Blessings on the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has turned His face towards His people and has set them free! And He has raised up for us a standard of salvation in the house of His servant David. Long, long ago, through the words of His holy prophets, He promised to do this for us . . . So does He remember the holy agreement He made with them and the oath which He swore to our father Abraham, to make us this gift: that we should be saved from the hands of our enemies, and in His presence should serve Him unafraid in holiness and righteousness all our lives.
   Do you want more and more of God's kindness and peace? Then learn to know Him better and better.
   [Paul said this:] "I have been sent to bring faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know God's truth - the kind of truth that changes lives - so that they can have eternal life, which God promised them before the world began - and He cannot lie."
   For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. Now, when sins have once been forever forgiven and forgotten, there is no need to offer more sacrifices to get rid of them. And so, dear brothers, now we may walk right into the very Holy of Holies where God is, because of the blood of Jesus. Now we can look forward to the salvation God has promised us. There is no longer any room for doubt, and we can tell others that salvation is ours,  for there is no question that He will do what He says.
   Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! [Pause, and calmly think of that!] God is to us a God of deliverances and salvation, and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death [setting us free].
   Every promise of God finds its affirmative in Him, and through Him can be said the final amen, to the glory of God. Both you and we owe our position in Christ to this God of positive promise: it is He Who has consecrated us to this special work, He Who has given us the living guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.

Taken from Lk. 1, II Pt. 1, Tit. 1, Jn. 3, Heb. 10, Ps. 68, II Cor. 1, The Phillips Translation,
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