THE JOURNEY WE MAKE (4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Matthew 2:9-12
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Title: The Journey We Make (4)
Series: The Journey Of Christmas
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Matthew 2:9-12
We started the sermon by playing a YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpuQ8lAi8Pg (a clip of the opening scenes from "Ben-Hur", the 1959 movie starring Charleston Heston and focusing on the arrival of the Wisemen to see Jesus)
Tonight, we're going to take a journey to find Jesus - but we will not be following the star. Instead, we will be following the wisemen who followed the star. And there are some intriguing things about the wisemen's search for Jesus.
The 1st thing that caught my attention was that they followed the star to worship Jesus. It was no accident that they saw that star in the sky - for their people had been looking for that star for centuries.
Numbers 24:17 "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel..." That prophecy, and a couple other prophecies would have told them that the new King of Israel had been born. And so they came LOOKING for Jesus. The wisemen made up their minds to find Jesus. The question for you tonight is this: who (or what) did you come to find?
Many people come to church because that's the religious thing to do. Others come because that's what their family has always done. Still others come because it makes them feel good. But the wise men came to worship Jesus... because they were looking for God, and they wanted the best that God could offer them.
ILLUS: The famous psychoanalyst, by the name of Carl Jung, was counseling a man who'd been in therapy for 6 months and was getting no better. Finally Jung said, "Friend, I can't do any more for you. What you need is God." The man looked to him despair and asked, "But how do I find God, Dr. Jung?" The doctor replied: "I don't know, but I suspect if you will find a group of people someplace that believe in Him passionately and just spend time with them, you WILL fin ...
Series: The Journey Of Christmas
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Matthew 2:9-12
We started the sermon by playing a YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpuQ8lAi8Pg (a clip of the opening scenes from "Ben-Hur", the 1959 movie starring Charleston Heston and focusing on the arrival of the Wisemen to see Jesus)
Tonight, we're going to take a journey to find Jesus - but we will not be following the star. Instead, we will be following the wisemen who followed the star. And there are some intriguing things about the wisemen's search for Jesus.
The 1st thing that caught my attention was that they followed the star to worship Jesus. It was no accident that they saw that star in the sky - for their people had been looking for that star for centuries.
Numbers 24:17 "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel..." That prophecy, and a couple other prophecies would have told them that the new King of Israel had been born. And so they came LOOKING for Jesus. The wisemen made up their minds to find Jesus. The question for you tonight is this: who (or what) did you come to find?
Many people come to church because that's the religious thing to do. Others come because that's what their family has always done. Still others come because it makes them feel good. But the wise men came to worship Jesus... because they were looking for God, and they wanted the best that God could offer them.
ILLUS: The famous psychoanalyst, by the name of Carl Jung, was counseling a man who'd been in therapy for 6 months and was getting no better. Finally Jung said, "Friend, I can't do any more for you. What you need is God." The man looked to him despair and asked, "But how do I find God, Dr. Jung?" The doctor replied: "I don't know, but I suspect if you will find a group of people someplace that believe in Him passionately and just spend time with them, you WILL fin ...
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