{"id":18346,"date":"2015-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/christmas-predicted\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:14:43","slug":"christmas-predicted","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/christmas-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[78],"series_event":[441],"sermon_service_type":[541],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-18346","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-micah","series_event-christmas-eve-services","sermon_service_type-special-event","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Christmas Predicted","sermon_date":"20151224","sermon_month":"12","sermon_year":"2015","sermon_notes":"","sermon_slides":"","sermon_mp3":3230,"sermon_id":"1224151945570","series_or_event":441,"service_type":[541],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":78,"chapter_and_verse":"5:2","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\r\nChristmas Predicted\r\n12-24-15 Micah 5:2\r\n\r\nGood evening everyone. I don\u2019t know if you can see out there, but if you have a Bible nearby you might want to open it to the book of Micah, chapter 5 and verse 2. The title of our brief message this morning is Christmas Predicted. And as we all know, tomorrow we\u2019re celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, into the world. And most people are kind of astonished to learn, even some Christians are astonished to learn that the birth of Christ is something that is predicted in great detail centuries in advance. And that\u2019s the kind of thing we have going on in the book of Micah, chapter 5, verse 2.\r\n\r\nLet me read these verses to you quickly: \u201c\u2018But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nAnd I believe that what we just read there is nothing short of amazing and astounding, and I say that for a variety of reasons. Number 1, that prophecy was written 700 years in advance; 700 years is a long time, isn\u2019t it. That\u2019s a full seven centuries. You think of the origin of the United States of America, we\u2019ve only been in existence as a nation 236 (somewhere in there) years and yet we look at America as having been here forever. And think of the United States of America multiplied a couple of times over and that\u2019s basically what you have in this prophecy.\r\n\r\nIsaiah was a contemporary of Micah; Isaiah, 700 years in advance, in Isaiah 7:14, gave this prophecy under the inspiration of the Spirit. Isaiah 7:14 says, \u201cTherefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.\u201d So a full seven centuries in advance you have these two contemporaries, Micah and Isaiah, revealing the birth of Jesus Christ in great detail; Isaiah speaking of the virgin birth of Christ and Micah doing something else here, pinpointing the exact city where this Messiah would be born.\r\n\r\nAnd when you look at Micah 5:2 it also says this: \u201cHis goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.\u201d And this One that\u2019s coming is specifically said to be the ruler of Israel. Now there\u2019s no mistake about this, this is none other than the Messiah that\u2019s being predicted, the ruler of the nation of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ, coming into the world. The dead giveaway is at the end of Micah 5:2 when it says, \u201cFrom the days of eternity.\u201d In other words, there\u2019s coming forth one who is eternal and that can only be God.\r\n\r\nPsalm 90:2 says this: \u201cBefore the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.\u201d So everlasting or eternity, it\u2019s actually the Hebrew word olam, can be none other than a dead ringer for God\u2019s birth, if you will, into our world.\r\n\r\nSo this is given 700 years in advance, it\u2019s a very clear prophecy about the Messiah\u2019s birth. And one of the things that\u2019s very interesting is Micah tells us that Jesus is not going to be born in Jerusalem; He\u2019s going to be born in Bethlehem. Now you would think, given everything that we know about the city of Jerusalem and its significance in the Old Testament, that Micah would say Jesus is going to be born in Jerusalem.\r\n\r\nJerusalem is very prominent. In fact, Jesus, one of these days is going to rule the world, not from Washington D.C. (we can all praise God for that), but from the city of Jerusalem. I mean, Jerusalem is the main act, really, in the Scripture. Isaiah 2:3 says, \u201cFor the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.\u201d So given the prominence of Jerusalem in the Bible we would think that this Messiah that\u2019s coming into our world will be born in Jerusalem. But Micah, 700 years in advance says no, He\u2019s not going to be born in Jerusalem, He\u2019s going to be born in a little city called Bethlehem.\r\n\r\nIn fact, when you look at that Micah 5:2 passage carefully it says, \u201cBut as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah,\u201d just this little tiny dinky out of the way place that the Messiah is going to be born into the world from.\r\n\r\nNow the plot thickens a little bit when you understand that there are two Bethlehem\u2019s in the land of Israel. You know, you take different cities names, for example, like Saint Paul. If you Google Saint Paul, you know, you\u2019re thinking of one Saint Paul but there are actually different Saint Paul\u2019s in the United States of America, if I\u2019m not mistaken. And so it\u2019s like that with this name \u201cBethlehem.\u201d Bethlehem was not just one city but there\u2019s actually two cities that we know about in the land of Israel called Bethlehem. One of them is up north in Galilee, but there\u2019s a different one down south about five miles south of Jerusalem, a different Bethlehem.\r\n\r\nSo which Bethlehem is He coming from? Is He coming from the one up in Galilee or is He coming from the one near Jerusalem. And Micah, 700 years in advance, pinpoints that detail, as you look at it very carefully, Micah 5:2 says, \u201cfor you, Bethlehem Ephrathah.\u201d Now when he says \u201cEphrathah\u201d he\u2019s saying it\u2019s not going to be the Bethlehem in Galilee, it\u2019s going to be the different Bethlehem down by Jerusalem.\r\n\r\nAnd then Micah says \u201cToo little to be among the clans of Judah,\u201d now Judah is an important word because Judah is a tribal geographical region within the land of Israel and that\u2019s where this second Bethlehem, not the Bethlehem in Galilee but this different Bethlehem that Messiah is going to be born in. So it\u2019s astonishing the amount of detail and specificity and clarity that this prophet, writing 700 years in advance, is giving relating to the birth of Jesus Christ.\r\n\r\nYou know, if you ever read the prophecies of Jeane Dixon, for example, or Nostradamus, they are so ambiguous and they\u2019re so lacking in clarity that it\u2019s almost like they give you this very vague reference and almost anything could fill it. But that\u2019s not what we have in the Bible; we don\u2019t have vague generalities. We have very concrete specifics and you\u2019re seeing those work out here in Micah 5:2.\r\n\r\nNow it\u2019s also interesting here in Micah 5:2, it says, \u201cBut as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah,\u201d now Judah is a big deal in the Old Testament. Why is that? Well, it goes all the way back to Jacob\u2019s final blessings on his sons. Jacob had\u2026 we call them Jacob\u2019s dozen, Jacob\u2019s sons. From these sons came forth the twelve tribes of Israel. And just before Jacob died, in Genesis 49:10 this is what Jacob said: \u201cThe scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler\u2019s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.\u201d\r\n\r\nSo all the way back in the book of Genesis we learn that the exact tribal identify of the twelve tribes that would bring forth the Messiah is none other than Judah. And this is why Micah, in chapter 5, verse 2, says it\u2019s not going to be the Bethlehem in Galilee, it\u2019s going to be the Bethlehem near Jerusalem in the tribal area of Judah. So the whole Bible is very specifically interlinked in this sense, and the specificity here is really mind-numbing in detail when you really start to think about it. And it\u2019s interesting that the religious leaders of the day, when Christ was born into the world in the first century, all understood this prophecy; they understood its significance.\r\n\r\nAnd over in Matthew 2:1-6 we learn how this very specific prophecy of Micah 5:2 was fulfilled. Matthew 2:1-6 says this: \u201cNow after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, the Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, [2] \u2018Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.\u2019 [3] When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. [4] Gathering together all of the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. [5] They said to him, \u2018In Bethlehem of Judea; for this is what has been written by the prophet:\u201d and here they quote Micah 5:2, which says, \u201cAnd you,, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the leaders of Judah; for out of you shall come forth a ruler who will shepherd My people Israel.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nSo the chief priests and the religious leaders totally understood the prophetic significance of Micah 5:2 and when Herod didn\u2019t like the competition about a new king in town, and as you know the Christmas story well, he wanted to exterminate that king and that\u2019s why he began to execute all of those innocent children in Bethlehem. And he wanted to know where to start the murdering, or the killing and he asked his scribes and the religious leaders, well, where is the prophet going to come from, in other words, is this Messiah going to come from, and they all said Bethlehem because they all understood Micah 5:2.\r\n\r\nNow keep in mind, this is just one Messianic prophecy that we could go into. If I had time we could go into hundreds of prophecies like this. And so what is happening in the Bible is history in advance is being revealed. And that\u2019s what we call prophecy. And Micah 5:2, Christmas time really should be prominent in our thinking because it\u2019s a reminder that God knows the end from the beginning in great detail.\r\n\r\nNow you ask yourself well so what? What does it mean to me? It\u2019s great information, what does this mean to me? What does this mean to you? What does this mean to all of us? And let me just leave you, this evening if I could, with just three simple points of application.\r\n\r\nNumber 1, what you have is proof of the Bible\u2019s divine inspiration. There is no other book in the history of mankind that does this kind of thing, that reveals the end from the beginning. And it\u2019s one of the great proofs that an omniscient God, who knows the end from the beginning, actually is the ultimate author of this book. When we study, for example, Islam and we look into the Quran we have no such teaching like this. We have no ironclad specific prophecies of this nature. And this is not just true with the Quran, it\u2019s true with any other alleged holy book in the history of man. Only the Bible has this specific detail built into it and it\u2019s one of the great proofs that God has given us that this book, the Bible, is different from all of the other books of known history.\r\n\r\nThis book is different because it predicts the future. God doesn\u2019t just ask us to exercise blind faith in the Bible; He tells us that He has written the Bible but He gives us proof that the Bible is true. And one of these great proofs is Messianic prophecy, just one of which we\u2019ve looked at tonight, Micah 5:2.\r\n\r\nSo the Bible is different, the Bible stands out separately than every other religious system or source of truth on planet earth. The second point of application is God is omniscient. What does omniscient mean? It means He knows everything. How do we know that God knows everything? We know that God knows everything because of this phenomena, or phenomenon called Messianic prophecy.\r\n\r\nWe have a tendency to think that we are somehow hiding from God, you know, that God kind of looks out at the six billion people (or more) on planet earth and our little sins He\u2019s unaware of. But the fact of the matter, God knows every single sin I\u2019ve ever committed and will ever commit. He knows every single sin you\u2019ve committed, perhaps this afternoon, the sin you\u2019re going to sin perhaps tomorrow, the impatience you\u2019re going to have on the freeway on Monday morning, and God knows it all. And it\u2019s so foolish for us to think that we can hide from God. How do you hide from someone that knows everything.\r\n\r\nAnd because he is omniscient He is aware of our greatest problem as human beings. The specific problem that we all have is not that we don\u2019t have enough money, although we would all like to have a little bit more\u2026 amen! It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t have enough friends. It\u2019s not that our career aspirations and dreams aren\u2019t being fulfilled. It\u2019s not that I can\u2019t pay my rent for next month. I mean, those are all problems but that\u2019s not THE problem. THE problem that we all have is that we are sinners and we are separated from Him because of a conscious decision that we have all made to sin against God.\r\n\r\nRomans 3:23 says, \u201cFor all have sinned, and fallen short of the glory of God.\u201d And that is our problem, that\u2019s what the Bible tells us. And so we might as well just reveal it and be honest about it; we are all basically sinners by nature. My sin does not make me a sinner, rather I sin because I am a sinner. I have a nature that has a natural proclivity to sin. We didn\u2019t have to sit our kids down and say okay, now, we\u2019re going to teach you today how to throw a temper tantrum, you ready? We\u2019re going to teach you today how to be selfish? Here\u2019s how you horde your toys and don\u2019t play nicely with your neighbor. NO! The obvious thing is people do that naturally, you don\u2019t have to teach children that, they do that naturally, self-centeredness, it\u2019s called sin.\r\n\r\nBut we have to teach them what our parents had to teach us is the opposite; here\u2019s how you share, here\u2019s how you be courteous, here\u2019s how you keep your anger under control when things aren\u2019t going your way. And we are all sinners by nature, the Bible tells us that and fortunately what we have in the Scripture is the answer to the problem. The answer to the problem is God\u2019s Son, who we\u2019re celebrating His birth as He was born into the world as we celebrate it tomorrow, and He lived the perfect life in our place. I no longer have to live the perfect life because He lived it in my place. I no longer am responsible for paying back my sin debt to God because He has paid it for me.\r\n\r\nAnd this is what we call the gospel. In the gospel Jesus Christ died on the cross and in the process He absorbed in His body the wrath of a holy God against sin. There is nothing more for me to add to it; there is nothing more for me to contribute to it other than to accept what He has done for me by way of faith, which is the only way in God you can accept a gift. The Bible says, \u201cwithout faith it is impossible to please God.\u201d [Hebrews 11:6, \u201cAnd without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.\u201d]\r\n\r\nGod only deals with people on the basis of personal faith. And we have to reach a point where we acknowledge who we are in God, as rebels and sinners, and we actually (the only way we know how) reach out to Him for the cure. And God says the only way you can reach out for the cure is to receive it as a free gift; we call that faith. Faith is another way of saying rely upon, depend upon, have confidence in. The Spirit of God at some point comes into your life and convicts you of your condition in sin and then fortunately God doesn\u2019t just convict us but He gives us the answer. And the answer is His Son, who died on the cross for us 2,000 years ago and who authenticated who He was through His bodily resurrection from the dead.\r\n\r\nThere is nothing else for us to do other than to receive it by faith. And really, there are only two kinds of people in this world\u2014those who have received this gift, and those who have not. Those that have received this gift are destined for glory and an eternity with God. Those who have not received this gift are destined for the wrath of God. The Bible\u2026 one of the things I like about the Bible is it doesn\u2019t mess around; it doesn\u2019t give you a lot of wriggle room and gray area.\r\n\r\nYou know, in the Bible there\u2019s a broad way that leads to destruction and a narrow road that leads to life. In the Bible there are angels and then there are demons. In the Bible there\u2019s a heaven and in the Bible there\u2019s a hell. And in the same way, the Bible says there are only two kinds of people, those that have received the gift of what Jesus has done and those that haven\u2019t. And so you can become a Christian tonight if you want to, simply by in the quietness of your own thoughts and heart responding to the free gift that is available to you in Jesus Christ. It isn\u2019t something you have to walk an aisle to do, raise a hand to do, join a church to do, it\u2019s a moment of personal privacy between you and the Lord where the Spirit convicts you and you respond by faith to what Jesus has done. And it\u2019s something you can do even as I am talking. And if it\u2019s something you need more information on I\u2019m available after the service to talk.\r\n\r\nWhat a great way to launch out into 2016, having on Christmas Eve, the night before our celebration of Christ\u2019s birth, having received His free gift. It is the most monumental decision you\u2019ll ever make in your life because it really determines your eternal destiny.\r\n\r\nSo application number 1, the Bible is God\u2019s Word. Application number 2, God, as all-knowing knows our greatest problem and He\u2019s given us the solution in Jesus Christ. And then one more and we\u2019re finished, application number 3 is hope\u2026 hope, because Micah 5:2, the prediction of Christ\u2019s birth that we just looked at quickly gives way to Micah 5:4 and this is what Micah 5:4 says: \u201cAnd He will arise and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD His God. And they will remain, because at that time He will be great to the ends of the earth.\u201d\r\n\r\nSo isn\u2019t it interesting that Micah 5:2 starts off with this little tiny city, you know, Israel is just a little tiny strip of land on the Mediterranean coast there, and then Micah is just focused on this little tiny city. But ultimately what is going to happen is the worldwide reign of Jesus Christ, when all is said and done Jesus will bring His reign and authority, ultimately when all is said and done,\r\nto the ends of the earth.\r\n\r\nNow why should I believe Micah 5:4, I mean, why should I actually intellectually believe that He\u2019s going to bring His reign to the ends of the earth? I believe that because of what Micah 5:2 says. See, God has been very faithful to fulfill the specific promises related to the first coming of Christ, in great detail. Why wouldn\u2019t God be faithful to fulfill all of the prophecies in Micah. I mean, if Micah 5:2 was fulfilled literally and reliable and accurately (and it was), why wouldn\u2019t Micah 5:4 be fulfilled in exactly the same manner? Why would the Holy Spirit switch horses in midstream and say okay, Micah 5:2 has been fulfilled but forget Micah 5:4. NO! Micah 5:2 is just sort of a preview, if you will, of things to come; the greater things that are on the horizon are spelled out in Micah 5:4 and many other prophecies that we can get into.\r\n\r\nNow what does this mean for us? It gives us hope in an age where people are running out of hope. Have you noticed that? People are becoming hopeless in this world; they have no sense of hope or confidence for the future and how different it is for the Christian, who says yes, historically Micah 5:2 was fulfilled so Micah 5:4 and every other prophecy God has ever given will be fulfilled as well.\r\n\r\nYou say well, wait a minute, pastor, don\u2019t you watch the news? Unfortunately I do. Haven\u2019t you heard about ISIS? And haven\u2019t you heard about terrorism. In fact, there\u2019s one church in the Dallas area that I know of that even tonight is meeting in spite of bomb threats. We see these horrific things happening in our world. We saw what happened in San Bernardino, recently. We saw what happened in Paris, France recently. And you look at these kinds of things and people run out of hope. But not so the Christian because ISIS, according to the Scripture, is basically living on borrowed time.\r\n\r\nThe very fact that those people are even allowed to live and do their horrific acts is actually God just allowing it to happen for whatever reason, I don\u2019t fully understand the mind of God and why He allows suffering in the world. I understand this much though, that the suffering that\u2019s in the world through ISIS, terrorism, unemployment, cancer, suicide, alcoholism, rampant divorce, addiction to pornography, all of these things that human beings experience and go through, I know that all of those things that are happening in our world are limited; they\u2019re living on borrowed time because the day is quickly coming where what is wrong is going to be set right.\r\n\r\nHow do I know that? Because Micah 5:2 was fulfilled so Micah 5:4 will be fulfilled as well. So this is more practical, far more practical than we might first think. Number 1, Micah 5:2 gives us proof of the Bible\u2019s divine inspiration. Number 2, Micah 5:2 reminds us that God is omniscient, He knows our specific problems and our specific need and He\u2019s made provision for our need in the person of Jesus Christ. And then finally number 3, Micah 5:2 is a great reminder of hope, that the exigencies and emergencies of the world are just temporary; there is coming a glorious reign of Jesus Christ and our great decision today is whose side do we want to be on.\r\n\r\nAre we going to be on the world\u2019s side that\u2019s losing and drowning, or are we on Christ\u2019s side, whose victory is inevitable. And as I mentioned before, you change your destiny simply by responding in faith to what Jesus has done. 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