Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sunday School Lesson The Promised Messiah by David McGee Page

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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.

Isaiah 7:1-14
1) It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2) It was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
3) Then said Yahweh to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller‘s field;
4) and say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; don‘t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5) Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you, saying,
6) Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;
7) thus says the Lord Yahweh, It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.
8) For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people:
9) and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah‘s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.
10) Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11) Ask you a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12) But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.
13) He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that you will weary my God also?
14) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.


Isaiah 9:1-7
1) But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
2) The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
3) You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4) For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
5) For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
6) For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7) Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.


Isaiah 40:1-5
1) Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.
2) Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh‘s hand double for all her sins.
3) The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.
4) Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
5) and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.


Matthew 1:18-25
18) Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; because when his mother, Mary, had been engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
19) Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
20) But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, you son of David, don‘t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
21) She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name JESUS, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
22) Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
23) "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
24) Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
25) and didn‘t know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him JESUS.


Luke 3:1-20
1) Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
2) in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
3) He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance to remission of sins.
4) As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
5) Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, And the rough ways smooth.
6) All flesh will see God‘s salvation.‘"
7) He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8) Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don‘t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;‘ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
9) Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn‘t bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."
10) The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
11) He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
12) Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
13) He said to them, "Extort no more than that which is appointed you."
14) Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
15) As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
16) John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
17) whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
18) Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
19) but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother‘s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
20) added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

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