Luke 1:72 Cross References

Luke 1:72

72: He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,

For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying:
"I will certainly bless you richly, and I will multiply your descendants into countless millions."
Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
When people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.

You will show us your faithfulness and unfailing love as you promised with an oath to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob long ago.

He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love.

Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, with Isaac, and with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Many of the Jews are now enemies of the Good News. But this has been to your benefit, for God has given his gifts to you Gentiles. Yet the Jews are still his chosen people because of his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Yet I will keep the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

And how he has helped his servant Israel! He has not forgotten his promise to be merciful.
For he promised our ancestors--Abraham and his children--to be merciful to them forever."

Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

He always stands by his covenant--the commitment he made to a thousand generations.
This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty:

You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'
When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."

I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Dear brothers and sisters, here's an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case.
God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that it doesn't say the promise was to his children, as if it meant many descendants. But the promise was to his child--and that, of course, means Christ.
This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise.

and through your descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed--all because you have obeyed me."

And when I passed by and saw you again, you were old enough to be married. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.

He has remembered his promise to love and be faithful to Israel. The whole earth has seen the salvation of our God.

"This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of not just one nation, but a multitude of nations!
What's more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram; now you will be known as Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations.
I will give you millions of descendants who will represent many nations. Kings will be among them!
"I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Yes, I will give all this land of Canaan to you and to your offspring forever. And I will be their God.

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."

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