The Beloved Son: �Trusting the One Who�Stands for Us
Luke 3:1-4:13
In a status-driven, performance-focused world, God calls us to stop trusting what we bring and to trust the Son He has given.
1. Unfaithful Sons
…a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 3.3b
…you brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Luke 3.7b
Our standing before God is not secured by credentials.�It is secured by repentance.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Ezekiel 36.26-27
2. The Beloved Son
You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.
Luke 3.22b
Son of God
Jesus comes as our �new representative.
3. The Obedient Son
He doesn‘t merely model obedience for us.�He accomplishes it for us.
In a world driven by status and performance, our identity before God is not built on what we achieve, but on Christ Himself.
Our desire for control isn’t neutral.