Sermon Tone Analysis

Peace: Angel’s Candle

1st Candle: Hope: Prophet’s Candle

2nd Candle: Faith: Mary’s Candle

3rd Candle: Joy: Shepherd’s Candle

Culmination of Love through the birth of the Messiah

Peace and Love play an important role in the Christmas story.

Now Women, I am going to talk about for a moment.

Many of you have endured the wonderful time of giving birth to a child.

Now as you were in labor, squeezing the your husband’s hand til it almost fell off, screaming in writhing pain.

Some of you may have said to yourself.

NEVER AGAIN.

But then after XX amount of hours in labor, pushing and screaming.

You hear it.

The sound of a baby crying.

And when you hear that, there is peace in your heart, knowing the struggles, knowing the love you gave them in your womb, singing, playing, talking with them has now flourished to a person you can hold.

And when you hold them, the amount of love that you feel towards this little baby.

Not only the woman feels this love but even the man feels this love.

The love that you have never had before this child was born.

We brought this up last week with Shepherds.

GLORY TO GOD

Not Glory to Santa, not Glory to the Christmas Tree, Glory to God in the HIGHEST.

Spoken by Jesus.

Preparing the disciples for his Ascension.

Peace I leave with you, Peace I give to you

This is not World Peace.

We are not at Miss America and Im not the host asking the girl what would you like to see happen in the world?

This peace is genuine, this peace if about making sure we know we are going to be ok in the end.

The last line there.

I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.

1st candle talked about Hope

2nd Candle talked about Faith

4th Candle talks about Love

It ties together

God so Loved the World

Moses had a stutter and God used him, and Moses obeyed

Noah built an ark, God flooded the Earth, and He gave us a rainbow as promise to never flood the Earth

He saw the world hurting.

God had a plan.

That plan was Jesus Christ.

Jesus Showed Love

We need to follow His example.

What example is this?

Dont pull out your Sunday Card from your wallet and sit in these chairs and say, I love God, I believe in Him but then go out in the world, speak bad about each other, lie, cheat, and steal and then come back and say it’s ok God will forgive me so I can still do what I want.

No that Sunday Card needs to come out on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

LOVE IS FROM GOD

Love is not from money, love is not from how expensive the gift is.

This comes back full circle.

We love, because HE FIRST LOVED US.

I will finish with this.

This week as we prepare for Christmas, as we are running rampant trying to get the stocking stuffers, trying to finish wrapping gifts for our loved ones.

Reach out to someone who may be alone this Christmas.

Reach out to a family member whom you havent talked to in awhile and you know you wont see them for Christmas.

Reach out and just say I love you.

In fact this morning, I want you to turn to your neighbor in front of you, behind you, to the right or to the left and just say I love you in Christ.