HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS

Matthew 1:18-25

Key Verse 21

“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

1. Read verses 18-20. How did Matthew tell us about what had happened to Mary? (18) How did Joseph respond and what does this show about him? (19) How did God help him? (20)

2. Read verse 21. What does this verse teach us about who Jesus is and God’s purpose in sending him? (21) What does this mean to his people, the people of the world, and to us?

3. Read verses 22-25. How did Jesus’s birth fulfill prophecy? (22, Isa 7:14; 9:6, 7) Describe what it means that Jesus is Immanuel - God with us? (23) What did Joseph do? (24-25)

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