Christmas Unwrapped: Part 4 The King Has Come!

Christmas Unwrapped

Part 4 – The King Has Come!

Matthew 2:1-3; 7-8; 13-16; 22-23

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him…

7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”…

13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi…

22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene. Matthew 2:1-3; 7-8; 13-16; 22-23

In Jesus, !

7 Of the greatness of his government and peace

    there will be no end.

He will reign on David’s throne

    and over his kingdom,

establishing and upholding it

    with justice and righteousness

    from that time on and forever.

The zeal of the Lord Almighty

    will accomplish this. Isaiah 9:7

32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” Luke 1:32-33

1) If Jesus is King, then !

Do you think there is a little Herod in all of us?

26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26

My commitment to Him should be so that it makes my commitments to anyone else seem in comparison.

2) If Jesus is King, then !

7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:7-8

Naturally, we resist His .

3) If Jesus is King, we must !

10 …“There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands;

there is no one who seeks God. Romans 3:10-11

2 The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. 3 All have turned away, all have become corrupt;

there is no one who does good, not even one. Psalm 14:1-2

44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, John 6:44.

4) If Jesus is King, we must !

Jesus came to Earth to in our lives.

At the pinnacle, the high point of His life, Jesus ascended, not to the , but to the .

Today’s Song List: 

Angels (Glory to God)

Behold

Living Hope

Worthy