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Pastor Mike Todd (0:39)
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Transformation Church Podcast Host (1:07)
Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message.
Pastor Mike Todd (1:22)
My daughter, she asked me, she said, would you just read the Christmas story, dad? And I was like, what you mean you just want me to get up there and read you? He's like, like read it but then remix it. How you be remixing it? And I said, for real? This was Bella and Ava last night in the bed. They was like, just read it and then be remix remix it. And I said, so I'm gonna do that. So today I want us to go to Matthew chapter one, verse 18, and I want us to read the story of how we got the greatest gift in history. It says In Matthew, chapter 1, verse 18, this is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph, but before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. Whoa. Questions after question after question. Joseph, to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man, and so he didn't want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. As he considered this, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. Joseph, son of David. The angel said, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit and she will have a son, and you, Joseph, are to name him Say his name, Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord's message through the prophet. Look, the Virgin will conceive a child. She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which means, help me, God is with us. When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife. But he did not have any sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him, say his name, Jesus. For the last 14 weeks, we've been in a series called Triggered, and we've been talking about the ability to not crash out. Now, some people are in this room and they don't understand what I mean when I say crash out. But maybe you have a little inference, like this is the season, Christmas season, specifically, where a lot of people are busy, A lot of people are short with people. A lot of people have attitudes. A lot of people have priorities that aren't other people's priorities, which make you frustrated that you not considering me. There's a lot of opportunities at Christmas, in the workplace, at school, to crash out. Has anybody. Can we be hot, humble, open and transparent? Has anybody in the last 30 days had a crash out? Hands all over the room, okay? With your kids, with your husband, with yourself. Some of y' all don't need nobody else to crash out. You just need you and yourself. And you will have made up a whole story in your head and gone round and round in circles. And what I'm finding in the world that we live in, this world is full of chaos. And if we don't focus on something that is stable and consistent, we will be tossed to and fro and begin to actually feed into our lower nature that causes us to crash out. And it's hard. Watch this. To care for somebody that you're crashing out on. It's hard to have compassion for somebody that you can't even see past your own situation. So what we have decided in this series is that in 2025, the church needs to know how to get their emotions in check. Because our response cannot be the same as people who don't know Jesus, because that's the only difference. So when that happens to them and the same thing happens to us, how do we respond? Most of us could not tell the difference. They cuss you out. Church people cuss you out, too. You laughing, but you the one. And this, this right here is the very reason why God's saying that maybe there's something underneath that needs to be dealt with. And this is how I put it in a point. Everybody listen to me. Unaddressed triggers usually lead to a crash out. If you won't even admit that it's something that's going on in you, it's going to lead to a crash out. Pastor Mike, what does this have to do with Jesus? I'm getting there. I need you to understand that his birth and Mary and Joseph and they life that they had perfectly set up was about to get crashed into because Jesus was coming on the scene. It was the perfect opportunity for them to crash out. Now, I don't know about you. I don't know. Y' all ever watch that show Bridezilla? Did y' all ever see that on hgtv? And how people would be planning for their wedding and they would turn into a different person because the flowers weren't ivory. This is white, not ivory. And there was. I want the cake to be a certain. Okay. I used to watch that show and I used to think, like, why do these people trip so hard on this moment? It's because they had a plan that they were going to go with. And when their plan got messed up, it triggered something on the inside of them that made them lash out. My question to you is, what do you do when your plan gets messed up? When the thing that you've been preparing for, saving for what you've been telling everybody that's going to happen, what happens when that plan gets interrupted? Many of us have the response that, I don't even care how this feels to me no more. I'm going to do everything that I feel and everything that I think. But Joseph and Mary show us a different way, because at this moment, they haven't crashed out when Jesus was about to crash in. Now, listen to me. This is a story, a testimony to me that we do not have to crash out when life hits us because Jesus crashes into humanity. This is what I want everybody to know on this Christmas Day. That because Jesus came in, I don't have to show out. Golly, I tried to make it real simple for you. Because Jesus came into my life, I don't got to defend myself when they talk about me. Because Jesus came in my life when they did something that is unforgivable. I can still have the grace and the power to forgive. Because Jesus crashed in, I do not have to crash out. And some of us cheapen the work of what Jesus did because we still want to express in a way that goes against what he did for us. So today I'm asking everybody to self evaluate and see if what Jesus did could be more impactful to your life in an everyday sense. So you don't have to go and have the same response. When you go eat dinner with your family and they ask you, why are you so big? Oh, y' all know our families are ruthless. Oh, okay. Does anybody have some ruthless family members in here? Okay. And if your hand is not up, you're the one. You're the ruthless family member. We talk about you. You're mean. Everybody say, I don't have to crash out. Y' all gotta say it with some faith. I don't have to crash out because Jesus crashed in. One more time. I don't have to crash out because Jesus crashed in. So if you crash out, it's a choice. I need everybody to hear me. If you act a fool, if you don't represent your salvation, if you don't actually receive what God has given you, it is a choice. And I just want you to see that. Mary and Joseph had a choice to respond differently. But because they responded in the way that they did, we get to see a picture of what happens when Jesus crashes in. Let me ask a question. Has anybody ever crashed into something? Come on. Anybody ever crashed into something before? See, Charles said, abby, be crashing all the time. Then why he say that to you, Abby? Golly. Anybody ever crashed into a car? Now, this is the funny thing, you know, when people be like, I got in an accident, nobody really leads with who actual fault it was. Has anybody ever crashed into somebody? Come on, let's be honest. Crashed in. Okay, cool. I saw somebody the other day that they. They were walking outside, from inside to outside, and they had a big glass, and the glass was really clear, and they was walking with intention. And when they hit that, bam. And the one thing I realized when they hit that glass is obviously they didn't know it was there. But anytime something or someone crashes into something, it's two things. Write this down. It's an introduction and an interruption. When that person crashed into that wall. Hello. It's a glass wall here. They were introduced to something, and also the way they were walking was interrupted. When Jesus crashes in, he is doing both. Interrupting something and introducing something. Okay. Have you ever worked in a company and your boss never comes to the office, and then just at the just most random time, the boss, the head person, comes in and they. They crash into your office? If they do that. Let me help you. It's about to be an interruption and an introduction. Like, I'm trying to get you to understand that crashing into something is when God is trying to show you something brand new. And this is what I want to tell you as we end this year in power. When you crash into something or you go through a moment where something comes to stop you, it wasn't a part of the plan. This is the picture of Christmas. Jesus coming from God to humanity to save them was not on Mary and Joseph's plan. They weren't born like we know what we created to do, like we about to. We about to. No, no, no, no. They were about to live their own life, do their own thing. And God said, let me find two people that I can interrupt and introduce something through. And Jesus, everybody say crashed in. So let me tell you what the story of Christmas is. The story of Christmas is God interrupting sin and introducing grace. You want to know what Christmas is? It is Jesus crashing in and interrupting sin, Interrupting the cycles I was in, interrupting the pain that I was causing other people, interrupting self sabotage that would come by watching pornography. He was interrupting the self cycles in my life and he interrupted. And he introduced me to not what religion does, works and rules. He introduced me to grace. And today on Christmas, I want you to know that what God gives as a gift we don't deserve, but he gives it freely so that you can understand that it was all him the whole time. And because Jesus crashed in, I can now live in freedom. Because Jesus crashed into my life, I can now have hope. Because Jesus crashed into my life, I can have a new day. And I don't know who's watching this, but I came to tell you, let Jesus crash into you right now. Let him crash into the dysfunction you're walking in. Let him crash into the confusion you have in your head and your heart. Let him crash into that situation that seems so disoriented that all you want to do is sleep. Let him crash in. Because if he comes in, other things have to change. This is the story of Christmas. Jesus interrupting sin and introducing grace.