This Christmas celebration service focused on the child Jesus and his role as Savior according to the Bible passage Luke 1:26-38. The service discussed how Jesus was born special, to be a Savior and servant for all people. It also shared the story of a prison warden at Angola Prison in Louisiana who transformed the prison through moral rehabilitation programs and distributing Bibles to prisoners. The service emphasized that all people are born into a life sentence of sin but that Jesus can set people free from this prison and transform their lives through accepting him.

1. Christmas Celebration Service | 25 Dec 2016
PRINCE OF PEACE
TRANSFORMING Lives EXPANDING His Kingdom
SSMC
SUNGAI WAY-SUBANG
METHODIST
C H U R C H
Isaiah 9:6

2. WHAT CHILD THIS?
Isaiah 9:6
Rev Dr Ng Swee Ming

3. Luke 1:26-38

4. ANGOLA Prison
aka Louisiana State
Penitentiary
• 18,000 acres (slightly smaller than PJ district)
• Largest maximum security prison in US
• About 6,000+ prisoners
• About 85% are ‘life-termers’
• About 45 on death roll

5. ANGOLA
Prison
• Produces vegetables, sugar-cane,
corn, soya-bean, wheat etc
• Cattle & horses raising …
• Light industries …
• It has it’s own …
Newspaper – “Angolite”
FM Radio Station – “KLSP”
9 hole Golf course
Airport Runway
Rodeo Carnival
Fathering Programs

6. ANGOLA Prison…
Other names ….
“Alcatraz of the South”
“Bloodiest Prison in America”

7. ‘What Child Is This’ Lk 1:26-38
This Child was
born …
SPECIAL

8. ‘What Child Is This’ Lk 1:26-38
This Child was born
to be a …
SAVIOR…
Name : JESUS
Yehoshua
Yeshua
“Yahweh Saves”
Luke 19:10

9. What Child Is This Lk 1:26-38
This Child was
born to be a…
SERVANT…
Mark 10:45

10. ‘What Child Is This’ Lk 1:26-38
PERSONAL TESTIMONY

11. What Child Is This Lk 1:26-38
This Child was
born …
SPECIAL…
SAVIOR…
SERVANT…

12. ANGOLA Prison
“Bloodiest Prison in America”

13. ANGOLA
Prison
1995 – appointed Warden …
Saw a man executed …
Moral Rehabilitation …
Bible Verses …
Bibles ….
4yrs Theological Degree …
Transformation came …
BURL CAIN

15. What Child Is This Lk 1:26-38

16. What Child Is This Lk 1:26-38
• ALL of us were
born with a
LIFE-SENTENCE
in the prison of
SIN
Rom 3:23
• Many if not
most of us will
die in this
Prison of SIN

17. Only way out of this
LIFE SENTENCE in the
prison of SIN is ….
Knowing who this “Child” is …
Accepting this “Child” as
Savior …
This “Child” can & will
TRANSFORM your life …
What Child Is This Lk 1:26-38

18. “I thank God for allowing me to
come into prison. If not I would never
have come to know Him.
Now even though I am still in in this
physical prison I am free in Him.
My prayers are for my loved ones out
there, who think they are free in the
world but are actually in the prison
of sin. They also need the Lord…”
John 8:31b-32

19. This “Child” can
Break your bondages…
Heal your hurts…
Heal your sicknesses…
Set you truly FREE….
‘What Child Is This’ Lk 1:26-38
John 1:14
‘The Word became
flesh and made his
dwelling among us.’
John 8:36

21. Luke 1:26-38