SERVICE IS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
If you want to make a gift/offering to Hope in Christ Church, click here to learn about ways to give.
You can view a digital bulletin Here
You can watch a Livestream at 9:30 am on our facebook account.
Sermon outline
- The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers
- In A.A. Milne’s great children’s book: Winnie the Pooh’s
- On this day after Christmas, there is another book
- Historically this is one of the Enthronement Psalms (Ps 93-99)
- A Call to Sing (Ps 98:1)
- But don’t just sing anything – Sing a new Song.
- God is about marvelous things
- He does things beyond the realm of our normal comprehension.
- He Creates out of nothing (Heb 11:3, Gen 1, Ps 33:6, Is 44:24, Col 1:16)
- He made an old woman, Sarah, pregnant (Gen 18:14)
- He redeems his people from Egyptian bondage with 10 plagues, called “marvelous things” or wonders in Ex 3:20.
- He dries up the Jordan River so his people can enter into Canaan in Josh 3:5
- God Incarnates into Human Flesh (Phil 2:7, Mt 1:21-23, Lk 2:11,
- This warrants singing, exuberant shouts of joy, acclamations of wonder (Lk 1:46-47, 1:68-69, 2:20, 2:14)
- Salvation Revealed (Ps 98:2-3)
- God’s salvation, his Son, has been revealed (Heb 1:1-3)
- What is amazing is that his salvation and his righteousness are equated (1Cor 1:30)
- Not only that but in the incarnation, not only was salvation and righteousness revealed but:
- In taking on flesh, God was completing his promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David. (Ps 98:3, Gen 12:3, 17:6-8, 2Sam 7:13)
- And so we sing, in joyful noise
- Today’s Application
- We seem to live in a world where it doesn’t look like Jesus is ruling.
- But remember Christ is always ruling (Eph 1:20-22)
- So,
- Entrust yourself to the King of Kings
- Worship and exalt him,
- Tell others about the marvelous things God has done in Christ and in your own life too.
- And then do it all again.
0 Comments