Amid the baubles, the festive menus and the endless seasonal sales, do we still remember what the coming of Jesus actually was? This first Advent sermon takes us back to the garden of Eden and stops at one short sentence that God speaks not to Adam and not to Eve, but to the serpent (Genesis 3). Without that sentence the whole story would end after three chapters, with it, we know that the first good news was spoken in the very middle of human failure. Listen, and catch the first scent of Christmas, entirely unlike the one drifting through the shopping centre.
The Serpent Crusher
The Promised One
When we live in the present, it’s sometimes easy to forget about eternity and live as if what is here and now were all we can expect. However, the Apostle Paul, in his First Letter to the Thessalonians, though writing about very everyday matters, constantly reminds his readers of eternity, and every chapter of this letter ends with a reference to the second coming of Jesus. He does this because, even though we live in the present and struggle with the here and now, we can learn to view our lives, our daily struggles, and our everyday choices from the perspective of eternity-and that changes everything.
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