Friday, December 28, 2012
Need a Bible Reading Plan for 2013?
If so, you will want to check out a very comprehensive and helpful list of reading plans on the website of Ligonier Ministries. You can find it here.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
A TRAGEDY AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS
Matt. 2:7-23 Sermon preached Dec. 16, 2012
Intro -The tragic events of Friday in Connecticut have caused me to change what I had planned to preach. I was going to preach from Luke 1 and the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary...but from talking with some of you and knowing my own thoughts and feelings of the past 3 days...I decided to deal with another passage pertaining to the birth of Christ. It is one we usually gloss over.
Matthew 2:7-20. READ. Herod had summoned the wise men and asked
them to search for this Christ child in Bethlehem. He lied to them in order to
do him harm, not to worship as he had said. They go to Bethlehem and see the
child and worship him and present their unique gifts. God warns them in a dream
and they depart for their own country via another way. The angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a
dream and tells them to rise and take the child and flee to Egypt since Herod
is going to search for the child to kill him. Joseph and Mary and the baby
Jesus do as the angel instructs and flee to Egypt. Herod realizes he has been tricked. In his
anger he sends soldiers to Bethlehem to kill all the male children who were 2
years old and younger. Matthew notes this is a fulfillment of a prophecy spoken
by Jeremiah: “ V. 19 tells us that Herod died.
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