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The ultimate goal of our devotion to the life of Jesus during Advent and at all times is to see clearly enough to evoke the response of love and worship that He is worthy of. We will be touched, encouraged, and transformed as we look upon Him, but we turn our eyes toward the accounts of His birth chiefly for His sake. The only reasonable response to the astonishing mystery of the Incarnation is to laud the One who came so near. To treat the narratives of His entrance into the world as a common, familiar thing does not befit the glory of who He is and what He did. The primary challenge of Advent, therefore, is not for us to realize what we are missing out on by not celebrating it but to realize how wrong it is that a host of things seem more appealing to our attention than pondering the tale of how God took on flesh. Advent does not need a marketing campaign to bolster its prominence by convincing busy American Christians of all the ways they would benefit if they would just slow down and meditate on Jesus as a baby. Our thinking needs to move in the opposite direction. If we go to Bethlehem looking only for something that will apply to us or give our emotions a lift, it likely we will find little more than the sound of another baby crying. Yet if, like the wise men, we are seeking a King to worship then surely our journey will not be in vain. -Stephen Venable
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Steph will be giving a short testimony (20 minutes or so) at the Garage ministry on December 7th. Come and hear that Jesus is good.
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“His first coming was without external pomp or show of power, and yet in truth there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and all Jerusalem with him were stirred at the news of the wondrous birth. Those who supposed themselves to be waiting for him, showed the fallacy of their professions by rejecting him when he came. His life on earth was a winnowing fan, which tried the great heap of religious profession, and few enough could abide the process. But what will his second advent be? What sinner can endure to think of it? “He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” When in his humiliation he did but say to the soldiers, “I am he,” they fell backward; what will be the terror of his enemies when he shall more fully reveal himself as the “I am?” His death shook earth and darkened heaven, what shall be the dreadful splendour of that day in which as the living Saviour, he shall summon the quick and dead before him? O that the terrors of the Lord would persuade men to forsake their sins and kiss the Son lest he be angry! Though a lamb, he is yet the lion of the tribe of Judah, rending the prey in pieces; and though he breaks not the bruised reed, yet will he break his enemies with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. None of his foes shall bear up before the tempest of his wrath, or hide themselves from the sweeping hail of his indignation; but his beloved blood washed people look for his appearing with joy, and hope to abide it without fear: to them he sits as a refiner even now, and when he has tried them they shall come forth as gold. Let us search ourselves this morning and make our calling and election sure, so that the coming of the Lord may cause no dark forebodings in our mind. O for grace to cast away all hypocrisy, and to be found of him sincere and without rebuke in the day of his appearing.” -Spurgeon
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God wanted the people to confess not only their own iniquity, but also the iniquity of their fathers. Leviticus 26:40. Why? He was addressing generational pride. Eastern cultures highly honor ancestors, to the point of dignifying their iniquities. True repentance recognizes that I have inherited sinful ways from my fathers and I need to be redeemed from them. -Bob Sorge
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