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Sermon Audio: The Opportunities We Miss
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Matthew 2:1-11
Duration: 23:48
Size: 13.5 MB
Empty the Jar at Christmas
The Opportunities We Miss
Matthew 2:1-11
It was a star of wonder, a star of night, a star with royal beauty bright–and when the Wise-men saw that star from the East they went…and they stopped at Jerusalem to ask for directions.
And the reaction from the King–and everyone else was–they were disturbed.
Why didn’t somebody just go to Bethlehem after the angels appeared to the Shepherds?
They got to the point where they weren’t looking for Jesus anymore.
They didn’t think the Messiah was coming–so they didn’t go looking for Him. So they missed their opportunity.
The point is, nobody seemed to want this child to upset their lives so they missed their opportunity to find Jesus along with all He promised.
God wanted to put this great city on notice that a mighty prophecy was about to be fulfilled, because the promised Messiah had come.