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The Word Rejected
Let’s open our Bibles to
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We continue in our Christmas series, The Cost of the Gift.
We frequently talk about the reason for the season.
We try to remind ourselves of Christ and how this season is about remembering the incarnation, the advent, the birth of Jesus.
What is often neglected is the huge act of humility that Christ went through to become the Savior.
To help us in this endeavor we’ve been looking at some verses from and we’ve seen:
That Jesus is fully God.
That He is eternal.
Was with God.
And is God.
We’ve seen that He came in the flesh.
And what that meant for the divine to become flesh.
This week we look at probably the most humiliating part of this journey … the Word rejected.
A couple weeks ago I saw a clip from Antique Roadshow.
It’s this television show, where people bring their old antiques to a home show, or some kind of convention center.
They bring their antiques and have them appraised and explained by an antique expert.
About 10 years ago, I was at a museum in downtown Riverside, by the Mission Inn.
In this one clip, this woman brings what looks like a gargoyle dog statue.
I began walking around the museum and came across what some call Modern Art.
I call it … trash.
I found an old video, just to double check my feelings on it … and I stand by my original conclusion.
It was a white statue, maybe 2 feet tall.
The type of statue that would be in a garden in someone’s back yard.
I found a weird chain like structure that was made of old cassette tape … tape.
It’s clearly some kind Chinese art.
It’s something she inherited from her grandmother.
The actual tape.
She didn’t think it was worth much.
It was braided together to form a chain.
Someone thought it looked cool.
The antique expert, complete with a bow tie, looks at it.
Then I found a pole that was wrapped in plastic bags … you know, the kind of plastic bags that cost 10 cents at the grocery store.
And … begins to cry.
He starts to cry!
Then there was a square piece of cloth on the wall with a stick leaning against it.
Seriously.
There was what looked like a shield, but it was all crushed coke cans.
He then says how he’s never seen anything like this in his life before.
There were a couple of pictures made completely with electrical tape.
He points out the condition of the marble.
The muscles on the dog.
Kind of cool, but not really.
Then there was a giant picture of Lenin … the communist Lenin.
Meanwhile, the lady is staring at him, surprised that what she thought was old junk, has turned out to be a treasure.
It was made out of Marlboro cigarette packs.
She’s had it all these years, and missed the beauty of it.
It was all in an art museum and supposed to be art.
But I didn’t get it.
She
Clearly the artists had talent, but it was mostly wasted talent.
As we go through the beginning of John, John is trying to paint a special picture of Jesus.
He was in the beginning.
He was with God.
And He was God.
And yet, the world has missed it.
The world around us has missed the beauty of Christ.
He’s been right there in front of us the whole time, and we’ve missed it.
He’s gone ignored.
He’s actually been rejected by people.
Like the Chinese dog statue, He’s been pushed aside and neglected.
We’ve seen how positionally, Jesus is great, and how He humbled Himself by becoming a man.
But now we look at how people responded to the arrival of Jesus.
Read John 1:10-13.
There’s this progression of events.
The World.
The Land
And the People of Israel.
Look at , “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.”
The World
Jesus created the world.
It was created by Him and for Him.
It’s His world.
He owns the cattle on a thousand Hills.
How does the world respond to Him?
By rejecting Him.
The Land
Then we fine tune it, we narrow down His rule and authority.
God then created the nation of Israel.
12 tribes.
Gave them a land.
He gave them laws and a government.
God made special promises to Israel as well.
And how did the nation of Israel respond to God?
They rejected God.
When Solomon died, the nation was shattered.
It had a split, there was a Northern Kingdom, and a Southern Kingdom.
The Northern Kingdom rejected the true God that saved them from Egypt, and began worshipping the golden calves that were created in the fire at the base of Mount Sinai.
Then there were the Jews.
The Jews were those in Judah.
As history progressed, they were the ones who kept God’s law.
Their kings were some of the good ones.
They continued to have a temple and offer sacrifices.
It was through Judah that Jesus eventually would come from.
And how did the Jews respond to Jesus?
Then He came to the nation of Israel and was rejected.
His home town rejected Him.
Then He came to the Jews themselves and was rejected.
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