If Jesus is both fully God and fully man, every person must recognize His claims and respond accordingly. You must repent of your sins and confess Him as your Lord—and if you do, He will save you from the penalty of sin and transfer you into His Kingdom.

From Luke 2, Pastor Tom considers how Jesus Christ is the only one who can rescue or save you from your sins. The fact is, You can't rescue yourself—no one can. And whatever circumstances you find yourself in, in the end, you are not capable of being a savior. God alone is the only Savior.

In Luke 2, several remarkable details are recorded about the divine birth announcement of God's Son, Jesus Christ. But along with the extraordinarily profound birth announcement was a very unlikely audience. But why are they an important part of the story?

At first glance, Jesus' royal birth seems unremarkable, in that he lay in a stone feed trough inside a cave, there in the small town Bethlehem. But as we’ll discover, God used these humble circumstances to fulfill Old Testament prophecies, and to teach His people several great spiritual lessons.

Luke chapter 2 powerfully demonstrates that Jesus Christ is qualified to be the Messiah—one of the pieces of evidence that proves this reality is that Christ was born from the right line into the right family.

According to Luke chapter 2, not only is Jesus Christ fully God, but He is also fully man. Theologians call this reality the hypostatic union, that Jesus Christ is one person with two natures: He is truly God, and truly man. And the Bible gives two responses to that amazing truth: You must accept His claims and repent of your sins and entrust your faith in Him for salvation, or you can reject His words and spend eternity apart from Him.

Luke describes Jesus as the Son of Man who came into this world to seek and save those who are lost. In the series, we see the beginning of that journey with the miraculous conception and birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Like the apostle John, do you genuinely love God and God’s people? Tom Pennington calls every believer to examine their heart, to test themselves, in order to confirm whether one is truly in the faith.

First John is intended to help true believers gain personal assurance of their salvation. So, John provides his readers with several tests to help determine their spiritual condition. In the verses we are studying together in this series, John focuses on the test of loving God and loving His people. Pastor Tom highlights the Holy Spirit’s role as it relates to God’s love for us.

We’ve been studying together in this series that true Christians are marked in one way by a deep and abiding love for God and His people. Pastor Tom has helped us understand this key reality by walking us through 1 John 4:7–21. Tom compels believers to take seriously the sanctification process—that we, as Christians, must mortify our sin and obey God’s Word.