Luke: The Gospel of Amazement

Main Idea: Jesus’ lowly birth show us that God’s kingdom will come in ways that surprise and subvert our expectations about what true greatness and power look like. It would do us good to remind ourselves of the humility of Jesus. Christmas was only 6 months ago, but in 2020 it feels like an eternity ago. Today is Christmas in July and we’ll look at the Christmas passage in Luke. Jesus became poor so that his people might become spiritually rich through his poverty and suffering. Before his incarnation, the Son of God was rich beyond anything we could imagine. For our sake he stooped to be born not merely as a human, but as a powerless infant in a barn outside an inn in an insignificant town. Jesus became low in order that we might inherit a great spiritual treasure. True greatness is not always visible greatness. This morning we will look at the first 21 verses of chapter 2 and it is broken up in 3 different scenes as Luke walks through the Amazing Birth. The first is the Birth verses 1-7; the second is the Announcement verses 8-14 and last is the Visit with verses 15-21.