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This Christmas I have geared my sermons toward the love, peace, and comfort we are to find in Jesus.
I want to bring one final Christmas message, but rather than speak again about some benefit the coming of Jesus brings into our lives, today I want to talk 3 responses to the birth of Jesus.
The Belligerent Response
Herod
He was a self consumed, harsh, and probably mentally ill ruler.
It is said that he made a decree that when he died, he wanted random people throughout the region put to death so that someone would be mourning on the day he died.
He could not stand the thought of someone other than himself being King.
He was in charge and had no plan to share the spotlight or give up control.
This fits a lot of people today.
They may not occupy some political office, but they think of themselves as the rulers of their own lives, and have no intention of giving that up.
And they see no need to surrender their lives to another sovereign.
Today we see this in the extreme.
Plenty of people who shake their fist at the thought of the God of the Bible.
They can’t bide with the thought that God became a baby, grew as a perfect man, and died on the cross for the sins of the world.
They find it easy to scorn the Gospel than to let go of their sin and trust Christ.
But I doubt there are very many belligerent people here to day,
The greater likelihood is that you may fall into the next category:
The Apathetic Response
The Religious crowd
I have long been fascinated over how unmoved the religious crowd was to learn the THEIR Messiah had been born.
It just rolled off their lips.
Christ will be born in Bethlehem.
They didn’t have to think about it.
They knew the FACTS.
They knew their religious teachings.
But they were unmoved at the thought of Christ having been born.
As a matter of fact, all of Jerusalem was TROUBLED by the thought.
But unmoved.
It is POSSIBLE to know the story, but miss Jesus.
It is POSSIBLE to have heard the story over and over again and become cold to it.
You can know the story, spend all your time running around here and there to events, shopping, and parties, and not have time or interest to do what the 3rd group did.
The Worshipful Response
There were many who show up in the 1st few years of Jesus life.
There are the angels.
We have talked about them a lot on Wednesday nights about their worship.
Let me just saw one thing about the angels as worshippers.
When they show up in the shepherd’s field and worship, they are doing what they have been doing since the creation of the world.
They could have been apathetic, but they are doing what they were made to do, and they are full throttle, no backing down.
Then there were the shepherds.
Simple people.
The lowly.
The down and out.
They listened to the announcement from heaven, and they went and worshipped Jesus.
Then 8 days in there was Simeon and Anna in the temple, and God had spoken to their hearts about who Jesus was, and they worshipped Him.
There story is recorded in Luke 2.22-38
And then later, the wise men.
They came not to a baby, but a child.
They came to a home.
They brought gifts.
And they worshipped.
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