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Discovering the Light of Christmas Hope
*Discover the light of Christmas hope by…*
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Embracing the reality of God’s prophecies*
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/Simeon was there.
He took the child in his arms and praised God, saying, /
/“Lord, now I can die in peace!
As you promised me, I have seen the Savior you have given to all people.
He is a light to reveal God to the nations, and he is the glory of your people Israel!" /
/Luke 2:28-32 NLT/
/The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.
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/Isa 9:2 NIV/
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/For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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/Isa 9:6 NIV/
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Experiencing the reality of God’s power*
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/There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.
She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.
She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.
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/LK 2:36-38 NIV/ \\ \\
/May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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/Rom 15:13 NIV/
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Expecting the reality of God’s promises *
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/Now there was a man named Simeon who lived in Jerusalem.
He was a righteous man and very devout.
He was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he eagerly expected the Messiah to come and rescue Israel./
/Luke 2:25 NLT/
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*Verse to Remember:* May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:13 NIV
*Question to consider: *Have you trusted in the God of hope?
\\ *Show Narnia super trailer*
Intro:
As you watched this extended trailer of the LWW, it reminds us of the movie…many of us saw Friday night.
As you watched the trailer and the movie…What was one thing that you felt?
Allow several to give answers…
As you step into the story and look beneath the surface…
…One thing we feel is…hope!!
In this story, set against a dark, frozen backdrop…we find the most amazing thing…hope.
Againt the backdrop of the dark days of WW II, C.S. Lewis writes this story about a fantasy land called Narnia.
In /The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe/ Narnia is in bondage and held captive under the spell of the evil White Witch.
Because of her spell, it is “always winter and never Christmas.”
This describes the way some of us feel.
Some of you feel this Christmas could be …the most difficult, discouraging, dark and dreary Christmas ever….because of family, job, finances, your uncertain future…
Some of you feel hopeless.
Someone has said, /“We can live forty days without food, eight days without water, four minutes without air, but only a few seconds without hope.”/
*Without hope, something inside of all of us dies….*
That is why a lot of people are walking around dead on the inside…because of a lack of hope.
What is hope?
Webster defines hope, /“to desire with expectation of fulfillment.”/
To hope is to anticipate.
It is more than dreaming, however.
It is possessing within ourselves an expectation that someday there will be the fulfillment of that desire.
It will become a reality.
Hope always looks to the future, it’s always on tiptoes…It keeps us going.
It makes a dismal today bearable because it promises a brighter tomorrow.
*Without hope, something inside of all of us dies….*
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness.
Think of your three best friends.
If they're okay, then it's you.
We /all/ struggle with feelings of hopelessness for time to time.
How can we find hope?
Christmas is a season of hope.
Lucy and Narnia needed hope…and so do we…
This morning we are going to look at
How can we Discover the light of Christmas hope…
The ironic thing is that C.S. Lewis uses fantasy to point us to reality.
We need to get in touch with reality.
I want to put the spotlight on 3 realities…to help us discover or rediscover the light of Christmas hope.
We are oblivious to the realities and sometimes just forget them.
How?
*Discover the light of Christmas hope by…*
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Embracing the reality of God’s prophecy *
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*Read movie story book…*
In the /LWW/, Edmund falls under the Witch’s spell.
He gives in to pride, selfishness, and greed.
He becomes a traitor, and he must pay the penalty with his life.
The only hope for Edmund and Narnia is the Great Lion, Aslan - the Lord of the Wood, the King of Beasts, the Son of the great Emperor-Beyond-The Sea.
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and Mrs. Beaver point out this prophesy concerning Aslan to the Pevensie children.
Mr.
and Mrs. Beavers encourage the children that there is hope…as they remind the children of an ancient prophecy.
(Share prophecy from LWW show on screen)
/“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,/
/At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,/
/When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,/
/And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”/
/LWW, p. 80/
And…
/“When Adam’s flesh and Adam’s bone sits at Cair Paravel in throne,/
/The evil time will be over and done.”/
/LWW, p. 82/
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It was important for Mr and Mrs. Beaver to share these prophecies to Lucy and her siblings.
Why?
They needed hope.
We need hope!
We are all in the same situation as Edmund, and our only hope is in Someone greater than ourselves who will save us from ourselves and from eternal death.
Like Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, Simeon shouts to us…*there is hope!*
Simeon reminds us of our hope in Lk 2.
Simeon was a man who loved God very much, so much so that God let him see and hold what he had hoped for for many years…the great light of the world.
When Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the Temple to present him to the Lord (v.22), Simeon was there—having been *led* by the *Spirit* to be at the Temple on that particular day.
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