New Testament

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            Last Sunday we began looking at three more verses in Romans 8 and only got through the first one.  This morning I want to look at the next two verses that we did not get to last week.  In these three verses Paul uses the picture of adoption to show our close and permanent relationship with God the Father as His beloved children.

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            We have journeyed through the first 13 verses of Romans 8 so far.  This morning we are going to begin to look at 3 more.  In the three verses that we will begin to look at this morning Paul will use the idea of adoption to explain to us our close and permanent relationship to God the Father as His well-loved sons.  As we move into this passage, I think that it would be good for us to understand the word adoption from the Roman perspective, because it is in this sense that Paul uses it.

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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.