Advent series # 1 zechariah questioning god

JORY LEONG | 27 Nov 2016

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Luke 1:5-20

Luke 1: 5-20

Questioning God

Luke 1: 5-20

Similarities from Luke 1Zechariah Mary

v.19 Visited by angel Gabriel v.26-27

v.13 Promised the miraculous birth of a son v.31

v.7 Unfit to have a child v.27

v.18 Responded with equal perplexity: "How?" v.34

Differences from Luke 1Zechariah Mary

v.19-20 Struck dumb v.35 Answered graciously

v.20“Since you didn’t believewhat I said, you will be silent and unable to speak until the child is born.”

didn’t believe believed

v.45“You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.”

Lessons from Luke 1

1. Disbelief & questioning are worlds apart.

Josh “The more I examined the

evidence, the more it took

me to the opposite

conclusion of what I wanted

to reach - that the Bible is

the very word of God, and

Jesus Christ is His Son,

and He was raised from the

dead on the third day”.

Josh McDowell

Lessons from Luke 1

1. Disbelief & questioning are worlds apart.

2. Don’t despair when you stumble.

6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

64 And immediately his mouth was opened and his

tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.

67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied.

Luke 1 (ESV)

And after you have suffered a little

while, the God of all grace, who has

called you to his eternal glory in

Christ, will himself RESTORE

CONFIRM

STRENGTHEN AND

ESTABLISH YOU.1 Peter 5:10 (ESV)

Lessons from Luke 1

1. Disbelief & questioning are worlds apart.

2. Don’t despair when you stumble.

God will make a way

Where there seems to be no way

He works in ways we cannot see

He will make a way for me