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Fifth Sunday of Advent – 2022
Emmanuel
Matthew 1:20-23

Are there issues in your life that you can’t seem to get a grip on?
Things that seem out of your control to improve upon?

I cannot change myself. I have tried.

Belief determines behavior. Do I believe there is HOPE that I can still change?

Romans 8:9 - You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you.

Matt 1:23: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, God with us.

Emmanuel – God with us - also means God’s LOVE is with us.

That LOVE can restore your soul and repair the broken places in your heart that drive you to previously fill those cracks with ….

I cannot change myself. I have tried. The power in me to change is Emmanuel.

I have this treasure in an earthen vessel

When Your Love broke through

LIVE through me. LOVE through me.

Someone once said that if you could convince a man that there is no hope, he would curse the day that he was born.
You see, hope is an important part of life.

Years ago a submarine was rammed by another ship and quickly it sank to the bottom of the ocean.
The entire crew was trapped inside that submarine.
Many boats rushed to the disaster, but no one really knew what the submarine crew went through in those few hours underneath the water.

Men bravely clung to all the oxygen that they could get until, slowly, it gave out.
One diver who came to the rescue swam down and put his ear to the side of the submarine and listened,
The diver heard tapping noises - someone was banging out a message in Morse code.
The message was a question: “Is there any hope?”

That question is the cry of all humanity. “Is there any hope?”

In different circumstances, and situations, that question can be heard: “Is there any hope?”
On March 2nd, 1791, John Wesley’s opened his eyes and exclaimed for the very last time, upon his deathbed, these words: ‘The best of all is this: God is with us’.

He could have said anything, but he said that the best of all is this: God is with us.

I want to speak to you today for a few moments on ’Immanuel’.

Simply put Immanuel means ’God with us’.
would look after you, He would take care of you’.

Emmanuel – God with us.

God’s very presence has come to actually dwell within the body of this child.

Matthew 1:23, ’Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us’.

What did this name ’Immanuel’ mean to Matthew?
What did it mean those Matthew was writing to?

An artist once drew a picture of a winter scene, it was twilight,
the trees within the picture were heavy with snow, there was a dreary, dark house in the background that looked lonely and empty.

Right there, in the midst of a snow storm, all that could be seen was a dark black house shadowed with the silhouette of these trees.

It was a sad picture, but then with a quick stroke - just one quick stroke - a dash of yellow, the artist simply put in a beam of light coming from the window.
The effect, it was transforming.
The picture was transformed into a vision of comfort, a vision of cheer.

Listen: that is what the name ’Immanuel’ meant to Matthew, that is what the name ’Immanuel’ meant to God’s people.

It was like a beam of light, into the darkness –
and Jesus Christ, the Light of the world, Emmanuel,
this child would be the Light of the world.

Titus: “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.”

[My friend, can I say to you:
if you’re not born-again,
if you’ve never met Jesus Christ in your life,
if you’ve never had Him revealed to you by the Holy Spirit, if you’ve never been saved or if you’re backslidden today - listen:
do you not see your need to know Emmanuel? to know the joy of God with you?]

U2: “Sometimes you can’t make it on your own.”
You need God’s power.

“You’ll get through this… not because YOU are strong, but because GOD IS.”

God is there for you in your storm. Christ in YOU.
But there’s also another need to address..

“I see some things in my life that I want to change.”

Emmanuel – God with Us –
12 Steps 1-3:
1. We admitted we were powerless over our problem—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

We need Him, not just for our outer struggles, but for the battles we fight inside ourselves as well.
He can make our dis-functional functional.

Galatians talks about Christ being formed in you

Eph 4:13 – “ …until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”



Do you see your Emmanuel?
Do you see that out of the darkness of your life,
or your depression, or your illness, or your weariness - whatever it is
- the pressures of the world that are coming in upon you,
can you see that God in His Son, has sent Immanuel?

God is with you! God is for you!

His grace, His saving power, His deliverance.
His act of redemption is in the midst of us today by His Son!

That’s what it meant to Matthew.
It was the good news - we all know it - we need to rejoice in it today.

Christ Jesus came into the world,
Emmanuel, God with us, to save us from our sin!

He came to save His people, didn’t He?
A God who cares for you. A God who understands you.
A God who loves you. A God who is with you.
A God who forgives you.
A God who gives you the free gift of salvation.
A God who has saved you.

Whatever storms you’re going through, listen: God is with us!

He has come to stay, He has come to dwell,
He has come to reside with us! In Us.

Wherever we are, He is there with us.
God is with you all the time.

He is Emmanuel, which means you need not ever be alone.
God is with you all the time.

Whatever your need is - let this word sink into your mind and your heart:

Emmanuel, God is with us.

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Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
Pastor: Mike J Koger

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