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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

The message today is titled Jesus is King. Can you say that with me? Jesus is King.

This is a whole point of the gospel of Matthew. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all had different reasons for writing their account of Jesus.

If you've ever wondered, why didn't we just get an account of the life and the teachings and the work and the death and the resurrection of Jesus?

Why do we have to have Matthew's version and Mark's version and Luke? Well, each one of these authors is writing with a different lens.

Matthew is writing with the lens to the Jewish people to help them see that Jesus is in fact King.

That's the message today. Jesus is King.

At the end of this message today, I'm hoping that each one of us would be closer to the place or at the place in our lives where we would say,

you're my King. You not only are King, but you're my King. And so I trade in today my kingdom for your kingdom.

I relinquish any idea that I'm running my show fully to the idea that I want you to be running my show.

I don't want you just to be born a King. I want you to be my King. That's why I've loved this tagline in this collection of talks.

When Wonder erupts in worship and all through the Christmas story, whether it's Mary having the angel appear and she stored up all these things and wondered and pondered and then it all erupted in her song of worship to God,

when Wonder erupts in worship. And I'm just praying today again that the result of the teaching of Jesus and the revelation of Jesus would result in more worship in our hearts and in our house today.

Because we want to be a house of worship. We want to be a place where you walk through the door. You're like, man, there is an atmosphere of worship in this place.

And you may be, thank you so much. I got one person with me and that's really all I need. It's really all an preacher needs. It's just somebody.

So thank you. Thank you for being a somebody and not a nobody. Thank you so much for being a somebody and not everybody. Praise God.

So the text today is Matthew, chapter two, and we're going to see Wonder all through it.

So beginning in verse one, it says, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, magi, or your translation might say wise men from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, where is the one who has been born?

Here's our word, king of the Jews. We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.

We saw this thing. We didn't know exactly what it was. It was unlike anything we'd ever seen before. We followed it to hear having heard that there's a king and we've come to worship the king.

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