You, Me, and the Christmas Tree | Max Lucado | Gateway Church

This weekend Max Lucado shares a special Christmas message, reminding the Gateway family that much like we decorate a Christmas tree, God spends intentional time choosing us, preparing us, and decorating us in His beauty.
Follow along with notes on the YouVersion app: bible.com/events/49177107
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
07:37 - We are picked
13:38 - We were purchased
31:44 - We are pruned
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  • @billyraycrawford5668
    @billyraycrawford5668Ай бұрын

    That is the tree that got us into all the ill we experience now.the only tree that matters now. Is the tree of life.

  • @Joseph_Knight
    @Joseph_Knight5 ай бұрын

    What an incredible sermon. One of his best yet. God bless Max Lucado. And God bless you reading this

  • @gav2786

    @gav2786

    5 ай бұрын

    and to you bro.

  • @patriciabrown5167
    @patriciabrown51674 ай бұрын

    This is truly funny. Thank you, Max. Beautiful ❤ 🎉 .

  • @carolletourneau9564
    @carolletourneau95645 ай бұрын

    That is so nice, that now having Christ in our heart, we are called to offer that gift to everyone around us. Thank you so much for your way to explain the beauty of our ministry ! Merry Christmas !

  • @donnadavey9004
    @donnadavey90044 ай бұрын

    Thank you Pastor Lucado your message was such a Blessing

  • @cmebans35
    @cmebans3510 күн бұрын

    Amen God chose me My children and I are blessed May 20 2024

  • @TheHealYourHeartCoach
    @TheHealYourHeartCoach5 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏 Amen... such a beautiful message

  • @ritajhorn3585
    @ritajhorn35855 ай бұрын

    This is a great sermon. God bless and Merry Christmas to all

  • @patriciabrown5167
    @patriciabrown51674 ай бұрын

    Thank you LORD GOD FOR MAX. I FEEL HIS URGENCY ALSO. BLESS BEHOLD ISRAEL AND THE CHRISTIANS FOR CHRIST NOW, ALSO. THANK YOU FOR JESUS. AMEN FOR YOU TO COME MORE THAN ANYTHING. PSALM 46.

  • @noraclark6059
    @noraclark60595 ай бұрын

    I think God for you wish there was more men like you❤🎉

  • @mikem3789
    @mikem37895 ай бұрын

    😊 Merry CHRISTmas 🎄🕊🎄🕊🎄🕊🎄

  • @madeleineward7658
    @madeleineward76582 ай бұрын

    Thanks Pastor Lucado from Ireland 🇮🇪 God bless you

  • @upschutt4842
    @upschutt48425 ай бұрын

    Thank you for continuing to stand with me for my breakthrough. God is surely at work behind the scenes and I long to see what he is doing.

  • @user-vg5fn2tk9b
    @user-vg5fn2tk9bАй бұрын

    Amen

  • @beckyroesch872
    @beckyroesch8725 ай бұрын

    Such a good word!!!

  • @malayenedean2794
    @malayenedean27945 ай бұрын

    God bless you indeed Pastor Max Lucado! I love all your messages ❤️ 💕 I've read many of your wonderful blessed books,including your Holy Bible. Merry Christmas to you and all in your beautiful blessed family I love you Lord Jesus Amen 🙏 🙌 ❤️

  • @gatewaychurchtv

    @gatewaychurchtv

    5 ай бұрын

    ❤️

  • @erikajanzen2285
    @erikajanzen22853 ай бұрын

    This is my favourite of your messages at Christmas, after Christmas and throughout the year, thank you Pastor Max. You inspire me. 🙏🏻

  • @HaroonJoseph804
    @HaroonJoseph8045 ай бұрын

    God bless u church and pastor love u from Pakistan please special prayer for Pakistan woman's and orphan children

  • @kariyatikuswandi8256
    @kariyatikuswandi82563 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @gatewaychurchtv

    @gatewaychurchtv

    3 ай бұрын

    🩵🩵

  • @josuelakstigalangelo4158
    @josuelakstigalangelo41584 ай бұрын

    Yeshu masih

  • @patriciabrown5167
    @patriciabrown51675 ай бұрын

    Thanks Max, I enjoyed that one. I'm very lonely at this time of year. Thank God for you. Please pray for me. I pray from your book 'Start with Prayer'. I love it. I've learned to pray before saying yes. Giving little gifts and seeing 😅 happy faces make me happy. Your tracks are all over my car. Amen 🎄JESUS

  • @josuelakstigalangelo4158
    @josuelakstigalangelo41584 ай бұрын

    Namaskar

  • @t.m.stephens3976
    @t.m.stephens39765 ай бұрын

    Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey.

  • @Abrahamerz48
    @Abrahamerz485 ай бұрын

    🙏✝️🙏

  • @_marlon_david_rosales_arteaga
    @_marlon_david_rosales_arteaga5 ай бұрын

    Please traslate the preaching to spanish

  • @lauralim1200
    @lauralim12004 ай бұрын

    AMEN! TOSHIA =THANK U, SAVIOR! IT'S YOUR AMAZING GRACE THAT KEPT ME FROM ACCIDENTS, 2 EX'S ABUSE, BAD CHILDHOOD, LOST MY PROFESSION (RACISM & PREJUDISM), HOMELESSNESS, CURRENT $ STRESS, BAD RENTAL, MULTIPLE SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES, NO FAMILY/RELATIVES CLOSE BY. THRU IT ALL, IT WAS ALWAYS YOU BESIDE ME. U'VE SENT YOUR ANGELS MY WAY! LET YOUR WILL BE DONE! SATAN CAN KEEP BURNING IN HELL CAUSE MY FAITH REMAINS STRONG. HE CAN KEEP TESTING MY WEAKENING HEALTH BUT HALLELUJAH! PRAISE YOU! ALL GLORY ONLY TO YOU - ALMIGHTY FATHER, JESUS CHRIST & HOLY SPIRIT! BARELY WAIT TO MEET YOU ON RAPTURE TIME - MY ETERNAL HEAVENLY HOME! DADDY, MA, ALL PREDECEASED RELATIVES AWAITS ME. THANK U, PASTOR MAX & FAMILIES! GOD WILL CONTINUE TO BLESS U ALL AS YOU SPREAD HIS PROMISING WORDS TO OUR LOST WORLD THAT YOU CREATED.

  • @josuelakstigalangelo4158
    @josuelakstigalangelo41584 ай бұрын

    Tuhara pabu hamara kuda

  • @leejohnson6328
    @leejohnson63285 ай бұрын

    Is it Strange Not to Celebrate Christmas? kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2GXsM2kYMzNh5c.html

  • @_marlon_david_rosales_arteaga
    @_marlon_david_rosales_arteaga5 ай бұрын

    Latin americ wanna understand

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust15755 ай бұрын

    Xmas a pagan festival combined with catholic Mass the worship of the Mother and child Commercialism also! Many called.few chosen!

  • @captainobvious8665

    @captainobvious8665

    3 ай бұрын

    Oh fellow believer, hear me. It can be celebrated wrongly, like any good thing. But if done right, Christmas is absolutely God-glorifying. It is good to be aware of evil things that try to find their way into Christian homes and hearts, but a hypersensitivity will leave you weary and others weary of you. Be blessed!

  • @Lisa-eo9gd
    @Lisa-eo9gd4 ай бұрын

    I almost couldn't watch all of this message. Around the 11:30 mark, I was thinking about the abortion I had forty years ago. Breaks my heart. I pray for anyone who may be considering ending their pregnancy. Please don't do it! If you can't raise the baby, give him or her up for adoption. Please.

  • @-t96
    @-t965 ай бұрын

    Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Jesus was not born on December 25th nor did he tell anyone to celebrate that specific day. December 25th is the birthdate of 2 roman sun gods, and the Christmas tree and holiday wreath came from the pagan festival Yuletide! Who is Santa Claus? Why do we lie to our children that an old man can see all, hear all, and has the right to hear judgement on who is wrong or right? Isn't that Jesus' job? Why do we tell our children to be good for Santa Claus and not for the Lord Jesus who is God, our everlasting king? If you call yourself a follower of Jesus it is time to wake up. This holiday has NEVER had anything to do with Christ. It is of pagan origins for other gods and had been taken by the Roman Catholics who slapped Jesus' name on it in order to appease the pagans and convince them to turn to monotheism. Ask yourself, why do you go and buy a tree that was cut out of the forest. Why do you put silver and gold ornaments and lights on it? Why do you put presents under it? Why do you make an offering of cookies for Santa knowing he does NOT exist? These are altars, and again, have NOTHING to do with Jesus Christ. But let's see what God has to say about the Christmas tree. Jeremiah 10:2-4 (KJV) Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. ‼️ For the customs of the people are 👉🏼 vain:👈🏼for one cutteth 🪓 a tree 🌲out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; 🎄 they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 🔨 Sound familiar? If ye have ears, hear the word of the Lord. These are pagan traditions that never had anything to do with Jesus Christ!!! The pagans worshipped the winter solstice and made this time of year a time for festival, pagan worship and gift giving. This is in your history books and Google searches if you do not believe me. Turn to the LORD while you still can. Come out of this paganism and follow the LORD with all your heart before it is too late. In Jesus name amen. ‼️ Exodus 20:1-3 (KJV) And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 👈🏼

  • @captainobvious8665

    @captainobvious8665

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm guessing that you'd find a baptism that was done with wrong intentions meaningless, right? Why, then, doesn't intention play any part in your judgment of other's Christmas traditions? When those in Jeremiah's time were doing that, they were intending to worship other gods. THAT, is the problem. I honestly am concerned for you if you are able to keep yourself from celebrating the day that Jesus took on human flesh to become like us so that he could become our kinsmen redeemer. What a wonderful thing!

  • @vparakhin
    @vparakhin5 ай бұрын

    I wonder if someone would dare to preach on Christmas about the Bible and Jesus, not just funny jokes.

  • @alisonhealy5104

    @alisonhealy5104

    5 ай бұрын

    Try listening to his sermon ‘What Jesus wants for Christmas maybe that will be helpful to what you are looking for, may Jesus bless you

  • @captainobvious8665

    @captainobvious8665

    3 ай бұрын

    I once preached a sermon on Christmas. I did it in July and used John 1 to do it. I wanted to make sure that all the distractions associated with 'cultural Christmas' were out of the way. The fact that God chose to dwell among us still leaves me astounded. That said, I think this sermon was masterful as many of his are. You see, it wasn't about Christmas, but it used 'cultural Christmas' to relate real truths about our Lord. It was the opposite, yet effective tactic of the one I used. I understand your weariness of many pastors shying away from biblical truths, but that isn't what happened here. May the Lord bless you richly!

  • @billyraycrawford5668
    @billyraycrawford5668Ай бұрын

    Paganism.

  • @jilllingenfelter4682
    @jilllingenfelter46825 ай бұрын

    It’s never ever acceptable to lie!! and I don’t like that joke it’s such an extremely mean thing to do to someone!! And I absolutely appreciate my fake Christmas tree. And I can’t wait to get a bigger Christmas tree someday:)@Max Lucado@Gateway Church

  • @DavidWilliams-mh4tg

    @DavidWilliams-mh4tg

    5 ай бұрын

    Hello dear, how are you doing? Hope you are having a great day, I guess you must be a believer of Christ?