Luke 3:1-18 (NIV)
Read by: Jon Hietbrink
If you’ve been listening along with us this week, you may have noticed the theme of a messenger, preparing the way for the Day of the Lord. Both Malachi and Isaiah foretell it. Someone who would call for repentance, call the people to remember who God is; someone tasked with getting them ready to meet him—getting their lives to match up to what they profess to believe.
Luke begins this passage with details about the various rulers of the day, and we might be tempted to gloss over them. But they’re in there for a reason, because it is against a backdrop of kings, governors, and religious authorities that the long-awaited messenger appears in the flesh, calling for repentance, readying the people, and preparing them for another, greater king… preparing them for the King of kings.
Listen now to Luke 3:1-8.
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1. What did you hear in the passage? Was there a word or phrase that stood out to you?
2. John the Baptizer answers the people’s questions with some pretty practical responses. Be generous and fair. Have integrity, Act Justly. If John were standing with you, looking at your life, and you asked him what you should do, what do you think he might say?
3. Take some time today to sit with the words of this passage. If there is something specific God has spoken to you, take some time to process that alone or with a friend.
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