We Glory in God’s Invincible Grace 1. Grace which Conquers Death 2. Grace which Overcomes fear (Matthew 2:13-23)
Pastor Keith Petersen, December 28, 2025Part of the Christmas series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Christmas 1 - 12/28/25) (Slaughter of the Innocents)
Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23
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."
19)After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
20)and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead."
21)So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
22) But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in
place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of
Galilee,
23) and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He
will be called a Nazarene."
Matthew 2:13-23
(KJV)