Silent Night

Luke 1:68-69

Luke 1:68–69 ESV

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

The birth of the Lord brings about the unfolding of God’s redemptive story. In verses 68 and 69 we see that the passage is speaking of absolutes at the prophecy of his birth. That the promised redeemer even as an infant is truly the God that has come to sound the horn of salvation. This redeemer is solidifying the promise made to Israel and the line of David. In the hymn Silent Night the third stanza has the phrase, “with the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord at thy birth, Jesus Lord at thy birth.”

Luke 1:70–72 ESV

as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

Galatians 4:1–5 ESV

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

John 1:7–12 ESV

He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,