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

2. MEDITATING ON
MIRACLES
PART 8 - LUKE 1:57-66

3. Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.

4. Malachi 4:5-6
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

5. Luke 1:14-17
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.”

6. 1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

7. Outline
Mercy
Mystery
Meditations

8. Big Idea
God uses miraculous and unconventional means to show His power in the fulfillment of His plan of redemption.

9. Mercy

10. Luke 1:25
“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”

11. Luke 1:14-17
… 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.”

12. Mystery

13. Genesis 17:10-11
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

14. Genesis 17:12-13
He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, 13 both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

15. Genesis 17:14
Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

16. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts,
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts,

17. Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.

18. Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh…

19. Colossians 2:11-12
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

20. Luke 1:15
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.

21. Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

22. Luke 1:18-20
…“How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.” 19 And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20 And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”

23. Meditations

24. 1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,