This sermon is about God’s sovereign faithfulness in a broken world. Matthew 2 shows us that the birth of Jesus does not usher in immediate peace, but resistance, violence, and grief. Earthly power reacts in fear, innocent people suffer, and evil feels overwhelming. Yet through every moment—flight, loss, exile, and obscurity—God is actively preserving His promise. Jesus retraces Israel’s story, survives human opposition, and grows up not in honor but in Nazareth, a place of scorn, fulfilling the promise that salvation would come through humility and rejection.

The message confronts the false belief that following Jesus removes pain. Instead, it proclaims the deeper hope of the Gospel: pain does not mean God is absent, and evil does not have the final word. Herod dies. God’s promise endures. Jesus lives. And God remains present, faithful, and sovereign—even when life does not make sense.