They Shall Call His Name Emmanuel
Speaker Michael Heisler began the series in Do You See What I See with a message about the Christmas story through the eyes of God, our Father.
Worship Songs:
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Gratitude
Praise Before My Breakthrough
Notes:
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; HE shall bruise/crush your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15
Similar wording in Gen 17:7 which Paul explains in Galatians, this refers not to Abraham’s many offspring, but one, as in Christ.
Genesis 6:8,9 Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. Noah was a righteous man. Noah walked with God.
Ecc 3:11-18 Solomon describes how God sees through time. How wickedness will find its way into many places
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright,one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Job suffered the loss of property, family, friends and health. Yet recognized redemption to come
Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God
Gen 12:1-3 …, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Gen 12:1-3:
It just needed to be the right time. Paul writes of redemption and timing in several places. Ephesians 1:7-10
Moses wrote: Deut 18:15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— Similar phrase God said to Peter, James and John on the mountain where Moses and Elijah, long “dead” but alive, talk with Jesus. (Mark 9:4)
1 King 3:6 It says David was “a man after God’s own heart”. David went on to prophecy about Jesus
Psalm 69:8,9 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons. For zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written: “ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME.”
Luke 8:20,21 And it was reported to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You.” But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
John 7:5 “For not even His brothers believed in Him
Psalm 69:21 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? See Mark 15:34 & Matt 27:46
Other prophecies fulfilled in the Gospels
Psalm 22:8 “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
Psalm 22:16 For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands
and feet—
Psalm 22:18 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore.
A kingdom coming with the coming of Jesus. A kingdom not fully realized, inaugurated eschatology.
Christmas is the beginning of the end.
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.
Matthew 1:20b-23 An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”
Matthew 2:5,6 “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet (Micah 5): “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
Micah 5:2 includes “whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days”
Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
Luke 1:30-33
Ezekiel 36:26
Luke 24:44,48 “I told you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,…You are witnesses of these things.
Hebrews 1:1-2 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.
Luke 1:11-17
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us