Who’s Missing From the Nativity?

Posted by on December 20, 2009 under Sermons

Revelation 12

  • A woman in labor
  • A child soon to be born
  • A monstrous force waiting to devour the vulnerable

Herod the Great

  • 73 – 4 BC
  • Powerful but unpopular
  • Executed family members
  • Massacre of Innocents (Matthew 2)

Hebrews 2:11-18

    14 Because God’s children are human beings-made of flesh and blood-the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. 15 Only in this way could He set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.

Escaping the Dragon

Christ Sympathizes With Us

  1. The Dragon Makes War
  2. Endurance: Making Friends with Jesus means making enemies
  3. Suffering: Christ identifies with the mourning and the innocents