December 3, 2023

Christmas Faith! Messiah’s First Witness! Luke 1:5-25

The First Christmas Witness: Prophesied 650 Isaiah 40:1-5 and 430 years before Christ Malachi 3:1 and

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.

The Miracle Birth of John the Baptist, The First Christmas Witness!

1st John the Baptist’s Godly Legacy: Verse 5-7

• A Legacy of Righteousness: By Faith!

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith

Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed form faith to faith, as it I written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LIVE BY FAITH!

• A Legacy of Blamelessness: Their Walk

The Requirement of God! Micah 6:6-8 Do Justice, Love Kindness (Grace), Walk Humbly with Your God!

• A Legacy of Ministry: Their Priesthood

2nd Christmas Faith: Messiah’s First Witness: 8-25

Zacharias Is Given A Word? A word for His posterity! A Vision of What will be.

A Most Impossible Word: Your Wife Will Bear a Son in Her Old Age!

A Long Forgotten Prayer Answered! Verse 13
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A Medically Impossible Birth Promised! Verse 13

A Son Who Will Bring Great Joy and Gladness to His Family,
to the World!

A Son Great in the Sight of God

1 Samuel 16:6-12 – 1 Peter 3:1-7 (For Sons and Daughters)

A Witness Filled With and Dependent on the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:1)

The Forerunner of Christ Who Possess Power For a Witness for Christ!

ϖ A Witness that Turn People Back to their Lord. (Luke 3:1-14)

ϖ The Witness that Turn Hearts of Children and Fathers to wards
One Another (Malachi 4:6)

ϖ The Witness Whose Ministry Turns the Disobedient to the Attitude of the Righteous: Preparing People for the Lord. (John 1:6-8;19-37)

ϖ The Witness that Exalts Christ. (John 3:22-36)

Matthew 11:11 “Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

You Are Messiah’s Witnesses! Acts 1:8 You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.

But Zacharias The Believer, Doesn’t Believe this Word: Verse 18: How will I know this? For I am an old man and wife is advanced in years

Yet, What God Says, He Does! No Matter What: 18-25

Luke 1:39-45 Messiah’s First Witness, Witnessing: