“Kings Who Know to Seek and Serve”
Sermon given by Pastor Robb on Christmas Eve, 2025.
Continues the Advent sermon series.
Covers the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke, especially Luke 2:1-20 and Matthew 2.
There is a slightly between the lines, but incredibly vital and compelling thread of comparison that weaves through the birth narratives of Jesus. We can see very different values of power and glory and authority in the contrasts like Joseph of the house and line of David and Caesar Augustus… and the Magi and King Herod. They help emphasize the difference between the humility, grace, love and lifting up in the salvation that God offers, and the oppression, advantage, exploitation and dehumanization of earthly rulers that claim to be best. And so we must also wrestle with the comparison of who we sometimes desire Jesus to be - in the image of such earthly rulers - and who Jesus actually came to be - which will transform our expectations, our values, our lives and all creation.
