MATTHEW 2:1-2, 9-12
Pastor Rick Jackson
Have we gotten something backward? Have we missed something?
When it is your birthday who gets the presents?
Who gets the recognition? Pardon me- but who gets the glory?
I. CHRISTMAS IS JESUS’ BIRTHDAY. HE IS THE SACRIFICE. GIVE
HIM YOUR SINS [v. 11, Is. 7:14, 9:6-7, Heb. 2:9, Is. 53]
“The myrrh, often used for embalming the dead, showed their
understanding that Christ, their Saviour, must die.” – John R. Rice
-Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
-For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it
with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the
LORD of hosts will perform this.
-But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by
the grace of God should taste death for every man.
-Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of
men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our
faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne
our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every
one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who
shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with
the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by
his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their
iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto
death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
II. CHRISTMAS IS JESUS’ BIRTHDAY. HE IS THE KING. GIVE HIM
YOUR SERVICE [v. 11, Psalm 24:7-10, Rm. 12:1-2]
“Through their gifts the wise men expressed their faith: the
gold was their tribute to Christ, their King.”
-Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of
glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your
heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of
glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the
King of glory. Selah.
-I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
III. CHRISTMAS IS
JESUS’ BIRTHDAY. HE IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD. GIVE HIM YOUR SELF
“The frankincense
represented their praise and prayer to Christ as God.” – J.R.R.
Leviticus 2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto
the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it,
and put frankincense thereon:
Leviticus 2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the
priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of
the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn
the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD:
Leviticus 2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay
frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
Leviticus 2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it,
part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus 6:15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the
flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense
which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet
savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
Leviticus 24:7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon
each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with
all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Rm. 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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