Christmas Hopes - Week 2

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Notes:

Christmas silently reminds us that life promises us things it doesn’t deliver.

Celebrating is momentary fun, but HOPE is what’s needed to carry us over the long haul

Life without genuine HOPE breaks us on the inside and on the outside

The holidays don’t magically fix things…The holidays magnify what’s already true

Christmas is not about creating the impossible…it’s about celebrating an incredible promise kept

The Promise – A Savior

- Genesis 3:15 (He will crush head/strike heel)

- Genesis 12:3 (all peoples will be blessed)

- Genesis 49:10 (scepter…from Judah)

- Psalm 22:16-18 (pierced hands/feet – cast lots)

- Isaiah 7:14 (the virgin will give birth)

- Isaiah 9:1-2 (Galilee – a light in the dark)

- Isaiah 9:6-7 (Wonderful Counselor/Prince of Peace…)

- Isaiah 53:3-12 (our iniquity was laid upon Him)

The first Christmas is the historical fact that proves God keeps His promises!

The same God who personally showed up in a manger…Is coming back as a King and will fix all that is broken!

At this time a man named Simeon was living in Jerusalem. Simeon was a good man. He loved God and was waiting for him to save the people of Israel.

God's Spirit came to him and told him that he would not die until he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.

- Luke 2:25-28

When Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple to do what the Law of Moses says should be done for a new baby, the Spirit told Simeon to go into the temple.

Simeon took the child in his arms and gave thanks to God…

- Luke 2:25-28

Anna, a prophet, was also there. She was a descendant of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher. She was now very old. Her husband had died seven years after they were married, and she had been a widow for 84 years.

- Luke 2:36-38

She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she also began thanking God and telling everyone in Jerusalem who had been awaiting the coming of the Savior that the Messiah had finally arrived.

- Luke 2:36-38

- God loves us so much that He personally shows up

- We are loved despite our flaws and failures

- God is both faithful and able to fix what we can’t

Christmas provides an unstoppable hope that fuels peace, joy, and love even in a busted and broken world!

CHALLENGE:

What are you putting your hope in this holiday season?