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About that time (Once Upon A Time)
Mathew 2:1 Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod. About that time some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem
Your life is a story written by God
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Chapters are different from Seasons
Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
View your life in chapters not pages
Live your life page by page, experience your life chapter by chapter.
Mathew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Transition: if you don’t recognize what God is doing in this chapter of your life you will be greatly disturbed
Deeply Disturbed
Mathew 2:33 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
Ask the question why am I disturbed.
Psalm 43:5 Why so downcast oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
It is not a sin to become disturbed
Ephesians 4:26 “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
Who is disturbed by the presence of the Prince of Peace?
When you are disturbed who are you following or emulating? Jerusalem was emulating Herod, Not the Prince of Peace…
What God desired Jerusalem City of Shalom or city of Peace was in fact not when the Messiah arrived.
Isaiah 6:9 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Ephesians 2:1-2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
When Jesus Presence is made known it can cause a disturbance.
Mathew 10:34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (He came to bring peace to our hearts)
We are at war.
Seek Peace and pursue it is not a
What would someone give to be in your shoes?
Mathew 2:11 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Where your treasure is there your heart will be.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
Do not store up for yourselves treasures
Forget not all His Benefits
Altar Call
Let Christ Rule in your hearts
