Welcome to Hank’s Place – Advent December 6, 2020
Where we are, lit up for Jesus! It’s the 2nd Sunday of Advent, 2020. And what a year it has been. But friend, have HOPE as we look toward celebrating the birth of Jesus. Remember Mat 1:21, “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Gal 4:4 adds, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
Jesus came “when the time was right.” When the world was perfectly prepared for God’s work. I tell you, this year, with its COVID, isolations, election treacheries, evil media, is perfectly prepared for God’s work. I urge you therefore, to let Faith and Hope arise in your hearts. Did you know that theologians say that the world had sunk in a moral abyss so low that even the pagans cried out against it and that spiritual hunger was everywhere evident; it was a perfect time for the coming of Christ. Just like today. So let Faith and Hope arise in your hearts. When sin abounds, grace does much more abound. Ro 5:20.
Some of you may be battling depression, feeling suicidal even, for the devil has you convinced that even as the world is going down the toilet, your life even more so, that YOUR case is hopeless. Hey! Ro 5:8 says Christ died for us while we were sinners – while we were genuinely hopeless. Apart from a Savior. Yes, Jesus died for the hopeless. He is the hope of the hopeless. Eternally. Jesus.
I’ve known people who have lost hope, convinced they will burn in Hell, because their church’s doctrines required full obedience to the Law after becoming a Christian – or they would burn. There was a divorce in one man’s past; his church shunned him; excommunicated him. Told him he would go to hell; that Jesus had rejected him. Would never accept him. He became an alcoholic. Depressed and hopeless. Religious lies brought on an early death, and pain and suffering to the family.
Listen, the work of Jesus on the cross for us is God’s ultimate proof of His love for us. Unconditional love. It is not based on our performance prior to, or after our believing in Him. Jesus died for undeserving sinners and rebels. Us! His love, His blood, is greater than our greatest sin.
This Advent, look upon the evergreen trees – see Jesus’ eternal love for you. Look upon the lights – see Jesus, Light of the world, giving life to you. Look upon the gift giving – see Jesus, God’s greatest gift, given us out of His great great love for you.
Look and see. Let hope arise, and COME ALIVE!
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