May 13, Reading 3 – Luke 1:1-25

Reading

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SAA Notes

Luke is a Greek medical doctor. Their training was as rigorous as for the modern doctor. Luke never saw Jesus. You and I can get as close as Luke got to Jesus – through the eyes of the eyewitnesses such as Mary. What verse speaks particularly to you?

SJA Notes

* God Above, please teach us today from Your word.

“And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

Here Luke draws the connection between John the Baptist, the promised baby in today’s passage, and the Old Testament prophet Elijah.

Specifically Luke is drawing from Malachi chapter 4, where God says,

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, …”

What was John’s message?

Repent and believe.

This is the message preached by all the prophets, it is the message Jesus Himself brought.

In Mark chapter 1 we read from Jesus,

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Is this true for us today?

Repent and believe – Let us do so!

* Lord God,

Please mold us each day, make us more and more like Jesus – Our Good Shepherd.

Please help us to reflect Your light to those around us, please turn their hearts – That they might repent and believe, brought into the fold alongside us.

Amen.

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