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Advent Preaching at Harderwyk - Hebrews 1:1-4 - December 6, 2020

Resources For Second Sunday in Advent From Each Harderwyk Preacher

Pastor JB Wurland - Fusion Preacher

Abraham Heschel expands on the simple importance and lasting nature of words, the vessel that God used to reveal himself to his people.

Some people may wonder: why was the light of God given in the form of language? How is it conceivable that the divine should be contained in such brittle vessels as consonants and vowels? This question betrays the sin of our age: to treat lightly the ether which carries the light-waves of the spirit. What else in the world is as capable of bringing man and man together over the distances in space and in time? Of all things on earth words alone never die. They have so little matter and so much meaning… God took these Hebrew words and breathed into them of His power, and the words became a live wire charged with His spirit. To this very day they are hyphens between heaven and earth. What other medium could have been employed to convey the divine? Pictures enameled on the moon? Statues hewn out of the Rockies? Abraham Heschel (God in Search of Man) p. 244 - *quoted in Run with the Horses

 

A theme we will touch on during the message is how God’s judgment works for our good.  Eugene does a beautiful job helping us understand this here.

“Judgment is not the last word; it is never the last word.  Judgment is necessary because of centuries of hardheartedness; its proper work is to open our hearts to the reality beyond ourselves, to crack the carapace of self-sufficiency so that we can experience the inrushing grace of the healing, merciful, forgiving God.” Eugene Peterson (Run with the Horses) p.169

 

The message will end with the invitation to chose the truth over the lies of our age.  To choose the truth – to choose Jesus is to embrace a life with Him.  This is freely available to all of us – in fact we were created for it.  Love how Eugene words it here.

“Biblical faith, however, has always insisted that there are no special aptitudes for a life with God – no required level of intelligence or degree of morality, no particular spiritual experience.  The statement ‘I’m not the religious type’ is inadmissible.  There are no religious types.  There are only human being, every one created for a relationship with God that is personal and eternal.”  Eugene Peterson (Run with the Horses) p.133

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