We are redeemed

Read Luke 1:67-80 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,     because he has come to his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us     in the house of his servant David...

God protects

Read Matthew 2:12-15 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to...

Led forth in peace

Read Isaiah 55:6-12 Seek the Lord while he may be found;     call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways     and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,     and to our God, for he will freely...

Stricken and afflicted

Read Isaiah 53:4-7 Surely he took up our pain     and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,     stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions,     he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us...

Our suffering servant

Read Isaiah 53:2-3 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,     and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,     nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind,     a man of...