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Holiness: Preparation for His Coming
How do Jesus’ birth and His second coming intersect? We are very familiar with Jesus’ first advent; but what about His second advent?
Advent is a glorious time of the year, celebrating the advent — the coming — the birth of Christ Jesus in Bethlehem. But we can get so caught up in the emotions of the first Advent and the story of the Nativity that we often forget about the OTHER Advent — the Second Coming of the Lord. God the Father fulfilled the promise of the First Coming; the Second Advent is just as certain.
Pastor Percy Gutteridge ties the two Advents together by taking us through a unique study in the Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 12. Reminding us that “without holiness, no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14), the author unfolds what it means for Jesus to be the Author and Finisher of our faith, and the special role (and blessing) of God’s discipline and chastisements in our lives, along the way to giving us the “birthright blessing” of the firstborn.
And, for Heaven’s sake, what does it mean that we have come — already! — “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven” (Hebrews 12:22-23)? What is the link between “the spirits of just men made perfect” and “the cloud of witnesses”? And what does it means that the blood of Jesus “speaks” (Hebrews 12:24)?
Enjoy a message that will take you out of a “Christmas-story comfort zone” into a larger sphere of God’s provision for us in Christ.
Advent is a glorious time of the year, celebrating the advent — the coming — the birth of Christ Jesus in Bethlehem. But we can get so caught up in the emotions of the first Advent and the story of the Nativity that we often forget about the OTHER Advent — the Second Coming of the Lord. God the Father fulfilled the promise of the First Coming; the Second Advent is just as certain.
Pastor Percy Gutteridge ties the two Advents together by taking us through a unique study in the Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 12. Reminding us that “without holiness, no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14), the author unfolds what it means for Jesus to be the Author and Finisher of our faith, and the special role (and blessing) of God’s discipline and chastisements in our lives, along the way to giving us the “birthright blessing” of the firstborn.
And, for Heaven’s sake, what does it mean that we have come — already! — “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven” (Hebrews 12:22-23)? What is the link between “the spirits of just men made perfect” and “the cloud of witnesses”? And what does it means that the blood of Jesus “speaks” (Hebrews 12:24)?
Enjoy a message that will take you out of a “Christmas-story comfort zone” into a larger sphere of God’s provision for us in Christ.
47 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2019
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