Longing for the King-Advent 2018

Published on Dec 02, 2018

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Luke 2:1-14

Longing for the King:

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Longing Inside of Humanity:

  • Longing for Home

Longing Inside of Humanity:

  • Longing for Home
  • Longing for Intimacy

Longing Inside of Humanity:

  • Longing for Home
  • Longing for Intimacy
  • Longing for Purity

“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,
Genesis 3:6a

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:15-17

Why would God allow such a longing to exist?

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Luke 2:1-7

God in the Downward Spiral:
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“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.”
2 Corinthians 8:9

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“But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.”
Micah 5:2

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Luke 2:8

God with the Least Likely Candidates:
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“And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭3:21‬

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“and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions.
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭4:4a‬

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“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:20-21

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“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:20-21

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And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.”
Leviticus 4:35

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“Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭9:22

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Luke 2:9-14

The Angels Message:

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;”
Isaiah 61:1

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭2:36

All the trouble in the world today is due to the fact that man is not right with God, for it is because he is not right with God that he has gone wrong everywhere else.
—D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Why would God allow such a longing to exist?

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Longing for Home:

  • Not collecting wood or tasks to work on but the glorious gravity of a place that inspires worship morning and evening with no evil or sorrow to interrupt.

Longing for Intimacy:

  • Not a collection of friends, converts, or a spouse but someone who we can expect to meet our every need, a perfect groom.

Longing for Intimacy:

  • Not a collection of saying from philosophers and sages, remedies and costumes that mask, or the hopeless pursuit of the best self you can makeup in your own mind but a transforming renewing grace that is powerfully sufficient for all of our days welling up into eternity.

Taking it Home:

  • What are you longing for?

Taking it Home:

  • What are you longing for?
  • How or what are you gathering to try and satisfy that longing that the world has taught you or that will only numb your surface level needs temporarily?

Taking it Home:

  • What are you longing for?
  • How or what are you gathering to try and satisfy that longing that the world has taught you or that will only numb you surface level needs temporarily?
  • What is the deeper gospel level reality to your longing that God wants to meet you in today and satisfy into eternity?

Taking it Home:

  • What are you longing for?
  • How or what are you gathering to try and satisfy that longing that the world has taught you or that will only numb you surface level needs temporarily?
  • What is the deeper gospel level reality to your longing that God wants to meet you in today and satisfy into eternity?

John Patnode

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