Worship with Great Joy!

Matthew 2:1-12

The Child Demands a Response

Herod responded with all the wrong emotions.

• Matthew 2:1-4

• Matthew 2:5-8

  
  

The Scribes and Priests responded with apathy.

• Matthew 2:4-6

• Micah 5:2

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"It gets to be mere mechanical habit to attend public worship; you become accustomed to sit through such a part of the service, to stand and sing, and to listen to the preacher with an apparent attention during the discourse; but to be really interested, to long to know what it is all about, to know especially whether you have a part in it, whether Jesus came from heaven to save you, whether he was born of a virgin, to make such personal inquiries with deep anxiety, is far from being a general practice." - Charles Spurgeon

The Magi responded with exceeding joy and worship.

• Matthew 2:1-2

• Daniel 2:48

• Numbers 24:17

• Matthew 2:9-12

• Isaiah 60:1-4

• Isaiah 60:5-6

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Worship (proskyneo) - stoop and kiss, prostrate oneself, bow to a higher authority in complete reverence and submission

Matthew 4:8-10

Application

• Do you respond to Jesus with all the wrong emotions?
• Is your response to Jesus indifferent or apathetic?
• Is your response to Jesus filled with exceeding joy and worship?
• We must respond to Jesus with worship and exceeding joy!