Coming to the Knowledge of Salvation

There is an enormous spiritual difference between knowing about God and knowing of God. Sometimes those with the most knowledge about God, are the very least when it comes to their personal knowledge of God. And unfortunately that can even be true of those whom we might assume – by their education and vocation­ – to be the closest to God. There is no more telling example of that truth than a patrician priest by the name of Zechariah, whose example and experience are writ large in our Christmas story. It wasn’t until much later in life, at the very zenith of his priestly career, that he made the surprising spiritual journey from prayerless priest to Christmas prophet. This morning we’ll consider his personal testimony of that transformation, and its important message to us, through his recorded psalm in Luke 1:67-79, in a message entitled, “Coming to the Knowledge of Salvation”.