MATTHEW 2:1-2
1 NOW WHEN JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDAEA IN THE DAYS OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD, THERE CAME WISE MEN FROM THE EAST TO JERUSALEM,
2 SAYING, WHERE IS HE THAT IS BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST, AND ARE COME TO WORSHIP HIM.
Every man has 2 people inside of them. A king and a fool.
Whichever Cyndi talks to is who she gets.
I want to speak to the king in everyone’s hearts today.
I believe we have a mission, God had the provision of heaven He was moving kings around the world to make provisions
· He knew he would have to run away from Egypt.
· He knew of the massacre of Bethlehems child.
· Out-rage of Herod
When God births something in you, he will send kings from the other side of the world to support one of his babies.
· I can see King Gaspar; Belthazar; & Melchior looking up into the sky,
And they look up, …“look up there” …kings left the protection of their world.
You know you’re a king when you see stuff that no one else sees.
You know you’re a king when you leave your world of safety to risk everything to follow the star of your life.
I’M TALKING TO KINGS TODAY.
God’s looking for People who are willing to follow the star, NOT Hollywood but Bright and Morning Star...
These men set out.
IT WAS “RIDICULOUS”, WHAT THEY DID!
- We serve a ridiculous god with ridiculous grace, that calls us out of darkness with a ridiculous love.
- Surely not Bethlehem, surely not shepherds, that’s ridiculous.
- The fact that he saw me in my sin is ridiculous.
- The fact that I’m a joint aire of Jesus is ridiculous.
- His love has no boundries.
- He is utterly ridiculous.
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These 3 kings set out across the world to find a baby that hadn’t been conceived.
- The angel hadn’t whispered to Mary yet.
Anything born of God will be provided for by God.
WHEN DO YOU SEE STARS? AT NIGHT!
When everybody else is sleeping, Kings are looking for stars.
When everybody else is cuddled up at night, Kings say “I’ve got to go”
A king will leave safety!
A king stands up in the dark & says “I’m following my destiny.
In this church today, I want to anoint kings, I want to move forward into 2009 and raise up some kings.
· SO HERE’S SOME STARS.
- This year we’re going to see some families saved.
- This year we’re going to give more to God than ever.
When people squabble & fight on penny annie petty things, I can’t. I’ve got a star to follow.
How many times have I sit down and not been a King.
When David was in ziglag.
He was a mercenary.
The philistines had possessed God’s praise.
And David was working as a Mercinaries.
David was doing something he wasn’t suppose to be doing.
HE WASN’T KING
They paid him off. The praiser, the worshiper, was fighting for the enemy.
He was gone one day, and they slaughtered, murdered & raped their wives and daughters. They hated the Israelites.
And when David came back from doing what he shouldn’t of been doing, his family was gone.
When people start doing stuff they should never be doing. Their families, their children pay the price.
When you put your hand against the ark of god… there’s hell to pay and it will show up in your family!
Mark it down!
So David inquired of the Lord
David took the spoils of the people.
The prodical still had enough of His father in him to say “what, am I doing here." The servants in my fathers house have better than this.
What we need to do in the next few weeks is call our kings home this year…
We need to put the names of every unsaved loved one in the new church.
Bring the pictures of your lost loved ones.
Put the rock in the middle of the altar.
