Sin isn't a very popular subject. People don't mind talking about bad habits or lacking purpose in life,

but Nancy DeMoss Woglmuth says that we need to admit to a far greater problem.

Ultimately, God did not send his son into this world to die, To save us from those things.

He came to save us from our sins.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015.

Music 2015. The holiday will celebrate this Friday isn't just about sentiment. Many people have

happy memories of traditions, presents, and time with our families, but true joy and peace don't come from

happy holiday memories. They arrive when we admit a heavy truth. I'm a sinner. Here's Nancy with

some good news about sin. Well, it's taken us the last six sessions to get through the first sentence of the text

we've been studying from Luke chapter 1, although, in all fairness, it is a very long sentence.

And we've been in Luke 1 verses 67 and following the hymn of Zachariah, a blessing that he spoke, a benediction in the Latin

it's called the Benedictus, and the blessing that he spoke to the Lord and of the Lord when the Lord

sent his Messiah to the earth. Now the Messiah hasn't yet been born. Mary is still carrying

that child, but the Holy Spirit lets Zachariah know that the child who has just

been born to him and to Elizabeth, their son's name is John, that he will be the one who will go

before the Christ to prepare his way. And Zachariah has been speaking words of not only praise,

but shedding light on some precious theological concepts, salvation, redemption,

deliverance, what does it mean to be saved? What does it mean to be redeemed? And these are

truths that if you don't have a love for those truths, then you really miss what Christmas is all about.

And we've seen that in this

passage, and we'll see it as we continue. Picking up today in verse 76 of Luke 1, we find the first

direct reference to Zachariah's son. This is the eighth-day birthday party of this son who's

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