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Unpacking the True Meaning of Christmas: Is Jesus Really Your Lord? - Duration: 4:18.

Do you believe that Jesus is your Lord?

Well, that depends exactly what that means.

All this week, we've been asking that question time and time again.

But, what does this mean?

We've been unpacking this great verse from the Gospel of Luke.

And we celebrate that and we sing that and we

recite that in Christmas programs

and we say Jesus is my Savior and my Lord. But,

what exactly does that mean that he is the Lord.

You know, "Lord" isn't a word that we use very often in our days.

It's like you go to work on a Monday morning and you see your

middle-manager or your supervisor and say,

"Good morning, my lord."

[Laughs]

Although you should. I'd like to hear how that turns out.

But that's kind of the idea.

A lord, literally, is someone who has authority.

It's someone who gets the last word.

They get to make the final call.

You know, we might have different opinions, different preferences,

but the lord, in a relationship, is the one who gets

the last word.

And so if we, as Christians, say we believe that Jesus is Lord,

essentially what we're saying is that

he gets the last word.

We might agree with him.

We might see his wisdom.

We might trust him.

We might not.

But he always gets the last word.

And we agree to follow him.

And that's actually the difficult part of Christmas.

I mean, Jesus wasn't just born to be a Savior,

a rescuer from sin.

He was chosen

to be our Lord.

And if there's one thing that I know about my heart,

and I'm guessing it's true for your heart too,

is that we don't normally like people getting the last word.

We don't like it when people tell us what to do.

And I see the proof every single Wednesday.

I play in an old guy's soccer league.

Like, 35 and older.

We're trying not to pull a hamstring and survive to go to work on Thursday morning.

But do you know who's disrespected week after week and game after game?

The lord of the field.

The referee.

He's been given authority by the league

but does anyone respect his authority?

Does anyone really submit to his decisions when they don't agree?

No. People complain and scream over a league that,

that means nothing.

Which proves that there's a real problem in the human heart.

So, why would you believe in Christmas?

Why would you believe in this

Savior who has been born?

Not just to be your Messiah, but to be your Lord?

And the simple answer is because you've read the rest of the story.

Because if you know that Jesus was born in a manger but he didn't stay there.

He lived a perfect life.

And then he went to a cross to forgive you of your sins

so that he could be your Savior.

To be your rescuer.

If you know that Jesus used his last word, all his cosmic authority,

not to condemn you or judge you,

but to forgive you and save you.

Well, then you take a deep breath

and you trust him as Lord.

That whatever you think about relationships or marriage or work

or politics, you'd submit your decision

and say, "Jesus, if you gave up everything for me.

"If you used your authority like that,

"I can trust you."

And you worship him not just as a rescuer and Savior,

but as the Lord of love.

That's what the word, Lord, means.

Let's pray.

Dear God, we thank you for this incredible passage.

We thank you for your forgiveness and for rescuing us from sin.

We thank you that you were born into this world so that you understand our situation.

And you were born not just for other people, but for us.

We thank you, Jesus, that you were the chosen one.

And because you were chosen, we've been chosen by God too.

And we thank you that you're the Lord.

You're a leader that we can trust.

We let you get the last word and we believe it's the best for us.

Because you're God.

And, even more than that, you're a God of incredible love.

Please bless us,

our families, our friends, our churches this Christmas.

Bless our nation and our world that more and more people would call upon you

as you really are, Savior and Lord.

We ask this is in your incredible name.

Amen.

How have you learned to let Jesus have the last word?

I know there are a lot of long-time, experienced Christians

who follow Time of Grace.

And if you're one of them, we would love for you to comment

on something, when you were younger, that it was tough to let

go and to let Jesus have the last word.

But now you've come to follow him and to trust him.

Let's encourage the next generation of Christ followers to

follow Jesus truly as both Savior and Lord.

Thanks for joining me this week and I pray you have a wonderful weekend.

For more infomation >> Unpacking the True Meaning of Christmas: Is Jesus Really Your Lord? - Duration: 4:18.

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Is So Yummy the WORST baking channel on YouTube? - Duration: 15:15.

Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today I thought it would be

fun to look at one of the most successful baking channels on YouTube ... no

it's not my channel 😂 They have four and a half million subscribers and over 100

million video views a month. They had 115 million video views last month and they

started less than a year ago!! So that's pretty impressive ... just to put it in

context a hundred and fifteen million views that's more than let's say liza

koshi plus superwoman plus Rosanna pansino put together that doesn't add up

even to 100 million ... all of their video views combined! This is crazy good this is

huge this channel so it's gotta be good right cuz YouTube recommends good

content quality content is king good videos get views right? 🤪 yeah ... so let's

take a look... all their videos are in the same format. It's a compilation of lots

of short fast forwarded cooking clips put to music. The videos actually look

like they've been made for Facebook or Instagram not for YouTube I only say

that because all of the videos are square in square format and YouTube

usually in the HD wider format so it looks like they've made it for Facebook

or Instagram and then just repurposed it. Let's look at the first video on their

channel this one has 36 million views and I think looking at that it's one of

their most viewed videos so let's watch this one ... so ice-cream. That's a

lot of ice cream.

Wouldn't it have been easier to melt that in the microwave

rather than over a double boiler anyway...

How is melted ice-cream plus extra sugar supposed to whip into a frosting that's

nice and thick like that??? Okay let's try that.

Let's keep going ... now they're using the frosting to put together a cake but my

frosting is liquid so I guess I'll just make up some Italian meringue frosting

and color at the same pink as the ice cream so it kind of looks like ice cream

frosting 😉

The cake looks fine, there's nothing new here ... checker board cakes have been done

so many times all over YouTube there's nothing amazing about that it

was the ice cream frosting that was amazing ... too good to be true maybe! Let's

move on... Ice cream hacks.

the second kind didn't even have a hole in the bottom of it. Okay cooking hacks.

So 2 empty soda bottles ... there's barely any drips of juice coming out and

magically now there's a whole jug of juice

that looks like it's being bought from the store! Basil ... Jedd

growing heaps of basil in the garden so we should try this one ... okay so

basically you take some basil chop it up put it in a bowl with more basil chuck

it in the microwave for 60 seconds take it out and their's is magically dried

basil. Mine is still damp and soft warm basil ... let me put it in again.

now it's fairly dry but it doesn't look anything like theirs does and it doesn't

taste or smell of basil anymore ... oh wait I think I must have missed a really

important step in this recipe let me just do that. There we go now we can put

that in the microwave pull it out and dried basil ready to go in my jar

beautiful ... see it works it works 😜

Again the same video another thing about this channel is they only put up three

minutes of new footage and then they just reshuffle and repeat old footage so

they can extend the video out to be 10 or 14 minutes which is what content

farms do so this is a bit like a content farm I guess so they can keep up with

the constant upload schedule which the algorithm seems to like... constant lots of

videos every week. I thought YouTube had a rule against

that like no duplicated content rule??? never mind

Gummybear hacks... this is gonna

be useful.

this doesn't even look like it would work! I'm going to try it...

My spoon can't get into the gummy part because it's like a gummy bear! How am I

gonna get this out without breaking the glass? How did their spoon just slide

right through the gummy part and mine doesn't? I must have done it wrong it

must be my mistake oh I'll just go make it again with some jello did I misread

the recipe? Was I supposed to use jelly or jello? There you go now

it's working. So let's face facts ... ordinary YouTube bakers are being pushed

out of existence by content farms who upload so often that genuine baking

videos just can't seem to get through all of that content farm content

anymore! Here's the views per month from the top 5

baking youtubers for the last 2 years and here's content farm views. The whole

how-to area has just been overtaken by these ones. I get comments week after

week saying please don't stop uploading that I should actually share with you

why people are stopping uploading ... and why genuine youtubers aren't doing it anymore

because they actually can't justify the cost. Some of the videos I make take more

time to film and cost more in ingredients than we're getting back in

Adsense from YouTube. So it just makes it really hard to justify continuing to do

it. So it's up to you guys ... I don't know if you'll make a difference, share this

video with the hashtag #SaveYouTubeBaking and tweet YouTube

let them know you're not happy let them know you want to see more of the genuine

YouTube creators sticking around and not just going off the platform ... maybe they

might do something about it they might actually listen to viewers instead of

not listening to youtubers and do me a favor I'm gonna list up some genuine

YouTube creators on the screen go look up some of the names of these channels

search them up watch some of their videos comment, like, share ... help them out

and hopefully you can keep them on the platform for a bit longer. Next year I'm

only going to be uploading every second week instead of every week ... if you'd like

to support the channel and help keep it going, if you've loved watching it over

the years and you like having a family-friendly Cooking Channel with

recipes that actually work then head on over to patreon/h2CT and show

your support there. Thanks so much, love you all, make it a

great week and I'll see you Friday 😁