Sunday Notes: Songs of Christmas: Zechariah’s Song Luke 1:68-79
- (Luk 1:68 ESV) “Blessed be the Lord God of ____________, for he has visited and redeemed his ____________
- Here is our connection from ____________
- He has visited us again!
- He is fulfilling the ____________ to us!
- ____________ years later.
- Zechariah was a ____________ in Israel and would have had a good handle on ____________ Testament texts
- (Luk 1:69 ESV) and has raised up a ____________ of salvation for us in the house of his servant ____________,
- A connection to the Davidic ____________
- 2 Samuel 7:5-17
- This is an unconditional ____________ grant covenant from God to David and his descendants
- The promise is that ____________ will be king and also that an heir of David will reign ____________
- ____________ is both legally an heir to David by Joseph and genetically related to David by ____________.
- Psalm 89 complete
- ____________ knows the OT, the history, the promises
- He also knows ____________, the mother of Christ
- Mary is a relative
- ____________ stayed with them for part of Elizabeth’s pregnancy while she was pregnant with ____________
- Psalm 132:17, Luke 1:32, Psalm 18:1-2, 2 Samuel 22:1-4, Revelation 22:16
- (Luk 1:70 ESV) as he spoke by the mouth of his ____________ prophets from of old,
- The coming age was something that ____________ had long been promised and long waited for it to come to pass
- Here is was right here in the house of ____________
- Jeremiah 23:3-7, Romans 1:1-5
- (Luk 1:71 ESV) that we should be saved from our ____________ and from the hand of all who ____________ us;
- This connects to Psalm 106:10-12
- Which is reference another deliverance of the Israelites – the ____________ from Egypt
- When ____________ saved His people according to the promise to ____________ – the Abrahamic Covenant
- Also an ____________ royal grant covenant from God
- Genesis 12:1-7, Genesis 13:14-17, Genesis 15:1-21, Genesis 17:1-21, and Genesis 22:15-18
- (Luk 1:72 ESV) to show the ____________ promised to our fathers and to remember his holy ____________,
- (Luk 1:73 ESV) the ____________ that he swore to our father ____________, to grant us
- (Luk 1:74 ESV) that we, being ____________ from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without ____________,
- (Luk 1:75 ESV) in ____________ and righteousness before ____________ all our days.
- Zechariah is not blind to the ____________ here
- The oath – The covenant to ____________
- It is being fulfilled before his very eyes.
- Hebrews 6:13-20, Psalm 106:42-45, Micah 7:18-20
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- Now he turns to his own son
- And catch the scene of this in your mind.
- (Luk 1:76 ESV) And you, ____________, will be called the ____________ of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to ____________ his ways,
- (Luk 1:77 ESV) to give knowledge of ____________ to his people in the forgiveness of their ____________,
- ____________ told us this was coming
- (Luk 1:78 ESV) because of the tender ____________ of our God, whereby the ____________ shall visit us from on high
- (Luk 1:79 ESV) to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of ____________, to guide our ____________ into the way of peace.”
- Malachi prophesied this too, didn’t he?
- Malachi 4:1-6
- Psalm 111:1-10
- May we be as Zechariah this Christmas season
- To see the glory of our God poured out
- To recognize the mercy of our God give to us
- To live our lives for His glory and His glory alone
