Standing by His Word (Luke)

Standing by His Word

God Fulfills His Promises (A Study of Luke)

When someone makes a promise, you expect that person to keep their word. It is a verbal commitment to perform a future action. How do you feel when a person breaks a promise? Conversely, how do you feel when someone does what they say they will do? With our always faithful God, we never have to worry about Him breaking a promise. He will always stand by His Word. In this study of Luke we will discover how God kept His promises that He made centuries earlier. Primarily we will see how Jesus was the fulfillment of Old Testament promises and how He kept His word to His disciples. In Standing by His Word: God Fulfills His Promises, you will study the ways unexpectant recipients, long sufferers, skeptics, and close friends all responded to these promises and their fulfillment.

In the book of Malachi God promised He would send a prophet like Elijah who would come to proclaim the day of the Lord which was kept through John the Baptist. Isaiah the prophet told of a Messiah who could come as the Suffering Servant to announce the Good News of the arrival of God’s Kingdom and the Day of the Lord. Luke tells how Jesus was born God in the flesh and placed in the manger. Jesus taught and foretold many things to the disciples. Two of the most important were that He would suffer, die, and rise from the dead, but secondly, He would go to the Father but one day return to Earth for His followers.

Waiting is not always easy, especially for a promise to be fulfilled that does not have a deadline. Some wait several years to get married or have children. Families may save many years or even wait until retirement to take that dream vacation that they have promised one another. A child waits eagerly for Christmas in hopes of receiving that one anticipated toy.

The Jews as a people had suffered 400 years of slavery in Egypt, had seen the Northern Kingdom of Israel destroyed, endured 70 years of exile in Babylon, and now were suffering under an oppressive Roman occupation. God in His silence had not spoken to them in hundreds of years. They wondered if God would ever keep His promise and send His Savior to them. In Standing by His Word: God Fulfills His Promises you will see through this study of Luke that many were not ready to receive the promise, some were ready but needed to be convinced, and responded immediately to Jesus.  How will you respond to this kept promise?

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