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Christmas reminds us that Jesus is either our King or enemy.
(CSB) 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
When Jesus is your king, you will sacrifice all that you have to gain Him.
When Jesus is your king, you will sacrifice all that you have to gain Him.
WISE MEN VISIT THE KING
(CSB) 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
3 When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
Illus:
Illus: Many times when we look at Christmas we think of this wonderful romantic scene.
We think of shepherds who sat in peaceful fields.
We think of Wisemen on a start night.
We think of the manger where all the animals laid quietly and Mary and Joseph sweetly smiling.
Christmas was God’s cosmic act of war.
It is the story of an army of angels scaring the dickens out of a group of shepherds.
It is the story of a smelly stable and Mary giving birth far away from the comforts of home.
It is the story of wisemen whose desire to follow God’s lead led them to Herod’s house.
This in turn would start a genocide of children.
The first Christmas was a dividing line which drew a line in the sand.
Many saw the great act of God and embraced God’s diving intervention into this world.
Many others saw God’s act as a threat to their power or way of life.
The same is true today.
In light of God’s cosmic act of war, we either embrace him and give up all to have him, or we see him as a threat to our way of life and become his enemies.
Illus: (CSB) 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied.
Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
46 When he found one priceless pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it.
(CSB) 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied.
Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
46 When he found one priceless pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it.
THE PARABLES OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE AND OF THE PRICELESS PEARL
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied.
Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
46 When he found one priceless pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it.
When you love yourself, your sins, or your life more than Christ, He is a threat.
(CSB) 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
Illus:
Illus: It is easy to see what Herod had to lose in this story.
He understood the the signifigance of who Jesus was and what it could cost him.
His decision was to reject Jesus, try to kill him… and in that rage killed children throughout his provence.
More than killing all those children, though, Herod lost something more valuable.... his eternity.
Rejecting Christ cost Herod everything.
Most of us do not have the power Herod had.
That said, we are all faced with the same choice.
We either embrace Christ, surrender to him, no matter what that might cost us, or reject him.
Rejecting Jesus is an act of war against God.
It might look like doubling down in your sin.
It might look like ambivalence to God, but none the less it is an act of war.
Illus: (CSB) 16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
19 This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
(CSB) 16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
19 This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
19 This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
Christmas reminds us that life is found through suffering.
(CSB) 16 Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage.
He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
17 Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS
16 Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage.
He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
17 Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
18 A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.,
weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they are no more.,
Christ was born into the same broken world we now live.
(CSB) 16 Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage.
He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
16 Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage.
He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
17 Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
18 A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they are no more.,
Illus: When I was young I used to think Christmas was this wonderfully romantic holiday .
My bubble was popped when on Christmas night when I was 1 my uncle flipped his car on himself while driving drunk.
This year, Christmas may not be a smiles, and carols.
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