Introduction

Of all the Gospel writers, Luke "relates various things more fully."  We can thank God that with Matthew and Mark's accounts, together they "form a harmony" so what is lacking in one is made up in the others.

Luke 1:1-38

v1-4: If we have been well instructed in the things of God, we are to seek to make sure "we know the certainty of those things, that we know not only what we believe but also why we believe it, so that we may be able to give a reason of the hope that is in us."

v5-25: Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous in God's sight and living without blame.  This was seen in the direction of their lives. "They showed it not by their talk but by their life, by the way in which they walked and the principles by which they were guided... though not sinless, they were blameless; nobody could accuse them of any open, scandalous sin." They are examples to us of what godly life that is in a manner worthy of Christ is like.

v26-38: "All those births of children in the Old Testament to women who had long been barren, which was beyond nature, were intended to prepare the world to believe in a virgin's bearing a son, which was against nature."  Christ's mother needed to be a virgin, so though sharing in human nature, He would not share in the corruption and defilement of human nature.