Collision of Kingdoms
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Collision of Kingdoms- SLIDE ALREADY MADE
Collision of Kingdoms- SLIDE ALREADY MADE
Would you agree that there are some things that are too big for us to understand in this life? Would you agree that there are some real mysteries in life?
Slide 1 Space Man used to think that earth was flat.The Greeks thought that a giant named Atlas held the Earth on his shoulders. Ancient Hindus used to believe that the earth stood on the back of elephants. Then when someone would ask what the elephants stood on, they said a couple of giant tortoises. And someone woul ask what are they standing on? They would reply they are on the back of giant sea snakes that are swimming in a great cosmic sea
Slide 2 There is a wonder to Nature that I don’t understand. All of life has this incredible symmetry and order to it. in tis picture there are probably over a 1000 diffrent species of lifeforms that are tucked away behind the greenery
Slide 3 Baby
There is a mystery to life. Not really a mystery when you understand the God of the Bible, but there is truly a miracle to life. When we were in the delivery room and watched our little Ellie being born we were amazed at the miracle of Child birth.
COLLISION OF KINGDOMS
Today we are gathering together to celebrate another child , the promised Child. Over the last few week we have been in our Lamb of God series. And Week one we looked at the very first promise of the child in Genesis three, at the very outset of the fall, WE SEE THAT WAR HAS BROKEN OUT AND THE King of Darkness, delivered a death blow to the first King and queen of the earth Adam and Eve. But even there we seen God gave us hope, and the hope was going to be in a child, a child would be born and this child would grow into a man and crush the head of the Serpent
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Is 9
All of Creation waited for this child to be born. It would be born into a world at war. And His birth would be an invasion, a collision of two kingdoms. The King of light would be born into a World full of darkness. And we seen that this child would be given over as a sacrifice. We seen the picture of this when God told Abraham to offer up Isaac his one and only son. It was a picture of when God would send His only son
Then we see this theme of a Lamb throughout the Old Testament. A lamb that would be slain for the sins of the world. In Exodus when God’s people are enslaved in Egypt, in bondage to the Egyptians and their false demon gods, we see God send an unlikely saviour in Moses. And through ten different plagues, plagues that struck at the heart of the Egyptian gods that showed the power of the True God, through these plagues, God would use to set His people free. What are wee seeing? We are seeing a collision of Kingdoms, we are seeing war in the heavenlies.
The final plague that would crush the Pharoah was the last plague. When God would send the death angel throughout the land who would kill all the firstborn of the land. but God gave his people a way of escape, and it would be through a Lamb. The passover Lamb, They were to take a spotless lamb, eat that lamb and they were to take the lamb’s blood and paint the outside of their door posts with that blood. And when the death angel came through the land that night whoever had the blood on the door, the death angel would passover, that house and spare it because a life had already been taken. Guess when Jesus died, while they were celebrating Passover.
What was God doing? God was preping his people. For the Coming One.
What was God doing? God was preparing his people. For the Coming One. For the Lamb that takes away the Sin of the World. You see there is a system an order, a truth to reality. And until you tap into that truth and see things from the Bibles standpoint you are not going to see things clearly.
THE COMING KING- First I want you to see that this Birth is more than a birth, its an invasion. A collision of Kingdom. A King that left his world to enter into our world.
This morning I want to change your perspective of the Christmas Story, with everyone just all smiles surrounded by little lambs, cute little lambs and chubby little angels gathered around the manger.
Its important that you see the Christmas story in its accurate context because the danger is that you will think that your Christian experience should be like a hallmark Card
This morning I want you to see the Christmas story a little differently then maybe you have seen it before.
I understand the imagery is dear to many of us, but it is also profoundly deceiving; it creates all sorts of warm feelings, associations, and expectations—many quite subconscious—of what the nature of the Christian life is going to be like for us. The omissions are, in fact, dangerous—the equivalent of ignoring the movements of ISIS.
And there is a reason you need to see it differently
Now we read the Christmas story written my St John. This story tells the story behind the story. What was really going on behind the
THEME- There is a way that things work (How does this set up the Sermon?
All of creation has order, a system- a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method. The house that you live in had an architect, it has a particular way, a scheme that the builders had to follow to insure suitability of that home
Your car has a system, the motor is energized by small explosions that activate the piston to produce force. If you are going to be a good mechanic you must understand the systems.
Almost anything in life has an order, a system. Family has a system. Most parents are shooting themselves in the foot because they don’t understand the system. Now the danger there is getting second hand info from the world about how the family operates. But just like if you are working on a Ford, repairing an HP laptop, or working on the family, it is always safest to go back to the original designer. Now I am not going to go to the Bible to learn how to fix a Ford motor, but I am not going to go to the Kardashians to fix my family. I am going to the original creator and the service manual- the Bible
Today we don’t look at life as a system. a way that things work. We tend to look at it from the standpoint of luck, chance, a few breaks here and there, and what happens go people go through life without the proper information. They don’t know the back story and that's why they can’t make sense out of their story. They are just a leaf floating out in the wind, landing in whatever stream and its unintended destination.
In order to find the system or order of life, you must go to the Word of God. If you don’t understand why Jesus is essential you must go to the Word of God. If you don’t understand that there are kingdoms that are in collision, you are going to get knocked on your tail.
The bible tells us what went wrong, and the Bible tells us the only solution to the problem
If you need a triple bypass you don’t remove a gall bladder. if you are blind you don’t need sun shades.
1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. 5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.
Rev 12:
Who is this Mystery woman?
First of all this is Mary the Mother of Jesus. Now yes she is the chosen mother of the Lord. But this isn’t marry. Some have interpreted this woman as bein gthe church. But its not the church, because this woman gives birth to Jesus, its backwards, Jesus gives birth to the church not the other way around. Let me tell you who this mystery woman is,
She is the nation of Israel, now notice her appearance, she is a woman clothed with the sun , with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of 12 stars.
This is a reference to a dream that Joseph the grandson of Abraham had in the book of Genesis
9 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
The eleven stars were his 11 brothers he would have made 12.
In revelation 12:1 it is describes as a great sign. A symbol in the heavens, Do you know how the God of the Bible is the true God. We still have the Jew with us today. They are the oldest distinct people group on the face of the planet that can trace their people back nearly 4 thousands years.
But notice the dragon in verse 3. another
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
Revelation 12:
The devil is the ultimate gangster, the ultimate rebel, the ultimate thug. The seven heads speak of His wisdom- it is a corrupted but perfect wsdom and the Ten horns speak of his power, and the diadems speak of his dominion
He is standing before the woman ready to devour her young. Not only is the Jew the most distinct people group on the face of the planet, but the reason why I say that they are a sign that the God of the Bible exists, is because they are also the most persecuted people group on the face of the planet. All we have to do is go back 80 years when Hitler systematically killed over 6 million Jews in his death camps. This is not the first time.
From Nebuchadnezzar who devestated Jerusalem is 586 BC killing hundreds of thousands
, to Antiochus Epiphenes the Caesars of Rome, and Charlemagne, The devil throughout the centuries has tried to exterminate this particular group of people? Why? Because God loved Abraham and told him, that through Him, through the Jewish line, a child would come and he would be a blessing to the nations
And that is the part that you need to understand about the Christmas story, is the spiritual war that is taking place in the Background. The Devil is standing before the woman ready to devour the child. And we see that played out on the Christmas story in .
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
CAN i MESS YOU UP A LITTLE THIS MORNING? SOMETIMES WE NEED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GODS WORD RATTLED A LITTLE
Why? Why did the devil want to kill this Child? And Why did Jesus have to come?
5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Because this Child is a King, one who is to rule with a rod of iron.
This was not just a celebration, it was an invasion. A king was to be born. A king above all other kings. one who clothed himself with humilty the first time and went to a cross is coming back clotheed with strength that name man can match, majesty that no king can reproduce. He went to a cross the first time, the next time he coming to a coronation. He went to a cross the first time, the second time hes coming to a throne. This is the one that God fortold the devil in the begining of the rebellion that a man was coming tht would crush his head, all seven of them!!
Its important that you see the Christmas story in its accurate context because the danger is that you bwill think that your Christian experience should be like a hallmark Card
This is a collision of kingdoms. It was an invasion where a king from another realm entered into
I understand the imagery is dear to many of us, but it is also profoundly deceiving; it creates all sorts of warm feelings, associations, and expectations—many quite subconscious—of what the nature of the Christian life is going to be like for us. The omissions are, in fact, dangerous—the equivalent of ignoring the movements of ISIS.
To what it actually wan an invasion, we call it the Advent. But what throws you off is its not an invasion of 10 million million delta force like angels, No it happened quietly, in an obscure remote part of the world, with the birth of a child. The invasion was a single baby, but this single baby would single handedly turn the tide of this war. A war that seems like darkness had dominated...
Now we are all familiar with the Christmas stories found in Luke and Matthew, but did you know there is one more Christmas story in scripture, It was written by John, let me take you to the other Christmas story found in Revelation 12
1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. 5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Now you may be wondering why we have been in the Old testament looking at Pictures and Prophecies of jesus Christ. Well because God has a system in place. he had a plan in place before the foundation of the world. And this plan had to follow certain persons that would be the Jewish people, it had to follow a particular mode, those would be the prophecies, From a lamb being slaiughtered, blood being shed for remission of sin, to a particular bloodline within a blood line, He had to be jewish but he had to be from the tribe of Judah. There are 12 different tribes. he had to be born in a certain place, bethlehem
A Great Sign appeared-
-Prophet
-Priest
-King
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John 18
John 18
He came to destroy the works of the devil (Hebrews)
He Came to Be King
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John 18:36-
English Standard Version Chapter 18
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
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This is a collision of kingdoms. It was an invasion where a king from another realm entered into
PERSONAL APPLIACATION- He came not only too be King of the nations He came to be your king. Is he your King today?
You say well why do you say that there was a collision of kingdoms? Because there a was a war waged
Do you handle yourself as if he is your king. Do you love others as he commands you too?
Why do you call me Lord and do not do the things
1 The massacre of the innocence
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HE came to be our High Priest
5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
After the ressurection, the disciples where confused, because He returned to Heaven. What is He doing He is interceeding on our behalf. He is praying for you, supplying you with the things that you need to make it through this wearisome place
Hebrews
14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
