King Herod

Pastor preached today from Matthew about King Herod and the Magi.  It said that mid week the Holy Spirit led him in a different direction for his Christmas sermon.  With the deaths of the children and teachers in Connecticut he said he realized that even in the midst of Christ birth, the same thing was happening then.  King Herod sent out his soldiers to go into homes and for no reason other than Kind Herod was scared, they killed little boys under the age of two.  He said that parents did not know what was happening, soldiers knocking on doors, walking in and murdering their helpless little boys. Satan is a murderer, was from the beginning and still is today, his hand was in the evil a few weeks ago just as it was in Bethlehem many many years ago.  Evil cannot be explained away, evil exist no matter what we try to get rid of, violent movies, guns. and violent music.  We can take responsibility for what we watch and listen too, but in the end it all boils down to a spiritual issue.  Realizing that without Christ as our savior and the Holy Spirit leading us in our daily lives evil will always exist,  Until that day with Christ returns, not as a baby in a manager but as a powerful king.