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Lukas 1:2

sama seperti yang diturunkan kepada kita oleh mereka yang sejak semula adalah saksi mata dan pelayan firman,

(a) Servants of the word. Like the apostles who introduced themselves as bondservants of Jesus Christ (see masuk for Rom 1:1), Luke saw himself as a servant of the word. This has led to confusion among some believers. Am I a son or servant of God?

Jesus, the Son of God, took the form of a bondservant (Php. 2:7). He was not confused about his identity, but he was servant-hearted (Mark 10:45). Jesus is the Son who serves.

Similarly, when the apostles identify themselves as servants of Christ or servants of the word, they are saying, “We are the sons of God who serve in the manner in which Christ served,” meaning they served others (2 Cor. 4:5). They did not serve to curry favor with God, but to reveal the Servant-king to people. “For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, so that I may win more” (1 Cor. 9:19).

Itu sama dengan kita. Meskipun kita bebas di dalam Kristus, kita memilih untuk melayani dalam nama Kristus sehingga anak yatim dan budak di dunia ini dapat mengenal Bapa mereka yang mengasihi mereka. Seperti Kristus, kita adalah anak-anak yang melayani.

Bacaan lebih lanjut: "Anak, hamba, atau sahabat Tuhan?”

(b) kata of God is revealed in the word of the kingdom (Matt. 13:19) or the word of the Christ (Rom. 10:17). It is revealed in the gospel of Jesus (Mark 1:1) and the gospel of grace (Acts 20:24). See masuk untuk Firman Tuhan.

Lukas 1:3

sepertinya cocok bagiku juga, setelah menyelidiki semuanya dengan cermat sejak awal, untuk menuliskannya untukmu secara berurutan, Theophilus yang paling hebat;

Having investigated everything carefully. Luke said he had a perfect understanding of what he wrote about (see Luke 1:3, KJV). A true Bible teacher has a good and full understanding of what he teaches, while a false teacher does not really understand what they are talking about (see 1 Tim. 1:6-7).

Lukas 1:5

Pada zaman Herodes, raja Yudea, ada seorang imam bernama Zakharia, dari divisi Abia; dan dia memiliki seorang istri dari putri-putri Harun, dan namanya Elisabet.

Herod, king of Judea. Herod was Herod the Great (37–4BC) was the governor of Galilee before the Romans appointed him the king of Judea. He was one of the most ruthless and ambitious politicians in the Bible. See masuk for Matt. 2:1.

Lukas 1:6

Mereka berdua benar di hadapan Tuhan, berjalan tanpa cela dalam semua perintah dan tuntutan Tuhan.

(a) Benar di sisi Allah. Before the cross, no one could be made righteous. The gift of righteousness had not been given and the “one act of righteousness” had not be done (Rom. 5:18). This is why Old Testament saints such as Abraham were credited with righteousness on account of their faith in God (see masuk for Rom. 4:3).

(b) Berjalan tanpa cela dalam semua perintah dan tuntutan Tuhan. Zacharias and Elizabeth were model Jews who kept the law, but did this make them righteous before God? Although the Bible speaks of the righteousness found in the law (Rom. 10:4-5, Php. 3:6, 9), no one was ever justified by keeping the law (Gal. 3:11). To say that they were righteous because they kept the law is like saying Christ died for nothing (Gal. 2:21).

Zacharias and Elizabeth were counted righteous for the same reason that other pre-cross believers were counted righteous – on account of their faith in God. Although Zacharias was not as quick to believe the good news announced by the angel (Luke 1:18), the God who sees the end of all things knew that he would come right.

Luke 1:15

“For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.

(a) Roh Kudus is also known as the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Christ; see masuk for John 14:26.

(b) His mother’s womb. This scripture demolishes Augustine’s doctrine of original sin. Original sin says John was a sinner in his mother’s womb, but the Bible says he was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Bacaan lebih lanjut: "Original sin is unbiblical”

Lukas 1:18

Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”

Zacharias had prayed for a son (see Luke 1:13), but that was so long ago he was surprised to find his prayer had been answer. At this late stage in his life, his unbelief had supplanted his faith.

Lukas 1:19

Malaikat itu menjawab dan berkata kepadanya, “Aku Jibril, yang berdiri di hadirat Allah, dan aku telah diutus untuk berbicara kepadamu dan untuk membawakanmu kabar baik ini.

(a) Gabriel was an archangel and herald of God who appeared to Daniel (Dan. 8:16), the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–27) and here to Zacharias.

(b) I have been sent to speak to you. The word of God or the word of the Lord can be conveyed via prophecies (2 Sam. 24:11, 1 Kgs. 14:18), dreams (Num. 12:6), visions (Gen. 15:1), the Law (Num. 36:5, Deu. 5:5, Is. 2:3), and angels (Luke 1:35). However, the primary way God reveals himself is through his Son. Jesus is the Word of God made flesh (John 1:14, Rev. 19:13).

Luke 1:22

But when he came out, he was unable to speak to them; and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he kept making signs to them, and remained mute.

Vision. Visions are supernatural revelations that are so compelling they appear as real images, even though they are received in our spirits. People who had visions in the Bible include: Abraham (Gen. 15:1), Jacob (Gen. 46:2), Ezekiel (Eze. 1:1), Daniel (Dan. 8:1), Zacharias (Luke 1:22), Ananias (Acts 9:10), Cornelius (Acts 10:3), Peter (Acts 10:10–19), John (Rev. 9:17), and Paul (Acts 9:12, 16:9–10, 18:9).

Luke 1:26

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

(a) Gabriel was an archangel and herald of God; see masuk for Luke 1:18.

(b) Galilee was a region of northern Israel that was administered as part of the Roman province of Judea. Much of Christ’s life and ministry took place in the Galilean cities of Nazareth and Capernaum.

Luke 1:27

to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

Mary the mother of Jesus is one of six women named Mary in the New Testament. The others are Mary Magdalene (see masuk for Luke 8:2), Mary of Bethany (see masuk for Luke 10:39), Mary the mother of James and Joseph who was probably also the wife of Clopas (see masuk for Matt. 27:56), Mary the mother of John Mark (Acts 12:12), and Mary of Rome (Rom. 16:6).

Lukas 1:32

“Dia akan menjadi besar dan akan disebut Putra Yang Mahatinggi; dan Tuhan Allah akan memberikan kepada-Nya takhta Daud, bapa-Nya;

Tahta. The angel Gabriel was the first New Testament figure to recognize Jesus as a king, and the magi were a close second (Matt. 2:2). Others who recognized Jesus as a king included the disciples (Luke 19:38), the palm-waving people of Jerusalem (John 12:13), Paul and Silas (Acts 17:7), and the seventh angel (Rev. 11:15).

During his earthly ministry, Jesus rarely referred to himself in such royal terms (Matt. 21:5, 25:34, Mark 15:2, Luke 22:29-30, 23:3, John 18:36-37).

Lukas 1:34

Maria berkata kepada malaikat itu, “Bagaimana ini bisa terjadi, karena aku masih perawan?”

Virgin. One of the central tenets of the Christian faith is the virgin birth. Jesus had no earthly father but was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the virgin Mary (Is. 7:14, Matt. 1:23). What is the significance of the virgin birth?

Penjelasan tradisional adalah bahwa kelahiran perawan berarti Yesus tidak ternoda oleh dosa Adam. Karena dia tidak memiliki ayah kandung, Yesus tidak mewarisi sifat berdosa Adam. Ini adalah penjelasan yang sering diulang, tetapi tidak ada dalam kitab suci. Arti sebenarnya dari kelahiran perawan adalah bahwa Yesus tidak dilahirkan sebagai budak dan hanya orang bebas yang dapat menebus seorang budak.

Lihat masuk untuk Kelahiran Perawan.

Lukas 1:35

Malaikat itu menjawab dan berkata kepadanya, “Roh Kudus akan turun atasmu, dan kuasa Yang Mahatinggi akan menaungimu; dan untuk alasan itu Anak yang kudus akan disebut Anak Allah.

(a) Roh Kudus is also known as the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Christ; see masuk for John 14:26.

(b) Roh Kudus will come upon you. Mary was a surrogate mother not a biological mother.

Jesus is the eternal God, the Creator of all including Mary (John 1:1, Col 1:15–16). Just as Joseph contributed no DNA to Jesus, neither did Mary. She provided a womb, but no egg. The Holy Spirit overshadowed her and the result was a baby from heaven.

(c) The holy Child. One day, Mary was not pregnant; the next, “she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit” (Matt. 1:18, ESV). There is much mystery in this. How did the miracle of the Virgin Birth take place? We don’t know the how, but we know the Who. How did the Word become flesh? The Holy Spirit is the answer. “You have made him a little lower than God” (Ps. 8:5).

For most of us, life begins in the womb, but Jesus had no beginning. The Word who became flesh was with God when creation began (John 1:1). Jesus did not need a sperm donor or an egg donor. He needed a body, and that’s what the Holy Spirit provided. See masuk for Heb. 10:5.

Luke 1:46–47

And Mary said: “My soul exalts the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

(a) Soul. Jiwa Anda adalah bagian dari diri Anda yang berisi kepribadian, ingatan, dan niat Anda. Secara metaforis, itu adalah hati dan pikiran Anda. Kata Yunani untuk jiwa, psuche, terkait dengan kata psikologi yang ada hubungannya dengan pikiran. Kita mungkin mengatakan bahwa jiwa bersemayam di dalam pikiran Anda – atau mungkin pikiran Anda bersemayam di dalam jiwa Anda – dan bagian dari diri Anda itulah yang berpikir, merasakan, dan mengingat.

(b) Spirit. Your spirit is that part of you that makes you spiritually aware or God-conscious. For want of a better analogy, your spirit is like an antenna. Just as our physical bodies connect us to the physical realm, our spirits connect us to the spiritual realm. Just as we have natural senses (sight, smell, hearing, etc.), we have spiritual senses (e.g., intuition).

It is sometimes said that we relate to people with our souls, while we relate to God with our spirits. It is certainly true that we worship him in spirit (John 4:24), we rejoice in the spirit (Luke 1:47), we pray in the spirit (1 Cor. 14:15, Eph. 6:18), and in all these things we are greatly aided by the Holy Spirit (see Rom. 8:26–27). But that does not mean that our souls and bodies are left out of the picture. God is interested in all of you, not just part of you. David sang, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul…” (Ps. 103:1–2). Mary is saying something similar here.

When David sang, “Bless the Lord, O my soul,” he was saying we can magnify the Lord with our minds and emotions. David adds, “and all that is within me, bless his holy name.” We can praise the Lord with our lips (Ps. 51:15, Heb. 13:15), hands (Ps. 63:3, 134:2), and feet (Ps. 30:11, 149:3). Worship is fundamentally spiritual, but we can worship the Lord with every part of our being, body, soul and spirit (Deu. 11:13, Jos. 22:5, Ps. 35:9, Is. 61:10).

Bacaan lebih lanjut, "Roh dan jiwa”

Luke 1:48

“For He has had regard for the humble state of His bondslave;
For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed.

Blessed. In the original language there are two verbs that are translated as bless. One verb (makarios) means to make fortunate, happy or prosperous. The other (eulogeo) means to praise and speak well of (see masuk for Matt. 21:9). The former verb is used here, and the latter is used in Luke 1:42. Mary was doubly blessed.

Lukas 1:49

“Karena Yang Mahakuasa telah melakukan hal-hal besar bagiku;
Dan kuduslah nama-Nya.

(a) Holy is His name. God is the very definition of holy.

Jika kita ingin mengetahui apa arti kekudusan, kita harus melihat kepada Tuhan yang kudus dan yang namanya kudus. Mengatakan Tuhan itu kudus berarti merujuk pada keutuhan, kepenuhan, keindahan, dan kehidupan yang berkelimpahan yang melimpah di dalam Ketuhanan. Tuhan tidak kekurangan apapun. Dia tidak terputus, tidak rusak, tidak jatuh, sepenuhnya lengkap dan utuh di dalam dirinya sendiri. Dia adalah Pribadi yang tak terpisahkan, mandiri sepenuhnya, dan gambaran kesempurnaan.

When the angels sing “Holy is the Lord,” they are not admiring God for his rule-keeping or sin avoidance; they are marveling at the transcendent totality of his perfection (Is. 6:3). To worship God in the beauty of his holiness is to be awestruck by the infinite sweep and scale of his sublimity. It is to become lost in the limitless landscape of his loveliness.

God the Father is Holy (Luke 1:49, John 17:11, Rev. 4:8) and so are God the Son (Mark 1:24, Acts 2:27, 3:14, 4:27, 30) and God the Holy Spirit (Rom. 1:4).

Lihat masuk untuk Kekudusan.

Lukas 1:53

“DIA TELAH MENGISI LAPAR DENGAN HAL-HAL BAIK;
Dan mengusir orang kaya dengan tangan kosong.

Hal-hal baik adalah referensi kepada Yesus sendiri; Lihat masuk for Heb. 10:1.

Lukas 1:54

“Dia telah memberikan pertolongan kepada Israel, hamba-Nya,
Mengingat rahmat-Nya,

(a) Dia telah memberikan bantuan. Life is too big for any of us to handle, but the good news is that God is our very great Helper (Deu. 33:26, John 14:16). “Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings” (Ps. 63:7).

Bacaan lebih lanjut: "Siapa Pembantu Anda?”

(b) Rahmat-Nya. To a nation burdened with the heavy yoke of law, the cry for mercy was never far away. The law makes us acutely aware of our shortcomings and needs. Mercy is God’s help in our time of need (Heb. 4:16).

Lukas 1:58

Tetangga dan kerabatnya mendengar bahwa Tuhan telah menunjukkan belas kasihan-Nya yang besar kepadanya; dan mereka bersukacita bersamanya.

(a) Rahmat yang besar. Sama seperti Tuhan memiliki kasih karunia yang besar (lihat masuk for Jas. 4:6), he has great mercy (1 Pet. 1:3). God is both rich in grace (Eph. 1:7, 2:7), and mercy (Eph. 2:4). His great mercy testifies to his great love for us (Eph. 2:4).

(b) Belas kasihan menunjukkan belas kasihan kepada mereka yang membutuhkan. Lihat masuk untuk Rahmat.

Luke 1:59

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

Circumcise. The circumcision of young boys was a physical sign of the covenant between God and Israel (Gen. 17:10–11, Lev. 12:3). Circumcision became a symbol of Jewish identity and devotion to the law.

Luke 1:68

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people,

(a) Blessed (eulogetos) means praiseworthy.

(b) Redemption means ransoming. To redeem is to release someone by paying a ransom price.

Throughout history many pseudo-saviors have come promising freedom, but every one of them was a slave to sin. They couldn’t save anyone (Ps. 49:7–8). We needed a free man to redeem us and Jesus is the free Man who gave his life as a ransom for all (1 Tim. 2:6). See masuk untuk Kelahiran Perawan.

Lukas 1:69

Dan telah mengangkat tanduk keselamatan bagi kita
Di rumah Daud, hamba-Nya—

Penyelamatan. The original word means deliverance or rescue. Jesus is the great Deliverer who rescues us from our enemies (Luke 1:71). See masuk untuk Keselamatan.

Lukas 1:71

Keselamatan DARI MUSUH KITA,
Dan DARI TANGAN SEMUA YANG MEMBENCI KITA;

Salvation from our enemies. Our enemies include sin and the evils of the present age (Gal. 1:4). But our greatest enemy is death (1 Cor. 15:26). Jesus is the Savior who rescues our souls from death (Ps. 33:19, 116:8).

Lukas 1:77

Untuk memberikan kepada umat-Nya pengetahuan tentang keselamatan
Dengan pengampunan dosa-dosa mereka,

(a) Pengetahuan tentang keselamatan comes when we know the Savior who sets us free from sin. As the angel said, Jesus “will save his people from their sins” (Matt.1:21). We are saved and set free when we realize our sins have been completely and eternally forgiven in accordance with the riches of his grace (Eph. 1:7).

(b) Pengampunan. Kata aslinya (aphesis) untuk pengampunan adalah kata benda yang terkadang diterjemahkan sebagai pengampunan dan berarti pelepasan atau pemecatan (lihat masuk for Luke 24:47).

On the night he rose from the dead, Jesus told the disciples to preach the remission of sins or the good news of unconditional forgiveness (Luke 24:47). Because of his great love, God chooses to remember your sins no more (Heb. 8:12, 10:17), and he is no longer holding your sins and trespasses against you (2 Cor. 5:19). However, you will never experience his forgiveness unless you receive it by faith. Only in Christ do we have the forgiveness of sins (Eph. 1:7, Col. 1:14).

Salvation often appears to us as the forgiveness of sins, but salvation is much more than forgiveness. The word which is commonly translated as save in the Bible (sozo), means to deliver, protect, heal, preserve, and make whole. It covers not only salvation, but healing, deliverance, and prosperity. God does not merely forgive us of our sins; he provides everything we need for health and wholeness today (Eph. 1:3, 2 Pet. 1:3). See masuk untuk Keselamatan.

Lukas 1:78

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,

Tender mercy. Mercy is one facet of God’s grace (Heb. 4:16). Mercy is how grace appears to the needy.

Just as we are saved by grace (Eph. 2:5), we are saved by mercy (Tit. 3:5). Just as we are forgiven by grace (Eph. 1:7), we are forgiven by mercy (Matt. 18:33, Luke 1:77, Heb. 8:12). See masuk untuk Rahmat.

Luke 1:79

TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

The way of peace. When we proclaim the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:15) we are revealing the way of peace (Is. 59:8) which leads us to the God of peace (Rom. 15:33) who gives us life and peace (Rom. 8:6).

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