“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.”
Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)
HOPE
7 Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s
throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from
that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9:7 (NIV)
HOPE JOY PEACE
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2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root
out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing
in his appearance that we should desire him.
Isaiah 53 (NIV)
Forensic pathologists’ reconstruction of what First Century Galilean Jewish man probably looked like.
3 He was despised and rejected by humankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces he was
despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Isaiah 53 (NIV)
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering, yet we
considered him punished by
God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53 (NIV)
Mark 12:31 30 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” 31 The second is this: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no commandment greater than these.
“Love God and Love Everyone!”
Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them w i t h o u t e x p e c t i n g t o g e t anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Romans 12:9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. There love is the fulfillment of the law.
1Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1John 3:16-18 16 We know what love is because Jesus Christ gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 Suppose someone sees a brother or sister in need and is able to help them. And suppose that person doesn’t take pity on these needy people. Then how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, don’t just talk about love. Put your love into action. Then it will truly be love.
1John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become a child of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:9 Here is how God showed his love among us. He sent his one and only Son into the world. He sent him so we could receive life through him. 10 Here is what love is. It is not that we loved God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his life to pay for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we should also love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God lives in us. His love is made complete in us.