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24~/12~/07 23:30
Luke 1:67-79 and Acts 13:16-26
God has a plan of Salvation – what is it?
– Is it for?
Does it bring?
Introduction (setting the scene)
* Who was Zechariah?
* He was old! (vs 18)
* Wife was Elizabeth who was to have a child in her old age (vs 36).
Miraculous concetion.
* He was a priest
* Struck dumb during a period of service
* Named his son John - unusual
* Father of John the Baptist
* Song of prophecy over John, but pointing to Jesus
* Strange that a father seeing his son for the first time would sing the praises of another – But God had a plan of salvation for the world - just goes to show the impact of his vision etc…
* John in a preliminary & Jesus in an ultimate way will be instruments of the end-time outpouring of the tender mercies of God
* Cannot fully understand C’mas if we separate it from Easter.
Jesus was born to die = salvation
Salvation – What is it?
* Birth of Jesus shows us once for all that God is not above us,m or against us, but rather among us.
God with us, ‘emannuel’.
* Therefore the birth of Jesus is the most extraordinary and important event in history.
* Salvation is not from political~/military power, but from spiritual powers.
* True enemies are spiritual foes.
* There cannot be a right relationship between man and God until there has been a repentance of sin.
* If we are concerned with the vital matter of salvation, then there is no evading what seems to bd the exotic items – angels, predictions ~/ prophecies and miracles – all are an integral part of the gospel
* Why?
Because it concerns a supernatural breakthrough into our world.
* God has visited his people in the conception of Jesus & John’s birth and will have God visiting people in the birth of jesus.
* An arrival and a hope to come.
* Lk 1:68b – 69a.
‘has come’, ‘has redeemed’, ‘has raised up…’ = happened at conception.
* ‘Horn of salvation’ – explain
* Acts 13:23 Paulk says ‘From this man (David)’s decendants, God has brought to Israel the saviour, Jesus, as he promised
Three:
* Lk 1:74-75 rescued to enable us to serve him without fear in holiness & righteousness…
* The ultimate purpose of God’s salvation is in fact undisturbed worship
* The worshipping community is therefore invited to join their voices with Zechariah’s and Luke’s, to serve God and to live in holiness & righteousness.
Four:
* Acts 13:26 “Brothers, children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
* Lk 1:77-79 give his people the knowledge of salvation…to shine on those…to guide our feet into the path of peace.
* The promise of salvation & redemption are linked with peace
* The bith of John sets in motion the deliverance of his people through the messianic saviour.
Other:
* Paul in Acts reading hightlights the Jewish confession of faith:
* God is the God of Israel
* God chose the patriachs for himself
* He redeemed his people from Egypt leading them through the desert.
* He gave them the land Palestine as an inheritance.
* God’s choice of David to be king.
* Zexchariah’s blessing located the work of John in reference to both God’s promises to Israel and to the saving work of Jesus (vs 67-79)
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