Title: The People Living in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light (cf. For to Us a Child is Born!)
Text: Isaiah 9:1-7
Sometimes our world is dark:
- Lamentations 3:1-7
- Job 3:(4)
- Psalm 88
- Isaiah 8:11-22
Jesus brought light!
- Who would receive it? Precisely those who had suffered the most – v. 1, 4-5 (consider Zebulun and esp. Naphtali)
- There is growth – v. 3, 7
- The occasion – the birth of the King v. 7
- The result – Justice and righteousness – v. 7