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Let's begin our worship now. The
grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
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and the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
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all, versus one through five.
Here the word of our God, I
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will sing of the steadfast love of
the Lord forever. With my mouth I
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will make known your faithfulness to all
generations, for, I said, steadfast
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love will be built up forever in
the heavens. You Will Establish Your faithfulness.
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You have said, I have made
a covenant with my Chosen One.
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I have sworn to David, my
servant. I will establish your offspring forever
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and build your throne for all generations. Let the heavens praise your wonders,
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Old Lord, your faithfulness in the
assembly of the holy ones. Please stand
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as we pray. Father Hey,
you condescended to make a covenant with David,
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a mere man, though in many
ways we would think he is greater
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than us as a king. You
made a covenant with him, a covenant
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you have kept. And your son, Jesus, who even now sits upon
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on David's throne, waiting for you
to bring all of his enemies under his
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feet. So, even as we
gather to worship now, may you be
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subduing those enemies through the Gospel,
bringing people into faithful allegiance to Jesus because
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of His grace and because of his
mercy, and help us to have hearts
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filled with gratitude and joy over the
coming of your eternal son and flesh and
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bone, to be not just King
Jesus, but to be savior Jesus.
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Amen, let's sing together. Hark
the Herald Angel saying it's number two,
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hundred and three. Man, please
be seated if you'd like to read along.
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It's a genesis three versus eight through
fifteen. Bring us back to the
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fall of man. Adam and Eve
have just sinned. Just for context,
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they have realized their shame and of
made clothing of themselves, for themselves rather,
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and they heard the sound of the
Lord God walking in the garden in
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the cool of the day, and
the man and his wife hid themselves from
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the presence of the Lord God among
the trees of the garden. But the
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Lord God called to the man and
said to him, where are you?
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And he said I heard the sound
of you in the garden and I was
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afraid because I was naked and I
hid myself. He said, who told
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you? That you are naked.
Have you eaten of the tree of which
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I commanded you not to eat?
The man said, the woman whom you
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gave to be with me, she
gave me the fruit of the tree and
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I ate. Then the Lord said
to the woman, what is this that
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you have done? The woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate.
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The Lord said to the serpent,
because you have done this, cursed
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are you above all live stock and
above all beasts of the field. On
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your belly you shall go and dust
you shall eat all the days of your
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life. I will put enmity between
you and the woman and between your offspring
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and her offspr ring. He shall
bruise your head and you shall bruise his
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heel. Here we have the first
promise of a redeemer who would come to
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vanquish God's enemies. In light of
that, let's sing a little town of
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Bethlehem him number two hundred and one. Please stand as you're able. Please
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be seated. Three different passages for
you at this point, one of which
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was read in our worship service this
morning at desert springs, has to do
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with the promise of the Righteous Branch
from Jeremiah twenty three, versus five and
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six. Behold, the days are
coming, declares the Lord, when I
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will raise up for David a righteous
branch, and he shall reign as King
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and deal wisely and shall execute justice
and righteousness in the land. In his
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days, Judah will be saved and
Israel will jewell securely, and this is
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the name by which he will be
called. The Lord is our righteousness,
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and from Isaiah seven, verse fourteen, therefore, the Lord himself will give
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you a sign. Behold, the
Virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
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and you shall call his name Emanuel. Then Isaiah nine, six and seven,
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for to us a child is born, to us a son is given,
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and the government shall be upon his
shoulder, and his name shall be
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called wonderful counselor mighty God, everlasting
father, Prince of peace, of the
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increase of his government and of peace. There shall be no end on the
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throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it
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with justice and with righteousness. From
this time forth and forevermore, the zeal
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of the Lord of hosts will do
this. Let's respond by seeing angels.
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We have heard on high number two
hundred and fourteen please be seated. Let's
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turned to Luke Chapter One. Not
sure why I have is Zekiel. There,
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verses twenty six through thirty eight.
In the sixth month, the Angel
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Gabriel was sent from God to a
city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a
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virgin betrothed to a man whose name
was Joseph of the House of David,
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and the Virgin's name was Mary,
and he came to her and said Greetings,
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Oh favored one, the Lord is
with you. But she was greatly
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troubled at the saying and try to
discern what sort of greeting this might be.
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And the Angel said to her,
do not be afraid, Mary,
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for you have found favor with God
and behold, you will conceive in your
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room and bear a son and you
shall call his name Jesus. He will
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be great, it will be called
the son of the most high, and
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the Lord God will give him the
throne of his father David, and he
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will reign over the house of J
Goup before ever, and of his kingdom
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there will be no end. And
Mary said to the angel, how will
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this be, since I am a
virgin? The Angel answered her, the
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Holy Spirit will come upon you and
the power of the most high will overshout,
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overshadow you. Therefore, the child
to be born will be called Holy,
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the son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth, in her
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old age, has also conceived a
son, and this is the sixth month
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with her, who was called Baron. For nothing will be impossible with God.
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And Mary said, behold, I
am the servant of the Lord.
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Let it be to me according to
your word. And the angel departed from
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her. Please stand as you're able. What child is this? Him Number
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two hundred and thirteen. Please be
seated. Matters not whether you are peasant
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or king or anything in between,
but as we sang, what matters is
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that we recognize our sin and our
need for one to rescue us, and
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Jesus has come to do just that, to rescue sinners. Luke, chapter
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one versus forty six through fifty five. Context is he has. She is
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gone to see her relative, Elizabeth, who blessed her and broke out in
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song. And now Mary responds.
And Mary said, my soul magnifies the
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lord and my spirit rejoices in God, my savior, for he has looked
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on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on,
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all generations will call me blessed,
for he who is mighty has done great
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things for me, and holy is
his name and His mercy is for those
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who fear him. From generation to
generation, he has shown the strength of
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his arm. He has scattered the
proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
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He is brought down the mighty from
their thrones and exalted those of humble the
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state. He has filled the hungry
with good things, and the rich he
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has sent away empty. He has
helped his servant, Israel, in remembrance
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of His mercy, as he spoke
to our fathers, to Abraham and to
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his offspring forever. Let's pray.
Father. We've heard many of these verses
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which talk about your plan of salvation, which is not about us doing things,
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but it is about what you have
done for us. In Jesus Christ,
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this son of David, who reigns
forever but yet came to a humble
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virgin, who was born in a
humble stable, who lived as the humble
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son of a carpenter by the name
of Joseph. Help us to be awe
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struck at this confounding thing that you
have done, this man who would keep
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your law perfectly this man who would
lay down his life for people who hated
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him. As Christopher comes to bring
your word, may you indeed open our
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ears, I may you indeed open
our minds and shine your light into them.
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May you indeed open our hearts that
we may love these truths and so
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be saved in Christ's name. Amen. One of the most important books that
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has ever been written about the incarnation
of the son of God, as written,
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was written by a fourth century Christian
from Egypt named Athanaceus, and the
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title of that book is called,
unsurprisingly, on the incarnation. The thing
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I want to draw your attention to
from that book is something Athenatious says in
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chapter six. He said that not
believing in the incarnation, in the life,
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in the death and the resurrection of
Jesus, said of Jesus it makes
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no sense if you claim to believe
the scriptures, because, as he puts
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it, from cover to cover the
inspired book clearly teaches these things both in
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its entirety and in its actual words, and we've seen that here tonight,
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beginning with the promise in genesis three, and he shall bruise your head,
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as he speaks to the serpent.
In all in that we all might hear
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all the way up to his words
to marry and beyond. Of course,
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you don't have to take Athanasius's words
for it, because Jesus says the same
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thing himself. You might remember that
after his resurrection, he appears to two
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men walking along the road to disappointed
disciples, leaving Jerusalem, going to another
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village, walking away from the action, having this conversation among themselves. What
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is this conversation you are holding,
Jesus says, what is this conversation that
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you are holding with each other as
you walk? This is in Luke Twenty
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Four. And they stood still,
these two men after the resurrection of Christ,
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Looking Sad. They explained the situation
to Jesus. They explained that over
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the last three days, things had
gone wrong. Everything that they were hoping
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for, everything that they were waiting
for. This great long expected Jesus,
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or some Messiah, seems to have
not turned out to be the messiah quote,
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but we had hoped that he was
the one to redeem Israel. Yes,
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and besides all this, it is
now the third day since these things
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have happened. Do you want to
know what Jesus's response was to these men,
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the resurrected incarnate Jesus's response was to
these two men, he said to
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them, look, twenty four,
hundred and twenty five, all foolish ones
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and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken. Was it
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not necessary that the Christ should suffer
these things and enter into his glory?
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And, beginning with Moses and all
the prophets, he interpreted to them in
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all the scriptures, the things concerning
himself? What a Bible lesson that must
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have been, and I hope that
you have seen this and even experience the
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truth of this yourself tonight, as
you hear the promises made of concerning the
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Messiah from the very beginning, through
the scriptures, through the law, through
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the offits in the psalms all the
way into the New Testament. As we
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read these different passages of scripture,
you see that the incarnation, though surprising
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and startling to us all in some
way, should never have been the miraculous
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power of God had been present from
the very beginning when to those whom he
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said you shall surely die because of
your sin, he promised life, he
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promised victory over the one that sought
to separate them. From God and you
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shall bruise his head. From cover
to cover. From Moses to the prophets,
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the scriptures are filled with news about
Jesus, and they tell us about
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him. They tell us about the
victory he brings, the whole he brings.
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They tell us that forgiveness for of
sins is possible through him, that
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all that fell apart there at the
beginning. God promises to bring together at
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the end, and in some ways
we are still waiting for that end.
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It's true, we have sorrows,
we have sins, we find ourselves experiencing
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all kinds of difficulties. Maybe some
of you are even afraid of the things
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coming in the new year. We
are still waiting for every everything to be
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set right. But these promises,
though, they certainly created us an expectation
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for an everlasting kingdom that will have
no end and will be perfect in every
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way, and we will be protected
in every way by King Jesus. I
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want you to know tonight that the
coming of Christ is not just at the
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end, it's not just ahead of
us. It's something that has already begun.
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Christ has come, the coming has
begun. He said this. To
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marry and you will conceive in your
womb and bear a son, and you
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shall call his name Jesus. He
will be great and he will be the
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son of the most high, and
the Lord God will give to him the
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throne of his father David, and
he will reign over the House of Jacob
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forever and his kingdom and of his
kingdom. There will be no end,
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no end. The bruising of Satan's
head that was promised to eve is promised
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to end in a final crush when
Jesus comes. And this is what we
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are waiting for or but we don't
wait as people who are just sort of
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throwing out something into the darkness hoping
that something will come back to us.
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No, we wait on the word
of God that has been spoken again and
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again and again and again, a
word that is untrue or true, a
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word that is reliable in every aspect
of it, a word that holds together
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perfectly and solidly in every way.
How can you know? Because the Christ
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has been born. For, unto
us, a son is given and the
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government shall be upon his shoulder and
his name shall be called wonderful counselor mighty
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God, everlasting father, Prince of
peace, the zeal of the Lord of
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hosts, has done this when a
virgin conceived by the overshadowing power of the
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Holy Spirit and gave birth to Jesus, the salvation of the world. Our
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next hymn is all about this.
Come Thou long expected Jesus. It's a
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Christmas Carol which reflects on the waiting
of the people of God. Throughout the
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century. He's year after year,
trusting in one thing, the word of
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God, waiting for all things to
be made right through this offspring. But
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it's also a carol in which we
express our desire that what has begun in
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him will be completed in him.
As you sing tonight and as you leave
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tonight, make sure that you know
him, that you hope in him,
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that you long in him, because
here, in him, is the only
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salvation of the world, and all
by the power and the mighty grace of
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God. Praise be to his name. Amen, would you stand with me
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and respond to our Lord by singing
come thou long expected Jesus, Him one
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hundred and ninety six. Let us
pray. Father. We live in an
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age of fear. Every day we
hear on the news, on the Internet,
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around the water cooler anyway, and
a number of other places cause to
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fear, whether true fear or false
fear, we know not. We only
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hear things that make us fear.
We need release. Jesus has said,
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come to me weary and heavy Laden
and I will give you rest. And
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Father, I know that there are
many here this evening that are weary and
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heavy laden. They're weary from the
demands that they place upon themselves. They're
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weary from the demands that others may
place on them. They're weary from always
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trying to put on the best face
possible. They're weary from carrying the weight
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of the world upon their shoulders,
which they were never intended to do.
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The same Jesus, in the same
place, said that invited those weary people
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to find rest and to take his
light yoke upon them. We think,
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you that it is light because Jay's
Jesus has borne the brunt of it all,
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that he didn't come to be in
a palace and be waited upon hand
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and foot, but he came to
die that he might set us free.
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And so we ask that your Holy
Spirit would convince us of this, so
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that we would be released of those
spears that we still cling to, that
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we would be set free from those
doubts that enslave us, so that we
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would be filled with praise and Thanksgiving, so that we would be ones who
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are speaking of hope instead of fear, that we would be ones who share
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this longing with others, so that
they might long with us for the return
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of the Glorious King, for the
return of the Gentle Shepherd, for the
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return of our great high priest,
who has endured temptation in every way,
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just like us, and yet sinned. Not. Help us to long,
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help us to wait, help us
to rest. We asked this in Christ's
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name. Amen, a silent night, holy night him. Number two,
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hundred and ten. You come from
a family of warriors and unfortunately my daughter
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has it too, and yesterday we
had to do something and she had built
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up this great fear in her heart
and in her head, and those are
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the moments we need to remember,
passages like this, where we speak the
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truth to ourselves, so that we
can stop our foolish fearfulness and remember that
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there is one who is great,
who is for us and not against us,
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and so receive this Benediction, which
is one of my favorite. May
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the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing, so
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that, by the power of the
Holy Spirit, you may abound and hope.
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Amen.
