Episode 108: King, God, and Sacrifice

Editor's Note:  After a holiday spent with family and friends, I am now working on catching back up with the messages that have been given, but not uploaded.  Over the course of this week I'll be working on catching up with both the podcast and YouTube videos, with the goal to be "back on schedule" by Sunday morning, January 17, 2021.  Thank you for you patience!

Note: Message is preceded by the lighting of the final Advent candle - The Christ Candle - Presented by Jenny and Pastor Jason Robbins. (This candle is normally lit during our Christmas Eve candlelight service - due to a winter storm bringing freezing rain and snow, that service was cancelled for the safety of our members, thus the lighting was performed on the first Sunday after Christmas). 

 

The Sunday after Christmas, known as "Epiphany", principally celebrates the visit of the Magi, or Wise Men who had followed the star to see the Christ child. We know certain things - the Wise Men were kings, there were three of them, and they were there with the shepherds and the angel and the newly born baby Jesus...or is that what we "know"? The story of the Wise Men has been "Sunday School-ized" and packaged to fit neatly in our Nativity scene, but the truth of the Wise Men is not as is generally portrayed.

Join us as Pastor Jason discusses the visit of the Wise Men, separating fact from story, culminating in a most important question that the Wise Men answered, and we must answer for ourselves.  A question in which our answer carries eternal implications. 

 

Reverend Jason Robbins

Highlawn Baptist Church (www.HighlawnBaptistChurch.org)

 

Today's Scriptures:

Matthew 2:1-12 NIV(1984)

 

Morning Service December 27, 2020

 

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