4th Sunday of Advent
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Beginning with the End in Mind
Beginning with the End in Mind
Our we ready for Advent —> Did you have a plan and did you follow it to keep Jesus in the center of the season?
Zechariah —> John the Baptist —> Not our Birthday
The story from front to back —>
Today we begin with the end in mind...
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
This is a direct quote from
6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
8 I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”
6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
8 I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”
—> David and Christ say the same thing
—> David and Christ say the same thing
—> God desires faithful hearts and lives more than rituals
—> this isn’t a new concept it is seen throughout the Old Testament
22 And Samuel said,
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
33 And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
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—> God desires faithful hearts and lives more than rituals
6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
11 “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—
I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be eaten by the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah
—>
Zechariah —> John the Baptist —> Not our Birthday
6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
The story from front to back —>
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Heb
Today we begin with the end in mind...
The 2nd Covenant does away with the first
—> God needed His people free of the ritualistic nature of sacrifice and ready to live for Him and to live with Him.
—> Where has your life become too mechanical in your relationship with God.
why is he saying this?
Look up at 1-4 —>
1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Pale shadow —> skia —> pale, nebulous reflection, a mere outline or silhouette, a form without reality and without substance
real image —> eikone —> complete representation or a detailed reproduction, a protrait.
6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
8 I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”
—> David and Christ say the same thing
—> God desires faithful hearts and lives more than rituals
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6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
—> God’s will, God’s plan brings Jesus to earth to save and sanctify us through Jesus’ death on the cross.
—> A sacrifice to started with a request to a teenage girl, to sacrifice her life to ridicule, judgement, and shame.
38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
—> A sacrifice that took the King of King and Lord of Lords from His throne in Heaven to a feeding trough in a barn.
—> A sacrifice that took that baby from the manger to the cross, to die a death he didn’t deserve, to save a people he was born die for.
—> That was God’s plan from the beginning for His son.
—> What is His plan for you?
—> Not 30 years from now but today?
—> Don’t tell me, or yourself, or God, “Well God hasn’t revealed it to me yet.”
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—> We have a rather larger, chosen family in OK. This year we drew names for Christmas on Dec. 29th. We got our names over a text from our “name giver.” I drew someone I’ve known for 4 or 5 years now no big deal. Beth drew someone she has had little to no interaction with. Its a boyfriend of a “sister”. So to help us give a good gift the “name giver” told us to list a few things we wanted to help the process.
By comparison, I didn’t ask Beth for a list of Christmas presents she wanted this year. I live with her and I listened and payed attention to what she said and what she does.
Are you in that kind of a relationship with God?
Do you know what He wants for Christmas from you?
What gift of obedience is God waiting for?
—> Is he waiting for you to have a conversation with someone close to you?
—> Is he waiting on you to finally give that secret or not so secret sin over to him?
—> Is He longing to hear from you more than an hour one day a week?
—> What is God hoping to get from you this Christmas?
—> And will you be faithful enough to give it?