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This page is designed for you to apply what you have learned from the Scriptures. Our goal is not just “to know” but to “act upon what we know.” (His Word, Our Walk!) We encourage you to discuss the following questions with family, friends and your LIFEgroup. Although you can review it on your own, it will be most useful to you when processed with others! God’s Perfect Plan | Dennis Miller, Pastor | November 29 & 30, 2014
1.What have been your basic thoughts and feelings towards the Christmas story?
2. What was new to you, or what surprised you in this study?
3. Why was it important that Jesus was born during the rule of the Roman empire?
TWO LESSONS THAT WE WILL LEARN IN THIS SERIES: 1. Scripture tells us very ___________ about the account of the ___________ of Jesus. But what we have is ___________, and needs to be understood by His followers. 2. When we look ___________ at the Christmas story, we realize that the Place, the Period, the People, the Prince, and the Purpose, all had to come together _____________ for everything to be accomplished as God had designed. CONSIDER THIS:
4. What is important about Nazareth?
1. The Christmas story may be one of the most-____________, and yet, worst-_____________ stories in all the world.
5. What did you learn about Bethlehem?
2. The traditional Christmas story is really found in only _______ _________ of the Bible — Luke 2. (Matthew mentions the birth in a few verses; Mark and John begin when Jesus was a man.)
6. What spiritual encouragement did you receive from the study of these four places, and how might it help you live or share your faith in this season?
3. The real Christmas story includes no ______, and no ______ _______ (Magi). Many Christians have ________________ the Matthew and Luke stories into _______ Christmas story. Matt. 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
— But many Christians around the world ______________ this, and celebrate the ______________ (Epiphany) of the Magi (wise men) on January 6th, ___________ days after Christmas.
1. THE ENTIRE ROMAN WORLD
3. NAZARETH
Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
Luke 2:23 And everyone went to his own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee . . .
The Roman empire was _____________. (The Sea)
Jesus’ parents lived in the small ___________ of Nazareth, which was in the ________ of the Galilee in northern Israel. This place had been ___________ in the Old Testament. Is. 9:1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan—
4. BETHLEHEM Luke 2:23 . . to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. . . . 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. . . . 15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
Bethlehem was _______________ in the Old Testament. Mic. 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.’”
The Roman empire could be ______________ with those who didn’t follow their direction, but also offered religious _____________ in most places. Dan. 7:7 “After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.
The Roman empire _____________ from 27 BC to 476 AD. 2. SYRIA Luke 2:2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
Israel had not been a ___________ since 586 BC, and the Roman empire called the entire area, at the eastern end of the Sea by the name, ___________. Matt. 4:24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demonpossessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
This area of land was basically __________ and _________, and of very little ___________ to the vast empire.
Bethlehem was the _________ of Ruth, Boaz, and later King David. All knew that the Messiah would be _______ here. Matt. 2:4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
The name, Bethlehem, is from TWO Hebrew words — Beit Lechem — the “_______ of Bread.” Jesus was the Bread of ________. Bethlehem is the ________ place that a Passover Lamb could be born to be acceptable as a _____________ in Jerusalem. SO, GOD’S PERFECT PLAN . . . . . . was to have His Son born in the _________ place possible to _________ Scriptures, and prove His ________ as Messiah.
This page is designed for you to apply what you have learned from the Scriptures. Our goal is not just “to know” but to “act upon what we know.” (His Word, Our Walk!) We encourage you to discuss the following questions with family, friends and your LIFEgroup. Although you can review it on your own, it will be most useful to you when processed with others! God’s Perfect Plan | Dennis Miller, Pastor | November 29 & 30, 2014
1.What have been your basic thoughts and feelings towards the Christmas story?
2. What was new to you, or what surprised you in this study?
3. Why was it important that Jesus was born during the rule of the Roman empire?
TWO LESSONS THAT WE WILL LEARN IN THIS SERIES: 1. Scripture tells us very ___________ about the account of the ___________ of Jesus. But what we have is ___________, and needs to be understood by His followers. 2. When we look ___________ at the Christmas story, we realize that the Place, the Period, the People, the Prince, and the Purpose, all had to come together _____________ for everything to be accomplished as God had designed. CONSIDER THIS:
4. What is important about Nazareth?
1. The Christmas story may be one of the most-____________, and yet, worst-_____________ stories in all the world.
5. What did you learn about Bethlehem?
2. The traditional Christmas story is really found in only _______ _________ of the Bible — Luke 2. (Matthew mentions the birth in a few verses; Mark and John begin when Jesus was a man.)
6. What spiritual encouragement did you receive from the study of these four places, and how might it help you live or share your faith in this season?
3. The real Christmas story includes no ______, and no ______ _______ (Magi). Many Christians have ________________ the Matthew and Luke stories into _______ Christmas story. Matt. 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
— But many Christians around the world ______________ this, and celebrate the ______________ (Epiphany) of the Magi (wise men) on January 6th, ___________ days after Christmas.
1. THE ENTIRE ROMAN WORLD
3. NAZARETH
Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
Luke 2:23 And everyone went to his own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee . . .
The Roman empire was _____________. (The Sea)
Jesus’ parents lived in the small ___________ of Nazareth, which was in the ________ of the Galilee in northern Israel. This place had been ___________ in the Old Testament. Is. 9:1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan—
4. BETHLEHEM Luke 2:23 . . to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. . . . 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. . . . 15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
Bethlehem was _______________ in the Old Testament. Mic. 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.’”
The Roman empire could be ______________ with those who didn’t follow their direction, but also offered religious _____________ in most places. Dan. 7:7 “After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.
The Roman empire _____________ from 27 BC to 476 AD. 2. SYRIA Luke 2:2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
Israel had not been a ___________ since 586 BC, and the Roman empire called the entire area, at the eastern end of the Sea by the name, ___________. Matt. 4:24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demonpossessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
This area of land was basically __________ and _________, and of very little ___________ to the vast empire.
Bethlehem was the _________ of Ruth, Boaz, and later King David. All knew that the Messiah would be _______ here. Matt. 2:4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
The name, Bethlehem, is from TWO Hebrew words — Beit Lechem — the “_______ of Bread.” Jesus was the Bread of ________. Bethlehem is the ________ place that a Passover Lamb could be born to be acceptable as a _____________ in Jerusalem. SO, GOD’S PERFECT PLAN . . . . . . was to have His Son born in the _________ place possible to _________ Scriptures, and prove His ________ as Messiah.
