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Jesus returns to His hometown preaching the good news of the kingdom. The people of Nazareth turn on Him and try to kill Him because of His message. Jesus shows them the things that are keeping them from trusting in Him as Messiah...they are the same things that keep people from believing today, and these obstacles also keep believers from growing in Christ.

Jesus enters into the greatest fight for us. Just as Adam and Israel entered the ring to fight against Satan's temptations and lost, Jesus enters on our behalf and is victorious. Jesus shows us how to fight by wielding God's Word, the Sword of the Spirit, but more importantly, Jesus fights for us, proving He is the perfect God-Man who is able to atone for our sin.

John the Baptist testifies to the truth about the Messiah - His infinite worth, His Effective ministry, and His identity as judge. God the Father and God the Holy Spirit also Testify to the Identity of the Son.

John the Baptist emerges from the wilderness as the last Old Testament type prophet. He preaches a message of repentance to Israel as he prepares their hearts for the coming of the Messiah. Repentance is just as necessary for salvation today as it was then. Repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin.

Luke presents both the humanity and the divinity of Jesus. The Hypostatic Union is the unity of both a complete human nature and a complete divine nature in the person of Jesus Christ. The Word became flesh to bring humanity into fellowship with the Triune God

Romans 7 shows us the believers struggle to keep the law of God. God's law is holy and perfect, the problem is it is weak through the flesh. The flesh cannot keep the law of God no matter how hard we try. But our standing before God is given through Christ alone and in that we are delivered from the condemnation of the law

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of a living God. The true God reigns over all and His presence is utterly terrifying throughout Scripture. Only the righteous can rejoice in His presence and only those in Jesus Christ are declared righteous.

The law, the Spirit, Simeon, and Anna testify to the reality of who Jesus is and what He came to do. He is Savior but He is also a divider of men

God announces the birth of the Savior to a group of shepherds. Here we see the depths of what God has done in salvation and the transformation salvation produces.

The story of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem shows us that God is Sovereignly in control of history but He often works in ways we don't expect. The King of kings is born in the most humble circumstances imaginable, yet God is working for our real problem...sin.