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{{bgw| Advent Dec 12 - Lk 1:71-74 }}

{{bgw| Lu 1:71 }} That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

{{bgw| Lu 1:72 }} To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

{{bgw| Lu 1:73 }} The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

{{bgw| Lu 1:74 }} That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

When was Israel delivered out from the hands of her enemies?  

In 70 AD the temple and Jerusalem were destroyed.  Israel was scattered.

But who is the real enemy?  Our carnal nature, and God! 

We were at war with God. 

{{bgw| Ro 8:7 }} Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.