Waiting On God

Waiting On God
Luke 2: 21-35

Advent

• Christmas & Easter
  
• Incarnation & Resurrection
  
• 1st Advent & 2nd Advent
  
  • Advent designates the coming or second coming of Christ.
    
  • The English term advent comes from a Latin word meaning “coming.”

Oh, The Waiting!

• Waiting is the act of remaining inactive or stationary
  
  • to remain or rest in expectation
    
  • to remain or be in readiness
    
  • to remain temporarily neglected, unattended to, or postponed

Wait On The Lord
“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His under-standing is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:28-31

• Waiting for the Proto-prophecy of:
  
• Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
  
  • This is where the story of Christmas begins!
• Proverbs 13:12, 19a
  
  • “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.”
    
  • “A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul”

The Coming of Christ

• He came in his first advent “in the fullness of the time”
  
• I John 5:20
• He will come with reference to his coming again the second time at the last day
  
• Acts 1:11; 3:19-21
  
• I Thessalonians 4:15-18
  
• II Timothy 4:1-5
  
• Hebrews 9:28

But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31

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