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Introduction:
Obvious clues that they understood what was happening.
Mary did you know?
Yes, and so did John!
God Delivers His People From Their Enemies
An Allusion to Egypt
God’s People Have Many Enemies.
Zachariah likely had in mind his Roman oppressors, but he also saw the spiritual nature of these enemies.
There have always been those who hated the Church, sought to persecute God’s people.
The principal enemies of the Church have never been men, but principalities and powers, they are spiritual forces.
These enemies are too powerful for us.
They are Lords and masters to us.
They controlled us and afflicted us.
1. Satan: we were in bondage under his reign.
Every man who is not saved through Christ is in bondage under Satan.
He is their ruler and master.
They are under his domain.
2. Our Own Nature: we are in bondage to our own desires.
We had carnal propensities, lusts, corruptions and temptations that held us captive.
Sin was our master and Lord.
The World
God Has Delivered Us From Our Enemies
Visited- to visit someone in order to determine his condition.
redeem- to deliver from harm or evil by buying back.
Redeem
Illustration: Allusions from Egypt
God has redeemed his people who were sold under sin, by buying them with a price from God’s hand’s of justice and delivers them by power out of Satan’s tyranny.
How He Has Delivered Us?
Raising Up a Horn
horn- a mighty one figured by the horn of an animal.
Horned animals have great power.
“Saving Power”
Remembering His Covenant
All of this was according to his promises in the OT.
The Reason He Delivered Us
Consecrated to His Service!
Sin is Man’s true Pharaoh, his tyrannical master that keeps him from serving God.
He won’t let men go to be devoted to God!
But Christ conquers him like Moses did to Pharaoh.
It was the same purpose, that men would be free to serve him.
To be devoted to him and worship him!
Holiness: being set apart to God
Righteousness: being morally right before God!
In His presence means from the heart, truly.
All Our Days
God Prepares Men For the Coming Messiah
Another issue still arises, men are not ready for the Messiah.
They are not pure in heart and as a result are not capable of seeing and appreciating his coming.
The Office of John The Baptist
Prophet-to speak for God
Herald-to precede his coming
Steward- to prepare men for His Coming
John 1:
Preparing Men For His Coming
OT Fulfillment
Is. 40:3-4
Imagery: A Road Crew preparing a road.
How Does He Prepare for Christ’s Coming?
To remove every obstruction to clear the road for Christ’s coming.
Man’s sins standing the way of salvation, this is done away with in Christ!
Men have obstacles that keep them from God and it’s John’s job to help remove them.
1. Give Knowledge of Salvation
Through Preaching, John will show men their need of a savior.
He will show them how to have forgiveness of sins.
Man’s greatest need is forgiveness of sins.
You are not God’s friend if you don’t come to him repenting of your sins!
2. Guide Our Feet
Men are like individuals lost in the woods.
They can’t see where they are going.
Men who are without Christ are darkened by their sins.
Man’s sins standing the way of salvation, this is done away with in Christ!
This mean’s John would teach men how to live in righteousness.
God is not just about forgiving you but in also teaching you how to live!
Through Calling Men to Repentance and Pointing men to Christ, John would prepare men for the Messiah’s coming.
It emphasizes the importance of preaching today!
God uses the preaching of his word to given men knowledge of salvation, and to guide men into the way of peace.
All From God’s Mercy
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