ReDiscover Christmas – Week 4 – Love

ReDiscover Christmas – Week 4 – Love – Dean Johnson – 12.17.2020

• • When did they come?

Matthew 1:1

• Jesus was born in Bethlehem

Matthew 1:11 

Matthew 1:16

• • Who were these guys?

• Magos =  a priestly group, but it’s also used for interpreters of the stars and dreams and for sorcerers

• • Where’d they come from?

Matthew 2:1

• • Where exactly?  

• We Three Kings of Orient…

• • How Many of them?

• Three is popular because of the number of gifts, but…  We know there was more than 1

• • Why a Star? 

Numbers 24:17

• If we remember anything about the Magi, let it be this: Whoever they are, whatever their role, wherever they came from…they came to King Jesus

Luke 2:2

• Christ is love embodied

1 John 4:7-10;16

• God is not loving, he doesn’t love – He love, He personifies it

• Love defines and propels us.

John 13:34-35

• Love should us

1. Love empowers us to cross the borders.

Matthew 5:43-44

1 John 4:18-19