Sermon Tone Analysis

Luke 2:7: And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:12: And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

Wrapped Him in Swaddling cloths.

1) What those clothes revealed.

2) Born to Die.

3) This garment which His virgin mother took and wrapped Him in were not the garments of life.

This one is the sign of death

4) The winding sheet which she used when He was born was the same sheet she used at his burial.

5) She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths.

1) No midwife was there to assist her in the agonies of child-birth.

2) The only hands that was to clothe Him was the hands of a virgin.

6) Handling Christ’s Body.

1) In the scriptures you will find that the body of Christ had times when no hands touched Him but the hands of believers.

2) At His Birth: It was a believer’s hands which clothed Him at His birth, the hand of believing Mary, who had already said that she rejoiced in God her Saviour.

3) At His Death: It was two believers who clothed Him for His burial, Joseph and Nicodemus.

4) In between His Birth and Death: Evil hands were to tear His cloths, part His garments, buffet, beat and blacken His body.

5) Born to be Sacrificed.

6) It was a revelation of His passion.

The first recorder words that came out of His mouth was “I must be about my Father’s business”.

a) John 18:37: Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then?

Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king.

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.

Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

7) He came to die: The very first cloths which touched the Eternal Word made flesh, was the clothes of death.

1) Here we have his Passion.

“I must be about my Father’s business”.

2) What Those Clothes Concealed.

3) There have been great events which we have all waited for in this world, but none greater than the birth of Christ, and God concealed it.

4) Note the word “Wrapped”.

If you want to cover up something, you wrap it up!

5) God has hidden this from the wise and prudent, and revealed it into babes.

Matthew 9:20: And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

1) The Garment with the Hem.

1) The hem is the last thing done to the garment,.

It is the finished work.

2) There are three things that are very important in making the hem.

1) The hem is made by the turning up of the extremity of the garment.

2) In His finished work, Christ having lived 33 years turned up the end of His life to God.

3) If the son of man be lifted up.

4) To make the hem, not only was it to be turned up, but one must also pierce the garment with a needle.

5) This is a picture of the cross.

Not with a needle but with cruel nails; Not with fine pointed steel but with a jagged spear.

6) There is something else necessary to the making of the hem.

It must be a threaded needle.

6) The thread must follow the needle and that thread is the unbroken purpose of God.

1) So the garment is finished.

The hem is made.

The robe has been turned up.

The needle has done its piercing.

The thread has done its fixing.

2) There is one thing needed for you and me.

We must touch the hem of his garment

The Glory of the Garments

The glory was not in the garments they were like any other poor person wore in that day.

The glory was in the person of Jesus Christ and shown through.

3) Matthew 17:1-2: And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light

4) Mark 9:2-3: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

5) Luke 9:28-29: And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.

29And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.

a.

To flash like lightning; to gleam; to brighten; to be radiant; to dazzle.

b.

Jesus was praying when these changes took place.

Apparently, He was concentrating so intensely and was so wrapped up in God that God transformed Him, that is, allowed His Godly nature to shine right through Him.

6) There is a difference in them all.

c.

Matthew says: “White as Light”

d.

Mark says: “White as Snow; so as no fuller on earth can whiten them”

e. Luke says: “His raiment was white and glistering”

7) Why the difference, because it brings out the three-fold officer of the Lord Jesus Christ.

a. Christ as our Redeemer executeth the office of a Prophet, Priest and King.

b.

Matthew reveals Him as the Prophet.

i. “White as Light”.

A prophet comes to give us God’s light.

To enlighten our minds.

To throw God’s light upon His Word.

c.

Mark reveals Him as a Priest.

ii.

The purpose of a priest is to bring cleansing.

Here we have the priest standing in the garments of His priestly, cleansing power.

d.

Note the two things that are used; “Snow and Fuller Earth.

e. Fuller Earth is man made.

1) Snow comes from heaven, no man’s hand ever formed it, it comes from the blue sky of heaven.

2) Our High Priest does not cleanse us with a cleansing that is man made.

3) “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow”.

4) Rev. 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

1) Luke reveals Him as a King.

2) Jesus Christ was not seen in His humiliation as the King.

We seen that in the Prophet and Priest.

a) Matthew is six days “Prophet”; Mark is six days “Priest”.

Six is the number for man.

3) In Luke His raiment was white and glistering.

Glistering is used in the New Testament here and it means “Flashing Lightning”.

a) Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

4) In Luke it was eight days.