Another important part of the Christian/Biblical celebration of Christmas is the fulfillment of Scripture. And our passage today, in these ten verses or so, has three different references to Scripture being fulfilled. 3 times in ten verses, we are presented with how the birth of Jesus Christ, and the events that happen afterward fulfill God’s purposes. So, what I want to do today is use those three OT references here as our guide for how we look at the story of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus’ flight to Egypt… the slaughtering of children in Bethlehem, and Jesus’ return to Nazareth.
I want us to see:
1) Purpose in Exile,
2) Life Out of Death, and
3) Humility and the Messiah.
Sermon Series: The Chosen One| Gifts, Escape, and Heaven Come Down
Sermon Title: “Purpose in Exile, Humble in Obscurity”
Sermon Text: Matthew 2.13-23 (ESV)
Delivered by: T.J. Campo
Park Road Presbyterian Church
A Reflection Before the Service:
January 7. 2024
“The Lord Jesus is just the Savior that the suffering and sorrowful need. He knows well what we mean when we tell Him in prayer of our troubles. He can sympathize with us, when we cry to Him under cruel persecution. Let us keep nothing back from Him. Let us make Him our bosom friend. Let us pour out our hearts before Him. He has had great experience of affliction.”
– JC Ryle
“It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances – not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God’s promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.”
-Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility
The Call to Worship: Psalm 46.4ff.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; He utters His voice, the earth melts. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Come, behold the works of the LORD, how He has brought desolations on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the chariots with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
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