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Good morning NCF!
I am so, glad you were able to be here today as we celebrate and worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
For any first time visitors, we would like to give you a gift after service.
In the bulletin you were given on the back page is a tear off and it is titled Connection Card.
If you would fill that out for us and take it back to the connection table at the end of the service someone, will be back there to give you a gift from us all.
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Man, I am so excited!
Do you know what today is?
It is the first day of Advent.
And I have to tell you this season and Resurrection Sunday are my two favorite Holidays.
Now I used to not like Christmas at all.
I honestly get disgusted at how commercialized it is and how little attention is given to Jesus.
I honestly dreaded Christmas.
But then, I discovered Advent.
Advent is the Latin word which means coming and it is a season in the Christian Calendar that starts on the 4th Sunday before Nativity or as we often call it Christmas.
Advent celebrates the three comings of Jesus.
The first coming of Jesus in the flesh.
The coming of Jesus in our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
And the anticipation of the Return of Jesus to set all things to right.
During the 4 weeks 4 candles are lit.
Each candle represents a work of Grace in the life of a believer thanks to the Birth and the Return of Jesus.
Hope -
Peace -
Joy -
Love -
The Center candle - the White one represents the Light of Christ for all man kind.
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Today we celebrate in the Hope that is found only in Jesus!
Now when I say hope, I do not mean the wish upon a star kind of hope.
Biblical Hope is not a childish fantasy but, rather a Joyful expectation rooted in the character and nature of God.
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We live in a time where many have no hope.
From wars, and famine across the world, to divorce and broken families.
Hope has been lost.
One of Job’s friends said it best
We live in a godless time and the hopelessness of our world shows it.
But what is sadder than a hopeless world is a hopeless Church.
People of God, who have forgotten who God is.
People of God who have looked to other things as their source of hope and have been let down.
Today I want to share with you the Hope we have in Jesus.
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Hopelessness is not new to humanity and it was not uncommon for the ancient people of God to fall prey to it as well.
So God spoke through His prophets Hope filled promises to give them an anchor for their souls.
The Promised Hope to Israel -
Turn with me to
Isa
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A shoot from a stump.
God promises new life and hope will grow from the remains of what was lost and dead.
This is how God works, where there seems to be no life, no future, God births Hope.
Isn’t that just like God in our lives.
And it is in that world, in that fallen Kingdom new life, a promise of Hope rises.
Isn’t that just like God in our lives.
Maybe you feel hopeless today.
Maybe you do not see a good and bright future.
Rest assured, it is in these kind of times, that God loves to give birth to a new hope.
Maybe you feel alone, financially broke, sickness, death of a loved one, depressed.
Hold on, because God loves to birth Hope in the midst of our ashes.
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The prophet saw into the future a world that had lost all hope, a world in which it’s Kingdom had been chopped down.
And God speaks into that world, into that fallen Kingdom new life, and a promise of Hope.
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The loss of hope in Israel
Israel too had lost hope!
Their Kingdom had been taken over.
The prophetic voice of Heaven had been missing for four hundred years.
Had God left them, did He pack up and move away.
Was he even real?
Where are you God and why have you abounded us?
Maybe you feel this way?
How often do we today ask these same questions.
Maybe you have experienced major loss
And it feels like no one is home when you pray.
Or at least it feels like He is ignoring you.
Remember that prophecy in Isa.
Out of the stump, hope will rise.
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In the midst of a broken Kingdom and lost dreams:
Stood one young woman pregnant with Hope for the world.
Luke 1:
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I love this song of Mary.
It is so full of Hope.
Hope for a new kind of world
Hope for the forgotten
Hope for the poor and fragile
Hope That God would fulfill His promises to Abraham and His decedents.
Justice based on the righteousness of God.
When the world around this young woman was spinning out of control, she was pregnant with Hope.
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Advent Brings Us Hope As Well
Our Hope is restored in the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Like Mary our hope is restored through Jesus.
Hope that we have been forgiven and have a new relationship with God –
Hope that God will never leave us or forsake us –
Romans 8:
Hope that we have the first fruits of a new world living in us and amongst us.
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Eph 1:13-14
Hope that we have the first fruits of a new world living in us and amongst us.
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But here is the best news!
Our Hope Does Not End With Jesus Returning To Heaven!
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Our Great hope is in the Return of Jesus.
The Second Advent
Advent reminds us that our hope is sure.
Advent reminds us that God fulfilled His promise to Israel and the world by sending Jesus into this world as a child.
And that God will fulfill His promise by sending Jesus again, to set all things to right.
The season of Advent gives us Hope:
not in the gifts or lights, not in the trees or carols but rather it points us to the Historical first Advent and gives us a sure hope in our Kings return.
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Advent reminds us that God is going to set the world to right.
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