2. Sign to a Serious Seeker Matthew 2:1-12
Signs of Christmas:
Sign to a Serious Seeker
Matthew 2:1-12

3. Signs of Christmas
Emmanuel: God is With us

4. Signs of Christmas
Bread from Heaven: God is Sufficient

5. A sign to a Serious Seeker
Signs of Christmas
Star in Bethlehem: God is Faithful
A sign to a Serious Seeker

6. Scene 1: Balaam
Numbers 22-24
BALAAM 1300 BC

7. Scene 1: Balaam Numbers 23:11-12
Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!"
He answered, "Must I not speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?"
BALAAM 1300 BC

8. Scene 1: Balaam Numbers 23:19-20
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
BALAAM 1300 BC

9. Scene 1: Balaam Numbers 24:17 "I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near.
a Star will come out of Jacob;
a Sceptre will rise out of Israel
BALAAM 1300 BC

10. Prophecies Micah 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

11. Prophecies Deuteronomy 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
Nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes;
And to Him shall be the obedience of the people
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

12. Scene 2: Herod the Great
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

13. Scene 2: Herod the Great Matthew 2:1-3
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

14. Scene 2: Herod the Great Matthew 2:4-5
When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
"In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

15. Scene 2: Herod the Great Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change his mind.
Does He speak and then not act?
Does He promise and not fulfill?
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

16. Scene 3: the Magi Magicians, Prophets, Sorcerers… JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

17. Scene 3: the Magi
When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 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 and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

18. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

19. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
They all saw God’s Revelation
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

20. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
They all saw God’s Revelation
But observing God is different to Seeking Him
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

21. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
They all saw God’s Revelation
But observing God is different to Seeking Him
This morning, you have observed God’s Word. What will you make of it?
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

22. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
They all saw God’s Revelation
But observing God is different to Seeking Him
This morning, you have observed God’s Word. What will you make of it?
His purposes never change and His word is absolutely true
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

23. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
John 5:22-23
…the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father, who sent him
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

24. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
John 5:24
I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

25. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
John 6:40
The Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

26. Christmas: Sign to a Serious Seeker
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
JACOB 1800 BC
BALAAM 1300 BC
MICAH 800 BC

27. Sign to a Serious Seeker
Seek the LORD while he may be found;
Call on him while he is near.