Matthew 1:18-25 Jesus the foster child

Matthew 1:18-25 Jesus the foster child

Home is important to most people. It is a safe place to rest from guard up life we live in the world. I watched the news about Aleppo and the places where all the buildings have been reduced to rubble. For those people there is hardly a shelter let alone a home. Even in the United States there are places where people do not feel safe in their own house. At any time a bullet from a drive by may fly through there walls or windows. But for Jesus there is no home

1.       Jesus the foster child

a.       Jesus does not belong to our world

b.       Born homeless

c.       Matthew 8:19-22 nowhere to lay his head

d.       John 18:33-37 My kingdom is not of this world

e.       To speak His name is almost illegal

f.        Jesus’ homeless shelter birthplace is made unwelcome

2.       Those who would follow Him

a.       Matthew 8:19-22 let the dead bury their own, no place to lay their head

b.       John 15:18&19

c.       John 17:14-18

d.       Matthew 10:37-39

e.       Philippians 3:17-20

f.        Those who would follow Jesus feel a strange discomfort

3.       Jesus brings a new home to us

a.       A new home

b.       A new life

c.       Peace and healing the world cannot understand

When you feel like you’re from another planet, when you feel uncomfortable with this world, rejoice for that is how it should be. For those who would follow Jesus will never really be at home here on earth just as Jesus is never really home here on earth. In a way we are living in a foster home. One day soon we will live in our real home.