The Christmas Story in the Four Gospels

—The Coming of Jesus, part 4

  • Andrew Fountain – Dec 18, 2022

 
 
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Week 1: Prophecies
and Preparations
for Jesus’s Coming

  1. Preparation of the World
  2. Prophecies from Genesis to Malachi
  3. Focus on Isaiah

Week 2: God Takes a Human Body

  1. The Messy Line of Jesus
  2. Historical setting of the world Jesus was born into
  3. The Reason why God took on a human body

Week 3: John’s teaching in 5 Steps

5. Now Jesus sends us!
4. So we need to depend totally on Jesus
3. Jesus totally depended on power “from above”
2. We must be born “from above”
1. Jesus came “from above”

Goal for today

To feel ourselves what they felt
when they heard the announcements about Jesus,
and to be challenged to respond in our hearts.

The Christmas Story in the Four Gospels

  1. Fitting together the story in the 4 Gospels
  2. A Closer look at Luke’s Account
  3. How it speaks to us right now

The Four Gospels

Matt Mark Luke John Event
✓   ✓ ✓ Intro
✓   ✓   Mary becomes pregnant
    ✓   John the Baptist’s birth
✓   ✓ ✓ Jesus born
    ✓   Shepherds
    ✓   Simeon & Anna at the temple
✓       Wise Men Visit
& Escape to Egypt
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ John baptizes Jesus

Timeline of the Gospels

The Christmas Story in the Four Gospels

  1. Fitting together the story in the 4 Gospels
  2. A Closer look at Luke’s Account
  3. How it speaks to us right now

Luke 1 & 2