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Getting ready to Receive Jesus

Getting ready to Receive Jesus. Advent 2011. Getting ready to receive Jesus. ‘ Thou didst leave thy throne and thy kingly crown …’ ‘ O come to my heart Lord Jesus, there is room in my heart for thee’. Getting ready to receive Jesus.

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Getting ready to Receive Jesus

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  1. Getting ready to Receive Jesus Advent 2011

  2. Getting ready to receive Jesus ‘Thou didst leave thy throne and thy kingly crown …’ ‘O come to my heart Lord Jesus, there is room in my heart for thee’

  3. Getting ready to receive Jesus Before we can receive Jesus, Jesus has to do something for us.

  4. Getting ready to receive Jesus In order to receive Jesus we first of all need to be enabled to recognise who he is.

  5. Getting ready to receive Jesus “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” Matthew 16:13 “John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

  6. Getting ready to receive Jesus ‘What about you, who do you say I am?’ ‘You are the Christ, the son of the living God.’Peter - V16 ‘Blessed are you … for this was not revealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven’.v17

  7. Getting ready to receive Jesus In order to receive Jesus we first of all need to be enabled to recognise who he is. Without Gods help we cannot receive Jesus.

  8. The natural man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned’. 1 Corinthians 2:14

  9. As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, ……. . All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Ephesians 2:1-3

  10. ‘By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else. But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead’. Ephesians 2:3-5 NLT

  11. Getting ready to receive Jesus This gracious act of God should have two (at least) consequences: • It should make us humble • It should lead us to pray for our unbelieving friends and family.

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