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Longing for the King
DO we yearn enough?
What do you pine for?
Yearn for?
DO we yearn enough?
DO we yearn enough?
Clay when we’re leaving: NO Babysitter!
Desire for us to stay, but once we’re gone I don’t think he thinks twice.
Pictures of longing
Picture of ‘The Shot’
Wanting your faces to leave with this kind of expression...
Pregnant
Longing for the King
Question: How can I get people to understand how important it is to yearn for the King’s arrival?
How can I get the to look like this?
Or to cry like Clay?
Or to have that depth of yearning?
How?
To do that, we need to understand our need for the King
Giving up Hope
The Neediness of a Hopeless People
: They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry.
And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
22 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish.
And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry.
And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
22 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish.
And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
Distressed, hungry, enraged, curse king and God, distress, darkness, gloom… And they will be thrust into THICK darkness
Expecting God to intervene just let to them down a downward spiral of dark.
This is what ‘giving up on hope’ looks like
This is the opposite picture of longing.
“Waiting is the Hardest Work of hope” Lewis Smedes
Pictures of despair
Pictures of despair
: Hope Crashes into the Scene
: The people who walked in darkness
Isaiah 9:2: The people who walked in darkness
2 The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
on them has light shone.
God
HOPE! HOPE! HOPE!
God multiplied the nation’s boundaries
Increased their joy
increased their joy
Saved them from Exile
Stopped the war
6 For to us a child is born,
Verse 6:
6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and of peace
there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Victory Day has come!
Christmas Day: Hope Crashes into the Scene
Baby Jesus is born.
How does this government operate?
How will people from the darkness begin to see this great light?
How does God multiply the nation with joy and save his people from slavery?
Yearners Come from their Neediness
Deserted
Shepherds: Outcasts: Crooks and outlaws, testimony in court was worthless
Outcasts: Crooks and outlaws, testimony in court was worthless
Shepherds: Outcasts: Crooks and outlaws, testimony in court was worthless
Shepherds: Outcasts: Crooks and outlaws, testimony in court was worthless
And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.
17 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.
18 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.
Devoid
Simeon and Anna: Waiting for the consolation and redemption of Israel
Waiting for the consolation and redemption of Israel
: And it had been reveled to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
16 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.
17 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.
18 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.
29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;
according to your word;
30 for my eyes have seen your salvation 31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
and for glory to your people Israel.”
Different and Distant
Magi: : “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?”
Magi: Matthew 2: Outsiders
“Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?”
And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him.
Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
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