A NEW START OUT OF OLD FAILURE
Advent 2025: Something Out Of Nothing – Part 2 of 4
Isaiah 11.1-10
c. 10.33–34 “The Lord GOD of hosts will … cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.” (esv)
GOD’S POWER FOR A NEW BEGINNING MEANS …
Failure CAN BE Admitted
v. 3 “He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear …” (esv)
John 2.25 “He did not need man’s testimony … for he knew what was in a man.” (niv)
Proverbs 14.12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” (esv)
Ephesians 2.5 “… when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ …” (esv)
Nature CAN BE Changed
Matthew 19.25-26 “… the disciples … asked, ‘Then who can be saved?’ Jesus … said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’” (csb)
God HAS BEEN Incarnated
2 Corinthians 8.9 “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” (csb)
Philippians 1.6 “I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (csb)
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