Verse of the day: When King Herod heard this, he was alarmed, and with him all Jerusalem (Matthew 2. 3).
Jesus is a nuisance to people who do not want to worship Him, and he opposes those who worship Him. It is probably not an important aspect of Matthew’s mind, but it is inevitable as the story progresses.
In this story, there are two types of people who do not want to worship Jesus, the Messiah.
The first type is people who simply do nothing for Jesus; it’s insignificant in their lives. This group is represented by the chief priests and scribes. Verse 4: “Invoking all the high priests and scribes of the people, [Herod] asked them where Christ should be born. “Well, they told Herod, and that’s it: they went back to their activities as usual. The silence and inactivity of the leaders is overwhelming given the magnitude of what was happening.
And notice that in verse 3 it says, “When King Herod heard this, he was alarmed, and with him all Jerusalem. In other words, there was a rumor circulating that someone thought the Messiah had been born. Is the apathy of the chief priests astonishing?” Why don’t you go with magicians?They’re not interested. They don’t want to worship the true God. “
The second type of people who don’t want to worship Jesus is the guy who’s deeply threatened by him. This is Herod in this story. He’s really scared, so much so that he plots and lies and then commits mass murders just to get rid of Jesus.
So today, these two types of opposition will come against Christ and his worshippers: indifference and hostility. Are you in one of those groups?
May this Christmas be the time when you reconsider the Messiah and examine what it is like to worship him.
Original: December 9th? Two types of opposition to Jesus. © 2017 Faithful Ministérium. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br. Translation: Camila Rebeca Almeida. Ritica: Vinicius Musselman. Narration: Elalio Garofalo Neto.
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