God With Us: Week One
God With Us: Week One
Speaker: Pastor Lee Cummings
Date: November 30, 2019
God With Us is a brand new series focused on the monumental, history-changing event that took place when Jesus Christ was born.
In week one of God With Us, Pastor Lee reads from John 1 and focuses on the truth that God wrote Himself into our story, and He'll never leave or forsake us.
Focus Scripture
John 1:1-18 (ESV)
“1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'") 16 And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.”
Sermon Highlights
God With Us = Jesus is God.
Things are bad, spiritually darker, and worse than we could've imagined - and there is no possible way for us to fix or save ourselves.
Nevertheless, there is good news!
Hope has arrived and a light has dawned in the land of deep darkness.
The gospel is God with us.
Our faith as Christians is built upon two great miracles: the resurrection and the incarnation.
"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."
Jesus wrote Himself into our story.
Everything we've experienced in life, He's been right there the entire time.
God did it all for love.