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Dec 03, 2017

Advent Week 1: "Hope. With God"

Passage: Matthew 1:18-23

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Advent

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: advent, christmas, hope

You are never alone. We were specifically designed to be in intimate relationships with one another, but even moreso, with God himself. In the beginning we dwelt with God, but in our rebellion we wanted to forge our own path, cutting off our intimacy with Him. The birth (“genesis” in Greek) of Jesus is the starting-block of God’s re-creation where he personally and physically comes to dwell with us, paying our rebellion-debt and leaving us his Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, to permanently dwell with us until the day we once again see God face-to-face. This gift of God’s presence gives us HOPE in our everyday life because, regardless of how we feel or what darkness seems to overtake, we can never be alone and forsaken.