Exceeding Expectations: The Promise of Redemption in Christ
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"It seems like one of the questions that we ask a lot this year, especially of kids around this time, is, how was your Christmas? I probably have heard that question four or five times this morning already, and I don't always know how to answer it. And I think part of the reason I don't know how to answer it, because I remember what it was like for me as a kid." [00:00:01] (20 seconds)
"But if there's one place where we can look to see expectations not just met, but exceeded, it's in the Word of God. For the last 14 months as a congregation, we've been going through the entire entirety of the Scriptures, a 14-month reading plan that have been on eight of these different little bookmarks like this." [00:03:41] (19 seconds)
"And one of the things that I hope that you've seen in these last 14 months as we've journeyed through this, like some of you said, you're going to journey through it again. You kept all the bookmarks, and you're going to read through it again because you found a great value in how we did this, and that's great, a good expectation to set for yourself in this new year." [00:04:23] (17 seconds)
"You see, as we've been journeying through this book of the Scriptures, we've been seeing that God's people are filled with expectations. It's part of our nature. We go back to the very first story in the book, in the Scripture, the very first people, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 2, and we see that they were in a perfect place." [00:04:58] (20 seconds)
"When Adam and Eve give birth to their very firstborn son, Eve is so excited because she thinks her expectations of that child to be born, to rescue and redeem, and to bring her back to that perfect relationship with God and with her husband Adam has been born. Literally, she calls him the man, which you probably know in the English form as the name Cain." [00:06:12] (25 seconds)
"Now, you heard also that reading from Exodus that Josh read for us as well that told us where this kind of originated, where this started. And the purpose of them doing this as the Israelite people in the community is that they were remembering the most significant event in the Old Testament when they did this with their firstborn children and when they did this with their firstborn cattle." [00:09:00] (21 seconds)
"But yet God does not abandon them. In fact, God continues to dwell with them in something that we call the tabernacle. It was kind of like, I mean, it was kind of like God lived as like a winter Texan for 40 years in the wilderness. He set up this mobile home. It was his kind of fifth wheel, and everywhere the people went, they would set up the fifth wheel." [00:11:45] (19 seconds)
"This is Emmanuel, God with us. This is he of whom the prophets had spoke of. This is he who's the fulfillment and the exceedingly fulfillment of all the expectations that people had had of old. He is the one who would come as the promised Messiah, the Christ, the anointed one, who would save his people from their sins." [00:17:57] (24 seconds)
"Matthew 28, 19, the final words of Jesus as he ascends into heaven, he declares to his disciples then and his disciples now, go, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I've commanded you. And remember, I'm with you always." [00:26:09] (23 seconds)
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"But if there's one place where we can look to see expectations not just met, but exceeded, it's in the Word of God. For the last 14 months as a congregation, we've been going through the entire entirety of the Scriptures, a 14-month reading plan that have been on eight of these different little bookmarks like this." [00:03:41] (19 seconds)
"And one of the things that I hope that you've seen in these last 14 months as we've journeyed through this, like some of you said, you're going to journey through it again. You kept all the bookmarks, and you're going to read through it again because you found a great value in how we did this, and that's great, a good expectation to set for yourself in this new year." [00:04:23] (17 seconds)
"You see, as we've been journeying through this book of the Scriptures, we've been seeing that God's people are filled with expectations. It's part of our nature. We go back to the very first story in the book, in the Scripture, the very first people, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 2, and we see that they were in a perfect place." [00:04:58] (20 seconds)
"When Adam and Eve give birth to their very firstborn son, Eve is so excited because she thinks her expectations of that child to be born, to rescue and redeem, and to bring her back to that perfect relationship with God and with her husband Adam has been born. Literally, she calls him the man, which you probably know in the English form as the name Cain." [00:06:12] (25 seconds)
"Now, you heard also that reading from Exodus that Josh read for us as well that told us where this kind of originated, where this started. And the purpose of them doing this as the Israelite people in the community is that they were remembering the most significant event in the Old Testament when they did this with their firstborn children and when they did this with their firstborn cattle." [00:09:00] (21 seconds)
"But yet God does not abandon them. In fact, God continues to dwell with them in something that we call the tabernacle. It was kind of like, I mean, it was kind of like God lived as like a winter Texan for 40 years in the wilderness. He set up this mobile home. It was his kind of fifth wheel, and everywhere the people went, they would set up the fifth wheel." [00:11:45] (19 seconds)
"This is Emmanuel, God with us. This is he of whom the prophets had spoke of. This is he who's the fulfillment and the exceedingly fulfillment of all the expectations that people had had of old. He is the one who would come as the promised Messiah, the Christ, the anointed one, who would save his people from their sins." [00:17:57] (24 seconds)
"Matthew 28, 19, the final words of Jesus as he ascends into heaven, he declares to his disciples then and his disciples now, go, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I've commanded you. And remember, I'm with you always." [00:26:09] (23 seconds)
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