December 10th, 2024
The Upward Look, by Jon Forrest
A Time for Revelation
As we experience Advent season, we prepare our hearts to once again receive the one who came from heaven to live among us. We prepare for Christmas. This Sunday is the third Sunday of Advent and, as a part of our daily readings, we are looking at a message and a week we are calling A Time for Revelation. That will also be our sermon title. We will look at how the properties of light reveal what has been covered in darkness. We will look at Isaiah’s prophecy of light from chapter 9:2-7 and how that the coming of Jesus shed light on who God is and what he wants us to know. We will look at God’s revelation through Mary in Luke 1:30-38, through Joseph in Matthew 1:18-21, through the couple, Mary and Joseph in Matthew 1:24-25, and through an old man called by God named Simeon in Luke 2:33-35.
Jesus’ entire ministry was about revelation. He explained to his disciples on the night of his last supper and his betrayal how that he came to reveal the unseen Father in heave. After telling them in John 4:6 that he is the Way, the Truth and the Life and that no one can get to the Father except through him we find Philip asking Jesus a question and receiving a powerful reply.
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
John 4:8-10
Until Jesus came in the flesh, no one had ever seen God. Now they had the opportunity to see how God would act and work in human flesh. Jesus was that Revelation of who and what God is all about.
Advent, the coming of the Son of God, the promised Messiah, God in human flesh, would illuminate God’s person, nature and plan for the world. This season, will you focus on that revelation and how it applies to you and your life? I look forward to sharing more about The Time for Revelation with you this Sunday.
Looking at his Revelation,
Jon
A Time for Revelation
As we experience Advent season, we prepare our hearts to once again receive the one who came from heaven to live among us. We prepare for Christmas. This Sunday is the third Sunday of Advent and, as a part of our daily readings, we are looking at a message and a week we are calling A Time for Revelation. That will also be our sermon title. We will look at how the properties of light reveal what has been covered in darkness. We will look at Isaiah’s prophecy of light from chapter 9:2-7 and how that the coming of Jesus shed light on who God is and what he wants us to know. We will look at God’s revelation through Mary in Luke 1:30-38, through Joseph in Matthew 1:18-21, through the couple, Mary and Joseph in Matthew 1:24-25, and through an old man called by God named Simeon in Luke 2:33-35.
Jesus’ entire ministry was about revelation. He explained to his disciples on the night of his last supper and his betrayal how that he came to reveal the unseen Father in heave. After telling them in John 4:6 that he is the Way, the Truth and the Life and that no one can get to the Father except through him we find Philip asking Jesus a question and receiving a powerful reply.
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
John 4:8-10
Until Jesus came in the flesh, no one had ever seen God. Now they had the opportunity to see how God would act and work in human flesh. Jesus was that Revelation of who and what God is all about.
Advent, the coming of the Son of God, the promised Messiah, God in human flesh, would illuminate God’s person, nature and plan for the world. This season, will you focus on that revelation and how it applies to you and your life? I look forward to sharing more about The Time for Revelation with you this Sunday.
Looking at his Revelation,
Jon
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