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It is the second Sunday of Advent, the season whereby we celebrate the birth of Jesus the Messiah.
For the Jewish people living in the days of Jesus, this was a heavily anticipated day.
Many prophecies had been given several hundreds of years before, and the people yearned for the deliverance through the Messiah, much like the Israelites yearned for freedom from Egyptian bondage.
They longed to receive the land that was promised to their father Abraham.
Similarly, the people living in the days of Jesus longed for freedom from their Roman oppressors.
However, like a child who strays onto a minefield is unaware of the dangers awaiting each step, the Jewish people in the days of Moses and Jesus were unaware of the greatest danger afflicting the human race.
You see, sickness is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Globalism is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Secularism, cancer, or the relativity of truth are not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery, oppression from physical enemies or even from physical illness, but from sin.
the Jewish people living in the days of Jesus, this was a heavily anticipated day.
Many prophecies had
been given several hundreds of years ago, and the people yearned for the deliverance from the Messiah,
much like the Israelites yearned for freedom from Egyptian bondage.
They longed to receive the land that was promised to their father Abraham.
Similarly, the people living in the days of Jesus longed for freedom from their Roman oppressors.
However, like a child who strays onto a minefield is unaware of the dangers awaiting each step, the Jewish people in the days of Moses and Jesus were unaware of the greatest danger afflicting the human race.
You see, sickness is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Globalism is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Secularism, cancer, or relativity are not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
that was promised to their father Abraham.
Similarly, the people living in the days of Jesus longed for freedom from their Roman oppressors.
However, like a child who strays onto a minefield is unaware of the dangers awaiting each step, the Jewish people in the days of Moses and Jesus were unaware of the greatest danger afflicting the human race.
You see, sickness is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Globalism is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Secularism, cancer, or relativity are not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
freedom from their Roman oppressors.
However, like a child who strays onto a mindfield is unaware of the dangers awaiting each step, the Jewish people in the days of Moses and Jesus were unaware of the greatest danger afflicting the human race.
You see, sickness is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Globalism is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Secularism, cancer, or relativity are not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
However, like a child who strays onto a mindfield is unaware of the dangers awaiting each step, the
Jewish people in the days of Moses and Jesus were unaware of the greatest danger afflicting the human race.
You see, sickness is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Globalism is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Secularism, cancer, or relativity are not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
race.
You see, sickness is not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
Globalism is not the most
dangerous issue facing humanity.
Secularism, cancer, or relativity are not the most dangerous issue facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
facing humanity.
The most dangerous issue facing humanity is that humanity has sinned against an infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
infinitely holy God, their Creator, and through that sin the relationship has been severed.
We need to be
delivered, yes, but not from slavery or oppression from physical enemies, but from sin.
Yet, many people do not know the way to restoring their relationship with their perfect Creator.
Some imagine that we must do good works to overcompensate for the bad ones.
We picture scales in heaven in which our good works are placed on one side and our bad works on the other.
But reminds us that “…None is righteous, no, not one” (ESV).
Just as a little poison mixed with water ruins the drinkability, so too, the evilness in our natures nullifies any goodness that we may hope to produce.
This is a failure to properly understand our own wickedness.
imagine that we must do good works to overcompensate for the bad ones.
We picture scales in heaven
in which our good works are placed on one side and our bad works on the other.
But reminds us that “…None is righteous, no, not one” (ESV).
Just as a little poison mixed with water ruins the drinkability, so too, the evilness in our natures nullifies any goodness that we may hope to produce.
reminds us that “…None is righteous, no, not one” (ESV).
Just as a little poison mixed with water ruins the drinkability, so too, the evilness in our natures nullifies any goodness that we may hope to produce.
the drinkability, so too, the evilness in our natures nullifies any goodness that we may hope to produce.
Still, others believe that God is a good and gracious God.
He is like your favorite grandpa, sitting up in heaven and laughing at the foolishness of his children, but somehow he still finds love in his heart.
But when thoughts such as these enter our minds and hearts we forget both the sinfulness of humanity and the holiness of God.
It is not a mere trifle to offend the thrice holy God.
It is nothing short of cosmic treason and rebellion on the gravest of levels.
This is a failure to understand God’s infinite holiness.
heaven and laughing at the foolishness of his children, but somehow he still finds love in his heart.
But
when thoughts such as these enter our minds and hearts we forget both the sinfulness of humanity and
the holiness of God.
It is not a mere trifle to offend the thrice holy God.
It is nothing short of cosmic
treason and rebellion on the gravest of levels.
A host of ways that we conjure up in which our fallen natures can be changed and our relationship with God restored are all wrong turns.
Like Adam and Eve frantically sewing fig leaves together and hiding from God, our internal GPS’s are constantly rerouting to attempt to restore us on the right way to God.
However, it is only through the grace of God that we are told the Way.
As we continue working our way through this wonderful Season of Advent, we are reminded that Jesus is the way.
But as we look back, I want to see three results, or effects, produced from this truth in our passage.
God restored are all wrong turns.
Our internal GPS’s are constantly rerouting to attempt to restore us on the right way to God.
However, it is only through the grace of God that we are told the Way.
As we continue working our way through this wonderful Season of Advent, we are reminded that Jesus is the way.
But as we look back, I want to see three results, or effects, produced from this truth in our passage.
the right way to God.
However, it is only through the grace of God that we are told the Way.
As we continue working our way through this wonderful Season of Advent, we are reminded that Jesus is the way.
But as we look back, I want to see three results, or effects, produced from this truth in our passage.
continue working our way through this wonderful Season of Advent, we are reminded that Jesus is the
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