What God Promised that Jesus Can Do
Look back over those words we just read. There are several clear statements of what Christ’s coming would make possible in the lives of those who come to Him:
1. Ends our Loneliness. Never alone and uncared for again. Only Jesus can “visit and redeem” anyone who calls out to Him. Think about it, who else would even hear anyone, anywhere, calling out? Only Jesus would be able to respond anywhere at any time v. 68.
2. Ends our Purposelessness. Never powerless, purposeless, and hopeless again. Only Jesus can be the “horn” or power “of salvation”. Jesus is the power of God unto salvation. That Greek word for power is where we get the English word dynamite v. 69.
3. Ends our Anxiousness. Never anxious and troubled again. Only Jesus can “save” anyone, anywhere v. 71; and v. 72 “perform the mercy promised” to anyone, anywhere.
4. Ends our Fearfulness. Never fearful and afraid again. Only Jesus can v. 74 “deliver” anyone, anywhere from “fear.”
5. Ends our Dirtiness. Never dirty, defiled, and defeated by sin again. Only Jesus can make us “in holiness and righteousness before Him” v. 75.
6. Ends our Guiltiness. Never guilty again. Only Jesus gives the “knowledge of salvation” v. 77 to anyone, anywhere, that responds to the Gospel; only Jesus can instantaneously grant the “remission” of their sins.
7. Ends our Darkness. Never confused, abandoned, and in the dark again. Finally, in v. 79, only Jesus can give “light” to anyone in the shadow of death, and only Jesus can guide anyone, anywhere, no matter what they have done in their life, “into the way of peace”.
That is what Jesus can do. That is the gift that God sent at Christmas.
(SOH-03; 161211)
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