Advent IV Zion Sunday Livestream 12.19.21

We light the 4th candle: 

FOURTH CANDLE – (blue) THE ANGEL CANDLE or THE CANDLE OF LOVE

The angels announced the good news of a Savior!

“...I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of

David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord” ~ Luke 2:10b-11 God sent his only Son to earth to save us, because he loves us!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” ~ John 3:16-17

“And it is in the Christ child in the manger himself who holds world judgment and world redemption. He pushes back the high and mighty; he overturns the thrones of the powerful; he humbles the haughty; his arm exercises power over all the high and mighty; he lifts what is lowly, and makes it great and glorious in his mercy.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Pastor Hues' discusses the Magnificat and how the redemption that God brings about in Christ is one that demands all human entitlement to perish as we are confronted with our lowborn king and Mary's humble song of obedience.