DRUMMER BOY
- 2008 ECONOMY TOOK A DOWN TURN- FORMER PK
- PURCHASE THEM- GIVE MONEY TIED OUR CHURCH
- SINCE THEN WE BEEN RECEIVING OFFERING
- NEXT WEEK-WILL RECEIVE IT ACROSS CAMPUSES
GIFTS
LONG DEDICATED CALENDAR INVESTMENT BY ALL
- WE ARE IN WEEK 2 OF A SERIES ON GIFTS
- LAST WEEK PASTOR KERRY WISEMEN
- ASTROLOGERS/MAGI-PICKED KINGS
- SHOW UP PROB 18 MONTHS AFTER/2 YEARS
- WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE THAN 3
- MILITARY PRESENCE- TRAVELED WITH LOOT
GIFT-WHATS A WORKING DEFINITION OF GIFT?
Gift :a thing given willingly to someone without EXPECTATION OF payment; OR ANYTHING IN RETURN
- ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST EXPENSIVE GIFTS
TAJ MAHAL
Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, – 800 MILLION DOLLARS
SO I ASK YOU- WHATS THE BEST GIFT YOU EVER GOT?
WHY WAS IT A GREAT GIFT?
ATARI GAMING SYSTEM
WHEN I WAS A KID EARLY 1980’S
NOLAN BUSHNELL INVENTS FIRST HOME GAME SYSTEM
THIS WAS THE GIFT OF ALL GIFTS AT TIME/ 199.00
FRIEND GOT THIS- COULDN’T WAIT TO GO PLAY
REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A KID- EXCITED?
KIDS GETTING GIFTS
- WONDER IF JESUS WAS 2- HOW EXCITED WOULD BE?
- YES YES YES -FRANKINCENSE
- A THING GIVEN WITHOUT EXPECATION OF ANYTHING IN RETURN
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:1-2
- After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
- 1000 MILES THEY CAME- ROBBERS/TERRAIN/HEAT
- HARRISONBURG TO MIAMI- CAMELS AND HORSES (95)
- CHICAGO ONLY 700 MILES- DALLAS TEXAS IS 1100 MILES
- OMAHA NEBRASKA-1100 MILES
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:2
2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
- skilled in astrology, medicine, and divination, not necessarily evil sorcerers.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:3
3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
WORD HERE IS AGITATED- LIKE IN A WASHER
HIS COUNTRY JUDAH IS BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN
ROME (ALL LEFT- AND PARTHEAN EMPIRE)
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:4
4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:5
5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:6
6 “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:6
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:7
7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:8
8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:8
As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:9
9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:10
10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:11
11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
SCRIPTURE MATHEW 2:11
Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 2:12
12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
HERODS TEMPLE PICTURE
- MASSIVE 35 ACRE STRUCTURE
- HEROD WANTED THIS TEMPLE TO OVERWHELM
- 18,000 WORKERS/1000 PRIESTS/16 FOOT THICK WALLS
- WALLS 150 FEET- HOLY OF HOLIES HIGHER
- ALL 3 GIFTS WERE IN THIS TEMPLE
TEMPLE DIAGRAM
- RIGHT OUTSIDE HOLY OF HOLIES
- 2 TIMES A DAY-
- TEMPLE STUNK- 2 SACRIFICES DAILY
- SWEET SMELLING AROMA- RISING
- NO SEATS IN THE TEMPLE
- PRIESTS DIDN’T SIT DOWN
- THERE IS A GIFT BROUGHT- THIS GIFT- FOR PRIEST
BOSWALIA TREE
- THIS IS THE TREE FRANKINCENSE COMES FROM
- ONLY NORTH AFRICA/ARABIAN PENINSULA (INDIA)
FRANKINCENSE
- WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN FIRST HARVESTED
LEVITICUS SCRIPTURE 2:2
- WHEN ANYONE BRINGS A GRAIN OFERING TO THE LORD, THEIR OFFERING IS TO BE OF THE FINEST FLOUR. THEY ARE TO POUR OLIVE OIL ON IT, PUT INCENSE ON IT.
SCRIPTURE LEVITIVUS 2:2
- AND TAKE IT TO AARONS SONS THE PRIESTS. THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE A HANDFUL OF FLOUR AND OIL, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE INCENSE,
SCRIPTURE LEVITICUS 2:2
2. AND BURN THIS AS A MEMORIAL PORTION ON THE ALTAR, A FOOD OFFERING, AN AROMA PLEASING TO THE LORD.
- PURPOSE FOR THE SUBSTANCE
- COST AND WORK TO GET IT
VIDEO FRANKINCENSE
- REALLY VALUABLE
- TIME CONSUMING
- PAIN STAKING PROCESS TO HARVEST IT
- SOME SAID IT COST MORE THAN GOLD
SCRIPTURE HEBREWS 4:14
14. “THEREFORE, SINCE WE HAVE A GREAT HGH PRIEST WHO HAS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, LET US HOLD FIRMLY TO THE FAITH WE PROFESS.
SCRIPTURE HEBREWS 4:15
15. FOR WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO IS UNABLE TO EMPATHIZE WITH OUR WEAKNESSES, BUT WE HAVE ONE WHO HAS BEEN TEMPTED IN EVERY WAY, JUST AS WE ARE- YET HE DID NOT SIN.
SCRIPTURE HEBREWS 4:16
16. “LET US THEN APPROACH GODS THRONE OF GRACE WITH CONFIDENCE, SO THAT WE MAY RECEIVE MERCY AND GRACE TO HELP US IN OUR TIME OF NEED.”
STORY HEADLINE
MAN GRASPS BROKEN WIRES TO COMPLETE CIRCUIT SO RADIO AUDIENCE MAY HEAR KINGS SPEECH
Harold Vivian, chief control operator of the Columbia Broadcasting Company, formed part of the circuit which enabled the radio audiences of fifty-nine stations in the United States and Canada to hear the speech of King George V yesterday morning at the opening of the Naval Conference in London.
A few minutes before the King was to speak a member of the control room staff of the Columbia company tripped over a wire leading to the generator which energizes the Columbia network. Vivian examined the breakage. It would take at least twenty minutes, he realized, to make repairs. Meanwhile the King’s speech would be over and thousands of radio listeners who had sat up late or arisen early to hear him would be disappointed.
Vivian grasped the ends of the broken wires, one in either hand, to restore the circuit. The shocks of the 250-volt charge and the leakage of current through his body to the floor shook his arms with spasms. But he held on until new wires could be connected. By that time his hands had been slightly burned and he was feeling the effects of the ordeal. As soon as the broadcast was finished he was sent home to bed. But officials of the company said last night that he was not seriously hurt. The King’s speech lasted six minutes. It was not preceded by any announcement. His voice was heard clearly by the audience here. But none of the thousands of the Columbia’s listeners was aware that save for Vivian’s presence of mind and his pluck in clinging to the frayed ends of the broken wires their wait to hear the King would have been in vain.
PONTIFEX– LATIN
- DEFINITION OF THIS WORD MEANS
- IN LATIN BRIDGE- BUILDER
- NOT ONLY BUILDS IT- HE IS THE BRIDGE
- WAILING WALL JEWS WEAR COVERING-KIPPA
- REASON IS BECAUSE OF THE HOLINESS OF GOD
- AND THE UNCLEANESS OF MAN
GOD INSTEAD OF SENDING A RULE BOOK –
A KIT A BLUE PRINT OR A PILL- SENDS HIMSELF INTO THE CHAOS AND INTO OUR WEARINESS
HE DOESN’T SEND IDEAS AND CONCEPTS- HE SENDS HIMSELF- SHOULD MAKE MY CHRISTMAS DIFFERENT?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE A PLEASING AROMA TO GOD? WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT JESUS IS PRAYING/INTERCEDING?
KIPPA
5 SENSES- SMELL- STRONGEST REMINDER
TODAY MAYBE YOU WANT A REMINDER- WHAT A GIFT-
THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS INDESCRIBABLE GIFT