Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
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Prophecy Fulfilled
Born in Bethlehem
Called out of Egypt
Called a Nazarene
Matthew 2:13–15
An angel spoke through a dream
Herod is seeking to kill the child
12-30 boys
Joseph obeyed immediately
Joseph obeyed fully
It must have been frightening to move to enemy territory.
God gave Joseph the reason for this drastic move.
Herod was planning to find Jesus to kill him.
Prophecy fulfilled
Matthew 2:16–18
Herod flew into a rage
Ordered the murder of innocents
Herod would do anything to protect his own interests, including murdering children.
“The One enthroned in heaven laughs and scoffs at the Herods of this world Psalm 2:4” — D.A. Carson
“The tears of the Exile are now being ‘fulfilled’—i.e., the tears begun in Jeremiah’s day are climaxed and ended by the tears of the mothers of Bethlehem.
The heir to Davids’s throne has come, the Exile is over, the true Son of God has arrived, and he will introduce the new covenant (26:28) promised by Jeremiah.”
- Carson
“If we are determined to get our own way at all costs, we will go to any lengths to eliminate all trace of Jesus and his claims on our lives.”
- Michael Green
Prophesy fulfilled
Matthew 2:19-23
Herod died
An angel spoke through a dream
Joesph obeyed
Went to Galilee
Jesus was raised a Nazarene
“Nazarene” was a slang or idiomatic term for an individual from a very remote or obscure place (much like our contemporary words hick or backwoodsman).
This interpretation would fit well with the attitude toward Nazareth reflected in John 1:46
Prophesies fulfilled
General prophecy
“There was every possibility of quenching the Messiah: his mother Mary might have been stoned and as adultress; he might have been killed by herod; he might have been lost in Egypt.
But no.
God’s hand was upon him.
Opposition could not extinguish God’s light.
What an encouragement that would have been to Matthew’s readers!
The church, so frail, so exposed, would not be allowed to sink, however threatening the storms and waves that broke over it.”
— Michael Green
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