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Today we enter a new year. Over Christmas we have remembered the angel Gabriel announcing Mary's coming pregnancy and birth. The fact that God had chosen to pour out his favour on her was too wonderful for her. She gave birth to a fully human son whom she treasured all the way through his life until his shocking death by crucifixion. Yet darkness is turned to light for her and for you, believer in Jesus, when the crucified Christ rises from the dead in a display of power this world has never seen. His resurrection is a demonstration of the fact that he is fully God. As the God-man he now reigns in glory and will return to bring his people into his glory forever. This is your story today Christian. Embrace it. Find your identity in it. Find pleasure in it. Convince other people of it.

So in this surprise moment where Gabriel appears to Mary, we discover that we struggle to grasp and surrender ourselves to the vast kindness of God in the gospel. God proved his intentions to Mary, a virgin, were good in granting her that miraculous pregnancy. The son born was a thrilling blessing and advantage to Mary and you you and I by extension. The son born was fully human as well as fully divine. It is important that the son is fully human because he is the true Christian's representative obedience, substitute sacrifice, mediator between God and men, ruler over creation, example in life, pattern of glorification, sympathetic high priest, and all of these forever! So you are called upon to worship and trust this Son with joy today because he is everything you need to live a well-adjusted life before God and men, forever.

Crowds enter Jerusalem with rejoicing as the ark of God comes through the gates. While the gates open by the authority of the glorious Creator King, what gives those crowds the right to enter with the King of Glory? The right of access must depend on God himself in his great salvation.

Regardless of how dark your life has grown, you can hope in the Lord. Your love has already failed, not only your love for the Lord, but your love for other people as well. And God Himself, oh what a glorious fact, will come to you personally, in your distress, and He will buy you out of your sins and distress, right down to the very last sinful thought. Forever.

If you are a true believer in Christ, you can know for certain that God is working every single aspect of your life and this universe for your good and his glory. How can I know this is true? Because God has already completed many of the actions required to make that happen. He has known you affectionately forever. He has chosen you to be his own. He has chosen to make you like his glorious Son. He has chosen to include you in a glorious new, eternal family, being like his Son, with the Son being the heroic first. If you exist, believer, that is evidence that God has already taken vast action to ensure your glorification. All that remains for God to do now is to actually glorify you. Let this be your motivation in the moments of your days.

The Bible teaches that church discipline has three purposes. The first is to restore and reconcile believers who are falling into sin. The second is to keep sin from spreading to others in the church. The third is protect the purity of the church and the honour of Christ. All worthy motivations. The Bible also gives us examples of sins that were disciplined in the New Testament. These sins have three commonalities: they are publicly known, they continue over a period of time, and they are destructive to the believer and other believers. The Bible also gives us a clear process for church discipline. Christians should restrict information about the sin to the smallest group, apply measures in increasing strength either if someone has sinned against you or if you have sinned against someone else. Christians should confront lovingly, gently, humbly, tentatively, ready to forgive and exhaustively. The two possible outcomes of this process are either generous restoration or being removed from fellowship as an unbeliever. Church discipline is a very serious process because if a church faithfully follows this process, God agrees with the outcome.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details:

Title: Your Dread in Jesus' Cup

Speaker: Alan Lester

Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 9/25/2022

Bible: Mark 14:32-42

Length: 50 min.

If you had walked with Jesus on earth throughout his earthly ministry, if you had gone with him into Gethsemane, if you had been selected to come closer to him while he prays in agony, if you had heard the unspeakable tones with which he pleaded with his father in bloody agony, would you have been able to stay awake as he asked you to? Would it have changed your life? If even Jesus' disciples fell asleep, how much more do you and I need the empowering grace of God to honour him with our lives.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details:

Title: The Sinful Self-Exalting Heart

Speaker: Alan Lester

Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 8/21/2022

Bible: Isaiah 44:9-20; Jeremiah 44:16-18

Length: 49 min.