From The Manger To The Cross by Pastor Fee Soliven

Isaiah 7:14Sunday Morning

December 22, 2013

 Isaiah 7:14"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall

conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel"

Genesis 12:1-31 Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your

family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who

bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families

of the earth shall be blessed."

Genesis 17:18-1918 And Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!" 19 Then

God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his

name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants

after him.

1. The Proclamation of the Old Testament Prophets

Isaiah 9:6"For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace"

Jeremiah 23:5-65 "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall

reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 6 In His days Judah will be

saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be

called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

 

The prophets even declared the town of His Birth!

Micah 5:22 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the

thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be

Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting."

Hosea 11:1"When Israel was a child, I loved him,

And out of Egypt I called My son" 

2. The Purpose of Jesus' Ministry & Life

Galatians 3:13-1413 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a

curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the

promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 4:3-74 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a

woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as

sons.

6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your

hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave

but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  

We needed a sinless savior to purge away our sins by faith!

Hebrews 1:1-41 God, who at various times and in

various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these

last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all

things, through whom also He made the worlds;

3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of

His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having

become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance

obtained a more excellent name than they.

Jesus came to bring the Truth for our lives so we can now reject the lie

from Satan.

John 14:6"Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the

Father except through me"

John 8:41-4742 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God;

nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to

listen to My word.

 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to

do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the

truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and

the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not

believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear,

because you are not of God."

3. Jesus was the Ultimate Sacrifice!

Psalm 22:1-21 My God, My God, why have You

forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My

groaning? 2 O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.

 

Matthew 27:46"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God,

My God, why have You forsaken Me?"  .

 Isaiah 53:3-103 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces

from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our grief's And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by

God, and afflicted.

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our

iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His

stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have

turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity

of us all.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8

He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His

generation?

For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they

made His grave with the wicked--But with the rich at His death, Because He

had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When

You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong

His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

 

Psalm 16:9-119 Therefore my heart is glad, and my

glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. 10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy

One to see corruption. 11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are

pleasures forevermore.  

Acts 2:25-2825 For David says concerning Him: 'I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was

glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.

27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have

made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your

presence.'