Andrew Johns – Examples of Youth in Service & Action – Class 5 – Mary – Developing Godliness in You

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We’d now invite our brother
Andrew to come forward and speak

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to our son Mary.
Developing godliness in youth my

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dearly.
Beloved brothers and sisters and

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dear young people, the apostle
Paul said when writing to the

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Galatians.
When the fullness of time was

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come, God sent forth His Son,
made of a woman, made under the

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law to redeem them, that were
under the law, that we might

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have the adoption of sons, or as
it should really be, that we

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might receive sonship when the
fullness of time was come.

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For 4000 years God had waited
for that day that He had long

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foreseen to come.
His own people had rejected him

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many times and had now become
almost totally unresponsive.

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Through the prophets.
That he’d he’d raised up and

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sent to them early.
Speaking.

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Late and crying and.
Appealing to their hearts.

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And there’s no more response.
The wickedness of both the

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Jewish and Gentile worlds was
rising rapidly to its peak, and

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there was only one last thing we
know from the parable.

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There was only one last thing
God was prepared to try.

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There was nothing else He could
do in order to save.

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Humankind but send his own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh.

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And when the fullness of time
was come, God, being an

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intelligent and emotional being,
knew exactly what that meant.

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He knew exactly what men were
going to do to that Son when he

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sent him into the world.
He knew the.

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Cruel agony of rejection that
was going to come.

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He knew that they would mistreat
him and put him to death, but

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the whole.
Of his purpose, the whole of the

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salvation of individuals like
Abraham and David, and those who

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had gone before, all depended on
this son who was yet.

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To come whom God had seen, seen
in his foreknowledge the seed of

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the woman.
And when that day came, God

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looked in Israel, in the House
of David, for a woman to bear

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his son.
A woman to whom he could entrust

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the early development and the
character building of his only

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begotten son.
What criteria would he use in

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choosing out a woman from
amongst all?

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Those who at that time lived and
belonged to the house.

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Of David, their father.
Would he look for a stable

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family?
Would he look?

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For someone who was who was well
able to maintain a lifestyle,

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that would be.
Easy and satisfactory.

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Would he look for someone who
was well educated?

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That could guide that son.
Would he look for someone in

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middle class so that he was
protected from the the vices of

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the rich?
And the poverty of the poor,

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well, when we come to consider,
as we will briefly tonight,

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brothers and sisters and young
people, that wonderful young

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girl that God chose, we’re going
to learn a great deal about our

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Father in heaven.
We’re going to read this record

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very carefully.
Our study tonight is going to be

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very different from our last few
studies.

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We’re going to look very
carefully at what God did and

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what He said and consider what
the Father considers to be

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really important, more
particularly in the life of a

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young sister.
But it’s just as applicable to

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us all, whether we’re young,
old, male, or female.

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Let’s look at how the record
introduces Mary to us in Luke

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chapter 1, Luke chapter 1, and
verse 26.

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In the sixth month, that is, in
the sixth month of Elizabeth’s

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pregnancy, she was expecting
John.

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In the sixth month, the Angel
Gabriel was sent from God under

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a city of Galilee named Nazareth
to a virgin Espouse to a man

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whose name was Joseph.
Of the House of David.

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And the Virgin’s name was Mary.
It seems to be just a very

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ordinary introduction, doesn’t
it?

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But think about.
What that’s really saying.

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If we read it carefully, we’re
told quite a bit.

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Because this Angel Gabriel, who
we were told in verse 19 of that

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same chapter, stood in the
presence of God himself, was

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sent from God.
Now why say that?

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God is intimately concerned
about what’s going to happen in

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this scene.
When angels came on past

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instances, we didn’t have to be
told that they were sent from

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God.
But now, explicitly, we are told

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that Gabriel, who stands in the
presence of God, was sent from

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the face of the Father out.
And who did he go to?

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Where did he go?
He went to.

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Galilee despised Galilee of the
Gentiles.

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That no one would.
Ever.

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Expect an Angel of God,
especially one with a special.

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Mission from him.
Personally would ever go to And

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then in Galilee he came to a
town called Nazareth.

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And whoever heard of anything
good?

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Coming out of Nazareth and then
in that city, despised as it

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was.
It came into the House of a

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humble virgin whose name means
bitterness, and from the

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highest, loftiest heavens.
God has come down and is

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visiting one of the lowliest
houses in all of Judea, and

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appears to a woman, a young
virgin by the name of Mary.

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The Angel wasn’t sent to
Jerusalem.

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Brethren and sisters and young
people.

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He didn’t go to a palace.
He didn’t go to a wealthy family

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of status.
He went to a city of Galilee

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named Nazareth and to a humble
house.

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And she was probably a young
maiden who was only in her late

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teens at this stage.
And look what the Angel says in

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verse 28.
The Angel came in unto her and

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said, Hail thou that art highly
favoured, the Lord is with thee,

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blessed art thou among women.
And there is the first words

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divinely we hear about Mary.
This is God’s assessment.

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He has scanned all throughout
Israel.

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He has waited for. 4000 years
for this moment and now it’s

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come.
He has picked the right 1A

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virgin whom we are told is
highly favoured.

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Look at the margin graciously
accepted before God.

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And Mary verse 29, when she saw
him, was troubled at his, at his

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saying, and cast in her mind
what manner of salutation this

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should be.
And the Angel said unto her,

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Fear not, Mary, for thou hast
found favour with God.

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And he repeats.
Almost the same words.

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In the Greek that he used before
in verse 28.

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Thou art highly favoured.
The Greek in fact uses the same

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word, grace on both occasions.
The word troubled there in verse

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verse 29 really just means to be
agitated.

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And she passed in her mind she
was considering what, what on

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earth this could all mean.
Who was this man and why was he

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saying what he was?
And no doubt in her mind, she

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immediately thought that it may
have been an Angel.

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But the Angel tells her as she
thinks very quickly about what’s

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going on.
The Angel says thou hast found

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grace with God.
And twice he mentions that in 2

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verses, Thou hast found grace
with God.

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Do you know, brethren and
sisters, that there are only 5

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other individuals in scripture
who are so honoured?

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Jesus was 1.
Noah was another Moses, Samuel

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and David were the others.
She is the only woman to be so

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favoured with that salutation.
And twice the Angel says it,

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that thou hast found grace with
God.

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And verse 31 says, And behold,
the Angel goes on, Thou shalt

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conceive in thy womb, and shall
bring forth a son, and shall

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call his name Jesus.
He should be great, and should

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be called the Son of the
highest.

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And the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his Father

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David.
And he shall.

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Reign over the House of Jacob
Forever, and of his Kingdom

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there shall be no end.
And her mind must have been

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racing.
This obviously to her meant that

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this man was talking about the
Messiah.

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She knew the promises to David.
Obviously she knew Daniel’s

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prophecies, which.
Had pointed to her very own day

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that considering the 70 weeks
prophecy that was given in

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Daniel Chapter 9, that those who
were godly in Israel at that

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time had considered and pondered
and and thought about it and

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worked out that in their own
times the signs of the times

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pointed.
To the very time in which she

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was living.
And she knew that.

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That the Messiah must be in
David’s line.

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And she knew, too, that she was
a daughter of David.

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Could it all be true or was this
a dream?

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There was an awesome
responsibility began to began to

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rest in her mind if this meant
that Messiah was going to become

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was was going to be coming and
this was the messenger of Yahweh

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to tell her that she was to be
the bearer of that great son.

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What would she say, what would
what was going through her mind,

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brothers and sisters and young
people to bear God’s?

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Only begotten Son, What an
awesome responsibility to bring

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him up in godly ways, that he
might be the sinless Saviour of

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the human race.
Brothers and sisters and young.

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People, you think about it, what
greater work could God have ever

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given to any human being on
earth at any time, man or woman?

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What greater thing could the
Creator of heaven and earth ever

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have asked a human being to do
than to bear and then guide and

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bring to maturity His own Son,
that he might be sinless and

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save the race?
The whole destiny of the human

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race depended on this son, and
on what happened to him in His

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very earliest days was going to
be dependent upon the mother

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whom He chose.
Of course, God was going to be

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very carefully guide and protect
that child, and the influence of

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His hand was always going to be
there.

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But, brothers and sisters, never
let us underestimate the power

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of the mother upon a child of
young age.

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And oh, this is going through
her mind.

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And what would have you asked?
Well, look what she said in

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verse 34.
Then Mary said unto the Angel,

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How shall this be, seeing I know
not a man.

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She never questioned that it
would happen.

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She said how she had none of the
incredulity of Sarah of old, who

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laughed in her tent and said,
oh, how could this ever happen

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to me?
She had the faith of Abraham,

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who, considering that it was
impossible that he could have a

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son, still believed what God had
said.

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She had the faith of David, who
believed that God would raise

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him up a.
House, a great and mighty house

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in the day yet to come.
It’s an inquiry, brothers and

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sisters, that shows that she’s.
Thinking very clearly.

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Though it’s an awesome situation
that she’s in, but accepting in

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the spirit of David and Abraham,
her forebears look at verse 35.

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And she listened very carefully
to these words.

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The Angel said unto her, The
Holy Spirit shall come upon

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thee, and the power of the
Highest shall over shadow me.

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Therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee

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shall be called the Son of God.
And behold, he goes on to say,

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thy cousin Elizabeth, she also
hath conceived a son in her old

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age, and this is the 6th month
with her that was called Baron.

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For with God nothing shall be
impossible to have a son and

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have no human father.
It had never ever happened in

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human history before it.
Was.

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In.
Short a human impossibility and

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look at the amazing answer that
she gave in verse 38, and Mary

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spontaneously said, behold the
handmaid of the Lord.

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Be it unto me according to thy
word.

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And the Angel departed from her.
You know the Angel didn’t ask

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for any response from her.
The Angel came to tell her what

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was going to happen.
But Mary, having listened very

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carefully to all those words and
her mind bursting with the

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enormity of the revelation,
shows tremendous faith with no

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evidence at all in something
that was humanly impossible.

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What a marvellous woman she was.
Do you know what?

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When she went to see Elizabeth,
Look what Elizabeth said as soon

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as she saw her.
She.

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By under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, says in verse 45.

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And blessed is she that
believeth, for there shall be a

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performance of those things
which were told her of the Lord.

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In fact, that verse is not
terribly well translated.

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It’s the punctuation that’s not
very good.

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And the RSV says this.
Blessed is she who believed that

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there would be a fulfilment of
that which was spoken to her

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from the.
Lord, she believed implicitly

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the moment the Angel had said
it, not just because she

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accepted anything at at faced
value and just blind faith.

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Her mind was ticking over
through all of that, brethren

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and sisters and young people,
and there was no evidence.

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She was told that in her womb
would grow a child and had come

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to be the Messiah.
She had no evidence of that at

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this stage.
And yet there’s a willing

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implicit obedience and
submission to all that God had

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said.
She didn’t say young people.

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Oh, can you just give me a few
days and I’ll just turn it over

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and then I’ll come back to you
with an answer.

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There was no thought of self.
There was no thought of personal

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loss, though some of those
things might have darted through

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her mind.
The Angel, not having asked her

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for response, receives this
spontaneous, beautiful

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expression of faith.
Oh, what a wonderful spirit

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there is in this girl, a spirit
of response to what God’s

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requirements are.
Can we see the point, young

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people?
If only we could match that

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level of faith and obedience in
all that God has said, and just

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spontaneously say, Here am I,
Lord, be it unto me, according

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to thy will.
You know, our answer goes

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further than that.
It actually reveals something

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about Mary herself.
It gives us an insight into the

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mind of this, this truly lovely
young sister.

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And note this.
She’s probably almost in shock

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because of seeing the Angel and
the.

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The enormity of the revelation
that’s just been proclaimed to

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her, she didn’t have time to
rush off and get her Bible or

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her concordance reference.
Books or anything?

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Else and what spontaneously
comes out of her mouth is the

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language of messianic Psalms.
Can you believe that?

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Do you know where she was
quoting from young people?

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Brothers and sisters, do you
know where she was quoting from?

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Because she knew where she was
quoting from.

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The words of the farms just came
straight out of her mouth.

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Now that’s an interesting
observation, and you might like

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to make a note.
We’re not going to look it up at

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the moment, but in Psalm 86 and
at verse 16 and Psalm 116 also

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at verse 16, those psalms speak
of the Son of God’s handmaid

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messianically.
And you know what?

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This is saying to us it is
spontaneously comes from her

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mouth.
It must clearly imply that she

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was longing and waiting for
Messiah to come.

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She wasn’t necessarily expecting
that she was going to be the

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mother, though.
There may have been many in

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Israel who hoped that one day
they may be given the privilege

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of being the mother of God’s
Son, but she was earnestly

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looking for Messiah.
And she’d poured over those

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Psalms.
She’d read them time and again,

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and she’d caught the spirit of
it.

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She’d sing what God was going to
do, that there would be a son of

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his handmaid and the words that
just come.

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Out of her mouth on that
occasion are.

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Behold, the handmaid of the
Lord.

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What a marvellous thing if we
knew our Bibles like that,

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sisters as well as brethren.
But that’s not all we know about

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her mind.
She went to see Elizabeth and

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after Elizabeth.
Had said those words we read a

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moment ago in verse 45.
We find that Mary spontaneously

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in verse 46 of this chapter.
Bursts into a song.

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Often referred to as the Song of
Mary, as if.

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As if she’d sat down and written
this thing out and was then

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being prepared to sing it, or
others to sing it at some later

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generation.
It just comes out as soon as

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she’s there.
She’d obviously been thinking

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about all these things as she’d
run across the Hill Country.

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From Nazareth right down to
Bethlehem.

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But when we read very carefully
those words from verse 46

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through to verse 55, there is a
tremendous spirit that comes out

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of these words.
And by the way, the record here

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does not say that she was
speaking under inspiration.

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It may have been true, but the
record doesn’t say it.

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It does say it about Elizabeth,
but it doesn’t about Mary.

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But her mind was was churning
over all these things, pulling

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together the scriptures and
contemplating the enormity of

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the Commission that had been
laid upon her that would once

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and for all.
Change the direction and the

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dimension of her life.
Verse 46.

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And Mary said, My soul doth
magnify the Lord.

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My spirit hath rejoiced in God
my Saviour, for he hath regarded

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the lowest state of his
handmaiden.

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For behold, from henceforth all
generations shall call me

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blessed with a spirit of
thankfulness there, young

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people.
That.

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Spontaneously welled up in her
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This is the girl that God chose.
Her spontaneous reaction to the

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news was implicit faith and
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When she speaks to Elizabeth and
confides in her the first words

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that.
Come out of her mouth are.

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Show her sense of gratitude and
thankfulness to all that God has

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done.
What a spirit.

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And we can all learn from that
because we live in an unthankful

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generation.
It’s one of the characteristics.

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Of our age, but let’s learn from
Mary verse 51 goes on to goes on

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to speak of her wider
understanding of the purpose of

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God.
He hath showed strength with his

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arm.
He hath gathered the proud in

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the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from

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their seats and exalted.
Them of low degree see.

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The insight of this young
teenage.

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Girl.
He’s looking.

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She’s looking through the
scriptures and casting her mind

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through all those.
Things that she knew.

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And is pulling out from there,
brethren and sisters and young

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people, those things that God
truly delights in.

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And she’s right on track because
God cannot stand the mighty and

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the proud and the lofty who
arrogantly parade their own

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righteousness and themselves
before him.

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He will look to them that I’ve a
meek and a contrite spirit.

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And she speaks of it there in
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Verse 53.
He hath.

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Filled the hungry with good
things, and the rich hath sent

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away empty.
He hath hope, and his servant

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Israel in remembrance of his
mercy.

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She knows something about God,
doesn’t she?

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She’s read her Bible.
She’s thought about it.

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As he spake verse 55 to our.
Fathers to Abraham and to his

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seed.
Forever.

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She knew what the promises were
all about.

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She knew what the character of
God was like.

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She knew why God had given
promises.

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She knew the intent of the
Father in the heavens.

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And she’s in her teens, young
sisters.

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No wonder God looked favourably
upon her.

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And she speaks of the wider
development of the purpose of

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God.
What fantastic understanding.

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But her words are based fairly
and squarely on the prayer that

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Hannah gave in First of Samuel
chapter 2.

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I’m not going to turn to that
now, brothers and sisters and

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young people.
But she’s not just sighting

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Hannah’s prayer, she’s
expounding it.

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Why Hannah?
Why did her mind go back to

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Hannah?
And how come she remembered all

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of these things?
Could you cite Hannah’s prayer?

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I tell you young people,
brother, sisters, I can’t.

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She could, and she could go one
step further.

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She knew what it all meant.
But why did her mind go back to

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there, to Hannah’s prayer?
Why did you know?

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Because she did that, Hannah was
the first person, and a woman at

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that, in the Old Testament to
talk of the Messiah.

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Of course, the Messiah had been
promised in other terms as the

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seed of the woman and Abraham’s
son and so on.

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But there in Hannah’s prayer, we
find her referring to Messiah in

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Septuagint.
It’s the same as the Greek for

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Messiah in the New Testament.
And she doesn’t stop there.

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She weaves in many illusions
from the Psalms.

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Her mind is just full of
scriptural connotations of

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Messiah because it was the time.
That she was.

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Anticipating so keenly, she
looked for the return of her

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Lord into the midst of Israel,
because Daniel had said it was

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the time he would come, and
she’d given her time, her mind

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to those things.
And she’s only a young teenage

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sister.
Where’d she spent?

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The other part of her teenage
years, where had she spent her

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lunch times?
Young sisters in department

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stores, chasing fashions?
Reading romantic novels?

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Women’s magazines?
What do we feed our minds on,

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brother and sisters?
Well, what comes out of our

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mouth most readily will tell us
what our minds are feeding on,

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and if it.
Frightens you to see what comes

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out of your mouth at times.
Brethren and sisters and young

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people, start feeding your mind.
We all have to do it, don’t we?

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We’re wretched and we go off the
track and our minds get

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concentrated on this or that and
we get completely waylaid from

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scriptural.
Ideas and the Spirit of God and

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the expectancy of of Christ our
Lord.

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But this young sister didn’t
know that on that day in that

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house an Angel would appear and
give her such great news.

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It was her reflective mind, her
meditative spirit, her her

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thinking mind, brothers and
sisters that God really

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delighted in.
She not only knew what the Bible

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said, she’d thought about it
long and hard and turned it over

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in her minds and her quiet
moments.

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But she’s.
Also portrayed in the record of

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Luke.
And I wonder whether you’ve ever

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noticed this.
She’s portrayed in the record of

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Luke here as an observant,
reflective, thinking young

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woman, and I’ve chosen those
words deliberately.

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There are four specific terms
that are used in just these two

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chapters in Luke here.
That tell us.

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About Mary’s mind, by the way,
these details are on the Bible

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marking sheet for tonight, so
there’s no need to copy those

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off the overhead if it’s
difficult.

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But in chapter 1 and verse 29
there we find this term she cast

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in her mind what manner of
salutation this should be.

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And of that word Vine says it
means to reason through, to

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bring together different reasons
and to reckon them up.

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It’s actually used sometimes in
in terms of accounting to to

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make things balance, to bring
things together in the mind and

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to reckon them up.
And she was doing that it, it

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seems evident that there was a a
little bit of a pause between

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the angels speaking and and
before he went on, and she was

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thinking about all these things.
There were a rush of thoughts

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came into her mind.
She was trying to put them all.

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Together and wrecking things up.
And though at that stage she may

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not have been able to do that,
we find that she was a person

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who actually tried to store
things away and think on them

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later in chapter 2 and verse 19.
There are two.

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Terms there that are used in
that very same verse.

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This was in the context of when
they had after the birth of

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Jesus and the angels had come
and spoken and told Mary and

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Joseph all the things that had
happened out in the hills of

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Judea.
It says.

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But Mary kept all these things
and pondered them in her heart.

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To think means to preserve what
a kink quotes think very safe.

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And while we’re told in verse 18
that all they that heard these

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things wondered at those things
which were told by them by the

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shepherds, Mary is singled out
here because it says in verse 9.

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But Mary was different.
She kept them.

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She kept them and pondered them
in her heart.

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She preserved those words she’s
heard, listened very carefully

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to all the words that those that
those shepherds.

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Had told her.
She didn’t know some of the

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things that they’d said.
It hadn’t been revealed to her

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via Gabriel.
An Angel hadn’t told her some of

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those things, and when someone
else came and said they saw a

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host of angels in heaven, and
they spoke these words and we

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saw all this manifestation, she
locked it away in her mind and

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she pondered them.
She put one thing with another

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when considering circumstances.
She was clearly a very.

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Reflective person that kept
churning these things over and

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00:32:20,880 –> 00:32:27,080
in chapter 2 and verse 51, after
they’d lost Jesus temporarily in

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00:32:27,080 –> 00:32:30,600
the in Jerusalem and had come
back and found him and he’d

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00:32:30,600 –> 00:32:39,760
answered his mother in a way
that had surprised both her and

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00:32:39,760 –> 00:32:43,320
Joseph.
Verse 51 says, and he went down

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00:32:43,320 –> 00:32:46,360
with them and came to Nazareth
and was subject unto them.

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00:32:46,360 –> 00:32:50,880
But his mother kept all these
sayings in her heart.

448
00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:54,360
It means to keep with care, to
have one’s eye upon throughout,

449
00:32:54,520 –> 00:32:57,320
so she never ever let go of
those things.

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00:32:58,080 –> 00:32:59,680
Brethren and sisters and young
people.

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00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:03,360
And through all that, she.
Didn’t take well.

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00:33:03,360 –> 00:33:07,040
So it seems it didn’t have a
pencil and paper in the Manger

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00:33:08,640 –> 00:33:14,480
in the stable in in Bethlehem.
She remembered it all, she

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00:33:14,480 –> 00:33:18,240
remembered every word and she
kept on going over it.

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00:33:18,360 –> 00:33:20,760
You know, we are a brain lazy
generation.

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00:33:22,200 –> 00:33:24,040
Our education system’s not
helping.

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00:33:24,880 –> 00:33:29,200
Because it’s said that knowledge
is increasing at such an

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00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:32,040
alarming rate that most of what
you learn at school will be out

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00:33:32,040 –> 00:33:35,600
of date in five years time.
In some fields even shorter

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00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:37,600
periods.
And so it’s no good learning

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00:33:37,600 –> 00:33:39,440
anything.
All we should be doing is

462
00:33:39,440 –> 00:33:44,160
learning how to find out
information when we need to find

463
00:33:44,160 –> 00:33:46,560
it out.
You know that policy is

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00:33:46,560 –> 00:33:48,120
suicidal.
When we come to the.

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00:33:48,120 –> 00:33:51,560
Bible young people suicidal.
Don’t listen to it.

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00:33:52,320 –> 00:33:57,160
Use your brain.
Commit things to memory.

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00:33:57,760 –> 00:34:00,040
Try and remember you have to
try.

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00:34:00,240 –> 00:34:04,120
Our brain is a muscle and it
will work better with exercise.

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00:34:05,040 –> 00:34:09,560
So when our young children are
encouraged to learn verses from

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00:34:09,560 –> 00:34:12,400
the Bible, parents encourage
them to do.

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00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:16,400
It because they will be stood in
good.

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00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:21,840
Stead in later years, train the
mind to think about things.

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00:34:22,639 –> 00:34:24,120
To look at the.
Circumstances.

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00:34:24,120 –> 00:34:25,280
Because that’s what she was
doing.

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00:34:25,480 –> 00:34:28,360
She was taking what she saw
around her, what she’d heard,

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00:34:28,360 –> 00:34:32,600
what she’d heard from the Bible,
and put it all together, while

477
00:34:32,600 –> 00:34:35,480
others just wondered at the
amazement of some of those

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00:34:35,480 –> 00:34:37,480
events and forgot it the next
day.

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00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:40,480
She was very different.
She was a.

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00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:47,280
Young woman of deep
contemplation, observant and

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00:34:47,320 –> 00:34:53,199
always thinking about how things
fitted in to the grand scheme of

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00:34:53,199 –> 00:34:57,400
things that the Creator had in
the beginning and now was about

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00:34:57,400 –> 00:35:00,160
to work out in her very own
life.

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00:35:01,960 –> 00:35:06,600
You know God is honoured when we
think about Him and His Word and

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00:35:06,600 –> 00:35:08,240
His will.
He’s.

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00:35:08,360 –> 00:35:11,360
Honoured by that.
When we try to grapple with the

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00:35:11,360 –> 00:35:15,880
principles of His ways and His
word in relation to our own

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00:35:15,880 –> 00:35:18,760
lives, and we weigh up
circumstances and we agonize

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00:35:18,800 –> 00:35:22,080
over things and we pray to Him
and put it before Him, and we

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00:35:22,120 –> 00:35:25,880
think things through and we try
to put our lives in order to go

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00:35:25,880 –> 00:35:27,920
in a certain direction.
God, he’s honoured by all of

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00:35:27,920 –> 00:35:31,160
that.
You know, we see Mary and Joseph

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00:35:31,200 –> 00:35:35,680
for that matter, doing just that
in the record that we have have

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00:35:35,680 –> 00:35:41,960
of them here because God wanted
His Son to be influenced.

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00:35:42,320 –> 00:35:48,840
And to imitate that godly,
reflective spirit, God wanted

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00:35:48,840 –> 00:35:54,480
his own son to be like that.
Now let’s take a lesson from

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00:35:54,480 –> 00:35:57,640
that, because.
Here is the great creator.

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00:35:57,640 –> 00:36:01,040
Of heaven and earth.
That’s looked around and has

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00:36:01,040 –> 00:36:05,720
found the right sort of mind
that he’s really interested in

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00:36:05,720 –> 00:36:09,480
what he really values is
starting to show in the life of

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00:36:09,480 –> 00:36:12,280
this young teenage girl.
Just hold your hand in Luke and

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00:36:12,280 –> 00:36:18,160
go back just a few pages to
Malachi Chapter 3 to words that

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00:36:18,160 –> 00:36:21,480
we are all very familiar with.
But we want never to lose the

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00:36:21,480 –> 00:36:22,320
power.
Of.

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00:36:22,680 –> 00:36:27,320
Young people because they’re in
a time of.

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00:36:29,560 –> 00:36:33,080
Great apostasy and.
Deceptiveness of heart in.

507
00:36:33,080 –> 00:36:40,960
Israel Malachi is sent and he
says this verse 16 Then they

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00:36:40,960 –> 00:36:46,040
that feared Yahweh spake often
one to another, and Yahweh

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00:36:46,040 –> 00:36:48,880
hearkened and heard it and a.
Book of Remembrance was written.

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00:36:49,200 –> 00:36:55,520
Before Him, for them that feared
Yahweh, and that thought upon

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00:36:56,720 –> 00:37:01,240
His name.
And they shall be mine, saith

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00:37:01,240 –> 00:37:05,640
Yahweh of hosts, in that day
when I shall make up my jewels,

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00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:08,400
and I will spare them as a man
spareth his only son that

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00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:10,520
serveth Him.
They are very precious.

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00:37:10,520 –> 00:37:15,240
To him, they’re like jewels.
They’re his and they will be

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00:37:15,240 –> 00:37:22,200
claimed as his in that day.
Oh, it might be a difficult time

517
00:37:22,200 –> 00:37:28,080
now to think upon his name.
But there’s real purpose in all

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00:37:28,080 –> 00:37:31,480
that God does.
What is to think upon his name?

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00:37:31,640 –> 00:37:35,160
What does God’s name embody?
Brethren and sisters and young

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00:37:35,160 –> 00:37:38,880
people.
It embodies His purpose.

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00:37:39,160 –> 00:37:44,040
His name bespeaks his purpose.
How many of you think about his

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00:37:44,040 –> 00:37:47,680
purpose, the extension of his
purpose, what it will mean in

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00:37:47,680 –> 00:37:50,320
the earth, what it will mean in
the lives of individuals?

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00:37:50,480 –> 00:37:53,600
Do you just think about the
Kingdom and what it will be like

525
00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:56,640
and why?
But it embodies more than his

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00:37:56,640 –> 00:38:00,160
purpose.
It embodies his very character,

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00:38:00,480 –> 00:38:02,600
the characteristics that he
delights.

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00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:06,160
To see in every one of us.
And those that thought upon,

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00:38:06,160 –> 00:38:09,840
those thought carefully about
the circumstances of their own

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00:38:09,840 –> 00:38:17,000
life in the context of his name
are very precious to him, Very,

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00:38:17,120 –> 00:38:20,720
very precious indeed.
And he chose one of those

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00:38:20,720 –> 00:38:23,120
jewels.
He chose one of those jewels.

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00:38:23,240 –> 00:38:26,200
To be the mother.
Of his only begotten Son,

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00:38:27,440 –> 00:38:31,840
reflective thinking is is fast
disappearing.

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00:38:32,840 –> 00:38:35,320
It’s disappeared just about from
society.

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00:38:35,520 –> 00:38:41,080
It’s fast disappearing in our
own ranks because the age is

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00:38:41,080 –> 00:38:45,120
getting faster.
We don’t have time to think, do

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00:38:45,120 –> 00:38:47,200
we?
But we must.

539
00:38:48,160 –> 00:38:51,640
We’ve got to find time to think.
I find it a very difficult thing

540
00:38:52,240 –> 00:38:55,600
when the phone goes non-stop and
there’s so many things to attend

541
00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:58,720
to and do and go to and we’ve
got to be here this at this

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00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:00,240
time.
So we push ourselves and we’re

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00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:03,240
there and we do this and we pick
up our our bags and we go there

544
00:39:03,240 –> 00:39:07,640
and, and all the other myriad of
things that we have on our minds

545
00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:09,640
and it wears us down, doesn’t
it?

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00:39:09,640 –> 00:39:12,400
And we can’t think.
And sometimes I get so

547
00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:16,440
frustrated I sit down in my
study at night and think there’s

548
00:39:16,440 –> 00:39:18,560
so many things going around in
my mind.

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00:39:18,560 –> 00:39:21,640
I can’t think about divine
things.

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00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:25,840
Ever felt like that?
But we’ve got to learn to have

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00:39:25,840 –> 00:39:34,480
quiet time to make it, because
God loves those who think upon

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00:39:35,080 –> 00:39:37,680
his name.
We’ve got to not let the Hurley

553
00:39:37,680 –> 00:39:41,320
burly of this age.
Push us around and to think

554
00:39:41,320 –> 00:39:46,920
about the real issues.
The real issues of life.

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00:39:47,920 –> 00:39:53,040
And of the truth and parents,
let’s set an example.

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00:39:53,640 –> 00:39:56,400
Oh, it’s very difficult.
Life is very busy with a young

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00:39:56,400 –> 00:39:58,480
growing family, isn’t it?
We all know.

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00:39:58,480 –> 00:40:03,640
That, but let’s set an example.
In a world of depraved

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00:40:03,640 –> 00:40:07,920
wickedness, where people’s minds
are going over and over and over

560
00:40:07,920 –> 00:40:13,320
all sorts of ungodly and
self-centered things, we’ve got

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00:40:13,320 –> 00:40:17,160
to desperately pull together,
all of us brothers and sisters

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00:40:17,760 –> 00:40:19,480
pull together and help each
other.

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00:40:20,680 –> 00:40:24,760
To think about the name.
And come together as families

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00:40:24,800 –> 00:40:29,240
and as groups of young people
and talk about those things that

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00:40:29,240 –> 00:40:35,400
really matter.
Oh, it’s easy to say, but it’s

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00:40:35,400 –> 00:40:39,920
desperately important that we
all, all of us, young and old.

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00:40:39,920 –> 00:40:45,520
Try to do that.
Because when Jesus came along,

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00:40:46,080 –> 00:40:52,920
he was very deeply, very deeply
influenced by the spirit of his

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00:40:52,920 –> 00:40:57,440
mother.
He had thought long and hard

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00:40:57,800 –> 00:41:00,640
long.
Before he ever got to his public

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00:41:00,640 –> 00:41:04,360
ministry about issues of.
All.

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00:41:04,360 –> 00:41:08,920
Kinds he could never have
answered as he did some of the

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00:41:08,920 –> 00:41:12,680
questions that we find him so
masterly handling.

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00:41:13,120 –> 00:41:17,400
In his ministry had he not
churned and thought and and

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00:41:17,480 –> 00:41:19,720
pondered and meditated and.
Kept.

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00:41:19,720 –> 00:41:22,640
Those things in his heart and
put scripture with scripture and

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00:41:22,640 –> 00:41:26,040
experience with scripture and
thought about that experience

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00:41:26,040 –> 00:41:33,400
and observed.
People and God saw that his Son

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00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:36,200
needed that.
Influence.

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00:41:37,280 –> 00:41:38,760
And don’t our children need
that?

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00:41:40,920 –> 00:41:44,200
We need it too, and we need to
be like that to each other.

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00:41:44,320 –> 00:41:45,920
Because God is not looking for
robots.

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00:41:46,560 –> 00:41:49,040
He doesn’t want somebody to just
press the button and outcomes an

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00:41:49,040 –> 00:41:53,000
answer or exactly the right
thing at the right time just by

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00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:56,480
pressing a button.
He’s an intelligent creature,

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00:41:58,280 –> 00:42:04,480
and he will be pleased by the
intelligent and reasoned

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00:42:04,480 –> 00:42:12,480
response of hearts who fear Him.
It’s interesting to notice, but

588
00:42:12,800 –> 00:42:17,680
in the life of Mary and and
Joseph and many others of many

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00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:20,280
generations, many of those young
people that we’ve already looked

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00:42:20,280 –> 00:42:27,120
at over the past few days, God
just does not reveal all that

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00:42:27,120 –> 00:42:33,560
they needed to know at once.
He will tell them so much.

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00:42:33,920 –> 00:42:36,800
There will be so much revealed.
And for us, it’s just the same,

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00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:39,360
is it not?
He didn’t tell Mary, for

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00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:44,920
example, where Jesus was to be
born, But she’d worked out that

595
00:42:44,920 –> 00:42:48,480
it had to be in Bethlehem, and
she’d wondered how she’d get

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00:42:48,480 –> 00:42:50,640
there.
And she must have churned over

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00:42:50,640 –> 00:42:55,920
that for months and months until
suddenly, one day an

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00:42:56,760 –> 00:43:03,320
announcement was made and the
world was to be taxed and they

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00:43:03,320 –> 00:43:07,600
had to go to Bethlehem.
And she saw in all of that the

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00:43:07,600 –> 00:43:13,640
hand of God tell her that at the
beginning she wondered how the

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00:43:13,640 –> 00:43:16,360
prophecies would be fulfilled
from Micah and other places,

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00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:19,040
that he was to be born in bed.
And she knew that, but she

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00:43:19,040 –> 00:43:20,320
didn’t know how it would come to
pass.

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00:43:20,520 –> 00:43:22,320
But she exercised her mind upon
that.

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00:43:22,320 –> 00:43:25,440
So I told no instructions about
how to bring that child up.

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00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:28,400
She wasn’t told many of the
things that the shepherds came

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00:43:28,400 –> 00:43:32,680
and told her, but she exercised
her minds on all those things.

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00:43:34,280 –> 00:43:40,200
And what a tremendous lesson and
example she is for us all, and

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00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:47,040
particularly tonight to our dear
young sisters and our young

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00:43:47,040 –> 00:43:50,760
girls.
I want to talk.

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00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:55,400
For a moment to you
specifically, everything that

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00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:59,960
we’re going to consider really
is of as much applicability to

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00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:03,840
brethren.
Of any age and sisters of any

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00:44:03,840 –> 00:44:06,600
age.
But let’s just take this young

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00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:10,640
girl.
And don’t think that, because we

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00:44:10,640 –> 00:44:14,160
are not brethren, and we don’t.
Or will not be called.

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00:44:14,160 –> 00:44:20,560
Upon in ecclesial service to do
talks or to be a chairman.

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00:44:21,080 –> 00:44:27,200
That there is therefore no need
for us to do any Bible study or

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00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:33,880
thinking or meditation about
godly things here.

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00:44:33,880 –> 00:44:36,520
Mary was given.
Listen to this.

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00:44:36,760 –> 00:44:42,640
Mary was given a task greater
than any brother or any speaker

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00:44:43,440 –> 00:44:47,280
has ever been given in all human
history.

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00:44:49,040 –> 00:44:53,760
And she needed to be prepared.
And mothers in Israel?

624
00:44:54,160 –> 00:45:01,200
Have got a task almost second to
none to influence the heritage

625
00:45:01,200 –> 00:45:03,640
of Yahweh.
You know children.

626
00:45:03,640 –> 00:45:07,120
Are just not our.
Children, they belong to God.

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00:45:07,120 –> 00:45:11,600
They’ve been loaned to us in
order that we might for a short

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00:45:11,600 –> 00:45:15,920
time, guide and influence their
minds in godly ways, that we

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00:45:15,920 –> 00:45:18,760
might give them back to Him in
loving service.

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00:45:18,920 –> 00:45:21,760
They may be of use to Him One
day.

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00:45:22,160 –> 00:45:26,400
We hope and pray in the Kingdom
of God to turn the the

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00:45:26,400 –> 00:45:29,720
wickedness of this world around
and forever to be in fellowship

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00:45:29,720 –> 00:45:31,520
with him in the in the days
ahead.

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00:45:32,640 –> 00:45:38,400
You know He wants brethren and
sisters, our sons grown up, as

635
00:45:38,400 –> 00:45:43,080
the psalmist said in Psalm 144,
our sons grown up in their youth

636
00:45:43,560 –> 00:45:46,600
and our daughters.
As cornerstones after the

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00:45:46,880 –> 00:45:49,000
polished after the similitude of
a palace.

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00:45:49,040 –> 00:45:51,520
Palace and just notice in
passing.

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00:45:52,240 –> 00:45:58,480
That daughters are the
cornerstones, and there is a

640
00:45:58,480 –> 00:46:03,080
difference in that Psalm between
sons and daughters, in how the

641
00:46:03,080 –> 00:46:07,440
psalmist saw them.
Mothers have a unique and very

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00:46:07,440 –> 00:46:09,040
important.
Role to play.

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00:46:09,760 –> 00:46:15,680
For God in heaven in bringing
many of his children to a state

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00:46:15,680 –> 00:46:21,160
of mind that they might respond
in intelligent and reasoned

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00:46:21,160 –> 00:46:24,760
service before him.
You know mothers have a very

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00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:28,000
powerful influence fathers have
a powerful influence too.

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00:46:28,160 –> 00:46:32,000
But mothers are more powerful
influence over their children at

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00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:37,000
a younger.
There’s a more powerful

649
00:46:37,000 –> 00:46:40,640
influence over their children at
a younger age, and they can

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00:46:40,720 –> 00:46:47,640
influence so, so powerfully the
attitudes and the values the.

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00:46:47,640 –> 00:46:50,840
Way of thinking.
And the godly development of

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00:46:50,840 –> 00:46:55,960
young children, both for good or
I’ll, as the records of the king

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00:46:55,960 –> 00:47:01,480
so plainly outline, when the
mothers in Israel’s dynasty and

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00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:05,600
in Judah’s Kingdom are often
mentioned when either a very

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00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:08,120
good or a very wicked king came
along.

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00:47:09,440 –> 00:47:13,600
This is a tremendously important
word that’s largely

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00:47:14,120 –> 00:47:18,080
underestimated and denigrated in
the by the age in which we live.

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00:47:18,560 –> 00:47:22,800
But you know, young sisters,
you’ll never ever be able to

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00:47:22,800 –> 00:47:27,200
bring up a Son of God or a
daughter of God in your house

660
00:47:28,040 –> 00:47:29,840
unless in.
Youth you have.

661
00:47:29,840 –> 00:47:36,720
Learned the value of godliness
in your life unless you think

662
00:47:36,720 –> 00:47:39,960
carefully about the direction
and the issues of life.

663
00:47:39,960 –> 00:47:45,520
Unless you feed your minds with
godly things, you won’t have

664
00:47:45,520 –> 00:47:47,320
time.
Lady, you go and ask a mother

665
00:47:47,320 –> 00:47:52,080
with four children how much time
she’s got to read the work, the

666
00:47:52,160 –> 00:47:56,040
literature of the truth and the
the the Bible every day.

667
00:47:56,040 –> 00:47:58,120
She’ll find time if she’s a
godly.

668
00:47:58,120 –> 00:48:04,400
Woman, but she’ll tell you she
will do it under extreme

669
00:48:04,400 –> 00:48:09,000
tiredness late at night, early
in the morning, catching a nap,

670
00:48:09,120 –> 00:48:11,320
catching a a chance here or
there.

671
00:48:12,880 –> 00:48:17,960
You know, I’ve been very
encouraged young people over the

672
00:48:17,960 –> 00:48:23,920
last few days to see the the
spirit in which many young

673
00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:26,840
people.
And included in that a great

674
00:48:26,840 –> 00:48:30,920
number of our young sisters and
our young girls who have

675
00:48:30,920 –> 00:48:36,400
diligently stayed up at night or
got up early in the morning in

676
00:48:36,400 –> 00:48:39,560
order to ponder over the records
that we’ve been looking and to

677
00:48:39,560 –> 00:48:43,480
mark something in their Bible
and to think about God’s ways

678
00:48:43,480 –> 00:48:46,200
and his.
Word God will.

679
00:48:46,200 –> 00:48:50,200
Bless that spirit young girls,
he’ll bless it.

680
00:48:50,320 –> 00:48:55,000
And young lads, make no mistake
about it, like he blessed this

681
00:48:55,600 –> 00:48:57,640
godly.
Young girl, you know this world

682
00:48:57,640 –> 00:49:03,280
has gone crazy in so many ways.
It’s inverted God’s values on

683
00:49:03,280 –> 00:49:09,880
almost every hand and openly
challenges and decries the value

684
00:49:09,880 –> 00:49:12,840
and the role of motherhood of
all things.

685
00:49:13,520 –> 00:49:16,480
What a tragedy that is.
Look at these words.

686
00:49:24,940 –> 00:49:27,220
Horrific.
They just about burn the screen.

687
00:49:28,460 –> 00:49:34,180
They’re words that were spoken
by one Simone de Beauvoir at the

688
00:49:34,380 –> 00:49:37,220
World Conference in the
International Year of Women in

689
00:49:37,220 –> 00:49:43,160
1975, at the rural watershed of
women’s liberation movement.

690
00:49:44,040 –> 00:49:48,240
And in the concluding remarks
when the World Action Plan was

691
00:49:48,240 –> 00:49:53,040
being formulated, she said no
woman should be authorized to

692
00:49:53,040 –> 00:49:54,880
stay at home to raise her
children.

693
00:49:57,400 –> 00:50:02,040
Women should not have that
choice precisely because if

694
00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:04,800
there is such a choice.
Too many women will make it.

695
00:50:07,200 –> 00:50:11,280
It’s a way of forcing women in a
certain direction, and we see it

696
00:50:11,280 –> 00:50:14,880
as part of a global reform of
society which will not accept

697
00:50:14,880 –> 00:50:19,840
that old segregation between men
and women, the home and the

698
00:50:19,880 –> 00:50:23,760
outside world, as long as the
family and the.

699
00:50:23,760 –> 00:50:30,240
Myth of maternity and maternal
instinct are not destroyed.

700
00:50:30,920 –> 00:50:35,120
Women will still be oppressed.
Oh, there might have been some.

701
00:50:35,120 –> 00:50:36,920
Motive behind that because in
many.

702
00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:40,320
Countries of the world, for many
centuries, many women have been

703
00:50:40,320 –> 00:50:44,560
oppressed by men.
But what blasphemous nonsense.

704
00:50:46,880 –> 00:50:52,880
And from that time forward, with
great determination, there’s

705
00:50:52,880 –> 00:50:58,000
been a powerful worldwide lobby,
particularly effective.

706
00:50:58,000 –> 00:50:59,680
In the Western countries of the
world.

707
00:51:01,120 –> 00:51:05,160
The eventual result of which has
been, in almost every Western

708
00:51:05,160 –> 00:51:11,200
nation, the passing of what we
know as equal opportunity

709
00:51:11,200 –> 00:51:18,000
legislation, the proliferation
of childcare centres, enormous

710
00:51:18,000 –> 00:51:20,600
sums of money going into women’s
shelters.

711
00:51:20,600 –> 00:51:26,320
And childcare centres and
drastic changes to the marriage

712
00:51:26,480 –> 00:51:30,520
and divorce laws of countries
around the world, including

713
00:51:30,520 –> 00:51:33,400
Australia.
And initially there was great

714
00:51:33,400 –> 00:51:36,040
resistance from conservative
middle.

715
00:51:36,040 –> 00:51:40,680
Class society who was brought up
on a set of values which were

716
00:51:40,680 –> 00:51:44,600
basically biblically based and
conservative and right.

717
00:51:46,280 –> 00:51:50,640
And you know what?
The activists knew that they

718
00:51:50,640 –> 00:51:53,040
would never, ever change
society.

719
00:51:54,200 –> 00:52:00,200
Until they got at the minds of
children and the equal

720
00:52:00,200 –> 00:52:04,600
opportunities legislation was
pushed onto the education agenda

721
00:52:04,600 –> 00:52:09,560
for implementation and in the
public education sectors of

722
00:52:09,560 –> 00:52:13,200
every state in this country and
in almost every country in the

723
00:52:13,200 –> 00:52:17,160
Western world.
You will find equal opportunity

724
00:52:17,160 –> 00:52:23,160
policy reigning supreme and by
that I mean this, that girls are

725
00:52:23,160 –> 00:52:28,600
to be actively encouraged to
seek further education, to set

726
00:52:28,600 –> 00:52:33,120
up career structures from an
early age, to be.

727
00:52:33,120 –> 00:52:36,200
Actively discouraged when they
leave school, from having a

728
00:52:36,200 –> 00:52:38,280
family or staying at home if
they do.

729
00:52:39,040 –> 00:52:43,600
To be encouraged actively, to be
assertive, to be proactive, to

730
00:52:43,600 –> 00:52:46,840
be more vocal.
They’re told I’m wrong without

731
00:52:46,840 –> 00:52:50,000
boys at school.
Now you ask your children if

732
00:52:50,000 –> 00:52:52,280
they’re at school, if they’re
not getting this sort of message

733
00:52:52,480 –> 00:52:56,520
in social education classes and
social conditioning that’s going

734
00:52:56,520 –> 00:53:03,400
on within our school societies,
both private and public systems,

735
00:53:05,160 –> 00:53:11,320
they’re told to rethink.
The stereotypes rethink the

736
00:53:11,320 –> 00:53:14,080
family.
You know, the education

737
00:53:14,080 –> 00:53:17,480
department of SA has a document
that that is basically it’s

738
00:53:17,480 –> 00:53:22,360
policy document on the cover.
It has, apart from the title, a

739
00:53:22,360 –> 00:53:26,960
picture of the family that
they’re educating. 1 mother, two

740
00:53:26,960 –> 00:53:29,240
children, no.
Father.

741
00:53:31,120 –> 00:53:36,440
Rethink Relationships don’t get
bound up in marriage.

742
00:53:37,320 –> 00:53:41,760
It’s likely to hurt you.
Think about it, Children are

743
00:53:41,760 –> 00:53:44,560
being told challenge traditional
roles.

744
00:53:44,720 –> 00:53:48,440
They’re no longer workable in
this sort of society.

745
00:53:48,920 –> 00:53:51,320
You know, brothers and sisters
and young people, that

746
00:53:51,320 –> 00:53:57,400
legislation is working
marvellously, marvellously well.

747
00:53:57,880 –> 00:54:01,920
They’re brilliant strategists.
They knew that if you go head on

748
00:54:02,200 –> 00:54:05,640
to conservative, middle-aged
society, you’ll never, ever

749
00:54:05,640 –> 00:54:07,960
change it.
But you get down to little

750
00:54:07,960 –> 00:54:10,960
children who don’t know any
different and you start

751
00:54:11,280 –> 00:54:15,240
brainwashing them, and I use
that term brainwashing them, by

752
00:54:15,640 –> 00:54:18,440
making an environment where the
language has changed and

753
00:54:18,440 –> 00:54:20,720
everything about it is all now
different.

754
00:54:22,080 –> 00:54:26,680
Eventually thinking will change.
Within society all there is

755
00:54:26,680 –> 00:54:30,400
active discrimination of women
promoted into executive

756
00:54:30,400 –> 00:54:34,400
positions and administrative
positions within education

757
00:54:34,400 –> 00:54:39,000
bodies.
Very important within schools,

758
00:54:39,000 –> 00:54:42,680
again very important because
policy has to be influenced

759
00:54:44,280 –> 00:54:47,720
decision making in many schools
in this state.

760
00:54:48,240 –> 00:54:49,680
Brothers and sisters.
Is.

761
00:54:49,800 –> 00:54:54,560
Absolutely hamstrung by
feminists, and that’s no

762
00:54:54,560 –> 00:54:59,120
understatement.
Hamstrung and people,

763
00:54:59,160 –> 00:55:03,120
administrators, principals are
powerless with their hands

764
00:55:03,120 –> 00:55:08,000
behind their backs by equal
opportunity legislation that

765
00:55:08,000 –> 00:55:14,840
tells them what they have to do
despite what they know is best.

766
00:55:15,320 –> 00:55:19,480
To do now.
That whole movement is based,

767
00:55:19,560 –> 00:55:22,000
once again, on humanistic
principles.

768
00:55:22,320 –> 00:55:27,880
No God, no absolutes.
Why should there be a difference

769
00:55:27,880 –> 00:55:31,280
between males and females if we
all evolved anyway?

770
00:55:31,760 –> 00:55:33,360
We all came out of a lump of
Jelly.

771
00:55:33,920 –> 00:55:36,040
Who’s to say there’s any
difference?

772
00:55:36,200 –> 00:55:39,520
Why should there be?
And so goes the reasoning.

773
00:55:40,200 –> 00:55:46,000
Girls, Beware of that subtle
indoctrination, because that’s

774
00:55:46,000 –> 00:55:48,520
what it is.
Oh, it sounds very plausible.

775
00:55:48,720 –> 00:55:51,280
And on occasions.
You may be called together.

776
00:55:51,720 –> 00:55:54,800
As a group of girls at school,
it’s happened in the school that

777
00:55:54,800 –> 00:56:00,520
I work at, girls have been taken
into a room for three days where

778
00:56:00,520 –> 00:56:04,240
no male was allowed to step into
the room.

779
00:56:05,840 –> 00:56:10,280
And top ranking feminists from
around this city came in and

780
00:56:10,280 –> 00:56:14,360
talked to them and taught them
how to be more aggressive, how

781
00:56:14,360 –> 00:56:18,640
to direct their careers, how to
think about this and that and.

782
00:56:18,920 –> 00:56:21,520
Build their minds with all sorts
of things.

783
00:56:23,160 –> 00:56:26,560
It’s being aggressively
marketed, aggressively marketed

784
00:56:27,240 –> 00:56:30,520
within our school system.
And I say, brethren and sisters,

785
00:56:30,560 –> 00:56:34,760
all power to the move to
establish a school within our

786
00:56:34,760 –> 00:56:37,280
own community.
We’ve got the ability to do so

787
00:56:37,920 –> 00:56:43,160
that’s going to be based on
godly principles because that

788
00:56:44,080 –> 00:56:49,120
underpinning philosophy is
ripping society apart.

789
00:56:50,240 –> 00:56:53,840
It’s a movement, brethren, and.
Sisters, that’s even affecting

790
00:56:53,840 –> 00:56:57,120
the English language.
Can you believe it?

791
00:56:57,680 –> 00:56:59,440
It’s affecting the English
language.

792
00:56:59,720 –> 00:57:03,440
You ask any young people in
senior secondary school today

793
00:57:03,680 –> 00:57:06,800
that happened to be doing any of
the subjects like English or the

794
00:57:06,800 –> 00:57:11,840
social sciences, and if they use
sexist terms in their writing,

795
00:57:11,960 –> 00:57:16,000
they will be downgraded.
I know there are young people in

796
00:57:16,000 –> 00:57:21,120
this hall here tonight who have
been told by teachers you didn’t

797
00:57:21,120 –> 00:57:23,760
get an A.
This is a very impressive piece

798
00:57:23,760 –> 00:57:25,360
of work.
But I have to give you AC

799
00:57:25,640 –> 00:57:30,000
because you’ve used this
language, because you’ve said he

800
00:57:30,120 –> 00:57:34,160
instead of she, because you’ve
called this husband and wife

801
00:57:34,160 –> 00:57:41,040
instead of partner.
Our young people are facing

802
00:57:41,040 –> 00:57:45,080
that.
It’s a serious business.

803
00:57:46,720 –> 00:57:54,920
It’s conditioning, but rapidly
we’re beginning to see the

804
00:57:54,920 –> 00:58:02,400
consequences of such a policy.
You see the rate of marriage

805
00:58:02,400 –> 00:58:06,520
breakdown is increasing
alarmingly.

806
00:58:07,480 –> 00:58:11,680
Family.
Problems only two years.

807
00:58:11,680 –> 00:58:15,280
Ago when I had a Home group in
the school that I was teaching

808
00:58:15,280 –> 00:58:21,000
at in.
Not a very bad suburb, I

809
00:58:21,000 –> 00:58:26,080
suppose, not certainly in the
worst areas to teach in this

810
00:58:26,080 –> 00:58:33,440
state. 65% of the children in
that Home group had one parent

811
00:58:33,440 –> 00:58:37,440
at home.
And there’s all sorts of social

812
00:58:37,440 –> 00:58:40,200
problems, as we well know, that
are coming out of that.

813
00:58:41,280 –> 00:58:44,680
Society is turning God’s values
upside down.

814
00:58:44,880 –> 00:58:48,600
But the worst thing is they’re
trying to influence our children

815
00:58:50,440 –> 00:58:54,840
and to some degree, brethren and
sisters, I say succeeding.

816
00:58:58,440 –> 00:59:02,800
What is the truth?
What is the truth?

817
00:59:04,960 –> 00:59:12,160
About equal opportunity, young
people, do you know You know God

818
00:59:12,160 –> 00:59:18,200
in the beginning made man and
woman differently by different

819
00:59:18,200 –> 00:59:21,480
processes for a very good
reason.

820
00:59:22,080 –> 00:59:24,720
He made them that they might
complement each other, not to

821
00:59:24,840 –> 00:59:28,440
paint with each other.
He made the woman second, the

822
00:59:28,440 –> 00:59:31,640
man first.
He made the woman as a help fit

823
00:59:31,720 –> 00:59:34,960
for the man that she might draw
from him the latent

824
00:59:34,960 –> 00:59:39,000
characteristics that were there
and together form a beautiful

825
00:59:39,000 –> 00:59:44,280
harmony of characteristics and
be able to develop the divine

826
00:59:44,280 –> 00:59:48,560
character together.
And their roles are very clearly

827
00:59:49,080 –> 00:59:55,240
established in the Scriptures.
But before God in a spiritual

828
00:59:55,240 –> 00:59:59,760
sense, young people, man and
woman, are equal in the sight of

829
00:59:59,760 –> 01:00:03,800
God as the apostle Paul.
Said ye are.

830
01:00:03,880 –> 01:00:08,880
All one in Christ Jesus, there
is no male, no female, there’s

831
01:00:08,880 –> 01:00:11,600
no race barriers, there’s not
one greater than another.

832
01:00:11,880 –> 01:00:15,440
They’re you’re all male and
female, all sorry, one in Christ

833
01:00:15,440 –> 01:00:19,440
Jesus, Peter said.
You’re ears together.

834
01:00:20,240 –> 01:00:25,080
Of the grace of life.
But that’s not to say that God

835
01:00:25,080 –> 01:00:29,880
has not clearly defined roles
and responsibilities.

836
01:00:30,480 –> 01:00:34,040
That have been based upon the
pattern of His creation, which

837
01:00:34,040 –> 01:00:37,840
He alone as Creator knows what
is best for each.

838
01:00:37,840 –> 01:00:44,280
Of those two groups, and the
wisdom of this world in their

839
01:00:44,280 –> 01:00:47,760
utter folly, has chosen to
ignore it.

840
01:00:49,200 –> 01:00:53,000
And that’s not new, because
they’ve ignored it on many

841
01:00:53,000 –> 01:00:55,000
occasions in many ages in the
past.

842
01:00:55,240 –> 01:00:57,920
In the 1st century, exactly the
same thing happened.

843
01:00:57,920 –> 01:00:59,800
I like to come first to
Corinthians Chapter 11.

844
01:01:10,520 –> 01:01:13,000
1st of Corinthians Chapter 11
verse 3.

845
01:01:17,880 –> 01:01:21,320
But I would have you know, said
the apostle, that the head of

846
01:01:21,320 –> 01:01:24,960
every man is Christ, and the
head of the woman is the man,

847
01:01:25,640 –> 01:01:31,120
and the head of Christ is God.
There is a clear distinction.

848
01:01:31,400 –> 01:01:33,760
There are clear levels of
headship which God has

849
01:01:33,760 –> 01:01:35,760
established.
That are appropriate.

850
01:01:35,760 –> 01:01:41,360
God, Christ, man, woman.
Evident in all that he does and

851
01:01:42,320 –> 01:01:46,960
purposeful.
In the development of of his

852
01:01:47,120 –> 01:01:49,920
purpose throughout the earth.
You know, in Corinth, in the

853
01:01:49,920 –> 01:01:54,360
days in which Paul wrote these
words, women were removing their

854
01:01:54,360 –> 01:01:59,960
head coverings as a protest
asserting equality of rights,

855
01:02:00,160 –> 01:02:02,920
that it wasn’t fair that the men
were.

856
01:02:02,920 –> 01:02:05,080
Allowed to do this or that and
they weren’t.

857
01:02:06,360 –> 01:02:07,880
And Paul had to deal with the
issue.

858
01:02:08,800 –> 01:02:11,360
And he said, in effect, brothers
and sisters and young people,

859
01:02:12,400 –> 01:02:19,120
that those women were showing
both their own ignorance and

860
01:02:19,120 –> 01:02:24,440
their own wrong motivation.
Because the head covering was in

861
01:02:24,440 –> 01:02:27,760
recognition of a divine
principle of headship that got

862
01:02:27,760 –> 01:02:30,960
it always established right.
From the beginning, it’s a

863
01:02:30,960 –> 01:02:35,080
principle which is divine.
And it’s in operation throughout

864
01:02:35,080 –> 01:02:40,240
all this dispensation of things.
And it’s not only applicable to

865
01:02:40,240 –> 01:02:45,280
married women and married men or
baptized girls and not

866
01:02:45,280 –> 01:02:48,120
unbaptized girls.
It’s a universal principle that

867
01:02:48,120 –> 01:02:51,480
God has established just as
Christ.

868
01:02:51,480 –> 01:02:55,520
Is subject to God, so the
ecclesia ought to be subject to

869
01:02:55,520 –> 01:03:00,680
Christ.
So likewise, in the same way is

870
01:03:00,680 –> 01:03:04,080
the woman to be subject to the
man in this dispensation.

871
01:03:04,320 –> 01:03:07,160
In the time to come, in the age
to come, we will be equal to the

872
01:03:07,200 –> 01:03:08,960
angels.
There will be no difference.

873
01:03:09,960 –> 01:03:13,760
But it’s sad to see, despite
Paul’s clear statements here and

874
01:03:13,760 –> 01:03:15,440
elsewhere, that we.
Haven’t got time to look at

875
01:03:15,440 –> 01:03:18,600
tonight.
It’s sad to see in recent times,

876
01:03:19,080 –> 01:03:24,840
young girls and sisters, that
some of our girls are not at an.

877
01:03:24,840 –> 01:03:28,680
Age.
Of clear mental ability.

878
01:03:29,120 –> 01:03:33,240
And appreciation of divine
things, Not wearing hats to

879
01:03:33,240 –> 01:03:38,520
meetings, removing them the very
moment the piano or the organ

880
01:03:38,520 –> 01:03:40,640
stops, as if to make a
statement.

881
01:03:41,880 –> 01:03:48,840
If that’s coincidental to a
forceful campaign for equal

882
01:03:48,840 –> 01:03:52,240
rights and to denigrate
everything that’s been

883
01:03:52,240 –> 01:03:56,560
biblically said about it in our
age, well, so be it.

884
01:03:57,400 –> 01:03:59,680
But it’s an awful coincidence if
it is.

885
01:04:00,640 –> 01:04:04,000
You see, God is.
Aligned for men and for women.

886
01:04:04,240 –> 01:04:08,600
Vital roles for each, vitally
important, both of them.

887
01:04:09,200 –> 01:04:13,200
And they’re not the same.
They’re equally important and

888
01:04:13,200 –> 01:04:16,240
all we have to do.
Brethren and sisters, young or

889
01:04:16,240 –> 01:04:21,600
old is understand the role that
God has for us.

890
01:04:22,920 –> 01:04:27,880
You know, there’s, it’s vital to
our, to our families and to our

891
01:04:27,880 –> 01:04:33,520
ecclesias that our sisters
especially see in this age of

892
01:04:33,520 –> 01:04:38,520
distortion of values, see very
clearly what some of those

893
01:04:38,520 –> 01:04:42,960
issues are.
You know, the New Testament

894
01:04:42,960 –> 01:04:47,840
makes it very clear that the
role of sisters in the ecclesia

895
01:04:48,640 –> 01:04:54,520
is generally not public.
But it’s just as important as

896
01:04:54,520 –> 01:04:57,400
the role of any.
Brother in the meeting and this

897
01:04:57,400 –> 01:04:59,600
crazy.
World is out there educating our

898
01:04:59,600 –> 01:05:02,200
girls.
And bombarding our sisters

899
01:05:02,200 –> 01:05:05,720
during the day through the radio
and whatever else, and telling

900
01:05:05,720 –> 01:05:08,960
them that they should be the
same as males, they should be

901
01:05:08,960 –> 01:05:12,000
more aggressive, they should
stand up for what they think.

902
01:05:12,320 –> 01:05:14,760
Don’t be pushed around you make
your own way.

903
01:05:14,840 –> 01:05:18,040
You have your career, you do
what you like, when you like and

904
01:05:18,040 –> 01:05:19,880
don’t listen to what the men
say.

905
01:05:21,320 –> 01:05:24,640
Sisters, if that’s coming across
a radio all day, don’t listen to

906
01:05:24,640 –> 01:05:29,680
it because we’re influenced to
what continually goes through

907
01:05:29,680 –> 01:05:32,520
our minds.
Brother Thomas in a well known

908
01:05:32,520 –> 01:05:34,280
passage in Elpis Israel, said
this.

909
01:05:35,480 –> 01:05:38,360
And truer words for this age,
they never were.

910
01:05:39,440 –> 01:05:42,280
When women aim for an equality
for which they are not

911
01:05:42,280 –> 01:05:46,760
physically constituted, they
degrade themselves by the

912
01:05:46,760 –> 01:05:50,680
exhibition, and in proportion as
they rise in assurance they sink

913
01:05:50,680 –> 01:05:53,440
in.
All that really adorns a woman,

914
01:05:54,480 –> 01:05:56,880
young girls and young.
Sisters, take that.

915
01:05:57,240 –> 01:06:00,920
And think about it.
The apostle Paul and brother

916
01:06:00,920 –> 01:06:05,520
Thomas were not anti women.
The apostle gives some advice.

917
01:06:05,520 –> 01:06:09,000
Let’s look at it quickly in
Titus chapter chapter 2 and

918
01:06:09,040 –> 01:06:12,920
Titus chapter 2, just as one
example.

919
01:06:13,840 –> 01:06:17,680
And there are many others.
In First Timothy chapter 2, for

920
01:06:17,680 –> 01:06:25,920
example, we’ll look at Titus 2
and at verse three he says for

921
01:06:25,920 –> 01:06:31,200
we ourselves sorry, wrong.
Chapter Titus 2 and chapter and

922
01:06:31,200 –> 01:06:36,440
verse three, he says the aged
women likewise, that they be in

923
01:06:36,440 –> 01:06:40,760
behaviour as becometh holiness,
not false accusers, not given

924
01:06:40,760 –> 01:06:43,000
too much wine, but teachers of
good things.

925
01:06:43,160 –> 01:06:46,560
That they may teach the young
women to be sober, to love their

926
01:06:46,560 –> 01:06:50,400
husbands, to love their
children, to be discreet, chaste

927
01:06:50,840 –> 01:06:55,120
keepers at home, good, obedient
to their own husbands, that the

928
01:06:55,120 –> 01:06:59,120
word of God be not not
blasphemed.

929
01:06:59,760 –> 01:07:02,080
It’s not an onerous task, but
we’re going to be to be

930
01:07:02,080 –> 01:07:06,280
subjected unto all sorts of
cruel torture and treatment and

931
01:07:06,280 –> 01:07:08,120
to be made to do things against
their will.

932
01:07:08,360 –> 01:07:10,840
That’s not what Paul is talking
about.

933
01:07:10,840 –> 01:07:14,080
Under any circumstances, there
ought to be a very beautiful

934
01:07:14,080 –> 01:07:17,440
balance.
In family life but there are

935
01:07:17,440 –> 01:07:20,320
roles that the apostle talks
about older women adorning

936
01:07:20,320 –> 01:07:22,840
themselves as he says in another
place with.

937
01:07:23,000 –> 01:07:26,000
Good works which in the sight of
God are of great value.

938
01:07:26,000 –> 01:07:32,840
Sisters understand that good
works, the hidden man of the

939
01:07:32,840 –> 01:07:37,120
heart, are of great value to God
and can achieve in a cleansing

940
01:07:37,120 –> 01:07:41,160
life more than words from a
platform can ever do.

941
01:07:42,960 –> 01:07:45,640
We can teach by word and
example.

942
01:07:46,120 –> 01:07:48,400
And it’s sadly.
Lacking in our community and

943
01:07:48,400 –> 01:07:50,720
young sisters.
Do you think your role’s a

944
01:07:50,720 –> 01:07:53,720
boring one?
Well, it’s only because you’ve

945
01:07:53,720 –> 01:07:56,880
been influenced by the thinking
of this evil age if you think

946
01:07:56,880 –> 01:07:57,720
that.
Life is a.

947
01:07:57,720 –> 01:08:02,120
Boring one in bringing up the
the future kings and priests of

948
01:08:02,120 –> 01:08:05,200
an age which is going to be the
good most glorious time that

949
01:08:05,200 –> 01:08:07,680
there has ever been on earth.
What an enormous.

950
01:08:07,680 –> 01:08:11,120
Responsibility, that is, and
evidently it wasn’t being done

951
01:08:11,120 –> 01:08:16,160
in the 1st century either,
because Paul says older sisters

952
01:08:16,200 –> 01:08:20,000
teach the younger ones that the
word of God be not blasphemed.

953
01:08:20,359 –> 01:08:24,080
God has put into the hands of
our sisters a tremendous work, a

954
01:08:24,080 –> 01:08:28,800
great responsibility.
There may not be outward

955
01:08:28,800 –> 01:08:32,479
recognition, an adulation now in
the age to come, there will

956
01:08:32,479 –> 01:08:34,359
there will be great praise and
honour.

957
01:08:35,200 –> 01:08:40,359
But shaping the next generation,
shaping the next generation of

958
01:08:40,359 –> 01:08:44,479
those who are coming to know God
and allowing public work of the

959
01:08:44,479 –> 01:08:48,800
truth to proceed by their
support and their their care and

960
01:08:48,920 –> 01:08:51,960
encouragement in the home is a
vital work.

961
01:08:52,120 –> 01:08:53,439
Remember the?
Words of the Psalm.

962
01:08:54,120 –> 01:08:59,479
Our daughters are to be as
cornerstones, polished after the

963
01:08:59,479 –> 01:09:06,560
similitude of a palace.
Solid, beautiful, unmovable, and

964
01:09:06,600 –> 01:09:09,520
gloriously precious in the sight
of God.

965
01:09:10,479 –> 01:09:15,000
As if in a.
Palace and done by quiet godly

966
01:09:15,000 –> 01:09:19,880
works an example a caring
sympathetic spirit that only

967
01:09:19,880 –> 01:09:25,800
women crying can extend the fall
where sisters there is a vital.

968
01:09:25,800 –> 01:09:27,920
Work in the Ecclesia.
Young girls don’t.

969
01:09:27,960 –> 01:09:29,720
Ever let anyone tell you
otherwise?

970
01:09:29,960 –> 01:09:33,720
And it’s often more effective
and more powerful than that of

971
01:09:33,720 –> 01:09:37,560
many brethren.
Now Paul appreciated the work of

972
01:09:37,560 –> 01:09:40,359
many sisters.
You pick up Romans 16 at your

973
01:09:40,359 –> 01:09:42,880
leisure and read it and you see
what he said about some of the

974
01:09:43,120 –> 01:09:46,640
marvellous work of sisters and
bearing the yoking youth,

975
01:09:46,640 –> 01:09:49,600
sisters and young girls.
What better way to bear the

976
01:09:49,600 –> 01:09:54,240
yoke?
The yoke of self denial, being

977
01:09:54,240 –> 01:09:58,720
compassionate and caring of
concern, ministering to others

978
01:09:58,840 –> 01:10:01,600
wasn’t.
That’s the spirit of our Lord

979
01:10:01,600 –> 01:10:06,760
Himself and encouraging build.
When brethren and sisters in the

980
01:10:06,760 –> 01:10:10,320
equator of God can cooperate in
those complementary roles

981
01:10:10,320 –> 01:10:15,720
together, what a glorious and
happy place it will be.

982
01:10:18,520 –> 01:10:24,000
But the circumstances that we
find in Mary’s life from this

983
01:10:24,000 –> 01:10:27,800
time onwards are very
instructive.

984
01:10:28,000 –> 01:10:32,480
We’re not going to look at them
in any detail, but we know that

985
01:10:32,640 –> 01:10:37,560
she lived in despised Nazareth
in what was almost certain

986
01:10:37,560 –> 01:10:41,320
poverty.
She offered, for example, the

987
01:10:41,320 –> 01:10:44,320
offering of the poor when she
came to Jerusalem, and she would

988
01:10:44,320 –> 01:10:47,600
have offered better if she was
able her own.

989
01:10:47,680 –> 01:10:51,280
The spirit in in her song
identifies with the poor and the

990
01:10:51,280 –> 01:10:55,000
downtrodden.
And isn’t it interesting that

991
01:10:55,000 –> 01:11:00,440
God saw fit to put his Son into
that environment?

992
01:11:01,000 –> 01:11:05,920
Brother Roberts once said the
lap of luxury is notoriously

993
01:11:05,920 –> 01:11:08,080
unfavourable for the development
of character.

994
01:11:08,240 –> 01:11:11,480
And so it is.
And perhaps we ought to take

995
01:11:11,480 –> 01:11:15,600
that as a warning, parents.
But her trauma went on.

996
01:11:16,640 –> 01:11:19,080
There was a great deal of
unknowns in her life and.

997
01:11:19,280 –> 01:11:22,760
And she had to face the.
Stigma of being an unmarried

998
01:11:22,760 –> 01:11:27,920
mother in Israel and the talk of
the town and all the innuendo.

999
01:11:28,120 –> 01:11:30,760
And patiently bear with that.
If she explained to me, well,

1000
01:11:30,760 –> 01:11:33,440
they didn’t believe her and that
no one in that generation called

1001
01:11:33,440 –> 01:11:37,480
her blessed.
Even though it was prophesied

1002
01:11:37,480 –> 01:11:40,800
that she would, it didn’t matter
what she said.

1003
01:11:41,320 –> 01:11:46,440
Her reputation was destroyed and
30 years later the scribes and

1004
01:11:46,440 –> 01:11:50,720
Pharisees threw those words into
the teeth of Jesus when they

1005
01:11:50,720 –> 01:11:55,960
said, we be not born of
fornication.

1006
01:11:56,920 –> 01:12:01,920
We know who our Father was, so
they never forgot.

1007
01:12:04,320 –> 01:12:08,640
And she was called upon to
accept great difficulty, mental

1008
01:12:08,640 –> 01:12:13,520
torture through her very
earliest years, as with

1009
01:12:13,520 –> 01:12:19,280
difficulty, she struggled to
bring up the Son of God in a

1010
01:12:19,280 –> 01:12:21,880
home that we know had at least
six other children.

1011
01:12:23,440 –> 01:12:25,520
There was the tragedy that she
almost.

1012
01:12:25,520 –> 01:12:31,360
Lost Joseph but got intervened
and spoke to him through an

1013
01:12:31,360 –> 01:12:36,040
Angel and there on the back of a
donkey.

1014
01:12:36,440 –> 01:12:41,880
She travelled to Bethlehem only
to be turned around and cast out

1015
01:12:41,880 –> 01:12:47,680
from every venue that they
turned into and ending up in a

1016
01:12:47,680 –> 01:12:50,720
stable.
The king of the world was born.

1017
01:12:51,520 –> 01:12:57,200
The king of the world, you know,
God’s telling us something.

1018
01:12:58,960 –> 01:13:03,760
He’s not interested in what man
thinks is important and great.

1019
01:13:04,800 –> 01:13:08,080
But as Paul said in first of
Corinthians chapter 1, he said

1020
01:13:08,760 –> 01:13:12,160
God has chosen the base things
of this world and things which

1021
01:13:12,160 –> 01:13:14,400
are the spies and things that
which I’m not to bring to

1022
01:13:14,400 –> 01:13:17,120
naughty the things that are.
That no flesh should glory in

1023
01:13:17,120 –> 01:13:18,960
His presence.
And so it was.

1024
01:13:19,400 –> 01:13:21,840
And she was forced to flee to
Egypt and amidst all the.

1025
01:13:21,840 –> 01:13:24,520
Uncertainty of that.
And to come back again to the

1026
01:13:24,520 –> 01:13:25,840
innuendo.
Back in Nazareth.

1027
01:13:26,000 –> 01:13:28,480
Oh, what a terrible.
Early life it was brethren and

1028
01:13:28,480 –> 01:13:31,520
sisters and young people.
Sisters, Just think about all

1029
01:13:31,520 –> 01:13:36,720
the trauma that she went through
and all that time in her youth,

1030
01:13:36,720 –> 01:13:41,600
God was preparing her for the
great work of influencing His

1031
01:13:41,600 –> 01:13:44,040
Son.
And so that young lad began to

1032
01:13:44,040 –> 01:13:47,440
grow.
And began to delight because of

1033
01:13:47,440 –> 01:13:49,880
his mother’s instruction in
God’s way.

1034
01:13:50,480 –> 01:13:53,480
And he grew to love his Father
in heaven and divine ways.

1035
01:13:53,840 –> 01:13:57,040
He learned to think like his
mother and reflect.

1036
01:13:57,040 –> 01:14:00,880
On his father.
‘S thoughts and his ways.

1037
01:14:01,400 –> 01:14:04,520
And he saw in his mother a
patient example under

1038
01:14:04,520 –> 01:14:08,040
tribulation.
He saw that in that home.

1039
01:14:08,240 –> 01:14:11,960
He learnt what it meant to just
close your mouth and accept the

1040
01:14:11,960 –> 01:14:15,240
innuendo of men.
He learnt what it meant to be

1041
01:14:15,240 –> 01:14:19,280
poor and to suffer.
He learnt all of those things by

1042
01:14:19,280 –> 01:14:21,200
singing.
The pressures of family life

1043
01:14:21,200 –> 01:14:25,240
bore down upon him.
But Mary grew by all of those

1044
01:14:25,240 –> 01:14:33,080
circumstances in her youth, and
God bore it upon her that she

1045
01:14:33,080 –> 01:14:39,360
might, with this precious gift,
perform a mighty work in Co

1046
01:14:39,360 –> 01:14:43,600
operation with him.
Young Sisters.

1047
01:14:43,960 –> 01:14:50,120
That’s the role that you have.
And brethren, we too have the

1048
01:14:50,120 –> 01:14:55,360
role of development in
cooperation with God amidst

1049
01:14:55,360 –> 01:15:00,760
life’s joys and sorrows.
God hasn’t said that He will

1050
01:15:00,760 –> 01:15:04,640
provide a a flower strewn
pathway to the Kingdom.

1051
01:15:06,560 –> 01:15:10,800
But the experiences of life will
make so much more sense if in

1052
01:15:10,800 –> 01:15:17,280
our youth we can develop our
minds and think, meditate and

1053
01:15:17,280 –> 01:15:21,480
reflect upon the marvellous
things that he’s done.

1054
01:15:23,960 –> 01:15:28,840
What a beautiful character Mary
is in her youth.

1055
01:15:30,280 –> 01:15:44,840
What have we seen?
That God delights in those who

1056
01:15:44,840 –> 01:15:50,560
show faith and willing obedience
to Him, the delights in those

1057
01:15:50,560 –> 01:15:55,880
that think upon His name and
reflectively consider the

1058
01:15:55,880 –> 01:15:59,960
circumstances of their life.
And that youth is by far the

1059
01:15:59,960 –> 01:16:04,840
best time to develop such godly
thinking, that we may in time be

1060
01:16:04,840 –> 01:16:08,840
called upon even youth to suffer
unjustly for the name of Christ

1061
01:16:09,440 –> 01:16:15,320
and to bear it patiently because
God life was not to be easy for

1062
01:16:15,320 –> 01:16:19,480
any of God’s servants.
We’ve learnt that societies

1063
01:16:19,480 –> 01:16:23,440
change the divinely appointed
roles of men and women, but

1064
01:16:23,440 –> 01:16:29,400
fulfilment and blessing and true
happiness will only come by

1065
01:16:29,400 –> 01:16:33,000
accepting God’s way in Co
operation with Him.

1066
01:16:42,600 –> 01:16:46,320
Thank you, Brother Andrew.
Let us brothers and sisters and

1067
01:16:46,320 –> 01:16:50,600
young people take the lessons
from the life of Mary to

1068
01:16:50,600 –> 01:16:54,160
thoughtfully consider the Word
of God and willingly submit

1069
01:16:54,160 –> 01:16:56,600
ourselves to what God requires
of us.

1070
01:16:58,040 –> 01:17:01,800
We’ll close tonight’s meeting
with him. 62 followed by pray.