SERMONS ON WISE MEN
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The Days after Christmas (4 of 4)
by Jeff Schreve
Well, December 25 has come and it has gone. And if you're like me, and I know kids are like this you get so excited and so built up for Christmas day and you're just counting down the days. And one of our secretaries has a little thing outside of her door, ''So many days till Christmas.'' And it's a little chalkboard. And every day you write, you know, six more days till Christmas, five more days till Christmas. And everybody gets so excited about Christmas. And man my shopping days are getting down to the wire here. And then we had a huge Christmas Eve celebration and it was so exciting. It was a candlelight communion...
Have We Come to Worship Him?
by Terry J. Hallock
Our Scripture text is two verses from the second chapter of Matthew which raise a crucial question for all of us gathered in this meeting house only two days after the celebration of Jesus' birth.'After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.''' They came to worship Jesus. Is that why we have come? The magi came to worship Jesus because they had discovered who Jesus was. From biblical commentaries we know the Magi were...
Worship the King (4 of 5)
by Stephen Whitney
An expressive woman wandered into a liturgical service which is formal and structured. As the pastor preached, she became so caught up in his message that she exclaimed, ''Praise the Lord!'' A fellow worshipper leaned over and whispered, ''Excuse me, but we don't praise the Lord'' in the Lutheran church.'' A man a down the pew corrected him, ''Yes we do; it's on page 19 in the hymnal.'' The question we need to ask our self is, ''What really is worship?'' Is it what we say or don't say? Is it about how we feel? Is it what we do? Or is it silent mediation? Worship is expressing your gratitude to God for: 1. Who he is meaning...
The Gifts of Christmas (4 of 4)
by Stan Coffey
I was reading some of the children's letters to Santa, and there were two or three of them that struck me. One of the said, ''Dear Santa, You didn't bring me anything good last year. In fact, you didn't bring me anything good the year before that either. This is your last chance. (Signed) Albert.'' I really like this one. It said, ''Dear Santa, There are three little boys who live at our house. There's Jeffrey, who's two, and David, who's four, and there's Norman, who's seven. Jeffrey is good some of the time, David is good most of the time, and Norman is good all of the time. I am Norman.'' The truth is none of us are good all the time. In fact, the...
Christmas Characters: Wisemen (4 of 6)
by Jerry Vines
The characters of Christmas teach us a great deal about the meaning of Christmas. Their response to the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ tells us what Christmas can mean personally and individually in our own lives. Shepherds came when Jesus was born. They represent working men. Wise men came when Jesus was born and they represent wise men indeed. In Proverbs 13:20 the Bible says, ''He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.'' So, we would be wise today if we would follow the example of these wise men. We do not know a great deal about these wise men actually. They are really known as magi in the...
The Gifts of the Wise Men and Our Gifts to Jesus
by Adrian Rogers
Take God's word and turn with me, if you would please to Matthew Chapter 2. There we have the story of the visit of the wise men and gifts that they brought to the Lord Jesus. Do you have difficulty finding just the right gift for just the right person? Have you ever thought about the gift that you may give to the Lord Jesus this Christmas season? I think we can take a lesson from the wise men. And today we're thinking of this subject, ''The Gifts of the Wise Men and Our Gifts to Jesus.'' [read Matthew 2:1-12] Now we all know the story of the wise men, but there is much about these wise men that we do not know. For example...
They Presented Him Gifts
by Miles Seaborn
INTRO. The newspapers and televisions have reminded us that Christmas shopping with all of its hustle and bustle and worry and strain began earlier this year than any time in the history of our country. So much for our understanding of Christmas is wrapped up in giving and in gifts. Gifts and Christmas means different things to different people. As someone has said, Christmas is giving - but its meaning is different from person to person. To a merchant it might mean the jangle of a cash register that makes or breaks him for the year. To a younger child a visit from Santa Claus; to older children two weeks...
The Worship of the Wise Men
by J. Gerald Harris
Now, this message may not be creative or innovative, but hopefully it is inspired by God, and ultimately that is the important thing in preaching. The crucial thing, the essential thing, the important thing is that there is a word from God. Last weekend as I sat in this worship center and experienced ''The Living Christmas Tree,'' there were many things that touched my heart. I loved seeing the children involved, and I thought the presence of the angels was absolutely marvelous. And the song, ''A Light Still Shines,'' is still ringing in my heart. But when those three kings came in with all of their pomp and splendor, in their regal...
Christmas: How Close Can You Get?
by John Barnett
The saddest story of Christmas is how those closest to Christ's birth completely missed that first Christmas; and that tragedy has continued to this day. You can be so close and yet so far away! The real purpose of Christmas was shown by God at Christ's birth, God confronted the world with the only gift everyone really needs. Christmas is about the gift no one seeks but everyone needs. God so loved the world that He sent Jesus to save lost people from their sins. God came to provide the only gift that everyone absolutely, critically needs--the substitutionary death of His Son, who came to meet our critical, eternal-life...
Wise Men Still Seek Jesus!
by Marvin D. Patterson
In a small southern town in Texas there was a nativity scene that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature stood out. The three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets. Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, a visitor decided to ask a local what it meant. At a shop on the edge of town, he asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets. She exploded into a rage: 'People these days never do read the Bible!' The visitor assured her that he did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible. She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled through...
The Wise Men's Story (3 of 4)
by Fred Lowery
Oh, didn't you love "Oh, Holy Night"? My goodness! Randy, Janean, and Kricket, you know, I love Christmas songs and that's my favorite and sometimes during Christmas, usually, if I could ever find Leigh gone and my neighbors gone on both sides, I sing Oh, Holy Night and it's just great, great, song that I love at Christmas time. We're in a series, "Christmas Is Real" and we've been talking about that the people in Christmas are real people, it's a real story. Christmas happened and these people had real problems, real struggles, real questions, real needs. We talked about Joseph, who found out through an angel that...
The Gospel According to the Wise Men (3 of 4)
by J.D. Greear
This is a story many of us know-it probably strikes you as a quaint, little, Christmas bedtime story, but this story is loaded with profound, counter-intuitive truth that reveals to you the essence of the gospel. It answers some deep questions. Like... How can we believe there is a God when the world seems like it is in such a chaotic mess; where is God when something as unspeakable as the events in Newport, Connecticut happen? Or this question: If Christianity is true, why don't all the smart people in the world automatically agree on it? Why does my college professor ridicule it? Or, What about all the people...
Lessons from the Wise Men Giving our Worship to Jesus
by John Barnett
Christmas, the greatest event since Creation, took place in a sleepy little village just five miles from Jerusalem. God came from Heaven wrapped in baby clothes, and was laid in a stone feeding trough called a manger. At His birth Christ was only welcomed and worshipped by two groups of people--outside of His own family. Those two groups, the shepherds and the Wisemen, were poles apart socially, economically, culturally, ethnically, and in every other way but spiritually. But when the shepherds and Wisemen met at the feet of Jesus, they worshipped on common ground. The shepherds and the wisemen stand out in...
Three Men and a Baby!
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: What if Christ had not come? ILLUS: A striking Christmas card was once published with the title ''If Christ Had Not Come.'' It was founded upon our Savior's words ''If I had not come.'' The card represented a pastor's falling into a short sleep in his study on Christmas morning and dreaming of a world into which Jesus had never come. In his dream he found himself looking through his home, but there were no little stockings in the chimney corner, no Christmas bells or wreaths of holly, and no Christ to comfort, gladden and save. He walked out to the street, but there was no church with its spire pointing to Heaven...
The Wise Men's Joy
by Richard Bradley
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, ''Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.'' 3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. 5 So they said to him, ''In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet: 6 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the...
The Wise Men's Joy (1 of 4)
by Richard Bradley
There's a stark contrast between the trouble of Herod and the joy of the wise men. In fact, the same word ''exceedingly'' is used for both. While Herod's anger was ''out of control'' over Jesus' birth, the wise men possessed an ''out of control'' joy for the same reason. Is your life being controlled by joy today? Everyone's life is going to be controlled by something. Some are controlled by greed, some by fear, some by hate, some by jealously, and some by anger, and some by joy. What is the main controlling agent in your life? As we move toward the Christmas season make up your mind that your life will be controlled...
The Wise Men Followed (3 of 4)
by Tony Thomas
Our kids always loved putting up the Christmas Tree. But we couldn't just put up the tree. There had to be Christmas music playing in the background, hot chocolate on the stove, and Christmas cookies baked in the oven. Only then could the tree go up. But the pinnacle of the day, and the downer as well, was when Christie pulled the Tree Topper out of the box. You know what a Tree Topper is, don't you? It's the decorative ornament placed on top of the tree. Our Tree Topper is an angel - and all three of the girls wanted to be the one who put the Tree Topper up every Christmas! Can you say, ''cat fight?'' There's...
The Promised One (4 of 5)
by Lenny Ports
Welcome to Encounter's Christmas service. We are so blessed that you are here with us this morning to celebrate Christmas. We can get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, shopping and looking at lights, and baking and eating gingerbread men, that we can let the true meaning of Christmas slip. Someone may ask, ''what is the true meaning of Christmas?'' Most young people say, ''I know what it is - getting presents!'' The clue is in the first 6 letters of Christmas and that is CHRIST. Christmas is all about JESUS - the greatest Christmas gift the world has ever known. Let us Pray. Matthew...
