"The Good News is about God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord," Romans 1:3.
It's weird, but consider: Who can name any one of their many ancestors living a thousand years ago? Well, even a millennium before Jesus was born, God gave prophets his promises of good news to come. They wrote down these promises in the sacred writings (the Bible). In that good news, God promised that a descendant of King David would be his own son. That sacred record lists the descendants' line to Jesus. The good news heralded God's grace to produce in humans faithful obedience to God in Jesus Christ. But how to know he's his son? Accordingly, the Holy Spirit declared it. When? when Jesus rose powerfully alive from the place where dead people rot. Life! Sky kingdom.
We wander with a brother or sister today and wonder at God's amazing purpose in the gospel. And, together, we give awed thanksgiving for that child recipient, on our behalf, of God's great promises.
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