The Christmas Journey! Christmas Hope: Isaiah 9:1-7
From Despair to Ever Increasing Peace!

1. What Eve Hoped For! Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 4:1

From What We Lost to Possessing It Again!

2. What Abraham Hoped For! Genesis 12

From Nothing to Everything!

Genesis 15:5 And He took Him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them. And He said to Him “So Shall Your Seed Be!” 6 Then He (Abraham) Believed in the Lord; and He (God) Counted Him as Righteousness!
Galatians 3:16 Now the promises were spoken ot Abraham and to his seed. He does not say ‘and to seeds’ as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed’ that is Christ!

Romans 4:17-21 – The Crown of Hope!

3. What the Prophets Hoped For! Isaiah 9:1-7

From Despair to Everlasting, Ever Increasing Peace!

The Christmas Journey: From Where We Are to Where We Will Be!

From: No More Gloom, Anguish or Darkness!

To: Ever Increasing Gladness! 3
Forever Freedom! 4
Never Ending-Ever Increasing Peace!

By: The Seed of the Woman: Jesus! The Son Ever Given to Us! Coming to Crush the Head of the Enemy in Our Lives!

He is: Jesus Christ, The Son of the Living God!

• Wonderful Counselor
• Mighty God
• Eternal Father
• Prince of Peace!
He is Our Hope! And the Christmas Journey? John 1:1 & 14
In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word Was God…….. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, glory of the only begotten full of Grace and Truth!

4. It’s What We Hope For! The Finished Product

The Journey from Despair to Every Increasing Peace! Galatians 5:16-23!

This Indeed is Jesus! This Indeed is Christmas Hope

1 John 3:1-3 Anticipate This! From Where we are to Where we will be!

Hope – Wishing for Something we may or may not get!
Christmas Hope…. Christian Hope: Anticipating Great Outcomes! Anticipating “God Outcomes”! Anticipating with Pleasure What God Promises! The Things of God we will surely get! Believing and Anticipating what God always intended to be!

And now! You are agents of Hope! Bringing People a message of hope!