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Each week a new verse-by-verse Bible study podcast given in expository style. Join us and see the Bible come alive as we study the truths that God‘s Word has for us.
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Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
THE WISDOM OF CHRISTMAS (Matthew 2:1-2)
Today, we will be talking about Christmas wisdom that we find in the Christmas story. Certainly, we need a lot of wisdom around this time of year. I need wisdom. I need wisdom to figure out what am I going to get my wife for Christmas. Now, that’s difficult for me. It really is. It is also difficult for her to buy gifts for me. We go through this every year, even after 46 years of marriage, we still go through this.
But today, I want to talk to you about some wisdom that goes far beyond these mundane things and this worldly type of wisdom. I want to share with you some supernatural wisdom, how you can have some wisdom in your Christmas. Our text today is going to be in the book of Matthew, and it is going to focus on the story of the wise men coming from the East to bring gifts to the new King that has been born in Bethlehem. Now, everybody has heard this story since they were children, or they have seen it in plays put on at Christmas time. It is a very familiar story, and it is a story with supernatural wisdom.
The first thing we should know about these men is that they were exceedingly wise men. Why? Because they sought out the Lord Jesus Christ to worship Him. The wisest thing that you could ever do at Christmastime, or any other time, is to worship Jesus. I hope that doesn’t fall flat. I hope you don’t miss that. Because that is the bottom of all bottom lines. That is the wisest thing that anybody could ever do, to simply worship the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are a lot of people who want the joys of Christmas without the worship of Jesus. But, that is impossible! It is impossible! You may have a happy time, but you are never going to know the joys of Christmas until you learn to worship the Lord Jesus Christ.
Click on the play button to hear a message on the Biblical story of the wise men who came from the East to worship the young child, born in Bethlehem, born to be a King, born to be a Savior, and born as sinless God, God incarnated in man.
This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
Amen.
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
One of the most frequent challenges that I get when my lessons are heard by Muslims is that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God. They often quote the Quran which states that “Allah, who has not begotten a son (nor an offspring)…” as the basis for their disbelief. They have also asked this question, “You say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God because He was born of a virgin, and that He didn’t have an earthly father. Well, Adam didn’t have a father or a mother. Wouldn’t that make Adam more a Son of God than Jesus?” The answer to that question is found at the very root of our knowledge about who Jesus Christ is. The answer that the Word of God gives us is that Jesus is not the Son of God because He was born of a virgin. Instead, He was born of a virgin because He is the Son of God.
Now, I’m aware that the world laughs at the idea of a virgin birth. They think of it as some sort of primitive, medieval, superstition or something. They mock the idea of the virgin birth. I can tell you furthermore, the devil hates the idea of the virgin birth, because it teaches both the humanity and the deity of his nemesis, and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, I want to show you in this message that you have no hope of salvation apart from the virgin birth. I want to show you that if you take away the virgin birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you have destroyed the whole foundation of Christianity, and it will all collapse like a house of cards. It is not incidental; it is fundamental.
Jesus was born of a virgin that we might be born again. He came to earth that we might go to heaven. He became the Son of man that we might become the sons and daughters of God. That’s what it’s all about. That is why we have the virgin birth. Thank God that God stepped out of heaven and was born of a virgin. That’s the reason the angel said, “I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” (Luke 2:10)
Jesus Christ is not the white man’s Savior, the black man’s Savior, the yellow man’s Savior, the western Savior, the eastern Savior; He is the Savior of the world. “This is good news which is to all people.” He is the Savior of the world. The world needs Jesus. Jews and Gentiles need Jesus. Young and old need Jesus. Rich and poor need Jesus. Intellectual and illiterate, we all need Jesus. He is the virgin-born Son of God.
Clink on the link below to hear a podcast message from The Master’s Class at LifeChange Church Wichita that describes the answer to this world’s problems is the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The hope of the individual, the hope of the church, the hope of the family, the hope of this nation, and the hope of this world, is Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Now, I’m aware that the world laughs at the idea of a virgin birth. They think of it as some sort of primitive, medieval superstition or something. They laugh, they mock, at the idea of the virgin birth. I can tell you furthermore, the devil hates the idea of the virgin birth, because it teaches both the humanity and the deity of his nemesis, and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. But worse than the mockery of this world, and worse than the hatred of Satan, is the ignorance of many so-called Christians concerning the virgin birth. Many of them doubt it. Some don’t believe it at all. And others think that it is incidental.
One of the most frequent challenges about the virgin birth of Christ is that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God. They will state, “You say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God because He was born of a virgin, and that He didn’t have an earthly father. Well, Adam didn’t have a father or a mother. Wouldn’t that make Adam more a Son of God than Jesus?” The answer to that question is found at the very root of our knowledge about who Jesus Christ is. The answer that the Word of God gives us is that Jesus was not the Son of God because He was born of a virgin. Instead, He was born of a virgin because He was the Son of God.
What the other faiths do not understand is that Jesus did not have His start in Bethlehem. Jesus Christ has been the Son of God from before the foundations of time. In other words, He was the Son of God before Bethlehem, and He chose to step out of the glory to become God incarnate in man, and He did so by being born of a virgin.
Click on the podcast below to hear a message on why the virgin birth is so important to our faith. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born of a virgin that we might be born again. He came to earth that we might go to heaven. He became the Son of man that we might become the sons and daughters of God. That’s what it’s all about. That is why we have the virgin birth.
Amen.
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Sunday Dec 23, 2012
Sunday Dec 23, 2012
Why is the story of the birth of Jesus so important to the Christian faith?
Why do people all around the world read this story around the Christmas tree as they gather to celebrate this special day?
Listen to this podcast to learn the meaning of the birth of Jesus Christ. Why His birth must have been from a virgin Mary. Why there is absolutely no compromise on this fact.
This is a story of God’s amazing grace, in that He loved each of us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to the earth in the form of a baby. Listen and rejoice in such a wonderful act of God’s love.