1. SEEKING TO
SAVE
THE LOST
A STUDY THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

2. A
VISIT
FROM GOD
PART 9 - LUKE 1:67-80

3. Luke 1:64
And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.

4. Outline
Power
Promise
Prophet
Purpose

5. Big Idea
The birth of John the Baptist signifies the presence of God, and the commencement of God’s promise keeping redemption through Jesus Christ.

6. 2 Peter 1:21
…no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

7. Power

8. 2 Samuel 7:12
…I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

9. 2 Samuel 7:16
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’

10. Luke 1:32-33
will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

11. Promise

12. Psalm 106:10
So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

13. John 15:18-20
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

14. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

15. Joshua 21:43-45
Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. 44 And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

16. Prophet

17. Luke 1:15-17
for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 17 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

18. Purpose

19. Mark 1:4
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

20. …you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked,
Ephesians 2:1-2
…you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked,

21. Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved…

22. Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.

23. John 8:12
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”