Wise Men Worship Jesus

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Wise Men Worship Jesus

• Mt 21-12 and Selected
• Pew Bible page 681

Pastor Dave Martin, Cross Creek Community Church,
December 21, 2003
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Wise Men Worship Jesus

• Jesus the Messiah would come most
  proclaimed manner!
• Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit most
  impossible way!
• Jesus was born in a stable most unlikely
  location!
• Jesus birth announced to shepherds most
  surprising way!
• Jesus became poor most glorious way, we
  become rich! (2Co 89)

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Worship the Lord...

• Col. 115-20 He (Jesus) is the image of the
  invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
  16For by him all things were created things in
  heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
  whether thrones or powers or rulers or
  authorities all things were created by him and
  for him. 17He is before all things, and in him
  all things hold together. 18And he is the head of
  the body, the church he is the beginning and the
  firstborn from among the dead, so that in
  everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God
  was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in
  him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself
  all things, whether things on earth or things in
  heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed
  on the cross.
• Ps 956 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us
  kneel before the LORD our Maker

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Worship...

• 1. DEMONSTRATED by the Wise Men!
• Seeking Jesus with your heart (Mt 22 Jam 48)
• Humbly bowing before your King (Mt 211a He
  1228)
• Giving of yourself to the Lord (Mt 211b Rom
  121)

Romans 121 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in
view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this
is your spiritual act of worship.
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Worship...

• 2. REQUIRED of His disciples!
• John 423-24 Yet a time is coming and has now
  come when the true worshipers will worship the
  Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind
  of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit,
  and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in
  truth."

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Worship...

• 3. CHANGES our Hearts Attitude!
• Psalm 1001-2 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the
  earth. Worship the Lord with gladness come
  before him with joyful songs.

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Worship...

• 4. CONTINUES Throughout Eternity!
• Rev. 79-12 After this I looked and there before
  me was a great multitude that no one could count,
  from every nation, tribe, people and language,
  standing before the throne and in front of the
  Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were
  holding palm branches in their hands. And they
  cried out in a loud voice "Salvation belongs to
  our God, who sits on the throne, and to the
  Lamb." All the angels were standing around the
  throne and around the elders and the four living
  creatures. They fell down on their faces before
  the throne and worshiped God, saying "Amen!
  Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor
  and power and strength be to our God for ever and
  ever. Amen!"

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Wise Men Worship Jesus!
Isaiah 96 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.
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