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Happy Messiah Season
Happy Messiah Season! Let’s do more than keep the word “Christ” in Christmas. Let’s make messiah the focus of everything!
https://youtu.be/gLgySR6IfY4
Let’s sing a song…
We three kings of orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star.
Frankincense to offer have I, Incense owns a Deity nigh
Prayer and praising, all men raising, Worship Him, God most high
Oh, star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright.
Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide with thy perfect light.
This is the final
week of the Messiah Season series.
Keeping Christ in Christmas is more than just a word choice. If we go through this season without understanding or focusing on the promise of Messiah… then it does matter if we say the words Merry Christmas or happy holidays.
Let’s make Messiah
the focus of the season.
The 3 gifts of the Magi
We have been
studying the 3 gifts the Magi brought to the Christ child. The gifts
of Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh reveal the 3 fold prophetic
promise of Messiah.
The gift of Gold revealed that Messiah is a Conquering King.
Daniel 7 describes
messiah as a king and then describes how he will show up and save the
day.
The gift of Myrrh revealed that Messiah is the suffering Servant
Isaiah 52 & 53
calls Messiah servant and then describe his suffering.
In a moment we will
talk about the gift of frankincense but first we have to ask…
How many Messiahs are there?
Isaiah 53 and
Daniel 7 describe vastly different Messiahs? Are they describing the
same messiah? What do you think?
There are large
segments within Judaism who have interpreted the suffering servant
and the conquering king as 2 separate messiahs.
It’s
understandable to us why some would do this…. How can the king be
punished alongside thieves? How can the servant be on the throne?
How could the king be born in a manger? How can the one with the
power and authority to heal and forgive sins die on the cross?
For this reason, some in Judaism believe in 2 messiahs, Ben Yosef & Ben David.
Ben Yosef & Ben David
The teaching is
growing in popularity and goes a little like this… The 1st
Messiah, the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 who they call Ben Yosef,
will come and through his service and death will prepare a way for
the 2nd messiah… The 2nd messiah, the
conquering king of Daniel 7 who they call Ben David, will come and
rule and reign a Kingdom that will not end.
I find this really
interesting.. because to me it is obvious that because they reject
Jesus as messiah they have to reinterpret scripture to represent 2
messiahs. Because they reject the 1 true messiah they now are
searching and hoping for 2 messiahs… and according to them, neither
Ben Yosef or Ben David have come yet.
Jesus is the 1 true messiah
Every prophecy is
fulfilled in Jesus. Every promise is received through Jesus.
Jesus is the
suffering servant! He is the Ben Yosef they are looking for. He was
born in a manger in a lower class family. He was a man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief. He was often found with the poor and the
outcast. He healed and fed multitudes. He was falsely accused and
bore the weight of the cross. He died for the sins of mankind and
was buried in a borrowed tomb. 3 days later he rose again. He
ascended to heaven.
But that isn’t
all… Jesus is returning!
Messiah will come
back to the earth as the Ben David they are looking for! He will
return as the conquering king Daniel foretold. He will come on the
clouds and every eye will see Him! Jesus will defeat the devil and
make everything right! Jesus will bring His kingdom to earth. His
Kingdom will be filled with righteousness & peace and will never
come to an end.
If you reject
Jesus… It seems you would need 2 messiahs.
If you receive
Jesus… you don’t need anything else!
Jesus is the 1 true messiah!
Jesus fulfills
all of the over 300 prophecies of Messiah. To deny Him is to deny
God’s Word and to deny hope.
I want to quickly
share with you one of the more amazing prophecies about Messiah. It
is found in Daniel 9 and it gives a timeline for when Messiah would
come.
So if you are
scoring at home… We have shown prophecy that predicts the family
lineage, the Nation and city of birth. Now Daniel gives a window of
time that Messiah would come.
Daniel is in exile
in Babylon. Jerusalem is left in ruins… the walls and the temple
had been destroyed by Babylon. As Daniel writes this prophecy
Jerusalem, its temple, and walls lie in ruin.
Daniel 9:25-26 “Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven `sevens,’ and sixty-two `sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
After the sixty-two
`sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The
people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the
sanctuary…
Don’t be confused
by the sevens… The sevens refer to years. Seven sevens is 49
years. Sixty-two sevens is 434 years.
Daniel 9 Prophecy
Daniel prophesies 4 events, places them in order and even timestamps them in years!
1 Daniel prophesies that a decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem will come. (Daniel 9:25)
2 The City rebuild will be completed in seven sevens, 49 years.
3 The Anointed One/Messiah will come by the time of sixty-two sevens, 434 years. After this Messiah will be cut off. Daniel prophesies the death of Jesus.
4 Lastly, the same people who kill Messiah will destroy the city and the temple.
God gives Daniel
a specific time in which 4 important things will take place: The
decree to rebuild Jerusalem, Jerusalem rebuilt, Messiah cut off, and
the 2nd temple destroyed.
The fulfillment of
this prophecy can be found in your history books!
Artaxerxes gives the
decree to rebuild Jerusalem in 457BC… seven sevens or 49 years
later Jerusalem would be completed in 408 BC.
Sixty-two sevens or
434 years later Jesus was crucified by the Romans.
Later temple &
the city of Jerusalem would be destroyed in 70 AD at the Roman siege
of Jerusalem.
Do you believe your
Bible? You can! Your Bible is trustworthy!
This prophecy lays out these events in order and even timestamps them.
Anyone that rejects
Jesus as Messiah needs to tell us who else was born in that time
period that fulfills every messianic prophecy.
I am so excited to
tell you that Jesus is really the messiah. We ought to be excited
about this truth!
Gift of Frankincense
The Magi brought a gift of frankincense. We were diffusing some frankincense as you entered the sanctuary today.
Frankincense is a
gum or resin from Boswellia Tree. It is used for making perfumes and
incense.
The Hebrew word for
Frankincense is lĕbownah (LE VO NAH) and it means white as in the
color of the resin.
Frankincense is symbolic of Holiness. It is used throughout the temple… Whenever Scripture says “incense” was used in the temple they were referring to Frankincense. Without Frankincense you couldn’t come into the presence of God. When Psalms talks about worship and prayer being fragrant like perfume… that was a reference to Frankincense.
Frankincense was
used all throughout the Temple of God’s presence except… Sin
offerings. (Lev 5:11) They were ordered to never bring the incense
into contact with sin.
Frankincense
represents Holiness and the Deity of God. When they brought
Frankincense to Jesus they were declaring Jesus to be Holy and Deity.
There is much
prophecy that agrees with the Gift of Frankincense, that Messiah
would be God himself.
Isaiah 7:14
tells us Messiah would be born of a virgin. Who else could do this
but God?
Messiah’s throne
would be anointed and eternal Psalm 45:6 & Isaiah 9:7.
Who else could have an eternal throne but an eternal God?
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.
The child in the manger is the MIGHTY GOD!
The son given is the EVERLASTING FATHER!
Prophecy also tells
us that Messiah would be called Immanuel… Isaiah 7:14
Immanuel means “God with us.”
When Messiah is with us it isn’t a smaller God with us… It’s not a demi-God is with us… or one of many other Gods is with us… It is not one-half or one-third of God… When Messiah is with us it means THE ONE GOD who created the world… He is with us.
The Holy presence of
God that we couldn’t experience… it was literally kept in the
temple behind a curtain in the Holy of Holies… That presence is
with us. That presence put on flesh and was born in a manger.
That is the powerful
message of Christmas! God is with us!
God is not mad at
you… God is with you!
God does not want to
destroy you… God is with you and has come to give you life!
We told you that
Jesus is both BEN YOSEF & BEN DAVID. Jesus is both the suffering
servant & the conquering king.
Jesus Christ is also GOD & MAN!
Do you like Movies
with a big reveal? “I am your Father.” “I see dead people.”
There are these movie reveals that change everything about the movie.
A really good movie reveal can redefine the entire movie…
Your Bible has a
reveal greater than anything Hollywood has been able to dream up.
Here it is…
The Big Reveal – Messiah is God and Man
The initial prophecy
of Messiah is Genesis 3:15.
Genesis 3:15 (NIV2011) And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
It was known from
the beginning that the human seed of Mary would be Messiah and
destroy the seed of the serpent. A human messiah would come and win
the victory over the serpent.
Yet the greatest reveal of all time is that Messiah would be born of a woman and at the same time be God.
John 1:1 (NIV2011) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 (NIV2011) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only…
The same God we
disappointed in the garden… The same God who said we had to leave
the garden and be punished because of sin… This is the same God who
put on flesh, was born in a manger, and went to the cross for us.
This Jesus Christ is both GOD & MAN and He is the one who crushes
the head of the serpent.
And like most big
reveals… we should have seen it coming but didn’t…
Why does Jesus go to
the Cross for us? Because He is God and loves us.
How does He raise
Himself from the dead? He is God and is the source of life.
But also… How can
He feel pain and hunger? He is man and knows exactly what our pain
feels like.
How can he be born
of a woman…? He is man.
How could he die and
pour out his blood to save us? He is man…
When that Magi opened up his gift of Frankincense He was letting us know that this child in the manger was the Holy God of Creation.
Messiah is the
suffering servant, the conquering king, and God with us.
Messiah is everything You need!
The Magi brought
their treasure to the Christ Child… but the Christ Child didn’t
need their treasure… the Magi needed the true treasure that is
Messiah.
The Shepherds came
and bowed in worship before the Lord… but the Lord didn’t need
their worship… It was the Shepherds that needed His presence.
Today we came… and
we worshipped Messiah together, we received His word together, and we
are about to come talk to the Messiah in this altar… But our
Messiah doesn’t need anything we do today… It is us that need
Him.
Messiah – You are
everything we need.
Whatever you need
today it is found in Jesus Christ.
God loves you so much that He came Himself as your messiah. He didn’t send an angel or a demi-God… He came Himself… Everything God wants for you can be found in the face of the Messiah.
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Happy Messiah Season
Happy Messiah Season! Let’s do more than keep the word “Christ” in Christmas. Let’s make messiah the focus of everything!
https://youtu.be/gLgySR6IfY4
Let’s sing a song…
We three kings of orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star.
Frankincense to offer have I, Incense owns a Deity nigh
Prayer and praising, all men raising, Worship Him, God most high
Oh, star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright.
Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide with thy perfect light.
This is the final
week of the Messiah Season series.
Keeping Christ in Christmas is more than just a word choice. If we go through this season without understanding or focusing on the promise of Messiah… then it does matter if we say the words Merry Christmas or happy holidays.
Let’s make Messiah
the focus of the season.
The 3 gifts of the Magi
We have been
studying the 3 gifts the Magi brought to the Christ child. The gifts
of Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh reveal the 3 fold prophetic
promise of Messiah.
The gift of Gold revealed that Messiah is a Conquering King.
Daniel 7 describes
messiah as a king and then describes how he will show up and save the
day.
The gift of Myrrh revealed that Messiah is the suffering Servant
Isaiah 52 & 53
calls Messiah servant and then describe his suffering.
In a moment we will
talk about the gift of frankincense but first we have to ask…
How many Messiahs are there?
Isaiah 53 and
Daniel 7 describe vastly different Messiahs? Are they describing the
same messiah? What do you think?
There are large
segments within Judaism who have interpreted the suffering servant
and the conquering king as 2 separate messiahs.
It’s
understandable to us why some would do this…. How can the king be
punished alongside thieves? How can the servant be on the throne?
How could the king be born in a manger? How can the one with the
power and authority to heal and forgive sins die on the cross?
For this reason, some in Judaism believe in 2 messiahs, Ben Yosef & Ben David.
Ben Yosef & Ben David
The teaching is
growing in popularity and goes a little like this… The 1st
Messiah, the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 who they call Ben Yosef,
will come and through his service and death will prepare a way for
the 2nd messiah… The 2nd messiah, the
conquering king of Daniel 7 who they call Ben David, will come and
rule and reign a Kingdom that will not end.
I find this really
interesting.. because to me it is obvious that because they reject
Jesus as messiah they have to reinterpret scripture to represent 2
messiahs. Because they reject the 1 true messiah they now are
searching and hoping for 2 messiahs… and according to them, neither
Ben Yosef or Ben David have come yet.
Jesus is the 1 true messiah
Every prophecy is
fulfilled in Jesus. Every promise is received through Jesus.
Jesus is the
suffering servant! He is the Ben Yosef they are looking for. He was
born in a manger in a lower class family. He was a man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief. He was often found with the poor and the
outcast. He healed and fed multitudes. He was falsely accused and
bore the weight of the cross. He died for the sins of mankind and
was buried in a borrowed tomb. 3 days later he rose again. He
ascended to heaven.
But that isn’t
all… Jesus is returning!
Messiah will come
back to the earth as the Ben David they are looking for! He will
return as the conquering king Daniel foretold. He will come on the
clouds and every eye will see Him! Jesus will defeat the devil and
make everything right! Jesus will bring His kingdom to earth. His
Kingdom will be filled with righteousness & peace and will never
come to an end.
If you reject
Jesus… It seems you would need 2 messiahs.
If you receive
Jesus… you don’t need anything else!
Jesus is the 1 true messiah!
Jesus fulfills
all of the over 300 prophecies of Messiah. To deny Him is to deny
God’s Word and to deny hope.
I want to quickly
share with you one of the more amazing prophecies about Messiah. It
is found in Daniel 9 and it gives a timeline for when Messiah would
come.
So if you are
scoring at home… We have shown prophecy that predicts the family
lineage, the Nation and city of birth. Now Daniel gives a window of
time that Messiah would come.
Daniel is in exile
in Babylon. Jerusalem is left in ruins… the walls and the temple
had been destroyed by Babylon. As Daniel writes this prophecy
Jerusalem, its temple, and walls lie in ruin.
Daniel 9:25-26 “Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven `sevens,’ and sixty-two `sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
After the sixty-two
`sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The
people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the
sanctuary…
Don’t be confused
by the sevens… The sevens refer to years. Seven sevens is 49
years. Sixty-two sevens is 434 years.
Daniel 9 Prophecy
Daniel prophesies 4 events, places them in order and even timestamps them in years!
1 Daniel prophesies that a decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem will come. (Daniel 9:25)
2 The City rebuild will be completed in seven sevens, 49 years.
3 The Anointed One/Messiah will come by the time of sixty-two sevens, 434 years. After this Messiah will be cut off. Daniel prophesies the death of Jesus.
4 Lastly, the same people who kill Messiah will destroy the city and the temple.
God gives Daniel
a specific time in which 4 important things will take place: The
decree to rebuild Jerusalem, Jerusalem rebuilt, Messiah cut off, and
the 2nd temple destroyed.
The fulfillment of
this prophecy can be found in your history books!
Artaxerxes gives the
decree to rebuild Jerusalem in 457BC… seven sevens or 49 years
later Jerusalem would be completed in 408 BC.
Sixty-two sevens or
434 years later Jesus was crucified by the Romans.
Later temple &
the city of Jerusalem would be destroyed in 70 AD at the Roman siege
of Jerusalem.
Do you believe your
Bible? You can! Your Bible is trustworthy!
This prophecy lays out these events in order and even timestamps them.
Anyone that rejects
Jesus as Messiah needs to tell us who else was born in that time
period that fulfills every messianic prophecy.
I am so excited to
tell you that Jesus is really the messiah. We ought to be excited
about this truth!
Gift of Frankincense
The Magi brought a gift of frankincense. We were diffusing some frankincense as you entered the sanctuary today.
Frankincense is a
gum or resin from Boswellia Tree. It is used for making perfumes and
incense.
The Hebrew word for
Frankincense is lĕbownah (LE VO NAH) and it means white as in the
color of the resin.
Frankincense is symbolic of Holiness. It is used throughout the temple… Whenever Scripture says “incense” was used in the temple they were referring to Frankincense. Without Frankincense you couldn’t come into the presence of God. When Psalms talks about worship and prayer being fragrant like perfume… that was a reference to Frankincense.
Frankincense was
used all throughout the Temple of God’s presence except… Sin
offerings. (Lev 5:11) They were ordered to never bring the incense
into contact with sin.
Frankincense
represents Holiness and the Deity of God. When they brought
Frankincense to Jesus they were declaring Jesus to be Holy and Deity.
There is much
prophecy that agrees with the Gift of Frankincense, that Messiah
would be God himself.
Isaiah 7:14
tells us Messiah would be born of a virgin. Who else could do this
but God?
Messiah’s throne
would be anointed and eternal Psalm 45:6 & Isaiah 9:7.
Who else could have an eternal throne but an eternal God?
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.
The child in the manger is the MIGHTY GOD!
The son given is the EVERLASTING FATHER!
Prophecy also tells
us that Messiah would be called Immanuel… Isaiah 7:14
Immanuel means “God with us.”
When Messiah is with us it isn’t a smaller God with us… It’s not a demi-God is with us… or one of many other Gods is with us… It is not one-half or one-third of God… When Messiah is with us it means THE ONE GOD who created the world… He is with us.
The Holy presence of
God that we couldn’t experience… it was literally kept in the
temple behind a curtain in the Holy of Holies… That presence is
with us. That presence put on flesh and was born in a manger.
That is the powerful
message of Christmas! God is with us!
God is not mad at
you… God is with you!
God does not want to
destroy you… God is with you and has come to give you life!
We told you that
Jesus is both BEN YOSEF & BEN DAVID. Jesus is both the suffering
servant & the conquering king.
Jesus Christ is also GOD & MAN!
Do you like Movies
with a big reveal? “I am your Father.” “I see dead people.”
There are these movie reveals that change everything about the movie.
A really good movie reveal can redefine the entire movie…
Your Bible has a
reveal greater than anything Hollywood has been able to dream up.
Here it is…
The Big Reveal – Messiah is God and Man
The initial prophecy
of Messiah is Genesis 3:15.
Genesis 3:15 (NIV2011) And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
It was known from
the beginning that the human seed of Mary would be Messiah and
destroy the seed of the serpent. A human messiah would come and win
the victory over the serpent.
Yet the greatest reveal of all time is that Messiah would be born of a woman and at the same time be God.
John 1:1 (NIV2011) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 (NIV2011) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only…
The same God we
disappointed in the garden… The same God who said we had to leave
the garden and be punished because of sin… This is the same God who
put on flesh, was born in a manger, and went to the cross for us.
This Jesus Christ is both GOD & MAN and He is the one who crushes
the head of the serpent.
And like most big
reveals… we should have seen it coming but didn’t…
Why does Jesus go to
the Cross for us? Because He is God and loves us.
How does He raise
Himself from the dead? He is God and is the source of life.
But also… How can
He feel pain and hunger? He is man and knows exactly what our pain
feels like.
How can he be born
of a woman…? He is man.
How could he die and
pour out his blood to save us? He is man…
When that Magi opened up his gift of Frankincense He was letting us know that this child in the manger was the Holy God of Creation.
Messiah is the
suffering servant, the conquering king, and God with us.
Messiah is everything You need!
The Magi brought
their treasure to the Christ Child… but the Christ Child didn’t
need their treasure… the Magi needed the true treasure that is
Messiah.
The Shepherds came
and bowed in worship before the Lord… but the Lord didn’t need
their worship… It was the Shepherds that needed His presence.
Today we came… and
we worshipped Messiah together, we received His word together, and we
are about to come talk to the Messiah in this altar… But our
Messiah doesn’t need anything we do today… It is us that need
Him.
Messiah – You are
everything we need.
Whatever you need
today it is found in Jesus Christ.
God loves you so much that He came Himself as your messiah. He didn’t send an angel or a demi-God… He came Himself… Everything God wants for you can be found in the face of the Messiah.