the pulpit and you're saying amen. But something going is coming from this. When Joseph left Egypt, he did not go back to Bethlehem. He couldn't. He wanted to. He intended to go stay where Jesus was born, but

he couldn't go back to Bethlehem. All over this Christmas story that we love in Jerish so much is people having to take directions they never planned on. Every blessing we celebrate this season was on a back road. Happy about it because it means if I don't feel on schedule and I didn't plan for this, something goodness coming from this. Now, can I show you one more thing? Do you know Isaiah nine to six. He shall be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

If you heard that scripture, that's an awesome scripture. It's about Jesus. He will be called wonderful. Everybody say, wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace. All right, let's add one more to it. Matthew chapter two, verse twenty three says he was called a Nazarene. Not only did he find his beginnings in Bethlehem, not only did he escape to Egypt, where he was kept by the providence of God until the time that those who sought

his life were dead. How God has been keeping you in this season. But he went back to Nazareth, where Joseph was from Nazareth. If you think Monk's corner was small, you had never been to Nazareth. They don't even have back roads in Nazareth. They don't even have a Nazareth. There's not even evidence in Nazareth in the Old Testament that it existed. You can't find it. Send it to me this week when you find it in the Old Testament. I wait, not there, not really on the map Is

it where Jesus grew up? Not really on the map? Was it what you're going through? You got a Tom Tom faith. You're trying to navigate your life how to do stuff that you've never seen done. That's hard. How did I read the Christmas story so long and not noticed that he was called not only all those beautiful things, wonderful counselor right he God ever lesson fought principice, but he was called a Nazarene, which was not a compliment.

Thank God for Nathaniel. He said something that gives us an insight into why Jesus had to be called a Nazarene. And I think the Lord is going to use this to speak to you. Something good was coming from this, because when one of the disciples named Philip met Jesus, he came back to Nathaniel and he said, we found him. Now he didn't have a star to guide him like the magi. And Jesus is now at thirty years old and he's starting to he's starting to operate in his gift,

and they recognized him. Watch what Nathaniel said in John chapter one, verse forty five, when he said he's Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Look at Nathaniel's response to that verse forty six, Nazareth, Can anything good come from Nazareth? I like what Philip said, come and see. Can anything I don't know. I'm not trying to tell you. Look, there's people in this church that lost to their mom

this year. What kind of malpractice would it be for me to preach a message called It's all good when you lost your mom. There's people who spent two months in the hospital this year, and so for me to say it was, you know, is all good that you were hooked up to a ventilator. There's people that are watching this message in a hospital or a prison right now, and a lot of them don't have the luxury of trying to decide you want panera after lunch, or you

got time to sit down somewhere a little nicer. They don't have the luxury of checking their text in the middle of the sermon. They don't have the luxury. They need this word as a lifeline. They need this word as a lifeline. They come here just to get a little They didn't come here because Mom made them. They ain't come here for any of that. They didn't come here because they got a new outfit. They didn't come here to beat the crowd for the Christmas Eves service.

They didn't come for that. They came because they need a savior, which is Christ, the Lord who was born in Bethlehem, who escaped to Egypt and was raised in Nazareth. A place with no reputation, a place that was known for immorality, a place that was own for its obscurity, a place that you couldn't even find on the GPS, a place that you would never expect to see royalty, a place that you would never search for greatness, a place that was not associated with great people and great

sages and great profits. But something good came from Nazareth. And I'm making a prophetic declaration over your life today. Something good is coming from this. If something good, if the Son of God, hallelujah, can't come from Nazareth, something good is coming from this. I give you twenty two seconds to declare it into the new year. Something good, something good, something great, something lasting, something ruthful, something fresh,

something favored, something bless. Something good is coming from this and he self, big Gop, wonderful, nascary Gop sulor nacary body. God prodacires something good is coming from this, something good, something good, something good, something good, something good, something good. Touch at least twelve people and tell something good, something good, something good, something good before the end of the year. Expect something good before the end of the year. Expect

something good before the end of the year. Expect something God, something good. I know I know you, I know you. You're playing me off. This is that helped and well prosperity. Name it and claiming no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, you hurt me wrong. God gets to call it good. So my expectation is flexible, more flexible than my hamstrings. That's as far as I can go, because I'm leaving God room to decide what he calls good. I'm walking in the

new year with a flexible faith. Devil. Uh huh. Something good. Got my hands open, got my heart open, got my mind open. Something good. Joseph understood the assignment. All I gotta do, come on, ten more seconds, ten more second, two more seconds. All I gotta do is take his work. I'm fixed. All I gotta do is own thing. All I gotta do it trust them. Something good. It's coming from this carn't anything because I'm from past youth. It can jsus caay from taser, the save your cave. Well,

something good. I don't know how, I don't know where, but I believe it. It's coming. It's coming right now, It's coming. It's coming. God is not amazon this sackage. Will not be delighted. Something good. There no shipping delays in heaven, baby, and no shipping delays in heaven. He is able to do exceeding abundantly. Oh bah, something good. Teach me Lauren, You'll give you take away. It's gonna be good. Something good. I walked around my house. I

said it for an hour the other day. Something good is coming from this, from this, from this, from this. Devil tried to get me back there to pass stuff. I said, no, not that, this this. Then the devil tried to take me to the hypothetical. Well what if I say no, not out there, not there here this something good. He was a beautiful baby, but he was despised and rejected. A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. He was called wonderful counsel Mighty God. Everless than Father,

Prince of peace. But he was born in Bethlehem. He escaped to Egypt, and he was called a Nazarene. Stop calling it what people call it, Start calling it what God calls it. Wonderful, something good, something good. There's about five thousand of y'all that are going to receive this by faith. Put it in the chat. I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm the one who's

believing this message for my household. I'm believing this message for my community, for those I love, for those I care about, for those who I have no hope, for the broken. I'm believing this message for you as your pastor on this year end offering weekend. I know many people are giving many different amounts of money, but can we all just give God the same thing our worship? Can Can anything good come from what you've been going through? Is there a blessing on the back roads? Is there

a faith for the blank spaces? God told Joseph stay in Egypt till I tell you all right, Lord, Well what's the date? No? No, no, no, no no. I want you to have faith for back roads and blank space. Something good It's coming. He makes all things beautiful and it's time. Something good. Oh God, Oh God. If it comes from his hand, it is good. If it's not good when it passes through his hand, it will be good when he's done with it. Something good. I'm so

glad I obeyed the Lord. I argued with him. I said, that's a broad message. I can't tell him something good's coming from this. They might have had a miscarriage, they might be going through a divorce. I'm not trying to tell God. I'm not just trying to sugarcoat the struggles of people. He said, it's not teaching them to deny reality. It's teaching them to exercise faith. You don't move enough in church. Uncross your arms and do the motions. Come on.

Something good is coming from this. Look at somebody else and tell them, just declare it over their life. Let's prophesy to each other. Something good is coming from this, from this, from Nazareth. Yeah, from sadness, something good, something good, something good. I'm looking for. Surely goodness and mercide will follow me. Something good born in Bethlehem, out of Egypt, called a Nazareth. This is the significance of Christmas. You better look for God in dirty places. This Christmas. You

better look for God in annoying people this Christmas. You better look for God in simple moments this Christmas. Thank you Jesus. If you received this word, hid in praise. Enjoy today's podcast. There are a couple of things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You can also help us reach others by investing today at Elevationchurch dot org, slash give and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.