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Promote Champions Week: 12th Rev. Jeremy Mills, 19th Vision Sunday.
Just like the wisemen experienced.
There is a battle between two Kings in our lives.
One king must die for the other King to reign.
We don’t know how many wise men there were.
We do know how many gifts they brought.
A few weeks ago I preached the first portion of this two part series.
I preached about Gold and Frankincense.
Gifts that are perfect for a King and quit commonly presented to King’s in history.
Gold represents our treasure.
When we give our earthly treasure, we put Jesus upon the throne that materialism and possessions try to occupy in our life.
Frankincense represents our worship.
It was used in the incense burned upon the altar in the temple.
It was placed on the loaves of the Table of Shewbread.
One of our great gifts fit for Jesus is our worship in prayer, and spending time in the word of God.
Frankincense came from cuts made in a tree where the white sap would flow, after it hardened it would be sold in the form of tears.
Hardened clumps of resin.
Worship comes out of sacrifices made in life.
Life involves wounds and tears, these wounds can be allowed to go unhealed or they can be turned into worship.
MYRRH was an aromatic gum produced from a thorny tree that grew in the Middle East and Africa, and was obtained from the tree in the same manner as frankincense.
When the sap oozed from a cut in the shrub, it was a pale yellow color at first, but as it hardened, it changed to dark red or even a black color.
Myrrh was so valuable in ancient times that it could have the same “weight worth” as gold!
It had medicinal properties, and could be ingested.
Myrrh was an ingredient of the anointing oil in worship.
God instructed His people to anoint every thing in the temple that was to be used.
It was anointed because it was chosen.
Jesus was anointed as the chosen one.
It was used in perfumes and incense, and as an embalming compound for dead bodies (i.e.
Egyptian mummies).
Just like frankincense was known for its sweet smell, myrrh was known for its bitter taste.
In fact, the name itself means great bitterness – and that’s why myrrh came to be associated with DEATH.
Myrrh is the only one of the three gifts given to Jesus at the beginning of His life and at the end of His life.
On the cross.
In the grave.
Jesus took the bitterness of the cross and the grave so that we would not have to die in our own sins.
The gifts of Gold and Frankincense seem fitting for a King.
We should give our treasure to the Lord.
It is fitting that we give our worship to the Lord.
But Myrrh?
We can see the types…anointed, born to die, etc.
It’s deeper than that…Jesus is still receiving these gifts.
We see Him taking the bitterness of death, the cross, our sin.
But what about the bitterness of life?
In their first experience after passing through the Red Sea, the Israelites encounter waters that are bitter (“mar”) at a place called Marah.
It was a TREE cast into the bitter waters that made them sweet.
It was Calvary, thrust into the bitterness of our lives, that changed everything!
When Naomi returns to Bethlehem after a long time in Moab, she says “Don’t call me Naomi (‘pleasant’) – call me Mara (‘bitter’)!”
She left the “House of Bread” because there was a famine in Israel (Ruth 1:1), but she ended up trading a famine for three funerals (her husband and two sons)!
She blames God for her heartache, but it was it was her family’s own decision to leave Bethlehem.
Life hurts… can leave us bitter.
Naomi and Ruth arrived back home at the perfect time – it was the beginning of barley harvest, when food was plentiful.
No more famine!
The end of the year is the perfect time to leave the past in the past, and step forward into a brand new future in God.
It doesn’t matter what mistakes you’ve made, it only matters what decision you will make.
Jesus will take the bitterness of your life, year...
Look at the dysfunction in the lineage of Jesus!
Rahab, the harlot.
Ruth, the Moabitess.
Bathsheba, the adulteress.
David, the murderer.
Solomon, the adulterer.
His family tree is full of failures, bitter, but that didn’t prevent the SAVIOR from being born!
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