Advent 2024 - Hope

Great Truths:

Salvation is open to Gentiles.

God has made known the mystery of salvation.

Christ indwells us.

We have hope of eternal life.

Why Can We Have Hope in Jesus?

He is the prophesied one.

Genesis 3:15 “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.””

Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

He was the only one qualified to be our savior.

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

He is the one who died for our sins.

Romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

He rose from the grave.

1 Corinthians 15:20–22 “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”

He offers salvation to us.

John 3:16 ““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Ephesians 2:8–9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”