Advent Week One It Was All Planned Christ The KING Presbyterian Ministries

Advent Week One

It Was All Planned

Foundation (what our Lesson Is actually Built On)

As is our tradition we have chosen Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel our Friends at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, New York City, New York as our Procession each week in Advent, as its haunting tone might allow us to be reminded of this quite period of 400 years, where the hope in darkness seemed more and more desperate, and perhaps so distant as it would never actually happen.

It sets the Stage for the Majestic Processional of Christmas Eve and the Darkness shattered by the birth of the LIGHT of the world and CREATOR of the universe forever.

We should by the Mercy of GOD, through the enlightening of the HOLY SPIRIT, grow to enjoy and fully Grasp Matthew Chapter 1’s opening line as our Levite trained Author of this Gospel’s account that the Whole Purpose of the Old Testament is to point only to Mt 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus The Christ (in Greek The MESIAH!!!!), the SON (PROMISED) of David, the SON (PROMISED) of Abraham.

That Jesus truly is the Christ who the Old Testament Promise, and IS THE promised Son of David, and Son of Abraham.

Two final thoughts as we start this Advent Season,

Advent (Old English, from Latin adventus ‘arrival’, from advenire, from ad- ‘to’ + venire ‘come’).simply means Coming, as in the advent of spring.

This really is fun as Next we look at, is it Emmanuel or Immanuel, I love answering this question as the answer really is Yes, as both are Fully correct, as Immanuel come from the Hebrew spelling, and Emmanuel from the Greek, so both are indeed correct.

We will see this in Point Three, a and it is really important, it’s a Quick Sidebar, as many modern English Bibles, including to My Shock and Sadness have translated The Original Greek Septuagint “Spermatos” & translated  Hebrew Word Zera Literally Seed has been dumbed down to Offspring, that does NOT present the IMPOSSIBLE in the Seed of the Woman, as Women in Human Procreation Have NO Seed, but Indeed Have “Offspring”.

IT IS LITTERALLY SCREAMMING VIRGIN BIRTH AT THE VERY BEGINNING!!!

Finally, We remember by the opening of our Eyes by the HOLY SPIRIT, Christmas is NOT the Start of Christ’s Mission, as HE truly is the Christ of John Chapter 1, the GOD at the Oaks of Mamore, and the Christ of Mount Moriah to name a few appearances in the Old Testament part of the Mission.

Christmas starts what I believe is the Collision of Armageddon at the Cross, and the Victory of the Christ!

A Special Thanks to the Public Post of Beautiful Music from Churches like St. Bartholomew’s New York City, Washington National Cathedral, and many others, if you enjoy the music consider visiting one of these Churches and enjoying the music live. 

Let’s run to worship

Call to Worship

Genesis 17:7 ? "I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Processional

Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ZKfSE3aKQ

St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, New York City, New York 

Passing Of The Peace Of Christ

May the Peace of Christ Be With You

ALL: And Also With You!!

Please take a minute to pass the peace of Christ

Love Came Down At Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAjB0GVpleg

The Choir Of Kings College, Cambridge, England

First Reading

Ge 3:6 ? When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

 8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

 9 ? Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

 10 He said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

 11 ? And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

 12 The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."

 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

 14 ? The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;

 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."

 16 ? To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."

 17 ? Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

 18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;

 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

 This Is The WORD Of The LORD

ALL: Thanks Be To GOD!!!

The LORD’S Prayer & Nicene Creed Read By All

Matthew 6:9 ? And Jesus said "In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.

 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Christian What Do You Believe?

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

The Doxology

Praise GOD From Whom All Blessings Flow: Tune All Creatures of Our God and King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1JOnVnLQd0

Faith Presbyterian Church, Tacoma, Washington, Organist Mr. Ron Bechtel

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUbCbT4Yuog

Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Northville, Michigan

Second Reading

Psalm 45:1 ? <<For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.>> My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my verses to the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

 2 You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.

 3 Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One, In Your splendor and Your majesty!

 4 And in Your majesty ride on victoriously, For the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; Let Your right hand teach You awesome things.

 5 Your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under You; Your arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.

 6 ? Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

 7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

 8 All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

 9 Kings' daughters are among Your noble ladies; At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

 10 ? Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house;

 11 Then the King will desire your beauty. Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.

 12 The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; The rich among the people will seek your favor.

 13 The King's daughter is all glorious within; Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

 14 She will be led to the King in embroidered work; The virgins, her companions who follow her, Will be brought to You.

 15 They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing; They will enter into the King's palace.

 16 In place of your fathers will be your sons; You shall make them princes in all the earth.

 17 I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

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This Is The WORD Of The LORD

ALL: Thanks Be To GOD!!!

Angles We Have Heard On High

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3a1duZgSkQ

The Church Of St. Mary The Virgin Roman Catholic Church, New York City, New York

James Kennerley Music Director

Lesson

It Was All Planned

As we start the Advent Season, and our lessons will walk us briefly from Genesis 3 and the promise by Christ HIMSELF that HE will Crush the Serpents head, though HE will die in process and rise from the dead.

As we reread Genesis 3

8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

 9 ? Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

 10 He said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

 11 ? And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

 12 The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."

 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

 14 ? The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;

 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."

 16 ? To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."

As with last year I will re-walk us through a few over looked facts, it will be important to keep the above text clearly in our minds and as Lt Columbo would say we are going to ask the “one more thing.”

First: Why were we made male and female?

The answer is cleared up when Jesus tells the Sadducees (It is Sad U See that they don’t believe in the Resurrection) Mt 22:29 But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.

 30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Jesus is bluntly telling them that the life of Marrying and giving in Marriage is due to the fall and the fall alone! Post second coming life will be eternal with no need of procreation of course, as such the LORD knew we would fail in Eden’s Garden and need to reproduce, proof that we will die, just as HE already knew HE would have to succeed in Gethsemane’s Garden.

Second: Christ HIMSELF promises the SEED of the Woman would CRUSH the Serpents head, but HE also told us plainly that “the Serpent would strike HIS heal”

This line can get overlooked as we in the 21st Century don’t realize just how deadly such a strike is, Christ is saying HE will die from this strike.

Ac 28:3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, "Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live."

 5 However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

 6 But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

As the text for Acts clearly tells us Paul sound have died instantly from serpents bite, and the Maltians were stunned when it did not happen.

So Yes indeed The LORD of Eden’s Garden was indeed promising he would die in this rescue.

This takes us to the review of point 3

Third: The SEED of the Woman, in Human reproduction is impossible; as we learn in the descriptive but yet helpful passage when Ge 38:9 tells us “Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother” it tells us clearly who provides the seed, and as a consequence it also helps us to understand WHY the SEED OF THE WOMAN is a tip, it also is already telling us of two things that will help understand the rest of the Bible, and the layout of the Salvation path. We will be reminded of this when Jesus talks of the Camel going through the eye of the Needle.

Quick Sidebar, as many modern English Bibles, including to My Shock and Sadness have translated The Original Greek Septuagint “Spermatos” & translated  Hebrew Word Zera Literally Seed has been dumbed down to Offspring, that does NOT present the IMPOSSIBLE in the Seed of the Woman, as Women in Human Procreation Have NO Seed, but Indeed Have “Offspring”.

IT IS LITTERALLY SCREAMMING VIRGIN BIRTH AT THE VERY BEGINNING!!!

To be clear the Bible is about GOD doing the IMPOSSIBLE as is our salvation in and of ourselves, it can ONLY be of the LORD’S doing!

The SEED of the Woman has ONLY ONE possibility, THE VIRGIN BIRTH!

Next week we will review the as part of the Path of HE who will sit on the throne of David for EVER!!

Walking through the Path Jesus always was to take is an exciting true path; I can’t wait to take with you all.

Joy To The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHS7StIz1S8

The Episcopal Cathedral Church Of St. Peter & St Paul, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C

Approach the Feast of The LORD

1st Corinthians 11:23 ? For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

 25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

 27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

 28 But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

As We Run To The LORD’S Feast

See A Mind The Winters Snow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgo-UfyJgc

The Choir Of Kings College, Cambridge, England

The LORD’S Benediction

Romans 15:13 ? Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Let Us Go Forth As Those Who Love And Proclaim Our Risen LORD And Savior Jesus Christ

Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, AMEN

Recessional

LORD Christ When Thou First Came To Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRwrWxsIdg

St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, New York City, New York