Advent 2025: He Shall Be | Great - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

Religion & Spirituality, Cotc, Churchofthecitynewyork, Cotcnyc, Christianity, Jontyson, Churchofthecity

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our Advent series, He Shall Be, with a teaching on Jesus' greatness and how He redefined what greatness means in the Kingdom of God. He contrasted our culture's pursuit of success, status, and recognition with the way of Jesus, whose greatness is revealed in humility, dependence, and self-giving love. In a world obsessed with achievement, Jesus' greatness is found in His descent; he had everything but became a child for our sake. And when we follow Jesus' example and rest in the Father's secure love, we are freed to serve others without fear. The path to true greatness is not a life shaped not by recognition, but by humility and Christlike love.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	All right, let's stand for the reading of God's word.
0:04.2	Tonight, our teaching text comes from Luke chapter 1, verses 26 through 35.
0:12.4	It says, in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man
0:22.6	named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said,
0:29.4	Greetings, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you. Mary was greatly troubled at his words
0:35.4	and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
0:38.4	But the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
0:43.5	You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.
0:48.0	He will be great and will be called the son of the most high.
0:51.9	The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, and he will reign
0:55.8	over Jacob's descendants forever. His kingdom will never end. How will this be, Mary, asked the angel,
1:02.9	since I am a virgin? The angel answered, the Holy Spirit will come on you and the power of the
1:08.4	Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
1:14.1	This is the word of the Lord.
1:15.7	You may be seated.
1:21.4	Good evening.
1:27.9	We are working through some of the names of Jesus for Advent.
1:36.5	Tonight I'm focusing on just a tiny little section of these scriptures that we read,
1:43.2	and here's what they are.
1:45.1	He shall be called great.
1:52.2	What does it mean for Christ to be called great?
1:57.0	Our culture has an obsession with greatness.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 18 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from COTC NYC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of COTC NYC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.