Week 3
December 23, 2023

The Miracle of God Loving Man
The Miracle of God Visiting Man
The Miracle of God Living In Man

4. The Miracle of God Adopting Man

I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18

An Orphan Heart
Does Not Feel They Have A Home
They Struggle With Belonging
They Feel They Are Outside Looking In
They Have No Inheritance
They Have Not Experienced Unconditional Love
Struggle with Who They Are
Struggle with Authority
They Desire A Home: A Safe Place, A Place of Warmth and Acceptance

You Have An Inheritance
giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
Colossians 1:12

You Are Cared For
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 6:31-32

You Are Secure
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

You Are Loved
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:37

You Have An Identity
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 8:15

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 4:6-7

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:3-6

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 3:1

5. The Miracle of God As A Suffering Savior

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 13:8

He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows (Pains) and acquainted with grief (Sicknesses). And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne (Carried) our griefs (Sicknesses) And carried our sorrows (pains); Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:3-4

But He was wounded (Pierced Though) for our transgressions, He was bruised (Crushed) for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes (Bruises and Wounds) we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5-6

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
1 Peter 2:24

6. The Miracle of God’s Victory Over The Enemy

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8b

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. So let no one judge you…..
Colossians 2:13-16a

7. The Miracle of God’s Second Christmas

Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:7

Christ Shed His Blood – The Enemies of God Shed Their Blood
Jesus Was Rejected by the Jews – Received By The Jews
Gentiles Accept Jesus – Gentiles Reject Jesus
A Spiritual Kingdom – A Physical Kingdom
Had A Crown of Thorns – Receives Many Crowns
King of Jews Crucified – King of King Reigns
Came To Save Sinners – Comes To Judge Sinners
The Devil Bound Jesus – Jesus Binds The Devil
Jesus Is The Lamb of God – Jesus Is The Lion
He Came To Die – He Comes To Defeat Death
Christ Rides A Donkey – Christ Rides A Glorious White Horse
Jesus Is Servant – Jesus Is King
Jesus Lies In A Manger – Jesus Sits on A Throne

The Miracle of God Loving Man
The Miracle of God Visiting Man
The Miracle of God Living In Man
The Miracle of God Adopting Man
The Miracle of God Suffering For Man
The Miracle of God’s Victory For Man
The Miracle of God Coming Again For Man