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“ Don’t Let Anything Distance You from Jesus" Matthew 2:1-6 Luke 2:1-3 2Timothy 3:7 John 8:32. QUESTIONS. 1- How far was Jerusalem from Bethlehem? 6 miles. 2- Even the most religious can miss Jesus if they’re not careful. True.
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“Don’t Let Anything Distance You from Jesus" Matthew 2:1-6 Luke 2:1-3 2Timothy 3:7 John 8:32
2- Even the most religious can miss Jesus if they’re not careful. True
3- If you are a particular religion (Catholic, Baptist etc) that will get you into heaven. False
6 - Knowledge is good, but at some point we have to personally believe and practice the truth
7- The religious leaders’ knowledge made them intellectually lazy.
8 - The religious leaders’ religion made them spiritually indifferent
9 - The religious leaders’ background made them culturally arrogant
10 - What distance, person, deficiency, situation, habit, pain, circumstance is keeping you from Jesus this Christmas?
Matthew 2:1-2 1 “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”
Matthew 2:3-4 3 “When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born”
Matthew 2:5-6 5 “So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet: 6 ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the least among the rulers of Judah; For out of you shall come a Ruler Who will shepherd My people Israel” .
Luke 2:1-3 “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3 So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city”
2 Timothy 3:7 “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth”
John 8:32 32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”