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THE RESCUE (Captioned)
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Year: 2010
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hischild on Jan 5, 2010
God's KEPT promise, made in the Garden, of sending a Savior has transformed us from slaves -- to heirs, of eternal life in heaven. We are now free to serve Him in this earthlife. PRAISE THE LORD!!! To contact Pastor Dave: www.ziontorrance.info
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- The Second Sunday of Christmas
- Sunday, January 3, 2010
- Let us rise for
- the reading of this morning's Sermon Text recorded for us
- in Luke's Gospel where we read from Chapter 1,
- beginning with Verse 68:
- "PRAISE BE TO THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE HE HAS
- COME AND HAS REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE.
- HE HAS RAISED UP A HORN OF SALVATION
- FOR US IN THE HOUSE OF HIS SERVANT DAVID.
- (AS HE SAID THROUGH HIS HOLY PROPHETS OF LONG AGO),
- SALVATION FROM OUR ENEMIES AND FROM THE HAND
- OF ALL WHO HATE US --
- TO SHOW MERCY TO OUR FATHERS AND TO REMEMBER
- HIS HOLY COVENANT, THE OATH HE SWORE TO OUR
- FATHER ABRAHAM: TO RESCUE US FROM THE HAND
- OF OUR ENEMIES, AND TO ENABLE US
- TO SERVE HIM WITHOUT FEAR
- IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE HIM ALL OUR DAYS."
- This is the Word of our Lord; Let us pray:
- This is the day that the Lord has made.
- Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
- Amen.
- The congregation is seated
- as Pastor Dave motions
- for them to do so.
- Dear Followers of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- I find the person of
- Zechariah, to be one of the most interesting
- people who prepared the way for God's Son
- to come into the world.
- I can't wait to have that opportunity in heaven
- to meet him and to discuss with him,
- because I think he had a most interesting
- challenge in his life.
- When the angel came to him and said:
- Your wife is going to have a son ...
- It just astounded him!
- It shocked him.
- And in his disbelief,
- God said to him: You're not going to speak.
- You're not going to speak until
- I ... allow you to.
- And Zechariah when he left that most Holy
- of Holy places, was left without
- the instruments to share the news
- of what had happened to him.
- Imagine witnessing an angel
- of God appearing to you and giving you
- such tremendous news,
- and the thing that you have always used to
- communicate with your family and friends and co-workers ...
- doesn't work.
- I wonder what people thought of Zechariah as he
- tried to convey to them
- what had happened. But when he went home
- to his wife, who was also going to be
- a part of the angel's message ...
- to share that message with Elizabeth.
- To convey to her ...
- what was of utmost importance.
- And then when that child is born and everyone
- is standing there wondering what they're going to name the
- child; what they're going to call the child ... Zechariah
- scribbles on a tablet ...
- John!
- And his conveyance is returned to him.
- That instrument that God had
- taken from him is restored.
- And he gets out the news.
- The words that he had been
- wanting to express for months
- come pouring out: Praise be to the God of
- Israel. He has accomplished
- His salvation. He has remembered
- what He promised to the forefathers of Israel.
- He has been mindful of that Covenant that
- He made with Abraham. When He came to Abraham as well
- and said: You and Sarah are going to
- have a child.
- Remember Sarah laughed.
- She giggled. But yet God kept His Word.
- And kept His promise and she held in her son Isaac ...
- she held in her arms,
- her son, Isaac ...
- knowing that God KEEPS His promises,
- and DOES what He says He WILL.
- As He PROMISED to Abraham that he would become
- a great nation. And that One of his descendents would
- bless all of the peoples of the world.
- And now Zechariah's son
- was going to be the forerunner of
- that Messiah. The One who was going to come and
- Zechariah could not help but praise God's Name!
- Because the Messiah
- was going to deliver His people from
- all of their enemies and was going to allow
- His people to serve Him in blessedness and holiness.
- And we remind ourselves of
- that fact today. That that
- same Savior has come to us.
- That that same Savior has fought
- the battles that we COULD NOT fight against the greatest
- enemies that we have ever had.
- The enemies of sin, death and Satan himself.
- Adam and Eve were no match for Satan
- and his guile, when he said:
- Look to the tree and they did.
- And they ate.
- We're no match for Satan either ... because he comes
- to us with the same lies. And you and I
- fall for them each and every day.
- Look! That will be good for you. And we run
- after it ... thinking this is what we need
- when it's the exact opposite
- of what God has said to us.
- He's (Satan's) always there, putting doubts in our heads,
- putting fear into our lives.
- And we can't fight him on our own.
- We know that because we fall into his temptations.
- And we willingly disobey God, but
- God's Son did not do that.
- He came into this world and
- stood with Satan face-to-face
- each and every moment of every day and withstood
- his temptations. Would not believe his lies.
- Did not give in to Satan, even
- when Satan tried to convince Him
- to throw Himself off of the top of the temple ...
- because God would protect Him.
- Or that he would give Him the entire world
- if Jesus would just bow down and worship him.
- But Jesus withstood those temptations,
- firmly planted in the Word
- and denied Satan the thrill of
- Him having succumb to sin.
- He was tempted in every way
- that we were tempted, yet HE DID NOT SIN.
- He faced the enemy DEATH for us.
- He willingly sacrificed Himself ...
- placed Himself into that tomb,
- so that that tomb would not be
- the end of our life. And that we would not be
- condemned to hell forever.
- He fought that battle and He was the Victor.
- He is the One who has saved us from our enemies.
- Zechariah proclaimed that loudly and clearly
- to all those people who were gathered there
- that day reminding them that God
- sent a Savior.
- And He is the One who has saved us and rescued us
- from everything that was out to destroy us
- eternally and condemn us forever.
- Zechariah praised His Name and
- we do that as well.
- That's our joy. That is our gladness.
- That's why we as God's people are placed on this earth
- as His children to return
- to Him in thanks for all that He has done for us.
- To praise His Holy Name.
- It is what gives us great comfort in this world and
- what a blessing it is,
- to be able to have voices to do that.
- To be able to have homes in which we are able
- to gather with our families without fear,
- that somebody's going to come
- beating down the door and stop us.
- That we can gather here in worship, bonded together
- on God's Word and
- sing the praises that lift up God's Holy Name.
- That remind us that He keeps
- His promises to us as well.
- That we encourage each other
- with that Word. We look at
- the example of Zechariah, as the head of his household,
- praising God. And fathers and men:
- What a blessing for us
- to be able to lead the worship in our own homes.
- To take out our Bibles and sit down
- with our family and read that Word
- and pray together for the needs that we have as couples.
- The needs that we have as families.
- To be able to share that Word and praise God
- for all that He has done for us.
- What a tremendous opportunity we have
- all of the time.
- We have everything at our fingertips ...
- to praise God because He has rescued us and
- He keeps us secure.
- He has taken us, as the Apostle Paul reminds
- the Galatians in our Epistle Lesson,
- as going from slaves ... to sons!
- To going from people who
- were encased in the shackles
- of sin,
- living in fear and total darkness.
- Slaves to everything that was
- ungodly and prone to decay.
- And He BURST forth from that grave
- and shattered those shackles that confined us.
- We are no longer slaves but
- we are the children of God.
- That wonderful blessing
- that Paul reminds us that we can run to God and
- cry: "Daddy"! Not: "Oh, I'm afraid." And we
- cower in fear and fall on the ground petrified.
- But we have access
- to God the Father.
- That we can go to Him.
- We can hear Him ...
- and listen to Him,
- and He comforts us with His Word.
- And He reassures us of our salvation.
- And He reminds us that our sins are forgiven.
- And He reminds us that there is an inheritance
- waiting for us that is out of this world.
- That goes beyond what we can imagine.
- Our heavenly home.
- His home.
- That He gives to us,
- His children.
- Out of nothing that we have done, but just because
- He is the One who loves us,
- and says: Here! I share
- eternal life with you.
- What joy that is!
- What blessing that is! What a reason
- for us to be shouting from the rooftops, the news
- that we have. The joy that is
- in our hearts. It covers over our lives.
- The blessings that God has given to us
- will be evident and will be seen in each
- and everything we say and everything we do.
- And we have to admit that that's not always easy for us.
- Our human nature gets tired.
- Our human nature doesn't think we're seeing results.
- Our human nature just wants to have time for us.
- It's like:
- The 12 Days of Christmas!
- Do you realize we're on Day 10 today?
- That we have still two days to go in that wonderful
- celebration that the ancient church
- expressed for 12 days
- the joy of God sending His Son.
- Yet only in our lives, we think:
- Oh, we gotta get that tree down. We gotta get these
- decorations put away. We gotta STOP all this Christmas stuff.
- The after sales-sales, after Christmas sales
- have come and gone.
- And so is most of our joy.
- So is most of the wonder of the season.
- So is most of the excitement that we had.
- We can't let that happen
- to our faith
- and what God has done for us.
- That blessing of Christ's forgiveness
- comes to us new each morning.
- It takes away
- the sins that we commit each and every day.
- It is there that we find joy.
- There that we find hope and there is our reason
- for thanking God for what He has done and
- praising His Name. When we're tired of praising
- God's Name, we need to go back and find out why.
- For the blessings that God has given us
- we need to dig deeper into His Word.
- Because there we will be reassured
- of our own salvation. We will see once again
- the beauty of God's plan. All that God
- did and worked for our salvation.
- As Paul told the Galatians: When the time
- had fully come, when God had set everything up,
- He sent His Son.
- And for that, we rejoice!
- And for that, forever, we serve Him,
- and praise His glorious Name.
- Amen.
- Let us rise.
- Now may the peace of God that
- goes beyond all of our understanding keep your
- hearts and your minds, and especially your lives
- in the one true faith unto life everlasting.
- Amen.


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