Living Hope: Joyful Anticipation in Advent
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"Good morning. That's nice. My name is Will, as Roberto said, Will Farnham, and I'm a member here at HOPE, and it's my privilege to bring you the message today. And my hope is that God's Spirit will move as we hear from His Word." [00:15:29] (16 seconds)
"The female host, the philosopher, said that she had surprised her mother with a visit near the holidays, and they were very excited. They thought it was going to be an awesome surprise for her. And what she had told them was, and this stood out to me exactly, was, don't ever surprise me again. You deprive me of the joy of anticipation." [00:17:24] (29 seconds)
"And we're talking about Advent, and that name comes from the Latin, Adventus, which means arrival or coming, and we are anticipating Christ's arrival, and the prophets were also anticipating Christ's arrival. Now, I'm going to posit that Christ's arrival is, in fact, better than the anticipation, but I like having that idea that the waiting is also a joyful experience, and that really kind of sums up a lot of Advent season to me." [00:18:28] (32 seconds)
"So whenever we're reading, this is true of all scripture, but I think it's particularly true of the Old Testament, particularly true of the prophets, we always have to look at the context that we're reading this in. And the context here is point A, is that there have always been hard times or tough times. There have always been tough times. That is our context for this prophecy." [00:20:24] (21 seconds)
"And when times are tough enough, we can get gripped by despair. It can be easy to feel like those times are going to go on forever. It can be bleak. We may not know what tomorrow holds, let alone five, ten years from now." [00:26:04] (26 seconds)
"Ahaz was listening to the hype of Assyria, that, oh, if you just let us handle things, then we'll keep you safe from these northern armies. The fact is, when I said God helps those, you all knew the rest of that adage, who help themselves. Again, that's, that's a proverb of the culture, not from scripture." [00:31:58] (20 seconds)
"God's rule over the universe and over his people is just when they talk about the throne of David the people listening to Isaiah the first time we're only thinking about the throne of the kingdom But as we look to the whole of Scripture, now that Christ has come, we realize that that is the throne of David and the kingdom of Judah refers to us, his people, across time and across place." [00:39:10] (27 seconds)
"The idea that evil will not win, ultimately, as a just and righteous God. There will be consequences for evil. That the wrongs of King Ahaz and everything since then, the wrongs of our own historical period, the wrongs in our own lives that have been done to us and that we have done to others, that those will have consequences." [00:41:48] (26 seconds)
"As Christ was the hope of Israel he is our hope today and even if we are in a place of despair we have the reality of God's living hope here in front of us let's pray heavenly father we thank you that you are steadfast that you gave us a promise and that you have always kept them that the evidence is there in front of us forgive us for when we forget that forgive us for when we don't live in the light of that thank you that through Christ and his incarnation his birth his life his death his resurrection his ascension that we are NOT for him have or not as we would like to do so that you are able to forgive and you want to, you welcome us when we repent." [00:47:29] (58 seconds)
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"The female host, the philosopher, said that she had surprised her mother with a visit near the holidays, and they were very excited. They thought it was going to be an awesome surprise for her. And what she had told them was, and this stood out to me exactly, was, don't ever surprise me again. You deprive me of the joy of anticipation." [00:17:24] (29 seconds)
"And we're talking about Advent, and that name comes from the Latin, Adventus, which means arrival or coming, and we are anticipating Christ's arrival, and the prophets were also anticipating Christ's arrival. Now, I'm going to posit that Christ's arrival is, in fact, better than the anticipation, but I like having that idea that the waiting is also a joyful experience, and that really kind of sums up a lot of Advent season to me." [00:18:28] (32 seconds)
"So whenever we're reading, this is true of all scripture, but I think it's particularly true of the Old Testament, particularly true of the prophets, we always have to look at the context that we're reading this in. And the context here is point A, is that there have always been hard times or tough times. There have always been tough times. That is our context for this prophecy." [00:20:24] (21 seconds)
"And when times are tough enough, we can get gripped by despair. It can be easy to feel like those times are going to go on forever. It can be bleak. We may not know what tomorrow holds, let alone five, ten years from now." [00:26:04] (26 seconds)
"Ahaz was listening to the hype of Assyria, that, oh, if you just let us handle things, then we'll keep you safe from these northern armies. The fact is, when I said God helps those, you all knew the rest of that adage, who help themselves. Again, that's, that's a proverb of the culture, not from scripture." [00:31:58] (20 seconds)
"God's rule over the universe and over his people is just when they talk about the throne of David the people listening to Isaiah the first time we're only thinking about the throne of the kingdom But as we look to the whole of Scripture, now that Christ has come, we realize that that is the throne of David and the kingdom of Judah refers to us, his people, across time and across place." [00:39:10] (27 seconds)
"The idea that evil will not win, ultimately, as a just and righteous God. There will be consequences for evil. That the wrongs of King Ahaz and everything since then, the wrongs of our own historical period, the wrongs in our own lives that have been done to us and that we have done to others, that those will have consequences." [00:41:48] (26 seconds)
"As Christ was the hope of Israel he is our hope today and even if we are in a place of despair we have the reality of God's living hope here in front of us let's pray heavenly father we thank you that you are steadfast that you gave us a promise and that you have always kept them that the evidence is there in front of us forgive us for when we forget that forgive us for when we don't live in the light of that thank you that through Christ and his incarnation his birth his life his death his resurrection his ascension that we are NOT for him have or not as we would like to do so that you are able to forgive and you want to, you welcome us when we repent." [00:47:29] (58 seconds)
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