Moving Forward in Uncertain Times | A Sermon from Matthew 2:13-23

Happy New Year!Looking Backward

Looking Forward

How Do You Move

Forward?

A Look at Two Characters

Matthew Joseph

Matthew

Matthew 9:9-10

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Matthew

Matthew 9:11-13

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“Those who are well have no need of a

physician, but those who are sick.

Go and learn what this means,

‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous

but sinners.”

- Jesus

Matthew

Hope of a New Life with Jesus

Life of Violence and Scorn

Joseph

From Nazareth“can anything good come

from Nazareth?”

Object of gossip

and scorn“did you hear about

Mary?”

Wise Men

in

Bethlehem

Gifts for

a King

Joseph

This was to fulfill

what had been

spoken by the Lord

through the prophet,

“Out of Egypt

I have called

my son.”

Joseph

Jesus is the

new Moses who will

lead the people out

of slavery and into

the promise of God.

Joseph

The Promises of God

Scorn and Disgrace

What About You?

Blessed to Be a Blessing…

2014