The Story of My Life 2: Getting the Real Story

  • Pastor Dwain Tissell
  • Dec 6, 2009
  • Series: The Story of My Life

  

"God regularly works through ordinary people, doing what they normally do, who with a mixture of half-faith and devotion are holding themselves ready for whatever God has in mind . . . When this God acts on the large scale, he takes care of smaller human concerns as well.”

Tom Wright

 

Luke 1:5-7 (ESV)

5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, [of the division of Abijah.  And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.  6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.  7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

 

1. The Practicality of what you believe about Jesus.

 

Luke 1:16-17 (ESV)

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."

 

2. The Reality, whether you believe Jesus or not.

 

Luke 3:4-6 (ESV)

4 "As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.  5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God."

 

Mark 1:14-15 (ESV)

14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

 

Luke 1:24-25 (ESV)

24 After these days his wilfe Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, 25 "Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people." 

 

3. The Transformation of believing in Jesus.

 

 

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