Fightin Words: Spiritual exercise for rank & file believers
Fightin Words: Spiritual exercise for rank & file believers
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😇 Advent 4
21 minutes Posted Dec 21, 2025 at 9:35 pm.
-7, 17-19; ⁠✉️Romans 1⁠:1-7; ⁠😇Matthew 1⁠:18-25.
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⁠📜Isaiah 7⁠:10-16; ⁠🎶Psalm
A distinctive six-part Hebraic formula—"You shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name X"—appears only twice in Scripture when spoken by a divine messenger: to Hagar about Ishmael and to Mary about Jesus. This pattern reveals how Matthew and Luke connect Jesus not just to Isaiah's prophecy but to the very first child born according to God's promise.
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