A sermon delivered on the first Sunday of Advent with links to Handel's Messiah in context of the biblical prophecies. Click the pictures of the singers for links to the YouTube videos.

1. Yesterday, Today, Yes, and Forever!

2. there was God.
Before there was anything

3. Before there were
people
plants
animals
stars
houses
jobs
Christmas
problems
worry
TIME

4. there was God.

5. Selah.Stop and think about that

6. JesusThat WORD is
•In the beginning
•With God
•Was God
•Made everything
The WORD

7. Colossians 1:15-17
things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities
In him all things were created:
That’s Jesus
All things have been created through him and for him.
He existed before anything else,
ABOUT JESUS
and he holds all creation together.

8. The Son is the image of the invisible God
That’s Jesus
The Son is the radiance of God's glory
Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3
Still Jesus
the exact representation of his being
and
That’s God
MORE ABOUT JESUS
sustaining all things by his powerful word.

9. Lord, show us the Father
If you have seen me, you
have seen the Father.
John 14:9-10

10. there was God.
Before there was anything

11. And they were in heaven
There was
God the Father,
Jesus the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
And there was worship

12. Selah.

13. plants
animals
stars
God created the worldTIMEAt the beginning of
day
earth
heavens
sun
moon
night
sea
fish

14. plants
animals
stars
God created the worldTIMEAt the beginning of
day
earth
heavens
sun
moon
night
sea
fish

15. plants
animals
stars
God created the worldTIMEAt the beginning of
day
earth
heavens
sun
moon
night
sea
fish
people

16. plants
animals
stars
God created the worldTIMEAt the beginning of
day
earth
heavens
sun
moon
night
sea
fish
people

17. But
people
messed things up

18. people
didn’t trust God
My way!

19. But
peopleloves
God
and gave them another chance
and a promise!

20. God
gave them
chance
after chance
after chance
He
gave them
laws
and judges
and kings
and prophets
and punishments
and added to the promise.

21. But
people
continually messed things up
They forgot God.
My way!

22. People
need
God

23. So
Messiah
promised a
God

24. 353 promises
I will establish his throne forever
The virgin will conceive and bear a son
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun:
and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon
His shoulder. And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The
Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of
David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with
justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

25. Comfort ye, comfort
ye my people, saith
your God. Speak ye
comfortably to
Jerusalem, and cry
unto her, that her
warfare is
accomplished, that
her iniquity is
pardoned.
The voice of him that
crieth in the
wilderness: Prepare
ye the way of the
Lord, make straight
in the desert a
highway for our
God.

26. Every valley shall be exalted
and every mountain and hill made low
The crooked made straight
and the rough places plain

27. Godwould level the playing field.
Equal access for everyone.

29. God
As a baby.
sent us
SaviorThat’s Jesus
Just as he promised

31. That baby grew up.
He taught about God.
He did miracles.
He loved people.
He challenged religion that missed God.
But most of all….

32. For, behold, darkness
shall cover the earth, and
gross darkness the
people; but the Lord shall
arise upon thee, and His
glory shall be seen upon
thee. And the Gentiles
shall come to thy light,
and kings to the
brightness of thy rising.
The people that walked in
darkness have seen a
great light: and they that
dwell in the land of the
shadow of death, upon
them hath the light
shined.

33. Some saw the light and believed.
Others chose to stay in darkness.
Jesus said said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the
light of life.”

34. In him was life,
Jesussaid
“I came that they may have
life, and have it abundantly.”
and that life was the light of all mankind.

35. In this the love of God was
made manifest among us,
that God sent his only Son
into the world, so that we
might live through him. In
this is love, not that we
have loved God but that he
loved us and sent his Son
to be the propitiation for
our sins.
- 1 John 4:9-10Jesusdied for us.Then

36. But he rose from
the dead.
Alive forevermore.

37. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
Hebrews 1:3.

38. heavenHe returned to
with God the Father,
and the Holy Spirit.
Now with Jesus the Son,
there was worship

39. Selah.

40. to everlasting,
From everlasting
you are .

41. In the ordinary days

42. people
still mess things up
We forget God.
My way!

43. Sometimes that creates a bad day

44. hereHe’s already
SaviorThat’s Jesus
That’s why we need a
Newsflash!

45. Some see the light and believe.
Others chose to stay in darkness.
Jesus said said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the
light of life.”

46. Remember
Jesus Christ never changes.
He is the same
yesterday,
today,
and forever.

47. He is still on
the throne
and we can
join in with
the
worship.
Anywhere.
Any time.