Follow The Lord's Lead
Notes
Transcript
Handout
Intro:
Good leadership is modeled by being good followers. Good followers make good leaders by how they follow instructions. Good followers understand how to listen to instructions and follow with great attention to detail. This helps this follower to understand servant leadership. Servant leadership leads by example and works with their followers they lead. This leadership is not lorded over the others but encouraged.
The more the leader encourages her or his followers the more they will support and add on to the cause they believe their leader is leading them towards. God our Father is leading us to our salvation through his Son Jesus Christ. What makes following the leadership of Jesus different from all the rest is Jesus is our creator. He created us to worship him. Our purpose in life is fulfilled in following the Son of God. Searching other places and serving other gods will never satisfy. Jesus is our Lord whom our hearts long to serve. This longing will lead us to worship Christ the Lord like the Wise men.
Worship the Lord will lead you into his presence.
Worship the Lord will lead you into his presence.
13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Mathew 2:13
After the wise men
After the wise men
13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
MATTHEW 2:13
Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod.
During this time the wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem.
They were looking for the newborn king of the Jews.
They saw the star and came to worship the king.
Be drawn to the presence of the Lord
Be drawn to the presence of the Lord
We are created to worship the Lord.
Worshiping the Lord is a lifestyle.
Seeking to worship the Lord will lead us in his direction.
God leads his worshippers
God leads his worshippers
12 When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod.
Matthew 2:
God by a dream tells the wisemen not to return to Herod.
King Herod did not want to know the location to worship, but to kill the newborn baby.
We are to trust the Lord and he will lead us according to his good will. The Lords shows us in his leading of Joseph for the new born king.
Lord will lead you for his purpose.
Lord will lead you for his purpose.
So the Lord leads Joseph to Egypt.
This was to protect the family from King Herod.
God tells them to stay until He tells them to return.
13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” 14 That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother,
God speaks to Joseph in a dream again.
Again the angel in the dream tells Joseph of God’s direction.
The Child’s life is in danger the moment he is born, but God’s plan for our salvation is still in the plans to work out.
God knows when you should move.
God knows when you should move.
God knows the plans he has for his people. He knows when you should move. This precision of timing comes form obeying the will of the Lord. We must learn to be patient as we wait on the Lord.
Learn to trust the Lord as you follow his instructions.
The timing of God is always good.
14 That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother, 15 and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”
Matthew 2:14-
God will call us as he leads us.
God will call us as he leads us.
15 and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”
Matthew 2:15
This verse has a quote from .
1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.
God does not lead us to where he can not get us out.
This prophecy also symbolizes our eternal Salvation.
This prophecy also symbolizes our eternal Salvation.
This text implies the exodus of Israel.
The prophecy equates Jesus as Israel, God’s elect people.
God lead Israel out of Egypt.
Egypt represent land of slavery and bondage.
Sin is slavery and bondage.
Jesus leads the second Exodus
Jesus leads the second Exodus
Jesus in his life leads us in the spiritual exodus of deliverance form the bondage of sin.
Jesus life of persecution for our salvation.
Jesus life of persecution for our salvation.
:19-
13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” 14 That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother, 15 and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” 16 Herod was furious when he realized that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men’s report of the star’s first appearance. 17 Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 18 “A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for they are dead.” 19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. 20 “Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead.” 21 So Joseph got up and returned to the land of Israel with Jesus and his mother. 22 But when he learned that the new ruler of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee. 23 So the family went and lived in a town called Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
God speaks to Joseph a gain in two more dreams.
The dream to return to Israel.
The second dream was to flea Judea and Archelaus to live in Galilee.
They lived in Nazareth.
Jesus ministry in Nazareth
Jesus ministry in Nazareth
Shows God took the least of the area known as Nazarene.
45 Philip went to look for Nathanael and told him, “We have found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about! His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth.” 46 “Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” “Come and see for yourself,” Philip replied.
John 1:45
Something Good from Nazareth
Something Good from Nazareth
Praise the Lord that he is Good and what is good not only come from nazareth but came from Heaven.
Let the Lord lead your life.
Let the Lord lead your life.
We see how God guided Joseph to show us the earthly journey forJesus was not easy, but was for the glory for the Lord. God will lead you to where he wants you. All you need to do is to trust and obey the Lord’s lead.
God deliverd Israel from Egypt,
Jesus has delivers us from our sin and death.
God has given them a covenant of eternal sonship.
Jesus has redeemed the world to fulfill God’s covenant to Israel and the world.
Now let us enter into this New Year with the resolve to follow the Lord’s lead. Knowing it may take me some time but I will learn to wait on the Lord to tell me when to move. I will go where he says to go an say what he tells me to say. Let us open our hearts to receive the Lord.