Sermon Text: Psalm 2:1-12
Sermon Title: “The Greater David: Preparing for the King of Kings”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: This Christmas, are we Preparing for a King … or are we Preparing for a Holiday? The Greater David is Coming.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Kings of the Earth … Prepare to Throw Off Heaven (vv. 1-6)SLIDE 3 – Nehemiah 9:6 – “You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.”SLIDE 4 – Luke 4:5-7 – “And the devil took him [Jesus] up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, ‘To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.’”SLIDE 5 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”SLIDE 6 – Romans 8:7 – “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.”
SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – The King of Heaven … Prepares to Take Back the Earth (vv. 7-12)SLIDE 8 – Hebrews 1:1-2 – “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.”SLIDE 9 – Acts 4:23-27– “When they [Peter & John] were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, ‘Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’— for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel.’”
SLIDE 10 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 11 – A Higher View of Christ, Will Correct Too Low a View of Christmas.SLIDE 12 – Sweet Sentiment and Godly Submission Aren’t the Same Thing.SLIDE 13 – Christmas is the King’s Invasion, But Also God’s Rescue Operation.
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