There Is Hope For Your Future Series

There Is Hope For Your Future

Matthew 2:13-23

Good morning MGCC!

HEY – as we begin I want to share some good news with you, in fact, it is great news.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” – John 11:25,26

MGCC… B/S… QUESTION…

Do you believe this? Do you believe that…

OKAY – today is week four in our study of Matthew’s Gospel, “The King And His Kingdom” NOW – the first two chapters of Matthew deal with the birth and early childhood of Jesus.

IN WEEK ONE…

As we looked at Matthew’s Genealogy we saw the main point is driving home is that Jesus is King and the true heir to the Davidic Throne. And Jesus as King Has…

• The authority to speak

• The power to rule

• The desire to include

• The right to reward

IN WEEK TWO…

We saw that Joseph (Jesus’ earthly dad) woke up to who Jesus was… the King, the Christ, the Savior, Immanuel (God with us)… When Joseph woke up to who Jesus is, He did what the angel commanded.

And Joseph taught us that obedience..

• Can At Times Be Embarassing

• Obedience Is Often Inconvenient

• Obedience Doesn’t Always Make Sense

• Obedience Usually Comes With A Price

• Obedience Will Always Be Rewarded

AND – last week, the wisemen who visited toddler Jesus in Bethlehem taught us 5 powerful truths about worship, worship…

• Begins with seeing

• Required seeking

• Is grounded and ignited be scripture

• Is best expressed in our submission

• Demands sacrifice

Seeing, Seeking, Scripturing, Submitting, Sacrificing

B/S – that is worship!

QUESTION – so did you do any worshipping this past week?

NOW – that is where we have been… and don’t worry I will not be doing a review every week of all we have talked about.. I MEAN – that would get pretty when we are in Matthew 28, week 64 of study…

OKAY – let’s do this…

AND LISTEN – Matthew in these 11 verses, guided by the Holy Spirit (all Scripture is God-breathed), underscores…

• 3 events in Jesus’ life

• 3 fulfilled prophecies, and

• 2 ‘Major’ events in the History of God’s people

OKAY – so let’s read the text and pray into our study.

When they (the wisemen) 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.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 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.”

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.

Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”

So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 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, 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 2:13-23

Prayer

MGCC…

Are you ready?

Do you believe that if you have ears to hear and eyes to see, that God has a Word for you this morning?

Now, I hope you do, because He does! AMEN?!

OKAY – there are 3 major points in your outline…

• Out Of Egypt

• A Voice Is Heard

• He Will Be Called

AND – let the unpacking begin!

I. Out Of Egypt

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. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod.”