The Sacrificial King
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
What a gift we have in the Christmas season. God himself took on flesh and dwelt among us that we might find eternal relationship in him. His coming serves as a continual reminder of his grace and pursuit of us who are lost without him. As we look to Jesus this week to celebrate who he is and what he’s done, may you find life-giving hope and foundational joy.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 1:29, and today's worship is Gratitude by Brandon Lake.
Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, the first in our week-long series focusing on Jesus as our King.
As we’re nearing the middle of this Advent season, my hope is that we can create space to really center our hearts around Emmanuel, God with us. And my hope is that this space we’re creating for the presence of God together makes this season richer and more full of the joy and peace that can only be found in God.
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Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | What a gift we have in the Christmas season. God himself took on flesh and dwelt among us |
| 0:11.2 | that we might find eternal relationship in him. His coming serves as a continual reminder of his grace and pursuit of us who are lost without him. |
| 0:19.7 | As we look to Jesus this week to celebrate who he is and what he's done, may you find |
| 0:24.3 | life-giving hope and foundational joy. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | It's impossible to separate the birth of Christ from the purpose of his coming. |
| 0:35.7 | John 316 tells us, for God so loved the world that he gave |
| 0:39.3 | his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. As we take |
| 0:45.5 | time today to look at the heart of God, who would sacrifice his own life that we might find |
| 0:51.0 | life through him, let's open our hearts to receive a fresh encounter with his real available love. |
| 0:57.5 | Jesus' coming was entirely a love-motivated decision, for God so loved the world. |
| 1:03.5 | So great is the depth of his love for his wayward crown of creation that he became man himself |
| 1:09.5 | to live the life none of us ever could. So vast is |
| 1:13.7 | his affection for us that he took the pain and shame we were due and offered up his life as a ransom |
| 1:19.5 | for ours. Truly, there is no greater love than the sacrifice of our king. Have you stopped recently |
| 1:26.6 | to acknowledge how intentionally God pursues you? Have you stopped recently to acknowledge how intentionally God |
| 1:28.6 | pursues you? Have you stopped to marvel at the lengths to which he will go simply to have |
| 1:33.8 | your heart? In the hustle and bustle of this Christmas season, may we not look past the greatest |
| 1:39.7 | gift we have? May we not skip over the reality of God's love for us to get to the next thing on the |
| 1:45.9 | calendar? Instead, may we take time every day to believe the simple truth that God became man |
| 1:52.5 | entirely for our sakes. God himself, who has no beginning, no limit, no weakness, and deserves |
| 1:58.6 | no pain, took on flesh in pursuit of a deeper, richer, |
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