The wonderful account of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is presented here. How wonderful to learn from God’s Word that the eternal Son of God was born a baby into the world that He had created. In this Gospel, the Lord Jesus comes to His people (the nation of Israel) as their Messiah. He was to be received by them as their King and to be honored and obeyed.
Sad to say, the Lord Jesus was rejected by His own nation. They did not receive their King when He was born. In this Gospel we only hear of “wise men” (who were not of the nation of Israel) who came seeking to worship the King born in Bethlehem. The religious leaders in Jerusalem, who were responsible to receive the Lord Jesus as their King, were troubled when they heard He had been born! Herod, the wicked Roman ruler over Israel, not only was troubled but sought to kill the Lord Jesus by destroying all the little boys in Bethlehem. But God had warned Joseph in a dream to flee away before this awful event took place.
Later, after the wicked Herod was dead, Joseph and Mary came back with the Lord Jesus and lived in a little village in Galilee called Nazareth.
Now we will rest in our journey while you find the following verses:
1. The shepherds were directed to look for a ____________ lying in a manger, who was to be the King of Israel. Luke 2:___
And
2. One of the names of the Lord Jesus that the world will see someday is ____________ of kings and Lord of lords. Revelation 19:___
And
3. Those who gave up the knowledge of God, professing themselves to be ____________ , were really fools before God. Romans 1:___
Professing
4. The Lord Jesus said that He would leave peace with believers when He went back to heaven. For this reason He told us not to be ____________ .
John 14:___
Peace
5. The Lord Jesus died on the cross because all of mankind is ____________ (no spiritual life) before God. 2 Corinthians 5:___
For