The Coming One, Part 3: Saving Substitute

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Call to Worship / Lighting Advent Candle

Verse
Longing for peace, our world is troubled
Longing for hope, many despair
Your Word alone has power to save us
Make us Your living voice

Chorus
Christ, be our Light!
Shine in our hearts;
Shine through the darkness.
Christ, be our Light!
Shine in Your church gathered today.

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Prayer

Song – “O Little Town of Bethlehem”

Verse 1
O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

Verse 2
For Christ is born of Mary
And gathered all above
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
their watch of wondering love
O morning stars together
Proclaim the holy birth
And praises sing to God the King
And peace to men on earth

Verse 3
How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven
No ear may hear His coming
But in this world of sin
Where meek souls will receive Him still
The dear Christ enters in

Verse 4
O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born in us today
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell
O come to us abide with us
Our Lord Emmanuel

Song – “Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming”

Verse 1
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming
As men of old have sung.
It came, a flower bright,
Amid the cold of winter
When half-gone was the night.

Verse 2
Isaiah ’twas foretold it,
The Rose I have in mind:
With Mary we behold it,
The virgin mother kind.
To show God’s love aright
She bore to us a Savior
When half-gone was the night.

Verse 3
This Flower, whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor
The darkness everywhere.
True man, yet very God,
From sin and death He saves us
And lightens every load

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Message – “Saving Substitute”

Scripture: Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Speaker: Pastor Joshua Scheid
Series: Whispers & Rumblings of the Coming One

KEY POINT  
        The loving Shepherd in the place of the wayward sheep;
        the exalted King in the place of the rebel subject;
        Christ died for our sins.

1. What is being described here?
Isaiah 52:13-15, 53:1-3, 53:7-10

the rejection, the suffering, the death of Jesus




2. What is the meaning of this?
Isaiah 53:4-6, 12

One word: substitution
Paul in 1 Cor 15:13: Christ died for our sin




3. Why would God do this?
Isaiah 53:10-11

for His glory and for our good.


a. “many will be counted righteous” (v. 11)
right standing before God


b. “He shall see His offspring” (v. 10)
being in God’s family

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Song – “Go Tell It On the Mountain”

Chorus
Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

Verse 1
While shepherds kept their watching
O’er silent flocks by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light

Verse 2
The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed the Savior’s birth

Verse 3
Down in a lowly manger
The humble Christ was born
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn

Benediction / Sending

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