SEEKING TO SAVE THE LOST A STUDY THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

CONFIRMING THE CHRIST PART 12 - LUKE 2:21-40

Outline Compliance with the Code Confirmation of the Identity of Jesus Confirmation of the Purpose of Jesus Continual Communication ABOUT Jesus Continued Growth of Jesus

Big Idea God miraculously and repeatedly confirmed the identity of His Son so as to leave no doubt about who He is or why He came.

Compliance with the Code

Genesis 17:12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations,

Genesis 17:14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

‘…for He will save is people from their sins.’ Matthew 1:21 ‘…for He will save is people from their sins.’

Leviticus 12:2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.

Leviticus 12:3-4 And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.

Leviticus 12:6-7 “And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, 7 and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.

Leviticus 12:8 And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”

Exodus 13:1-2 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

…Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. Exodus 13:13 …Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

Confirmation of the Identity of Jesus

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Isaiah 25:9 “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

John 14:6 …I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Revelation 7:9-10 …from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

Confirmation of the Purpose of Jesus

Isaiah 8:14-15 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

2 Corinthians 2:16 …to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life.

Romans 2:6-8 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Continual Communication ABOUT Jesus

Continued Growth of Jesus