Isaiah 9:6
When the prophet Isaiah spoke about the one who was coming to
deliver the people of Israel, he listed four names that would be used to
describe what He would do. He shares why
this deliverer brings hope by declaring His eternal power available for His
people.
Hope is an indispensable ingredient for sustaining vitality in life.
Christmas is about God’s
gift of hope through a baby born to us.
Addictive behavior is not so much a failure of
character but the ensnaring consequences of bad choices that have
created a stronghold in a life.
We not only need to
understand the way to peace and freedom, we must also find the power
to walk in the right way.
The intelligent
individual may have the capacity to know truth, but the individual with faith
has the capacity to walk in truth.
Hope
is employed only by faith.
The power of hope is no greater
than the source of that hope.
No God…No hope. Know God…Know hope.
I. Jesus - Mighty God: The Gift of Strength for
our Weakness John 1:1-4; 14
The Hypostatic
Union - the term used to describe how God the Son, Jesus Christ, took on a human
nature, yet remained fully God at the same time.
The same power that created
the universe and conquered sin and death is the power we can call on for
help in time of trouble.
To believe in the Trinity
means to believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are essentially one
God, even while they retain their own set of individual attributes
within the Godhead.
The Trinity is not for human understanding
but for human transformation.
II. Jesus - Everlasting
Father: The Gift of Security for our Fears Colossians
1:15-17; 19
Jesus was preexistent with God, present
in creation with God, performing God’s plan in history and will be presiding
as Lord in eternity.
Our fears are related to what will happen in
the future and our Everlasting Father is already there for
us.
