Good new for little people

Published: Fri, 12/18/20

 

Sessions Include:

Luke, Lesson #1
Coming Soon: John the Baptist
Luke 1.1 - 25

Luke, Lesson #2
Coming Soon: Jesus! 
Luke 1.26 - 45 

Luke, Lesson #3
The Birth of Jesus 
Luke 2.1 - 21

Luke, Lesson #4
Jesus Presented at the Temple
Luke 2.22 - 40 

Luke, Lesson #5
The Boy Jesus at the Temple
Luke 2.41 - 52 

Luke, Lesson #6
Prepare the Way!
Luke 3 

Luke, Lesson #7
Love Your Enemies
Luke 6.27 - 38 

Luke, Lesson #8
Rejected at Nazareth
Luke 4.14 - 30 

Luke, Lesson #9
Jesus Calls Disciples
Luke 5.1 – 11; 27 - 32 

Luke, Lesson #10
Jesus Forgives and Heals
Luke 5.17 - 26 

Luke, Lesson #11
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
Luke 6.1 - 11

Luke, Lesson #12
Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
Luke 7.36 - 50 

Luke, Lesson #13
Who Do You Say I Am
Luke 9.18 - 27

 

Have you ever thought what an amazing thing it is that God ordained beforehand that the Messiah be born in Bethlehem (as the prophecy in Micah 5 shows); and that he so ordained things that when the time came, the Messiah’s mother and legal father were living in Nazareth; and that in order to fulfill his word and bring two little people to Bethlehem that first Christmas, God put it in the heart of Caesar Augustus that all the Roman world should be enrolled each in his own town?

Have you ever felt, like me, little and insignificant in a world of seven billion people, where all the news is of big political and economic and social movements and of outstanding people with lots of power and prestige?

If you have, don’t let that make you disheartened or unhappy. For it is implicit in Scripture that all the mammoth political forces and all the giant industrial complexes, without their even knowing it, are being guided by God, not for their own sake but for the sake of God’s little people—the little Mary and the little Joseph who have to be got from Nazareth to Bethlehem. God wields an empire to bless his children.

Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity but our holiness that he seeks with all his heart. And to that end, he rules the whole world. As Proverbs 21:1 says, “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.”

He is a big God for little people, and we have great cause to rejoice that, unbeknownst to them, all the kings and presidents and premiers and chancellors of the world follow the sovereign decrees of our Father in heaven, that we, the children, might be conformed to the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.

John Piper, Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent 2013 (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2013).


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