Promise Keeper Series

Promise Keeper

Christmas Eve 2019

• My parents never made empty promises to me. Now that I’m an adult, I realize my parents were always honest with me.

• Because of their honesty, I’ve found it easier to believe in a God that keeps his promises.

• That is not true for many people who find God too mysterious to understand, much less trust.

Have you ever been so disappointed in the prayers that weren’t answered that we failed to thank God for the ones He did answer?

The Jewish people were holding on to promises made to Abraham and David thousands of years earlier.

Genesis 12:2 NIV

“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you …”

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Israel didn’t feel like a great nation and they certainly didn’t feel blessed.

Isaiah 9:2 NIV

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.

Our dark world needs a cure. We need light to break through.

We need to something to believe in, something we can trust to be true.

And then one night, a frightened teenage girl gave birth to a baby with only her young and confused husband by her side. It was an arrival announced by angels! The light had come. Hope had arrived! The cure was here!

God has made all of us a promise.

Hebrews 13:5b NIV

“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”