Advent 2: Preparation

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ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE: available ACOUSTIC MUSIC INTERVALS: 00:38:16.860-00:41:51.800 ACOUSTIC SPEECH OVERLAP: yes ACOUSTIC BOUNDARIES APPLIED: end Inline CUT markers identify each proposed audio boundary after the relevant word. --- ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT WITH PROPOSED CUTS MARKED --- If it is true that Jesus comes into the world in a three-fold time frame, that is to say He comes historically when He was born as a baby, He comes in the present when He comes to the believing heart, and He comes in the future when He comes again to redeem all of creation, then it stands to reason, does it not, that when the Bible talks about preparing for the coming of the Lord, that preparation also needs to take place in a three-fold time frame, that is to say the past, the present, and the future. In the time that we have this morning, allow me to comment on each one of these, beginning then with the past, and the past can of course best be summarized, I think, by the story of John the Baptist that we have just read together from Luke chapter one. The story of John the Baptist is referred to in all four gospels, but it is developed most clearly and in most detail by Luke in his first very long chapter, and the story of John the Baptist can kind of be summarized this way, Zechariah his father was an elderly priest on duty in the temple offering the evening sacrifice of incense to God when all of a sudden he had a divine visitation. The angel Gabriel appeared to him, and the angel Gabriel gave him this astounding message, do not be afraid Zechariah, your prayer has been heard, your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John. He will be a joy and a light to you. Many will rejoice because of his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. Well Gabriel then goes on to spell out more specifically what will be the ministry or the mission of John the Baptist with these words, "Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God, and he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." And there you have the key to the mission of John the Baptist, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. And the image here of course is that of a herald who goes out into the country or into the city where a king is going to come with a view to making sure that all the people are prepared. I remember many years ago as a youngster, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was going to come to Charlottetown, was going to visit a frosted food plant where we were delivering vegetables at the time. And I so clearly remember all the work they went through to make sure the place was ready for the Queen. They got rid of all the junk, they paved a piece of road that hadn't been paved for many many years. And of course if truth be known, you and I do the same thing. Depending on how comfortable we are with company or how big is the impression we want to try to make, we prepare. And part of the Christmas season is a preparation for the celebration of the season. Well John the Baptist had as his mission the job of preparing the people for the coming of the Lord Jesus, Zechariah. After the baby is born, later on in the chapter, gives voice to that same burden, that same ministry when he says, "And you my child will be called a prophet of the most high, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven, to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." And if it was the mission of Jesus to bring light into the darkness and to bring salvation to God's people, then clearly the ministry of John the Baptist as the forerunner of the Lord Jesus is to make ready for the Lord a people prepared. Now here's what's interesting about that, how do you go about preparing a people for the coming of Jesus? Well in the mandate given to him by Gabriel and then echoed later by Zechariah and further magnified by the ministry of John the Baptist himself, we learn there are two things that he does in order to make ready for the Lord a people prepared. The first thing that he does is he calls people back to the Lord through the process of repentance. Listen again to how Zechariah put it, he says, "You will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins." And John the Baptist, when he begins his ministry a little bit later in Luke chapter 3, the Bible says concerning him he went into all the country around the Jordan preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Why is the world a mess? Why is the death and destruction so much unhappiness? The Bible says it's because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Jesus is going to come into the world to redeem the world, but he cannot help anybody as long as they are not aware of their need, and as long as they have no desire to be helped. And so John comes and he preaches a baptism of repentance, and he doesn't mince any words. Because Luke chapter 3 goes on to tell us that when his ministry begins many years later, and the crowds come to him to be baptized in the river Jordan, he minces no words. He says you brood of vipers who warned you to flee from the wrath that is to come, bear fruit that befits repentance. Nobody came to John the Baptist to hear good words of comfort before they had first heard words of judgment and condemnation. Preparation for the coming of Jesus always begins with a sober assessment of our sin, and the realization that we need a divine deliverer who can deliver us from our sin. So John the Baptist comes preaching repentance, but that's not all he does. He also comes calling people back to restoring family relationships. Because notice how Luke puts it. The angel Gabriel speaking he says concerning John the Baptist he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. There is something about restoring the hearts of fathers and children that makes ready a people prepared for the Lord. Now if you know your Bibles well, if you know the Old Testament well, then you will know that's a quotation from the Old Testament book of Malachi. From Malachi chapter four, the verses five and six, in fact, these are the closing verses of the Old Testament, and this is how it reads. I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes, that is the day of the Lord when God comes to judge sin, but also to establish his kingdom. I will send you Elijah before that great and dreadful day. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers or else I will come and strike the land with a curse. So not only is there the need for general repentance before we can meet up with Jesus, there's also the need to restore the relationship between fathers particularly, and we can expand that to include mothers too, between parents and their children. Why? Because one of the most powerful tools of the enemy to destroy life and to destroy society is to try to drive wedges between parents and their children. The job of parents, you will recall, is to provide a safe environment for the children to grow up, to encourage, to nurture and to help them, and because children haven't lived as long as parents, even bad parents many times know better than their children. You will recall the fifth commandment, honor your father and your mother. Paul says it's the first commandment with a promise that you may live long in the land which the Lord your God gives to you, and a good relationship between parents and children is of critical importance so that a child can grow up and learn firsthand what is right from what is wrong. I always say that if a child has to learn it firsthand by his own experience, he will be dead long before he has learned what is safe and what is not safe. The devil knows that. And so the devil, historically, is always at work trying to drive wedges between parents and their children. If he can cause alienation, if he can cause brokenness in that relationship, if he can cause I don't trust you, you don't know anything, I'm smarter than you are to settle into the soul of a child, then he knows that child becomes relatively easy-picking because the child doesn't have the maturity, doesn't have the experience, and now has given opportunity for evil to begin to try to make the child go his or her own way. And the point was driven home to me again this past week. One of the books that I've been reading is a book by Jack Frost, Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship. And it's a book I would highly recommend particularly for anybody who struggles with what he calls an orphan spirit. An orphan spirit is the opposite of a spirit of sonship. And an orphan spirit says, "I don't belong." An orphan spirit says, "Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I cannot do life in community." He talks about that extensively in terms of his own experience, but he tells this story about his daughter Sarah. And he relates how his daughter Sarah, when she was five years old, had come running into the cabin of a ship that he was captaining, if that's a word at the time, and she was so delighted to see him that she had her heart wide open, and as he was sitting in his comfy chair she jumped in his lap and kneed him in his groin. Now I don't need to tell you men what that does. The pain was excruciating. And in reflex he picked the girl up, threw her eight or ten feet across the room onto another couch while he groaned in agony on the floor. Well, by this time, you know, she's beside herself, he's beside himself, eventually both of them calmed down, but the damage was done. Because though he got her quieted down, there was a peace in her heart that said, "It's not safe for me to jump into this relationship. I can't fully trust you with my heart open." Oh, it wasn't a rational kind of thing, as most often it's not. It was a very deep-seated peace in her heart that closed off towards him. And for many years nobody noticed it was there. In fact, from the age of 14 to 17, which had been a period where his own heart had been dealt with, their relationship was pretty good until she was 17 years of age, one day came home from school, slammed the door uncharacteristically, went stomping to her bedroom, could only barely be coaxed out of her room to come down for supper, and wanted nothing to do with church or with her father or even with her mother. This went on for a long time. This was very atypical for this girl. Well, eventually, her mother coaxed out some things from her, and it became clear this girl had really been hurt at school. She had tried to stand up for what she believed was right. Her friends had turned against her. She was isolated from her friends at school, not only, but also from her friends at church. And she hated her life, and she hated her situation, and her heart was cold. Her mother said, "You need to talk to your dad," but she said, "I don't want to talk to him at all." Let me just read you this paragraph, and that will describe to you what happened. This is the girl talking now after she finally made up her mind that she needed her dad's help. And Sarah said, "Dad, I just don't know. When everything is going right in my life, all I want to do is hug you and be in your presence, but as soon as things aren't going my way, I just want to cut myself off from every other human being. It's like I would rather be alone on a deserted island somewhere and never see another human being again. I can't get hold of God's love. There seems to be a pattern in me where I can find God only when people are saying all the right things about me, but when they are not, I can't find him, and I don't want to be with you." The broken piece in her heart coming to the foreground. And so he wisely asked her, "When did this begin?" And by then the Holy Spirit had begun to reveal the real issue had taken place when she was five years old and had closed off that part of her heart. And it wasn't until the Holy Spirit touched that place and they hit it together and confessed that with weeping and wailing for about 30 minutes, she lay cradled in my arms as we poured out love and comfort to her, it was a defining moment in Sarah's life. I wonder how many boys and girls, how many kids raised in church, end up wandering away from the faith, end up wandering away from God because in their heart of hearts they have been alienated by their parents, and it's not necessarily that the parents did something wrong. It's a combination of the two. And Luke tells us in his gospel through the words of Gabriel that when God comes to prepare his people historically for the coming of the Lord Jesus, what does he do? He calls them to repentance, to return to the Lord, to forsake their sin, and he says you got to deal with family issues. You got to open up those places where your hearts have been closed off. And the result is then of course that by the time Jesus appears, there is a whole population in the land of Israel who is ready for the coming of the Lord. Doesn't mean everybody is a believer, but it means there are enough people with their hearts open that when Jesus comes talking about the love of God the Father, they can receive it, they can respond to it, and they can become followers of the Lord Jesus. That is preparation in the historical past. But then as I said, Jesus not only comes in the past, he also comes in the present. He comes to the believing heart, and that is of course the story of our lives. And I love the way the Lord Jesus puts it in the book of Revelation 3.20, a verse we all know well. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with me." And the picture there is that of close and intimate fellowship and the story of scripture from the opening chapters of Genesis to the closing chapter of the book of Revelation is that God in Christ wants to have fellowship with you and me. And the genius of the Christian faith is not that God sits way out in heaven somewhere barking orders at you and me and threatening hell and damnation when we will not listen. Now, the genius of Christianity is that God in Christ not only was born historically, but he comes to live in our hearts when by faith we turn away from our sin and we embrace him. Jeremiah, many years ago, put it this way, quoted by the writer to the book of the Hebrews. He says, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts and I will write them on their minds." Earlier on, he goes on to say, "And I will be their God and they will be my people." And then he goes on to say, "No longer will a man teach his neighbor or a man his brother, say, 'Know the Lord,' because they all will know me from the least of them to the greatest." That's the genius of new covenant Christianity. Not just trying to measure up to some standard, not just trying to be more spiritual than we really are, but knowing that we've been joined to Christ and in his death we have died to sin. In his resurrection we have been raised to newness of life. In his exaltation we sit with him with the right hand of God the Father. He has poured out his Holy Spirit so that from the inside out he is changing us from glory to glory. And even as Adam lived many years ago by the breath of God, breathing life into dead clay, and Abram becomes Abraham because of the breath of God coming upon him, and the dead body of Jesus gets raised out of the grave by the power of the Spirit of God. So you and I, when our eyes are open and we're tired of trying to do it ourselves, when we know we cannot be what God is calling us to be, but we turn our eyes to Jesus, he grants us his Spirit, and the power of the Spirit begins to change us from the inside out. Now, of course, that immediately raises a very practical question, doesn't it? Why do we experience so little of that? Why are we so often so earthbound? Why does the world have greater attraction than the kingdom of God? Why do we get more excited about a hockey game, for example, on a Saturday night than we do about the worship of God sometimes on a Sunday morning? Well, there are many answers, but the Bible answer usually comes down to one thing, and that is our sin has made separation between God and us. Isaiah 59, put it so clearly, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened." I love this verse, "The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, his ear dull, that it cannot hear." I mean, how many times in all of our lives do we complain to God, "God, where are you and why aren't you doing something about the situation where I find myself?" Well, his hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, and his ear is not dull, God does not need a hearing aid. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he does not hear. So biblically, one of the keys to experiencing more of the presence of Jesus, one of the keys in preparing our hearts so that he can come to us in the here and now, not just in the historical past, is to ask him to cleanse our hearts and lives from anything and everything that would hinder fellowship with him, because remember, he is a holy God. By nature, we're sinful people, and short of coming to Jesus and receiving the cleansing that his blood can provide, nobody, but nobody, can stand in his presence, and it doesn't mean that we have to make ourselves perfect, but it means that we need to come in confession, and we have to allow him to transform our lives, we need to get rid of those things that stand in the way, those sins and those sinful relationships that sometimes will impact our walk with God. Here's how the Apostle Paul puts it, and he puts it so well in 2 Corinthians chapter 6. He says, "Touch no unclean thing." This again is in the context of, "I will be your God, and you will be my people. Touch no unclean thing. I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters," says the Lord Almighty. And then Paul adds these words, "Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God." And James in his epistle says exactly the same thing in chapter 4, the verses 8, 9, and 10. "Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded, grieve, mourn, and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up." James is a very practical Bible book because it tells us that faith without works is dead. And to cleanse our hands is to get rid of any and all activity that would somehow or another defile us that is not pleasing to God. To purify our hearts is to be single-minded in our devotion to God. How often in all of our lives aren't we double-minded? We want the kingdom and we want the blessings, but we also want what this life, what this world and all our friends want to offer us. And to grieve is to grieve over the brokenness of life, the brokenness of sin, not only my own sin, but the sin that is in the world and the offense that it causes to God, and to humble myself is to lay myself on the ground before God, so to speak, saying, "God, I'm a sinner. Lord, have mercy." The promise of Scripture is that as we humble ourselves, he will lift us up. We ended the service last week, you will recall, with what I thought was a very moving testimony by Serena Woods, how she had a very rough upbringing, became a Christian, and then nine years after having been in Christ, she failed morally, miserably, and blatantly. And I've been reading her book this past week, it's called Grace is for Sitters, and it confirms what my initial reaction was when I first saw that video. Because when I first saw that video, there were three things that stood out. When I first saw that video, the first thing that struck me was her comment that after she became a Christian, she put all her past into the farthest reaches of her mind. Do you remember that? And I remember thinking to myself, you're setting yourself up for failure because that is typically what Christians in many circles do. I'm a new creation in Christ, the old has gone, and I am a new creation. And what that is, is a confusion of justification with sanctification. Justification is an instant process. Transition takes time as the Holy Spirit helps us to unfurl old patterns of behavior, and He helps us to put on new patterns of behavior. You short circuit that, and your past will come to haunt you, which is why many new believers a few years down the line fall away for a season because their inside world has not yet caught up with their outside world. And one of the reasons we emphasize the ministry of healing around here is to help people become whole to the core of their being. The second thing that struck me was her deep, deep sorrow for her failure. And when you hear more of her story, you can understand why that was because the man that she had the affair with was her best friend's husband. The affair only lasted three weeks. But when both Serena's husband and this other man's wife found out about it, they both chose to divorce their spouses. Not only that, but during that three-week sexual affair, she got pregnant with his child. And so now her marriage was broken. They were driven together, eventually married each other, but they alienated every Christian connection that they have had in the past. And the grief was unspeakable. And the third thing that really struck me was the amazing grace of God. Because as she points out, and this is the back cover text, "Our sin doesn't say anything new about us," Jesus didn't hang on the cross in case we need Him. He hung on the cross because we desperately need Him. And part of her mission and part of her burden is to try to help God's people learn how you walk with sinners, not condoning their sin. She never justifies her action or her husband's action. She has a great deal of grief. But she recognizes that if Jesus didn't also die for those sins that we commit after we become a Christian, there isn't any hope for any of us. When we humble ourselves before God, it is God who will lift us up. While just moving along very quickly, not only does preparation involve the past when Christ was born, not only does preparation involve the present as we prepare for Jesus to come into our hearts and to have fellowship with us there, but there's still a third component, isn't there? And that is a future component, which is, of course, the story of Jesus' return. And Jesus has a lot to say about that, particularly in the gospels. Matthew 24 puts it this way. These are the words of Jesus. "They will see the Son of Man, that is, all the nations will see him coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." And when you read Old Testament prophecies, they don't make much distinction between the first coming of Jesus and the second coming of Jesus. It's like they look at the future through a telephoto lens, everything is compressed. And it's only with the hindsight of the New Testament that we understand there are thousands of years between the coming of Jesus the first time and the coming the second time, and the two comings could not be more different, because the first time he comes is a helpless baby. The first time he is at the mercy of powerful forces, he is virtually unknown and virtually unseen. But not so the second time, because the second time he comes in power and great glory, he comes as king of kings and lord of lords. The first time he comes to pave the way so that our sin can be addressed. The second time he comes to make the kingdoms of the world his own kingdom with his own glory. Hebrews puts it this way, "Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people, and he will appear a second time not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." Jesus will come again. And there are three things about his second coming that we keenly need to be aware of. And the first is this, nobody knows the hour or the date. No one knows about that day or hour, says Jesus, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the father. Doesn't stop a lot of Christians from speculating. You know the latest theory is he comes back in 2012, one thing about prophesying the return of the Lord is history almost always proves you wrong. Because nobody knows the hour or the date of his return, it will come as a great surprise to most people. Listen again to this scripture, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away." That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Is there anything unique about that verse that strikes you? You know we hear about the days of Noah, we hear about the days of Lot, Jesus uses the same example, and we think oh boy people were bad in those days and they were sinning and that's why God came in judgment, all of which is true. But you notice in those verses there is no reference to sin, instead there is reference to human activity such as eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, and all of that sort of thing. What's the point? The point is what happens when Jesus comes is that many people's hearts will be divided and they are preoccupied with the affairs of this life and therefore they are not ready for when he comes because when he comes is no longer time to prepare, sobering thought. And out of that follows then very quickly my last point here, we are commended on account of that to be extremely watchful, keep watch says Jesus, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this, if the owner of the house had known what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready because the son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. Anybody here remember Larry Norman? Larry Norman was probably in the early 70s is known as the founding father of Christian contemporary music. And the song that made it big is a song that some of you I'm sure will have heard, I Wish We'd All Been Ready. How many of you know the song? A lot of us have. Life was filled with guns and war and everyone got trampled on the floor. I wish we'd all been ready. Children died, the days grew cold, a piece of bread could buy a bag of gold. I wish we'd all been ready. There's no time to change your mind. The son has come and you've been left behind. Scared a whole generation of people out of hell into heaven. But here's the point people, Advent is a season of preparation. And the challenge that I want to leave with you as we wind this up is what will your preparations consist of? Oh, I know you'll be baking and you'll be cleaning house and you'll be buying gifts and you'll be planning family get togethers and hopefully somewhere in there you'll even plan to attend worship services during that season and so on. And all of that's good and all of that's fine. But I wonder if I can leave you with this question. Could you try to carve out some time during these next couple of weeks to prepare your own heart and your own soul for the coming of Jesus? It's not good enough to be sentimental about what happened back then. It's not good enough just to go through the motions of the present hoping that Jesus will show up and minister to us. And it's not even good enough just to have sort of an intellectual understanding that one day Jesus is coming back. He wants to meet with us and he wants to meet with us now. Nobody knows the hour of their death and nobody knows the hour of his coming. When it happens, it's too late to get ready. So carve out some time and ask yourself, what am I into that really wouldn't stand up in the presence of Jesus? What relationships am I stuck in that hinder my going forward with the Lord Jesus? What values have I bought into that will make me like Lot's wife looking back instead of looking forward to the promise of God's kingdom? When I go to bed at night, what's the last thing on my mind? Where is Jesus in all of this? Paul says, "I'm jealous with a godly jealousy that your minds be let astray from a pure and a single devotion to Jesus." And I can tell you this, the degree to which you enjoy this holiday season and the degree to which the things of God become alive and the degree to which you can appreciate the incredible promises that God has for each one of his children will be determined by the degree of our preparation. God has given us everything that we need. [PROPOSED CUT 1 START at 00:38:16.860; remove through 00:41:52.000] Let us [CUT] avail ourselves of his means of grace for his glory. [music] >> Oh, these are the days of your servant, Moses. Righteousness being restored. Oh, these are days of great triumphs, of famine and darkness and sorrow. 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