Advent Candles: Advent 4


This the fourth Wednesday of Advent. Normally since this is Christmas Eve, there wouldn't be a mid-week service. (Usually there are only three mid-week Advent services.) But for the purposes of this forum we make an exception. We will look at the fourth candle lit, which can stand for Love (a purple candle) and the Magi (a blue candle).

The Magi received love by somehow knowing the strange star in the sky had an important potent. This love impelled them to travel a great distance to pay their homage to the new-born king. They bore gifts out of love for this king-a Heavenly King that loved the Magi, and all people, so much that he gave his life for the sins of all people! "Love Came Down That Christmas Day."

1 Corinthians 13:4-Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

John 3:16-"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[1] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 1:7-To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:5-And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

Romans 5:8-But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 2:20-I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 John 3:1-3-How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

1 John4:7-Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

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