The Promised One made us a promise, that he was going to come again. In his appearing at the first Christmas, he brought salvation, peace with God, and God’s grace into our lives. He died for our sins, rose from death, and forty days later ascended to heaven. But he promised to return and establish justice and righteousness upon the earth. We are to live in anticipation of his return, saying No to sin and growing in righteousness.

As the Promised One Jesus bore the title, Prince of Peace, for he fulfilled the prophecy given through Isaiah in Isaiah 9:6-7. We all long for world peace, but the peace Jesus brought was something else. We’ll discover that in this message. We’ll also learn how this peace can be ours. Perhaps it’s something you could use.

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God long ago promised that one of the offspring of Eve would bruise Satan’s head. We saw that the Promised One would would do this was Jesus of Nazareth. We learned that this Promised One would come from the line of Abram and be a blessing to all peoples. We learned that Jesus of Nazareth descended from Abram and through his death and resurrection offered the gift of forgiveness and eternal life to all peoples.

In this message we’ll look at the most comprehensive prophecy concerning the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, a prophecy only he fulfilled. It was a prophecy of not just of death, but death for others, taking their sin upon himself so that God could justify those who believe in Jesus as Savior.

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In Genesis 3 we learned that a descendant of Eve would bruise the head of the serpent who’d led her into sin (Satan). Hundreds of years later, God gave a promise to a man name Abram. Through him all the peoples of the earth would be blessed. But what was that blessing and how would it come? The New Testament answers our questions. Jesus, the descendant of Abram, blessed all peoples by dying on the cross for their sins and offering eternal life to them through repentance and faith in him. We’ll see how he is the Promised One in this message.

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At the first Christmas God fulfilled promises he’d made centuries before. The very first of these promises dates back to the tragedy of Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden. There God dispensed judgment upon Adam, Eve, and the serpent. He also promised Eve that her offspring would bruise the head of the serpent, even as he bruised her offspring’s heel.

When we sort through the meaning of this first promise and then see it in light of the coming of Jesus, we cannot come to any other conclusion except that Jesus was the one God promised who would bring destruction upon the serpent.

Who this serpent was, what he has done since the Garden, and what Jesus did to him are all questions answered in this first message about The Promised One – Defeater of Satan.