Today, we continue our message series “Jesus the Messiah.” The title Messiah means the anointed one, the one anointed as King of Kings. As we learn more about Jesus this Christmas season, God wants to move our hearts to worshiping Jesus the Messiah.

Today’s message is entitled Jesus’ Birth Foretold. Of course Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’ birth and it’s less than two weeks away this year. Christmas can be a crazy time of year with a lot of busyness that does not have a lot to do with Jesus.  This year, 2020, really has been an unusual year in many respects and so Christmas will be unique this year.

To put this Christmas 2020 in perspective, I’d like us to watch a short video called Adore Him. Let’s use this Christmas season, unusual as it is, to take time to reflect, to worship and to adore Jesus the Messiah. Truly Jesus is the reason for the season. Even though the Christmas story is very familiar to most of us, it is truly an amazing, miraculous story. My prayer is that as we go through this series, God will speak to us and cause our hearts to be moved toward Jesus in a fresh way.

That baby boy born two thousand years ago was the Messiah, born to be King. Let’s read from Psalm 2, the importance of the Messiah.

Psalm 2:2-3 (ESV)  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,  “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”

 In these verses, the LORD is God the Father and his Anointed is Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Many, we can safely say, most earthly leaders of nations are not believers. They do not wish to submit their governments or authorities to the rule of Jesus. In fact, they conspire together to resist God’s authority and God’s people. We see this today in America and around the world. Laws being made and edicts being pronounced that are contrary to God’s Word and God’s rule.

We may be tempted to become anxious or worried about the state of our nation and our world. But how should we respond? How does God respond?

Psalm 2:5-6 (ESV)  Then he (the Lord) will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,  “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”  

God’s King is Jesus Christ and He is the one who truly reigns today. Those that oppose His reign will eventually face His judgement. No matter, who is the leader of our country or our state, Jesus is still the King to whom we owe our allegiance. So this Christmas, let’s take time this morning and throughout the season to worship Jesus the King. As we do that, it will bring peace and rest to our souls.

Christmas is also a time when we can speak to others about the birth of the Messiah that changed history forever. This morning, we are going to look at some amazing Old Testament prophecies that foretold the birth of Jesus the Messiah in amazing detail. We’re going to see how they apply to our lives today. So, let’s begin with …

Today, we begin a new message series “Jesus the Messiah.” In this series we’re going to see what the Bible has to say about the true identity of Jesus Christ. The name Christ is not Jesus’ last name, it is a title that means the Anointed One or the Messiah. The question of who Jesus is, is the most important question that a person can ask in life. If Jesus is simply a good man or even a great prophet, He really would have little impact on our lives. But if He is who He claimed to be, the Son of God, the Messiah and the Savior of the world, then we must make a choice. The only rational choice is to chose to believe in and worship Him.

But how can we know who Jesus is? The are many ways to answer the question of who Jesus is. In this series, we’re going to show how dozens of messianic prophecies in the Old Testament were fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament prophecies about Jesus were written hundreds and usually thousands of years before Jesus was born. Yet, as we’ll see going through this series, these ancient prophecies were fulfilled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

So, what do these prophecies prove? First of all, they are proof that the Bible is not simply an ancient book, but it is a supernatural book, filled with prophecies that have come true hundreds or thousands of years after they were written down. These Old Testament prophecies prove that Jesus is who He said He was. Jesus is the Messiah, He is the very Son of God. As we better understand these Old Testament prophecies, these truths will strengthen our faith as believers. 

And these truths will help us show unbelievers why the Bible is not just another book, but is a supernatural book, inspired by the Holy Spirit. They will help us to strengthen our faith and help it grow strong. These prophecies will help us show others why Jesus was not just a good man or even just a great prophet. Jesus was who He said He was, which is the divine Son of God and the Messiah.

Today, our message is entitled “Ancient Prophecies Revealed.” Where do you think that the first prophecies of Jesus the Messiah are found? The answer is that the first prophecies are to be found in the first book in the Bible, the book of Genesis. Today, we’re going to look at three wonderful prophecies about Jesus from Genesis. In each one, we’re then going to look at the New Testament fulfillment of these prophecies about Jesus.

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