Sermon
An Unlikely Messiah
Mercy Hill Church - Cincinnati
Speaker: Ernie Bonnoitt
December 26, 2021 · 23 min
Summary
Through the Christmas accounts in Luke and Matthew, Jesus welcomes the marginalized and foreign—shepherds and wise men—demonstrating that God invites the unlikely into his kingdom and that Jesus reigns as King over all nations, calling believers to worship and submit their entire lives to his lordship.
Highlights
God has come for the most unlikely people—those shepherds would never have seen themselves worthy to be in a moment like this, which is why they go singing and glorifying God when they leave.
Jesus is not just the Savior of the world, he's the king of the world—and more personally, he's the king of your life.
Right at the beginning of Jesus's story, he wants to make crystal clear that the unlikely, the far-off, those who are distant from religious and cultural life, are welcomed in.