Year 2

God fulfills His promise as Jesus is born in Bethlehem.

The story of Ruth is the account of a woman of great faith. Her faith is like the faith of Abraham and Rebekah. They both left their land and their family in order to receive instead the covenant of Yahweh. So also by faith Ruth leaves family and home and follows Naomi for the sake

God uses everything even Samson’s sin for the good of God’s people. Samson reminds us of Christ in that he dies to deliver his people.

Samson is sent to save God’s people, yet Samson has no wish to accomplish what God wants. God’s will is done anyway.

By the strength of the Lord my enemies are cut down before me. Victory belongs to the Lord and not to me. When we relay on our own strength we lose. When we trust in the Lord he gives us the victory through Jesus Christ. Jesus says, “I am the light of the world. Whoever

God knows how to save the repentant and bring judgement on the impenitent. We should take the lesson of Jericho to heart and put our trust in God. We out to trust in him and not rely on anything of this earth to keep us safe. We are children of the heavenly Father.

Man chooses not to trust God word and falls into sin. God bears the consequences of man’s sin and promises to save us.

In Christ, God feeds us with the manna of His Word and the water of His forgiveness, satisfying our eternal hunger and quenching our spiritual thirst.

The Law kills, but the Gospel revives. “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). Law/Gospel The Ten Commandments define God’s Law. Jesus, through His incarnation and by His suffering and death for my sins, defines God’s love and mercy toward me.