In Luke's Gospel, in chapter 1, Mary bursts into song praising God,

for his mercy, past, present, and future. Today on Truth for Life, Alistair

Bag traces a line from Genesis to Luke to highlight God's mercy as he used

unexpected people to fulfill his covenant promises. We're in Luke chapter

1 looking at verses 39 through 56.

I found it helpful to view the song this week in my study as a song of God's

mercy, as a song of God's mercy. When you go to verse 50, you realize that God's

mercy extends to those who feared him from generation to generation. God is not

impoverished by the skeptic, nor by the hotty scientist who struts and

frets his hour upon the stage of his laboratory to mix metaphors and says,

you know, there is no God and if there is a God, I know what he's like and I know

where he came from and God says, I remember that you are dust and to dust you

will return. He takes the bogus super-siliest philosophers and all their

minions, all their imitators, all the small fry who get a charge out of attacking

God and attacking the Bible and attacking the church and saying, this isn't

true and that isn't true and so on. Now Sam 2 says, God looks from the heavens

and he laughs. He laughs. It's the mighty warrior. He scatters the

brunt. He brings down the rulers. Nebuchadnezzar stands on the parapet of his

great palace in Babylon. The way some of us are tempted to do with the little

petty empires we think we have built, whether they are financial empires or

whether they're social empires or whether they're ecclesiastical or church

empires and we're tempted to stand up and say to ourselves, and is this not the

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