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Anticipation is not passive it is active faith, obedience, hope, and devotion. Just as children eagerly await Christmas morning, Israel longed for the Messiah’s coming. Mary trusted God’s Word with humility, showing that anticipation transforms waiting into worship. Joseph obeyed despite social cost, reminding us that obedience often means standing against cultural currents. Simeon’s lifelong hope teaches us that God’s timing is perfect, even if delayed. Anna’s decades of prayer and devotion call us back to worship in an age of distraction. Together, their examples reveal anticipation fulfilled in Christ’s first coming and point us toward His second. This season, we are called to live in anticipation trusting like Mary, obeying like Joseph, hoping like Simeon, and devoting like Anna actively shaping our hearts toward the blessed hope of Jesus Christ.

This Christmas message, Every Detail Foretold, shows how God revealed centuries in advance the birth, mission, and return of Jesus Christ. From Genesis to the prophets, every promise pointed to the Messiah born of a virgin in Bethlehem, from the tribe of Judah, the Prince of Peace who fulfills the Davidic covenant. The shepherds witnessed prophecy fulfilled as the Savior entered the world, restoring mankind’s relationship with God. Just as His first coming was foretold, so His return is certain. This sermon calls us to prepare our hearts, embrace the evidence of God’s plan, and proclaim Christ as the only way to salvation.

The timeline of the crucifixion is significant because Scripture must be fulfilled, and the words of Jesus are true. There is precision in prophecy. It’s time for us to examine scripture and reject the customs of man, rid ourselves of religion, and accept the scriptures that proclaim Jesus as the Passover Lamb, the everlasting payment for sin, and the ONLY one who has had the power to raise Himself from the grave. In His death, burial, and resurrection, we have eternal life. Jesus did away with sin, death, and the grave so that you and I can have an eternity with Him.

In the predawn hours of Jesus’ trial, hypocrisy and superstition collide with God’s eternal plan. Religious leaders cling to appearances while violating God’s law, Pilate wrestles with justice yet compromises, and the crowd chooses Barabbas the false “son of the father” over Christ, the true Son of the Father. This exposes the emptiness of religion without relationship and reveals Christ’s unstoppable purpose: He was born to die, fulfilling prophecy as the Lamb of God. The sermon calls believers to reject substitutes, idols, and hollow devotion, and instead embrace the crucified King who alone restores us to God through truth, obedience, and atonement.