Good morning, brothers and sisters. I'm glad to see all of you. What a beautiful morning we have. Beautiful snow. It's so pretty to see the coverings. As I looked last night and woke up this morning and the bright sunshine. You can't ask for a prettier Christmas time.
Well, if you would like to turn in your copy of God's Word to the book of Luke, where we have been the last weeks and months. And as you look on your bulletin, I got a little overzealous thinking I could get to verse 80, and that's, we'll have to do this in two parts. And so my hope is to get through verse 75 just to let you know. We're coming now to this hymn of praise. Remember we're looking at Zacharias. Zacharias who had been made to not be able to speak because of his unbelief. And we realize at this point in the passage where John has been born and they came to name him. And at the naming, there was a disagreement, if you will, over the relatives and people there. And they thought his name should be Zacharias. And Elizabeth said, no, his name shall be John. And at that point, John wrote and said, his name is John. And they were all astonished. And this is where we pick up and we pick up here at Zacharias, this restored believing one, and he explodes into gratitude and thankfulness and glory to God.
When we consider you as New Testament believers and Old Testament believers that we see in the scriptures, I started to say there's one thing in common, and of course we know the main one thing in common is faith in the Messiah, and faith. But because of the effect of that faith, we see one thing that's in common that I think you could all agree upon, hopefully, and that is that there is a heart of thankfulness and a gratitude that comes out in praise. This is seen, this is common, it should be common in our own hearts that we would be praisers with our mouths.
If you didn't know, when we look at the first two chapters in Luke, there are five songs of praise that are relayed to us in the first two chapters. And we are now upon the third of those. The first being, we remember Elizabeth and her praising of what God had done, and then Mary, known as the Magnificent in the Latin, the word comes as magnify, and so you have the magnificent. In the Latin of where we are today, blessed be, you see the benedictus, the Latin word for that. We're gonna see the Greek word for that too that'll help us, I pray. But this is what this one is known as, is the benedictus. And then we have two more to look at. We have the angel's song of praise. And then we have Simeon, and Simeon who had been waiting in the temple, and here comes the Lord Jesus, presented by the parents, and there is a song from Simeon.
But here in this praising to God, we see this blessed being. In fact, if you look at the New Testament too, much of the writings, especially of Paul, are begun by blessed being, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This could be a good introduction, many of us, when we go and speak to other people. Blessed be the Lord Jesus Christ.
I do want to relay a couple of themes, two that are actually one, but these themes of Zacharias Benedictus. And the first theme that we have in here, surprise to all, God. The theme is God. And then the next scene that we'll look at in the next Lord's Day is the theme of God's servant, God's minister, and really God's servant and minister is directing to God's son. So where there's two themes, the two are in one, as we see praise to God. And these are the two sections that we are going to look at today in the preaching today.
This hymn of praise is full of Old Testament scripture, full of Old Testament quotations, full of Old Testament allusions, and as I jotted these down in my margin, there was numerous ones, and I thought, how am I gonna read all these? Well, I'm not, but I am going to, when I come to them, have your pen ready, and I will go fast through them, and you can go back and look. And I've looked at them, and it's a wonderful time to go back and see how this, really Old Testament priest, Zacharias, who's speaking in the New Testament, is just full of Scripture. Remember Mary, when she spoke? I mean, it's full of Scripture. We're going to see that in all of these hymns of praise that we look at in Luke.
Well, without further ado, title of the sermon, From Speechless to Praise, and let's read the text together. I'll read to the end of the chapter. And we will look at the second part next Lord's Day, the Lord willing.
Hear the word of the Lord, verse 67. And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied saying, blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited us and accomplished redemption for his people. and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David, his servant, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. to show mercy towards our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he swore to Abraham, our father, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, For you will go on before the Lord to prepare his way, to give to his people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, with which the sunrise from on high will visit us, to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit. And he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance in Israel. Amen. Thus ends the reading of his word.
Father, would you help us as we come to your scripture? Lord, would you pour out your spirit upon us? Would you fill us, Lord? As your revealed word is proclaimed, we desire to hear from you. Lord, we desire to be conformed to the image of your Son. We desire to see your glory, Lord. I pray that you would show us the Savior. Lord, prepare our hearts, I pray, in Christ's name, amen.
Here is this restored one, this Zacharias, and here he has not only a newborn child here that has been given to his wife in old age, a promise that was made, a prophecy that was given, and here it's come to fruition at the time, and they're all gathered here, and they come to circumcise the boy, and he says his name is John. And they were all astonished. They were all marveling at this. And at once, he began to speak in praise of God, it says in verse 66. It said here that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. this believing one who all believers have the Holy Spirit, but here he is said to be filled with the Holy Spirit, that he has been emptied of himself. Probably nine months of chastisement of being emptied of his unbelief in what God has said in the word. And now he is, when one is filled with the Holy Spirit, you must be emptied of yourself. You must be humbled. of all the things that you think you have in the cup, and the cup must be emptied, and the Holy Spirit then fills the vessel, and out of a filled Holy Spirit vessel, the Lord speaks through this priest, this Christian, this believer.
And the Holy Spirit fills him and it says he prophesies. That means to speak the word of God. And here, he is speaking all of, really more, less like a prophet of old, who when the prophet of old spoke the word, the word was new revelation coming out. Here, Zacharias is speaking more like a New Testament preacher. More like a pastor of today because he is expounding the word that has already been spoken. I mean, some of you have different versions of the scriptures, but in the New American Standard, you see where the indentions will be when you see quotations, when you see allusions to Old Testament. And in this indention, in my Bible, you see that the Old Testament quotations are capitalized even more inside the indentions. And so it alerts us to what's being said has already been said by God in his word.
And this is, he's speaking what the word of God is. He's really preaching here as he's giving God glory. He just breaks out in this thankfulness to who God is. And that's where we start. We see God and you're going to see as I go through these portions Things about us and things about God, more importantly.
Number one, when you hear these, if you agree with me, let it be known. God is to be praised. Amen. All these things, when I have these sub points, I should hear this from the congregation. God is to be praised. Amen. And he starts out, blessed be, and I alluded to the original language, which was Greek, and the word here is eulogetos, eulogetos. I was thinking about Christmas and we talked about the yule log. When I looked, what does this even mean? It was a pagan tradition where they burned this log, but the word here, yule log, ghettos. Now, I didn't find on my fancy computer any connections to the Greek word in this yule log, this weird looking cake thing. The word is eulogetos, so it must be. There's got to be something there that maybe people have forgotten over the years. But eulogetos means blessed be. It means praise His name. When you praise His name in your prayers, when you praise His name by singing, you are eulogetos-ing Him. You are giving Him glory, and God is to be praised.
All believers should be united in this that God is to be praised and to be involved in this. We are not spectators. Well, that person is praising God and I'm watching, so I guess I'm praising God. No, no, you are to be a praiser of God. You are to be a glorifier of God, an exalter of Him as Mary was and as Zacharias was. And God is, He's speaking God's word. Blessed be, eh God? Whatever God you'd like, the religion of your choice, no, no. The God of Israel. He's saying the one true God, not a God among many, but the Lord God. You are to be praised and none other. In fact, if I am raising anything even to comparison of the level of the Lord God Jesus, I have entered idolatry, and so have you. But he says, blessed be the Lord God of Israel. The second subheading we come to, you'll hear it when I introduce it, because I introduce it by the Lord God. God visits his people. It's true, right? Okay, give me an amen. God visits his people. Amen. If you are his people, he has visited you.
It says, for he is to be praised. Why? For, for he has visited us. We think visit, well yeah, he's looked, he's visited, he's come by, he's dropped by. I'm gonna give you another word here to help us, okay? I don't say this to puff myself up, I'm trying to help us by relaying these words. But the word, it comes from the word episcope. Episcope, so episcope, you hear the word episcopal? Episcope, so it means to oversee. So a pastor of a church is an elder, and he is a shepherd, and he is an overseer, episcope. So the word here, to visit, is in the past tense verb of that. He is overseeing. So visits, not just to visit, to come by and say wave, but to oversee, to visit, to guide in the shepherding sense. And so he has visited us in that way, that he is overseeing us. He is not just looking upon us, but he is overseeing one who is in need, and he's bringing aid. He's coming to your rescue, is what this word means. It's in the already past tense. He has visited us.
Remember, this is before, this is the birth of John, six months, no, three months before Jesus will be born. but he is prophesying of what will be. He has visited us, and secondly, God accomplishes redemption for his people. That's the third point. That's where you say amen. God has accomplished redemption for his people. That is the Lord Yahweh, the Lord God of Israel, has visited and has accomplished. This is important terminology for us to understand. Let's look at this. He has accomplished. I cringe many times when I hear some say, well he has made it possible. He's made a way for people to be saved. The Bible says he has accomplished salvation. That means mission accomplished. Not like you might hear of somebody, some earthly person who is stating something that may be true or not be true. This is God who is saying he has accomplished it. I mean, it's a done thing, and he's done this thing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is to come at this setting, as Zacharias is speaking. Are you following me?
There's another point here. He's accomplished it, so done, past tense, perfect tense, accomplished what? Redemption. The word redemption is important. The word redeemer we have is our name for our church, redemption. It means to buy back. It means somebody is under the chains and the shackles and in slavery to another, and That selling under slavery takes us to death and to be redeemed. He has accomplished redemption. He has paid it all. He has fulfilled it. He has done what's needed. The job is done and it's free to those who will come to him, but it cost him a great cost. The greatest cost of all, of his own son. of Jesus Christ coming and being the surety or the sacrifice in your place so that you could go free. But he hung on the cross and was crucified and his blood ran out to save wretches. to save wretches who is called his, it says here, for his people. So the reason I point this out, he accomplished redemption for his people. He didn't make it possible for a huge number of indiscriminate, whosoever people come to him. That's a teaching that you hear. But he has accomplished redemption for his people. Now, we don't know who his people are specifically, but God does. It's a particular people. It's not a, well, this, you know, group over, no. It's individual people who he has saved who come into his community of blood-bought people. This is important when we think about God's saving. The people whom the father gave the son. This is who he died for.
Now we preach the gospel to all and we call them to believe and to come in faith and repentance. And those who come are His people. We don't phrase it as, you know, if you are His people, come. No, come, but the ones that come are His people. Are you following me? He accomplished redemption for His people. The people who were doomed because of their own sin, that they were destined to be punished for their own sin, he redeemed them. He redeemed them.
And secondly, or fourthly, excuse me, so God is to be praised, God visits his people, God accomplished redemption, and God is all powerful. Number four, he is all powerful. We see this in verse 69. And I was pointing this out to one young man this morning about this. It says, he raised up a horn. What do? Big bulls have big bulls, they've got big horns, some of them, right? And we think of other animals that have large horns, real sharp horns and protruding horns and horns that are, wow, I don't wanna get in the way of those horns, right? Mess with the bull, get the horns.
Well, horns in the Bible are a picture of power. of authority and power. And so what he's saying here is God has raised up a horn. He has appointed a ruler and a powerful king who will come to accomplish this redemption. The horn of salvation. to save us from our sins. In fact, even in the name salvation, well even in the name Jesus, in Matthew it says, you shall name him Jesus for he shall what? Save his people, again, his people for their sins. For he shall save a particular people from their sins.
God has raised up a horn of salvation, an all-powerful, more powerful than any animal, more powerful than any kingdom, any ruler. Notice what Zechariah says. For us, in the house of David his servant. The reason I'm pointing this out is because he's probably holding this boy, this young boy of John. But he's not speaking of John. He says, in the house of David his servant. Remember, Zechariah would have been from the line of Aaron. He's speaking of another child. Another child who was yet to come, whom we remember John was leaping in the womb when he was next to Mary. And he has raised up a horn power for us. For us, those who will believe, this power, this horn, this power is a person. A person who is God. The God-man Jesus Christ is this horn of salvation in the house of David.
So God is to be praised. God visits His people. God accomplished redemption. All past perfect tense. God is all-powerful. And fifthly, God speaks. God has spoken, I should say. A friend of mine that preaches on the street a lot has a shirt that says, God has spoken. Meaning there is authority. What we believe comes from something. And what he is explaining to the people is it's not the opinion of, well, you have your idea. No, God has spoken in His Word. And Zacharias is saying the same thing. What is he saying? Look at verse 70. God has spoken as He spoke by the mouth of the holy prophets from of old. It is one unchanging message from the Genesis to Revelation. One salvation, one redeemer. All of the old prophets spoke of Christ to come. And the apostles spoke of Christ who has come. And Jesus spoke of himself, who fulfilled all of what was spoken in the law, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms. Zachariah is giving us the same testimony, the same thing he's saying as he spoke, as God spoke. God spoke through the mouth of the holy prophets and God is now speaking through Zacharias to us. And if you have ears to hear, you will hear him.
When you read your Bible, there's God speaking to us. What did they speak? In my copy of the scriptures, the rest of this is capitalized. I'll give you some places here in a moment of where this is taken from. But he starts off, I'll give you where he's going and then we'll look at it. So salvation given, mercy shown, covenant faithfulness, and rescue accomplished.
So first he says salvation from our enemies. Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. Remember, I just said salvation. His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. Salvation from our enemies.
When I was a young person, young man, I thought, enemies? Surely I don't have any enemies. I mean, everybody likes me, just ask my mother, you know. My mom thinks that. Everybody likes me, right? Mothers, you probably think, who wouldn't like my child? But did you realize there's enemies? People who hate us? Oh my, surely not. I mean, look at my family. How could they hate us?
They hate you if you are in Christ. In fact, you have enemies Even if you're not in Christ, you have enemies. I'm going to talk about the differentiation that I'm referring to, but when you think of who your enemies are, I don't have to go any further than my skin to see where my enemies are. I can look in the mirror. I have an enemy of my own flesh.
We look to Galatians, remember the flesh and the spirit are struggling with each other if you are believers. But if you are an unbeliever, your flesh is your enemy too. It's taking you down a road to hell. It's going to destroy you because your flesh says, I'm not that bad. I don't do that much bad. Surely I'm better than the rest of the kids I'm around or the rest of the people I know. I'm not that bad. That message. will damn you. The message will send you to eternal punishment. Your flesh is lying to you.
And the reason is because we all come in as with our father being Satan. We come in here with our father. We come from Adam. And we lie because our father is the liar. He's the father of all lies. But as Christians we come to faith in Christ and Galatians talks about that I still have my flesh that wars against me, that tempts me to go this and that and I've got that enemy.
So I've got the enemy in my flesh, I've got an enemy that's sin. Sin is rebellion against God. I desire to follow God but my flesh says do this because this will make you happier. And I got this war going on. And sometimes I listen to the flesh and, oh my, I'm so angry at myself. Lord, don't let me do this again. And I come back because I'm a child of God. I've been saved. I don't want to stay there. But I've got this enemy and I've got Satan.
Satan who just wants to come in and give me these temptations and try to bring me down and say the things he did to Eve, did God really say? Well, is the word really that, is it that important? Do you have to do exactly this? Oh, surely no one will mind if he just made a little exception. Satan brings lies to my own mind. So I'm already in trouble. Now I've got the whole world, the rest of the world, the cosmos, the world around me, the Satan loving people around me, the God haters around me. And they're my enemies too. They hate me because I stand for Christ and proclaim Christ and say things like, blessed be the name of the Lord God of Israel. The world hates that. So they come against me. And they say, you can't speak anymore like that. You can't work here. You can't have a job here if we hear you doing that again. You can't have this position. You can't serve in the government. No. All these things that you... Don't speak in that name anymore. And then we'll be okay. Because they're enemies. And their enemy is God. but they can't get to God. They can raise their fist against God, but they can get to you, they think. Well, I'll come against him, her. I'll bring her down and then I'm attacking God. That's what they're doing. In fact, if you're not in Christ, that's what you're doing.
But here he says he saved us from our enemies and from those who hate us. If you want to jot these down, I can give them to you later, but I'll give them to you now. So, Psalm 106.10, jot it down quick, I'm not going to read it. 106.10, Isaiah 54, 17, Zechariah 8, 8, 7 and 8, Psalm 105, verse 84, Psalm 106, 45, Micah 7.20. Deuteronomy 7.9. Galatians, all of it, but 3.16. Here's another one. Hebrews 6.13-14. You want some New Testament preaching? Acts 3.25. I mean, he's preaching things that are said later. Romans 4.13. How about we were in Genesis, the science school just last week. Genesis 17, seven and eight, promise to Abraham. Genesis 22, 16 to 18. There's more, but that'll get you started. That would be a good place to start when you're looking at these passages.
So we see salvation given. Now let's jump to mercy shown. Verse 72, to show mercy towards our fathers. and to remember his holy covenant. So mercy, what is mercy? Mercy is not giving you what you deserve. The fathers, like you and I, deserved punishment. We deserved to be eliminated. But he gave mercy to our fathers. He's speaking to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all those Old Testament saints that he's looking back to. that were not saved because, oh, look at how good Abraham is, what a good stock, we'll pick him. No, he was a pagan moon worshiper. He was rotten just like you and I. But God saved him, chose him by grace to show mercy to him. And that's where the people of the Jewish people got it wrong. They thought, well, look at us, look at our genealogy, look at Abraham. No, Abraham believed God. And Abraham was chosen by God because of God's mercy and grace, nothing else. Not because they were so great, or so great in number, or anything like that. And the same for you if you are in Christ. The mercy He's shown to you is just pure, sovereign, gracious mercy. That's it.
But he said also he remembered the covenant. This is covenant faithfulness. That means all the prophecies that went before, all of, we see through Genesis and all through the Old Testament, are fulfilled in this coming Savior, who is Jesus Christ. He said he remembers his covenant. God is a God who exercises mercy because he's loving. And he's also a God who remembers. Do you remember whose name that is? Zacharias. His name means God who remembers. God remembers His covenant and here He is declaring it in His praise to God. God is a God He forgets not. He forgets not and He does not change. Therefore, we are not consumed. Did you hear that? We should be consumed, but God forgets not and God does not change. And so those he says he promises to save who come to him by faith, he never alters that.
God remembers his covenant, his covenant of redemption that was made before the world he was even thought of, the covenant of grace that he's extended to you in the gospel. Mercy given. All believers have experienced this mercy given.
Do you know this mercy? Do you know this mercy in Jesus Christ? Not all people have experienced this. All Christians. It makes us take note that there are many who do not know this mercy. Many who are in a miserable condition outside of Christ. Who know that they are going to die and they're going to meet God and they're not right with Him. And they'll say many times, I just don't know. I hope it'll go well for me.
There's a way you can know. Let me tell you about the Savior. Let me tell you about the blessed God of Israel. Let me tell you what He did in His mercy. Let me tell you of His grace.
But if you are outside of Christ, it's like Calvin said, he says, they lie prostrate under the tyranny of the devil. They're chained up and they don't even know it. They think, well, I'm free. I'm doing my own thing. No, you're not. You're doing the things of Satan. This is where we all begin.
But God has come for a rescue mission, and this is where we come next. This is where we come next. We see redemption is accomplished. Rescue is accomplished, actually. He says, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies. This is what redemption does. It delivers us. It rescues us. When the words redemption, salvation, deliverance, rescue, these all entail words that help us understand what God has done.
Now did he save you just to say, oh boy, I'm going to heaven now, that's all I need? He tells us in the next verse. To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, might serve him. That's Christ. Might serve Christ without fear.
Here's some more verses that he's drawing from. Hebrews 9, 14. Romans 16. I'm gonna have to read Romans 16, 18. I'm gonna read at least one of these for you. But what he's trying to say is he saved you so that, that's a purpose clause, so that you might serve him.
Don't think though, Jesus came, now I can just serve myself. Now it's just all about me, so everybody just look at me, watch me, help me, make sure everybody's focused on me. No, that's not why Christ came. If that's where your head has been this morning, or last week, or all month, realize no, Christ came to rescue, redeem you, to serve Him. To make sure that He is preeminent. That He is all you do. He is who you look to. He is who you seek to please. Not your neighbor, not your husband, not your wife, not your kids, but to please Christ. To serve Him and serve Him without fear.
It doesn't mean we don't fear God. We think of all the scriptures speak of fearing God, but to serve Him without fear of judgment, without fear of condemnation. We talked about this in the Sunday school, that can God love you more tomorrow than He does now? And we found out, no, because he loves me tremendously more in Christ, like as much as possible. And the same goes, could he love me less tomorrow? No, because he loves you in perfection.
He says that we might serve him without fear. How? In holiness and righteousness. just for a few hours, before Christ, all our days. Serve the Savior in holiness, that means to be like Him, to be sanctified, to be growing in Christ, holiness, righteousness. the furthest thing from what we were before we came to Christ, and then He justifies us and He's making, He saved you to make you like His Son. He saved you to make you holy. He desires for us to look like Christ. Holiness, righteousness. That means we need to be doing away, putting away the sin, putting on Christ. growing in the things of the Lord, and to do this before Christ. Coram Deo, underneath the view of Christ, all our days, all of our days He gives us here, and all the days for all eternity.
This is why He saved us. He saved us to bring us to Himself. to redeem a people out of all of the fallen race, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, to redeem a people, to be his own, and to dwell with him for all eternity, to bring him glory. This is what the Bible is telling us. This is what the Old Testament is fulfilling in Christ, and this is what Zacharias is pointing out to us. that Christ is the fulfillment of all of these things, that God is to be praised for he has visited his people.
He visits them. When God saves a person, it's not because you all of a sudden got smart enough to understand what the foolish preacher was talking about. No, it's because God visited you. The Holy Spirit, through the Word of God, awakens your soul to where you say, I want to believe. I want to repent of my sins. I see that I'm doomed for hell, and I want to turn to Christ and have eternal life. That is God visiting a person, and it's not your free will that somehow caused you to run to Christ, but God drew you because he visited you in power. Has He done that? Has He done that in your life? And if He has, you can't help but glorify God. You can't help but say, blessed be His name.
How God visits His people, and you see that God has accomplished redemption on the cross. When you think of Christmas, when you think of Jesus coming into creation in the incarnation, and forget what you see about on all the culture, but realize that He came to die. He came to live a perfect life and then to die for you to accomplish redemption. And then that truth is applied to you by the Holy Spirit. That's what I mean by when, that's what the Bible says when he comes to visit, when he comes to oversee, to guide you in the paths of righteousness, to guide you in the way. God didn't come to make a way. He is the way. You must see it. You must believe. Repent of your sins and turn to Christ and you will be granted eternal life. You will be in Christ. You will be secure and safe and from all alarm, you will be coming to the refuge that every sinner needs.
Oh, I pray. that you can experience what Zacharias has experienced. To be filled not with himself, but the Holy Spirit. And to be proclaiming and glorifying God for where Zacharias is, what he is going to do. You can do that for what he has done. And what he will do, how he will bring you securely to himself. And whether you die first and your soul goes immediately to be with Christ, or whether He comes and He takes you to be with Him and He changes you instantaneously, you are in good hands if you are in Christ. But if not, be alarmed. Be alarmed about the things that you hear of Christmas, that God coming into creation. If you are not in Him, you must be, you need to be. I compel you to come to the Savior. For what you do, you will never regret this. He will keep you in his hands. Let's pray.
Father, I thank you that you have been so gracious to show your tender mercy on so many of us here. You have accomplished redemption for your people. And you are at this time interceding and praying for those who are your people to come to you. That you are visiting your people by your Holy Spirit. You are doing the work of your sovereign salvation. And you are compelling people, sinners to come to you to find mercy and grace.
Lord, I thank you that you have spoken in your word. I thank you that you are speaking in your word even today. I thank you that you do not change lest we be consumed. Your mercy is great. We thank you that you are so tender. You are not only sovereign and all powerful, but you are tender, tender in mercy to come down, to even humble yourself to come down to a sinful people like us.
Lord, help us to serve You. Those whom You have called, help us to serve You in holiness and righteousness. Help us to come before You without fear now, without fear of condemnation, Lord, but we can come to You as our Savior. Thank You for the magnificent redemption that You have fully finished in Jesus Christ.
And so every time that we get opportunity, let us be able to share this good gospel news with people, especially this season when many people are thinking about the word Christmas and what is that. It is Christ coming into his fallen creation to redeem us and to bring us to himself that we might serve him in holiness and righteousness and bring him glory. Help us to do so.
In your son's name I pray, amen.
