The Gift - Part 2
Dec 8, 2024 • Pastor Mike Calo
Today, we're gonna talk about the gift of MYRRH
which many people probably don't know anything about.
Myrrh is a valuable gum-like substance
that's actually talked about 17 different times in the Bible.
Occasionally, myrrh would have been used as an antiseptic.
For example, if you know the story on Jesus on the cross,
they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh to dull the pain
but Jesus rejected that because he wanted to bear
the full force and weight of our sins.
More commonly though, myrrh was known as
an ingredient used to embalm the dead.
In other words, myrrh would have been used
to help prepare Jesus’ body for burial,
so myrrh, represents Jesus as the suffering servant
or the Lamb of God who was born to die
for the forgiveness of our sins.