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Leader Guide CSB, Unit 19, Session 2

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THE SAVIOR IS PRESENTED

SESSION OUTLINE

1. The Messiah will fulfill the law entirely (Luke 2:21-24).
2. The Messiah will bring salvation globally (Luke 2:27-32).
3. The Messiah will obey the Father completely (Luke 2:41-50).

Background Passage:

Luke 2

WHAT WILL MY GROUP LEARN?

Even from childhood, Jesus fulfilled all of the law,
showing that He is the Messiah,
the righteous One who came to bring salvation to the world.

HOW WILL MY GROUP SEE CHRIST?

Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.

His life of perfect obedience
and sinlessness pleased the Father
and proved that He is the worthy sacrifice for sin.

All who trust in Jesus receive life and forgiveness
through His death and resurrection
and are credited with His perfect righteousness.

HOW SHOULD MY GROUP RESPOND?

Because we have been credited with Christ’s righteousness,
we live knowing that we are fully accepted by God
while also seeking to obey God in all areas
out of gratitude and love for Him.

GROUP TIME

INTRODUCTION

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Setting:

The Gospel writers spent almost no time covering
the details of Jesus’s life following His birth

Mark started his Gospel with Jesus’s ministry

In Luke’s Gospel, however, we are given one of the few glimpses into Jesus’s early years
to reveal His perfect character.

Discuss:

• Why do you think the authors of the Gospels spent such little time describing Jesus’s early years?
• (these years were time in preparation;
• the focus of Jesus’s work centered on His death and resurrection;
• Jesus spent time growing and developing like a regular man,
  proving His humanity;
• few knew of His divinity and purpose in His early years so few took note)

Transition:

Sometimes we feel hidden from God,

The life and ministry of Jesus reveals that God was at work
even in His so-called hidden years
to prepare Jesus for the work He would subsequently fulfill.

And even during these developmental years,
He was growing, maturing, and fulfilling the perfect law of God as a sinless man.

Optional Question:

• What might it have been like to raise Jesus as His parents?
• (awkward to assert a parent’s authority;
• difficult knowing He was the Messiah and yet He was growing and changing like a normal man;
• uncertain because you had these great promises from the angel about who this Child would be,
  yet in many ways, Jesus would have seemed normal)