Sermons from Good News: This Christmas let's worship Jesus

Note before sharing the sermon message: I really liked the below image, so I'm sharing it in this post. But I also checked the website from which this photo appeared, and it has a really good explanation on why frankincense and myrrh were also great gifts for two of the wise men to give to Jesus (I'm presuming that gold is a no-brainer).

Gifts of the Three Wise Men | TC Times

Church 12/16/2023

Offertory scripture:

God gave us a savior: Jesus.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Sermon message:

Thesis: This Christmas let’s worship Jesus.

God inhabits the praises of His people.

Consider this: Joshua was fighting in the valley, and Moses was up on the mountain. As Moses worshipped God, the Israelites were gaining victory over their enemies.

Whenever Peter and John were ministering to people using Jesus’s name, they decided to honor God over their human leaders. And they spent time with other believers. Acts 4.

Jesus cleansed the temple of buyers and sellers to restore the temple to worshiping God.

Paul and Silas praised and worshipped God in prison, and God showed up.

Christmas is about Jesus.

How important worshipping Jesus really is:

Point #1: It is wise to come and worship Jesus.

Matthew 2:1-2

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”

Point #2: It is unwise to refuse to come and worship Jesus.

Consider Herod. He was evil. He killed his wife and some of his sons. He imprisoned multiple Jewish leaders with orders to kill them on the day of his death.

Matthew 2:3-6

3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.

5 So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:

6 ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,

Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;

For out of you shall come a Ruler

Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”

The scribes knew where Jesus was going to be born, and they refused to worship Jesus. They weren’t wise.

We need to worship Jesus. We need it.

Point #3: God knows and rewards true worshipers.

God calls David a man after His own heart. David wrote most of the Psalms, of worship unto God.

Mark 2:9-10

9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic,

Matthew 2:7-8

7 Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.”

Point #4: it is wise to be a giver.

When you give time to worship God and give unto Him, you’ll be blessed.

Matthew 2:11

And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Giving is part of worshipping God.

Luke 6:38

Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Today, make a decision to bless someone in the name of Jesus.

Point #5: God guides worshippers.

Matthew 2:12

Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.