God With Us

Trinity Church of Portland - Sermons

This morning we concluded our 2023 Advent series "The Light Has Come” focusing on the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sermon is titled "God With Us" and was preached by our lead pastor, Thomas Terry from Luke 15:11-32.

In this text we see a picture of a loving father and two lost sons, one who is an unrighteous sinner, and one who is a self-righteous sinner. This father was so gracious he gave his younger son his portion of the inheritance, he was so merciful he welcomed this son back after the son experienced repentance and faith. When the son is still far off the father welcomes him back and restores him to his sonship. Conversely, the older brother in his self righteousness refuses to celebrate the return of his younger brother. The father exhorts this brother to celebrate that his younger brother was dead but is now alive. This parable is a beautiful parallel to Christmas in how God as our loving father saves us when we were far off by sending Jesus to be our Emmanuel—God With Us.