Heartfelt Reminders
(Part 3 of Three)
Yet, for the person with a sincere, truly circumcised heart after the Father, the words they hear are found in Ezekiel 16: 60-61. “Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed…” These will see the vast difference between their goodness and Yahweh’s goodness. They will possess a heart-set that is “broken and contrite”.
For these remnant few, Yahweh has sent a Redeemer. He continues through Ezekiel and says in v. 62, “I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord…when I provide you an atonement for all you have done”. For these remnant few, the prophecy of Zacharias in Luke 1 speaks of this “Atonement”, our promised Redeemer, Messiah.
In v. 68, he asserts that Yahweh has “visited and redeemed His people”. In v. 69, he says this Redeemer is “raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David”. Spoken of since the beginning of time, He has come to purchase us back from our enemy—with every drop of His precious blood. In vv. 72-73, Zacharias says our Redeemer has come “to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath which He swore to our father Abraham”.
Then, he speaks of our blessed benefit through our Redeemer in vv. 74-75. His coming is “to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life”.
Bow before Yeshua, the Son of David, The Seed of His covenant through Abraham. With a “broken and contrite heart”, yield to His life-giving ways, as did the singers of the 84th Psalm, and be blessed with His encouraging “peace that passes all understanding”.
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