A Special Christmas Memory: Revisiting Mary's Song

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That's Mark with a K at agingToday.us.

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Well as many of you know, this is the time of year when traditionally we over the past seven

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Our our pastor if you will for aging today, his name is Tom Scheiv at personal friend of

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mine.

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We went to seminary together and share a common past, but we also share a common present.

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And we're Tom is here today and he's going to join us and bring the Christmas message.

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Tom, welcome to aging today.

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Great to be with you, Mark again.

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A fantastic, always good to be a part of aging today and you're right.

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It's an outstanding time of year.

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In fact, it's the most wonderful time of the year I think.

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In you know, for the church for all of us as we go into the Christmas season, I mean people

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love the move, you know, the mood of Christmas, they love the music of Christmas.

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And there's a kind of magical quality to Christmas.

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I think people appreciate that.

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There's something that captures everybody, whether they're religious people or not, there's

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something about Christmas.

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So yeah, it's a great time of year.

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Great to be with you again through all these years.

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Yeah, it is.

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Yes.

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Now for those of our listening audience that don't know you, let's dive a little bit into

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your past.

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Tell us a little bit about how you became a pastor and you know, where you're pastoring

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actively right now and you know, just give us a little history.

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Well, I grew up in a religious home and about the age of 17, I made a radical decision

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to follow Jesus.

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And that changed the whole direction of my life.

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I invited him to be my manager.

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I invited him to be my rescuer.

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I invited him to take control of my life.

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And as a result, I ended up in a church where I was given the scriptures where I grew and

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at the time, I was playing college football in Illinois and just wondering what direction

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I was going to take.

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And I just one night walked forward and decided that I would give my life over to Christ

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to serve him in as a pastor or any way he wanted me to.

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And I ended up getting a strong call to be a pastor.

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And I have, I redirected my education.

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I ended up at a Bible school and then initially going into seminary where you and I've met

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and I've been in the local church since I was 20 years old.

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So it's been 48 years of being in the local church.

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And I currently pastor gateway church in Portland, Oregon, which is just a bit east of 122nd

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Avenue and it goes, you know, a little bit east down on San Rafael, right down there by

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Portland, Christian High School, Winco, all that kind of urban area there in the park,

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Rose area.

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And church is a delightful place.

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We have great people there.

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We've got the worship center decorated with magic and trees and all kinds of things.

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It's just a very, very good place to be, a place for people who are rich in their faith,

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a place for people who have given up on their faith and might just want to come back.

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I mean, the, you know, those that view that may be done with church, I encourage you to

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give us a try because you'll find just a lot of freedom and acceptance and you'll find

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a place where your relationship with God is the most important thing and we want you

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to grow in that relationship and flourish personally as a person.

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And we put you in touch with Jesus and you'll enjoy our people and many, many people

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are.

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Yeah, you don't even have to go to the actual physical brick and mortar building.

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Your messages are online.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Our messages are online.

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You just go to gatewaychurchpdx.com, our website and you'll find our little red and white

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arrow there, YouTube channel.

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And you can click on there.

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The sermons are all on there.

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You can take us in on live stream.

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Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

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We have a number of sites that are taking in our church service in Europe now, which is

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very fascinating.

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We got a site in Ukraine, Finland, the Netherlands, three in Russia.

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Wow.

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Yeah, one in Ukraine, actually.

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And another one in India.

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And then we have some other sites scattered throughout the United States.

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These are just people who have visited the red website on a regular basis and are now watching

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gateway church, which is pretty remarkable.

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So we're very grateful for our live stream audience and very grateful for those that are

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there every Sunday morning at 10.30.

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Now, how long have you been a pastor?

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How many years?

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Well, I was ordained to the ministry in 1979.

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So that's 44 years.

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That's a long time.

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That's a long time.

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And what do you attribute that to?

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I mean, longevity and the motivation for...

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I mean, what is it that drives you to keep sustaining yourself as a mouthpiece of God?

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Well, what sustains me, first of all, I think is God's grace in my life by giving me really

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good health.

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I mean, I got to admit, God's giving me really, really good health.

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And I'm thankful for that right now.

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I don't take that for granted.

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You know, that can be.

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But I also...

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I see life change.

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I see people who are in situations and their lives suddenly change when they come to a relationship

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with Jesus.

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One of my favorite quotes is the quote by C.S. Lewis where he said, "I believe in Christianity,

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like I believe in the sun.

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Not only do I see it, but by it I see everything else."

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And I see that.

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I see people suddenly have this relationship with God where they're forgiven and the light

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suddenly goes on and their whole lives start to take a journey and they start to thrive

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in areas and they don't worry.

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I mean, it's the transformational work of the Holy Spirit that keeps me in it.

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I see it.

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I see it.

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And the ability to really make an impact on people.

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That gets me out of bed every day because I'm not just here for myself.

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I'm not here for myself.

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I'm here for others and there's so much that can be done.

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So I just want to finish my life well and so far so good.

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I'd like to get to 50 years.

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Actually, that would be...

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It's 48 right now.

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So two more years and I can get to 50.

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But I still feel...

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I still feel that calling as strong as ever.

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I don't have any sense of changing.

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I just never have had any sense of stopping what I'm doing.

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I cannot not do this.

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I cannot not do it.

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I mean, it's just...

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Is this something that I wake up every day and go, "Man, I get such a joy in doing this."

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It's pretty cool.

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Do you see a sense of urgency?

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Think about when you started in the ministry, you know, 48 years ago.

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And where the culture was 48 years ago.

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And now where our culture is...

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Is there any motivating factors along there where you see the culture changing?

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So dramatically.

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For me, it appears and feels like we're a society that is moving away from God in some respects.

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And maybe in other respects, there's a calling or a movement towards God because we move so

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far away.

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Yeah, I think you've nailed it there.

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Christianity used to be at the very center of culture, you know, at least it was something

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that kind of kept us more.

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A lot of people feel on more now because Christianity is just one of many religious choices.

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We live here in the United States, particularly in what is called pluralism.

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That just means there's a number of religions.

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And that's by design, actually, because the founding fathers said you can have freedom of

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religion and be an American.

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So you could come over from anywhere in the world, bring your religion with you as long

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as you're an American, as long as you follow that.

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And we are the most religiously plural nation in the world.

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We have more religions than any other nation in the world.

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We have more openness to other religions as in the world.

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But as that has happened, also has Christianity then sort of become one of many choices as

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opposed to the framework that everything could flourish in.

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So that framework's been taken down.

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Secondly, technology has really, we think it should connect us, but it's made us even more

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lonely.

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The surgeon general has come out and said, we've never lived in a more lonely time.

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Crazy, crazy to think, but he also said, if you smoke, if you're lonely, it's the equivalent

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of smoking 16 cigarettes a day to your health.

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In other words, loneliness is out there.

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It's all the information, it's all of the connections on Facebook and email.

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People are more lonely than ever.

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And so you just said people are coming back and they're coming back to the churches for

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community.

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They're coming back for connection.

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They're coming back to find a place to belong.

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They're coming back to find a place that is meaningful where they get a human touch and

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they get in touch with people who love them and really love them.

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They don't say it over Facebook.

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They say it to their face.

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I love you and I'm here for you.

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What do you need?

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So your right, Mark, things have radically changed and there is a lot of loneliness out there.

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And I was thinking about the word pluralism that you have.

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And there are many Christians that are concerned about that pluralism.

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But throughout history, pluralism of many religions isn't foreign or new to the scriptures.

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In fact, Paul and the disciples went into the public square and they were many, many religions

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in that day just as there are many, many religions.

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So we shouldn't be afraid of that.

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No.

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No, what we should do is we should show the beauty and the freedom of Christianity because

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if I can just make a quick statement here, the difference between Christianity and all

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other world religions is what I call the two letter difference.

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Many other world religions says it's my faith in what I do that equals salvation or eternal

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life or life with God.

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My faith in what I do.

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The Christians says no.

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It's my faith in what Christ has done.

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Notice the N and E on the backside of do.

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And as a result, I have salvation and do good things.

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So it's not, I don't have to work to get my salvation.

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My works are an expression of the fact that I already have it.

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That's the key.

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All other world religions, you have to do something.

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So there is a sense of spiritual insecurity.

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I mean, what happens when I die?

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Did I do enough?

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What if I get there in the great is 95 and I got a 90?

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I mean, all of that, you know, instead we, we rest completely in Jesus and what he's done

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for us.

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Like the thief on the cross.

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So that's it.

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We're going to talk about the Christmas.

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Yeah, yeah, it's Christmas.

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It's Christmas day and we're going to talk about the Christmas story.

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Now, set the context, set the tone for us.

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For a few thousand years, there's the Christian God and the Jewish God who, you know, I mean,

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this was pre-Christian.

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This was the Jewish God and the setting was the God's people and all the stories of God's

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interaction with His people.

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And it's been written down in the Hebrew scriptures, the Torah, right?

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And now all of a sudden, you know, at a point, and here's a, here's a change.

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Here's something that's coming in.

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It's intervening.

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He's been silent for four to five hundred years.

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The last time he had contact with his people, his chosen people, the Jewish nation.

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And it's been silent.

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And then all of a sudden, this miraculous thing begins to happen.

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So give us a little bit of context.

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Well, let's, let's take a really broad sweep.

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The Bible is, the Bible is made up of, in essence, four large chapters.

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There's the creation.

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There's the fall of mankind.

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There's the redemption of mankind at the cross of Jesus.

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And then there's the renewal of the earth.

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Those are really four key big blocks in the Bible.

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So you have creation and then from the Garden of Eden all the way until the cross of Jesus,

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the cross of Jesus, you have the fall.

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The Old Testament is all about people trying to live for God with laws outside themselves

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that God gives to show His holiness.

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God is a great God, but God is a loving God and He constantly tells them, "I love you.

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Israel keeps falling away."

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At the end of the Old Testament, you have a close at Malachi.

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And then you've got that four hundred silent years.

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I mean, think about that.

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It isn't that God's not working.

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It's just, there's no prophets.

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It, the synagogues develop.

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You know, different kinds of religion develop.

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The rabbis add numerous laws to the law.

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So what you're getting in the New Testament is you're getting not only the Old Testament

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law, but laws written by the Pharisees and the religious community to help people try

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to obey those laws.

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But nothing outside changes the heart.

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So Israel, which looked at Abraham and David as the key years, the glory of David is gone.

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That temple worship, that beautiful sacrifice is all that is gone.

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And you had a takeover by the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and then the Greeks come on the

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scene and hella lies the world.

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So you've got Greek language and then the Romans take over.

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Now Israel's become a glorious nation to a puppet nation and an oppressed nation to the

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Romans.

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And the Romans have taken it over.

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And the religious sect called the Sadducees of which are Jewish go into the Romans and they're

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the political arm of Judaism.

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The Pharisees are the protective arm of Judaism in the sense of the law and holiness, but

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they blew it because it was all works.

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And they lost this waiting for the Messiah.

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So here you've got a hopeless, hopeless nation.

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Four hundred years of nothing, no prophet, no voice.

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And then all of a sudden, as we talked a little earlier, Gabriel comes to Zechariah a

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priest.

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Gabriel is God's key angel in sending messages.

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Michael is his warrior angel.

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Gabriel in the New Testament, an Old Testament is a messenger angel that when some people

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call him the FedEx angel, when it absolutely positively has to get there, God gives it to

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Gabriel because he gets it there.

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All of a sudden in a normal situation where a priest is in the temple doing a yearly burning

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of incense, all of a sudden, Gabriel shows up to Zechariah and says, "Hey, you're

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your wife, Elizabeth, you guys are old.

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You're somewhere beyond bearing children."

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So you could think of 50, 60 maybe in there, you know?

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And he says, "Your wife is going to have a child."

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Now understand that in Jewish culture, when you didn't have a child as a woman, you were

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viewed in some ways as forgotten by God.

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Or you were viewed as cursed, or you were viewed as someone who lacked spirit, all those

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things.

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It was the role of children.

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And Zechariah, notice what it says in the text there, Mark?

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He prayed for his wife.

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He had been praying because Gabriel shows up and says, "I've heard your prayer.

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God's heard your prayer.

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Zechariah must have been praying even now.

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This is give us a child, which is an amazing thought."

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So this starts the whole thing.

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This is the world transforming message of Christmas.

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It is profound, suddenly after that.

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After this 400 years of silence, God shows up and says, "Now I'm sending your son and he's

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going to be named John."

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And as you go on in the text, you'll notice that in chapters one and two, he's going to

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be a prophet.

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It's almost as though he's going to be the last Old Testament prophet, and he's going to

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prepare the way for the Messiah.

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Everything in the Old Testament is now coming to consummation in the person of Jesus, because

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even Jesus said, "You searched the Scriptures, believing in them, you have eternal life."

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When all those Scriptures, and what were the Scriptures, you said it, the Torah, the Old

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Testament, all those Scriptures Jesus says, point to me.

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And so now Gabriel is saying, yep, yep, everything was the time.

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Now is the time.

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Now is the time.

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The life-changing fulfillment of what was in the Old Testament is going to happen now.

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Who's going to sit on David's throne?

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Who's going to take up Abraham's seat and spread it around?

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Who's going to die for sacrifices of sin?

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All these sacrifices in the Old Testament mark pointed to Jesus, one sacrifice.

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All that's coming to a consummation.

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But this story unfolds in the book of Luke.

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Luke, and unfolds in the book of Luke.

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And Luke, I've titled a series in Luke called Jesus for everyone, because you look in the

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book of Luke.

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Luke expands on this because he's Greek.

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He's not even a Jew.

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He met the Apostle Paul later and then got these stories from perhaps Mary and others and

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wrote them all down and added a few himself.

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So Luke now is a Gentile.

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So he's a Gentile.

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So the whole book of Luke is this book about God going outside Judaism and reaching everyone.

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Jesus is for everyone.

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And so in the book of Luke, you're going to find that everyone is in there.

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You've got a tax collector.

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You've got a woman who's been unjustly treated by judges.

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You've got all these people.

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Jesus is for them.

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He's for them.

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And so that's the concept.

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That's the redemption of all men.

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That's the redemption of every person doesn't matter where you are.

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It doesn't matter what religion you've had.

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It doesn't matter how much money you have.

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It doesn't matter any of that stuff.

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Jesus is for everyone.

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And he starts off with a senior couple, a agent couple.

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Then he goes to a teenager, Mary, who's probably 13 or 14 years old when she gets this message.

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So and then he goes to shepherds and delivers a message.

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And shepherds weren't exactly looked at with great, you know, great passion.

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They were sort of a little bit of an outcast there.

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And then he goes to a senior couple who have been in the church for a long time at the temple.

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And they've been praying, praying, praying, praying, praying their hearts out for a long

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time.

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And suddenly Jesus shows up and they go, this is it.

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This is the answer to our prayer.

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And everything starts.

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So Mary gets this message of Jesus' birth right to her.

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So Elizabeth and Zechariah got the message that they're praying.

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And he was a priest.

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And he was a priest.

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He was a priest.

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Right.

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And there were thousands of priests in Jerusalem in that area at the time.

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And he drew the card, the one nice lottery card in many ways, to go burn incense on an

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altar, which most priests didn't have the privilege of doing.

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So God is setting this up, you know, in his own powerful way.

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And then as a result of this message being revealed to Zechariah, he becomes mute.

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He becomes mute because he says, almost like he says, I can't believe this.

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How can this be?

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I don't believe it.

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And for some reason God chooses to give, to make him mute.

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So he can't say anything.

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He can't say what all the experience that happened.

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He says his name is going to be John.

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And he can't even say that.

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But he does have the ability to write on a little wax tablet and talk to his wife, Elizabeth

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about it.

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So she obviously knew.

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So we've set the context in Luke 1 in the very first 25 verses, the story of Zechariah and

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his wife Elizabeth and the announcement of John the Baptist.

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John the Baptist.

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So prepare the way who will prepare the way for the Messiah who then Gabriel goes to Mary.

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His young woman Mary.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting.

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We were talking a little earlier about the fact that in our culture, birth announcements

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are always made on Twitter or they're made on TikTok or they're made on Instagram or

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something like that.

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And these two birth announcements are made by an angel.

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Well, you know, that's one up from ours.

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And the angel comes to Mary and pretty well says, okay, John the Baptist, there's, you

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are going to have a Jesus the Messiah.

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John the Baptist is going to be born and I love what Luke 3 says.

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He's the stage hand.

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So John the Baptist is like setting the stage and he's going to be born to Elizabeth.

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Your son is going to be the person that comes out on the stage.

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So John the Baptist is kind of like the stage hand.

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He's moving everything around, getting everything ready for everybody and then all of a sudden

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the curtain pulls up and Jesus walks out.

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And John's going to be the stage hand.

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Jesus is going to be the main course, the main concert on that stage.

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And that's how it's all set up.

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Okay.

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And then we start that in verse 26 in chapter 1 of Luke.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, you do.

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You start that.

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And in the six month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God then rescends the angel Gabriel to

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Nazareth and begins then to confront Mary and unveils the story.

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Well yeah, I mean, it's going to happen to her.

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Yeah.

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And I can't even imagine that happening to a young woman at the age of 14 or whatever.

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Yeah, 13 or 14.

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I mean, she's just going about her daily stuff.

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I mean, this is what makes it so awesome.

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Zacharias is just doing his thing in the temple and all of a sudden everything changes.

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It's a knock on Mary's door.

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I mean, it's just, that's all it is.

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It's a knock and suddenly she opens a door and there he is.

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You talk about shock.

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And it's not just an angel, but notice it says in the text, she's greatly troubled.

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Why have you visited?

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A lot of times angels come to bring messages of doom.

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He comes and says, this is the greatest message ever.

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And he says to her, you are favored.

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You are favored.

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Because greetings you are highly favored.

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The Lord is with you and says she was troubled and wondered what kind of greeting that might

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be.

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But he said, Mary, you found favor with God.

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You will be with child and give birth of a son.

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And you are to give him the name Jesus.

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He will be great.

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In fact, that word great is the word where we get the word mega.

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So he's going to be mega.

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And the Lord will give him the throne of his father, David.

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Notice the wording.

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And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.

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It's all coming.

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Everything the throne of David, all done, house of Jacob, Abraham's all done.

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He's going to rule and reign over that.

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So the Messiah that the Jews are looking for and the Savior of the world that the world is

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going to look for, he's coming.

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I haven't forgotten.

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So.

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Yeah.

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It's fascinating to think about the context of the history of all of this taking place.

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And it's in their time, in their world.

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And yes, I'm the mother that's going to bear this child that's going to save the world

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that's going to be the Messiah.

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That put her in a, you know, that put her in a bit of a conundrum.

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I mean, she's, she's engaged to be married to Joseph.

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And, you know, this could be scandalous.

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This is scandalous in some ways.

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That's why Joseph goes off and says, what should I do?

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I mean, he is, he is kind of heartbroken.

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I'm engaged to this beautiful young 13, 14 year old girl and you could actually do that then.

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And all of a sudden he goes off and says, hey, you know, what am I going to do about this?

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Do I just quietly divorce her?

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So she's not shamed and do it, you know, but, but in quietly divorcing her, she becomes

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a single mom and a nessence is going to live with her parents, probably, for she's violated

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the moral code.

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And angels in essence come in, he has a dream and they say, don't, she's with the Messiah

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and he steps in.

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Yeah.

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But still you could imagine the scandal of this and the believability of it.

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What I dreamt is it real is it true and then all the implications, I mean, you can imagine

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even though the angel came to her and to Joseph and spoke to them both, that this is what's

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going to happen.

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There's still got to be a lot of fear and intrepidation because of the unbelievers that are

485
00:28:41,980 --> 00:28:45,100
out there that this is not even possible.

486
00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:46,100
Right.

487
00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:47,100
Right.

488
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:48,100
It's a scandalous thing.

489
00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:52,260
I mean, you know, it's again, Jesus for everyone, right?

490
00:28:52,260 --> 00:28:55,740
Jesus for this pregnant teenager.

491
00:28:55,740 --> 00:28:58,180
He changes, you know, God changes the whole paradigm here.

492
00:28:58,180 --> 00:29:00,260
I mean, you thought maybe he could do it a different way.

493
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:03,020
No, he doesn't because Jesus had to be born.

494
00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:04,700
Jesus had to go through childhood.

495
00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:06,900
He had to go and be raised up just like us.

496
00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:11,940
So it's an amazing story and that's where we start.

497
00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:12,940
Yeah.

498
00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:18,420
Now it's also history claims this as Mary's song.

499
00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:20,340
Why is this called Mary's song?

500
00:29:20,340 --> 00:29:26,260
Well, they call it the Magnificent because out of this whole thing, Mary sculpts this song.

501
00:29:26,260 --> 00:29:28,980
It's almost a beautiful series of verses.

502
00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:32,140
Some call it Mary's poem.

503
00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:36,020
It's called traditionally in the Catholic church and other churches, the Magnificent because

504
00:29:36,020 --> 00:29:43,260
it just exalts Jesus and talks about why he's coming and the hope that he's bringing and

505
00:29:43,260 --> 00:29:50,860
how he's going to change people, change culture, turn things upside down and how he's going

506
00:29:50,860 --> 00:29:54,020
to, in essence, answer this question, where is God?

507
00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:57,900
Because that was the question on the lips of a lot of the people then.

508
00:29:57,900 --> 00:29:58,900
Where's God?

509
00:29:58,900 --> 00:29:59,900
Where is he?

510
00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:01,500
I mean, we're in a press culture.

511
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,140
We're in a press culture.

512
00:30:03,140 --> 00:30:04,940
Jews were in a press culture at that time.

513
00:30:04,940 --> 00:30:08,900
They were a pain in Rome's backside in many ways.

514
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:13,700
And the Romans didn't mind it because they had them under their leash, you know, and they

515
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,380
didn't mind that kind of thing.

516
00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:17,460
But it's like, where's the glory here?

517
00:30:17,460 --> 00:30:23,860
We read about all these stories, partying the Red Sea, David's victories, all these conquests

518
00:30:23,860 --> 00:30:27,700
doesn't look very much like that anymore.

519
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:31,540
It's been a hope, really, so many ways.

520
00:30:31,540 --> 00:30:37,620
So in verse 39, it says, at that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country

521
00:30:37,620 --> 00:30:41,780
of Judea, where he entered Zacharias home and greeted Elizabeth.

522
00:30:41,780 --> 00:30:48,380
Then when Elizabeth heard of Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb and Elizabeth

523
00:30:48,380 --> 00:30:51,180
was filled with the Holy Spirit.

524
00:30:51,180 --> 00:30:52,180
What does that mean?

525
00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:54,740
What does that passage mean right there?

526
00:30:54,740 --> 00:31:00,940
In the context, why is that important, that narrative?

527
00:31:00,940 --> 00:31:04,060
Well I think something supernatural is going on there.

528
00:31:04,060 --> 00:31:09,100
I think first of all John the Baptist leaps and it isn't because he hears Elizabeth's voice.

529
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:10,100
His mom's voice.

530
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:16,980
He hears Mary's voice, which immediately points to the fact that she is bearing Jesus and

531
00:31:16,980 --> 00:31:20,580
that he is going to be the one to prepare the way.

532
00:31:20,580 --> 00:31:27,300
In fact, when he say, this was his first message that he brought, even in the womb, hey, he's

533
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:28,300
the one.

534
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:32,860
I jumped, I jumped when I heard Mary's voice, he's the one, he's the Messiah.

535
00:31:32,860 --> 00:31:35,780
So some see it that way, which is really, really pretty good.

536
00:31:35,780 --> 00:31:38,300
It's got to be validating for Elizabeth.

537
00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:39,300
It's validating.

538
00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:44,140
For Zacharias and for Mary herself and Joseph, the validation of that.

539
00:31:44,140 --> 00:31:48,500
But notice this is supernatural because the Holy Spirit fills her at this point.

540
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:52,260
Something really changes her at this point.

541
00:31:52,260 --> 00:31:59,580
The Holy Spirit, which was upon people prior to Pentecost, suddenly comes upon her and she

542
00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:02,980
sees things completely different.

543
00:32:02,980 --> 00:32:09,220
The Jewish nation did it talk about the Holy Spirit?

544
00:32:09,220 --> 00:32:13,900
Well, it shows I always think of the Holy Spirit as something happening after Pentecost.

545
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:15,900
Or later.

546
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:22,800
But how does that work into the Jewish mindset when Luke was writing this and he uses the

547
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,380
word the Holy Spirit?

548
00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:25,380
Would they have understood that?

549
00:32:25,380 --> 00:32:26,620
Yeah, they would have.

550
00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:31,980
They would have because it says in Genesis chapter 1 that the Spirit had got hovered over

551
00:32:31,980 --> 00:32:32,980
the waters.

552
00:32:32,980 --> 00:32:37,420
So we're talking about the Trinity here and we're seeing that the Holy Spirit was at work

553
00:32:37,420 --> 00:32:40,500
from the very beginning of time all the way through.

554
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,180
When you read the Old Testament, you will often hear that statement.

555
00:32:44,180 --> 00:32:50,160
The Holy Spirit was upon him and he did great things as a result.

556
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:55,660
The Holy Spirit was sort of upon people and would empower them like Samson Mark.

557
00:32:55,660 --> 00:33:02,020
It says when he cut his hair, which was a symbol of his relationship with God and he gave

558
00:33:02,020 --> 00:33:03,620
himself over to Delilah.

559
00:33:03,620 --> 00:33:07,540
It said he did not know the Holy Spirit had left him.

560
00:33:07,540 --> 00:33:13,860
So up until that particular point, the Holy Spirit was on people, on them for power.

561
00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:18,060
Jesus says that you know who the Holy Spirit is because he's been with you.

562
00:33:18,060 --> 00:33:21,820
He told us disciples, "And one day he will go and live in you."

563
00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:28,860
So there's the transition and you'll see in Joel, it'll say the Holy Spirit will come

564
00:33:28,860 --> 00:33:33,180
and your young men and young women will prophesy.

565
00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:34,660
So they were waiting.

566
00:33:34,660 --> 00:33:38,420
They knew that there was something coming that was going to be unique and different.

567
00:33:38,420 --> 00:33:45,500
So the narrative picks up in verse 42 and a loud voice she exclaimed in Elizabeth explained,

568
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:50,620
"Blessed are you among women and blessed is the child you will bear."

569
00:33:50,620 --> 00:33:52,120
Right.

570
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,380
Explain that verse right there.

571
00:33:55,380 --> 00:33:57,100
What is the blessing?

572
00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:03,900
Well, the blessing, whenever you say, "Blessed are you, you are going to be thrilled.

573
00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:06,780
You're going to be happy, happy are you."

574
00:34:06,780 --> 00:34:09,740
Because you are going to bear this on this, going to have a real impact.

575
00:34:09,740 --> 00:34:14,780
I mean, blessing and the word happiness can be a little bit interchange sometimes.

576
00:34:14,780 --> 00:34:15,940
But you're going to thrive.

577
00:34:15,940 --> 00:34:20,140
You're going to flourish because this is, Jesus is coming.

578
00:34:20,140 --> 00:34:25,620
And your child is going to be blessed as well because it's going to bless the nations.

579
00:34:25,620 --> 00:34:26,620
Yeah.

580
00:34:26,620 --> 00:34:27,620
I love that.

581
00:34:27,620 --> 00:34:31,100
Blessed are you among women and we often overlook that.

582
00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:32,100
Right.

583
00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:39,180
But the Jewish people have been waiting for their Messiah forever and think of the the

584
00:34:39,180 --> 00:34:45,060
myriad of women that have been born, you know, since Adam and Eve all the way through

585
00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:48,500
all the narratives up to this point in history.

586
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:50,140
And you are that one.

587
00:34:50,140 --> 00:34:52,940
I mean, how amazing that would be.

588
00:34:52,940 --> 00:34:53,940
Yeah.

589
00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:54,940
I mean, you're the one.

590
00:34:54,940 --> 00:34:57,260
I mean, that's what, I mean, it's like knock on my head.

591
00:34:57,260 --> 00:34:58,260
Is this real?

592
00:34:58,260 --> 00:34:59,260
Well, yeah.

593
00:34:59,260 --> 00:35:01,380
I mean, she's just a teenager.

594
00:35:01,380 --> 00:35:06,780
I mean, probably doing things teenagers do and doing the things that, you know, maybe going

595
00:35:06,780 --> 00:35:08,100
through puberty, who knows?

596
00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:09,700
I mean, all these things.

597
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:15,380
I mean, she's just a teenager in her house carrying on learning the ways of the Jews and

598
00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:20,020
Jewish women and learning the ways of life and all of a sudden her whole world changes.

599
00:35:20,020 --> 00:35:25,100
I mean, she goes, and that's why she says you have not forgotten me.

600
00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:26,100
Yeah.

601
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:28,620
And that's in verse 43.

602
00:35:28,620 --> 00:35:29,620
Look at her response.

603
00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:30,620
I mean.

604
00:35:30,620 --> 00:35:36,780
Why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me as soon as he heard

605
00:35:36,780 --> 00:35:41,100
the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby and my womb leap for joy?

606
00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:42,100
That's what you refer to.

607
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:43,100
Yeah.

608
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:44,100
Yeah.

609
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:45,100
I just love her response.

610
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:47,100
And I would be the same way.

611
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,780
Why would you choose me?

612
00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:51,860
But yet, it's very exciting to be chosen.

613
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:52,860
Also.

614
00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:53,860
Well, that's Elizabeth talking there.

615
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:54,860
Yeah.

616
00:35:54,860 --> 00:35:58,580
So Elizabeth is saying, you know, you came over to see me.

617
00:35:58,580 --> 00:36:02,660
And all of a sudden, and obviously there's a relationship there.

618
00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:03,660
There's some kind of connection.

619
00:36:03,660 --> 00:36:04,900
And you came over to see me.

620
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:11,580
And yeah, she, but notice Elizabeth, she's pregnant herself.

621
00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:15,060
And she doesn't even talk about her own pregnancy.

622
00:36:15,060 --> 00:36:17,540
She rejoices in Mary's pregnancy.

623
00:36:17,540 --> 00:36:18,540
Yeah.

624
00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:19,900
Most women are really ecstatic.

625
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:22,660
And all of a sudden this young teenager comes over and is pregnant.

626
00:36:22,660 --> 00:36:26,820
You know, and you can see Elizabeth like, well, gee, which, you're pregnant too, but she

627
00:36:26,820 --> 00:36:28,540
just goes, this is amazing.

628
00:36:28,540 --> 00:36:32,940
We're all part of this unfolding story.

629
00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:33,940
Yeah.

630
00:36:33,940 --> 00:36:36,460
That God is going to right now forever.

631
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:38,220
He's changing the story.

632
00:36:38,220 --> 00:36:39,220
Yeah.

633
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:41,380
It's writing new chapters in the story.

634
00:36:41,380 --> 00:36:46,300
And he's revealing to us what's been concealed.

635
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:51,340
You know, some people talk about what's in the old Testament concealed is in the New Testament

636
00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:52,340
revealed.

637
00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:54,740
Who's going to sit on David's throne?

638
00:36:54,740 --> 00:36:56,140
Who's the Messiah?

639
00:36:56,140 --> 00:36:57,380
How is it all going to work?

640
00:36:57,380 --> 00:37:00,020
How's David's throne going to be established?

641
00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:02,180
Is there going to be this and is there going to be that?

642
00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:03,620
And all of a sudden here it is.

643
00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:04,620
He got the answer.

644
00:37:04,620 --> 00:37:07,620
It's coming right here in these two women.

645
00:37:07,620 --> 00:37:08,620
Yeah.

646
00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:13,620
And then the narrative shifts away from Elizabeth and goes towards Mary.

647
00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:14,620
Yeah.

648
00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:16,980
And now we pick it up in verse 46.

649
00:37:16,980 --> 00:37:19,100
This is Mary's response.

650
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,300
This is Mary's song.

651
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:22,860
Right.

652
00:37:22,860 --> 00:37:25,380
And she, you know, she right away, she says something.

653
00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:26,380
And you can see this.

654
00:37:26,380 --> 00:37:28,780
This is a very heart-touching kind of thing.

655
00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:31,100
She says, my soul glorifies the Lord.

656
00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:32,740
My spirit rejoices.

657
00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:38,940
He has been mindful of the humble state of His servant for now on all generations will

658
00:37:38,940 --> 00:37:39,940
call me blessed.

659
00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:45,340
So notice Mary is saying you haven't forgotten me.

660
00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:47,500
You haven't forgotten me.

661
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:49,380
And you have not forgotten me.

662
00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:53,540
And I think people during this time of your Christmas often feel that somewhere, especially

663
00:37:53,540 --> 00:37:54,540
seniors.

664
00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:59,060
Sometimes feels forgotten or ignored or overlooked.

665
00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:01,820
And she says, you're mindful of this.

666
00:38:01,820 --> 00:38:03,220
You're mindful of this.

667
00:38:03,220 --> 00:38:10,300
And I think this is why we say Jesus for everyone because he's aware of everybody's circumstances.

668
00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:11,300
Even Mary's.

669
00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,620
I mean, I was just a servant, Cross, a teenager.

670
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:24,320
It's this huge Roman empire and living in this oppressed culture.

671
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:30,900
And all of a sudden you are coming through me in a culture like this.

672
00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:32,840
I thought you'd come to the palace.

673
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,640
I thought you'd come to the synagogue.

674
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,920
I thought you'd come to the priests.

675
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:42,800
I thought you'd come to the Pharisees or some Pharisees wife or a Sages wife.

676
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,200
And you're coming to me.

677
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,480
And I think sometimes we forget that God doesn't forget us.

678
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,800
God can use us no matter where our economics are, our health, no matter what.

679
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:54,800
That isn't forgotten.

680
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,540
And it appeared that he had 400 silent years as you mentioned.

681
00:38:58,540 --> 00:39:04,620
I mean, Mary and that culture are probably going, this is 400 years.

682
00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:07,560
I mean, how long have we been a country?

683
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,060
Think about that.

684
00:39:09,060 --> 00:39:14,320
400 years, nothing, no profit, no voice.

685
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,880
Mary fell forgotten and felt like God wasn't there.

686
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,840
I'm sure a number of the people in that particular culture, Jewish culture, had wondered, where's

687
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:23,840
the glory?

688
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:24,840
Where's all the power?

689
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:25,840
Where's the authority?

690
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,680
And some people at this time of year, Christmas sometimes is really hard for a while.

691
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,280
A whole lot of other people celebrate.

692
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,520
There are a number of people out there who wonder where is God.

693
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:35,520
What's he up to?

694
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,640
I had an experience like that just about two or three weeks ago.

695
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,440
Yeah.

696
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,480
And so share a little bit about that.

697
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,480
Yeah.

698
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,480
Yeah.

699
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,800
My daughter asked if I would take her car over to Fred Meyer and fill up.

700
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:55,900
And I got there about 10 to 10, Fred Meyer's, he asked with a person behind there that can

701
00:39:55,900 --> 00:39:58,280
help you close his up at 10.

702
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:04,680
So I was out there filling up her tank and the individual who was in the kiosk came out

703
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,920
and asked me, well, how you doing?

704
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,120
And I said, well, I'm grateful for Thanksgiving.

705
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,360
I had a good Thanksgiving.

706
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,920
I'm grateful for gas prices nudging down a little bit.

707
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,920
That's very, very helpful.

708
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,080
And something in my mind just asked him.

709
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,520
So I said, well, how are you doing?

710
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:19,520
It's Christmas season.

711
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:23,720
And he said horrible.

712
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:25,240
And he started to cry.

713
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,720
This is a guy that I don't know anything about.

714
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:30,280
He just said horrible.

715
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,080
And I said, well, what's happening?

716
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,080
What's mine that he has?

717
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,880
He said, I have an 11 year old daughter.

718
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,880
She's up at Dornbecker.

719
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:38,880
She has leukemia.

720
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,800
They're giving her six to 12 months to live.

721
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,120
I don't know what to do.

722
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,760
I feel like I'm forgotten.

723
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,480
I feel like everything is going wrong no matter what

724
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,480
I try to do to help.

725
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:51,000
I can't.

726
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,520
I feel helpless.

727
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,440
I feel like I don't know where to go.

728
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,920
My wife's a quarter job.

729
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,400
So she can be up there around the clock.

730
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,760
I'm working double shifts.

731
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,240
And I am so tired.

732
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,000
I'm so exhausted.

733
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,080
He said, I don't know where to turn.

734
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,120
I feel like nothing I do works out.

735
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,600
Nobody's out there to help.

736
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,520
And I just put my arm around them

737
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:19,320
and called them by name and just said, look, God is there.

738
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,840
And you might feel forgotten, but God can work in your daughter

739
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:23,800
Olivia's life.

740
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,840
God can work in your family.

741
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,840
God can do some great things.

742
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,880
And he said, well, you answered me the question, why?

743
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,400
Why has God given Olivia this terrible diagnosis?

744
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:35,960
And I just said, well, I don't know.

745
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,480
But I know that she's not forgotten.

746
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,280
I know that he grieves as well as you do.

747
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,640
He feels your pain and your heart.

748
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,080
And I said, there's God and he can help.

749
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:50,400
Well, long story short, we were able to provide for them

750
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,240
financially.

751
00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:54,120
I took his name down and we helped him.

752
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,520
And I saw him yesterday as a matter of fact.

753
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,120
And he just cried and said, I don't know why you helped us.

754
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,840
We paid one of his--

755
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:06,440
two months of his utility bills and gave him $400 for food.

756
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,560
And he just couldn't believe it.

757
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,680
And he realized through the church that he wasn't forgotten.

758
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,040
And I think God at this particular time

759
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,560
says to Mary in the Jewish race in all humanity, I'm

760
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:19,600
forgotten.

761
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:20,720
I'm forgotten your need.

762
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,920
I haven't forgotten the messed up situation the world is in.

763
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,760
I mean, the world was messed up in Rome too.

764
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:27,880
Messed up.

765
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,760
I mean, there was high taxation.

766
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,080
There was a lot of oppression.

767
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,000
They were under the thumb of Rome.

768
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,160
Saicero Papism.

769
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:40,120
I mean, Caesar was the guy.

770
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,920
And he was in charge.

771
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,080
And they were oppressed.

772
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:47,160
And they wondered.

773
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,960
And sometimes people feel that way right now.

774
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,600
What's going on in their own lives,

775
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,680
they feel like they can't make ends meet.

776
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,320
I mean, I've forgotten person.

777
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,760
Am I even connected to anything out there?

778
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,440
Or am I just drifting, not knowing anything?

779
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,200
And I think this is really a good indication that God

780
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,480
knows your situation.

781
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:13,280
Notice, she says here, my humble state.

782
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,640
I mean, God's aware of your needs.

783
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:20,560
God's aware of where you are, where you aren't all of it.

784
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:25,800
And so Mary's song is, the implications for us today

785
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,360
are what?

786
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,080
Well, the implications are is that everyone

787
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,760
is valuable to God.

788
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,280
That's the implications.

789
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,080
Everybody is made in the image of God.

790
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,840
It's not an issue of your education.

791
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,000
It's not an issue of your money.

792
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,200
It's not an issue of your status in life.

793
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,920
It's not an issue of your material goods.

794
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,440
Everyone is valuable.

795
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:53,760
God sees everyone made in his image and loves equally.

796
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,720
In other words, people are valuable to God.

797
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:59,200
People matter to God because they're made in his image.

798
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,280
I mean, Mary probably felt like, I don't matter.

799
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,800
I was a 13, 14-year-old kid in this huge Roman culture.

800
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,000
And all of a sudden, he turns around that whole thing.

801
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,880
In fact, if we go on down in the text there,

802
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,200
we'll see here that God not only understands

803
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,240
that and he doesn't forget anyone.

804
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,440
I mean, not a single mom, not a single woman.

805
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,480
There are people out there fighting for their lives

806
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:23,760
with their jobs.

807
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:24,800
God has forgotten me.

808
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,560
Nope, he hasn't.

809
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:28,760
There's dads out there.

810
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,200
There's widows and widows out there right now who are alone.

811
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,280
Has God forgot me?

812
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,360
No, he has not.

813
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,440
Come to him and you'll see him do some things

814
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,080
that are just beyond which you could ever imagine.

815
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,680
And Mary sees it here.

816
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,040
She sees it.

817
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:48,480
Notice he's seen it.

818
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,400
And he turns in the next few verses,

819
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:57,480
he does a revolutionary thing here, Mark, which is pretty amazing.

820
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,480
A revolutionary thing because the song, I have the song,

821
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,360
The Beatles in my mind when I think of this because

822
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,440
The Beatles said, you say you want a revolution,

823
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,160
well, we all want to change the world.

824
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:11,720
You tell me that it's evolution.

825
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:14,280
Well, we all want to change the world.

826
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,520
Well, he changes the world right here.

827
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,400
And this is not just the world in a material way.

828
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,320
This is a world in structure.

829
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,000
This is a world in status.

830
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,480
This is how God views the world.

831
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,400
I mean, he changes the whole situation.

832
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,840
Can we look at this for a second?

833
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:34,680
Yeah, absolutely.

834
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:35,440
Yeah, let's take a look.

835
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,320
She says, the mighty one has done great things.

836
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:38,120
Don't worry, verse four, yeah.

837
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,680
We're on verse 49.

838
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:40,200
49.

839
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,200
The mighty one has done great things for me.

840
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,760
Holy is his name.

841
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,080
It says here, he has performed mighty deeds

842
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:46,680
with his arms.

843
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,400
Notice he has scattered those who are proud

844
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,960
in their inn most thoughts.

845
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,000
In other words, people who think they're something else,

846
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,200
people who think that they're the ones in control,

847
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,520
people who think that they have the status and power,

848
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:00,720
he scatters them.

849
00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:03,480
They are no longer the key to life.

850
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,720
They're no longer the ones everybody should be looking at.

851
00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:08,680
Because now he's taking this humble maid

852
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,240
and making her a revolutionary.

853
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:11,840
You're going to bear Jesus.

854
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,240
And he's going to have a revolutionary effect.

855
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:17,200
It says here that he has brought down rulers

856
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,040
from their thrones and has lifted up the humble.

857
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,480
He used to be that if you were a ruler,

858
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,880
that you were the, everybody says,

859
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,880
"Oh, wouldn't it be great to be the president?"

860
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,600
And she's saying, "It's even greater

861
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,720
to be a humble servant bearing Jesus."

862
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:35,480
And so he takes all the values that we think,

863
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,920
status, power, wealth, all of it, turns it upside down

864
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,160
and says, "That's not what I look at.

865
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,680
I look at the heart.

866
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,720
I look at availability.

867
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:47,440
I look at worship.

868
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,160
I look at your heart and your faith."

869
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,880
Notice he says this, "He has filled the hungry

870
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:56,160
with food, with good things, and sent the rich away empty."

871
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,040
That's completely the opposite.

872
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,760
Most of the time we think the wealthy have everything.

873
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,360
They're not empty.

874
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,400
But what he's done here in Mary now is he's filled up.

875
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,520
He said, "I filled you up with good things.

876
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:14,080
You're no longer poor, even though you might not have the food.

877
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,440
You are no longer poor.

878
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:20,440
In my eyes, your status, who you are is so much more important

879
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,080
than rich."

880
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,920
It was just considered the poor were oppressed by God,

881
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,560
the rich were blessed by God.

882
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:28,280
And he says, "That's not true.

883
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:29,400
That's not true.

884
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,640
The poor can be blessed just like the rich."

885
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,040
And he's taking all the values that we think are important,

886
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,280
turns them right upside down and says, "Look, I'm for everyone."

887
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,280
And there's no wealthy people that are more blessed

888
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:43,320
than humble people.

889
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,800
I mean, he goes on and he talks a lot about that.

890
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,560
Changes everything.

891
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,000
It's a revolutionary thing.

892
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:49,840
Absolutely.

893
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,040
He hasn't failed, even though you may not be where a lot of people are.

894
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,120
He hasn't failed you.

895
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:54,920
Yeah.

896
00:47:54,920 --> 00:48:02,880
You know what's amazing about the scriptures is that they were relevant back then

897
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,760
and they're relevant today.

898
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:05,600
Oh, they are.

899
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,560
And one of the things, a couple of things that you're drawing out,

900
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,920
are there's some spiritual truths.

901
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:15,800
And the first truth that you brought out is that the God is not forgotten you.

902
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:16,320
Right.

903
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,280
And then number two is that God will not fail you.

904
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:20,280
Nope.

905
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:21,280
He will not.

906
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,280
He will not fail you.

907
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,840
And that's, she says, "As notice, for the mighty one is done great things."

908
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,320
She uses mighty.

909
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,280
He has done mighty things.

910
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:30,520
He's that word "might."

911
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,600
"Might" is saying, "There's none like you."

912
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:38,360
And he's not going to fail you, no matter where you are right now.

913
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:43,800
So God will do great things through you and you and with you, regardless of where you

914
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:44,800
may be.

915
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,280
And that's in verse 51.

916
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:47,280
Yes.

917
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:55,880
And then he says, "He has scattered those who are proud in their inn most thoughts."

918
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,880
What does that mean?

919
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,840
Well, those who think they've arrived, those who think they are.

920
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,840
And of what you were talking about.

921
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:03,840
Yeah.

922
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:08,800
The revolution of those that, those that think that they are right, that they have the power,

923
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,280
you know, I'm in control.

924
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,200
I'm the center of the universe.

925
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,600
He says, "No, you're not.

926
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,600
Dooms."

927
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,720
I'm, you may have power.

928
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:18,600
But that's not what I'm looking for.

929
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,160
You know, I'm looking for humble hearts.

930
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,160
I'm looking for people who will worship me.

931
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,200
I can use those kind of people.

932
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:26,200
Not that he can't use the rich.

933
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,320
Not that he can't use people with money.

934
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,040
Even rich people can be humble.

935
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:31,040
Yeah.

936
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,440
Even they can have a sense that Jesus owns everything.

937
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,720
I'm just blessed to have it.

938
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:40,520
But the arrogant, the people who say, "Hey, I've arrived.

939
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:41,520
This is life."

940
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,520
No, not always.

941
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:44,520
Not always.

942
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:45,520
Yeah.

943
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:50,720
It goes back to, you know, where do you store your treasures in heaven?

944
00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:53,280
Do you store them with your wealth?

945
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:58,520
Is that your, your confidence as you walked this planet?

946
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:05,640
Or do you store up your treasures in heaven, which, you know, rust aren't going to destroy

947
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:06,640
it?

948
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Well, that's right.

949
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,840
And that's in, or are egos.

950
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:10,840
Or are egos.

951
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:11,840
And that's right.

952
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,320
That's a Matthew chapter seven, you know?

953
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,480
You can't serve both God and money.

954
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,040
And Jesus says that.

955
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,560
You, you know, if you store up stuff here and that's what you're putting your hope in as

956
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:27,480
we'll see later, if you're putting your hope in that, that's not very good place, which

957
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,480
you're hoping.

958
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,480
And he's not saying God doesn't, you know, isn't down on wealth.

959
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,320
He's not down on people.

960
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,680
What he's down on is, you know, the condition of your heart.

961
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:43,200
And what you do with that money, does it serve God or does it serve your self?

962
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,520
That's exactly right, Mark.

963
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:45,520
That's exactly right.

964
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:49,480
It's, it's by saying, you know, I have all this money and God has given it to me and I'm going

965
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:50,480
to use it for him.

966
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,240
I'm going to use it for the betterment of culture.

967
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:53,360
I mean, it's not about me.

968
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,840
It's not because I'm some good person that I've been given all this wealth.

969
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,200
I've been given this wealth by God.

970
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,680
And so she just says, you know, hey, everything's going to be turned upside down here, you

971
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:08,520
know, the world's going to change status, you know, it's still that way.

972
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:09,800
People with the cool cars, all that.

973
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,400
We all think that.

974
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,840
And we compare our lives to theirs.

975
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:14,840
I think we failed.

976
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,360
And God says, no, wait a minute.

977
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,640
That's not my standard.

978
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,000
That's not my standard.

979
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,320
My standard is a humble heart and availability.

980
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:31,160
And he says that very clearly in verse 52, he has brought down rulers from their thrones,

981
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,320
but has lifted up the humble.

982
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:40,000
And then in 53, he says, he has filled the hungry with good things, has sent the rich away

983
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,120
empty.

984
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,840
And so be careful where you store your riches.

985
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:45,840
That's exactly it.

986
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:46,840
Yeah.

987
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:50,280
And when it says here that he has brought down rulers from their thrones, what does that

988
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:51,280
mean?

989
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:55,080
That baby would soon become Lord.

990
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,320
Lord of the universe, Lord of life, he was Lord.

991
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:58,760
He came into the world.

992
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:04,320
That baby would grow and rise from the dead and now sits on the throne ruling.

993
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,440
So there is no other name under heaven.

994
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,600
There's nobody more powerful than Jesus.

995
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:15,120
That little baby would ultimately grow, die, be buried, rise again and set at the right

996
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:19,040
hand of the Father as the Son of God because he was God.

997
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,400
And now there's nobody like him.

998
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,840
He's ruling the earth right now.

999
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,640
He rules the world with two things, grace.

1000
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,240
That's one of our great songs, right?

1001
00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:28,240
Right.

1002
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:29,240
Yeah.

1003
00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:30,240
That's exactly what's happening.

1004
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:34,560
And I want everybody to understand that this is Luke writing this narrative, but these

1005
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,240
are Mary's words.

1006
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:37,240
These.

1007
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:38,240
Right.

1008
00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:47,200
Just amazed at how brilliant she was, how wise she was at that young of an age.

1009
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:54,200
And when she's told by the Holy Spirit or by the angel that she's going to be with child,

1010
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,000
her response was this.

1011
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,120
I mean, that's amazing.

1012
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:03,040
Where does she get that kind of words?

1013
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:07,960
Where does she get that narrative to be able to respond?

1014
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:16,520
And yet Zachariah, whose her elder, a priest, learned it in the word and then he denies

1015
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,520
the whole thing and rejects it and says, no way.

1016
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:21,640
That can't possibly be true.

1017
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,480
And then she responds to the opposite.

1018
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:28,040
Well, he probably had a chance and his silent time to repent a little bit.

1019
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,760
So we got to be careful not to read too much.

1020
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:36,120
I mean, maybe initially that was his response, but I'm sure when he stayed moot for a long

1021
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,000
time, he probably thought about it again and said, well, obviously it's true.

1022
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
I got to make sure I'm on the right team.

1023
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,000
Exactly.

1024
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:48,640
And I think that I think Mary, what you see here is she either had great education because

1025
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,480
parents spread this down.

1026
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,480
Judaism was an oral religion.

1027
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,480
There was no written religion.

1028
00:53:54,480 --> 00:54:00,280
So her mom and her dad had to pass this down to her.

1029
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:06,400
And she had to learn it somewhere and probably good synagogue training from her parents passed

1030
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,880
it down to her as a young woman.

1031
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,400
And so she obviously had a great grasp of it.

1032
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,680
And let's not forget, just as the Holy Spirit worked in Elizabeth, I'm sure the Holy Spirit

1033
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,800
was working in Mary as well.

1034
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:24,600
So we need to realize that the Spirit of God was also upon her, upon her because this

1035
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:28,720
child was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

1036
00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:32,240
So obviously the Spirit of God is at work in her.

1037
00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:39,400
But on a ground level, obviously she grew up in a home where the Torah and the other sides

1038
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:43,240
were talked about, where the birth of the Messiah and all of these things.

1039
00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:46,720
She understood what the Messiah would do.

1040
00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:49,800
The Isaiah chapter where it says, the government will be on his shoulders.

1041
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:51,120
Well, that's what she says.

1042
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:52,760
The rulers will be cast down.

1043
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,920
The government is going to be on his shoulders.

1044
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,920
Isaiah 9.6.

1045
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:04,920
So this Mary's song is her response to finding out that she's pregnant with child that she's

1046
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,320
not had sexual relations with the Messiah.

1047
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:08,320
Exactly.

1048
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:09,320
Exactly.

1049
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:15,480
And unlike some people in our culture, I did not have sexual relations with that one.

1050
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,840
She can actually say that.

1051
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,480
She can actually, you know, and where does she get the power?

1052
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:29,080
Where does she get the wisdom to be able to respond in such a positive way?

1053
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:30,160
It's remarkable.

1054
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:35,960
And so what you're saying is her response, truth number one, God is not forgotten you versus

1055
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,960
46 through 49.

1056
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:43,960
Truth number two, God will not fail you versus 51 through 53.

1057
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,520
What's the next truth that we can glean from this scripture?

1058
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:51,800
Well, if you notice here, she uses the word here that we all appreciate.

1059
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,360
It's found in verse 50.

1060
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:59,560
Notice his mercy extends to those who fear him from generation to generation.

1061
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,560
And then she goes on to say 54.

1062
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:07,880
He has helped to serve in Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants

1063
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,400
forever, even as he said to our fathers.

1064
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:17,880
So the word mercy comes out there and mercy is an interesting, interesting word.

1065
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:24,000
And I think it would help us a bit to kind of look at what does that word mercy means because

1066
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,800
we all, you know, we all have past failures.

1067
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:33,720
We all have, I mean, let, I mean, if you really look at the story of Israel, Israel is a

1068
00:56:33,720 --> 00:56:38,640
story of constant failure and idolatry.

1069
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:43,640
You read it and they cannot get away from idolatry and they just don't seem to be able to

1070
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:44,640
acknowledge God.

1071
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,560
When you use the word idolatry, what does that mean?

1072
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:53,040
It's placing anything and trusting in anything for your life apart from God himself.

1073
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,880
And so in the Old Testament, what happens is they get taken over by people and they just

1074
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,280
give their selves to false religions.

1075
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,960
They even sacrifice their children at one point.

1076
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:03,960
Yeah.

1077
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:10,000
I mean, as even far as the Ten Commandments, they've made a golden idol down below while Moses

1078
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,080
is up there receiving the Ten Commandments, they can't seem to stay away from some kind

1079
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,280
of object of worship or some kind of idolatry.

1080
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,400
They just can't seem to do it.

1081
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:26,040
And it's a tragedy because throughout the whole Testament, God is always saying, please

1082
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:27,040
acknowledge me.

1083
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:33,480
I just want you to say I'm the one who has been caring for you.

1084
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:40,720
Often people think of God in the Old Testament as this angry, bitter, warlike God.

1085
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:44,120
And if you really read it, he's not.

1086
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:50,580
What he is is he's this loving God who says, you guys keep committing adultery with other

1087
00:57:50,580 --> 00:57:51,960
idols.

1088
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:56,800
You keep on giving your loyalty to other people and other idols.

1089
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:57,880
You shun me.

1090
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:58,880
You have to.

1091
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,160
That's why he says I hate divorce.

1092
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,080
He was divorced.

1093
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,280
Israel divorced him.

1094
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,920
That's why he says I hate divorce.

1095
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,440
He's been divorced.

1096
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:12,200
They divorced him from their lives.

1097
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,920
And the book of Hosea is all about that too.

1098
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,600
That's what the book of Hosea is about.

1099
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,560
One of the things that I appreciate about the Scriptures is that a lot of people look

1100
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:28,880
at the Bible Old Testament, New Testament as something that they could never attain to.

1101
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:34,440
And yet when you read the Scriptures, it's a story after story of man's failure, just

1102
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,480
like you were talking about.

1103
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:37,480
Absolutely.

1104
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:44,240
There are lessons for us to learn from so that we don't repeat some of those patterns

1105
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:49,640
or those stories in our own life and they're there for our good.

1106
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:58,000
And it's just amazing how the Bible, it's kind of for me it's a validation that this was

1107
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,360
not written by man.

1108
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:04,960
Because if it was written by man, we would make it a lot more flowery.

1109
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,280
We'd make it much more heroic.

1110
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,320
We'd make ourselves more heroic.

1111
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,120
And yet really the Scriptures is not about our heroism.

1112
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:18,240
It's about the downfall of our human nature.

1113
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:22,560
Well, the Bible paints all its heroes as with feed of clay man.

1114
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,760
There are no perfect people in the Bible.

1115
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,120
Abraham lied to protect himself.

1116
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,000
David committed adultery.

1117
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:36,680
Solomon just couldn't keep himself in order by teasing around with the Lila.

1118
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:41,640
I mean, the disciples put their foot in their mouth over and over and over again.

1119
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:46,760
I mean, the stories, you read those stories and you realize man, there's adultery, there's

1120
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,360
murder, there's all kinds of things going on.

1121
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:53,440
I mean, dumb vows like Jeb the makes a really foolish vow.

1122
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,120
He's so excited about God.

1123
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,840
He says, I'll sacrifice what comes out of my house and it's his daughter.

1124
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:00,680
He makes a foolish vow.

1125
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:06,080
So over and over again, the Bible is full of people who need mercy.

1126
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:10,520
Maybe it's good to define mercy really quick here.

1127
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,760
The Bible talks about three things, justice, mercy and grace.

1128
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:18,600
So justice is essentially getting what we deserve.

1129
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:19,920
Okay.

1130
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,560
Grace is getting what we don't deserve, which is what the New Testament is all about.

1131
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:27,600
We get eternal life, you know, we don't deserve it.

1132
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:32,560
And mercy is God withholding from us what we do deserve.

1133
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,120
So let me give a personal story.

1134
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,120
People get the picture.

1135
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:39,600
I was driving down Highway 18.

1136
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,280
I just spoken at a retreat at the Oregon coast.

1137
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,760
I was driving on Highway 18.

1138
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:45,160
It was Saturday night late.

1139
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:51,160
I was going to be, you know, speaking in the church on Sunday morning, I wanted to get home.

1140
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:55,520
I love driving on Highway 18 in these highways.

1141
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,440
I was going too fast.

1142
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:02,640
All of a sudden behind me pulls up this Dodge charger with this sheriff and he sheds light

1143
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,480
right in my car, man.

1144
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:10,240
And he comes all in the passenger side because the road so narrowed, he goes, Hey, do you know

1145
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:11,480
how much you know how much you were driving?

1146
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,200
Now I'm going to be a confessor here.

1147
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,520
So showing you I need mercy.

1148
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,240
So he goes, you know how fast you were driving?

1149
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,760
I said, Yeah, I think I was driving like 84.

1150
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:30,200
Well, he goes, he goes, no, you're driving about 86, 87.

1151
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:31,200
I said, Why do you go?

1152
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,200
Yeah.

1153
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,400
That's way over the speed limit.

1154
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:39,440
And I said, I said, Oh, man, I am so sorry.

1155
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:44,120
And he said, Well, you know, there are two kinds of people who drive these highways wrong.

1156
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,320
The slow ones, there is dangerous.

1157
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,000
And then there's people like you.

1158
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,320
And he goes, you're one of the fast people.

1159
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,920
And I said, I'm one of those fast people.

1160
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:54,920
I admit it.

1161
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:58,200
I just, this little car I have, this little Honda, it just drives so cool.

1162
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:00,080
It's fun driving down this road.

1163
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:01,080
I can fest you.

1164
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,400
I'm one of those.

1165
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:10,320
So he says, Well, excuse me, let me go back and check on things.

1166
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,400
He goes back.

1167
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:19,320
He comes back up and he says, Look, you have a very good driving record.

1168
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:23,320
He goes, I don't want to spoil it.

1169
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:27,600
So I'm not going to give you a ticket, but I am going to ask you to drive this speed limit

1170
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:31,080
all the way home on your honor.

1171
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,280
Now that's mercy.

1172
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,360
He could have given me a huge ticket.

1173
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,160
I figured I was going to be in for a lot of money.

1174
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,720
But he comes to the door and says, I'm not going to do that.

1175
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:41,720
That's mercy.

1176
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,000
That's what God has done in the Old Testament.

1177
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,200
And that's what God has done in Jesus.

1178
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:51,960
All our sin, all of it that deserves punishment, all our past mistakes, all our what ifs,

1179
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:56,320
all our gosh, I wish I had done this, all the things that just trouble us.

1180
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:57,320
God says, No.

1181
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:00,360
I'm not going to treat you according to that.

1182
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,560
I'm going to treat you according to my grace.

1183
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:05,400
I'm going to give you what you don't deserve.

1184
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,400
I'm going to give you grace.

1185
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,080
Now I can give you justice.

1186
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:11,800
And that means you could pay.

1187
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:13,160
I'm going to give you not only mercy.

1188
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:14,760
I'm going to give you grace.

1189
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:18,320
I'm going to give you an abundant life that you don't really deserve, but it all comes

1190
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,000
because of what Jesus has done.

1191
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:25,960
You can have my riches at the expense of Jesus Christ, all yours, even though you don't

1192
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:28,680
deserve it because you put your faith in Jesus.

1193
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:36,680
So she says that right here, mercy, Israel is just one big story of mercy, one big story of

1194
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:37,680
mercy.

1195
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,520
Exodus 34 is the key verse there.

1196
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:45,680
I'm a God who is merciful and compassionate, slowed, anger and abounding and loving kindness

1197
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:48,280
from generation to generation.

1198
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,720
Look, I'm slow to anger.

1199
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:57,520
But as we get older, look back at our lives and go, oh man, what a mess.

1200
01:03:57,520 --> 01:03:58,520
We should have done this.

1201
01:03:58,520 --> 01:03:59,680
I shouldn't have done that.

1202
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,840
We get into that whole thing, right?

1203
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:08,000
But it's interesting in Psalm 23, what does the Psalmist write in the later part of that?

1204
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:14,920
Surely goodness and mercy, listen to this, will follow me all the days of my life, will

1205
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:16,920
follow me.

1206
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:22,240
So we look back and go, oh man, that stuff is just, and God says, no, my goodness and my mercy

1207
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:23,480
are back there.

1208
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:25,480
I'm going to, I'm going to wash that off.

1209
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:30,480
I'm going to just show you my goodness and mercy by not keeping bringing that up.

1210
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:33,440
It's just going to, my goodness and mercy is just going to clean up stuff.

1211
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:37,400
It's just going to make your life better than you could ever imagine.

1212
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,600
And so that's, that's the difference.

1213
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:46,440
Mercy and she says that your mercy is we don't deserve to even have the Messiah come.

1214
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,960
We don't even deserve to bear this.

1215
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,920
We don't even deserve any of this.

1216
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,240
And here you are.

1217
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:54,800
You're, you're faithful.

1218
01:04:54,800 --> 01:05:00,120
You're coming and you're fulfilling your plan, even though we blew it so many times, you're

1219
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:01,600
going to fulfill your plan anyway.

1220
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:05,880
You're going to be faithful to your word because you said you would.

1221
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,920
And that's the amazing thing about this whole thing.

1222
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:13,920
She's just saying, you're faithful God, even when we messed up.

1223
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:17,440
So we need to wrap it up.

1224
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:19,320
And so let's, let's do this.

1225
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:23,400
Give us, tell us where we've been.

1226
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:26,280
Give us the three points.

1227
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:32,360
And then I want you to conclude with truth number three.

1228
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:40,520
And when it comes to God's faithful love and forgiveness, explain how we can embrace that,

1229
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:46,840
how we can hold on to it like, like, like, Mary did.

1230
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:53,600
Well, you know, this whole, this whole thing starts again in the Old Testament and God made

1231
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:58,360
certain promises in the Old Testament to Israel, a covenant with them.

1232
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,880
He says, this is my end.

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01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:02,280
You know, be obedient.

1234
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:03,800
They could not.

1235
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:05,360
Over and over they blew it.

1236
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:06,680
Over and over they send.

1237
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,480
Over and over and over.

1238
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:12,480
No matter how God tried to show his love, they rejected it.

1239
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:14,880
I mean, you talk about having your love rejected.

1240
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:16,720
He did that.

1241
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:23,040
He, you know, things shut down for 400 years and suddenly all of a sudden in his faithfulness,

1242
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,240
even though it took that long, he says, I'm going to fulfill what I said.

1243
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:28,760
I'm going to fulfill my covenant to you.

1244
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:30,240
I'm going to fulfill my word.

1245
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:33,960
I'm sending Jesus to Messiah.

1246
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:35,400
And he's going to die for you.

1247
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,440
He's going to be buried for you and he's going to rise for you.

1248
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:44,520
So Mary is the person that delivers that message because that's what the angel says there,

1249
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:47,160
I bring you good news.

1250
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,120
It's going to be good news.

1251
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:50,640
There's good news out there.

1252
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:51,880
You thought everything was bad news?

1253
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:53,520
I'm bringing you good news.

1254
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:56,360
So he brings us good news and a Savior is going to be born to you.

1255
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,320
His name is going to be Jesus.

1256
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,920
And Jesus is short for, you know, Joshua which means salvation from the Lord.

1257
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:06,800
So Jesus is going to be the purveyor of the salvation.

1258
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:08,800
And Mary, I haven't forgotten my covenant.

1259
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:09,800
I haven't forgotten you.

1260
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:11,840
I haven't forgotten the people.

1261
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:17,160
I have done mighty things for you and I won't fail you.

1262
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:19,520
You thought I might have just shut the door and said done.

1263
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:20,680
I haven't.

1264
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,280
I'm still working behind the scenes.

1265
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:26,720
And then he says, my love and forgiveness and mercy are available and they're coming in

1266
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:27,720
big order.

1267
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:32,240
If you think I was merciful before, I'm sending my son to be up close and personal with

1268
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:33,240
you.

1269
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,840
And so I haven't forgotten you.

1270
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:39,880
I haven't failed you and my forgiveness is available to you still.

1271
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:43,160
And now it's available to everybody, not just her.

1272
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:44,800
It's available to all of us.

1273
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:49,400
And so we take this story of Christmas and we make it personal.

1274
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:54,240
We say, God, I've lived a life that has been marked by selfishness.

1275
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:55,240
It's sin.

1276
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,680
Man, I made mistakes in my life.

1277
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:03,440
I'm not sure about my relationship with you, but I need your mercy.

1278
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,480
I want you to forgive me for those things.

1279
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:12,640
I want you to wash those things out of my life and I want you to come into my life like

1280
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:17,040
you came into Elizabeth and Mary's life through your Holy Spirit and I want you to change

1281
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,600
me and I want to make you my Lord and my Savior.

1282
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,720
I want you to save me from all those past mistakes.

1283
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:27,720
I want to confess my sins because you're faithful and just to forgive them.

1284
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,840
And then I want to experience your mercy and new and a fresh and I want to be filled with

1285
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:35,400
the Spirit to live a completely different life.

1286
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:37,040
And I want salvation.

1287
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:42,840
It's life not only today, it's life in the future because the Bible says, for God's love

1288
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,000
the world that He gave is one and only Son.

1289
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,560
And here it is, that's just the start of that, right?

1290
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:51,440
That whoever would believe in Him would not perish but have eternal life because God didn't

1291
01:08:51,440 --> 01:08:56,080
send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be

1292
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:57,080
saved.

1293
01:08:57,080 --> 01:09:03,320
It's just aching to be merciful to you, aching to give you salvation, aching for you to come

1294
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,720
to Him, aching for you to become part of His family.

1295
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,720
And this is the start.

1296
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:10,720
It's the greatest story ever.

1297
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:12,400
It's the greatest story ever told Mark.

1298
01:09:12,400 --> 01:09:20,280
And I'm just flabbergasted that so many people are against that story.

1299
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:25,040
They devote their lives to trying to destroy that story.

1300
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:31,920
And it's not that, like you said, you said it so well that God didn't come to this world

1301
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:34,600
to destroy or to condemn the world.

1302
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:40,480
He came to embrace the world and to bring everybody into His arms.

1303
01:09:40,480 --> 01:09:41,480
Exactly right.

1304
01:09:41,480 --> 01:09:44,000
Why you would reject that?

1305
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,800
I just is mind-boggling to me.

1306
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:51,920
Well, some people reject it because they've had bad people say their Christians, but when

1307
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:56,640
you once you can into a place where you see life and you see Jesus and you see what He's

1308
01:09:56,640 --> 01:10:01,280
done on the real deal, man, you can't resist it.

1309
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:02,640
You can't reject it.

1310
01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:04,400
You know, I've seen it in my life.

1311
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:08,960
I've seen it in countless, hundreds, thousands of other people's lives, you know, through my

1312
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:13,000
ministry, change and all of a sudden, man, they are changed.

1313
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:17,120
Marriages, they're where they treat their kids, the way they view their work, the life and

1314
01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:20,200
peace they have, the chalone that comes in their hearts, it all changes.

1315
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:24,800
Suddenly, there's this sense that everything will be okay, God's in control.

1316
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:25,800
Yeah.

1317
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:30,480
And Christmas is about exchanging gifts.

1318
01:10:30,480 --> 01:10:36,640
And the greatest gift that we can give to one another or that God gives to us is the gift

1319
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,520
of eternal life.

1320
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:46,960
And it's the gift of justice, mercy and grace in what He did for us.

1321
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:48,440
It's a free gift.

1322
01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:51,760
All we have to do is receive it and hold it.

1323
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:52,760
That's right.

1324
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:53,760
That's exactly right.

1325
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:54,760
Like we open a gift under the tree.

1326
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:58,280
It's so simple, just so complex.

1327
01:10:58,280 --> 01:10:59,280
Yeah.

1328
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:00,280
Yeah.

1329
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:01,360
Well, we mess it up in our own hearts.

1330
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:05,280
And with our own thoughts, we mess it up and God makes it really simple.

1331
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:10,480
You know, as many as believed in Him to them, He gave the right to become children of God,

1332
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:12,760
even though who believed in His name.

1333
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:13,760
That's it.

1334
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:14,760
Yeah.

1335
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:15,760
Well, amen.

1336
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:16,760
Thank you.

1337
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:17,760
Thank you, Tom.

1338
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:18,760
Yeah.

1339
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:19,760
Thank you, Mary.

1340
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:20,960
Christmas to all the listeners too out there.

1341
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,080
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be a part of your day.

1342
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:25,080
Absolutely.

1343
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:26,080
Absolutely.

1344
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:33,040
And if somebody wants to reach out to you and share their testimony or share a story, how

1345
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,240
would they best reach out?

1346
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:41,800
Probably the best way would be to email me at Tom@gatewaychurchpdx.com.

1347
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,800
Just email me there.

1348
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:51,580
You can call the church at 503-252-1435.

1349
01:11:51,580 --> 01:11:52,880
You can do that.

1350
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:59,120
And we can have our office administrator bring you through to me and you can tell me your story.

1351
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:00,600
We'd love to hear it.

1352
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,840
And yeah, if you just email me, that would be great.

1353
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:04,840
That would be fantastic.

1354
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:05,840
Fantastic.

1355
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:06,840
Yeah.

1356
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:07,840
All right.

1357
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:13,080
And I want to say, Mary Christmas to all of our listeners and we're so grateful for

1358
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:18,760
the many listeners that we do have out there and we're going to continue to bring the great

1359
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:26,240
message, not only of Christ, but the great message of how we can age more gracefully over

1360
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:32,400
the years and we're going to have many, many more guests coming up in 2024.

1361
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:37,000
This is Mark Turnbull, your host, and I want to thank all of you for tuning in to Aging

1362
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:38,200
today.

1363
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:42,920
And we are the podcast where together we're exploring the many options to aging

1364
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:44,920
on your terms.

1365
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:50,520
Join us every Monday when we release a new conversation on Aging today to your favorite

1366
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:52,360
podcast channel.

1367
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:55,600
And remember, we're all in the process of aging.

1368
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:59,040
And as we age, we really are better together.

1369
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:00,560
So stay young at heart.

1370
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:04,680
You make me feel so young.

1371
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,880
You make me feel like spring is from.

1372
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:12,480
And every time I see your face, I'm such a happy.

1373
01:13:12,480 --> 01:13:17,160
I'm an individual, the moment that you speak.

1374
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,240
I want to go play hide and see.

1375
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:29,800
I want to go and bounce the moon just like a toy balloon, well you and I, I'll just

1376
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:35,120
like a bullet tauts, running across the metal.

1377
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:42,200
They can have lots of, forget me, not so you made me feel so young.

1378
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,640
You made me feel there are songs to be sung.

1379
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:49,200
Beings to be run and wonderful thing to be fun.

1380
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:52,160
And you know when I'm old and grey.

1381
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:57,400
You've been listening to Aging today, where together we explore the options to aging

1382
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,040
on your terms.

1383
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:04,320
Join Mark in his guest next week for another lively discussion on proactively Aging on

1384
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:09,920
your terms, connecting you to the professional advice of his special guests with the goal

1385
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,400
of creating better days throughout the aging process.

1386
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,840
Your host has been Mark Turnbull.

1387
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:21,280
Join Mark in his guest every week on Aging today, your podcast to exploring your options

1388
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:23,120
for aging on your terms.

1389
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:26,280
And you went old and grey.

1390
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:29,880
You make me feel the way I feel today.

1391
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:34,120
Cause you make me feel so.

1392
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:37,240
You make me feel so.

1393
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:42,560
You make me feel so young.

1394
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:44,960
So young.

1395
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:48,040
You make me feel so young.

1396
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:50,040
You make me feel so young.

1397
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:52,620
(upbeat music)

1398
01:14:52,620 --> 01:14:53,720
(music ends)