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Pastoral Prayer
Derrik and Heather’s Son Lukus
Moss Family
Lance and Jessica
Introduction
Welcome, I am so glad you are hear.
Thank you for joining us.
I am Pastor Kyle and I have the great opportunity to share God’s word with you today.
I will be looking at the 3rd part of our advent series.
But before we jump in today I want to make sure everyone is caught up with us.
This is the first year we have had an advent season in our church for a long time and many churches don’t have advent seasons anymore.
They were always something we did but I really didn’t know why.
I thought it would be good to define the advent season because the word advent may not be familiar to everyone.
Advent simply means.
Advent - The arrival of a notable person, thing, or event.
During the Advent season we look at two events in time.
We look back to the moment Jesus was born, his arrival.
We use the Christmas season as a time to remember and refocus on the birth of Jesus and what that means for us.
We also look forward to the future event of when Jesus will return.
We currently live in between these two times.
We are looking at 5 specific words that the bible uses to focus believers during the advent season.
The 5 words are: Hope, Faith, Joy, Peace and Love.
Each church uses these differently.
I look at it as they help to describe the relationship we have with our Lord and Savior.
It is like if you were trying to explain to a friend why you had a good marriage.
You would describe your marriage with words like love, team work, or compromise, sacrifice, or laughter.
During advent we use these specific words to look at the relationship we have with God.
None of these words were new when Jesus was born but our relationship with Jesus changes the meaning and impact of them.
They cannot be separated and develop together as we grow and mature.
Pastor Chris started the series with Hope.
He looked at what true hope looked like verses those with a false hope or no hope.
Chuck did a great job last week with sharing about faith.
He shared what the bible says about how we should respond when our faith is challenged, what faith is a gift means and that we have a saving faith.
Today I am sharing the third advent topic of Joy.
We are going to look back at why we rejoice at the birth of Jesus, We will look forward to what we will have to rejoice in the future when Jesus returns, and we will look at what we have to rejoice today in our daily lives.
Our main verses this morning will be in 1 Peter 1:3-9.
Please take out your bibles with me as we read them.
We will be using a lot of scripture today so we will be moving all over the bible.
When I started my research on Joy my first search yielded 258 passages on Joy.
I narrowed that down to the ones I wanted to focus on and there was 9 pages of scripture.
I figured no one is ready for a 2 hour sermon on Joy so I have done my best to condense it down.
Let us read.
Rejoice That He Came
As we look at why we rejoice that Jesus was born we must pause for a moment and talk about what is Joy.
One dictionary defined it as this:
Definition of JOY: Closely related to gladness and happiness, although joy is more a state of being than an emotion; a result of choice.
One of the fruits of the spirit (Gal 5:22–23).
Having joy is part of the experience of being a Christian.
It is used about 180 times in the bible.
It is usually used as an emotion.
It is an an emotional response to praise worthy events or blessings.
It can be a noun or a verb.
As a noun is is a feeling of great pleasure or happiness.
As a verb it is an action.
As a verb you can rejoice even though we may not be feeling joyful.
Now lets look more deeper into the scriptures.
Blessed.
That means praise worthy.
God is worthy of our praise.
Why is God praise worthy?
He gives everyone who receives Jesus a new birth.
Our New birth is from God and God alone.
Everyone who recieved Jesus as their Savior is a new creation.
A creation that has been given freedom from the bonds of sin.
Who becomes a child of God.
This should be enough to rejoice forever but it is even deeper.
Peter says the reason that God did this was because of “his great mercy”.
We did not deserve to be given the gift of salvation.
We are saved by grace through faith.
As Paul writes to Titus:
It was not by our righteousness but by his mercy that we are saved.
He chose not to punish us the way we deserved.
We are given a new birth because in his mercy wanted too.
It is more than just a do over though.
It is not a mulligan.
It is not like he said “well try again, do better next time.
I am wiping the slate clean.”
We are born into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
A living hope causes us to action.
Many just have a hope but they do not live like they believe in it.
If I hope to get a promotion at work but do nothing that would make my boss consider me for that position, then do I have a living hope?
We need hope.
Man without hope is a very dark place.
Jesus told his disciples:
Jesus was teaching the disciples and then he states the reason he is telling them these things is so that they can have his Joy and that their Joy can be complete or full.
God gave us a new birth though the birth and death and resurrection of Jesus.
What we have recieved so far should bring us great Joy but we have not recieved everything that we have been promised.
God’s word promises that there is more to come when Jesus returns.
Rejoice That He Will Come
John writes:
John reaffirms that a person who receives Jesus is a child of God.
You can almost here his joy and excitement in this statement.
“We are his children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed”.
Going back to Peter, he describes this transformation that will happen in all believes when Jesus returns.
We can rejoice that we have been given an inheritance.
This is not what we think of today with a big check or a house and car when a parent passes away and gives an inheritance to their children.
This is a gift of our new birth.
God has promised an inheritance a gift that is passed to us that we will receive at the end.
This inheritance is imperishable.
This inheritance is not money that can be spent or a house that will break down.
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