For Sunday, December 19, 2021
Matthew 1:23 NLT, God speaking through the prophet Isaiah: “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”
Christmas will be upon us in less than a week, when we celebrate the arrival of baby Jesus. The Israelites had been waiting quite a while for this miracle. Isaiah’s prophesy occurred about 800 years before Jesus came to earth!
God, speaking through his prophet, said that we’ll easily identify this Son of God, the only baby ever born of a virgin! Think of him as “God with us.” So the Good News now is that God is not absent from us. God is not far away. God deeply cares about mankind, His creations, and He wants only good things for us. He wants us to know that sins can be forgiven, reconciliation is possible and heaven is an attainable goal through Jesus. We were given hope!
This Christmas, tell someone of the hope you have through Jesus!
Blessings and Merry Christmas!
Pastor Norton Lawellin
Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406
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