WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? (3 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12
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What Are You Looking For? (3 of 4)
Series: So This Is Christmas
Jeff Strite
Matthew 2:1-12
OPEN: Yogi Berra was a very famous baseball player back in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Outside of being an big league catcher he was known for some interesting sayings. One of those famous sayings was this:
''If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.''
Back when I was a teenager, I got the chance to be one of the wisemen in our church play. My home church was huge - 600 people could sit inside the building that had four sections of pews that ran back about 12 rows in the main section, with a curtained off area with another 2 sections of pews... and there were two big balconies that rang along the sides of the auditorium.
Because the congregation was so big, our Christmas pageant was big as well. We had about 40 or 50 kids all dressed up as angels, shepherds, wisemen and (of course) Mary and Joseph. When our turn (as wisemen) came, we entered through the curtains in the back. As the audience sang ''We Three Kings Of Orient Are'' we made our way along the aisle for 40 or 50 feet - all decked out in regal robes and carrying our expensive presents - and ultimately made it to the stage where Mary and Joseph sat with the baby Jesus in a manger. We'd practiced this 3 or 4 times, and we knew where we were going. And we knew exactly when we got to our destination.
But the wisemen in our story today... didn't!
They didn't really know where they were going. They were following a star that had appeared - over there someplace. They knew the general direction they had to go, but when the star seemingly disappeared, they had to stop and ask directions.
Matthew 2:1-2 ''wise men came from the east to Jerusalem, saying, 'WHERE IS HE who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'''
They really didn't know where they were going.
But here's the thing - they DID know what their destination was. ...
Series: So This Is Christmas
Jeff Strite
Matthew 2:1-12
OPEN: Yogi Berra was a very famous baseball player back in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Outside of being an big league catcher he was known for some interesting sayings. One of those famous sayings was this:
''If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.''
Back when I was a teenager, I got the chance to be one of the wisemen in our church play. My home church was huge - 600 people could sit inside the building that had four sections of pews that ran back about 12 rows in the main section, with a curtained off area with another 2 sections of pews... and there were two big balconies that rang along the sides of the auditorium.
Because the congregation was so big, our Christmas pageant was big as well. We had about 40 or 50 kids all dressed up as angels, shepherds, wisemen and (of course) Mary and Joseph. When our turn (as wisemen) came, we entered through the curtains in the back. As the audience sang ''We Three Kings Of Orient Are'' we made our way along the aisle for 40 or 50 feet - all decked out in regal robes and carrying our expensive presents - and ultimately made it to the stage where Mary and Joseph sat with the baby Jesus in a manger. We'd practiced this 3 or 4 times, and we knew where we were going. And we knew exactly when we got to our destination.
But the wisemen in our story today... didn't!
They didn't really know where they were going. They were following a star that had appeared - over there someplace. They knew the general direction they had to go, but when the star seemingly disappeared, they had to stop and ask directions.
Matthew 2:1-2 ''wise men came from the east to Jerusalem, saying, 'WHERE IS HE who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'''
They really didn't know where they were going.
But here's the thing - they DID know what their destination was. ...
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