Matthew 1

Hope - God in Our Midst

Hope - God In Our Midst

Christmas 2020 - 12/6/2020 - Dave Riddle


We Can Have Hope!

  • Psalm 42:11 - Hope in the Lord!

  • Psalm 62:5 - He is my only hope.


Why?


He is

  • Jeremiah 10:10a - YHWH is the true and living God!

  • Jeremiah 10:16 - Not just a passive idol, but the creator of everything!


He is here

  • Matthew 1:23 - Immanuel (God with us)

  • Here, and involved

    • Hebrews 1:3

    • Philippians 2:5-7

    • Colossians 1:15

    • 1 Peter 5:7

He is love

  • 1 John 4:8 - God is love

  • John 3:16 - God loved the world in this way...

  • Titus 3:4-7 - love, grace, mercy, salvation

He is Savior

  • Jesus / Yeshua / Joshua - The Lord Saves

  • Romans 8:38-39 - there is nothing that can separate you from the salvation that Jesus has provided to you

  • Hebrews 1:3

He is King!

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - this life is not the end!

    • 1 Timothy 6:12-15



Hello My Name is... Mighty God

Hello my name is: Mighty God

Dave Riddle - 12/08/19

Key Passage: Isaiah 9:6


‘el (Hebrew: אֵל) - god or god-like one; mighty one. Mighty men: men of rank: heroes. Strength, power. God (the one true God)


gibbowr (Hebrew: גִּבּוֹר) - strong, mighty or powerful. A strong, brave and mighty person. By implication a warrior and champion.

  • Joshua 1:14, 6:2, 8:3

  • 1 Samuel 17:51; 2 Samuel 23

  • Psalm 24:8


He is divine

  • Hebrews 1:3 - the exact expression of His nature

  • John 1:14 -The Word became flesh... the one and only Son from the Father

  • John 10:30 - I and the Father are One

  • Matthew 1:23 - God with us


He was promised

  • Genesis 3:15 - He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.


He was wounded

  • Isaiah 53:4-5 - Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.

    • Pierced, crushed, punished, and wounded for us.


He is Triumphant

  • Jesus is the victorious one!

  • Hebrews 2:14-15

    • By his death he destroyed death... and freed those held in slavery by the fear of death.


Romans 8:31-35

  • if God is for us, who can be against us?

  • Who can separate us from the love of Christ?