The Birth Of The Messiah Part Two

The Birth of the Messiah Part two

Introduction-

Good Morning Everyone-

Glad that you are with us this morning and I pray the Lord would draw you close to Himself and make Himself known to you.

You remember last week I talked about being a Town Crier- I defined it a person who had the authority to pronounce royal decrees that should be heard and obeyed.

I decreed that heaven holds more interest to me as I get older. I shared some reasons why I said that.

I decreed that the world has a wrong idea of heaven- Because they think that they will all be there weather they accept what Christ did on the Cross or not. That is simply a lie from the pit of Hell.

I said that I was going to heaven for one reason and that was because of what Christ has done on the cross for me and not because I was a good person.

We had one main verse of Scripture- it was Isaiah 9:6-

Isaiah 9:6-

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, prince of peace.”

Let’s Pray-

We know that the birth of Jesus was foretold 700 years before Jesus actually became flesh on this earth-

A miraculous virgin birth that was right out of the playbook of God.

We see that his birth lineage was described and laid out in the gospel of Matthew and that this was not just a last minute thought but well thought out and was a divine plan of God to send Jesus to redeem a world that could not redeem itself.

One of the most given reasons for people’s unbelief is the problem of evil- if God is so powerful why do bad things still happen? Bad Happen to Good People?

An Omnipresent God (everywhere) would certainly be aware of the presence of evil.

Omniscient God (all knowing) would certainly know how to overcome that evil.

Omnipotent God (All powerful) would certainly be able to enforce victory over evil.

God of love would want to get rid of evil.

Yet evil is still here! Wars, murder, oppression, torture, abuse, starvation, accidents, cancer… the list just goes on and on! Divorce…

It is because of free will- (Simple but complex answer) We were not created to be robots-

We are not forced into believing.

We have a choice and because we have a choice- some will make the right decision and some will make an eternally wrong decision.

Sin entered this world because man has sinned against God. It is not the world that God intended for us to live in but because we choose sin, it was our choice.

“And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on this earth, and he was grieved in His heart.” Gen 6:6”

Everything that God had made was “very good” but now He has a grieving heart because they have turned away from him and sinned.

We see in Genesis 22 the account of Abraham offering up Isaac.

Why would God put Abraham to such a test?

For him to experience such a heart break?

I cannot imagine that- can you?

Before harm was done- God speaks “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son to

Our Human sin and His Divine persistence/ our sin that just cannot go away by itself and His persistence to be our savior and provide away.

You cannot separate Isaiah 9:6 and John 3:16

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, prince of peace.”

And John 3:16

John 3:16

“For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

God put Adam and Eve in a life situation of maximum freedom and minimum restraint.

Because of sin they ended up the opposite with minimum freedom and maximum restraint.

The world today is crying out for freedom. Everything is about your freedom.

Make sure no one robs you of your freedom- even if your freedom infringes on someone else freedom.

Make your choice and don’t care about others as long as you get what you want.

What Satan obscured from the view of man was to have perfect freedom was to be in perfect subjection to God.

We are at our best when we are in Him- not doing our own thing!