Advent: Whats Love Got to do with it!

Today we celebrate the Birth of The King of Kings.

Who will return

Establish His Kingdom

Bring Prosperity - Justice - and Peace

Point: Brings Hope things are going to get better

We Celebrate the Birth of the Savior!

The one who came to die

To be crucified

Suffer and die

So our Sins can be Forgiven.

So we can be full of The Holy Spirit

So we can have “Hope that things will get better!

So we can have Peace with God!

So we can be His Children!

Provided For

Philippians 4:19 NIV84

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 22:26 NIV84

The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise him— may your hearts live forever!

Psalm 34:10 NIV84

The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Matthew 7:11 NIV84

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Protected

Isaiah 41:10 NIV84

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 NIV84

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

Psalm 12:5 NIV84

“Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”

Psalm 46:1 NIV84

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

Psalm 59:1 NIV84

Deliver me from my enemies, O God; protect me from those who rise up against me.

Receive and inheritance

1 Peter 1:3–4 NIV84

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you,

2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV84

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Its all a Gift from God

Ephesians 2:8 NIV84

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

The Greatest Gift Ever

1. Its free

The best gifts cost you nothing, Someone else pays

He paid the price

The debt

Illustration: Paid my credit card bill. Make sure you get a receipt

Illustration: Gift cards always cost

Point: Christ paid it all

Point: You don't have to make payments

2. Motivated By His Love!

How do you define Gods love?

Love can be confusing

Love all kinds of things

Jenan how much she loves me

How much I LOVE HER

Marvin: Beverly's cake, How much I love that cake.

Unconditional good will towards that he or she is willing to passionately and righteously bring about that Good will

How do you describe Gods love?

Example:

Adam was lonely and God gave him Eve

Adam has fallen from grace and God promises a solution

Noah: Lost wicked world.

Needs to save it. Floods it.

Promise to never do it again

Rainbow: I told you it would stop

CROSS: I told you I would fix it.

I Told you It would get better

I Told you I love you.