New Testament

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            Last Sunday we began to look at a passage in Luke 2 that I only got partially through and I promised that I would finish it up this morning.  We began looking at an often-overlooked portion of the Christmas record, the circumcision and presentation of Jesus.  Within this passage we have three human witness to confirm the truth of who Jesus is, that He is the promised Messiah, that He is the Savior, that He is the Son of God, that He is Immanuel, God with us.

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            Luke the writer of this Gospel writes for us the parallel events of a couple in the Judean hill country and of Mary from the town of Nazareth, though they are parallel they are also intertwined.  Luke begins with the birth announcement of John, then he writes of the birth announcement of Jesus, then he goes back to Zacharias and Elizabeth and writes about the birth of John and then after writing about the birth of John he writes about the birth of Jesus.  Two parallel paths one about the forerunner of the Messiah and one about the Messiah.

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THE CHRISTIAN’S FREEDOM – PART 1

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            We began looking at the second section of Romans 7 last week and I am going to try to finish it up today.  In this section of Scripture Paul describes the spiritually mature believer’s conflict with sin.  A conflict that begins the moment we trust Christ, but we are more acutely aware of it as we grow in Christ.

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            As long as the church has had the book of Romans there has been a controversy over the verses that we are going to look at this morning.  The controversy is whether the subject of this part of Scripture is an unbeliever or a believer and whether Paul is speaking about himself or if he is just using the first person figuratively to make his discourse more personal.