December 6th, 2009
The Uncluttered Heart Series:
Making Room for Peace – Luke 1:68-79
By Rev. David J. Pettitt
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Luke 1:68-79
68 Blessed (praised and extolled and thanked) be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has come and brought deliverance and redemption to His people!
69 And He has raised up a Horn of salvation [a mighty and valiant Helper, the Author of salvation] for us in the house of David His servant– 70 This is as He promised by the mouth of His holy prophets from the most ancient times [in the memory of man]– 71 That we should have deliverance and be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who detest and pursue us with hatred;
72 To make true and show the mercy and compassion and kindness [promised] to our forefathers and to remember and carry out His holy covenant [to bless, which is [a]all the more sacred because it is made by God Himself], 73 that covenant He sealed by oath to our forefather Abraham:
74 To grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our foes, might serve Him fearlessly 75 in holiness (divine consecration) and righteousness [in accordance with the everlasting principles of right] within His presence all the days of our lives.
76 And you, little one, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go on before the face of the Lord to make ready His ways,[1] 77 to bring and give the knowledge of salvation to His people in the forgiveness and remission of their sins. 78 Because of and through the heart of tender mercy and loving-kindness of our God, a Light from on high will dawn upon us and visit [us][2] 79 to shine upon and give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct and guide our feet in a straight line into the way of peace.[3]
Footnotes:
[a} Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.Cross references:
[1] Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 4:5
[2] Malachi 4:2
[3] Isaiah 9:2
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