Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey friends, welcome back to a year in the

Bible. My name is Beth and I am here with my co-host, Alexa. Hey, everyone, we are excited to

have made it to another day of Christ's connections. So today we'll be looking at our two

passages, Isaiah 41 through 5 and Luke 3, 1 through 6 and verses 21 through 22. And we're going to

talk about how they both connect to each other and to Christ.

So we obviously know that the passage from Luke fulfills the Isaiah 40 passage because it directly quotes it and tells us explicitly that it's being fulfilled.

But I do want to talk about how it is being fulfilled in two particular ways.

First through the message of John the Baptist and then also through the announcement that's made by God at Jesus' baptism. Yeah, I'm super excited about this, Beth. So

tell us first how Isaiah 40 is fulfilled through John the Baptist. So we learned from Luke 1 that John

is actually Jesus' cousin and that he was sent to fulfill this message by preparing the way for the Lord in the wilderness.

What is so cool about John's role is that he not only fulfills the message of Isaiah, he also functions like a new Isaiah.

And so John, as well, is a prophet who is in the wilderness, and he is proclaiming judgment.

He's calling people to repentance. He's saying that you are a sinner, but and he is proclaiming judgment. He's calling people to repentance.

He's saying that you are a sinner, but he's also proclaiming hope. He's saying be baptized,

come and be cleansed and be washed. And so through John's message, the people of Israel were shown

that the time of Isaiah's prophecy is actually here and that it's about to be fulfilled. There's a new

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