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Sermon Title: The “untold” Christmas story
Scripture: Matthew 2:13-18 (NIV)

Job 1:1-22
Satan makes 2 accusations:
1) Job’s obedience is paid off
2) God is a crooked politician

Job’s response to tragedy is worship. That is absolutely amazing. But what if it’s actually not right? What if it’s actually wrong? What if that line is actually bad theology

Additional Notes:

Matthew 2:1-2; 13-18 (NIV)
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.   

13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” 14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” 16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.