HEARD
What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished.
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lor God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, his kingdom will never end.
He is never to take wine or other fermented rdrink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth. Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God. And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous-m to make ready a people for the Lord.
May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit
It is these very things which have now already been made known plainly to you by those who preached the Best News Ever (the Gospel) to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Into these things the angels long to look!
He was speaking here of the Spirit, Whom those who believed in Him were afterward to receive. For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, Whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
The same message which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee
God’s action in Christ Jesus is to reconcile all things to Him, in Him and by Him.
We see His action in Christ Jesus crucified and risen to reconcile and unite us with Him.