LET US GO DOWN TO BETHLEHEM --- GOD WITH US...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
I. Join in with the lowly shepherds... HEAR THE ANGELS SING:
GLORY TO GOD...
Worship with the WISE MEN...
UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN...
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
A. Jesus is Jehovah INCARNATE...
B. MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION TO A VIRGIN BIRTH...
Song 5:16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
C. ADMIRED
PLEASANT
FAIR
LOVE--- STRONG CORDS
AS CEDARS OF LEBANON
II. IMMANUEL (EMMANUEL)
A. Bible interpeters regard these words as directly and exclusively a PROPHECY OF
OUR SAVIOR...
GOD WITH US...
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
B. PRAISE GOD --- HE IS WITH US!
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
III. GOD WITH US --- WE ARE WITH GOD...
A. God with us in our nature...
God with us in our pain and sorrow
God with us in our life’s work...
God with us in the grave...
God with us in our punishment...
B. Now us with Him in His Resurrection...
Us with God in the ASCENSION and TRIUMPH
US WITH GOD IN THE SECOND COMING...
THEY TOOK NOTE OF THEM THAT THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS...
IV. JESUS IS A BROTHER TO EACH BELIEVER...
Matthew 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my
mother? and who are my brethren?
[49] And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
A. Ring on my finger
A robe on my back...
Brother born for ADVERSITY
B. JESUS WAS KNOWN BY ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB
C. JESUS IS THE ROCK... STABLE... TESTED... PROVEN
The fig tree may not and the flocks cease blossom,
Proverbs 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly:
and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
VI. JESUS IS A FRIEND TO EACH BELIEVER...
James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called
the Friend of God.
John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.
VII. JESUS IS OUR LORD AND KING... KING OF KINGS
1 Tim. 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Joel 2:11 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
VIII. JESUS CAN CALM THE STORMS...
Matthew 8:26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
[27] But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
IX. JESUS IS THE RESTORER... REGAINER OF PARADISE...
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
X. JESUS HAS POWER IN HIS BLOOD...
A. THERE IS WONDERFUL POWER IN THE BLOOD...
Hebrews 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
B. The Priest poured the blood over the altar and washed the altar with water...
OUT OF HIS SIDE FLOWED BLOOD AND WATER...
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
C. We bear the King’s seal... STREETS OF GOLD...
XI. JESUS IN HIS FULNESS IS DEITY... SON OF GOD
JESUS --- SON OF GOD, SON OF MAN
Matthew 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
[14] And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
[15] He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
[16] And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
XIII. JESUS BRINGS VICTORY --- TRIUMPH
XIV. JESUS PLAN IS FOR DELIVERANCE... SAVIOR... NEW BIRTH...
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
XV. JESUS BRINGS FORGIVENESS, GRACE, TENDER MERCY...
Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
[15] But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
XVI. JESUS AROSE VICTOROUS OVER DEATH HELL THE GRAVE...
Rev. 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
XVII. JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE...
John 6:48 I am that bread of life.
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
XVIII. JESUS THE LIVING WATER...
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
XIX. JESUS IS SOVEREIGN --- JESUS IS SUFFICIENT...
2 Cor. 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:
for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me.
XX. JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Illumination
Lamp
John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
XXI. JESUS IS THE HEALER...
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
GOD IS WITH US...
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
