Series: Advent 2022Scripture: Matthew 1:1; Hosea 3:4-5

“The early Christians did not say ‘look what the world is coming to!’ but ‘look what has come into the world!’”

Carl Henry

“So I’ve been waiting for the King

To come galloping out of the clouds while the angel armies sing

He’s gonna gather His people in the shadow of His wings

And I’m gonna raise my voice with the song of the redeemed

‘Cause all this darkness is a small and passing thing”

Andrew Peterson, “The Dark Before the Dawn”

“In short, we need to be forgiven. That’s the only way for our discontent to be healed. It will take more than a miracle worker or a divine genie—it will take a Savior. Jesus knows that to be our Savior he is going to have to die. And we will discover that in the process of dealing with what we thought were our deepest wishes, Jesus has revealed an even deeper, truer one beneath—and it is for Jesus himself. He will not just have granted that true deepest wish, he will have fulfilled it. Jesus is not going to play the rotten practical joke of giving you your deepest wish—until he has shown you that it was for him all along.”

Tim Keller, Jesus the KingThe post Great David’s Greater Son first appeared on Hope Church PCA.