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Today we celebrate the First, day of Advent.
The word Advent means "coming" or "arrival."
The focus of the entire season is preparation to celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ in his First Advent, and the anticipation of the return of Christ the King in his Second Advent.
Thus, Advent is far more than simply marking a 2,000 year old event in history.
Advent is the season we remember the birth of Jesus and anticipate the return of the King of Kings.
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Now Christmas is just around the corner!
Malls will be busy with frantic shoppers; sappy Christmas shows from the Hallmark channel will cover the airways.
Parents will pretend to send Christmas wish lists to Santa and kids will impatiently wait for that fabulous day.
Mistletoe will be hung in anticipation of love being sealed with a kiss, and presents will be hid out of sight from the curious kids.
Christmas!
It is perfect isn’t it?
Well for some it is not perfect.
Many people dread this season.
Single parents are worried if they will be able to afford the simplest gifts much less keep up with the neighbors.
till others will be spending their first Christmas without a loved one.
Financial troubles, lost loved ones, divorce, and the list could go on and on.
The dream of the perfect family celebrating Christmas around the beautiful Christmas tree collapses with mental disease, drug addiction and loss.
Christmas can often make us feel hopeless.
Today, I want to share with you how the season of Advent has the potential to raise your view from your daily sufferings into the realm of HOPE.
Because In Christ We Have Hope!
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Turn with me to
In the first Advent God revealed himself in Jesus whereby all humanity might be reconciled to God.
In the First, Advent Jesus revealed the true nature of God
God
God is the God of the impossible
(Out of the stump new life.)
What may seem like an impossible situation to you, to God it is possible.
In Christ We have hope!
God is the God of the forgotten and exploited.
When you feel forgotten, or when it feels like you are being exploited remember God is with you and for you.
In Christ we have hope.
God identifies with the weak and the outcasts.
(Born on the other side of the tracks.
Born in poverty and in the helplessness of a child.)
In Christ we have hope.
God loves us.
(Jesus was God with us and He came on behalf of God for us.)
God is for you and he loves you, even when it feels like the world is against you.
In Christ We have hope!
In the First, Advent Jesus made it possible for all creation to be Reconciled to God.
(2 cor 5)
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But Advent takes on a different nature than just remembering.
Advent calls us to look forward.
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But Advent takes on a different nature than just remembering.
Mary was full of hope that the true nature of God to the weak and the least would be manifested in the babe she was carrying.
Her hope was in a new kind of relationship between the people of God and their God.
A relationship of love and true justice, of care and hope.
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But Advent takes on a different nature than just remembering.
Advent is also about Hopeful Anticipation.
Isa 11:4-
Just as Isa saw into the first Advent, he also saw into the second Advent.
He saw a day, when the world would be set to right.
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I know this next Scripture may seem odd for an Advent reading but I want you to hear why we should be hopeful.
Let me share with you why even in the worst of times we, the children of God should be Hopeful!
Today's sufferings do not compare to the Glory God will reveal to us and in us.
Our bodies will be released from sin and suffering.
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Paul says that today's sufferings do not compare to what God has in store for His children.
Do, you have hope like that?
Are you zeroed in on that great day and full of hope?
Or, are you so focused on your troubles today that, you cannot even lift your head and see what God has for you?
Paul says, that the hope in which we were saved is the full and total redemption of our bodies.
No more mental illness
No more cancer
No more death
No more uncontrolled sin
Total and full redemption.
YOU SEE HOPE IS PROPHETIC –
Hope reaches into the future and lays hold of God’s plan.
Hope is the joyful expectation, that God will complete His work, in you, in our loved ones, in our world.
Hope is not wishing, hope is the Joyful expectation.
Paul was so, hopeful that he refused to speak of this hope in the future tense and instead spoke of it as if it already was.
Do you see that?
Do you see that?
Those he predestined he called, those he called, he justified, and those he justified he also Glorified.
Those he predestined he called, those he called, he justified, and those he justified he also Glorified.
Hope is prophetic –
Hope is living in the joy of God’s future for us during our current sufferings.
Hope is living in the joy of God’s future for us during our current sufferings.
Hope is seeing the future as clearly as we see the present.
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Advent is not just about remembering the birth of Jesus
Advent is also about the Hopeful anticipation of the return of Jesus, the second, advent.
(Our Great Hope Scripture.)
Advent is about remembering Jesus came to bring salvation to all people.
Advent is about remembering Jesus has instructed us to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures.
Advent is about remembering how we are to live with wisdom, righteousness and devotion to God.
But Advent is also about looking forward with Hope to that great day when Jesus returns.
And it is when we take our eyes off our suffering and in hopeful anticipation look forward, that we can agree with Paul.
That the sufferings of today do not compare to the glory that will be revealed in us.
In Jesus we have HOPE!
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You may be going through hell right now.
You may be going through hell right now.
Financial troubles.
The loss of a loved one.
You may be living in a time where your children are not what you had hoped for.
Maybe life right now is just messed up and you are not where you thought you would be.
Allow me to share with you our great HOPE!
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You see my dad died recently.
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