1. The Baby “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” John:1-4 A. John’s focus is on the spiritual rather than the historical. “In the beginning,” transports us back to Genesis. God’s redemptive plan began before the manger. B. Jesus’ life did not begin in obscurity in Bethlehem but had always been in glory as God. C. The Word became flesh – the incarnation is the condescension of Jesus in cooperation of the Father and the Holy Spirit. D. Philippians 2 describes God becoming flesh. “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing.”
2. The Boy “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Luke 2:52 A. Jesus returned from Egypt to Nazareth. Matthew 2:13-15 “And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” B. Jesus was raised by godly parents as seen in Luke 2:22 and 39. C. He wasn't born “already full of wisdom.” He was “becoming full of wisdom”. D. Jesus continued to live in obedience with his parents. Luke 2:51
3. The Savior “...the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 4:2-4 A. Jesus was fully man, sinless man, man as God had intended man to be. He was fully man but also fully God. B. Jesus’ resurrection gives the most conclusive and irrefutable evidence of Jesus’ divine Son-ship. The resurrection was a demonstration of His ability to conquer death, a power belonging only to God Himself. “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection...” Philippians 3:10
