Dec 8, 2024 
GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH

Clyde Copeland, Worship Pastor

The Way Of Peace
Luke 1:67-79

1. God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. v. 67
-Luke 1:6

Three miracles in Zechariah’s family
a. Conception of John the Baptist
b. Zechariah loses his speech
c. Zechariah could speak again

“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -GK Chesterton

2. You can’t understand Jesus without the Old Testament, v. 68-74

-Genesis 12:2-3
-2 Samuel 7:16
-Luke 24:27

3. Advent has more to do with the ministry of John the Baptist than the birth of Jesus, v. 76-77
(*I’ll refer to the pictures here I sent in the other emails.*)
-John 3:28-30

4. Jesus is the only way to peace, v. 78-79
-Isaiah 59:8

Mental Worship
1. What blessings have you experienced from ordinary or mundane events?
2. If you were to read a passage in the Old Testament, would you be able to understand how it points to Jesus?
3. Of all things you can prepare for, how do you prepare for the second coming of Jesus?
4. Peace with God, peace with others, peace with self: of these three, which do you need more of?