And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.And behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
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We can look at this story on two levels. The personal level, we have many familiar elements for many of us and familiar names as the Christmas story unfolds. I like to think of it as just find the young children somewhere in the Christmas story. We thought about Joseph for one of our later boys, but we already had a Mary and an Elizabeth. And Ian is just Scottish for John, and his middle name is Zachariah. So it seemed a little presumptuous to throw in a Gabriel or any more children into the Christmas story. Many of you know this story. And one way to understand it is on a personal level. It's a personally moving story for this couple and their new child. But we can also look at it on the epical level. That's the word E-P-O-C-H. Epic, epoch, epical. So we can look at this on a personal level, dealing with the people in the story, and then at the level of one epic to another. …
communicators of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Some of you are preachers and pastors. Some of us are seminary teachers, some campus administrators, some chaplains, some lay leaders and church authorities. We all have our different ministries. We all have our different places and ways of service. But what holds us all together today in this place is that in some way or another, we have all been called to the task of interpreting the Christian faith and proclaiming the Christian gospel. Now what in the world does that mean? In this kind of culture? is there anybody out there still listening? The voice of the Christian gospel is not the only voice out there. In fact, it's not even the dominant voice anymore. There are more Muslims out there in America, you know, than Episcopalians these days. And even when our voice is heard, is it really heard? I was reading a review in the New York Times book review recently, and the reviewer got to the end of the review, and she said, All in all, this is a very disappointing book. …
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "Thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season."—Luke 1:20. UNBELIEF is everywhere a great sin, and a grievous mistake. Unbelief has proved the ruin of those countless multitudes who, having heard the gospel, rejected it, died in their sins, have been consigned to the place of torment, and await the fiercer judgment of the last day. I might ask the question concerning this innumerable host, "Who slew all these?" The answer would be, "Unbelief." And when unbelief comes into the Christian's heart, as it does at times—for the truest believer has his times of doubt; even Abraham, the father of the faithful, sometimes had his misgivings—that unbelief does not assail his thoughts without withering his joys, and impairing his energies. There is nothing in the world that costs a saint so dear as doubt. If he disbelieve his God, he most assuredly robs himself of comfort, deprives himself of strength, and does himself a real injury. The case of Zacharias may be a, lesson to the Lord's people. It is to them I am going to speak: Zacharias is a striking example of the ills a good man may have to suffer as the result of his unbelief. In reviewing these, we mark:— I. THE CHARACTER AND POSITION OF ZACHARIAS. …