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December Sermons 2025
12- 21- Prepare The Way of The Lord
Luke 1:57-66 Luke 1:67-80
12- 24- Good News
Luke 2: 1-7 Luke 2:8-20
12-28- We Have Seen His Star
Matthew 2:1-6 Matthew 2:7-12
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Some Thoughts on the Kind of People God Rescues (Part Three)
“He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.” (Luke 1:53)
This verse is from what's referred to as the "Magnificat," Mary prophesies that Jesus is God's signal to power brokers at every level of society—the end of human strutting and self-centered ambition is at hand—and God’s about to rescue people. This verse captures one type of people God has acted in Jesus to rescue: GOD WILL FILL THE HUNGRY.
While God cares for the physically hungry, and Jesus fed the five thousand with five barley loaves and two small fish, this means so much more than physical hunger—it’s about the deeper hunger of the soul. God's looking for people who are hungry for Him. He passes right by the self-sufficient—and helps the God-dependent. What did Jesus say?
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, because they will be satisfied." (Matthew 5:6)
The Church is for people who understand their own emptiness. It's made up of people like those who gathered to King David when he was on the run from his rebel son, Absalom.
"Every man who was desperate, in debt, or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader." (1 Samuel 22:2)
Let this promise from the Magnificat—this song of Mary — comfort you: God will fill the hungry.
Today’s verse comes at the end of a larger passage:
“He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.” (Luke 1:51-53)
These verses are a reminder of the kinds of folks God’s looking to rescue. He loves the forgotten and passed over. He’s on the side of those who can't take care of themselves. He mends the broken and welcomes the forgotten. He pledges Himself to the nobodies and losers. He shows mercy to those who don't deserve it. He chooses the lowly over the proud. He finds the hungry and fills them.
Be encouraged, my friends! God has acted in human history in the birth, life, death, and resurrection to rescue you!