Silenced - Audio

After 3 or 4 other attempts at Scripture passages and sermons, I came to my keep-it-simple-stupid-senses, and listened on my audio Bibles to the story of the birth of John, a promised son near the Promised Son Himself: Jesus. And I heard this... this prescribed muteness. This judgment, this discipline of “You shall not speak,” and that spoke to me, because I’ve been feeling like I can’t speak behind the pulpit without greater and greater struggles most weeks. And I said, “LORD, let’s explore this.” Let’s explore how, quote, a, “righteous [man] in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord,” faces the Lord, quite literally, is face-to-face with a Messenger, an Angel of the LORD, and ends up not only silent, speechless, but it’s because of unbelief! A priest, one of the relatively few who gets to enjoy this office, is chosen by lot, and again – is righteous and blameless, but he comes to a place of exercising unbelief.