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Christmas Program 2021
You tonight to our Christmas celebration. Thank you for coming. I know a lot of you are here to see your kids and your grandkids. We're also here to hear songs sung in beautiful harmony to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And we thank you for coming to help us celebrate here at Sunnyside Baptist Church. We have a lot to celebrate in that Jesus Christ is our Lord and our Savior and that he was born and that God has manifested his salvation to us.
And so we rejoice in that and we're glad that you're here tonight to rejoice with us. So I'm going to go ahead and pray and then we will get started. Heavenly Father we come before you tonight and we thank you for everybody who has come.
I pray a special blessing upon the choir and the children and all who have come here. Help us to celebrate you. Help us to rejoice in the gift of your Son Jesus Christ. And I pray that the joy of Christ and the hope of Christ would be full in our lives tonight and this Christmas season.
We pray these things for the sake of Jesus, the one with whom you are well pleased. Amen.
A decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria and everyone was on his way to register for the census each to his own city.
Joseph also went up from Galilee from the city of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David which is called Bethlehem because.
He was of the house and family of David. Join us in singing Oh Little Town. Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie. Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Joseph did this in order to register.
Along with Mary who was engaged to him and was with child. While they were there the days weren't completed for her to give birth and she gave birth to her firstborn son and she wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because.
There was no room for them in the end. Join us again as we sing Jesus joy the highest heaven. Jesus joy of the highest heaven, born as a little baby under a wondrous star. Crying he takes his first breath held by his mother's hand.
Jesus. Facing only us straight that he might bring us smiles and sorrows. He showed the way to find us. Steady my simple feet.
In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night and an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them. The Lord shone around them and they were terribly frightened but the.
Angel said to them do not be afraid for behold I bring you good news of great joy which shall be for all the people. For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior who is Christ the Lord.
This will be a sign for you. You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. And suddenly there.
Appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and.
Saying. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men to whom he is pleased. Angels we have heard singing in the mountains. Angels had gone away from them into heaven. The shepherds began saying to one.
Another. Let us go straight to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened.
Which the Lord has made known to us. So they came in a hurry and found their way.
To Mary and Joseph and the baby as he lay in the manger by the shepherds. But Mary treasured all these things pondering them in her heart. Life of.
Jesus the Bible tells us that wise men came seeking a newborn king. Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king. Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
For we saw 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. Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.
They said to him in Bethlehem of Judea for this is what has been written by the prophets and you Bethlehem land of Judah are by no means least among the leaders of Judah for out of you shall come forth a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.
Then Herod secretly called the Magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared and he sent them to Bethlehem and said go and search carefully for the child and when you.
Have found him. Report to me so that I too may come and worship him. Hearing the.
King and the star which they had seen in the east went on before them until it came and stood over the place where the child was. When they saw the star they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy and going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother and they fell down and worshiped him then opening their.
Treasures they offered him gifts gold and frankincense and myrrh. Well as the.
Choir finds their way back to their seats for a moment. Hopefully you have acquired one of these candles for our candlelight portion of our service. Go ahead and turn those on if you didn't grab one we have some ushers ready to come help you and come bring you a candle if you don't happen to grab one.
So before we start singing together we're going to be lowering down all the lights. So this is. These are going to be our lights plus the lighted stage. So if you will go ahead and get your candles out let's sing some Christmas choruses some Christmas carols together.