Please be in prayer for our worship service Sunday as we consider the glorious truth of Jesus, the Son of God, who descends to us "for us and our salvation."
In this section Luke is reaffirming the description of Jesus given in 1:31-35; 2:11. To Mary, Gabriel said 1:32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the LORD God will give to him the throne of his father David. 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end. 34 and Mary said to the angel, “How will be this be, since I am a virgin?” 35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Later in Luke's narrative, the angel appeared to the shepherds in the field: 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
For the rest of the Gospel of Luke, Dr. Luke will take great pains to demonstrate that Christ our Lord will save a people via substitution.
In our passage for Sunday, Luke shows this in 2 ways: 1st, by Jesus' baptism where he comes in solidarity with sinners (3:21-22); 2nd, by Jesus' genealogy where he is traced back to Adam, "the Son of God" (3:23-38).
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