Summary
We began this series after 400 years of God's silence with God delivering the news of two pregnancies to Zechariah for his wife Elizabeth and to Mary. This miraculous birth of his son had indeed taken place and he knew that his son John being born meant that the promise the promise of the Savior would be held true that God would keep that promise. The promise is not for Israel only because Israel was indeed in literal bondage when they were in slavery and Egypt and God promised that He would deliver them and indeed brought them through the Red Sea and He brought them through the wilderness wandering for 40 years and they brought them to the promise land and every time the Israelites would turn and rebel against God. Because when we hear of our sin and we hear of the darkness in which we dwell, in our sin, our hearts are prepared to hear the dawning light, our hearts are prepared to hear of God's grace, our hearts are prepared to hear that our sins are forgiven, not in our own deeds, not in our own righteousness, but in God's loving mercy and grace that He has for you. And today we celebrate the birth, the birth of God is gracious because the birth of John is a promise made and a promise kept and as we celebrate that promise that has been kept, we celebrate knowing that the promise of redemption of our sins, the promise of the full forgiveness of our sin, the full darkness in which you were born has been cleared by the light of Christ, the promised Messiah, the promise that was made by God Himself and kept in God Himself. Know that that word is rooted and grounded and founded in the promise that God has made to you and has been kept in the blood of Jesus Christ for you and continues to be the promise that is kept for you eternally in His grace and His glory.
Video citations
- "Promises Made, Promises Kept" 12-22-24 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, the first chapter, if you are using a Pue edition of the Bible, this can be found on page 49 in the New Testament, where in the Gospel of…