Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 7:1-17
Sermon Title: “The Foundation and Expectation of Christmas”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: If Your Expectations for Christmas are Built on God’s Promises … You’ll Never be Disappointed by Christmas.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Foundation of Christmas … Is God’s Covenant with David (vv. 1-11)SLIDE 3 – Deuteronomy 12:10-11a – “But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you.”SLIDE 4 – 1 Samuel 15:26 – “And Samuel said to Saul, ‘I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”SLIDE 5 – 2 Chronicles 6:18 – “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!”SLIDE 6 – Exodus 6:7 – “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”SLIDE 7 – Exodus 20:1-3 – “And God spoke all these words, saying, ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.”SLIDE 8 – Exodus 34:5-7 – “The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him [Moses] there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”SLIDE 9 – Psalm 78:67-70 – “He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, but he chose the tribe of Judah … He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.”
SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – The Expectation of Christmas … Is God’s Promise of a Greater David (vv. 12-16)SLIDE 11 – Exodus 4:22-23 – “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me.’’”SLIDE 12 – Deuteronomy 17:14-15 – “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you.”
SLIDE 13 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 14 – The Old Testament is Crucial for our Understanding of Christmas.SLIDE 15 – God’s Grace Includes Loving Discipline, but His Mercy is Always More.SLIDE 16 – Advent is About Learning to Wait.
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