The Coming Promise

11-28-2021

Messianic Prophecy

This morning we will begin our Christmas Series

I know we just finished Thanksgiving and we do have a lot to be thankful for and most importantly we have a Messiah to be thankful for

Messiah is a church term for The Savior

Know we know that the Savior is Jesus Christ and we are going to celebrate his birth in about a month

This morning as we start to build up to the Birth of the Savior

I want us to look back on some things to see Christ

Jeremiah 23:5–6 NASB95

5 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. 6 “In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, ‘The Lord our righteousness.’

When we think of this verse we see the promise that Judah will be saved

The coming messiah is coming to save us

This is what the promise is all about that one day Judah will be saved

They were a lost people, we are and were a lost people

This coming promise was what everyone was so excited for

They were looking for someone to come in on a white horse and save them from the Romans

They were looking for salvation

I think we are looking for a savior in all the wrong places just like the Hebrews were

They were looking for a savior in all the wrong places and to do all the wrong things

We would like a savior to come and think just like us, and to everything we want, and take away all that we think is bad and make everything easier

They were looking forward to the coming Messiah because it was something they had waited for

Isaiah 61:1–3 NASB95

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners; 2 To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, 3 To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

The coming Messiah has a message for the world

Church the message has not changed it is still the same as it was when this was written as it was when Jesus said it

The purpose of the coming savior was to bring freedom

Not in the sense that you and I think of freedom living in a county or being in prison but true freedom that Scripture talks about

The purpose of the coming messiah was to seek out those who were lost

Matthew 18:11–14 NASB95

11 “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. 12 “What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? 13 “If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 14 “So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Jesus has come to seek out those who were lost

We all know the feeling of finding something that is lost

We all know that no one looks for things that are not lost

Jesus did not come to help the righteous or to seek out the righteous

Jesus came only to seek out the Lost and to save the lost

He did not come to find those who were not lost or to save those who did not need saving

This was the purpose of the coming Messiah

2 Corinthians 5:18–19 NASB95

18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

The purpose of the coming messiah was to reconcile us to God

to Save Judah

so that Israel will be able to dwell securely

That was the purpose of the coming messiah but before he could accomplish all that he had to reconcile us to himself through Christ

We had to be right with God

It was something that you and I could not do

It was something that the national of Israel could not do

No matter how hard you work at being good it will never accomplish being reconciled to God

No matter how much the nation of Israel repenting and trusted in Jesus it would never accomplish completely the reconciliation to God

It is only because of the grace of God that reconciliation happens through Christ

That was the purpose of the coming messiah

That was the fulfillment of the promised one

2 Corinthians 5:20–21 NASB95

20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Because of the grace of God he fulfilled the promise he made so long ago to save Judah, to allow Israel to dwell securely

God made Jesus who was sinless and perfect in eery way to take on thew worlds sin

The thing that separated us from God

The thing that made it impossible to be reconciled to God

God sent Jesus to take that on

Because sin leads to death Jesus died

This was the fulfillment of the promise

Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead

And because of that we can not be reconciled to God through Christ

We can now be saved the fulfillment of the promise in Jeremiah

We can now dwell safely the fulfillment of the promise in Jeremiah

This was the coming promise that so excited everyone some 200 years about about the coming Christ

Praise the Lord church

This was the purpose of the coming promise that we read about through the old testament

We will move into a time of invitation

As the band comes up

I want to invite you to the front if you are here today and do not know Jesus

Because of the grace of God in sending Jesus to be sin in our place we can have freedom and peace and life

You can leave this building this morning because of the grace of God this morning in sending Jesus to fulfill the promise made so long ago

or maybe you already have a personal relationship with Jesus this morning and simply need to spend time with Jesus in prayer al the alter

the altar is open