INTRO WEEK: SHARE AND REPORT

Choice 2: Luke 1:5-80. The Birth of John the Baptist

Zacharias is told that he will have JOY and GLADNESS, with the birth of his son John. And that many people will rejoice at his birth.

People will rejoice over John the baptists birth because:

1. He’s going to be a great missionary (Luke 1:16)
2. He will “turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.” (Luke 1:17)
3. He will reveal the gospel, and explain the remission of sins. (Luke 1:77)
4. And he will also “...give light to them that sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:79)