Sermon Series: “The Incarnation: God’s Unwavering Commitment to His World”
Sermon Text: Luke 1:67-70, 78-79
Sermon Title: “Christ the Light in Our Darkness”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: Christ is the Light of the World …
So We Might See God in Our Darkness.
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Christ is The Light … In a Very Dark World. (Lk. 1:67-70, 78)
SLIDE 4 – Exodus 4:31 – “And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel … seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.”
SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
SLIDE 6 – Luke 24:44-45 – “‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scripture.”
SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
SLIDE 8 – 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 – “If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing … the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God … 6 For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’”
SLIDE 9 – John 3:3 – “Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
SLIDE 10 – Colossians 1:27 – “God chose to make known … the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
SLIDE 12 – Malachi 4:2 – “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings.”
SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
SLIDE 14 – Point 2: Christ is The Light … So We Might See God in Our Darkness. (Lk. 1:79)
SLIDE 15 – Romans 8:32 – “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”
SLIDE 16 – Conclusion: God Gives Light, So We Don’t Have to Stay in Darkness.
SLIDE 16 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives.
SLIDE 17 – We Can Only Travel in Darkness to Light … by Faith Alone.
SLIDE 18 – 2 Corinthians 5:7 – “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
SLIDE 19 – God’s Path Includes Walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
SLIDE 20 – Psalm 23:4 – “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
SLIDE 21 – ‘Tis the Season … to Love One Another Well.
SLIDE 22 – May We Consider the Whole Path as Joy … Just Like Jesus.
SLIDE 23 – Hebrews 12:1-2 – “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses … let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus … who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
