Christmas Is Over Now What?
Marvin D. Patterson
Matthew 2:13-23
Introduction
This is our final Sunday in 2021 and we are going to take a look at the flight of Christ's family to Egypt and how we should approach life after Christmas.
I read a funny story how that sometimes things don't go as planned, and that is what happened to Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus.
John Simmons tells about a grade school class that was putting on a Christmas play which included the story of Mary and Joseph coming to the inn. There was a little boy in that class who wanted so very much to be Joseph. But when the parts were handed out, his biggest rival was given that part, and he was assigned to be the inn keeper instead.
He was really bitter about this, so during all the rehearsals he began to plot how to get even with his rival.
Finally, the night of the performance, Mary and Joseph came walking across the stage. They knocked on the door of the inn, and the inn-keeper opened the door and asked them gruffly what they wanted.
Joseph answered, ''We'd like to have a room for the night.''
Suddenly the inn-keeper threw the door wide open and said, ''Great, come on in and I'll give you the best room in the house.'' Now, that wasn't in the script and for a few seconds poor little kid didn't know what to do.
But finally the young Joseph had an idea. He stepped up to the innkeeper, and looked beyond him through the door that represented the inn. He made a big production of looking right and left. He stepped back out beside his ''wife'' and said, ''No wife of mine is going to stay in dump like this. Come on, Mary, let's go to the barn.''
As I think of Mary and Joseph and the Baby Jesus, it seems like nothing has gone as planned. They are rushed into a stable, and have to have the baby there. They hear the worship of some shepherds, and wisemen, and now they are trying to get a good night's sleep, and the Angel of the Lord wakes them up and tells them to flee to E ...
Marvin D. Patterson
Matthew 2:13-23
Introduction
This is our final Sunday in 2021 and we are going to take a look at the flight of Christ's family to Egypt and how we should approach life after Christmas.
I read a funny story how that sometimes things don't go as planned, and that is what happened to Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus.
John Simmons tells about a grade school class that was putting on a Christmas play which included the story of Mary and Joseph coming to the inn. There was a little boy in that class who wanted so very much to be Joseph. But when the parts were handed out, his biggest rival was given that part, and he was assigned to be the inn keeper instead.
He was really bitter about this, so during all the rehearsals he began to plot how to get even with his rival.
Finally, the night of the performance, Mary and Joseph came walking across the stage. They knocked on the door of the inn, and the inn-keeper opened the door and asked them gruffly what they wanted.
Joseph answered, ''We'd like to have a room for the night.''
Suddenly the inn-keeper threw the door wide open and said, ''Great, come on in and I'll give you the best room in the house.'' Now, that wasn't in the script and for a few seconds poor little kid didn't know what to do.
But finally the young Joseph had an idea. He stepped up to the innkeeper, and looked beyond him through the door that represented the inn. He made a big production of looking right and left. He stepped back out beside his ''wife'' and said, ''No wife of mine is going to stay in dump like this. Come on, Mary, let's go to the barn.''
As I think of Mary and Joseph and the Baby Jesus, it seems like nothing has gone as planned. They are rushed into a stable, and have to have the baby there. They hear the worship of some shepherds, and wisemen, and now they are trying to get a good night's sleep, and the Angel of the Lord wakes them up and tells them to flee to E ...
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