Heaven on Earth: What Child is This?
Heaven on Earth: What Child is This?
How is God going to make it all right? How is he going to redeem all the suffering and loss of this world . . . and in your own life? We need more than a silver-lining outlook on life. Much, much more. We need an unbreakable, unquenchable hope. Jesus is the only hope strong enough to overcome the heartache of this world. The birth of Jesus is when heaven kisses earth. Christmas changes everything!
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First Baptist Church Seminole Tx
202 SW Ave B, Seminole, TX 79360, USA
Sunday 5:00 AM
An Abnormal Christmas
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Who you are seeking will determine what you are bringing:
(1) This Child is Universal
(2) This Child is Consequential
(3) This Child is Monumental
1. What Child is This? He's Universal
The magi are walking illustrations of God's universal and pervasive grace.
“I don’t know anything about a white Christ – I know about Christ, a Savior named Jesus. I don’t know what color He is. He was born in brown Asia, He fled to black Africa, and He was in heaven before the gospel got to white Europe, so I don’t know what color He is. I do know one thing: if you bow at the altar with color on your mind, and get up with color on your mind, go back again – and keep going back until you no longer look at His color, but at His greatness and His power – His power to save!” E.V. Hill
2. What Child is this? He's Consequential
Trace a trail to the throne of your heart and see who is King.
Everyone in this room has an inner Herod: emotional, irrational, and delusional demands that longs to call the shots in your life.
How many of us live with this attitude? I'll wait until I see what He reveals before I decide if I will say yes.
A.W. Tozer said, “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders and interfering with God’s work within us.”
3. What Child is This? He's Monumental
Gold is for royalty.
Frankincense is for deity.
Myrrh is for His sacrificial ministry.
How will we respond?
The Hostility of Herod
The Passivity of Chief Priests and Scribes
The Fealty and Fidelity of the Magi
Discussion Questions
1. How does what we are seeking determine what we are bringing?
2. People tend to observe Christmas piecemeal either sentimentally, emotionally, or parochially. How do you see this reflect either by you or around you?
3. Which of the three characteristics of the Jesus child (universal, consequential, monumental) challenges you most? Comforts you?
4. How does the magi illustrate the universal nature of the reach of Jesus?
5. Do you have an inner Herod? Where are you wrestling to be obedient? Do you maintain veto power over the commands of Jesus?
6. Do you worship when it's inconvenient? Uncomfortable?
What claim from the sermon most challenged you?
What claim most comforted you?