Family Advent Devotions
Week 4 – Love (Scene 7)
Scene 7:
Christmas Scripture Reading Plan:
God’s Faithful & Steadfast Love
Luke 3:15-22, 2 Peter 3, Psalms 61-62:2, Psalms 100
This week of Advent is about God’s steadfast love. Ray discusses that true power is sacrificial love. It is important to consider what drives our love. Is it selfish or is it self-sacrificial? Is it from Jesus’ model or Herod’s model? The story of love from God continues as we get a glimpse into Jesus’ baptism. The heavens were opened, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus, and God spoke – What a moment in history! Beautiful words of affirmation and blessing were spoken, “You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased!” Later in the story, II Peter reminds us that Christ will return and that we need godliness, holiness, discernment, wisdom, knowledge, and grace as we wait for Him and as we love those around us. There’s an important warning about Scriptures being twisted by the ignorant and unstable and the possibility of getting pulled away and losing our own stability and closeness to God. However, we can be reassured that God provides us with a refuge and salvation for our souls through Jesus. God hears our prayers and is with us day-to-day as we faithfully follow him.
Scene 7:
Christmas Scripture Reading Plan with Ray Vander Laan
It is important that in all these Old Testament promises about the coming of the Messiah, God’s people are facing enemies and an uncertain future. Every time, they need hope. In each passage we read, God promises His people that he will bring them salvation by the birth of their Messiah. The New Testament takes these important passages and reminds us of them at the birth of Jesus Christ.
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Ray Vander Laan
It is important that in all these Old Testament promises about the coming of the Messiah, God’s people are facing enemies and an uncertain future. Every time, they need hope. In each passage we read, God promises His people that he will bring them salvation by the birth of their Messiah. The New Testament takes these important passages and reminds us of them at the birth of Jesus Christ.
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