Shawn Moynihan – Mary of Nazareth – Class 5 – Mary’s Trials

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This is day five of the 2025
Palm Springs Bible School.

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Our first period teacher is
Brother Sean Moynihan.

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His general subject is Mary of
Nazareth.

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Today’s topic is Mary’s trials
Brother Sean.

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Good morning brothers and
sisters.

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Today we’re going to speak about
Mary’s four sword wounds.

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Now, we’ve discussed other
wounds this week, haven’t we?

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Like the wound when Jesus,
friends and neighbors tried to

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kill him and Nazareth.
But this morning we’re going to

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focus on four.
And the first is the murder of

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Bethlehem and the surrounding
region’s children.

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And then we’re going to take a
look at when Jesus was quote, UN

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quote, lost in the temple.
Then we’ll take a look at when

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Jesus was estranged from his
half brothers and the family

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conflict that that caused, the
anguish that it caused for Mary.

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And lastly, we’ll look at Mary
at the foot of the cross.

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Now, where do we take this sword
wound idea?

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Well, of course we know whether
it is right from Simeon when

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Jesus is presented at the
temple.

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And Luke 2 And behold, there was
a man in Jerusalem whose name

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was Simeon.
And this man was just and

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devout, waiting for the
consolation of Israel, and the

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Holy Spirit was upon him.
It had been revealed to him by

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the Holy Spirit that he would
not see death before he had seen

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the Lord’s Christ.
So he came by the Spirit into

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the temple, and when his parents
brought in the child Jesus to do

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for him according to the custom
of the law, he took him up in

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his arms and blessed God and
said, Lord, now you are letting

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your servant depart in peace
according to your word.

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From my eyes I’ve seen your
salvation, which you have

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prepared before the face of all
peoples, a light to bring

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revelation to the Gentiles and
glory of your people Israel.

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And Joseph and his mother Marvel
did those things which were

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spoken of him.
Then Simeon blessed them and

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said to Mary, He stopped.
And he said to Mary, Behold,

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this child is destined for the
fall and rising of many in

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Israel, and for a sign which
shall be spoken against.

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Yes, a sword will Pierce through
your own soul.

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Also that the thoughts of many
hearts may be revealed.

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What a powerful paradox.
In the midst of celebrating

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God’s blessing, God’s greatest
blessing, he turns to Mary and

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he says you will be wounded.
You’ll be wounded by a sword of

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war.
It’s a paradox, isn’t it?

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But we understand this paradox.
Berkeley, not to be confused

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with Eidersheim, totally
different guy.

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Berkeley writes in the Gospel of
Luke about the paradox of

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blessedness.
He writes to Mary was granted

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the blessedness of being the
mother of the Son of God.

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And yet that very blessedness
was to be a sword that pierced

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her heart.
That very glory was to break her

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heart.
She was blessed, and that very

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blessedness meant that someday
she would see that son of hers

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hanging on a cross.
To be chosen by God so often

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means at one and the same time,
a crown of joy and a cross of

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sorrow.
And we know that, don’t we,

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brothers and sisters in our own
lives.

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And we we take comfort in the
fact that these trials, these

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sorrows are always purposeful.
We read in Peter and this you

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greatly rejoice, though now for
a little while, if need be, you

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have been grieved by various
trials, that the genuineness of

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your faith, being much more
precious than gold that

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perishes, though it is tested by
fire, may be found to praise,

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honor and glory.
At the revelation of Jesus

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Christ, whom having not yet seen
you love, though now you do not

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see Him, yet believing, you
rejoice with joy, inexpressible

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and full of glory, receiving the
end of your faith, the salvation

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of your souls.
So Mary had a unique paradox,

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didn’t she?
As we discussed yesterday, Jesus

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was the Son of her womb, but He
was also her Lord.

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And that was a challenge for her
to separate those things and

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Jesus was helpful to her in
reminding her about those

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separation.
Remember in Luke 11 we read and

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it happened as He spoke these
things, that a certain woman

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from the crowd raised her voice
and said to him, Blessed is the

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womb that bore you and the
breast which nursed you.

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But He said more than that,
blessed are those who hear the

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Word of God and keep it.
So what did Simeon say to Mary?

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Well, in the disciples little
New Testament, it really comes

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across.
Indeed, a sword from Thea will

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Pierce the soul of you yourself.
The Greek uses a tautology

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there, right?
A repetition for emphasis.

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And this is not the usual word
for sword, makyra from Thea.

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It’s a sword of war, and this is
an example of what it looked

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like now.
It’s a weapon of war that

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created a warrior’s wound
because Mary was a spiritual

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warrior.
And I wonder if Mary’s biblical

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mind, because we know it was her
habit of mine to turn things

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over in her mind if she thought
of how that word was used in

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Zechariah 13 Awake, O sword
against my shepherd, against the

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man who is my companion, says
the Lord of hosts.

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Strike the shepherd and the
sheep will be scattered.

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And we know, of course, brothers
and sisters, that that pertains

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to Jesus because he quotes it in
Mark 14.

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So being a mother is like being
a warrior.

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And we have an example of that
in in Judges.

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In Judges 5 from the New century
version, there were no warriors

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in Israel until I, Deborah
arose, until I arose to be a

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mother in Israel.
And the new English translation

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renders that warriors were
scarce.

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They were scarce in Israel until
you arose, Deborah, until you

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arose as a motherly protector in
Israel.

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So Mary was a warrior mom.
And the most important of all

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battles, the spiritual battle
that God had instituted, Brother

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Thomas and Elpas Israel writes,
God instituted war when he put

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enmity between the serpent and
the woman.

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And you know, throughout our
classes, we’ve seen how

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connected Mary is to the
promises in Genesis.

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Now, is brother Jason here?
Brother Jason?

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I’m a little bit nervous.
I teach a class for brother

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Jason.
He’s a principal.

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I don’t know if this is a
performance evaluation.

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I’m not sure.
Try to pay attention or at least

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seem like it.
OK, in case he’s lucky.

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So if I were to say that to
Jason, what is the essential

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warrior attribute in Hebrew?
He would say Chael, valor.

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How’d they do on the
pronunciation?

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Very good Chael.
Sarah Fisher writes that over

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and over.
Chael is represented as someone

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in God’s army.
It is translated as violent

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warriors, capable men, strong
and powerful, great army, mighty

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soldiers.
It’s a force, and that’s the

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word that’s used in Proverbs.
The virtuous woman is a woman of

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Chaal, and Mary was a woman of
Chaal.

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And we see that this word is
connected to all these Old

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Testament people and places and
prophecies that are so closely,

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closely connected to Mary.
We see it in Ruth.

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We see it especially related to
Ruth slash Rachel in Ephratha

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and of course, in Proverbs.
Now we want to take a look too,

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because there was another person
at the temple and her name was

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Anna.
She was a continuing presence at

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the temple.
She did not depart from the

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temple.
We read, and one can speculate,

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did Mary have an existing
relationship with Anna through

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Elizabeth?
You know, I think we can infer

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that, yes, that would make
sense.

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And it’s very interesting what
Anna does.

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She spoke when she, when the
Messiah became apparent.

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She spoke of him to all those
who looked for redemption in

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Israel.
So people knew who Anna was.

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She was a fixture at the temple.
She was there all the time and

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she was spreading the good news
about what had happened.

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So she was doing that.
The shepherds were doing that

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because we read in Luke 217.
Now when they had seen him, they

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made widely known the saying
which was told to them

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concerning His child.
And as I said, these are the

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special shepherds, the shepherds
that were going every day with

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the temple sheep to the temple.
So why didn’t Herod know about

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Jesus and Herod?
As we know, Herod the Great was

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the most paranoid ruler in
history, which is a high bar.

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Herod’s paranoia, Norman Gelb
writes, was deeply embedded as

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he graduated to greater
positions of power, his

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insecurity expanded and
deepened.

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When as king, he was persuaded
by backbiting siblings to doubt

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the faithfulness of his adored
wife, he had her killed.

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The sons executed may or may not
have been conspiring against

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their father, but the mere
suspicion that they were assured

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their elimination.
So this paranoid Herod whose

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palace was over on the left side
of the screen, the temple on the

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right side of the screen, he was
unaware for the 1st at least the

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first two years of Jesus life
that there had been one born

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King of the Jews.
The only explanation for this I

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think is found in Psalm 34 where
we read the Angel of the Lord in

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camps all around those who fear
him and delivers them.

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And there’s a special context
for that, for that Psalm.

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Remember it was David in the
court of a king who was jealous.

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It wasn’t it wasn’t Saul, it was
it was a Kish right, but Saul

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was jealous too.
But Psalm 34 is is is that the

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Angel of the Lord encamps around
those who fear him.

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And so that’s what happened for
the first two years that that I

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believe God had provided a
sanctuary for Mary and Joseph

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and Jesus to get started.
But that was to end.

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We read in Matthew 2.
Then Herod, when he saw that he

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had been tricked by the wise
men, became furious, and he sent

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and killed all the male children
in Bethlehem and in all her

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regions who were two years old
and under, according to the time

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he had determined from the wise
men.

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I’m going to let that murderous
fact sink in and we’ll come back

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to it.
So to be safe, the Angel

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directed Joseph to seek refuge
in Egypt.

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And of course, this was to
fulfill prophecy.

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So I believe that Joseph and
Mary and Jesus went to

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Alexandria.
According to tradition, they

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went down into the delta.
Further down, I believe they

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went to Alexandria.
There was a huge Jewish

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population in Alexandria.
It would make sense that they

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would be able to blend in there.
So they go there to fulfill

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prophecy.
But one of the things that we

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know is that there was a
communications pipeline between

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Alexandria, Alexandria and
Jerusalem.

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So Mary in safety would have
heard about the murder of the

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children.
And we know how Mary felt about

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that.
Brother Robertson, as she

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visited, does an amazing job of
of kind of extrapolating on how

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she would have felt Rachel
weeping for her children, he

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writes.
Thereupon a rose, a whale rarely

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heard upon earth, the whale of a
multitude of bereaved mothers.

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It is impossible to conceive a
cuter natural agony than

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inflicted on the mothers of
Bethlehem.

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As no human affection is
stronger than that of a mother

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for her child, so no suffering
could be greater than that

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caused by this cruel slaughter.
Many have been the efforts of

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the pencil to depict the scene,
various, the success tragic

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enough, all but doubtless none
of them coming up to the

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reality.
It is one of the most harrowing

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episodes in the story of human
suffering.

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A long, dark, dreadful story.
Remember, Simeon said for a sign

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which will be spoken against.
How can we understand the impact

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on Bethlehem and the regions
around?

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How can we understand the impact
on Mary who knew these families

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who for two years went to
synagogue, went to the well?

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We know how important community
was to Mary.

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Mary knew these families.
Mary knew these children, in

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fact, because of David’s house
living there, she was probably

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distantly related to many of
them.

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So we asked God why in
situations like this.

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And we won’t know until by grace
we’re in His Kingdom.

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But we know this, like Abraham
said, shall not the judge of all

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the earth do right?
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And brothers and sisters, Kyle
gave Mary the courage to act in

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faith even when she was hurting
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And out of this tragedy comes
hope, the understanding of Mary

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as a new spiritual Rachel for a
new spiritual Israel.

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Now we see in Route 4 from the
Wickliffe translation that the

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people around Bethlehem said to
Ruth, may the Lord make this

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woman who enter thy house like
Rachel, who built the House of

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Israel, and may she be an
example of what of Kyle in

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Ephrata.
And of course that word is very

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key because it’s connected to
the birth.

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So David Fletcher writes that in
Matthew, Rachel is a symbolic

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figure for the suffering mother,
in this case the suffering

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Jewish mother.
And Rachel’s pain for the dead

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children is also symbolic for
the suffering of Mary in

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relation to her illustrious son.
So Mary becomes the new Rachel.

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That’s something that we had
kind of previewed at the cross

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right when we talked about that
in Matthew 2.

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We read then was fulfilled what
was spoken by Jeremiah the

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prophet saying a voice was heard
in Rama, lamentation, weeping

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and great mourning.
Rachel weeping for her children,

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refusing to be comforted because
they are no more.

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So the connection of Rama is is
also connected to all those Old

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Testament things that are so
kind of interwoven into our

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understanding of Mary, the idea
of Deborah and of course Hannah.

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It’s close to Efrata Bethlehem
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And so here we see the thoughts
of Mary and her feelings about

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the murder of so many children
that that she would have known

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so well weeping for her
children, refusing to be

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comforted.
And so we see her as the new

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Rachel.
We have the literal and the

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figurative.
So we talked about this at the

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at the cross woman.
Behold thy son and John taking

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Mary into his home.
So literally, It’s interesting.

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John already has a mother who’s
Mary’s sister Salome.

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Mary has other children to take
care of her.

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At that time they were doubting,
but they soon became believers

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like James.
But Jesus explicitly creates

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this new relationship,
establishing Mary truly as a

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figurative new Rachel.
So figuratively, Jesus creates

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this new spiritual family
relationship.

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Mary is a mother to a new Israel
under a new covenant and she

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becomes Israel’s mother.
It’s kind of interesting.

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Brother Thomas recognized this
in in 1853, he writes.

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Rachel, being the constitutional
matriarch of Israel, is the

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mother of the tribes according
to the adoption pertaining to

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Israel.
So we see the types here.

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And of course, Joseph is such a
powerful type of Christ.

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Joseph, Christ the first born,
and Benjamin and John the second

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born.
She’ll call his name.

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Joseph and the Lord add to me
another son.

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Of course another son is added.
Benjamin and John are the second

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born.
Both are beloved.

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Both are born out of sorrow.
Of course, the initial name was

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Ben Onai, the son of sorrow.
Mary had her new son added in

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her sorrow at the foot of the
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So even out of unspeakable
tragedy, there’s hope as Rachel

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has a new role and a new
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So let’s go to the other example
of in his father’s house at age

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12.
So brother Lane Rittenmeier

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talks about this, right?
That that would have been going

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down to become the son of the
commandment, to become an adult,

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practically speaking, in that
culture.

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So this happens.
And of course it came about that

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after three days they found him
in the temple.

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It you know, they looked they
couldn’t find Jesus when they

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returned home and his mother
said to him, Child, why did you?

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And this is from the disciples
little new translation.

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Child, why did you do us like
this?

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Behold, your father and I were
looking for you while suffering

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pain.
And he said to them, why is it

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that you were looking for me?
Did you not know that I must be

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in the things of my father?
And they did not understand the

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thing which he spoke to them.
Mounts translates it.

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Child, why did you treat us like
this?

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Look, your father and I have
been terribly worried trying to

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find you.
OK.

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Now, Sister Kathy and I were
blessed with four kids.

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Have you have you ever misplaced
one of your kids?

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You know, it’s kind of like what
they what they said to Daniel

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Boone.
They asked Daniel Boone if he’d

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ever been lost and he said no.
But I was a Mike bewildered for

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three days once.
So I can remember 1 occasion

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coming back from a Bible school.
Our oldest was 12 and we stopped

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at one of those big malls on the
way back.

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And so we said to Brayden, I
want you back by this time.

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You can go afternoon, but I want
you back by this time.

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And because we’re teachers, we
said, and what time do are you

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going to be back?
I’m going to be back at this

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time, dad.
So he’s not back.

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He’s not back in 10 minutes.
He’s not back in 20 minutes.

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He’s not back in an hour.
He’s not back in an hour and 15

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minutes.
So we start looking for him and

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people start helping us look for
him.

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And finally I see him and I have
this picture of him in my mind

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that I’ll never lose.
He’s ambling along.

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He’s got his baseball hat on,
he’s got a red check shirt

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that’s open and Michigan State
Spartans basketball shirt there.

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And I didn’t know whether to
kiss him or kill him.

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Think of Mary’s anguish.
Think of Mary’s anguish.

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Think of the great mission that
she had with the Son of God.

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Indeed, the sword pierced her.
And again, three days.

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Three days.
See, all these clues are helping

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Mary along the way.
Understand that she needs to

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separate herself from the Mother
role and become a disciple. 3

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days.
The wedding at Cana.

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Three days here, 3 days in the
tomb, and you see the force of

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Mary’s personality just jump off
the page, don’t you?

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Because Joseph doesn’t speak,
Mary does.

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And Mary blames Jesus for
hurting her and Joseph and Jesus

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rebukes her.
Why is it that you were looking

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for me?
Did you not know that I would

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have to be in my father’s house?
Notice that he doesn’t address

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Mary’s hurt feelings, and he
establishes the Father as a

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priority.
It’s quite intentional.

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Your father and I sought the
sorrowing, Jesus said.

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I was in my father’s house, in
my father’s things.

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So we know that Mary thought
about this, and we know that

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Mary thought about her unique
discipleship challenge, Brother

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Khan Mitsos writes.
Mary had a natural relationship

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with Jesus by virtue of being
his mother.

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Mary had a religious
relationship with Jesus by

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virtue of them both being
Israelites under the Law of

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Moses.
However, like the nation, Mary

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needed to transcend the natural
and the social and develop a

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true and spiritual relationship
with Jesus based on the New

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Covenant.
And there are some interesting

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parallels that we’re going to
take a look at now.

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We know Mary was a thinker.
She thought about things deeply,

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and this is one of the things
she thought about.

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Then he went down with them and
came to Nazareth and was

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obedient to them.
And his mother treasured all

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that was said in her heart.
She thought about these things.

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You know where else that word
appears in the Septuagint?

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It appears here when they’re
trying to make sense of Joseph’s

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dream.
When he told his father and his

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brothers, his father criticized
him by asking, what’s this dream

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that you had?
Will your mother and I and your

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brothers come and bow down in
front of you?

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So his brothers were jealous of
him, but his father kept

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thinking about these things.
So I’m sure, I’m sure that this

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type and anti type are coming
together in Mary’s mind.

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She’s trying to make sense of
what God requires of her.

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The next sword wound that I’d
like to take a look at is I have

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become a stranger to my brothers
and an alien to my mother’s

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children because zeal for your
house has eaten me up.

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It seems like from the record in
John that the first sign done at

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the wedding and then Jesus and
his family and his disciples

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went to Capernaum and things
were great.

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Everyone was on board.
And then he goes S for the first

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cleansing of the temple.
And I would suggest to you,

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brothers and sisters, that
that’s when his brothers start

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to peel away.
We know this, right?

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I’ve become a stranger to my
brothers and an alien to my

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mother’s children, because zeal
for your house has eaten me up.

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And of course, that last part of
that verse is quoted at the

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cleansing of the temple.
John 217 Then his disciples

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remembered that it was written,
Zeal for your house has eaten me

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up.
But you notice it doesn’t say

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I’ve become a stranger to my
mother.

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No, because Mary always
believed.

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Now we have the great examples
of this strife between the

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brothers and Jesus.
This recorded for us in Matthew

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12 and in Mark 3 and in Luke 8.
So we see that the purpose of

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the visit is in Mark 321.
But when his own people, that

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literally means the people from
beside Jesus heard about this.

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They went out to lay hold on
him, for they said he is out of

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his mind.
That’s a horrible translation.

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That word’s used 21 times.
It’s only twice translated this

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way.
It literally means knocked from

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standing.
It doesn’t mean that he’s unwell

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or unstable.
Basically, they thought that he

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was working himself to death and
they needed to kind of

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intervene, not because he was
out of his mind, but because he

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was just working himself past
exhaustion.

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So as you know, they go and they
they try and see him.

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Mary goes with the brothers.
Mary’s there for a different

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reason.
Mary is there because she still

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feels like she needs to keep her
sons safe.

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Mary was trying to do God’s will
by keeping Jesus safe.

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Because we know the record tells
us that the Pharisees and

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Herodians were plotting to
destroy Jesus already.

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They were plotting to kill him.
We know that the crowds were so

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out of control that Jesus was
almost trampled.

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We read in verse 9 and we know
that Jesus literally didn’t have

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time to eat.
He was so busy.

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I think that’s the one that
really got married.

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As a mom, you’re not eating.
She need to go there.

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But when Jesus refuses to see
Mary, he’s telling her that you

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want to do God’s will.
Do God’s will by letting go.

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Isn’t that a hard lesson for us
to learn?

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That sometimes doing God’s will
is letting go?

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He’s being silent and trusting.
That’s hard, isn’t it?

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That’s a hard lesson.
And so we see the rich type and

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anti type of Joseph and his
brothers and Jesus and his

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brothers.
He is beloved of his Father just

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as Joseph, the mother, Rachel,
and we have the new Rachel.

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Of course they’re half brothers.
And then we see jealousy and a

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lack of action puts their
brother in life threatening

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danger.
And we read in John 7 in such a

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sad passage, starting in verse
one, the Jews sought to kill

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him.
That’s why he wasn’t going to

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Judea.
His brothers said to him, depart

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from here and going to Judea,
that your disciples may see the

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works that you were doing.
For no one does anything in

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secret, while he, he himself
seeks to be known openly.

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If you do these things, show
yourself to the world.

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For even his brothers did not
believe in him.

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Their jealousy was putting his
life in danger, just as the

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jealousy of Joseph’s brothers
put his life in danger.

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Now Mary has to make a
sacrifice.

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We know how much Mary loved
God’s Word.

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How much do you think that she
wanted to go with Jesus during

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his ministry?
More than anything, But Mary’s

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sacrifice was to stay at home.
We know that women travelled

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with Jesus as his disciples.
We know that that’s recorded

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throughout his ministry, even at
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We know that Mary’s sister was
one of those people who could do

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that.
And Mary’s sacrifice was to stay

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at home at a time when she would
have loved to be with Jesus, to

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hear his teaching.
Oh how I love thy law.

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It is my meditation all the day.
And she would have loved to hear

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Jesus speak about and embodied
God’s Word, but she had to stay

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at home to keep the family
together.

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So after the accounts that we
just talked about, Mary is

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absent from the gospel record
until the cross.

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Blessed is she who believed,
right?

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Elizabeth said that, and it’s a
characteristic of Mary

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throughout her life.
And so as we talked about last

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day, she started to understand
very early that Jesus was the

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Lamb of God, right?
We talked about yesterday how it

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was common practice to keep the
Passover lamb in the Manger, and

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00:31:08,280 –> 00:31:10,560
that’s where Jesus was.
We talked about the role of the

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shepherds and things like that
very early John the Baptist

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identifies Jesus as the Lamb of
God.

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And Mary’s deep biblical mind
would have gone to all those

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passages in Isaiah, passages
like he was led as a lamb to the

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slaughter.
And there was a progression that

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Mary understood.
Rejected by his closest friends

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and family at Nazareth, where
they sought to kill him.

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Rejected by the larger community
and finally to the cross.

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And she would have understood
the cross.

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Mary knew what lifted up meant.
And again, I think she would

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have made some connections to
Isaiah.

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The verse right after this talks
about how Jesus was so beat up

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on the cross.
And here we see in 13.

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See, my servant will act wisely.
He will be raised and lifted up

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00:32:12,920 –> 00:32:17,040
and highly exalted.
When Jesus talked about lifted

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up, I think Mary went here
because Jesus and Mary were very

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familiar with crucifixion,
because Romans had a habit of

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lining highways with crucified
people.

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00:32:33,920 –> 00:32:39,440
In fact, it’s it’s likely that
when Jesus and Joseph and Mary

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returned from Egypt and went up
to Nazareth, there was a great

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rebellion that happened and and
Sepphoris what has in the

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process of being destroyed and
then rebuilt.

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But they would have probably
been arriving back in Galilee at

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the very time that Veras, who
put down the rebellion in a

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cruel way, put a line of
crosses, hundreds of crosses on

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the the Wiameras, the road that
they would have taken to go back

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00:33:08,480 –> 00:33:16,920
to Nazareth.
Blessed is she who believed, you

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00:33:16,920 –> 00:33:20,520
know, Jesus.
It wasn’t a mystery to the 12

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what was going to happen, right?
He says at about least three

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times after Peter’s great
confession that thou art the

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Christ, the Son of the living
God.

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Jesus is clear what’s going to
happen to him.

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Similarly after the
transgression, sorry, after the

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transfiguration, clear about
that.

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And as he set his face towards
Jerusalem, he’s equally clear

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about what will happen to him.
And isn’t it interesting that

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the 12 were afraid even to talk
about it, but Mary had the kale

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00:33:59,800 –> 00:34:03,000
like Mary of Bethany to believe
in Jesus.

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Clear teaching about his death
because as our brother has

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alluded to in earlier classes,
Mary was Abraham’s daughter.

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00:34:14,360 –> 00:34:17,840
We know that that triumphant
note in her song to Abraham and

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to his seed forever.
And she was his daughter.

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00:34:21,840 –> 00:34:26,400
And just like Abraham did when
she’s tested, when those sword

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wounds were piercing her, she
concluded that God was able to

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00:34:30,440 –> 00:34:36,679
raise him up even from the dead.
So let’s take a look at Mary at

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the cross.
Every week Jesus parents went to

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Jerusalem for Passover.
So what did Passover week in

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00:34:45,280 –> 00:34:48,480
Jerusalem look like?
Well, this was the crown of joy,

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right?
Great celebration.

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And it would have been
triumphant.

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00:34:52,159 –> 00:34:55,400
Mary would have been in the
audience as she saw people

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00:34:55,400 –> 00:35:01,160
acclaim her son as the son of
David.

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We will give to him the throne
of his father.

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David cleanses the temple and
and children are claiming again

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00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:17,960
the Son of David.
He teaches in the temple and

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00:35:17,960 –> 00:35:21,400
Jesus silences the rulers with a
question about the Son of David.

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00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:26,320
And then we see the cross of
sorrow.

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Jesus last Passover isn’t with
his natural family, is it?

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00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:39,160
It’s with his spiritual family.
His natural family was full of

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00:35:39,160 –> 00:35:44,120
strife at that time.
And Mary’s early Mary’s earliest

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fears that the rulers like Herod
would plot to seize and kill

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Jesus.
She’s seen that play out in

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front of her and all betray her
son.

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See, Mary’s life like ours, we
have things that prepare us for

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00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:08,640
other things, and the betrayal
at the synagogue in Nazareth

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00:36:08,640 –> 00:36:13,560
prepared her for being in the
audience and hearing his blood

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00:36:13,560 –> 00:36:25,900
be on us and on our children.
She would have seen him bear his

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cross, the petabulum from the
Antonio Fortress to Gogotha.

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00:36:33,700 –> 00:36:38,000
Brother Andrew Walker notes that
it was a tremendous act of

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00:36:38,000 –> 00:36:41,880
courage even to attend a
crucifixion.

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If you are in any way empathetic
towards the person being

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crucified, he writes, it was a
dangerous thing to approach the

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00:36:47,840 –> 00:36:51,520
cross of a dying criminal to
show any support for him.

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Such behavior was likely to end
an arrest and death for opposing

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Rome’s sentence.
Hence there was a little group

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standing afar off, well away
from the cross, watching the

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00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:02,640
dying Jesus.
It consisted of some of his

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acquaintances from Galilee and a
group of women supporting Jesus

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mother who had insisted on being
there.

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How sad it was that apostles who
had spent three years following

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00:37:14,120 –> 00:37:18,480
Jesus did not have the strength,
the Khayal, to witness the

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cross.
Yet their mother’s dead, and she

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00:37:26,320 –> 00:37:31,360
would have seen her son prophecy
in Isaiah 52 from the

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contemporary Jewish Bible.
Just as many were appalled at

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him because he was so disfigured
that he didn’t even seem human

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and simply no longer looked like
a man.

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Brothers and sisters, the
beatings and the scourgings left

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00:37:49,760 –> 00:37:57,160
him unrecognizable except to his
mother who remembered what he

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00:37:57,160 –> 00:38:01,440
looked like when he was 3 and
when it was 13 and when it was

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23 and she sees him now at 33,
she would have looked up and

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00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:16,920
said and seen a sign that said
Jesus of Nazareth, the King of

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00:38:16,920 –> 00:38:22,920
the Jews.
And she would have thought of

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00:38:22,920 –> 00:38:28,560
Gabriel’s message and she would
have reflected, this isn’t how I

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00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:30,960
thought it was going to turn out
then, but now I understand.

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I understand God’s plan.
He has a greater plan.

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And all the way along, brothers
and sisters, we’ve kept

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referring to that great promise
in Genesis 3.

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And when Mary looked at Jesus
feet, she would have seen the

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nail driven through the heel
because that was the Roman

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00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:55,280
practice, driving the nail
through the heel to that strong

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00:38:55,280 –> 00:38:58,160
Achilles tendon to make sure
that they would not get out of

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00:38:58,160 –> 00:39:01,920
the cross.
It’s inevitable that she would

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have thought of that.
It seems like Jesus was

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00:39:08,120 –> 00:39:14,880
repeatedly reciting Psalm 22
when he was on the cross and it

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00:39:14,880 –> 00:39:18,080
was hard to hear.
I bet we know that he had was

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able to get some clarity of
speech out because John

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00:39:21,480 –> 00:39:23,960
understood and the other people
on the that were being crucified

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00:39:23,960 –> 00:39:25,280
and understood him when he
spoke.

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But Can you imagine when Jesus
got to Psalm the part of Psalm

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22 when he said but you are he
who took me out of the womb.

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You made me trust while on my
mother’s breast.

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I was cast upon you from birth
from my mother’s womb you have

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been my God.
Can you imagine Mary hearing

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00:39:48,960 –> 00:39:54,280
none?
And there’s a part in Psalm 22

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that cries out, deliver my soul
from the sword.

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And when Jesus gets to that
part, did Mary not think, Oh

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yes, please, Lord, deliver my
soul from these sword wounds.

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Now there’s no record of Jesus
appearing to Mary, but it is to

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all these other people.
And honestly, for folks that are

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into Mariolatry, the worship of
Mary, this drives them crazy and

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00:40:33,920 –> 00:40:35,520
they make stuff up about to
explain it.

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But if there’s a simple
explanation, it didn’t need to

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be recorded.
The risen Christ appearing to

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her because she didn’t need that
to support her faith.

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She knew that Jesus would be
resurrected.

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She had the faith of Abraham.
Just like Abraham, she concluded

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00:40:52,760 –> 00:40:55,200
that God was able to raise him
up even from the dead.

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Unlike the 11, Mary believes
that he has arisen without

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00:41:00,720 –> 00:41:06,320
seeing the resurrected Jesus.
Mary believed right from the

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00:41:06,320 –> 00:41:11,800
start because as her song cries
out, she believed in the

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covenant love, in the covenant
promises.

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00:41:13,880 –> 00:41:18,880
She believed the God of Israel
who promised to Abraham and to

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00:41:18,880 –> 00:41:25,720
his seed forever.
So the fruit of Mary’s sword

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00:41:25,720 –> 00:41:29,160
wounds is her incredible
faithfulness was recognized.

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We read in Acts 1.
Then they return to Jerusalem

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from the Mount called Olivet,
Peter, James, John and Andrew,

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00:41:35,880 –> 00:41:39,000
Philip and Thomas, Bartholemy
and Matthew, James the son of

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00:41:39,000 –> 00:41:42,120
Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot,
and Judas, Judas the son of

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00:41:42,120 –> 00:41:44,320
James.
They all continued with one

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00:41:44,320 –> 00:41:47,240
accord in prayer and
supplication and with the women

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00:41:47,240 –> 00:41:53,520
and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Mary’s faithful example enables

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her to have the credibility to
become an integral part of this

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00:41:57,560 –> 00:42:04,640
ecclesia, this new ecclesia.
So let’s sum up, brothers and

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sisters.
Mary says henceforth all

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generations will call me
blessed.

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00:42:12,720 –> 00:42:20,040
We call her blessed, her
identity as Phillips translated,

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00:42:20,040 –> 00:42:23,320
that I belong to the Lord, body
and soul.

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Behold the handmaid of the Lord,
let it be unto me according to

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00:42:26,160 –> 00:42:30,600
thy word.
We’re blessed by the example of

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00:42:30,600 –> 00:42:35,160
her voice.
On her lips is Kassad the

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00:42:35,160 –> 00:42:37,840
covenant love, the sure belief
in the promises made.

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00:42:41,560 –> 00:42:45,160
We count her blessed that she
shows us how to act in

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00:42:45,160 –> 00:42:49,120
community.
And the way to do that is

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00:42:49,160 –> 00:42:53,040
simple.
Whatever Jesus says to us, do

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it.
We’re blessed to have the

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example of her mission, the
example of the Torah.

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00:43:02,280 –> 00:43:04,400
Do not forsake the Torah of your
mother.

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And lastly, we’re blessed to
have the great example of her

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00:43:10,560 –> 00:43:13,880
faithfulness of her Kyle through
trials.

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00:43:14,280 –> 00:43:21,520
Blessed is she who believed we
call our blast, and we’re so

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00:43:21,520 –> 00:43:22,800
thankful for her example.