Expectation of Hope
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Advent Sunday 1
Expectation of Hope
This morning we will begin our advent season
Advent is defined as something has finally arrived
This morning we begin our advent season of the coming Christ
This particular advent Sunday is the expectation of Hope
14 ‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 15 ‘In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.
God is faithful to follow through with His Promises
It would have been cool to come up with different instances through out scripture of God being faithful to follow through with His promises
But that would have taken up the entire Bible
This book is full of God following through with His promises
When Jeremiah wrote this the nation was still waiting for a savior
14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
God gives the word to Isaiah that He will bring forth a savior through a virgin and his name will actually mean God with US!
Can you image how exciting that would have been
How much hope there was for this savior to be born
Except they missed the savior
They were looking for a physical savior from the rule of human kings
There was so much hope for this coming savior to physically save them from the rule of evil kings
They must have missed the name Immanuel
God with us
That God was going to actually dwell with us his chosen people
They had placed there hope in the physically saving rather than the eternal saving
26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” 29 But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was. 30 The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. 31 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. 32 “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; 33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.”
God is fulling His promise of great things
The promise of a savior from the beginning of time
He told Isaiah that He would bring a savior through a virgin
In Luke God send the angel to tell the virgin of the coming savior through her
Can you almost feel the excitement of the coming savior
What hope there is in the savior
God is faithful to fulfill His promises
We can see through scripture and particularly through the Story of Hope
You know the rest of the story of the coming Hope
Jesus is born in a manager because there was no rooms
Our Hope came to dwell among us
Then Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sin
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Our Hope is in the blood of Christ
The blood of Christ covers you and I and makes us presentable to God
Because Jesus died on the cross we can stand before God just as if you and I had never sinned
This was His promise so long ago
As we light the candle of the Expectation of Hope
our Hope is in Jesus
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
our Hope Church is the resurrection of Christ and that when He comes back He will take us His Children with us
the inheritance that Peter is talking about is the salvation of our souls
An eternity with God in heaven
I think we put hope in a lot of different things
Maybe some of us put hope in our bank account
Or maybe you put your hope in your own ability
I can do things myself or take of things myself and you tell God you don’t need to get involved unless I ask you
Or maybe you put your hope in your spouse
Maybe its your education
I hope this education gets me a better job so that I can get more money so that I don’t have to worry as much and I can hope that my bank account will take of things
Just like the nation of Israel we need to stop putting our hope in all this other stuff
We need to start to put our hope in the One True Hope
Emmanuel
God with us is our only Hope
That is what the nation was so excited for a savior
16 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
We should be excited for the coming savior because He is coming back
Jesus is coming Back!!
Church that should excite us this morning that our Hope will return and soon!!
We can be exited this morning because our Hope is going to return and take us with Him for eternity
We as believers in Jesus can have hope this morning right now even in the midst of a hopeless world
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Our Hope Jesus will come a second time and will take up those who are sons and daughter of God
Jesus has already come to deal with sin the next time he will come and take those who belong to Him
This is our hope church
As we move into a time of invitation
The altar is open
The altar is open for those who are here and do not have a personal relationship with Christ
We want to invite you to the front and introduce you to Hope this morning
Or maybe you are here and simply need to spend sometime in prayer at the altar
The altar is open