Shawn Moynihan – Mary of Nazareth – Class 2 – Mary’s Voice

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

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Our first period teacher is
Brother Sean Moynihan.

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His general subject is Mary of
Nazareth.

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Today’s topic is Mary’s voice.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
So I have to confess that the

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best part of having the
privilege of giving a class is

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when people come up to you on a
topic that you’ve thought about

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and said, have you ever thought
about this?

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And it’s just a gem.
And it deepens my understanding.

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So thank you for doing that.
I look forward to four more days

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of that and perhaps emails after
that.

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So thank you.
So there are some questions, and

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one of the questions that came
up was about Mary as an orphan.

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And yeah, so we’re going to see
that Mary was indeed an orphan.

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But some of the other questions
came up and they’re really

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around, sorry, they’re really
around this apocryphal book

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called the Proto Evangelum of
James, sometimes called the

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Infancy Gospel of James.
It’s very early.

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It’s circa 150.
And it, it really undermines a

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biblical understanding of Mary.
And it’s it shows how early the

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apostasy had sunk its claws into
Mary to turn her into something

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that she is not biblically.
So it perpetuates false

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doctrines about Mary.
And it’s the earliest assertion

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of this idea of perpetual
virginity.

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But in all these things, there’s
kind of a a kernel of truth, a

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kernel of fact upon which is
piled a ton of fiction.

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And so one of the things that I
think is true is that Mary was

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an orphan.
And we’re going to see that in

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just a second.
So Mary’s voice, so she has the

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most dialogue of any woman in
the New Testament.

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She speaks with Gabriel, she
sings with Elizabeth, she

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chastises Jesus.
We’re going to see in a couple

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days how that goes.
She engages Jesus in problem

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solving at the wedding of Cana.
Again, we’re going to see that

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as well.
So the most dialogue of any

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woman in the New Testament.
And we’re going to focus because

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we’re going to take a look at at
the other examples, God willing,

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later in the week.
We’re going to focus on 2

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examples.
The 1st is the great song in her

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interaction with Elizabeth.
And the second example is we are

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going to see Mary’s voice in the
Gospel of John.

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We’re going to see tremendous
spiritual insights that I feel

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could only come from Mary to
John.

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Don’t forget that, that at the
cross, Jesus commanded John to

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take Mary into his home, and he
did so from that day forward.

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And you can imagine the kind of
Bible stories, sorry, the Bible

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classes that would have happened
as a result.

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Imagine living with Mary.
Do you remember in Sunday school

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we we’d sang a song?
Tell me the stories of Jesus.

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I long to hear things I would
ask him to tell me if he were

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here.
I would have done that with

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Mary.
And I’m sure John did too, even

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though they had a close familial
relationship.

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So we can imagine the influence
that Mary would have had on

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John’s understanding of the
Gospel and how to portray the

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Gospel.
His brother Robert Roberts said

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you can no more suppress the
influence of a wise woman then

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you can suppress the law of
gravitation.

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And we’re going to see Mary’s
voice in John’s Gospel.

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So Mary’s voice was compelling.
And that comes up becomes

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apparent right away because
after her interaction with

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Gabriel, we see that she decides
that she must arise with haste

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and go into the Hill Country in
Judea to Elizabeth’s house.

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Now why do we think she was an
orphan?

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Well, it says that Mary returned
to her house.

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And in Luke 1, there is an
implicit comparison between

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Zacharias, who lost his voice
because he was did not believe,

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and Mary, whose voice was
elevated because she did

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believe.
When she go, when Mary goes to

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Elizabeth, it says that she’s in
Zacharias’s house.

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So that’s in keeping with the
convention of the day.

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If you were a woman, you you did
not live in your house if there

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was a male present.
But if you did not live with a

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male, it was your house.
And so the the tidbit that we

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have in Luke 156, Mary returned
to her house, indicates that she

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was an orphan.
Now Mary convinces Joseph,

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because that’s who she would
have had to talk to, that she

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must travel the 90 miles to
Elizabeth.

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Picture how that conversation
went.

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Joseph, how’s it going today,
Joseph?

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I need to leave.
I need to visit Elizabeth.

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Well, that’s 90 miles away.
That’s, you know, that’s

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expensive, that’s perhaps
unsafe.

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When are you thinking of doing
it right now, like today?

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So you can imagine, given the
cost of the trip, giving the

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safety implications, given all
those things, the logistical

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concerns, because she just
wasn’t Ubering the 90 miles,

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right?
It was an unsafe journey for a

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small group.
So, So Joseph and Mary had to

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connect to a larger group that
was headed South.

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So we can infer then that Mary
was a persuasive person.

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And that comes across in other
examples too, right?

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At the wedding at Cana, clearly
she is a very persuasive person.

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So we read that in Luke 139 that
Mary arose in those days and

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went into the whole country with
haste to the city of Judah and

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entered the House of Zacharias.
So the trip would have looked

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like this and there would have
been two possible routes.

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The most frequently used route
and the safest route was to go

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along the Jordan River Valley.
Now perhaps she did that.

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My thought is that perhaps she
went through Samaria and I would

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suggest that that is perhaps the
origin of the malicious slander

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that Jesus faces in John 8,
where they say unto him, Are we

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not rightly say rightly that you
are a Samaritan?

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So this idea that Mary travelled
South and came back pregnant

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travelling through Samaria.
So if that’s true or not, but

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but that seems possible.
Something to think about anyway.

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So where was she going?
Well, if we take a look at it,

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some various destinations have
been suggested for the home of

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Zacharias and Elizabeth.
Some have suggested Jericho.

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Some brother, Harry Whitaker,
notably suggested Hevron.

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Most scholars suggest that it
was in a place called Ayn Karem,

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so that’s where she was headed.
So let’s take a look at voice in

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Luke 1, because quite
intentionally, the narrative

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juxtaposes Mary’s voice and the
voice of Zacharias.

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Zacharias lack of faith made him
voiceless.

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It is the House of Zacharias,
but he is silent.

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As you know.
His voice does not return until

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there’s evidence for his belief.
Mary’s voice triggers a reaction

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and then it’s recorded that
Elizabeth speaks with a loud

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voice.
It’s Mary’s voice that is the

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catalyst for Elizabeth and verse
44 of Luke 1 revealed.

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For indeed, as soon as the voice
of your greeting sounded in my

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ears, the babe leapt in my womb
for joy.

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Now Elizabeth speaks, and she’s
filled with the Holy Spirit.

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And through the Holy Spirit,
Elizabeth recognize Jesus as

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Christ, and she is the first
person to recognize Jesus as

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Lord.
Who am I that the mother of my

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Lord should come unto me?
We read in Luke 142.

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Then she spoke out with a loud
voice and said, blessed are you

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among women, and blessed is the
fruit of your womb.

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She echoes Gabriel, doesn’t she?
Blessed among women And she

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talks about the fruit of the
womb.

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Interesting phrase.
Blessed are you among women?

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There’s only two women in the
Bible that this is used in

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reference to Mary.
And who’s the other one?

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Who?
JL.

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Yeah, JL, I don’t know if you
want to use that picture,

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brother.
I really like that one.

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She seems to really get into the
task.

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Yeah.
The only other woman referred to

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as bust among women is JL.
And of course, this is a deeply

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profound connection that
Elizabeth is making here.

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The her offspring will crush
your head in Genesis 315 and

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it’s of course what Paul takes
up in Galatians 4.

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The fullness of time had come.
God sent forth his son born of a

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woman.
So in the song of Deborah we

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have most blessed among women is
JAL.

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So this is a very powerful
connection and it’s an

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affirmation coming from
Elizabeth of Mary’s great task.

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Now Brother Thomas talks about
this in Help Us Israel says the

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great principle to be compassed
was the condemnation of sin and

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sinful flesh in a scent of
actual transgression.

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This principle necessitated the
manifestation of one who should

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be born of a woman, but not of
the will of man.

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Such a one would be the seed of
the woman, made of her substance

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with him for his Father, who by
his overshadowing Spirit should

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cause her to conceive.
He would be Son of God by

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origination and son of Mary by
descent or birth of sinful

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flesh.
So this is a profound task that

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Elizabeth is is raising in
Mary’s mind.

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I’m sure she had thought of it
along the way.

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Says the fruit or carpos of your
womb and that word room womb is

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really kind of belly.
It doesn’t.

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It’s not gastrous, which is
another word for womb.

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And of course, Mary’s biblical
mind would have been worrying

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back to all the references of
fruit.

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Psalm 13711 The Lord has sworn
in truth to David.

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He will not turn from it.
I will set upon your front, your

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throne, the fruit of your body.
And of course, something that we

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all think about whenever we’re
blessed with a with a child in

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our ecclesia.
Behold, children are a heritage

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from the Lord.
The fruit of the womb is a

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reward.
So this other word literally

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belly, Psalm 22, I was cast upon
thee from the womb.

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Thou art my God from my mother’s
belly.

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Psalm 22 would figure
prominently in Jesus life and in

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Mary’s life, Psalm 71 as well.
By thee have I been holding out

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from the womb.
Thou art he that took me from my

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mother’s bowels.
And there’s that, that word in

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the Septuagint, the same word,
my praise continually.

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So be.
So Mary breaks out in this

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triumphant song, this triumphant
song.

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So let’s read it.
And Luke 1 And Mary said, My

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soul magnifies the Lord, and my
spirit has rejoiced in God my

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Savior, for he has regarded the
lowly state of his maidservant.

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For behold, henceforth all
generations will call me

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blessed, For he who is mighty
has done great things for me.

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And holy is His name, and His
mercy is on those who fear Him

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from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His

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arm.
He has scattered the proud and

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

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their Thrones and exalted the
lowly.

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He has filled the hungry with
good things, and the rich He has

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sent away empty.
He has helped His servant Israel

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in remembrance of His mercy as
He spoke to our fathers, to

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Abraham, and to His seed
forever.

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So biblical scholars estimate
that there’s between 25 and 50

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distinct Old Testament
allusions, references that Mary

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just compacts in here.
It’s an overflow of joy, joy

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about the promises of God being
fulfilled.

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And Mary would have thought of
other songs.

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She would have especially
thought of Hannah’s song, but

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she would have thought of
Deborah’s song and Miriam’s

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song, and the themes are just so
consistent.

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There’s the rejoicing in God.
There’s the personalization of

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salvation, that God just doesn’t
provide salvation.

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But God saves me.
God lifts me up.

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There’s the recognition of
Abraham’s seed in Christ and the

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recognition that this world, the
way it exists now, is not our

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Kingdom and that God is going to
turn the existing order upside

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down.
The proud are going to be

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humbled, the mighty are going to
be made powerless, the rich will

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be made poor, and and
conversely, the full will be

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made hungry.
Now that’s we don’t have time to

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go into each and every of the 50
illusions.

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Let’s take a couple.
So let’s take the start.

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My soul magnifies Megalino, the
Lord.

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Now this word happens all the
time in the Septuagint, and it

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happens in some pretty
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It happens in David’s prayer of
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in Second Samuel 726.
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forever.
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Mary was a Princess and she knew
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sure, especially as she
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that she would have been
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making those connections to
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It also occurs in David’s prayer
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the Philistine king.
It occurs in David’s plea for

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God to avenge him in Psalm 35,
and it occurs in Psalm 40.

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Let all those who seek you
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Let such as love your salvation.
Say continually the Lord be

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magnified as Mary thought, like,
how do I begin?

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How do I begin to express the
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that I feel, the Thanksgiving?
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Did she not think that let all
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and be glad in You?
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Say continually the Lord be
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How should I start?
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I start here with magnifying the
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It also occurs in Psalm 69.
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Let your salvation, O God, set
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I will praise the name of God
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him with Thanksgiving.
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the embodiment of the virtuous
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She’s the embodiment of the
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Now this is a a passage in in
Proverbs 31 that doesn’t always

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pop out the way that it should.
In Proverbs 31, verse 26, she

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opens her mouth with wisdom and
on her tongue is the law of

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kindness.
Now, I’ve always read that that,

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you know, a virtuous woman is,
is very kind, right?

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Very nice.
But what’s that word for

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kindness?
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It is one of the most important
Hebrew words.

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Hebrew scholars say that’s
untranslatable because it’s so

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powerful.
It’s covenant, love it.

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It talks about a web of
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And So what does the virtuous
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She talks about Cassad all the
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She talks about God’s promises,
about God’s covenant love, about

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his salvation.
Cassad.

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And we’re going to see how
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Mary’s song.
And we’re going to see that she

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uses the Greek version Elios,
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translated word in the
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we recognize, brothers and
sisters, that Mary’s song is all

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about God’s promises.
We see this in verse 50 and in

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her great triumphant final note.
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There’s that covenant love word,
and His mercy is on those who

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fear Him from generation to
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He has helped his servant Israel
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There’s that word again, Cassad
Elios, the Greek version of it,

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in remembrance of his covenant
love for us as he spoke to our

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fathers, to Abraham, and to his
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And so we see that Mary’s great
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in verse 46 to 49, God has said
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And verses 50 to 53, his
covenant love turns things

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upside down.
And lastly, there’s the

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affirmation that his covenant
love is fulfilled in his

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promises now.
In verse 51 to 53, he has shown

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strength of his arm.
He has scattered the proud.

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He has put down the mighty from
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The rich he has sent away empty.
So we see that this is turning

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things upside down because we
pray that God’s Kingdom will

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come and that His will will be
done on earth as it is in

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heaven.
You know, brothers and sisters,

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we live in a time where where
there is persecution going on

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for beliefs.
I’ve been persecuted for my

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beliefs at my job.
You know, the one thing that I

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didn’t experience when I was
persecuted, I was not surprised.

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I expected to be persecuted.
And the reason that we’re

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persecuted for our beliefs is
that this is not our Kingdom.

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We look for a better Kingdom
now.

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People don’t like that, the fact
that this isn’t the best

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possible world.
We see that Jesus took up these

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same themes in his address of
the synagogue in Nazareth,

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quoting Isaiah 61.
He has sent me to heal the

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broken hearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives and

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recovery of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are

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oppressed.
And Mary could sit there and

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we’re going to talk about this,
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But those are the echoes of her
song, aren’t they?

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And we saw, tragically, how the
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Nazareth responded to that.
We should not be surprised when

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our focus on the things of God
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You know, Mary’s song tells us
that this world is not her home,

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and a better one is coming.
We read in Philippians 3 For our

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citizenship is in heaven, from
which we also eagerly await, for

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the Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, and Hebrews 11 For those

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who say such things, declare
plainly that they seek a

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homeland.
And truly, if they had called to

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mind that country from which
they had come out, they would

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have had an opportunity to
return.

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But now they desire a better,
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Therefore, God is not ashamed to
be called their God, for He has

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prepared a city for them.
As we said yesterday, brothers

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and sisters, Mary viewed her
life through the lens of God’s

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Word.
We talked yesterday about the

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word dialogue, dialogue, zomai,
where we get our dialogue from

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and how that’s really the idea
of tossing things together in

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your mind.
When she encounters the

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shepherd, there’s 2 words,
Santerio and zambalo, and then

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Jesus at age 12.
At age 12 it says that she

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treasured, she kept these things
in her heart.

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And there’s an interesting book
by Michael Packoluck called

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Mary’s Voice in the Gospel of
John.

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And he writes the Greek words
that Luke uses suggest that Mary

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kept and guarded together.
There’s that Greek word as in a

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coherent story, the words that
she heard and that she mulled

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them over, pondering their
interrelationship and

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implications, and that she was
continually active and thinking

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them through.
And so we see that after Jesus

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at Jesus command, Mary lived
with John and so that Mary would

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have shared her spiritual
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We see in John 19, when Jesus
therefore saw his mother and the

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disciple whom he loves standing
by, he said to his mother,

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woman, behold your son.
And he said to the disciple,

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behold your mother.
And from that hour the disciple

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took her into his own home.
Now we’re going to see in a in a

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couple weeks that this is really
a new sorry couple days.

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This is really a new Rachel in
it for a new covenant, but let’s

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take a look at the
practicalities of it.

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We think that that Mary was
John’s aunt.

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We think that because of the
comparison of the accounts at

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the cross where we have Jesus,
mother’s sister, the mother of

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Zebedee’s sons and Salome.
So there was a familiar

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relationship, but it went
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Now let’s take a look.
Can you imagine the Bible

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classes at John’s home with
Mary?

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Can you imagine the things that
they talked about?

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You know, John never mentions
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What he does is he always refers
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And it’s, you know, here’s one
example in John 19.

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Now there stood by the cross of
Jesus, his mother and his

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mother’s sister, Mary, the wife
of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene,

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always the mother of Jesus.
Can you imagine what they would

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have talked about?
Can you imagine the insights

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that this deeply spiritual woman
would have had?

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So Mary had an unusual
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It was unique.
And one of the things that she

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does is that she, after thinking
about that, she understands her

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experience and conception as a
template for the spiritual

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creation of the new covenant.
And that understanding is

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transmitted through John’s
Gospel.

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Mary thought about what happened
to her and understood it as a

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paradigm for disciples moving
forward.

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So let’s take a look at that.
We read that the power of the

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highest will over shadow you.
And that Greek word is

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epicotzio.
It’s used only four times in the

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Septuagint.
OK, so it’s used in in reference

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to primarily two things.
What’s one thing overshadowing

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is used for?
What do you think?

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There are no wrong answers?
Yeah.

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In Exodus 40, then, the cloud
covered the Tabernacle of

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meeting, and the glory of the
Lord filled the Tabernacle.

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And Moses was not able to enter
the Tabernacle of meeting

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because the cloud rested above
it, and the glory of the Lord

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filled the Tabernacle.
Whenever the cloud was taken up

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from above the Tabernacle, the
children of Israel would go

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onward in all their journeys.
But if the cloud was not taken

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up, and they did not journey
till the day that it was taken

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up, For the cloud of the Lord
was above the Tabernacle by day,

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and fire was over it by night in
the sight of all the House of

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Israel throughout all their
journeys.

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So it was used in that way.
And then paradoxically, it’s

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used in this way to describe the
actions of a mother bird in

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Psalm 91, starting verse one.
He who dwells in the secret

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place of the Most High shall
abide under the shadow of the

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Almighty.
He shall cover.

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There’s that word.
He shall cover you with his

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feathers and under his wings you
shall take refuge.

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Now it’s interesting that quote
that we referred to brother

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Thomas and Opus Israel.
He talks about not only the seed

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of the woman, but he talks about
the spirit overshadowing.

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It’s making that connection, and
we’re going to see that this is

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a powerful connection.
So the Word became flesh and did

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Tabernacle among us, and we
beheld His glory, Glory as of an

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only begotten of a Father full
of grace and truth.

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The power of the highest will
over shadow you.

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So let’s make some connections.
Exodus 40 and Moses have not

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been able to go into the tent of
meeting, for the cloud hath

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tabernacled.
There’s that word, and the honor

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of Jehovah hath filled the
Tabernacle.

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This is Young’s literal
translation, so you can see

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Mary’s voice coming through here
as she reflected on what it

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meant for her to conceive in
this way.

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Because it’s kind of an
interesting word choice, isn’t

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it?
In John 1 And the Word became

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flesh and did Tabernacle among
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So clearly, I think Mary
understood that there was

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something new going on,
something that was foreshadowed

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in the Old Testament, that there
was made real in Christ.

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The power of the highest will
over shadow you.

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In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and

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the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with

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God.
OK, well we said it had to do

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with the Tabernacle, but we also
said it had to do with this

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image of this bird being very
protective in Psalm 91.

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He who dwells in the secret
place of the Most High shall

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abide under the shadow of the
Almighty.

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He shall cover you with His
feathers, and under His wings

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you shall take refuge.
Now brothers and sisters, we

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know that there is this image at
the start of creation, this idea

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of hovering, this idea of of
almost like a a mother bird

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hovering over the face of the
waters.

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We read in Genesis 1 the earth
was without form and void and

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darkness was over the face of
the deep and the Spirit of God

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was hovering Hebrew Rahaf over
the face of the waters.

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And we read in Deuteronomy 32,
as an eagle stirs up its nest,

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covers over its young, spreading
out its wings, taking them up,

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carrying them on its wings.
So here we see this word used in

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Genesis 1, and then we see
expanded upon is is.

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Yeah, there’s this metaphor of
this protection that’s offered

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under the wings of a mother
bird.

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Mary made that connection and
shared it with John.

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And I thought that that was a
keen spiritual insight that I

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had made.
And then I found out that like

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many of my keen spiritual
insights, someone else had made

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it many decades before.
So Brother Alfred Nichols in his

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book The Spirit of God talks
about this, He says, and my

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apologies for the long quote,
but I think it’s important to

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get the context and it’s in the
chapter entitled The Spirit That

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Overshadows.
With the meaning.

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To Fletcher, hover or brood
over, the Word imparts a moral

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quality, as it were, to God’s
creative act.

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That is, it was not merely a
display of His physical power,

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but the manifestation of His
mind and attributes as an eagle

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that stirreth up her nest, that
fluttereth over her young.

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He spread abroad his wings.
God took them, He bare them on

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His opinions.
The Lord alone will lead them,

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and there is no strange God with
Him.

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The same loving Spirit of God
through which the world was

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created and filled, was the
medium through which the Lord

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protected His people when He
bare them on eagle’s wings and

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brought them unto Himself.
So when at the beginning of a

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new creation, the Holy Spirit
came upon a virgin, then the

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power of the Highest
overshadowed her, and a holy

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thing was brought to life to
manifest the grace, the truth

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and glory of the Father.
So let’s admit to.

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You that this is the result in
John’s Gospel of Mary thinking

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deeply about what happened to
her and understanding it’s a

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template for a new creation in
Christ.

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We know that that in every case,
the idea of of of pregnancy and

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conception is a is a wonder.
We read in Ecclesiastes. 11 Just

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as you do not understand the way
of the Spirit in the womb of a

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pregnant mother, so also you do
not know what the God is doing

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in everything he makes.
The Spirit, the power of God, is

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the creator of all life and
including human life in the womb

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and including the new creation
in Christ.

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So.
The Holy Spirit will come upon

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you, and the power of the
Highest will over shadow you.

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Therefore also that Holy One who
is born will be called the Son

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of God.
So Mary’s son.

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Is literally born of the Spirit
and born of God.

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Metaphorically, these are
concepts used exclusively in

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John’s writings.
Born of the Spirit.

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We recall the enlightening
conversation that Jesus had with

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Nicodemus.
Jesus answered and said to him,

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Most assuredly I say to you,
unless one is born again, he

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cannot see the Kingdom of God.
Most assuredly I say to you,

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unless one is born of the water
and the Spirit, he cannot enter

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the Kingdom of God and.
This theme of being.

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Born of God just just doesn’t
happen in the Gospel of John, it

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happens in his writings.
First John 3. 9.

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Whoever has been born.
Of God does not sin.

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Because he has been.
Born of God and in first John

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47.
Beloved, let us love one

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another, for love is of God, and
everyone who loves is born of

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God and knows God.
First John 51.

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Whoever believes that Jesus is
the Christ is born of God and

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everyone who loves him, who
begot also loves him who is

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begotten of him.
And verse 5, verse 4, chapter 5.

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For whatever is born of God
overcomes the world.

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And this is the victory that has
overcome the world, our faith.

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And finally, first John 518 We
know that whoever is born of God

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does not sin, but he who has
been born of God keeps himself,

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and the wicked 1 does not touch
him.

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So I’ll.
Submit to you that.

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That this understanding that
John puts forward is one that he

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learned from Mary in John 1.
We read but.

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All who did receive Him, He gave
them, the ones believing in His

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name, the right to become the
children of God, who were born

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not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of

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husband, but of God.
This is from the disciples

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little New Testament.
So, Elizabeth.

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Emphasizes that Mary believed
God.

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Blessed is she who believed that
what was promised would be

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accomplished.
And unique in the human.

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Race.
Mary conceived a child

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exclusively of God, not the will
of flesh, nor the will of the

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truth.
Husband Joseph.

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And again.
I thought, well.

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This is a really cool.
Spiritual insight and.

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Then I find.
Yes, it is.

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That was developed much before
my time.

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So brother John Mitchell makes.
The same point he makes it in

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1955, he says.
So the birth of Christ himself

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becomes a beautiful parallel to
what takes place in a believer’s

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heart.
And in all the strains.

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And stresses of life wherever
and whenever the gospel is

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obeyed.
The Angel Gabriel came with a

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memorable message to Mary, when
he said, The Holy Spirit shall

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come upon me, and the power of
the Highest shall over shadow

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thee.
Therefore also that holy thing

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which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.

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To which Mary replied, Behold
the handmaid of the Lord, be it

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unto me, according to thy word.
If we wish, we can make our

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minds.
That is all our conscious being

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into the handmaid of the Lord.
So, brothers and sisters.

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I would submit that Mary took
her experience and understood it

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00:37:49,040 –> 00:37:55,800
in a profound way, a profound
way that is captured for us in

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John’s writings.
Brother AD Norris.

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Talks about this too.
He says the Word became flesh

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and dwelt among us, and we
beheld his glory.

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The glory is of an only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and

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truth.
So runs John’s parallel to the

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Annunciation in Luke.
For the nurse is saying that

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that there are these two things
running in parallel.

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And of course, they’re running
in parallel because Mary would

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have shared her experience and
her thoughtfulness with John.

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Where word?
Stands parallel with Holy Spirit

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and flesh.
Stands for that which the Lord

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received by His birth of Mary.
The two stand together.

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The two stand together also run
parallel with the passages and

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the letter to the Galatians in
which God sent forth his Son,

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made of a woman, made under the
law and.

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Of course in the.
Beginning was the word.

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And the new?
Creation.

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Right.
Therefore, if anyone is in

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Christ, he is a new creation.
All things have passed away.

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Behold, all things have become
new.

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And as we read in.
Galatians 6.

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The only thing that counts is a
new creation.

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So.
Mary’s voice, she sings with

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00:39:14,320 –> 00:39:18,840
Elizabeth, she chastises Jesus.
We’ll see that in a that our

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next day engages Jesus in
problem solving and the wedding

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at Cana.
And she also uses her voice to

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share her experience with John.
And he captures that for us, you

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00:39:33,360 –> 00:39:36,520
know?
Any impactful?

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Voice understands the power of
silence this is recorded for us

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00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:46,000
in divine wisdom and
Ecclesiastes to everything there

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00:39:46,000 –> 00:39:50,200
is a season, a time for every
purpose under heaven, a time to

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keep silence, and a time to
speak so any discussion of

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Mary’s voice would be remiss if.
We did not talk.

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About her silence.
Mary was silent.

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From the record when Joseph
sought to divorce her.

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We’re going to talk about that,
God willing, tomorrow.

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She was silent.
When the children of Bethlehem

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were murdered.
When the children of her friends

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that she knew were murdered.
We know that she.

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Mourned like Rachel, but she.
Was silent.

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She was silent when her friends
and Nazareth sought to kill her

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son, throwing him off the Cliff.
She was silent when?

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Jesus refused to see her when he
said, whoever does the will of

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my Father in heaven is my
brother and my mother.

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And she’s silent when she.
Sees Jesus on the cross.

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So.
From that we take that that

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sometimes.
Our voice is really focused.

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Internally and it’s.
Focused.

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In prayer towards God.
Mary’s silence.

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Is profound because it speaks to
her incredible faith.

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And it foreshadows.
Something that her son did in a

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perfect way.
We.

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00:41:27,800 –> 00:41:31,840
Read in Isaiah 50. 37 he was.
Oppressed.

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And he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth.

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He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before

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00:41:39,240 –> 00:41:42,640
its shears.
His silent, so he opened not his

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00:41:42,640 –> 00:41:46,680
mouth.
Like all wise.

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00:41:46,680 –> 00:41:49,280
People.
Mary knew when to speak.

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00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:53,280
And when to be silent?
And to trust God.

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00:41:55,800 –> 00:42:01,720
So Mary’s voice and her silence
provides a foundation for all

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00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:05,040
disciples.
So.

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Her first statement and her last
recorded statement are all we

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00:42:10,280 –> 00:42:13,520
need.
We start by saying.

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

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00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:21,000
your word.
That’s all we need to.

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00:42:21,000 –> 00:42:23,280
Know about our relationship with
God.

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00:42:23,880 –> 00:42:27,480
That’s all we need to know about
what’s expected of us as

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servants.
And then her last.

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00:42:30,680 –> 00:42:34,360
Recorded statement is whatever
he says to you, do it.

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That’s it, isn’t it?
Whatever Christ commands us to

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00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:51,280
do, we do You know the document
that we use in our community?

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00:42:52,520 –> 00:42:53,640
We.
Spend a lot of time.

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00:42:53,640 –> 00:42:57,720
Wrangling about the doctrinal
statements.

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00:42:58,800 –> 00:43:00,720
But there’s another part of the
document, isn’t it?

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00:43:00,720 –> 00:43:04,600
Not the doctrines to be
rejected, but the commandments

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00:43:04,600 –> 00:43:10,720
of Christ.
Whatever he says to you, do it.

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And lastly, her.
Silence at the.

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Foot of the cross.
When he said woman.

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00:43:22,960 –> 00:43:25,640
Behold your son, that new
connection that he made with

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00:43:25,640 –> 00:43:28,520
John.
And so she she.

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00:43:28,520 –> 00:43:31,840
Teaches us, doesn’t she, that
sometimes what God requires of

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00:43:31,840 –> 00:43:40,160
us is to trust and endure in
silence, knowing, believing in

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00:43:40,160 –> 00:43:45,240
God’s case head, in His covenant
love, that He has not forgotten

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00:43:45,240 –> 00:43:48,880
us, that He will never fail or
forsake us?

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00:43:51,040 –> 00:43:55,800
As Mary’s great.
Song proclaims to Abraham, and

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to his seed forever.