Recognizing the Work of God (Matthew 2:19-23)

Our sermon series this Advent has been called, "God at Work."

Throughout this month, we've looked at how God brought together personal choices, a miraculous conception, political forces, and even astronomical phenomena to carrying out His purposes.

With Christmas, it's easy to be confident that this was God's doing. But today when something happens, how do you know it's God at work? Aren't there a lot of times that people claim something is the work of God, but it's really just personal charisma, social forces, or (in darker situations) people using religious language to manipulate others?

This week at Grace, we'll be finishing our advent series in Matthew 2:19-23. In this little passage we see three distinctions that help Joseph (and us today) rightly make distinctions around the work of God.


Look forward to seeing you Sunday at Grace!

In Christ,
Pastor Bob

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But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead.” And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.

-Matthew 2:19-23