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Well, good morning.

pastor, Matt asked me me to Review versus this morning.

This is the first week of Advent, a season of intentional waiting.

I'm going to be reading from Jeremiah 33:14 through 16.

The days are coming, declares the Lord.

When I will fulfill a good promise.

I will make to the people of Israel and Judah.

In those days.

And at that time, I will make a righteous branch and Sprout from David's line.

You will make you will do what is just and right in the land.

In those days, Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety.

This is the name by which it will be called the Lord.

All right, just savior.

We light this candle and hope are confident assurance that the Lord will one day return to his people.

Would you play with me?

Our heavenly father.

We thank you for the way that we have seen, you work in the lives of your people.

Throughout Redemption history.

You never change.

You are a constant, your faithful.

And as we read the, the, the Old Testament, the old Covenant, we see you working in ways that are made times even appear different.

As you interact with your people and as we prepare chulis, go astray.

I bet you your character never changes you are.

True.

You are Eternal the Creator.

God you are righteous in everything.

Every decision of yours is, right.

And we confess that we look at the world around us at times and and we wonder how things are going to shake out with what we can see.

Sort of in the near future humanistic Lee speak in or humanly speaking.

And so, Lord this morning, I pray that however, Bleak our circumstances may seem that you would help us to continue to look to you.

Again, and again, with a confident assurance that every promise of yours is true.

Or we pray that you would help us.

As we look at your word now that you would help us to lean in and to see what you have for us this morning in Jesus name, we pray.

Amen.

Amen, over the next four weeks.

We're going to be looking at this Advent season, these themes of Advent, hope, and peace, and joy, and love, hope, and peace, and joy and love the Christian Church.

Historically, has used these four weeks preceding Christmas to to intentionally help themselves meditate on or think on the Eternal promises that we have in the Lord.

These realities that are true.

They've been true for for God's old Covenant people and their true for us today.

Right in history.

These these these Traditions, if you will, maybe you grew up in a in a church tradition, that is The more liturgical meaning want more more directed or consistent, or the same year to year with different Traditions.

You might have followed a lectionary, you know more specifically from year to year that may be familiar to some of you.

Some of some of you may have grown up in the in the Free Church tradition, which does not follow those sorts of patterns aside from maybe, you know, Advent and Easter and things like that.

So wherever you are in there.

There there are times where it's really helpful for us to to sort of latch onto things that have been helpful for the church for our Christian brothers and sisters throughout history that we can use today to help us look too and remember and meditate on who God is and his promises to his people.

So the Advent wreath is made of Evergreens and represents the continuity of life from season to season.

It represents the newness of eternal life and salvation.

That's promise.

Through the right chest.

Meaning perfect, life of Jesus, and his sacrificial death on the cross.

If you think about the circular fashion, that it's woven in it.

Is it symbolizes much like our wedding rings that we we're God's unending eternality.

Meaning we often think about a turtle meeting from here Forward Forever.

I would actually means it's eternally past and eternally future, meaning.

God has no beginning.

He has no end.

And a circle.

When you look at it, has no beginning and it has no end.

So God, unending, eternal love and his faithful commitment his commitment to his own glory and to the promises he makes to his people.

You'll see here.

There are three, purple candles and a pink candle, and then a white candle.

The three of the four candles that the three pink in the one.

That's why the three purple in the one pink.

It's just represent a different aspect and different churches, at different times, will focus on different different things, some more focused, on the names of God, someone.

Focus on on a variety of things.

We're going to be focusing on Hope and peace and joy and love the joy.

You might find it interesting to see that candles in a third place, is not at the beginning, is not at the end.

Typically Advent begins in this time of darkness and mourning and confusion and bleakness.

And we begin that with these purple candles.

And then we see this third pink candle, which represents joy in the midst of bleakness joy in the midst of Sorrow.

Joy in the midst of pain, And of course, during our Christmas Eve service, we will, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, right?

Emmanuel, which means god with us would like the the white Christ Candle and everything that represents the character of Christ is, or the character of the Lord is this.

Hope find it's called culmination in Jesus Piece.

Is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Joy is found in Christ alone and love is given comes to us from the Lord and enables us to love others as well.

So there's a historical intentionality to what we are able to do that.

Sometimes families would do this even in their own homes.

There been other traditions where they would take to take an Advent wreath like this and then just like 25 candles and just do one candle for each day of the month leading up to Christmas.

So they're different ways to do it.

There's not one set right way that a family would have to do this or that the church would have to do this.

The point is That we would ask ourselves.

What can we do?

How can we be intentional in reminding ourselves or our children or our grandchildren or even?

Just as a couples often when we say the word family?

We think young families with children should be doing this.

But really every Christian family husband and wife together, whether you're younger or older to find ways to help remind yourself to clean to the promises of a lord to think on his character and what he's doing in our lives and in Redemption history.

This morning, we're looking at a word from the Prophet, Jeremiah the word of Hope and so you can flip their in your app if you want to or it's on page 622 Bible near you.

One of the black Bible is there and if you don't know where Jeremiah is, its typically about 2/3 or 3/4 away back in your Bible or with no shame just go to the table of contents and look up, Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

So no shame.

They're so what brings you hope it's coming up in the near or Distant future.

I'm curious.

What are the things you get excited about?

What are the things that you long for that we were in the Oklahoma this week for Thanksgiving.

My sister and her family live down there.

And so we had the opportunity to go down there and spend Thanksgiving with her, which is wonderful.

And and then late last night.

We were hoping for home.

All right.

I mean, we travel with two children and so they're the stops were many.

And my wife might even say that I like the stops as much as the boys do maybe not be true.