Introduction
Let me begin with a discipleship question: how will you follow Jesus in prayer and dependence on God this week?
Main Points
In this lesson shaped by Calvary Boise's teaching on VOICES - ADVENT 2018: Greater Joy, Christ invites us to receive truth with humility, practice repentance, and walk in faithful obedience.
Hope in Suffering
In this Advent season that we are in we are each week going to look at one of the messengers that the precursors to. The arrival of Christ that we celebrate on Christmas there are four ways that we will look as God prepares people's hearts and minds.
- To receive the Lord that is coming he does that by sending messengers to prepare the people last week we looked at the messenger.
- Of the Prophet we looked at the messenger specifically given to us in the prophecies of Isaiah and it's simply this there is a.
- Message in your waiting as you wait for Christmas as you wait from season to season for every other thing in your life there.
- Is a season of waiting that is infused with hope there is a reason to believe that the darkness that winter represents the cold.
Outside that also exists sometimes in our hearts and our lives there's reason to believe there's hope for that's the message of the Prophet. Now there's also a message that we're gonna look at today given to us by the Angels it happens to work perfectly with what.
We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.
Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.
Conclusion
We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.