1. June 10, 2018

4. Discovering Jesus from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
1. Messiah Would Be From Seed of Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3 “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

5. Discovering Jesus from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
1. Messiah Would Be From Seed of Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3 “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Matthew 1: The prophecy was fulfilled!

6. Discovering Jesus from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
2. Messiah Would be Born of a Virgin
Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.”
Luke 1:34 “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”
Matthew 1: The prophecy was fulfilled!

7. Discovering Jesus from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
3. Messiah Would be Born in Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah , too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.”
Matthew 2:1-6 Quoted by chief priests and scribes
But here we have a problem . . .

8. Discovering Jesus from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
3. Messiah Would be Born in Bethlehem
Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
Declared Emperor in 27 B.C.
Ordered census of all people:
to see if his law was helping birth rates to increase
for purpose of assessing taxes
Julius Caesar
Roman Dictator in Perpetuity
Killed on March 15, 44 B.C. when attending meeting of the Senate
60 conspirators including his good friend Marcus Brutus

9. Discovering Jesus from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
3. Messiah Would be Born in Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah , too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.”
Matthew 2:1-6 Quoted by chief priests and scribes
Luke 2:1-5 The prophecy was fulfilled!

10. Isn’t God amazing
in the way He makes
things happen?!