1. The supernatural origin of Jesus the Christ (vv. 18-20).
2. What our Lord’s supernatural origin teaches us about His person (v. 20).
3. What our Lord’s name reveals about His Divine mission (v. 21).
1. The supernatural origin of Jesus the Christ (vv. 18-20).
2. What our Lord’s supernatural origin teaches us about His person (v. 20).
3. What our Lord’s name reveals about His Divine mission (v. 21).
We have a foretaste in this age of the joy that is yet to come.
1. The character of the Christian’s joy (vv. 6, 8).
2. The reason for the Christian’s joy (v. 6).
3. The strength of the Christian’s joy (vv. 6-8).
The focus of these verses is not primarily on the material universe but on it’s function in an ordered system
read Genesis 1:14-19
1. The meaning of God’s creation of the heavens and the earth (v. 1).
2. The unbounded chaos of earth’s original condition of being “without form and void” (v. 2).
3. Understand the Spirit of God as God’s creative power which brings order out of chaos (v. 2b).
1. The hope of eternal salvation is kept in heaven for us (v. 4).
2. We are guarded by God for our inheritance of eternal salvation (v. 5).
3. Consider the implications of our preservation in the faith (v. 5).
1. The gospel reveals that God the Father effectually called elect sinners to salvation by means of the grace of Christ (v. 6).
2. Turning away from the biblical gospel for a different one is a turning away from God the Father (v. 6).