Week 1 “Un-wrapped Up”
From Isaiah 52-53
“Christmas Unwrapped” Message Series: “Lost in the rush and madness of our annual holiday season is the meaning of the entire event. The Christmas season tends to act like a last-minute cram session for the year’s final exam as we seek the perfect gift, attend the right events, and observe the proper attitudes toward one another at the close of the year. But as with everything in 2020, this Christmas is going to be much different. You may not have the Christmas you wanted this year, but by God’s grace we hope and pray you will have the Christmas you should – a Christmas connected to Jesus.”
“With more spiritual reflection and less gifts, most Americans say COVID-19 will change Christmas.” – ChristianPost.com
10% of America’s religiously unaffiliated said the pandemic has made them more likely to spend time in spiritual reflection during the holidays this year.
Isaiah: The 5th .
📖 Isaiah 52:9-10 (ESV) Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The Lord has bared His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
📖 Isaiah 52:13 (ESV) Behold, my servant shall act wisely; He shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
1. God’s is what you’d .
📖 Acts 1:6 (ESV) So when they had come together, they asked Him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
📖 Isaiah 52:14-15 (ESV) As many were astonished at you— His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the children of mankind—.
Israel a , they were given a .
2. God’s you to .
📖 Isaiah 52:15 (ESV) so shall He (sprinkle) startle* many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of Him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
📖 Isaiah 52:15 (NLT) For they will see what they had not been told; they will understand what they had not heard about.
Jesus is people from !
3. When God’s is what you , it’s best to simply it.
📖 Isaiah 53:1-3 (ESV) Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
📖 John 1:10-13 (ESV). He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, yet the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him. 12 But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
SERMON IN A SENTENCE:
When you God’s in Christ, you your life to what you were to .
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