Luke #4: Promises Kept & Renewed (1:57-80)
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Our current sermon series is called The Gospel of Luke: The Story of the King. We’re going to go verse-by-verse through Luke’s entire Gospel this year, studying his deep investigation into the life of Jesus. Even though Luke is one of the three “synoptic” (or “seen together”) gospels, along with Matthew and Mark, Luke’s perspective is different for a couple of reasons. First, he wasn’t an eyewitness to any of the events that he records. Instead, he went and interviewed those who were eyewitnesses, and got their first hand points-of-view and recollections of the Messiah. But also, Luke wasn’t writing from a Jewish perspective—he was writing from a Greek perspective. So we are going to see throughout the Gospel that he puts explanations in from time to time so that non-Hebrew readers could understand what was going on. Readers like us.
We have seen Luke’s record of the angelic pronouncement of the miraculous births of both John the Baptist and Jesus. And this morning, we are going to finish up the first chapter of Luke as we study the account of John the Baptist’s birth. So open up your Bibles or Bible apps to Luke 1, and in honor of God’s Word, please stand as you are able as I read verses 57-80 of that chapter:
57 Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she had a son. 58 Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her his great mercy, and they rejoiced with her. 59 When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father. 60 But his mother responded, “No. He will be called John.” 61 Then they said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.” 62 So they motioned to his father to find out what he wanted him to be called. 63 He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they were all amazed. 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God. 65 Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea. 66 All who heard about him took it to heart, saying, “What then will this child become?” For, indeed, the Lord’s hand was with him. 67 Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and provided redemption for his people. 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 70 just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets in ancient times; 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of those who hate us. 72 He has dealt mercifully with our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant— 73 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham. He has given us the privilege, 74 since we have been rescued from the hand of our enemies, to serve him without fear 75 in holiness and righteousness in his presence all our days. 76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, 77 to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins. 78 Because of our God’s merciful compassion, the dawn from on high will visit us 79 to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. 80 The child grew up and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
PRAYER
Sometimes promises are hard to keep. We make a statement about something we will do or not do, with the full intention of following through, and we fail to keep it because we forget, or something comes up, or we didn’t know something about what we promised. Or even worse, sometimes keeping the promise involves a cost that we didn’t expect or want. Maybe we didn’t think we’d be held to keeping the promise, so making the promise was easy. Or sometimes, we make promises that we have no intention of keeping. Let’s just call that what it is: we lie.
In his excellent book on spiritual growth in the context of marriage, Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas writes about campus pastor Brady Bobbink, a fairly well-known speaker on discipleship and single living who served for literally decades at Western Washington University. Brady married a little later in life to Shirley, already a mother of two from a previous marriage. His speaking calendar gave him lots of opportunity to use his gifts to serve the Lord.
Shortly after they were married, Brady and Shirley started praying about having a child together. Brady asked the question, “What would it mean for me to love my wife in this situation?” In prayer and then to Shirley, Brady made a promise: If Shirley had another baby, for the first year of that child’s life he wouldn’t accept any outside speaking arrangements other than the ones that he was required to take in his current position. Not too long afterwards, Shirley became pregnant with their son, Micah.
Several months later, Brady was offered a very lucrative opportunity to speak in Singapore. Being someone who loves to travel, and is a student of history, Brady was very excited about this one-in-a-lifetime chance to go to the Far East and to teach Christians in another cultural context.
As he told Shirley about the opportunity, he realized his promise, stopped short, and said, “I can’t go.”
Shirley tried to let him off the hook. “Honey, I’ll be fine.”
Brady said later, “I certainly could have justified it on a noble idea—preaching to another culture. But if that had really been my passion, I would have moved there and taken my wife and kids with me.”
Thomas goes on to write: “Some might think Brady was passing up an opportunity to please God by taking His Gospel message to another nation, but Brady realized that he could please God by loving his wife in a season in which she needed extra help and attention. To stay home and care for his wife in her need was every bit as much ‘Christian service’ as leaving his hometown to go preach the Gospel when he was single.” He had made a promise. A difficult promise, but a promise to both God and Shirley nonetheless. Brady added, “To fail to love my wife and kids rightly in the name of loving other people rightly is a sham.”
You know, one of the things that we might love about our Lord is that He is a promise-making God. All throughout the pages of Scripture, we have promise after promise after promise. But if God never kept His promises, we would actually come to hate Him because it. The fact that God makes promises isn’t awesome—but that fact that He keeps them is.
And He makes HUGE promises, including the one that He made to old Zechariah and Elizabeth that we read about a couple of weeks ago: that in their old age, Elizabeth would become pregnant, have a son, and they would name him John. And in today’s passage, we see God’s promises kept:
1: Promises kept.
1: Promises kept.
When the angel Gabriel appeared to Zechariah, he told him about what was going to happen. Unfortunately, Zechariah didn’t actually believe Gabriel, so an additional promise was given: Zechariah would be without speech until the promise had been fulfilled. So for at least a little over nine months, Zechariah has been unable to hear or talk with his wife Elizabeth about this in any form of efficiency. She secluded herself while she was pregnant, but Zechariah’s seclusion was probably worse. But beginning in verse 57, the time has come:
57 Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she had a son. 58 Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her his great mercy, and they rejoiced with her. 59 When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father. 60 But his mother responded, “No. He will be called John.” 61 Then they said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.” 62 So they motioned to his father to find out what he wanted him to be called. 63 He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they were all amazed.
As promised, Elizabeth has a son. While we saw last week that Elizabeth broke her seclusion with Mary’s visit, it is still possible that Mary was the only person who knew about her pregnancy. It appears that when John was born, “her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy.” (v58)
As promised by Gabriel, this was a joy and a delight to Zechariah and Elizabeth, and many join them in rejoicing at his birth (1:14).
Normally in Hebrew families, the firstborn son would receive a name that was important to the family… sometimes his father’s name, or grandfather’s, or some special relative down the line (such as Paul: he was of the tribe of Benjamin, and his Hebrew name was Saul—a name he shared with the first king of Israel, who was a Benjaminite as well).
They didn’t name John out loud right away, probably because of Zechariah’s inability to speak or hear. I did some research, and it’s not that kids names weren’t given at birth… (in fact, they often were…Gen 4:1, 21:3, 25:25-26) it’s that they sometimes were not announced until then. In Jewish thinking, Abraham received the fullness of his identity as one of God’s covenant people at his bris—circumcision ceremony (at 99 years old)—when God changed his name from Abram (“exalted father”) to Abraham (“father of a multitude”). Many Jewish families still carry on this tradition.
Elizabeth was adamant that her baby’s name would be John, as the angel had declared. Apparently, Zechariah had been able to communicate this to her in writing. Oddly enough, those at the bris actually argue with this new mother, thinking that she’s out of line in her name choice. So they ask Zechariah, who asks for a writing tablet (a piece of wood covered with wax), and declares the exact same thing: literally, “John is his name.” He hadn’t heard Elizabeth say it, because he was deaf. So everyone is shocked by this.
God had been gracious to Zechariah and Elizabeth, and so John’s name is very fitting: “God is gracious.” But more than that, through John the Lord would be gracious to the nation of Israel as he announced the coming Messiah. John was unique, and his name was unique for Zechariah’s family.
They were certainly thrilled at this, because the Scriptures tell us that children are a blessing from the God.
3 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, offspring, a reward.
So they and everyone with them rejoice in what God has done for them. He has kept His promises.
And God keeps His promises to us as well. There are so many promises that the Lord makes in the pages of Scripture, and in Christ, He has fulfilled them (or set the certain fulfillment into motion). We can trust that God will keep His promises because He cannot lie:
19 God is not a man, that he might lie, or a son of man, that he might change his mind. Does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?
We can trust that God is always with us (Hebrews 13:5), He will never put believers in a situation where we MUST sin (1 Cor 10:13), He will keep the Christian by His strength until the end (1 Cor. 1:8-9), and will complete the good work that He has started in us (Phil 1:6). He offers us freedom in Christ (John 8:32), peace through Christ (Romans 5:1-2), and eternal life with Christ (Col 3:3-4).
Paul wrote about this in 2 Corinthians chapter 1:
18 As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.” 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you—Silvanus, Timothy, and I—did not become “Yes and no.” On the contrary, in him it is always “Yes.” 20 For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us. 22 He has also put his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
His promises are all “yes” in Christ! Zechariah and Elizabeth experienced God’s incredible promise-keeping in a special way through John’s birth, but that wasn’t the only fulfillment of a promise that they were experiencing in that moment. They were about to experience the promise of the removal of Zechariah’s punishment.
2: Punishment removed.
2: Punishment removed.
Yes, the people were amazed that Elizabeth and Zechariah both agreed that John would in fact be named John. But their shock at that paled in comparison to the fact that once Zechariah declared that John would be called John, his deafness and muteness ended:
64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God. 65 Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea. 66 All who heard about him took it to heart, saying, “What then will this child become?” For, indeed, the Lord’s hand was with him.
Zechariah’s lack of faith had brought about his being relieved of his hearing and his speech for a time. He had heard the promise of God and had not believed it, and spoke that disbelief. But along with the punishment, he had been promised that when what Gabriel said to him had been fulfilled, the punishment would be removed:
20 Now listen. You will become silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
Now, in that moment we see what has occurred in Zechariah’s life in the silence that he went through. Suffering like Zechariah’s can make us bitter, or it can make us better. It made him better, and his life overflows with praise to the Lord, much like the psalmist:
10 In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, 11 in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mere humans do to me? 12 I am obligated by vows to you, God; I will make my thanksgiving sacrifices to you. 13 For you rescued me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life.
I will confess to you that my own struggling doesn’t always make be better. Sometimes it just makes me whiny. But affliction can be a tool that God uses for our refinement and maturity, as James wrote in chapter 1 of his letter:
2 Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
Difficulty might be one of God’s ways of correcting our course so that we won’t go too far. That’s what it was for Zechariah. But we can trust that the trial will come to an end when God’s purpose for it has been completed in our lives.
The removal of Zechariah’s deafness and muteness was also a sign of the hand of God on John’s birth, a sign that brought reverent fear—they were awe-stricken by that had just occurred. And the news of it spread like wildfire through the Judean countryside. John’s birth was miraculous in itself, but it was attended by a miraculous sign to boot. Thus, people wondered what role he would play in Israel in the future, asking: “What then will this child become?”
Zechariah answers that as he is filled with the Holy Spirit, like John and Elizabeth had been last week, and he prophesies about both the Messiah and about John.
3: Prophecy declared.
3: Prophecy declared.
Luke 1:68-75 is one long sentence in the original Greek, and as Mary’s prophetic declaration just before today’s focal passage is called the Magnificat because of how it begins in Latin, Zechariah’s prophecy here is referred to by its first word: The Benedictus. This passage is the climax of this pericope:
67 Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and provided redemption for his people. 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 70 just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets in ancient times; 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of those who hate us. 72 He has dealt mercifully with our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant— 73 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham. He has given us the privilege, 74 since we have been rescued from the hand of our enemies, to serve him without fear 75 in holiness and righteousness in his presence all our days.
You might expect that, given the miraculous birth of his own son that Zechariah has just experienced, that his prophecy would be primarily about John. But no. Through the filling of the Holy Spirit, Zechariah has had the message of the Gospel revealed to him. He understands the the Messianic Age has arrived, and the salvation that Messiah was going to bring. The focus of John’s life, and the focus of Zechariah’s prophecy, is Jesus. It’s so theologically rich, we’re going to spend a little extra time unpacking it this morning.
In his excellent commentary on Luke, Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile writes about this:
Exalting Jesus in Luke The Prophet of Salvation (1:76–77)
Zechariah’s prophecy defines John’s life in relationship to Jesus’s life and mission. Beloved, all lasting meaning is found when we define our lives this way. Greatness comes from serving the Lord, not from serving ourselves. Greatness comes when we, like John, say, “We must decrease; Jesus must increase” (see
The entire Benedictus speaks of the salvation that will come through Christ as though it has already happened, in the past tense. And in one sense, it had: Jesus was alive and well at this point, a baby bump in Mary’s belly. So our salvation had arrived on the scene of history. But His ultimate work of dying in our place on the cross had not happened yet. How could Zechariah speak of it in the past tense? He could do this because (first of all) the Holy Spirit was moving him to speak what he spoke. We just saw that, and Peter affirms that the Spirit works in just this way in 2 Peter 1:20-21:
20 Above all, you know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from the prophet’s own interpretation, 21 because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
But in another sense, God’s rescue of humanity through Messiah was so sure, so certain, that it could be spoken of as having already occurred. When God decides that He is going to do something, that something cannot be thwarted:
9 Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like me. 10 I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.
And now Zechariah declares that this unstoppable God has visited. This reference might refer to the two visits of Gabriel and the things that he had promised, since Gabriel brought with him the very words of God. However, I think that the focus of the Benedictus, from beginning to end, is wrapped up in Jesus. So when Zechariah says that “the Lord, the God of Israel…has visited,” he is declaring who Jesus is. He is God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come (Rev 1:8). He is the one who has provided, by His own life, redemption for His people.
For the Jews, who were largely an agricultural society in the first century, the symbolism of a horn of an animal was always that of power and strength. For example, they wrote of the power of a bull being found in its horns, and compared them with the armies of Joseph’s son’s tribes:
17 His firstborn bull has splendor, and horns like those of a wild ox; he gores all the peoples with them to the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.
In Christ, God has provided the power to be saved. We do not have that power. Only God does, and so God saves because only God CAN save. We need Him to save us.
We know that he’s speaking of Jesus in verse 69 because of the reference to the house of David. We’ll look more at that in chapter 3, but Jesus was a descendant of David through both His mom’s and adoptive dad’s lines, in fulfillment of God’s promise to David way back in 2 Samuel 7 (which we quoted last week). This is a promise that had been referenced by the prophets since the time of David, such as in Psalm 89:3-4:
3 The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn an oath to David my servant: 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah
In verses 71 and 74, we see that Messiah’s rescue of His people will come as salvation from the hand of our enemies. We will see in verse 77 that the true enemy of all humanity is sin and death, and what we need more than any physical, political, social, financial, or moral rescue is forgiveness of our sins, so that we can be at peace with God. This image of God as rescuer from the enemy is also found throughout Scripture, especially in Psalms, for example:
17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
10 He saved them from the power of the adversary; he redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
And while in Christ we can be rescued from that insidious, universal enemy, when Christ returns there will come the physical and political fulfillment of Zechariah’s words as well, as we will ultimately be delivered from every enemy of every sort, including death itself.
I believe that verses 72 and 73 contain a little bit of Hebrew wordplay, even though Luke is a Greek writing in Greek. The wordplay was given by the Spirit in the form of back-to-back echoes of Zechariah’s and Elizabeth’s names. Remember that Zechariah’s name means “Yahweh remembers.” And in verse 72, Zechariah declares that the Lord has dealt mercifully with his ancestors and remembered His holy covenant, which He gave to Abraham in Genesis 12 and renewed a couple of times, including in Genesis 17:4:
4 “As for me, here is my covenant with you: You will become the father of many nations.
And recall that Elizabeth’s name means “My Lord is an Oath,” meaning that if God says something will occur, then we can be certain of its happening. And verse 73 calls back to the oath that God swore to Abraham in Genesis 22:
16 and said, “By myself I have sworn,” this is the Lord’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son, 17 I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
We have privilege since we have been rescued (adoption as sons?) to serve Him without fear (terror)—because it is through Christ that we can be made holy and righteous, and can come into His presence. In fact, in a sense because of Jesus, we already have a “seat at the table,” so to speak, in heaven. Since He is our representative, and we are in Him if we are saved, then our eternity is assured because of God’s incredible kindness showing in Jesus, as Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:
6 He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of his grace through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
But Zechariah’s entire prophetic declaration in the Benedictus speaks to blessings that only come through belief in Jesus. When he was saying this, he was declaring the Gospel—that God in His incredible grace came in the flesh to provide the means of our salvation in accordance with His divine promises that He made to both David and Abraham, allowing us to be holy and righteous before Him and to spend eternity in His presence, because our greatest enemy—sin and the death we deserve because of it—has been completely dealt with and defeated.
Jesus died on the cross to provide the means of our salvation. And He overcame death so that we can as well. But the way we experience these things is through belief. Believe in what Jesus has done to save you, and surrender your life to Him as Lord. That surrender can happen right now, this very moment, right where you are.
The Benedictus (hymn of praise) ends with verse 75. Now Zechariah turns his prophetic message to the renewal of the promise that he had been given about his son, and this is our last point this morning:
4: Promise renewed.
4: Promise renewed.
We can say that the actual Benedictus ended with verse 75 because both the sentence and the use of past tense verbs ends, and returns to the future tense that we would normally expect when speaking about things that haven’t happened yet. Zechariah continues by speaking directly to his eight-day-old son:
76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, 77 to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins. 78 Because of our God’s merciful compassion, the dawn from on high will visit us 79 to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
As we saw last week, while Jesus was referred to as “the Son of the Most High, John will be “a prophet of the Most High,” going before the Lord. This is another clear reference to who Jesus is—He is referred to as “the Lord,” and John will go before Him in order to prepare His ways, and to call His people to salvation through forgiveness of sins.
We will look at John’s message and ministry in more depth when we get to chapter 3 of Luke, but for the moment, here is how Luke refers to his ministry there:
3 He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah: A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make his paths straight!
This declaration that Zechariah is making, however, is a renewal of that promise that Gabriel made to him all of those months earlier in the temple, and which Zechariah hadn’t initially believed:
16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.”
So John’s role is that he’s the preparer—the preparer of the way, and the preparer of the people through calling them to repentance and faith, calling them to show that repentance outwardly and publicly through baptism.
Finally, Zechariah returns to speaking about Jesus in verses 78 and 79. It is only through God’s mercy and compassion that salvation is available to us at all. The sum total of zero of us deserve it, but still He offers it anyway.
Many who want to accuse God of somehow being unfair ask the question: “Why would a loving God allow some people to go to hell?” Simple: just because He is loving doesn’t mean that we love Him, and in fact, as humanity as a whole is concerned, we don’t. And why should He have to force a rescue upon people who want nothing to do with Him? A decisively better question is: “Why would a holy, righteous, and just God allow anyone at all to go to heaven?” It’s only because of what Jesus has done: purchasing our life out of death, our freedom out of bondage, bringing us into light out of darkness, as Isaiah prophesied about Jesus:
2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; a light has dawned on those living in the land of darkness
He walks with us through the deepest, darkest valley:
4 Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me.
And it is through Him that we are set on the path of peace with God.
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
All of this is available through Jesus, and only through Jesus. And these promises have never been unmade. Praise the Lord for His incredible promises!
Closing
Closing
To finish up chapter 1, Luke sums up John’s life from his bris to the start of his public ministry in chapter 3 by giving us a single verse. This verse likely covers about 30 years in John’s life, as Levite ministry began at age 30 (don’t forget that both of John’s parents were Levites, so therefore, he was too).
80 The child grew up and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
This verse actually continues the comparison between John and Jesus, as a large swath of Jesus’s life receives the same basic treatment at the end of chapter 2:
51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.
Through the record of it in Scripture, Zechariah continues to testify to the hope available through the Messiah.. Would you believe?
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10 You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful ones; he rescues them from the power of the wicked. 11 Light dawns for the righteous, gladness for the upright in heart. 12 Be glad in the Lord, you righteous ones, and give thanks to his holy name.
