After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when

it rose when ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down

and worshiped him.

Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and

murder.

Welcome everybody to all of our life churches and our network churches, our family, all

over the world at church online.

We're in part two of a four-part message series called Come to Worship.

That's week if you are with us, we talked about lifting up holy hands to God.

Next week we're actually going to talk about pouring out our hearts, and then on Christmas

Eve we're going to learn about bowing our knees or kneeling before God.

Today I want to talk to you about something that is a very powerful way to worship God,

and that is bringing our gifts before God is an act of worship.

In fact, we're going to start in Matthew 2 and read several verses there and then look

at other portions of scripture today as well.

Our title for the series comes from Matthew 2, and here's what verse 1 and 2 says,

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi, or this

means wise men, they came from the east to Jerusalem, and they asked, where is the one

who has been born King of the Jews?

Where is the one we've been anticipating for all these years?

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