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Myrrh - The Gift Series
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Welcome back to Grove Hill Church, where we dive into the timeless truths of the Bible and explore their relevance to our lives today. In this sermon in the Gift series on myrrh, pastor Ridley takes us on a journey through the profound symbolism and significance of this gift given to Jesus by the wise men. Through a captivating analysis of the biblical account and Old Testament prophecies, Ridley challenges cultural misconceptions and highlights the fulfillment of ancient prophecies in Jesus' life, death, and role as the Messiah. Join us as we explore the depths of worship, sacrifice, and the transformative power of acknowledging Jesus as our true King.
Timestamps:
00:00 Magi visit Jesus, offer gifts, cultural misconceptions.
05:07 Jesus' sacrifice symbolized with myrrh, Old Testament prophecy.
09:20 Sheep are skittish and defenseless animals.
10:04 "Group think: Why do people follow blindly?"
14:37 Ocean's vastness humbles us toward love's capacity.
16:39 Jesus agonizes in the garden, seeking God's will.
20:21 God in flesh, born to virgin, prophesied.
23:53 Jesus endured the cross for your sins.
27:47 Reject Jesus now, bow later, religion dangerous.
30:41 Seek counsel or humbly submit to Jesus.
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Transcript
The First Christmas and Its Significance
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We started with Matthew chapter 2. I don't know what it's doing. Matthew chapter 2, we're going to read verses 1 through 10 again and we're going to talk a little bit about the story as we continue to go back and revisit what is literally the greatest story ever told. And I want to unpack this a little bit more for us about why and what happened on that first Christmas and why it is so significant for us.
The Wise Men's Arrival and Herod's Reaction
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Matthew chapter 2, beginning in verse 1, it says,
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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea and the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying, where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him. When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed and all Jerusalem with him. So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born.
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In Bethlehem of Judea, they told him, because this is what was written by the prophet. And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, because out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, Go and search carefully for the child. When you find him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship him.
Misconceptions of the Nativity Scene
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After hearing the king, they went on their way, and there it was, the star they had seen at its rising. It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overwhelmed with joy. Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary, his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
00:01:47
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If I were to ask you to think back to what the first Christmas looks like to you, most of you would take your mind immediately to a nativity set at your house and begin to picture images of porcelain angels and shepherds and sheep and donkeys and things of that nature. There might be a wise man or two
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posted at different places around the manger and all that kind of stuff. And of course, they would be a baby Jesus is there. But as we talked about it last week, the problem is that for most of us, that's an image that's been pushed on us by the culture. And we really don't not only not understand the story entirely, but we've actually lost in my estimation, the meaning behind the importance of the story. We like to talk about how important it is, but why is it so important to us? And what does it mean for us?
00:02:36
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The problems, again, are many because the culture has taught us to believe a certain way, to think a certain way. We have preconditioned ourselves and even our children to think in specific ways regarding the story of Jesus. And as we talked about last week, by the time the wise men arrive on the scene, Jesus is actually a
The Gifts of the Wise Men: A Focus on Myrrh
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toddler. How many of y'all have two-year-olds? Now, before I became the parent of a two-year-old, I judged people like you. Okay?
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You know, you have the little kid that's having the meltdown in the grocery store and they're going ballistic and I would stand off to the side and go, what's wrong with you? Can you not handle this child? And that child would just go crazy. And it wasn't until I had children my own, I learned that's where Ronald Reagan got this idea of never negotiate with terrorists.
00:03:21
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Because your child, too, is basically a terrorist. Think about this, okay? They know what they want, they don't really know how to express it, but they know they have control over you until you begin to negotiate with them. And this is why grown people will hand their $1,000 iPhone to a two-year-old and say, take it, do whatever you need to, to be quiet, okay? And we promise them ponies and bicycles and all kinds of things, thinking eventually they're gonna get quiet.
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But if you think back to that first Christmas, these were wise men from the East, nobility of some kind. We're not sure exactly what. But here they are bowing down to a two-year-old, bowing to a toddler. Something must have been different about this baby.
Isaiah's Prophecy and Its Fulfillment
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Something must have been radically different about this family in this little town.
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And as we dig in closer, as we take a closer look at the story, I think we'll be reminded of just how special and how good this story is. These are very valuable gifts. They're very useful gifts. We talked about frankincense last week. Frankincense was a foreshadowing of the fact that Jesus would become our great high priest. This week I want to talk about myrrh a little bit. Myrrh is seen 17 different times in the Bible. Occasionally it's used as an antiseptic.
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On the cross, if you remember the story of Jesus' crucifixion, he has offered some translations say sour wine, others say wine with gall. Most scholars believe that it was wine mixed with myrrh because in that day that was used to numb the pain. And if you'll remember, Jesus rejected the offering of that wine because of the fact he did not want to be numbed. He wanted to feel to the fullest extent the pain that he was going through on our behalf.
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Most often and more commonly the use of myrrh was for embalming the dead. It was a practice that had been picked up at least many hundreds of years earlier from the Egyptians who used it as part of their burial processes. So myrrh as a gift from the Magi to Jesus was to represent the fact that Jesus as the perfect Lamb of God was going to die for the forgiveness of our sins.
00:05:36
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I wanted you to look back with me at some Old Testament prophecy. This is amazing to me, the concept of Isaiah having the ability to do what he does here. Isaiah chapter 53, excuse me, verses 1 through 12, it says, Who has believed what we have heard, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground.
00:05:58
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He didn't have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from, he was despised and we didn't value him. Yet he himself bore our sicknesses and he carried our pains, but we in turn regarded him stricken
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struck down by God and afflicted. Is your reading this? If you didn't know what you know today, can you imagine these are the words describing the Savior of the world? That this is the Messiah that Israel had long anticipated that Isaiah is predicting? He says, but he was pierced because of our rebellion. He was crushed because of our iniquities. Punishment for our peace was on him and we are healed by his wounds.
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We all went astray like sheep, we all have turned to our own way, and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter, and like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not open his mouth. He was taken away because of oppression and judgment, and who considered his fate. For he was cut off from the land of the living. He was struck because of my people's rebellion.
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He was assigned a grave with the wicked, but he was with a rich man at his death because he had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully. Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him severely. When you make him a guilt offering, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and by his hand, the Lord's pleasure will be accomplished. After his anguish, he will see light and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will carry their iniquities.
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Therefore I will give him the many as a portion and he will receive the mighty as spoil because he willingly submitted to death and was counted among the rebels. Yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels. Imagine if today I could stand on this stage and tell you 700 years from now who was going to win the Super Bowl. And I could even tell you the score. This is exactly what Isaiah has just done for you.
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700 years before the arrival of Jesus, Isaiah predicts with great detail exactly who this Jesus would be and what he would do for us.
Human Nature and God's Love
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He lays out for us the reality that Jesus would bear our iniquities, our sickness, our failures as his own. So I want to talk to you a little bit about our problem first, and then I want to show you the price that Christ paid for our forgiveness.
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So let's talk about our problem because Isaiah doesn't pull any punches here. He goes straight for the jugular in this description. He kind of says we all went astray like sheep. We have all turned to our own way and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all. You see, we left God's path to follow our own.
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God had a plan, God had a purpose, God had it all lined out for us for our benefit and yet we chose our own path and to this day we still continue to choose our own path. Isaiah says we're like sheep and for those of you who weren't raised on a farm, that's not a compliment. It's not a compliment because sheep are known basically for three things. Number one, they're defenseless. If you look at a sheep, they have no claws, they have no sharp teeth, they have no
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no mechanism whatsoever to scare away any enemies. And this is why the shepherd is so incredibly important for their existence. That's why the staff and the rod are given to a shepherd. Why they learn to use slingshots in those days because they had to protect the animals from everything around them. Sheep are so skittish and defenseless they are even afraid of bubbling water.
00:09:53
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That's why the psalmist says you have led me beside still waters because the shepherd has to look for sheep to have a place to pool water because it scares them to death. They're scared of everything. Sounds like many of you. The second thing they're known for is they don't think for themselves. They follow the crowd. One sheep decides to be dumb, all the sheep decide to be dumb. This is called mindthink or groupthink.
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It's something we see played out on the news every single night, if you watch it closely. Why do people buy into the lies they buy into? Because one person who was prominent decided that they were going to shake it off and shake it off. I mean, see what I'm saying? Why does a celebrity have that hold over us? What have they done to earn our respect such that we rearrange our lives around the way they dress, the way they vote, the way they think, the way they talk?
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And you may sit here and go, well, I would never listen to Taylor Swift. Oh, no, you won't. But you've got your own person that you follow, your own dumb sheep that you want to be like. And we all have that tendency to do that. And we'll just follow the herd. I did this once years ago. Some of you who are here will remember this. I can't remember how I did it, but I got up on the stage and I started clapping like this. And somebody started clapping with me. Before I was over with, every one of you started clapping. I said, what are you clapping for?
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Nobody knew except for the fact that the pastor had just started clapping. It sounds like a simple illustration, but the truth is so many of the decisions we make in our life are based on public opinion polls, trends, where's the crowd headed, you know, those kinds of things. I watch public sporting events on TV and I see some of the behaviors of some of the people and I'm going, you would have never done that at your job.
00:11:49
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You would have never painted your chest and gone in. Yes, I love work. But we go to the football field and we act like the 80,000 other fools that are acting like dumb sheep, right? That's the mentality of the human soul. This is another reason why he says we're like sheep. We do dumb things. The third thing that they're known for, they're known for wandering. They're wayward. Sheep are wayward. They will just wander off. And again, this is why a shepherd is so important because the sheep choose their own path and they get into trouble.
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Isaiah wasn't saying wow you're amazing because you're sheep. He was saying you guys need a lot of help. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. Remember this is 700 years before Jesus is even born.
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He would be oppressed. He would be treated harshly and never say a word. He's like a lamb that has led to the slaughter and despised and rejected, and yet we turn our backs on Him. It was our weaknesses He bore. It was our sins that crushed Him. When people today look at a manger many times, they think to themselves, okay, that's a great story for 2,000 years ago. It's a really good story for back then.
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But what does it mean for me today? Why should I follow this baby from Bethlehem? Why should I even care about this story anymore? And the answer is when you understand the magnitude of your sin, when you understand the full magnitude of his suffering on your behalf, then you begin to understand why this is called good news.
00:13:37
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Paul would later tell us in one of his letters, I want you to consider how high and how wide and how deep and how long the love of God is. And it's a mind-boggling concept, so much so that I don't think any of us really can truly understand. I told you a few weeks ago, years ago, my family had the opportunity to go on a cruise.
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I am not the kind of guy that likes to be in the middle of the ocean. Cruise ships are one thing, but don't put me on a fishing trawler and take me out into the middle of the ocean. I've seen the perfect storm too many times, okay? And I'm thinking, ain't no way I'm out there in the middle of that boat because I've just seen all that kind of stuff.
Jesus' Sacrifice: Comparing Passover and Resurrection
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But a cruise ship is incredible. It's an opportunity to be out there and feel a little bit more secure, a little bit more safe. And I remember standing on the edge of that boat several nights during that trip and just thinking about this verse. How wide, how long, how deep the love of God. The ocean is an immense place. And when you're out there in the middle of it where you literally can't see any land for miles around, you begin to understand the greatness and vastness of it.
00:14:49
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So when you and I talk about love, most often what we think of is our shot glass full of water. And we say, look how much we love. But then you compare it to the ocean and you're going, oh, it isn't so much. You know why? Because you and I are not capable of that kind of love. Next week, I'm incredibly excited because Christmas is coming and I've been really good.
00:15:21
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And because I've been really good, my four beautiful children and my five grandchildren and the three sons-in-laws will be at my house. And I love every single one of those people to the nth degree. But I can't love them like Jesus has loved me. I'm incapable of that. Why? Because I'm a dumb sheep. And so are you.
00:15:52
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And so when the Bible invites us to the edge of the manger in Bethlehem, when it invites us to come and kneel like Magi before a two-year-old, what it's saying is, come and consider this gift. Because this one makes all others pale in comparison. Not even in the same ballpark. So what I want to do is I want to take a closer look at what Jesus did for us. This very prophecy that Isaiah gave to us.
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Jesus wrestled with God when he began to see the suffering he was going to have to go through. If you remember the story, he goes into the garden of Gethsemane the night before he is crucified. He invites his disciples to pray with him and being dumb sheep, they fall asleep. They miss the significance of the moment that Jesus is about to go through. So Jesus alone wanders further into the garden and he begins to cry out with every ounce of his being
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God, is there any way this can go differently? Is there any chance that you could take away the suffering I am about to feel? My soul is in its greatest place of being overwhelmed. The sorrow that's on me is more intense than anything I've ever felt. Is there any other way? But Father, not my will. Yours alone.
00:17:19
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And the sorrow he was already feeling in that moment because of my sin, because of your sin, the Bible says it was so intense he began to sweat drops of blood from his forehead. This was 700 years after Isaiah had prophesied, by his stripes we will be healed.
00:17:44
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700 years after Isaiah said a little child will do this for us. Isaiah said he would die without descendants and it proved to be true. He said his life would be cut short and Jesus died at 33 years old. He was struck down even though he never once did one wrong thing or said one wrong thing.
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And he was even buried in a borrowed grave. How in the world did Isaiah even begin to know that there would be a guy named Joseph of Arimathea who would offer his grave? So think about this. What is it that makes Christianity different from every other religion that's out there? What is it that makes Christianity so unique, so special? Why does Christianity matter? And the answer is very clearly this. No other God has ever died for his people.
00:18:39
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No other God has ever died for his people. And it doesn't just begin with the prophecy of Isaiah. It goes all the way back to the Old Testament Passover. You remember the story?
The Uniqueness of Christianity
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The Hebrew people have been in Egypt for 400 years under slavery. And God shows up in the form of a guy named Moses. And Moses says, I'm here to deliver you. The great I am has sent me.
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So God begins to deliver plague after plague after plague trying to sway the heart of Pharaoh to let people go. And after the ninth plague, it's clear that God's going to have to be real drastic to get Pharaoh's attention. So he says to them, you're going to have to kill a one year old perfect lamb. You're going to have to eat the meat of that lamb. You're going to have to take the blood of that lamb and you're going to smear it across the blood.
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the doorpost so that the angel of death will pass over your home. This is true for Egyptians, for Hebrews, for immigrants and foreigners in the land. No matter who it is, if there is no blood, there will be death in the home of the firstborn child. Thousands of years ago, the blood on that doorpost foretold of the blood that would be on the cross.
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the blood that would be given to save us from the death that we all fear. So years before Isaiah wrote his words, years before prophets began to talk of this child, there would be talk of Jesus. So what separates Christianity from every other religion? God becomes flesh and dwells among us.
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A baby is born to a virgin. That baby becomes a prophet, a teacher, a rabbi, and he hand picks his disciples. And then doing what no other God has done before or since, he lays his life down on the cross for our freedom.
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the Magi brought myrrh because they were foreshadowing what Jesus would become. And Jesus understood this. He even prophesied about it himself in Luke chapter 9 verse 22. It says,
00:21:10
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It is necessary that the Son of man suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, the scribes, be killed and be raised on the third day. Jesus was telling his disciples, this is the way it's going to go down. This is what's about to happen to me. I want you to be completely aware of what I'm doing on
00:21:30
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And because of that, all of us are here today. We want to acknowledge Jesus. We want to sing O Holy Night. We want to talk about angels praising God. And we want to acknowledge the birth of this child. But Jesus didn't stop his prophecy at verse 22. He said, here's how you acknowledge who I am. Verse 23, if anyone wants to follow after me, he's going to have to deny himself. He's going to have to take up his cross daily and follow me.
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Notice what Jesus doesn't say. Jesus doesn't say, pray a prayer and your life will be great. Pray a prayer and your children will listen to you every time you give them a command. Pray a prayer and you'll get every promotion you desire and every bonus you're looking for. Pray a prayer and you'll never have to go to the doctor. Pray a prayer and your life and your marriage will be perfect the way you dreamed it. Pray a prayer and everything will be just right.
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It's not what Jesus said. He also didn't say pray this prayer and then go do whatever you want. Pray this prayer and make up your own rules. Pray this prayer and create your own value system. Pray this prayer and decide when you're going to pick and choose to obey me. He didn't say that either. What he said is if you want to follow me, if you want to acknowledge me, if you want to talk about silent night, holy night, perfect night, if you want to do any of those things, it starts with you learning. It's not about you.
00:22:58
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It's about me. And in order to acknowledge who I am, you're going to have to die to yourself and take up your cross and learn to live like I live. In other words, Jesus is saying, I'm not a hobby. I'm not an add-on to your life. I will not be your good luck charm.
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I will not be something that fills your empty space on the weekend when you don't have anything else to do. And when you understand that, it changes your life. It changes everything about you. You see, Jesus endured the cross for your hypocrisy. Jesus endured the cross for your judgmental spirit,
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your greed, for your anger, for your bitterness, for your unforgiveness. He endured the cross for your wickedness, for your evil. He endured those things because how vast and wide and long and deep his love is for you. So I don't follow Jesus because I have to. I don't follow Jesus because it makes me a better person or makes me feel better about myself.
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I don't follow Jesus because it gives me something to do every now and then on a Sunday when I don't have anything else to do. I followed Jesus because of what he's done for me. Ephesians chapter two verse one. And you were dead in your trespasses and your sins. Says you were what? You were dead. We were not just unhappy people who needed a little joy in our life.
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We were not sick people who needed a cure. We were not misguided people who needed a little bit better direction for our lives. We were not immoral people in need of religion and we were not failing people who needed a little bit more success.
Sincere Faith versus Superficial Practices
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We were dead people who need life. You know what every dead person has in common? They're dead. There is nothing they can do for themselves.
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There is nothing they can do to make themselves come alive. There's nothing they can do to make themselves feel better about themselves. We were not shell-shocked or traumatized people who needed an emotional support savior. We were not people who just needed a little bit of an adjustment in our attitude. We were dead and we needed Jesus because only Jesus gives life. Only Jesus.
00:25:46
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We need to know that we weren't just bad people because guess what? A bad person can kind of reform themselves temporarily. And what happens when you reform yourself temporarily is who gets all the credit? You. But a dead person is powerless. A dead person has no wisdom, no strength, no will.
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A dead person can't bring themselves back to life. We were dead, and only God could revive us. So, this morning right here in this room, we talked about this last week, there's three kinds of people. There are some of you who are very, very
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willing to rearrange your entire life around the person of Jesus. You've made that decision that he will not just be your savior because everybody likes the savior idea, but he's going to be your Lord, which means your desires become his. Your choices follow his. Your life modeled after his. And just like Magi, you're willing to rearrange your life.
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to worship him. Really, truly worship him. But some of you here today, you're just like the King Herod we read about in the story. What was the phrase? He was greatly disturbed. Do you know why Herod was greatly disturbed? Because there was a new king in town.
00:27:43
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And some of you here today, if you're honest, you reject Jesus just like Herod did, maybe not so outwardly, maybe not so boldly, but you reject Jesus because you're scared to death, you're going to have to turn over your throne to somebody else. And by the way, you will.
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There will come a day, there will come a time, there will come a place where Jesus is going to be on his throne in front of all of eternity, in front of every man in humanity, in front of every person who ever walked or breathed, and you will bow your knee to Jesus. The choice is, will it be then because you have to or now because you want to? And then there's others in this room who are bound up by religion.
00:28:30
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Now, you know why religion is dangerous? Go back to the life of the Pharisees. Religious people get all the credit. Look at how good I kept the rules. Look at how good I did this. Watch me as I do that. Because of that, the very ones who knew the most about Jesus missed everything about Jesus. Oh, they had the religion down.
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They had it down better than anybody else in the whole nation of Israel. But the one who had come to deliver them was missed entirely by them because it was all about them. And so for some of you today, it's time you quit trying to take credit for what only Jesus can do in your life.
00:29:31
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Now, I'm going to end the service the way I end most of our services by inviting Jaden to come on up and lead us in worship. We're going to stand. We're going to sing a song. And I'm going to tell you this altar is here for you. And can I just tell you there's many Sundays where I don't even want to say that? Because I'm afraid you see that as just another ritual and a religious practice. And it's anything but that. I want you to see something. I did this at the end of the first service. I'm going to do it here right now.
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This is not a measurement of your maturity or how Jesus-like you are, anything like that. If you would raise your hand right now and would say, you know what? I am so confident in my relationship with Jesus and so confident in what I know about Jesus that if anybody wanted to talk to me about a relationship with Jesus, I would be very comfortable having that conversation. If that would describe you, raise your hand. So keep them up for a second.
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For those of you right now who feel the Holy Spirit talking to you about a decision you need to make, and you're going, I just can't walk up to that altar. Look, you don't have to. They're sitting all around you.
Acknowledging Jesus as King
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They're called saints. And they're here for a reason because we become a great cloud of witnesses for one another.
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So this morning you're going, hey, I need to have a conversation about this Jesus. I think I'm missing the point. Or I think I've gotten it wrong to this point. Or I think there's things that I need to do to make sure that Jesus is truly Lord of my life. There are dozens of counselors in this room who would be happy to talk with you. You don't have to go talk to the intimidating pastor. Or maybe what you just need to do is come and kneel at this altar
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And like wise men 2,000 years ago, acknowledge that there's somebody else. Somebody else who is king, and it's not you. I say it to you again. There will come a point in time where you will know that he is king. And you will either do that because
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You're forced to, or you will do that because you would love to, because of what he has done for you. I'm gonna pray, and as we sing, you choose obedience. God, how sweet you are, how precious you are, what a savior you are.
00:32:17
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Let our hearts cry this morning be that we will choose nothing else but obedience. That we will choose no other way but the way of the cross. That we will celebrate nothing, worship nothing else but Christ elevated, Christ crucified, Christ resurrected, Christ reigning on his throne. That's what we want to worship.
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Lord, today, I believe with all my heart, somebody is gonna step into the eternity you desire for them. Somebody's gonna quit being proud, somebody's gonna quit being arrogant, maybe somebody's gonna turn all their confusion over to your spirit, and they're gonna trust that, and because of that, they will step from an eternity in hell without you to an eternity in heaven with you. That's what the world needs.
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So this morning as we sing, I pray, I pray, I pray with all my heart that you would give each of us the courage to do exactly as we feel the spirit leading us in this moment. It's in Jesus' name I pray, amen.