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Advent 2025: Sent - Hebrews 1:8-9

December 15, 2025·37 min·3 clips

Warren contrasts how earthly rulers hold power through fear and pressure while Jesus holds followers through love—and people through every age have died for him willingly.

The third Advent candle marks joy. Hebrews 1:8-9 puts that joy inside a royal claim: the Son's throne lasts forever, and his scepter is upright. Warren begins close to home, with a burger joke and a warm greeting to Redemption, then places the sermon in an Advent series about Jesus as prophet, priest, king, and savior. This week centers on kingship. Earthly kings were supposed to make God's reign visible, but Israel's rulers kept showing the same cracks: weak righteousness, shaky faithfulness, too much trust in human control. Then Warren turns the mirror on us. Every attempt to rule ourselves repeats the break, because the human heart was never meant to carry final authority. We make bad kings. That refrain carries the sermon from personal control into the larger story of Scripture, where failed kings and foreign empires sharpen Israel's longing for God's promised king. Hebrews says that promise is fulfilled by the Son, not by another fragile ruler in the same category. The comparison game falls apart. Warren jokes about Jordan and LeBron, then brings the room back to the point: King Jesus is not crowned by public opinion. He is God the Son. Psalm 45 gives the royal backdrop, and its coronation language finds its fulfillment in Jesus. His throne does not expire. No calendar year or new technological advancement pushes him aside or makes his reign less real. Christmas becomes royal rescue. The Father sends Jesus through David's line to save his people, showing that the child of Advent is also the righteous King our hearts were made to follow. Communion gives the message weight. The bread, wine, and juice call followers of Jesus to remember sacrificial love, remember who their King is, and live under his rule.

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A Scripture-driven Advent sermon that sets Jesus over failed human kings and ties joy to his reign.

Hebrews 1:8-9 gets handled as an Advent sermon about Jesus as the true king. Warren keeps circling back to the Son whose throne is forever, whose scepter is upright, and whose reign is not something people build for him.

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