Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Righteous Branch - Part 1\n Jeremiah 23:5\n 12\/02\/2024\n\n\n 5 ``Behold, the days are coming,'' declares the\n LORD, ``when I will raise up for David a righteous\n Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal\n wisely, and shall execute justice and\n righteousness in the land.'' (ESV)\n\n Yesterday marked the first Sunday in Advent, the time in the\n Church Year that we prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ. The\n Gospel lesson for this week was Matthew's account of Palm Sunday,\n when Jesus rode into Jerusalem, acknowledged by the crowds as\n God, only to die on the following Friday to pay the price of our\n sin.\n\n Our message as Christians is two-fold. We are first\n confronted with the law, the truth that we have fallen short of\n the standards set both by God and the world. God's standard is\n perfection, even if the world will allow some leniency. Because\n of the sin of Adam and Eve, we are born corrupt.\n\n As we come to the realization that we have sinned in\n thought, word, and deed, we also realize that we cannot by our\n own reason or strength pay the price of our sin. We stand\n rightly condemned.\n\n We are confronted with God's grace and mercy as our heavenly\n Father sent His only-begotten Son to pay the price of our sin.\n The prophet Jeremiah, six hundred years before the birth of\n Jesus, wrote of this undeserved love of the Father towards His\n sinful creation.\n ``Behold, the days are coming,'' declares the LORD,\n ``when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,\n and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall\n execute justice and righteousness in the land.''\n\n\n Advent is about the coming of the Righteous Branch, the Son\n of David, who took upon Himself our sins. As true God, He was\n conceived without sin. As true Man, He died and rose again to\n earn for us the forgiveness of our sins and to grant us life\n everlasting. May our Lord help us to prepare for His coming by\n confessing our sins and by trusting in His promises. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 2, 2024 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}