← A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace
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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey everyone. Welcome back to Year in the Bible. I'm Alexa and I'm here with my co host, Beth.
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Hello friends. Today we are going to be looking at our annotations for this week's New Testament passage, which is Luke 3, verses 1 through 6 and verses 21 through 22. So Alexa, can you read these passages for us?
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Yes, absolutely. There's some interesting names in this passage, so just bear with me here. In the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of the region of Ituria and Trachonitis and Lysanias, Tetrarch of Abilene. During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, God's word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, a voice of one crying out in the wilderness, prepare the way for the Lord, make his path straight. Every valley will be filled, every mountain and hill will be made low. The crooked will become straight, the rough ways smoothed, and everyone will see the salvation of God. When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As he was praying, heaven opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, you are my beloved son. With you I am well pleased. So Beth, how did this annotation go for you today?
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Yeah, this was fun. It was nice to have the connections between passages so clearly laid out for us. We saw this last week as well, as it just goes to show how much of Isaiah speaks to the coming of Jesus. And so one thing that I initially struggled with on these annotations was identifying attributes of God. In the first section, we read verses one through six specifically. But after dwelling on it for a little bit, I realized that the whole section speaks primarily to God's. Sovereignty. God said that these things were going to happen back in Isaiah's day, and now they are happening in a real time, in a real place, like in real history. And so what he has said will happen, happen does surely come to pass. So I realized that it doesn't just show his sovereignty, but it also shows his faithfulness to fulfill his promises. So in other words, yeah, the, the attributes that I noticed here is that God has the power and authority to make and keep promises, and he also is faithful and kind enough to keep them in spite of the rebellion and unfaithfulness of his people.
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That's really helpful, Beth. I think at first glance we might not notice how God's sovereignty and faithfulness are present in that Isaiah passage. So just helping us see God's attributes in those verses. Okay, what about in Luke 3, 21, 22? What attributes of God do we see there?
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I think these verses are so cool because they show us an attribute of God that is really important, but not always so obvious as we're reading scripture. And that attribute is that God is triune. And so this is that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we call this the Trinity. And the baptism scene is in all four gospels. And it's one of the few places where we see all three of what theologians will call persons of the triune God present in one passage. And so the Son is being baptized, the Spirit descends on him, and then the Father speaks over him. And so I don't want to say too, too much about this until tomorrow, but this triune nature of God is actually very important for understanding how exactly Jesus fulfills the prophecy that we read in Isaiah yesterday.
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Okay, Beth, I. I didn't think about that at all. I think I zeroed in on what God says to Jesus in verse 22, but I just wasn't thinking at all about how the whole Trinity is present in those verses. So that's really fascinating to me. And thank you so much for pointing that out. And what you said just makes me excited to hear more about how God's triune nature helps us understand how Jesus fulfills the Isaiah prophecy. So we hope that you join us tomorrow as we connect Isaiah 41:5 and Luke 3:1 6 and verses 21 through 20 together and to Christ. Thank you for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode, and make sure you're following a Daily Grace podcast. And hedaily Grace Co on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye friends.
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