O Holy Night | Advent | Week 2

O Holy NightPeace • December 3, 2023Teacher: Adam Barnett-- His law is love and His gospel is peaceLuke 10:25-28 NIV“Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”Augustine“All who do not love God are strangers and antichrists. The fountain of life does not belong to them. But if you have love, that fountain is yours. The Spirit of God exhorts you to drink from it, and in doing so, to drink from himself.”Bob Goff“Love is never stationary. In the end, love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it. Simply put: love does.”Isaiah 9:6-7"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end."Jesus is making things right - in all people, for all people, and between all people.Lt. Kurt Zehmisch“How marvelously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the same way. Christmas, the celebration of love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time.”If love is coming, let’s love now.If peace is coming, let’s be peaceful now.If justice is coming, let’s be just now.