
The arrival of God’s Promised King
Today we transition from the Old Testament behind to start on the New. In this we look to Jeremiah chapter 31 where God promised to establish a new testament, or a new covenant, with humanity. We then look at how this new covenant will be established by God’s King, the Messiah, who will somehow be a descendant of King David AND God Himself. We then turn to the start of Luke’s Gospel to see these promises beginning to be fulfilled through a baby whose name means, “God is Salvation’.