341: Shawn Moynihan – Mary’s Trials

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Hey everyone, it’s Jason
Hensley.

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This week we are going to be
listening to a talk just given

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recently at the Palm Springs
Bible School in 2025.

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It’s by brother Sean Moynihan
from Ontario, Canada.

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His series is about Mary, and I
thought that this was pretty

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neat because we often don’t talk
about Mary.

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I think because the Catholic
Church has kind of over

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emphasized Mary and so maybe
sometimes we just stay away a

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little bit from talking about
her.

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So number one, I thought it was
neat to see a whole series on

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Mary and then this last class
that we’re listening to, this is

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the last in the series of five.
This last class is about Mary’s

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trials.
And I felt like Brother Sean

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really brought out powerfully
what Mary would have experienced

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and what it would have been like
for her as the mother of the

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Lord Jesus in seeing her son go
through these things.

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So for me, this was a, a talk
that really brought things to

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life, really opened things up a
little more historically, and in

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doing so, really made the
character and the story of Mary

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a lot more powerful.
Not only that, but a few times

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in this class and throughout the
series, brother Sean references

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Aishet Kyle.
I don’t know if you’ve ever

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heard of that before, but it’s a
Hebrew phrase.

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It comes largely from Proverbs
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We often talk about a virtuous
woman, and in Hebrew that’s

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Aishet Kyle.
It means a woman of strength,

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and I just love that phrase.
I think it is such a beautiful

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concept that God is looking for
these women of strong spiritual

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strength, and that’s what Mary
was.

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So I think Brother Sean helps to
remind us of that.

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Now then, on to the class.
This is Brother Sean Moynihan,

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class #5 Mary’s Trials in the
series Mary of Nazareth.

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

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

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Like the wound when Jesus
friends and neighbors tried to

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

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focus on four.
And the first is the murder of

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Bethlehem and the surrounding
regions children.

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

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

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Jesus was estranged from his
half brothers in the family

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

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

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Now where do we take this sword
wound idea?

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

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Jesus is presented at the
temple.

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

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was Simeon, and this man was
just and devout, waiting for the

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consolation of Israel, and the
Holy Spirit was upon him.

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It had been revealed to him by
the Holy Spirit that he would

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not see death before he had seen
the Lord’s Christ.

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So he came by the Spirit into
the temple.

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And when his parents brought in
the child Jesus to do for him

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

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and blessed God and said, Lord,
now you are letting your servant

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depart in peace.
According to a word from my

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eyes, I’ve seen your salvation,
which you have prepared before

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the face of all peoples, a light
to bring revelation to the

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Gentiles and glory of your
people Israel.

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And Joseph and his mother
marveled at those things which

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were spoken of him.
Then Simeon blessed them and

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said to Mary.
He stopped and he said to Mary,

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Behold, this child is destined
for the fall and rising of many

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

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Yes, a sword will Pierce through
your own soul also that the

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thoughts of many hearts may be
revealed.

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What a powerful paradox.
In the midst of celebrating

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

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

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war.
It’s a paradox, isn’t it?

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

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with Eidersheim, totally
different guy.

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Berkeley writes in the Gospel of
Luke about the paradox of

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blessedness.
He writes to Mary was granted

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the blessedness of being the
mother of the Son of God, and

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

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heart.
That very glory was to break her

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heart.
She was blessed and that very

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blessedness meant that someday
she would see that son of hers

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

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

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sorrow.
And we know that, don’t we,

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brothers and sisters in our own
lives.

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

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sorrows, are always purposeful.
We read in Peter, In this you

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

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have been grieved by various
trials, that the genuineness of

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your faith, being much more
precious than gold that

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

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honor and glory.
At the revelation of Jesus

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

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

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

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of your souls.
So Mary had a unique paradox,

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didn’t she?
As we discussed yesterday, Jesus

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

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

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And Jesus was helpful to her in
reminding her about those

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separation.
Remember.

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And Luke 11 we read and it
happened as he spoke these

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things, that a certain woman
from the crowd raised her voice

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and said to him, Blessed is the
womb that bore you and the

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breast which nursed you.
But he said more than that,

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blessed are those who hear the
word of God and keep it.

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So what did Simeon say to Mary?
Well, in the disciples little

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New Testament, it really comes
across.

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Indeed, a sword from Thea will
Pierce the soul of you yourself.

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The Greek uses a tautology
there, right?

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A repetition for emphasis.
And this is not the usual word

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for sword, makaira from Thea.
It’s a sword of war, and this is

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an example of what it looked
like.

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Now.
It’s a weapon of war that

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created a warrior’s wound
because Mary was a spiritual

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warrior.
And I wonder if Mary’s biblical

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

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

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

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

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Strike the shepherd and the
sheep will be scattered.

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

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to Jesus because he quotes it in
Mark 14.

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So being a mother is like being
a warrior.

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And we have an example of that
in in Judges.

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

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

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mother in Israel.
And the new English translation

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renders that warriors were
scarce.

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

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arose as a motherly protector in
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So Mary was a warrior mom.
And the most important of all

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battles, the spiritual battle
that God had instituted, Brother

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

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enmity between the serpent and
the woman.

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

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connected Mary is to the
promises in Genesis.

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Now, is brother Jason here?
Brother Jason?

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

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Jason.
He’s a principal.

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

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

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seem like it.
OK, in case he’s lucky.

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

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warrior attribute in Hebrew?
He would say Chael valor.

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How’d they do on the
pronunciation?

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Very good, Chael.
Sarah Fisher writes that over

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and over.
Hell is represented as someone

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in God’s army.
It is translated as violent

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

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soldiers.
It’s a force.

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And that’s the word that’s used
in Proverbs.

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The virtuous woman is a woman of
Chaal, and Mary was a woman of

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Chaal.
And we see that this word is

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connected to all these Old
Testament people and places and

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prophecies that are so closely,
closely connected to Mary.

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We see it in Ruth.
We see it especially related to

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Ruth slash Rachel in Efratha and
of course in Proverbs.

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Now we want to take a look too,
because there was another person

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at the temple and her name was
Anna.

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She was a continuing presence at
the temple.

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She did not depart from the
temple.

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We read and when can speculate
did Mary have an existing

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relationship with Anna through
Elizabeth?

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You know, I, I think we can
infer that yes, that would make

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sense.
And it’s very interesting what

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Anna does.
She spoke when she when the

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Messiah became apparent.
She spoke of him to all those

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who looked for redemption in
Israel.

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So people knew who Anna was.
She was a fixture at the temple.

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She was there all the time, and
she was spreading the good news

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about what had happened.
So she was doing that.

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The shepherds were doing that
because we read in Luke 217.

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Now, when they had seen them,
they made widely known the

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saying which was told to them
concerning this child.

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And as I said, these are the
special shepherds, the shepherds

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that were going every day with
the temple, sheep to the temple.

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So why didn’t Herod know about
Jesus and Herod?

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As we know, Herod the Great was
the most paranoid ruler in

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history, which is a high bar.
Herod’s paranoia, Norman Gelb

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writes, was deeply embedded.
As he graduated to greater

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positions of power, his
insecurity expanded and

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deepened.
When, as king, he was persuaded

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by backbiting siblings to doubt
the faithfulness of his adored

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wife, he had her killed.
The sons executed may or may not

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have been conspiring against
their father, but the mere

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suspicion that they were assured
their elimination.

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So this paranoid Herod whose
palace was over on the left side

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of the screen, The temple on the
right side of the screen, he was

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unaware for the 1st at least the
first two years of Jesus life

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that there had been one born
king of the Jews.

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The only explanation for this I
think is found in Psalm 34 where

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we read the Angel of the Lord in
camps all around those who fear

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him and delivers them.
And there’s a special context

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for that, for that Psalm.
Remember, it was David in the

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court of a king who was jealous.
It wasn’t it wasn’t Saul, it

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was, it was Achish right, But
Saul was jealous too.

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But Psalm 34 is, is, is that the
Angel of the Lord encamps around

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those who fear him.
And so that’s what happened for

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the first two years that that I
believe God had provided a

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sanctuary for Mary and Joseph
and Jesus to get started.

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But that was to end.
We read in Matthew 2.

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Then Herod, when he saw that he
had been tricked by the wise

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men, became furious, and he sent
and killed all the male children

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in Bethlehem and in all her
regions who were two years old

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and under, according to the time
he had determined from the wise

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men.
I’m going to let that murderous

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fact sink in and we’ll come back
to it.

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So to be safe, the Angel
directed Joseph to seek refuge

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in Egypt.
And of course, this was to

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fulfill prophecy.
So I believe that Joseph and

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Mary and Jesus went to
Alexandria.

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According to tradition, they
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Further down, I believe they
went to Alexandria.

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There was a huge Jewish
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Would make sense that they would
be able to blend in there.

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So they go there to fulfill
prophecy.

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But one of the things that we
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communications pipeline between
Alexandra, Alexandria and

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Jerusalem.
So Mary in safety would have

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heard about the murder of the
children.

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And we know how Mary felt about
that Brother Roberts, and as she

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

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she would have felt Rachel
weeping for her children, he

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writes.
Thereupon a rose, a whale rarely

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

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It is impossible to conceive a
cuter natural agony than

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inflicted on the mothers of
Bethlehem.

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As no human affection is
stronger than that of a mother

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

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

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

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

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reality.
It is one of the most harrowing

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episodes in the story of human
suffering.

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

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

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on Bethlehem and the regions
around?

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

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

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We know how important community
was to Mary.

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Mary knew these families.
Mary knew these children.

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

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probably distantly related to
many of them.

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So we asked God why in
situations like this, and we

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

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

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

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

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as a new spiritual Rachel for a
new spiritual Israel.

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

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

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

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Israel.
And may she be an example of

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what of Kyle in Efrata.
And of course that word is very

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key because it’s connected to
the birth.

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

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figure for the suffering mother,
in this case the suffering

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Jewish mother.
And Rachel’s pain for the dead

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children is also symbolic for
the suffering of Mary in

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

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

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right when we talked about that
in Matthew 2.

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We read then was fulfilled what
was spoken by Jeremiah the

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

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and great mourning.
Rachel weeping for her children,

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refusing to be comforted because
they are no more.

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

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Testament things that are so
kind of interwoven into our

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

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

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

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so well, weeping for her
children, refusing to be

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comforted.
And so we see her as the new

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Rachel who we have the literal
and the figurative.

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So we talked about this at the
at the cross woman, behold thy

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son and John taking Mary into
his home.

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So literally, it’s interesting.
John already has a mother who’s

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Mary’s sister Salome.
Mary has other children to take

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care of her.
At that time, they were

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doubting, but they soon became
believers like James.

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But Jesus explicitly creates
this new relationship.

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Establishing Mary truly as a
figurative new Rachel.

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So figuratively, Jesus creates
this new spiritual family

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relationship.
Mary is a mother to a new Israel

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under a new covenant and she
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It’s kind of interesting.
Brother Thomas recognized this

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in in 1853, he writes.
Rachel, being the constitutional

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matriarch of Israel, is the
mother of the tribes according

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to the adoption pertaining to
Israel.

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So we see the types here.
And of course, Joseph is such a

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powerful type of Christ.
Joseph, Christ the first born,

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and Benjamin and John the second
born.

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She’ll call his name.
Joseph and the Lord add to me

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another son.
Of course another son is added.

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Benjamin and John are the second
born.

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Both are beloved.
Both are born out of sorrow.

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Of course, the initial name was
Ben Onai, the son of sorrow.

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Mary had her new son added in
her sorrow at the foot of the

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cross.
So even out of unspeakable

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tragedy, there’s hope as Rachel
has a new role and a new

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community.
So let’s go to the other example

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of in his father’s house at age
12.

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So brother Lane Rittmeyer talks
about this, right?

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That that would have been going
down to become the son of the

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commandment, to become an adult,
practically speaking, in that

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culture.
So this happens and of course it

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came about that after three days
they found him in the temple.

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

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

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And this is from the disciples
little new translation.

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Child, why did you do us like
this?

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

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pain and he said to them, why is
it that you were looking for me?

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Did you not know that I must be
in the things of my father and

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they did not understand the
thing which he spoke to them.

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Mounts translate said child, why
did you treat us like this?

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

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find you.
OK.

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Now sister Kathy and I were
blessed with four kids.

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Have you have you ever misplaced
one of your kids?

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

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Boone.
They asked Daniel Boone if he

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had ever been lost and he said
no.

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But I was a Mike bewildered for
three days once.

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So I can remember 1 occasion
coming back from a Bible school.

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Our oldest was 12 and we stopped
at one of those big malls on the

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way back.
And so we said to Brayden, I

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

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want you back by this time.
And because we’re teachers, we

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said, and what time do you, are
you going to be back?

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I’m going to be back at this
time, dad.

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So he’s not back.
He’s not back in 10 minutes.

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He’s not back in 20 minutes.
He’s not back in an hour.

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

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So we start looking for him and
people start helping us look for

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him.
And finally I see him and I have

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this picture of him in my mind
that I’ll never lose.

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He’s ambling along.
He’s got his baseball hat on,

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He’s got a red checked shirt
that’s open and Michigan State

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Spartans basketball shirt there.
And I didn’t know whether to

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kiss him or kill him.
Think of Mary’s anguish, think

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of Mary’s anguish, think of the
great mission that she had with

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the Son of God.
Indeed, the sword pierced her.

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And again, three days, three
days.

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See, all these clues are helping
Mary along the way.

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Understand that she needs to
separate herself from the Mother

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role and become a disciple. 3
days.

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The wedding at Cana.
Three days here, three days in

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the tomb, and you see the force
of Mary’s personality just jump

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off the page, don’t you?
Because Joseph doesn’t speak,

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Mary does.
And Mary blames Jesus for

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hurting her and Joseph and Jesus
rebukes her.

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Why is it that you were looking
for me?

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Did you not know that I would
have to be in my father’s house?

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Notice that he doesn’t address
Mary’s hurt feelings, and he

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establishes the Father as a
priority.

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It’s quite intentional.
Your father and I sought the

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sorrowing.
Jesus said I was in my father’s

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house, in my father’s things.
So we know that Mary thought

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about this, and we know that
Mary thought about her unique

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discipleship challenge, Brother
Khan Mitsos writes.

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Mary had a natural relationship
with Jesus by virtue of being

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his mother.
Mary had a religious

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relationship with Jesus by
virtue of them both being

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Israelites under the Law of
Moses.

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However, like the nation, Mary
needed to transcend the natural

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and the social and develop a
true and spiritual relationship

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with Jesus based on the New
Covenant.

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And there’s some interesting
parallels that we’re going to

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take a look at now.
We know Mary was a thinker.

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She thought about things deeply,
and this is one of the things

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she thought about.
Then he went down with them and

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came to Nazareth and was
obedient to them.

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And his mother treasured all
that was said in her heart.

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She thought about these things.
You know where else that word

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appears in the Septuagint?
It appears here when they’re

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trying to make sense of Joseph’s
dream.

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When he told his father and his
brothers, his father criticized

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him by asking, what’s this dream
that you had?

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Will your mother and I and your
brothers come and bow down in

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front of you?
So his brothers were jealous of

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him, but his father kept
thinking about these things.

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So I’m sure, I’m sure that this
type and anti type are coming

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together in Mary’s mind as she’s
trying to make sense of what God

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requires of her.
The next sword wound that I’d

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like to take a look at is I have
become a stranger to my brothers

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and an alien to my mother’s
children because zeal for your

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house has eaten me up.
It seems like from the record in

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John that the first sign done at
the wedding and then Jesus and

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his family and his disciples
went to Capernaum and things

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were great.
Everyone was on board.

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And then he goes S for the first
cleansing of the temple.

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And I would suggest to you,
brothers and sisters, that

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that’s when his brothers start
to peel away.

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We know this, right?
I’ve become a stranger to my

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brothers and an alien to my
mother’s children, because zeal

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for your house has eaten me up.
And of course, that last part of

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that verse is quoted at the
cleansing of the temple.

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John 217 Then his disciples
remembered that it was written,

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Zeal for your house has eaten me
up.

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But you notice it doesn’t say
I’ve become a stranger to my

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mother.
No, because Mary always

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believed.
Now we have the great examples

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of this strife between the
brothers and Jesus.

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This recorded for us in Matthew
12 and in Mark 3 and in Luke 8.

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So we see that the purpose of
the visit is in Mark 321.

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But when his own people, that
literally means the people from

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beside Jesus heard about this.
They went out to lay hold on

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him, for they said he is out of
his mind.

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That’s a horrible translation.
That word’s used 21 times.

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It’s only twice translated this
way.

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It literally means knock from
standing.

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It doesn’t mean that he’s unwell
or unstable.

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Basically, they thought that he
was working himself to death and

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they needed to kind of
intervene, not because he was

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out of his mind, but because he
was just working himself past

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exhaustion.
So as you know, they go and they

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they try and see him.
Mary goes with the brothers.

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Mary’s there for a different
reason.

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Mary is there because she still
feels like she needs to keep her

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Son safe.
Mary was trying to do God’s will

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by keeping Jesus safe.
Because we know the record tells

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us that the Pharisees and
Herodians were plotting to

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destroy Jesus already.
They were plotting to kill him.

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We know that the crowds were so
out of control that Jesus was

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00:29:59,960 –> 00:30:05,000
almost trampled.
We read in verse 9 and we know

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00:30:05,000 –> 00:30:08,040
that Jesus literally didn’t have
time to eat.

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He was so busy.
I think that’s the one that

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00:30:12,080 –> 00:30:14,840
really got Mary as a mom.
You’re not eating, she need to

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00:30:14,840 –> 00:30:20,920
go there.
But when Jesus refuses to see

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00:30:20,920 –> 00:30:26,480
Mary, he’s telling her that you
want to do God’s will.

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Do God’s will by letting go.
Isn’t that a hard lesson for us

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00:30:33,120 –> 00:30:36,560
to learn?
That sometimes doing God’s will

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00:30:37,000 –> 00:30:40,560
is letting go?
He’s being silent and trusting.

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00:30:42,600 –> 00:30:45,600
That’s hard, isn’t it?
That’s a hard lesson.

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00:30:47,440 –> 00:30:51,440
And so we see the rich type and
auntie type of Joseph and his

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00:30:51,440 –> 00:30:54,360
brothers and Jesus and his
brothers.

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He is beloved of his Father just
as Joseph the mother Rachel.

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00:31:00,840 –> 00:31:04,320
And we have the new Rachel.
Of course they’re half brothers.

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00:31:04,320 –> 00:31:08,120
And then we see jealousy and a
lack of action puts their

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00:31:08,120 –> 00:31:10,280
brother in life threatening
danger.

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And we read in John 7 in such a
sad passage, starting in, in

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verse one, the Jews sought to
kill him.

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That’s why he wasn’t going to
Judea.

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His brothers said to him, depart
from here and going to Judea,

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00:31:26,120 –> 00:31:28,520
that your disciples may see the
works that you were doing.

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For no one does anything in
secret, while he he himself

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00:31:31,720 –> 00:31:34,680
seeks to be known openly.
If you do these things, show

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00:31:34,680 –> 00:31:38,240
yourself to the world.
For even his brothers did not

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00:31:38,240 –> 00:31:43,400
believe in him.
Their jealousy was putting his

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00:31:43,400 –> 00:31:48,920
life in danger, just as the
jealousy of Joseph’s brothers

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00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:54,960
put his life in danger.
Now Mary has to make a

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00:31:54,960 –> 00:31:58,440
sacrifice.
We know how much Mary loved

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00:31:58,440 –> 00:32:03,600
God’s Word.
How much do you think that she

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00:32:03,600 –> 00:32:07,040
wanted to go with Jesus during
his ministry?

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00:32:09,600 –> 00:32:16,320
More than anything, But Mary’s
sacrifice was to stay at home.

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00:32:18,440 –> 00:32:21,320
We know that women travelled
with Jesus as his disciples.

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We know that that’s recorded
throughout his ministry, even at

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00:32:26,560 –> 00:32:29,640
the end.
We know that Mary’s sister was

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00:32:29,640 –> 00:32:30,960
one of those people who could do
that.

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00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:37,160
And Mary’s sacrifice was to stay
at home at a time when she would

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00:32:37,160 –> 00:32:40,360
have loved to be with Jesus, to
hear his teaching.

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00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:44,960
Oh how I love thy law.
It is my meditation all the day.

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00:32:46,720 –> 00:32:50,120
And she would have loved to hear
Jesus speak about and embodied

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00:32:50,120 –> 00:32:54,080
God’s Word, but she had to stay
at home to keep the family

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00:32:54,080 –> 00:33:01,760
together.
So after the accounts that we

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00:33:01,760 –> 00:33:05,160
just talked about, Mary is
absent from the gospel record

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00:33:06,120 –> 00:33:13,240
until the cross.
Blessed is she who believed,

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00:33:13,320 –> 00:33:15,400
right?
Elizabeth said that, and it’s a

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00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:17,240
characteristic of Mary
throughout her life.

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00:33:18,680 –> 00:33:24,400
And so as we talked about last
day, she started to understand

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00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:29,160
very early that Jesus was the
Lamb of God, right?

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00:33:29,160 –> 00:33:33,280
We talked about yesterday how it
was common practice to keep the

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00:33:33,280 –> 00:33:37,840
Passover lamb in the Manger, and
that’s where Jesus was.

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00:33:37,840 –> 00:33:40,520
We talked about the role of the
shepherds and things like that

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00:33:41,480 –> 00:33:45,000
very early John the Baptist
identifies Jesus as the Lamb of

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00:33:45,000 –> 00:33:48,800
God.
And Mary’s deep biblical mind

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00:33:48,800 –> 00:33:53,440
would have gone to all those
passengers in Isaiah passages

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00:33:53,440 –> 00:33:56,480
like he was led as a lamb to the
slaughter.

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00:33:58,200 –> 00:34:00,400
And there was a progression that
Mary understood.

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00:34:01,080 –> 00:34:04,880
Rejected by his closest friends
and family at Nazareth where

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00:34:04,880 –> 00:34:10,159
they sought to kill him.
Rejected by the larger community

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00:34:11,040 –> 00:34:16,000
and finally to the cross.
And she would have understood

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00:34:16,000 –> 00:34:22,760
the cross.
Mary knew what lifted up meant.

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00:34:22,760 –> 00:34:26,480
And again, I think she would
have made some connections to

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00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:31,000
Isaiah.
The verse right after this talks

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00:34:31,000 –> 00:34:33,520
about how Jesus was so beat up
on the cross.

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00:34:34,159 –> 00:34:37,600
And here we see in 13.
See, my servant will act wisely.

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00:34:37,960 –> 00:34:42,520
He will be raised and lifted up
and highly exalted.

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00:34:44,000 –> 00:34:47,360
When Jesus talked about lifted
up, I think Mary went here

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00:34:48,639 –> 00:34:52,400
because Jesus and Mary were very
familiar with crucifixion,

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00:34:53,400 –> 00:34:59,160
because Romans had a habit of
lining highways with crucified

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00:34:59,160 –> 00:35:05,320
people.
In fact, it’s it’s likely that

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00:35:05,320 –> 00:35:10,400
when Jesus and Joseph and Mary
returned from Egypt and went up

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00:35:10,400 –> 00:35:14,200
to Nazareth, there was a great
rebellion that happened and and

508
00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:16,840
Sephorus what has in the process
of being destroyed and then

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00:35:16,840 –> 00:35:18,640
rebuilt.
But they would have probably

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00:35:18,640 –> 00:35:25,440
been arriving back in Galilee at
the very time that Veras who put

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00:35:25,440 –> 00:35:30,040
down the rebellion in a cruel
way, put a line of crosses,

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00:35:30,720 –> 00:35:34,520
hundreds of crosses on the the
Wiameras, the road that they

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00:35:34,520 –> 00:35:37,440
would have taken to go back to
Nazareth.

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Blessed is she who believed, you
know, Jesus.

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00:35:46,800 –> 00:35:50,400
It wasn’t a mystery to the 12
what was going to happen, right?

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00:35:50,400 –> 00:35:54,720
He says about least three times
after Peter’s great confession

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00:35:55,320 –> 00:35:57,440
that thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God.

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00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:02,440
Jesus is clear what’s going to
happen to him.

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00:36:03,640 –> 00:36:07,040
Similar after the transgression.
Sorry, after the transfiguration

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00:36:07,280 –> 00:36:11,920
clear about that.
And as he set his face towards

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00:36:11,920 –> 00:36:15,880
Jerusalem, he’s equally clear
about what will happen to him.

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00:36:18,000 –> 00:36:22,720
And isn’t it interesting that
the 12 were afraid even to talk

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00:36:22,720 –> 00:36:28,760
about it?
But Mary had the kale, like Mary

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00:36:28,760 –> 00:36:33,600
of Bethany, to believe in Jesus
Clear teaching about his death.

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00:36:35,120 –> 00:36:38,640
Because as our brother has
alluded to in earlier classes,

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Mary was Abraham’s daughter.
We know that that triumphant

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00:36:44,040 –> 00:36:47,360
note in her song to Abraham and
to his seed forever.

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00:36:47,600 –> 00:36:53,240
And she was his daughter.
And just like Abraham did when

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she’s tested, when those sword
wounds were piercing her, she

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00:36:57,280 –> 00:37:01,360
concluded that God was able to
raise him up even from the dead.

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So let’s take a look at Mary at
the cross.

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Every week Jesus parents went to
Jerusalem for Passover.

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00:37:12,040 –> 00:37:14,600
So what did Passover week in
Jerusalem look like?

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00:37:15,400 –> 00:37:17,240
Well, this was the crown of joy,
right?

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00:37:17,560 –> 00:37:19,760
Great celebration.
And it would have been

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00:37:19,760 –> 00:37:21,280
triumphant.
Mary would have been in the

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00:37:21,320 –> 00:37:28,880
audience as she saw people
acclaim her son as the son of

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00:37:28,880 –> 00:37:32,720
David.
We will give to him the throne

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00:37:32,720 –> 00:37:38,000
of his father.
David cleanses the temple and

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00:37:38,000 –> 00:37:40,960
and children are claiming again
the Son of David.

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00:37:44,240 –> 00:37:48,040
He teaches in the temple and
Jesus silences the rulers with a

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00:37:48,040 –> 00:37:54,200
question about the Son of David.
And then we see the cross of

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00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:59,000
sorrow.
Jesus last Passover isn’t with

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00:37:59,000 –> 00:38:02,880
his natural family, is it?
It’s with his spiritual family.

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00:38:06,200 –> 00:38:08,480
His natural family was full of
strife at that time.

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00:38:10,240 –> 00:38:14,760
And Mary’s early Mary’s earliest
fears that the rulers like Herod

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00:38:15,040 –> 00:38:17,720
would plot to seize and kill
Jesus.

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00:38:18,120 –> 00:38:23,640
She’s seen that play out in
front of her and all betray her

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00:38:23,640 –> 00:38:30,480
son.
See, Mary’s life like ours, we

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00:38:30,480 –> 00:38:35,600
have things that prepare us for
other things, and the betrayal

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00:38:35,600 –> 00:38:38,960
at the synagogue in Nazareth
prepared her for being in the

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00:38:38,960 –> 00:38:43,920
audience and hearing his blood
be on us and on our children.

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00:38:52,050 –> 00:38:57,650
She would have seen him bear his
cross, the petabulum from the

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00:38:57,650 –> 00:39:04,800
Antonio Fortress to Gogotha.
Brother Andrew Walker notes that

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00:39:05,040 –> 00:39:09,240
it was a tremendous act of
courage even to attend a

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00:39:09,240 –> 00:39:11,920
crucifixion.
If you are in any way empathetic

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00:39:11,920 –> 00:39:14,720
towards the person being
crucified, he writes, it was a

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00:39:14,720 –> 00:39:18,480
dangerous thing to approach the
cross of a dying criminal to

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00:39:18,480 –> 00:39:22,040
show any support for him.
Such behavior was likely to end

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00:39:22,040 –> 00:39:24,440
an arrest and death for opposing
Rome’s sentence.

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00:39:24,840 –> 00:39:27,400
Hence there was a little group
standing afar off, well away

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00:39:27,400 –> 00:39:29,400
from the cross, watching the
dying Jesus.

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00:39:29,680 –> 00:39:32,800
It consisted of some of his
acquaintances from Galilee and a

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00:39:32,800 –> 00:39:36,200
group of women supporting Jesus
mother who had insisted on being

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00:39:36,200 –> 00:39:41,040
there.
How sad it was that apostles who

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00:39:41,040 –> 00:39:44,240
had spent three years following
Jesus did not have the strength,

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00:39:44,480 –> 00:39:47,520
the Khayal, to witness the
cross.

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00:39:48,240 –> 00:39:58,440
Yet their mother’s dead, and she
would have seen her son prophecy

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00:39:58,440 –> 00:40:01,120
in Isaiah 52 from the
contemporary Jewish Bible.

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Just as many were appalled at
him because he was so disfigured

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00:40:05,880 –> 00:40:11,360
that he didn’t even seem human
and simply no longer looked like

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00:40:11,360 –> 00:40:14,920
a man.
Brothers and sisters, the

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00:40:14,920 –> 00:40:22,400
beatings and the scourgings left
him unrecognizable except to his

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00:40:22,400 –> 00:40:26,880
mother, who remembered what he
looked like when he was 3.

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And when it was 13 and when it
was 23 and she sees him now at

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33, she would have looked up and
said and seen the sign that said

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Jesus of Nazareth, the King of
the Jews.

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And she would have thought of
Gabriel’s message and she would

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00:40:55,720 –> 00:40:58,040
have reflected, this isn’t how I
thought it was going to turn out

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00:40:58,040 –> 00:40:59,320
then.
But now I understand.

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00:40:59,480 –> 00:41:01,680
I understand God’s plan.
He has a greater plan.

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00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:09,120
And all the way along, brothers
and sisters, we kept referring

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00:41:09,120 –> 00:41:11,600
to that great promise in Genesis
3.

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00:41:13,480 –> 00:41:17,600
And when Mary looked at Jesus
feet, she would have seen the

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00:41:17,600 –> 00:41:20,120
nail driven through the heel
because that was the Roman

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00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:23,640
practice, driving the nail
through the heel to that strong

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00:41:23,640 –> 00:41:26,520
Achilles tendon to make sure
that they would not get out of

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00:41:26,520 –> 00:41:30,280
the cross.
It’s inevitable that she would

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00:41:30,280 –> 00:41:36,480
have thought of that.
It seems like Jesus was

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00:41:36,480 –> 00:41:43,240
repeatedly reciting Psalm 22
when he was on the cross and it

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00:41:43,240 –> 00:41:46,440
was hard to hear.
I bet we know that he had was

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00:41:46,440 –> 00:41:49,800
able to get some clarity of a
speech out because John

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00:41:49,800 –> 00:41:52,320
understood and the other people
on the that were being crucified

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00:41:52,320 –> 00:41:53,600
and understood him when he
spoke.

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00:41:54,560 –> 00:41:57,680
But Can you imagine when Jesus
got to Psalm the part of Psalm

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00:41:57,680 –> 00:42:03,800
22 when he said but you are he
who took me out of the womb.

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00:42:05,040 –> 00:42:07,320
You made me trust while on my
mother’s breast.

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00:42:07,320 –> 00:42:11,720
I was cast upon you from birth
from my mother’s womb You have

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00:42:11,720 –> 00:42:17,320
been my God.
Can you imagine Mary hearing

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00:42:17,320 –> 00:42:22,680
that?
And there’s a part in Psalm 22

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00:42:24,840 –> 00:42:27,720
that cries out, deliver my soul
from the sword.

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00:42:29,520 –> 00:42:32,320
And when Jesus gets to that
part, did Mary not think, Oh

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00:42:32,320 –> 00:42:36,200
yes, please, Lord, deliver my
soul from these sword wounds?

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00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:49,880
Now there’s no record of Jesus
appearing to Mary, but it is to

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00:42:49,960 –> 00:42:57,360
all these other people.
And honestly, for folks that are

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00:42:57,360 –> 00:43:00,360
into Mariola tree, the worship
of Mary, this drives them crazy

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00:43:02,080 –> 00:43:03,880
and they make stuff up about to
explain it.

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00:43:04,120 –> 00:43:06,600
But if there’s a simple
explanation, it didn’t need to

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00:43:06,600 –> 00:43:10,680
be recorded, the risen Christ
appearing to her because she

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00:43:10,680 –> 00:43:12,120
didn’t need that to support her
faith.

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00:43:12,120 –> 00:43:15,120
She knew that Jesus would be
resurrected.

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00:43:15,120 –> 00:43:21,080
She had the faith of Abraham.
Just like Abraham, she concluded

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00:43:21,080 –> 00:43:23,520
that God was able to raise him
up even from the dead.

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00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:29,040
Unlike the 11, Mary believes
that he has arisen without

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00:43:29,040 –> 00:43:34,640
seeing the resurrected Jesus.
Mary believed right from the

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00:43:34,640 –> 00:43:40,120
start because as her song cries
out, she believed in the

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00:43:40,120 –> 00:43:42,200
covenant love, in the covenant
promises.

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00:43:42,200 –> 00:43:47,200
She believed the God of Israel
who promised to Abraham and to

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00:43:47,200 –> 00:43:54,080
his seed forever.
So the fruit of Mary’s sword

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00:43:54,080 –> 00:43:56,640
wounds is.
Her incredible faithfulness was

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recognized.
We read in Acts 1.

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Then they return to Jerusalem
from the mount called Olivet.

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00:44:02,720 –> 00:44:06,000
Peter, James, John and Andrew,
Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew

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00:44:06,000 –> 00:44:08,680
and Matthew, James the son of
Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot,

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00:44:08,920 –> 00:44:12,480
and Judas, Judas the son of
James, They all continued with

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00:44:12,480 –> 00:44:15,600
one accord in prayer and
supplication and with the women

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00:44:15,600 –> 00:44:21,880
and Mary the mother of Jesus.
Mary’s faithful example enables

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00:44:21,880 –> 00:44:25,920
her to have the credibility to
become an integral part of this

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00:44:25,920 –> 00:44:33,000
ecclesia, this new ecclesia.
So let’s sum up, brothers and

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00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:37,200
sisters.
Mary says henceforth all

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00:44:37,200 –> 00:44:38,880
generations will call me
blessed.

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00:44:41,040 –> 00:44:47,880
We call her blessed.
Her identity as Phillips

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00:44:47,880 –> 00:44:51,680
translated that I belong to the
Lord, body and soul.

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00:44:51,680 –> 00:44:54,520
Behold the handmaid of the Lord,
let it be unto me according to

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00:44:54,520 –> 00:44:58,960
thy word.
We’re blessed by the example of

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00:44:58,960 –> 00:45:03,520
her voice.
On her lips is Kassad the

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00:45:03,520 –> 00:45:06,200
covenant love, the sure belief
in the promises made.

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00:45:09,920 –> 00:45:13,520
We count her blast that she
shows us how to act in

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00:45:13,520 –> 00:45:17,480
community.
And the way to do that is

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00:45:17,520 –> 00:45:21,400
simple.
Whatever Jesus says to us, do

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00:45:21,400 –> 00:45:24,680
it.
We’re blessed to have the

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00:45:24,680 –> 00:45:29,280
example of her mission, the
example of the Torah.

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00:45:30,640 –> 00:45:32,800
Do not forsake the Torah of your
mother.

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00:45:34,920 –> 00:45:38,920
And lastly, we’re blessed to
have the great example of her

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00:45:38,920 –> 00:45:42,240
faithfulness of her Kyle through
trials.

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00:45:42,640 –> 00:45:49,840
Blessed is she who believed we
call our blast, and we’re so

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00:45:49,840 –> 00:46:06,570
thankful for her example.
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