2023 Church Theme: Advancing God’s Kingdom in the New Normalcy
Scripture: Genesis 1:27, 2:8, 3:8; Matthew 1:15-16; Revelation 21:1-3
Speaker: Mr. Alex Chan
Genesis 1:27, 2:8, 3:8
1: 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
2:8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the
man he had formed.
3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the
garden.
Matthew 1:20-23
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[f] because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[g] (which means “God with us”).
Revelation 21:1-3
1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.