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Join us for a captivating episode as we delve into the final message of the ‘Destination Bethlehem’ series. This sermon offers a valuable perspective on the nativity story, urging us to see beyond the sanitized nativity scenes we are familiar with, into a narrative of divine strategy and fulfillments of ancient prophecies. With the focus on Bethlehem as the prophesized setting of Jesus’ birth, listeners are prompted to view these events with fresh insight into God’s orchestration of history. As we explore the humble origins of Jesus—born in a stable, a mere stranger in a world He created—the sermon
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The foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith.
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Welcome to the Sunday Sermon on Through the Bible. I’m your host, Steve Schwetz, and we’re just a few days away from celebrating the birth of our Savior. So our president, Greg Harris, and my friend is here in the studio with me so that we can wish you an early Merry Christmas.
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Yes, we want to say Merry Christmas, a blessed Christmas, and a meaningful Christmas to all of our Through the Bible listening family. We’re just so grateful for all of you.
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Yeah, we really are. And I’m also praying that you would have an opportunistic Christmas, and that being opportunistic hopefully is a good word, and that a lot of times we have a chance to interact with our non-Christian friends and family members, and hopefully the discussion will turn towards Christ. And the reason you celebrate Christmas may be different than what other people do. So we’re praying that you would have those gospel opportunities within the context of this Christmas season.
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Absolutely. And we want to thank you for joining us today for the fourth study in our Destination Bethlehem series. This is a special series that Dr. McGee did, and we’ve seen that it includes so much great application and meaning for us in the Christmas season, just like what Steve said. And the great thing about these four messages is you don’t have to listen to them in order. So if for any reason you missed the first three, go back and listen on our app or on ttb.org.
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Yeah, and be sure to stick around after today’s sermon because we’ve really got a little gift for you at the end of the program. And no, it’s not a tchotchke that we’re going to mail to you. Don’t worry. It’s a special recording by Dr. McGee answering questions on the wise men that followed the star to meet and worship Jesus.
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That’s a great early Christmas gift.
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Yep. Greg, why don’t you pray for us as we begin this sermon?
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Oh, Father, we thank you that Christmas exists, that you sent your Son to be born, to be incarnated, to live a perfect life and die a sacrificial death on the cross. And because of that, we can receive eternal life in his name. And we thank you and praise you today and we will for eternity for the gift of your Son. And we pray in his name. Amen.
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Here’s the Sunday Sermon on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.
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We are bringing this morning our concluding message in the series Destination Bethlehem. We’ve attempted to highlight several of the places that are around Bethlehem. It was first Destination Bethlehem, a field, then a grave, then a boy and a whale, and today our subject is Destination Bethlehem, A stable. There are two symbols of Christianity which stand as quotation marks around the life of the Lord Jesus. One of them is at his birth. The other is at his death. The one at his birth is a stable or more particularly a manger. The other at his death is the cross. Now the church has cleaned both of them up. Fact of the matter is the church has dry cleaned both of them. And not only that, they have purged them with one of the modern cleaning agencies that out cleans them all. They’ve taken away all the opprobrium and the offense and that which is repulsive that surrounds them. The cross, for instance, has been made very attractive today. It’s white and smooth. I was taking a walk last night in the rain, and there is a new church in my neighborhood opened up in a home. It’s a cult, if you please, a cult that denies that Christ shed his blood for our sins, and yet on top of it was the prettiest white cross that you’ve ever seen. May I say that that’s the symbol today, and they’ve really cleaned it up and taken the blood off of it. But that cross was ugly. It was repulsive. It denoted suffering, and it denoted death. It was a gallows where those that were criminals were executed. And that’s the way that it stands on the page of Scripture. Now the stable, likewise, has been cleaned up. It’s been swept and cleaned and garnished. It’s even been fumigated. It’s been sprayed with Christmas deodorant. They now have sweet-smelling straw, and they have house-broken cows and sheep in the stable. My beloved, may I say to you this morning that that stable was a dirty place, The stench of that stable was offensive. The smell was sickening. It was reeking with barnyard odor. It was positively repulsive and revolting. Oh, I know it was better than the inn. Well, thank God there was no room for him in the inn. That inn was a public place, a public room, and all you bought there was just a place to put down a little pallet. And had he been born in that inn, he would have been born before the leering eyes of a very crude crowd and a very dangerous mob. Therefore, I think the stable was much better. But to say that it was anything at all but satisfactory, may I say you’re wrong. Now, some scholars think that the stable was a cave. If that’s true, he was born in a cave. He was buried in a cave. Actually, the environment of the stable and the particular architecture are of secondary importance. The supreme fact is that we can pinpoint his entrance into this world. It was a stable at Bethlehem that marks his entrance into the world. The launching pad was heaven. The landing field was the stable. And the prophet was accurate when he predicted the very place where he would land. I read that passage this morning. It’s from Micah, contemporary of Isaiah, who said, but thou Bethlehem, Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that’s to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. The marvel, the magic, and the miracle is not that Bethlehem was chosen. Actually, it seemed natural that it would be. There was a grave in Bethlehem. There was a field at Bethlehem. There was a boy in a well at Bethlehem that made it imperative that the Savior come to Bethlehem. But the wonder of it all is that under the circumstances, it could ever come to pass. Because at the time of the Babylonian captivity, these people were thrust out of that land. When they returned, they did not return to the particular area that had been given to the tribes. Because both Joseph and Mary, who were members of the tribe of Judah, they’re way up in Nazareth. They’re living in another place. And the great question is, how can the prophecy of Micah, how can all the direction that’s in the Old Testament be fulfilled when she is with child and she’s in Nazareth? How can she get down there? And this year, it’s coming from every quarter to question the Christmas story. Even a writer in the East has made the statement that she actually didn’t come down to Bethlehem with child. Evidently, he hasn’t read very much about Caesar Augustus. If you think Caesar Augustus cared anything for babies, he was more interested in taxes than he was anything else. He’s not interested in babies, and he’s not interested in motherhood, and therefore, He didn’t mind moving her down there, but also God saw to it that she must come to Bethlehem. Therefore, the wonder of it all is that under the circumstances, with the tribes scattered everywhere and Rome in power, that he could move down to Bethlehem. And by virtue of the fact that Rome was in power, by virtue of the fact that Caesar Augustus needed taxes, by virtue of the fact that he was not caring for womanhood or for a baby, he signs the tax bill. And had you been there and reached over his shoulder and said to him, did you know that you are right now making it possible to fulfill a prophecy that’s 900 years old, he would have laughed at you. and said, I know nothing about that. I’m not interested in prophecy. I’m interested in profits. I want the money. I need it to keep the armies of Rome marching to the four corners of the then civilized world. So that, my beloved, may I say this morning that the fact he’s born in Bethlehem is the miracle. That is the magic. That is the marvel of it all. But should we marvel? Now if man today can make such a calculation for the future regarding the moving of a little spacecraft out yonder in space to a very definite point, And man can do that without raising cynical doubts and loud skepticism. Why cannot God, who is the creator of this universe, pick out a target and set the wheels of history so that the Savior will arrive in Bethlehem at the precise moment according to prophecy? Well, whether you like it or not, it was literally fulfilled. so that he was born in Bethlehem according to schedule and at the exact place. Caesar Augustus signed a tax bill which brought Mary to Bethlehem. And months before Mary even had any announcement made to her, God placed a star out yonder in the heavens. And at the proper moment, God sent angel messengers to make the announcement to the shepherds. And there are many today that are saying, oh, if I had only been there to go with the wise men, if I had only been there to go with the shepherds, if I had seen him, then I’d believe. I have two points to make today, and to me they are new, probably familiar to you, but they certainly are new to me as we study this Christmas story again. The first one is this. We this morning are in a better position to evaluate the historical fact of the birth of Christ than either the wise men or the shepherds. Much better position than they were. They merely saw a baby. They did not have the perspective of history. They did not have his life before them. They knew nothing about his death, though the wise man, for some unaccountable reason, brought murder to him, which speaks of his death. They may have known more than we think they know, but at least we’re in a better position. We have his entire life before us. We have his death upon the cross. We have his resurrection. We have his ascension. We have this morning 1,900 years of church history with the Holy Spirit present to make the facts concerning his coming into the world clear. a reality to sincere hearts and honest minds. And my friend, this morning, if you’re a doubter and an honest doubter, God will see to it you beat your music out. And then you have this before you, and this cannot be gainsaid. Multitudes have come to him and have had their lives transformed for 1900 years. Christ was not only born 1900 years ago in a filthy stable, but he has been born since then in the foul hearts of sinners. And here’s one of them, and I have a notion some of you are out there this morning. Born again in the foul hearts of men and women today, attesting to the reality of the fact that he came. And with that perspective today of 1900 years, we can look in at a stable and have our faith renewed today. It’s better to stand here than to go with the shepherds or go yonder with the wise men. The shepherds to the stable and the wise men to a house later on. It’s better to live today than to have lived in 5 B.C. No excuse today for not believing. Now there is another new truth to me this Christmas and it is of supreme significance. It has utmost meaning. Will you listen very carefully? That stable speaks of the fact he was a stranger down here. The inn, even if his mother had gotten into the inn, It was temporary. It wasn’t a place you make your home. That stable was a makeshift measure. These could not have been a permanent home. He was a stranger down here. This came to me as I’ve been studying Leviticus in the 19th chapter, and God is giving in this section here, certain commandments to his people, the nation Israel, to make them a holy nation, to make them different, to represent him. And here is a law, an unusual one, and one that they were to observe. It’s found in the 19th chapter of Leviticus. Will you listen to it? Verse 33 and 34. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” God says, Because I am the Lord your God, I want you to love the stranger that is among you. I want you to be good to him. Will you listen? Jesus was the greatest stranger who ever walked this earth. That stable was not his home. That stable tells out the fact that he’s not going to be here permanently. That stable tells out the truth that he’s merely a stranger in the city of David, his city too. I do not know whether I’ve told you this story recently or not. It was during the war. I was on the train going through El Paso. I was on the way to Houston, Texas. As we entered the station… The Pullman conductor came in and made an announcement. He says, keep your seats. Do not get off here, although they stop there about 30 minutes. He said, don’t get out here. You’ll lose your place. That was the day of the Pullman when you had uppers and lowers, and I had an upper, so I stayed right there with it. But many of us ask him why. Well, he says this station is a bottleneck. El Paso is. Fort Bliss is here. Other training places for soldiers, and they’re shipped out from here. They’re shipped out from here to both the east and west coast. And when they are, their families are left stranded here. And they’re actually folk that have been in this station for a week. No place to stay. Then he added this. He said, did you know the other day there was a little boy born in this station? He told me that when we were standing on the vestibule when the train pulled out. I thought about that for a few moments and I said to him, I said, you know, I hope somebody will tell that little fella someday about Jesus. He got caught in a bottleneck also. There was a big crowd in Jerusalem. The place was crowded, no place for him. And he too was born in a public place. My friend, he was a stranger down here. The innkeeper has been reviled and rebuked because he did not have room for him. Bethlehem did not welcome him. But you must remember his own people did not receive him. He came unto his own. He was a stranger and they did not receive him. He had nowhere to lay his head in his entire lifetime. You remember when that young man came to him and wanted to follow him. He says the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests. But the son of man hath not where to lay his head. Born in a stable. Never had a home. He never even had a room, a rented room. He never had a tent down here. I wonder if you realize how much of the time he slept out in the open. He was a stranger in this world. And many things in the Gospel of John, it may escape you just reading it, but may I say to you, that verse that says he came unto his own, that’s masculine. And then it says his own, that’s neuter, received him not. That means his own universe, not just his people, but his own universe received him not. This happened to be his world. He created it. But he was a stranger here. And his own world received him not. He walked the world a stranger. When he left, all he left was a seamless road. Remember Isaiah says his judgment was taken away. And when Dr. Luke is recording this sermon of Peter’s, over in the eighth chapter, he mentions this, which is quite interesting. He says, in his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. He adds that because it should be added. Here was the judge of the earth. Here was the creator of the earth here. And when he came up for trial, his judgment is taken away. Why? Because They said he’s no taxpayer. He carries no votes. It won’t help Herod, and it won’t help Pilate, and it won’t help the Roman government, what we do with him. And therefore, his judgment was taken away. He was the greatest train to ever walk this earth. A pilgrim through this lonely world, a blessed Savior passed, a mourner all his life below, a dying lamb at last. That tender heart that felt for all, for us its lifeblood gave, it found on earth no resting place, save only in the grave. That was the only place he ever rested, was in the grave. Will you listen now very carefully? We think of Christmas as a time of going home. Families get together. Young people come home from college. Many men go home to see mother and dad for the last time, maybe. Many of you here today and those of you listening in, you can recall as a child, as I do, Christmas at home. You remember it? We used to go to my aunt. That was the most wonderful day in the year. My aunt was the best cook. Oh, she was a wonderful cook. She was German. And how she could cook. She’s gone. All of them are gone. Everybody that was there is gone. The house has been torn down. Yet at Christmastime, those sweet and precious memories come back to us. They’ve all passed away. The old home is in decay. Nothing permanent. Loved ones died. My friend, Christmas doesn’t speak of a home gathering down here at all. Nothing permanent. That’s what it says. Nothing permanent. That stable tells us that all is fleeting and temporal and momentary and that we are but pilgrims and strangers in this world. He became a pilgrim and a stranger at Bethlehem. Heaven was his home. He left the warmth of the love of heaven. He left the fragrance of the presence of the Father. He said, no man has ascended up to heaven but the Son of Man who came down from heaven. And he left all of that and he came to the stench of the stable and he went to the death of the cross. He gave his life a ransom for many He gave his life for you if you but trust him. He died a vicarious substitutionary death upon the cross. He did it willingly. He was not dying for himself, but for you and me. Do you know the value that God has placed upon your life? Well, I’ll tell you the value. He gave the life of his son for you. Now, there is in geometry an axiom, and I remember very few of them. I may have this one wrong. Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other. Look, your life and my life equals death, and Adam or die. You’ll die. He gave his life in death for you and for me. He died. You must die. He did not have to die. His life equals your life. And he said something. Oh, it’s a wonderful thing he said. In his high priestly prayer in John 17, verse 23, will you listen to this? I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me. Now listen, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. God loves you this morning as much as he loves Christ. He gave Christ for you. I do not know how to say anything more wonderful than that. That’s the value he attaches to your life today. He gave Christ to die for you. And if you turn your back on him at this Christmas season, he became a stranger in Bethlehem that you may be at home in heaven. Over in 1 Corinthians, the fifth chapter, I’m going to have to change my Corinthians again. I had trouble with that on the radio the other day. It’s 2 Corinthians 5.8. Will you listen to this? We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. He became a stranger down here that you might be at home in heaven. There is a stable at Bethlehem. There is a stranger stopping at that stable. He’s come for you and he’s come for me. He’s inviting you home for Christmas. A home that he says, I go to prepare a place for you. A home that will never be destroyed and a fellowship that can never be broken by death. I think the most awful picture presented of hell in scripture is the picture that it’s a place where you’re never at home. Always moving. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. The wicked are like the troubled sea, always on the go. Old Jacob, as long as he was in sin, was on the go. Never knew what it was. The rest My friend, I’m going to be very direct on this Sunday before Christmas, brutally frank. Are you going home for Christmas or are you going to hell? You’ll go to one or the other. He came into this world to give you an invitation to come home for Christmas. Have you accepted his invitation? There’s only one other place to go. There are some of you here that are not going to get home for Christmas. Many of you listening in today and here today, you think of a home back in Iowa or Illinois or New England State or in my Southland somewhere. You won’t go home for Christmas. May I say to you today, my friend, Are you going home for Christmas? That stable says you’re a stranger down here. Nothing permanent, but he says, I’m inviting you home, my home. It’ll be your home, and you’ll be at home with me. You trust me as Savior. For those of you listening in today, many of you, lonesome, Many of you, no peace in your heart at all. Why not at this Christmas time come to him and receive the gift of gifts, God’s unspeakable gift, the one who came wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger in a stable at Bethlehem. Why not trust him? You may be here, homesick, Lonesome. Disturbed. I don’t know what your state, but he knows you today. He loves you today. What value he’s put upon you. He died for you, that he might take you home with him. Would you accept his invitation today? The gift of God’s eternal life in Christ Jesus. If you came this morning and offered me a gift, I’d receive it and you know that. But God has come to me and offered me a gift. I received it too. What about you? Would you turn your back on him?
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He knows you today. He loves you. He died for you that he might take you home with him. What more do you need to hear? He’s waiting for you to accept his invitation. If you want to find out more, you can click on How Can I Know God in our app or at ttb.org. Or if you’d like a few resources sent to you by mail, just call 1-865-BIBLE. Again, to contact us or to support this fruitful ministry, call 1-865-BIBLE or visit ttb.org. Now to close the program, we’ve got a little Christmas gift for you, as I mentioned before. As you know, Dr. McGee loved hearing from you, our listeners, and he loved your stories as well as your poems, your prayer requests, and your questions. So here he is answering a listener who wrote in asking, what brought the wise men to Jerusalem in their quest to find the Messiah? It ends up being a more accurate timeline and description of the manger scene than what we’re used to seeing in most Christmas pageants. So enjoy and have a very blessed Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savior.
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Well, of course, it was the star that they saw because in this record, it said that we’ve seen a star in the east and are come to worship him. And the idea is that it’s an eastern star. Well, may I say to you, it was not an eastern star. Had these wise men seen the star in the east, they would have ended up probably in China. But you see, they were in the east. These wise men were from the east, and they journeyed west. And so if you want to have it accurately, it was a western star. And why did they come? Well, our information is fragmentary. They certainly had some reason for coming. And we believe that they had good justification for coming. Number one, Balaam was a prophet in that area, in that land. In fact, he was one of the false prophets. And you remember he gave four prophecies concerning Israel. And of course, Balak didn’t like that because he couldn’t curse Israel. And his fourth one is quite significant. It says, I shall see him, but not now. I shall behold him, but not nigh. There shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the children of Sheth. and so on, there’s other parts to it. But this is the part that I’m concerned about, the star and the scepter. There would come, Balaam said, there’s a star coming and it’s a scepter, that is a king, one who holds a scepter. So that would be quite normal. Now what would bring them to Jerusalem at this particular time? Well, I believe that if you go to the book of Daniel, you will find that Daniel gave pretty much the exact time that he would be born. Actually, if the Pharisees and these scribes who knew the Old Testament Scriptures really believed them and were looking for the Messiah to come, they probably should have been waiting there at the inn for a report concerning his birth because they had, I think, enough Scripture that would put it in the particular period in which he was to be born. And that would be in the 70th week of Daniel. You’d have certainly a reason for believing it would be at that particular time. Maybe not that year, but if they didn’t come that year or the year before and were disappointed, they should have come back the next year because it was to be in that interval. And therefore, these wise men now… I think we need to add this. These men were students of the stars. I do not think at that time, maybe you could call it full-fledged astronomy, they liked to label what these men did astrology. But it wasn’t astrology as it’s practiced today with all of this, I think, nonsense that you were born at a certain time and by reading the stars that they have something to do with us. And in that day, they were practicing astrology as they do it today. It’s a pagan custom, of course, and a real superstition, by the way, to go in for that type of thing. Now, these men were not that type. of man at all. When it says they were wise men, it means these men were students of the stars, and they are the beginning of the science of astronomy. In fact, in Egypt, they didn’t believe the Earth was flat. It was our ancestors in Europe that got that foolish notion, and they knew the distance to the sun were rather accurate in that and they knew a great deal about the stars and it is the basis of modern astronomy which has really been developed to a very high degree now these men had been studying the stars and again may i say that here is added evidence for the fact that more than three came I think over that entire east, and that’s a pretty big land, you know. These men had been studying, and they saw this particular star. To them, it was the indication that the one born king of the Jews had been born. and they saw the star, and so they meet at, I think, a designated place. I think that there was this air of anticipation. One of the Roman writers says that in that day, there was an anticipation, a note of expectancy in the Roman Empire, and that would spread out over the entire world of that day. into the east that there was coming a ruler out of Israel. Now they didn’t do too much about it, but there was that note of expectancy throughout the world. And so these men apparently came from different sections And I’m sure there was more than three of them that got together. I think probably they came from many places and you would have quite a delegation of them. And you can imagine the impression it made when they got down to Bethlehem. Now, also the question arises, did the wise men arrive at the same time as the shepherds? Well, if you go by the pageants that you see in churches today, why, I’m sure that you get the impression they came at the same time. But I suppose that for dramatic reasons that you’d be permitted to bring them both down at the same time. But obviously that when the wise men saw the star, they had to make a trip. And that day, the Boeing 747 wasn’t flying, and so they didn’t come by the 747. And they didn’t come by automobile. Really, the jet set at all. They were wise men. And they came out of the east, and they came by camel. You know, some camels have one hump. Some camels have two humps, and I think they call the one-humpers dromedaries, but you have one-cylinder and two-cylinder camels, you see. So that’s the way they came, and that was pretty slow travel. And they didn’t arrive there till a long time afterward. And somebody says, well, how do you know that? Well, I think if you pay attention to the language of Scripture, why, you will have to come to that conclusion. It says when the wise men got there, and that’s in Matthew 2, verse 11, it says, when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him these three different types of gifts. And that is something that I think is quite interesting. First of all, here in this passage, we’re told when they came to the house, I thought he was born in a stable, and that’s where The shepherds came, and of course today they have the wise men coming into the stable also. But the record is very clear. The wise men didn’t come to the stable. They moved in the meantime to a house. After all, they couldn’t move the child immediately, and the wise men didn’t get there until later. And I think God saw to that, that the child would be old enough to travel because He’s going to have to do a lot of traveling to get down into Egypt, as you know. And so for that reason, why they arrive late and then they didn’t go back and report to Herod. And that is the thing that incensed him and he began to slay the children. And if you’ll notice, it says that he slew them from two years old and under. Well, if the child has just been born, why did he say two years and under? Well, two years and under would mean that the wise men had seen the star several months ahead of time. I would say that they did not arrive even the first year that Christ was born, that it was probably the second year that they got there. So they had a late Christmas, by the way. And that is the thing that I think that we should notice from that. It’s quite interesting about these wise men coming and the gifts they brought. Isaiah, over in the 60th chapter, verse 6, has something very interesting to say about them. It says, “…the multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all they from Sheba shall come.” This is a prophecy, you see, of the coming of the wise men. And it says, “…they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall show forth the praises of the Lord.” Now, but they brought myrrh, and myrrh is not mentioned here. Why? Well, because the gold speaks, I think, of the fact of his deity. His kingship, the fact he’s a king, it is the metal of kings. A king generally wears a crown of gold. He’d be a pretty poor king if he didn’t have a crown of gold. And then the incense speaks of the sweetness of the life of Christ. You have in the gold his birth. He’s born a king. They said, where is he that’s born King of the Jews? And then the incense speaks of the sweetness of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. But there’s no myrrh mentioned here in Isaiah. Why? Because as George McDonough put it, they were looking for a king to lift them high. He came a little baby thing that made a woman cry. And he is now destined and designated to go to the cross. He was born of a woman, born under the law, to do what? He might go to the cross, die for the sins of the world. The Son of Man, he himself said, came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. And that is Mark 10, 45. So that these wise men who came from the East why they came and brought these three gifts and myrrh speaks of His death. And that was something the prophet did not suggest because they were looking for a Messiah to come.
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Jesus came in all All to him I owe. Sin hath left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
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