Following GOD's Guidance | A Christmas Call to Complete Obedience | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:47 Speaker 2: When we're looking at the passage in Matthew chapter one

0:50 Speaker 2: and Matthy chapter two in regard to the birth of Jesus,

0:53 Speaker 2: there's an important characteristic that we can learn from the

0:56 Speaker 2: life of Joseph that we can apply in our everyday life.

0:59 Speaker 2: When he saw the reversy with regard to Mary, when

1:02 Speaker 2: she said that she was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

1:05 Speaker 2: he was contemplating on letting her go. But in Matthew one,

1:09 Speaker 2: verse twenty, it says that the Angel of the Lord

1:11 Speaker 2: came to him and said, you know, don't be afraid

1:13 Speaker 2: to take Mary as your wife, and he listens to

1:17 Speaker 2: that divine instruction and takes Mary as his wife. When

1:20 Speaker 2: you look at Matthew chapter two, there's a moment when

1:23 Speaker 2: the wise men came and met, and it was an

1:27 Speaker 2: amazing thing when they shared how the star guided them

1:30 Speaker 2: to Jesus and they worship Jesus. So Joseph could have

1:35 Speaker 2: been on like, wow, you know this, this is so good.

1:38 Speaker 2: You could have been caught up in that moment. But

1:40 Speaker 2: in verse thirteen, it says when they had gone, the

1:42 Speaker 2: Angel of the Lord appear to Joseph in a dream, saying,

1:44 Speaker 2: get up, take the child and this mother and escape

1:47 Speaker 2: to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Hered

1:50 Speaker 2: is about to kill him. And verse fourteen says, so

1:54 Speaker 2: he got up, took the child and the mother in

1:56 Speaker 2: the night, and left to Egypt. When you look at

1:59 Speaker 2: verse nineteen, it says after Er died, an Angel of

2:02 Speaker 2: the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,

2:05 Speaker 2: get up, take the child and his mother, and go

2:08 Speaker 2: to the land of Israel. For those who are trying

2:10 Speaker 2: to take the child's life are dead. When you look

2:12 Speaker 2: at these verses, the common theme that we understand about

2:15 Speaker 2: Joseph was that he did not just go by how

2:18 Speaker 2: he felt at that moment. He did not just go

2:20 Speaker 2: by how everything looked on the outside. He went by

2:23 Speaker 2: the leading of God over his life. Even though he

2:26 Speaker 2: understood the consequence and the controversy with regard to Mary

2:30 Speaker 2: conceiving through the Holy Spirit what happened. He did not

2:33 Speaker 2: go into that or give in to that and say

2:35 Speaker 2: I don't want to stay in this. He allowed the

2:39 Speaker 2: voice of God to lead him, and he took the

2:41 Speaker 2: right step even when he just saw amazing moment when

2:45 Speaker 2: the wise men had come and you know, they were like, oh,

2:48 Speaker 2: my goodness, this is so good. Everybody's cheering for Jesus.

2:51 Speaker 2: In the midst of that high moment, he was still

2:55 Speaker 2: sensitive to hear the divine instruction saying it's time for

2:59 Speaker 2: you to run. And even when Herod died, he didn't say, oh,

3:02 Speaker 2: hero died and immediately left. Only after the Angel of

3:06 Speaker 2: the Lord appeared and said Herod, and not only Herod.

3:09 Speaker 2: If you see the worse, it says, all who were

3:11 Speaker 2: trying to kill the child are dead. In other words,

3:15 Speaker 2: maybe apart from Herod, that could have been other people

3:19 Speaker 2: in that palace who also wanted to kill Jesus. So

3:22 Speaker 2: in a sense, he didn't just go by the headlines,

3:25 Speaker 2: Oh Herod died, let me go back. He waited for

3:28 Speaker 2: God's instruction and then he went. So today my challenge is,

3:32 Speaker 2: I want you to be led by the Holy Spirit,

3:34 Speaker 2: be led by God, and be divinely instructed in every

3:38 Speaker 2: way you need to go. And that's how you will

3:41 Speaker 2: see God show up and show out in your life.

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