Introduction:
What Kind of King Is This? (Luke 1:26-38)
- As God, Jesus Rules over me. (Luke 1:32, 35)
- As Man, Jesus Relates to me. (Luke 1:31)
Hebrews 2:17 - Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect...
Hebrews 4:14-16 - Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
- As Savior, Jesus Rescued me. (Luke 1:31)
Matthew 1:21 - She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
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Open up your Bibles with me please to Luke chapter 1.
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Luke chapter 1, are you there?
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When I was in high school, I worked at Walmart.
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And my job, lest you think it was too glamorous, my job was fetching the carts and cleaning the bathrooms And basically hopping from department to department to do whatever anybody needed.
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And being new, just getting to know some people, getting to know some personalities, the one day in particular I was just getting pinballed from department to department.
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Every department needed help with something.
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And in particular the manager of the lawn and garden department was just piling it on.
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I need this and I need you to come back for this.
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And why wasn't this done?
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Piling it on.
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And I said, well, look, I'm going to come back.
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I'm going to help you.
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But the girl from foods needs help, too.
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And everybody needs-- you just have to wait.
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So I went and was helping the girl that worked in foods.
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And I was just having a bad day.
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And I didn't know this girl either.
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But she's like, so how's it going?
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And I said, that lady from the law and garden department is on my last nerve.
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I said, she has been on my case and she has been barking orders at me and I don't know what her problem is, but I am about to unload on her.
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And the girl from food says, you mean my mom?
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There's no backing out of that.
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There just isn't.
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You know, I learned two valuable lessons that day.
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The first one is, make all your words sweet, because you might have to eat them.
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The second lesson I learned is you need to know who you're dealing with.
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Right?
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And we're going to find out today, from our text, who exactly we're dealing with.
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We're expecting. We expect a king.
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Pick up where we left off last week.
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Verse 26. It says, "In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary." It's up there the sixth month. The sixth month of what?
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The sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy.
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Gabriel shows up again.
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The same messenger that went to Zechariah.
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We talked about that whole thing last week.
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And it says that Mary was betrothed to a man named Joseph.
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Betrothed was an engagement.
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But in those days, this engagement was legally binding.
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It wasn't just like becoming boyfriend/girlfriend and breaking up.
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It was legally binding, so in order to break the betrothal, you had to file for divorce.
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1 Corinthians 28.
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It says, "And he came to her and said, 'Greetings, O favored one!
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The Lord is with you!' But she was greatly troubled at this saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be.
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And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
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And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
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He will be great.
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And will be called the Son of the Most High.
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And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
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He will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
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And of His kingdom, there will be no end." So Gabriel shows up to this young, engaged, virgin woman and says, "God chose you.
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You are going to concede." Now we know the story, but can we just try to imagine ourselves in Mary's position here?
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and says, "You're going to conceive." And Mary knew exactly one way that such a thing happened to human beings.
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But she understood that Gabriel didn't mean that the conception was going to happen after marriage.
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You know, Gabriel wasn't like, "Hey, by the way, someday, five years into your marriage, you're going to have a baby." She knew.
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He means now.
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Look at verse 34. It makes it clear.
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"And Mary said to the angel, 'How will this be, since I am a virgin?'" You know, I was reading that this week, and I thought to myself, wait a minute, why wasn't Mary disciplined the way Zechariah was disciplined, right?
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Anybody else have that question?
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Like, wait a second, Zechariah had questions and he was struck mute and deaf.
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Mary asked a question, and she wasn't disciplined.
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Like, what was the difference?
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The difference was attitude.
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Parents get that, right?
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You know, there's a difference between your child asking you a question for information a child questioning you.
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Now, Mary wasn't unbelieving.
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We're going to see this here in a second.
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She believed everything that the angel was saying.
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She just didn't understand it.
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She was just humbly asking how this could happen because keep in mind, this was unprecedented.
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Nothing like this had ever happened in the history of mankind.
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A virgin has a baby.
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Here's how, look at verse 35.
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"The angel answered her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
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Therefore the child to be born will be called Holy, the Son of God.'" Gabriel says, "Here's how this happens.
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The Holy Spirit's going to make this happen.
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And this child will be fully human as the Son of Mary, and the child will be fully God as conceived by the Holy Spirit." Verse 36, "And behold, your relative Elizabeth, in her old age, has also conceived a son.
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And this is the sixth month with her, who was called Baron." Mary didn't ask for a sign, but she was given one.
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Once again, I would encourage us to try to put ourselves in Mary's position here, to try to recreate in our hearts to some extent the impact this would have had.
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Could you imagine hearing this statement?
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The angel shows up and he's like, "Oh yeah, by the way, you know your great-aunt Francine?
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Eighty-six years old, never had any kids, you know her?" Like, "Yeah, I know her." Like, "Yeah, she's pregnant." What?
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God's obviously up to something big here.
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I mean, here, pregnant virgin and pregnant elderly woman.
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God's obviously doing something.
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And verse 37, Gabriel says, "For nothing will be impossible with God." He has the power to do all this.
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Verse 38 is the proof of Mary's attitude I was talking about earlier.
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Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord.
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Let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
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There's the proof of her attitude.
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She wasn't unbelieving.
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She was like, "Oh, okay.
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God says even though I've never known a man, I'm going to have a child? Okay.
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I'm just a servant. That's what God says.
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That's what we're going with.
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Let me ask you, church.
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How many times do you think over the course of last week to today to Tuesday, how many times within that couple-week block do you think this passage will be preached in churches all over the world?
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And so much is going to be said about the virgin birth and the character of Mary, and then maybe pulling in some other passage talking about shepherds and angels and magi, and all those things are true.
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But all of those things are secondary issues, really.
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Because so many Christmas messages that are preached are about how He's coming, I think what's more important is who has come.
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And Gabriel highlights one aspect of Jesus very specifically, and I know you saw it, because he said it in at least three different phrases here.
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It's like, okay, here's what's happening, but here's the thing I'm emphasizing, and I'm going to make sure you get this.
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Look at verses 32-33 again.
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And look at what he highlights here.
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up at the end of verse 32, "And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
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And of his kingdom there will be no end." You see what Gabriel was making sure Mary understood?
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This child is going to be a what?
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He's going to be a king, right?
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He's going to be a king.
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Not just a king, he's going to be the king.
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He's not just going to be some temporary monarch in a faraway land.
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See he's going to be the king.
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And Mary would have known exactly what that meant, because she knew her Old Testament.
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The King was promised to reign on David's throne forever.
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2 Samuel 7.
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The King was promised that He would have the government on His shoulders forever.
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Isaiah 9.
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And jumping to the New Testament, if you were with us in our study of Revelation last year, when Jesus returns, do you remember the name that He has?
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He is the King of what?
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The King of Kings!
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If you line up every leader that's ever existed, every prime minister, every monarch, every president, you line them all up, they have a king.
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And that king's name is Jesus.
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The King of Kings.
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And really, that's the part of the story that we don't love as much.
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Because we're very content hearing the story of the young pregnant woman who persevered and she made the trip to Bethlehem and she had the baby and she put him in a manger and all that's true and all that's cozy and all that's comfortable and all that's heartwarming.
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But if you think that that's the point of the story, then you missed it.
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Because Gabriel made it abundantly clear.
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"Mary, your pregnancy is going to result in the birth of the King." And that's where it gets uncomfortable for us.
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Because if He's the King, that means He's in charge and I'm not.
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If He's the King, that means He has the right to tell me how to live as a citizen of His Kingdom.
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And that's why the sentimentality of Christmas gets people to church this week, but then keeps them from coming back to church until next Christmas, maybe.
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Because, "Oh, I'll come and I'll tip my hat to baby Jesus and His brave mama.
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I'm not going to bend my knee to King Jesus." And right now there's some people sitting here that are like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you need to back off a little bit, Pastor Jeff.
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I don't know who you think you're talking to, okay, but I'm not opposed to Jesus being the King." And I'm here to tell you I'm sure he appreciates that.
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But you're like, "I'm not opposed to that.
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Okay, okay, okay, he's a king, okay, he's a king.
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He's a king. I'm with Gabriel on this, he's a king." Good.
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But the question is this, is He your King?
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Is He your King?
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And you're like, "Well, of course He's my King, Pastor Jeff!
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I mean, Donald Trump's my President, but Jesus is my King!" Is He?
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Is Jesus the King in your home?
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Does Jesus in His Word power and guide the way you love your wife?
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Or the way you love your husband?
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Or if you have children?
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Does Jesus in His Word power and guide the way you are raising your kids?
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An outside observer walked in and saw how you conducted your home for the day, but they say, "Yeah, obviously Jesus is king here." Is He king of your home?
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What about at work? Is Jesus king while you're at work?
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Do you work as if Jesus is your boss?
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Do you go to work with the understanding that really you represent Jesus Christ and His kingdom?
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Or do you get caught up with the lifestyle and the work habits and the coarse joking that everyone else who doesn't know the Lord is doing, you just get caught up with that.
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Is Jesus King at work?
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Is He your King at work?
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Is Jesus Christ King of your body?
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Do you conduct your body in a way that honors the God who created it?
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Is Jesus really your King?
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I mean, really, like in actuality.
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and when the rubber meets the road, like the way you live your life.
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Do you live your life as if Jesus is your King?
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Do you love and forgive people the way the King commands?
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Do you serve the King in His church and in missions as He's called you to?
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Do you see your money as belonging to the King to be used to advance His Kingdom?
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You're like, "Well, not really." Then he's not your king! Okay? He's just not.
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And you need to bow your knee to Him.
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Gabriel says that we're expecting a king, the greatest king, the eternal king.
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And if you're not on board with that, if it's just lip service, but it's not actual reigning over your life.
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This morning, I just want you to see what kind of king this is.
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Because I'm going to share three compelling reasons to bow down to this king.
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Truth be told, I could probably list 20,000 reasons off the top of my head to bow down to this king.
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But you don't got that kind of time.
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Because Christmas is Tuesday, right?
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So, I'm just going to give you three.
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What kind of king is Jesus?
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Jot these things down.
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Number one is God.
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"As God, Jesus rules over me." "As God, Jesus rules over me." You see twice in this passage, The Lord God, verse 32, verse 35, He's referred to as the Most High.
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In the Old Testament, that is El, Elion, God Most High.
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Do you know what that means?
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Do you know what that means, God Most High?
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Do you know what that means?
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It means nobody's higher.
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He is the Most High.
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Like who has a higher rank than Him?
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Who has a greater power than Him?
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Who has more authority than Him?
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Nobody, because He is Most High.
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There's no one above Him.
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You see, Jesus is called the Son of the Most High.
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And to be the Son of God means He has the same essence of God.
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In other words, Gabriel was saying to Mary, "This child being born to you is God." And some people say, "Well, Jesus wasn't really God.
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He was the Son of God." And that is a complete misunderstanding of what that means.
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Because we're going to see later on, spoiler alert, in our study of the Gospel of John, when Jesus said He was the Son of God, they knew exactly what He was saying.
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To walk around and say, "I'm the Son of God," was your way of saying, "I am God in the flesh." And that's what Gabriel was telling Mary.
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Verse 32, he says that Jesus will be great.
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Like, wasn't that what was said to John the Baptist, mom?
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Zechariah, actually?
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That John the Baptist would be great?
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Isn't that what Gabriel said to Zechariah?
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No.
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Actually, he said that John the Baptist would be great before the Lord.
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Meaning, in the sight of the Lord.
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Meaning, yes, God made John the Baptist great.
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That's imputed righteousness.
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God made John the Baptist great.
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But Jesus would be great. See the difference?
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The difference is Jesus would be great inherently.
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Unqualified statement.
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That Jesus wouldn't be made great.
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Jesus wouldn't just be regarded as great.
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Jesus isn't going to someday become great.
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He says He will be great. Period.
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And this speaks to His holiness.
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Jesus Christ is in a class of His own.
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No one is great like this coming King.
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Again, look at verse 33 again.
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"He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end." So Jesus Christ reigns for how long?
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Four-year term? Is that a four-year term?
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Open for re-election in 2020?
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Who's all voting for Jesus?
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Who's all voting for Jesus at the next election?
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Nobody is.
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Do you know why? Because it's not up to a vote.
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Because He is King forever.
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So put it all together.
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Gabriel's saying to Mary, "No one is higher, no one is holier, and He is King forever.
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He is God. He is perfect.
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And His reign is eternal.
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There's no one greater, and there's no one more deserving.
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God rules over everything!
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Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, is King over everything!
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Including me.
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That's the kind of King we have.
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bowed down to Him.
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Number two, not only as God, Jesus rules over me, secondly as man, Jesus relates to me.
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Now even though Jesus' conception was obviously supernatural, the rest of Mary's pregnancy would have been normal.
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And somehow, Jesus' growth from baby to boy to man was what we would call normal human development, according to Luke 2.40.
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Yes, Jesus Christ is fully God and totally man at the same time.
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I'll be honest with you, there's a part of me that finds that even more awesome.
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The fact that He didn't just have this man costume on, He literally became a human being like us.
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Like, was He really like us?
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I mean, was He really like us?
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Well, here's a couple passages to look at.
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Hebrews 2.
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He says, "Therefore, he had to be made like his brothers," meaning human beings, "in every respect." So yeah, Jesus fully human in every way.
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Then you jump to Hebrews 4, and it says, I'm not going to read all this, just to highlight the main part here.
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"Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God." Let's hold fast our confession.
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Look at this.
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We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
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So as man, as God, Jesus rules over me, but as man, Jesus relates to me.
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What difference does that make?
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Here's all the difference.
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Hear me, church.
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When you share an experience with someone, when you share an experience with someone, you relate to that person in a special way.
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You get it.
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You've been there.
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You understand.
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Find two people that went to the same high school.
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They talk about having the same teachers, the same classes. There's a camaraderie there.
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There are two people that worked in the same place.
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Anybody else have to clean the bathrooms at Walmart?
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Just me?
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Anybody else unknowingly badmouth somebody's mother at Walmart?
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Just me?
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Two people sharing an experience. There's a connection that happens.
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Find two people that each recently lost someone close to them.
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Yeah, I get that.
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Yeah, it's been hard.
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I know you understand.
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You just lost someone too.
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I get that.
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Find two people that have the same kind of pet.
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Super spiritual, I know, but do you know what Aaron and I and Patty Kitchen were doing before church?
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Do you know what we were doing?
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We were sharing dog stories and looking at pictures of dogs.
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We have a connection there, right?
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As I do with all dog people.
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People that are caring for aging parents, you get the point.
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People that share that common experience.
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There's a special connection that's made there.
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And I know for me personally, you go back about 20 years ago, and I'd be somewhere in public, and I'd I'd see a parent wrestling with an obviously autistic child, I would just kind of shrug and think, "Oh, that stinks." But I've got to tell you, now, now when I see that, I'm like, "Man, I get that." Over the last 14 years taking our kids to therapies, doctors, being in the waiting room and seeing these other parents, I see it in their face.
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Like, beat down and worn out.
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And I'm like, man, I so get that.
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I so get that.
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I understand.
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I feel it.
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You see, it's one thing to see it before I had to walk through some things.
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It's one thing to see it and be like, "Well, that kind of stinks." But it's another thing to actually go through it.
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And I'm like, "What's your point?" The point is Jesus has gone through it.
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Jesus, according to God's Word, experienced everything that we experience except for sin.
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So we can never accuse God of not knowing what it's like, of not understanding how hard life is.
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Because He was here.
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And He was here, not just as this floating, detached spirit, He was here in the flesh to experience all of this.
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Now please hear me, church.
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I am not saying, I am not saying that God was lacking knowledge in any way before the incarnation.
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I am not saying that.
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What I am saying is there is something profound in the truth that God not only knows, but has experienced what we all experience.
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So when we pray church, it is not to some detached king who lives in some ivory tower somewhere far away who couldn't imagine what our situation must be like.
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When we pray, it's like, "Yeah, yeah God, you get it.
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I know you understand this, God.
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I know you know the hurt of betrayal.
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I know you know the hurt of abandonment.
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I know, God, you know the hurt of broken relationships.
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You've been here, you've seen it, you've experienced it." That's the kind of king we have.
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We bow down to him.
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And finally, "Not only as God, Jesus rules over me, and as man, Jesus relates to me." Number three, "As Savior, Jesus rescued me." You're like, "Where do you see that in the passage?" It's all over, right?
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"You shall call His name Jesus." You know, we get some more information about that in Matthew's account.
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The name Jesus is the name Joshua.
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It's the same name, and it means "the Lord saves." And that's why, very specifically, this is the name that God attaches to Himself in the Incarnation.
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Matthew 1.21 gives us some further clarification that says, "She will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus." Why are we going to call Him that?
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There it is.
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"For He will save His people from their sins." This majestic, holy, awesome, transcendent God, why did He become a literal man?
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It was so much more than just relating to us.
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Jesus became a man in order to save us.
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Once upon a time, A human man named Adam brought sin and death into the world and condemned us all.
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And it would require a sinless human man to pay the death penalty so that we could be forgiven.
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That's why sometimes in the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the second Adam.
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In other words, though we rebelled against God, He came to save us from His own holy wrath.
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And He rescued us by dying in our place.
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That's the kind of king we have.
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If you bowed to Him.
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We have the opportunity now.
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If our ushers would come forward, and if the worship team would make their way up, we're going to close our time here together by gathering around the Lord's table.
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And as we gather around the table, I know a lot of times there are so many things that we think about regarding these emblems representing the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
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Gabriel told us to expect a king, and that's exactly who came, and that's exactly who's coming again.
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So as we take the Lord's Supper today, I just want to encourage all of us that we're going to take it together after everyone receives, I'll lead us in taking it together.
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But as we think about not only the Lamb of God who laid down His life, I want you, as we take the Lord's Supper together, I want you to think, the King of the universe shed His blood for me.
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The King of the universe became a man to lay down His body as a sacrifice for me.
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The King did that.
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So as the worship team plays and the elements are distributed, I'm going to ask you to hang on to them.
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We'll receive the Lord's Supper together moments.
Small Group Discussion
Read Luke 1:26-38
What was your big “take-away” from this passage / message?
Why was Zechariah disciplined for questioning God’s Word, but Mary wasn’t? Support your answer. (hint: see Luke 1:38)
How would you respond to someone who asks, “Why should I bow down to Jesus now?”
How does it encourage YOU knowing that Jesus has experienced everything human beings experience?
Breakout
Pray for revival in Pittsburgh! Pray that area churches would faithfully preach God’s Word, and the Spirit would open hearts to receive Jesus Christ.