The Gifts We Bring (Part 1)

Luke 1:68-79; 3:1-6

Sunday, December 1, 2024

One gift that the magi brought to the child Jesus was gold. Gold had no place in a home like Mary and Joseph's; it was much too valuable. It is a recognition of the child's royal status—it was a symbolic way to hail Jesus as king. What does it mean to hail Jesus as king today?

Bryant Anderson preaching.

Current Series: The Gifts We Bring

The magi of the Christmas story brought three gifts to the infant Jesus: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Tradition has long ascribed symbolic meaning to these gifts: gold symbolizes Jesus's royalty, frankincense, his divinity, and myrrh, his mortality. This series delves into these three gifts, examines the significance of these three aspects of Jesus's nature, and urges us to think seriously about what gifts we ourselves bring to the Christ child.