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The 4 stages of life:
• 1.
You believe in Santa Claus
• 2.
You don't believe in Santa Claus
• 3.
You dress up as Santa Claus
• 4.
You look like Santa Claus
• So, Christmas is upon us....again.
• I think you're all aware of this fact.
• Every year, we know it gets bigger and bigger.
• Every year, we start decorating our houses a little earlier...
• Every year, we start hearing Christmas music on the radio earlier and earlier...
• And every year, we start seeing Christmas sales in the stores earlier and earlier...
AND EVERY YEAR we keep saying these saying SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN - because we can’t help but do these things.
US Retail Industry Sales - by 2020 - ($5.5 Trillion)
And of that number - about $783 Billion was from Holiday Retail Sales
• And so - NEEDLESS to SAY - I don't think it's a surprise that Xmas has become this man-centered THING!
• Of course that doesn't apply to everyone...
• BUT in general, yes we see that this is the case.
(Mankind has - HIJACKED Christmas)
• Over the years, we've seen this thing called Christmas (the American Christmas) gain prominence...
• It's become it's own INDUSTRY...
• And I think you'd all agree that come January 1st of each year, all eyes begin looking over the horizon to see the next Christmas coming!
• Throughout the year, we see THE build up...
• ...ALL of which points to DECEMBER 25th
• We've been watching TV in June and have seen commercials that get us thinking about Christmas...
• THAT'S no accident...
• No coincidence...
• All year THIS year...we've been exposed to ADVERTISING Road Signs that point to Christmas 2022.
• And it works!
- RIGHT?
• We heard the numbers!
• And EVERY year - those numbers - climbing higher and higher.
• What I want to do today is this:
• I'd like to look at some of the Biblical Road Signs that pointed to the Coming Messiah - Christ
• And so to do this, as you could guess, we'll be looking at the OT...to see what those Road Signs said...
• We read this from Scripture and right away we might think "Christmas"...
• The birth of Jesus!
• Baby in a Manger....
• Nativity scene...
• Isn't this what we see every year?
• Jesus...a helpless babe!
• Every year the world drives by and sees Jesus...the baby.
• Next year...Jesus...the baby
• Does the world even know?
• Have we forgotten?
• ...His name shall be called - Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace...
That was - GOD in a MANGER!
• It seems that we (the world) can handle Jesus the helpless baby...
• BUT can't AT ALL handle Jesus as Mighty God...
• Everlasting Father...
• Prince of Peace...
• It seems we can handle Jesus in a manger, but not as Reigning King!
• Oh but we need to...
• the WORLD NEEDS to...
• And this NEED came about in the very beginning!
• Before sin came into the world...mankind (male and female) lived in perfect relationship with God...BUT NOT ONLY THAT – WITH EACH OTHER
• Yes, they were naked...
• But their satisfaction wasn't grounded in their OWN appearance...
• and their DESIRE wasn't grounded in the OTHER's appearance...
• Their satisfaction was rooted in God and His presence...
• Their desire for God and God alone!
But now?
• Sin comes...and eyes shift...
• Satisfaction becomes rooted in ones OWN appearance (resulting in SHAME - verse 10)
• and DESIRE becomes rooted in the others appearance.
• No longer in perfect relationship with God...NO LONGER in perfect relationship with each other…
• No longer satisfied in HIM
• No longer desiring HIM...
• Mankind is CUT OFF...
• NO HOPE?
• In verse 6 of Chapter 3, sin separates man from God...
• 9 verses later...
• in verse 15...
• We see the first ROAD SIGN pointing to Jesus Christ.
• If you remember BACK when we discussed Abraham and the promises of the covenant...
• ...and how Galatians tells us that those promises were made to Abraham and his offspring...
• his TRUE offspring - [Jesus]
• That [Jesus] is the TRUE offspring of Abraham...
• That's what this verse is referring to....verse 15.
• I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
• In this passage alone we see a preview of the LIFE, DEATH, and RESURRECTION of CHRIST.
This book was written some 1400 years before Christ (early estimations)…
A preview of Christ
• See, Genesis 3:15 is a preview of the incarnate Christ.
The expression “seed of woman” (Offspring) implies humanity.
• The virgin would conceive and bear a son (Isa.
7:14).
- ROAD SIGN
• We know that the apostle John, of course, notes that the eternal Word “became flesh” and dwelt among the human family (Jn.
1:14).
• And so we have HIS LIFE....THE LIFE of Jesus!
But Jesus partook of the nature of humanity that “[through death] he might bring to naught him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb.
2:14).
THROUGH DEATH...
• AND SO - We also have the [suffering] of Christ
• It talks of the woman’s seed being bruised - NO DOUBT this points to the suffering of Christ on behalf of the sins of humanity.
In Isaiah 53, there is a vivid portrait of Jehovah’s abused servant, the Christ (cf.
Lk. 22:37; Acts 8:32-35).
Twice the prophet speaks of the promised Messiah being “bruised” (daka) and wounded as an offering for sin (53:5, 10).
ROAD SIGN
• AND SO - The death of Jesus, planned even before the foundation of the world (1 Pet.
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