Hope is Coming

Luke 1:26–33 (NLT)

The Birth of Jesus Foretold

26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, 27 to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. 28 Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings,* favored woman! The Lord is with you!*” 29 Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. 30 “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. 33 And he will reign over Israel* forever; his Kingdom will never end!” 1

Hope is in

Luke 1:30

 “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

Matthew 1:21 (NLT)

21 And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus,* for he will save his people from their sins.”

Hope is in

Luke 1:32 

He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David.

Isaiah 45:22–23 (NLT)

    22 Let all the world look to me for salvation! 

      For I am God; there is no other. 

    23 I have sworn by my own name; 

      I have spoken the truth, 

      and I will never go back on my word: 

    Every knee will bend to me, 

      and every tongue will declare allegiance to me.*” 1

Philippians 2:9–11 (NLT)

    9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor 

      and gave him the name above all other names, 

    10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 

      in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 

    11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, 

      to the glory of God the Father. 1

John 10:30 (NLT)

30 The Father and I are one.”

Romans 8:28 (NLT)

28 And we know that God causes everything to work together* for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Philippians 2:9–11 (NLT)

    9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor 

      and gave him the name above all other names, 

Isaiah 55:9 (NLT)

    9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

      so my ways are higher than your ways 

      and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Hope is in His

Luke 1:33

33 And he will reign over Israel* forever; his Kingdom will never end!” 1

John 3:16 (NLT)

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave* his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 

1 Corinthians 15:51–57 (NIV)

51 Listen, I tell you a mystery:d We will not all sleep,e but we will all be changedf—52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable,j and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your victory? 

Where, O death, is your sting?”i l 

56 The sting of death is sin,m and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ