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Duration: 15 minutes and 41 seconds

Year: 2010

Country: United States

Language: English

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Posted by: 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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