December 20, 2015: Surpassing Joy – Landon Lynch

A story about the birth of a divine king who would be a hero was nothing new. In fact, there were a lot of them. Which is precisely why Luke told the story the way he did – because he saw Jesus as a divine king who would be a hero. He would be one who would rescue and save the world. How else could you begin a story this big, this massive, without telling about the miraculous birth of Jesus? It is all here, in the infancy of Jesus, that we are set up for the rest of the story. He is the one who was to come.