The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

Matthew 2:2... 2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”...

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

Matthew 2... 3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written...

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

Matthew 2... 9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east[i] went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed...

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

Matthew 2... 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of GOLD AND OF INCENSE AND OF MYRRH.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

1. GOLD – JESUS IS OUR KING!

Revelation 16:29On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

1. GOLD – JESUS IS OUR KING!

2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

1. GOLD – JESUS IS OUR KING!

2 Corinthians 5:21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

2. FRANKINCENSE – JESUS IS GOD Exodus 30:34 – 38

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, 35 and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer....

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

2. FRANKINCENSE – JESUS IS GOD Exodus 30:34 – 38

.... It is to be salted and pure and sacred.36 Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

2. FRANKINCENSE – JESUS IS GOD Exodus 30:34 – 38

...take Frankincense... and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. John 1:17 …The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

3. MYRRH – JESUS IS OUR SACRIFICE John 19:39 – 40

He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. 40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

3. MYRRH – JESUS IS OUR SACRIFICE Hebrews 10:5 – 10

 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: Sacrifice & offerings you did not desire,    but a body you prepared for me;6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings    you were not pleased....

The Gifts That Reveal Who Jesus Is

3. MYRRH – JESUS IS OUR SACRIFICE Hebrews 10:5 – 10

.... 7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—    I have come to do your will, O God.’”8 …... 10 And by that will we have been made HOLY THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL.