Shawn Moynihan – Mary of Nazareth – Class 4 – Mary’s Community

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This is day four 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 mission
Brother Sean.

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Good morning, brothers and
sisters.

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Today, Godwin, we’re going to
take a look at Mary’s mission.

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Well, as a parent, she had a
general mission, mission to

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bring up a child and the nurture
and admonition of the Lord.

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But she had a special mission,
didn’t she?

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She was told that the Lord God
will give him the throne of his

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father David, and he will reign
over the House of Jacob Forever.

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And of his Kingdom there will be
no end.

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So God had clearly shared
through Gabriel what Mary’s

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mission was.
It wasn’t just to give birth to

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a baby, it was to raise a man to
sit on David’s throne, but Jesus

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was also to save people from
their sins.

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So I think that Mary had a
handle on number one from the

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start.
You know, in this task, she

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could look at several things.
She understood that the Queen

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Mother had an important role in
the Davidic dynasty, something

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that Solomon started when, as we
can see in this picture, he had

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Bathsheba sit at his right hand.
She had the parts of the Mosaic

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law that dealt with kings.
She had the example of

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Hezekiah’s mom, her spiritual
sister in the Isaiah 7 prophecy.

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And finally, she had the example
of Proverbs, especially the the

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teachings that were directed to
the king.

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And I’d really like to
contextualize our discussion

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this morning around this quote
from Psalm 31.

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What my son and what son of my
womb and what son of my vows?

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And we know that that’s a very
hubristic structure, right?

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Of repetition of important
points, but adding something

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slightly different each time.
In this context, Eidersheim

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writes in sketches of Jewish
social life.

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The book of Proverbs introduces
the Queen Mother as training the

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heir to the throne and the
knowledge and fear of the Lord.

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So we see this through the
Davidic dynasty.

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Solomon began this practice in
First Kings 2 and all the way

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through the Davidic dynasty.
The queen was the mother of the

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king, not the wife of the king.
We see in Jeremiah 13 say to the

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king and to the Queen Mother,
humble yourselves.

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And in First Kings 15 and he
removed Makaya his grandmother

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from being Queen Mother.
And there’s other examples in

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Second Kings 10.
And in Jeremiah 29.

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Edward 3 comments on this.
He says when Elizabeth addresses

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Mary as the mother of my Lord,
you recall she said that who am

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I that the mother of my Lord
should come unto me.

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In doing so, he writes,
Elizabeth hails Mary as the

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mother of the king.
For Mary, Elizabeth’s words are

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a confirmation of what the Angel
told her.

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She is the mother of a Davidic
king.

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In ancient Israel, the queen
ship and the Davidic Kingdom was

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bestowed not on the King’s wife,
but on the King’s mother.

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Therefore, when Elizabeth calls
Mary the mother of my Lord, she

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is honoring Mary as the mother
of the King, the Queen Mother.

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But then, brothers and sisters,
when and how did Mary understand

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the second part of the mission?
Because Joseph clearly would

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have told her, and they would
have had long discussions over

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many years about what it meant
that they would have a son named

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Jesus who will save people from
their sins.

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Over the next two days, we’re
going to see the evolution of

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Mary’s understanding of this
second part of the mission.

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Tomorrow we’re going to see how
recognition and understanding

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created some sword wounds.
But it didn’t dim her faith.

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It didn’t dim her trust, because
even before she really

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understood what it meant.
She understood that salvation

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would come through the covenant
love found in God’s promises.

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And she tried to make sense of
how Jesus would save his people

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from their sins.
She founded that understanding

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and that thoughtfulness on the
firm belief in the exceeding

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great and precious promises that
we have.

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That’s why she sings.
And his mercy, His covenant

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love, is on those who fear Him
from generation to generation.

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He has helped His servant Israel
in remembrance of His covenant

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love.
As he spoke to our fathers, to

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Abraham, and to His seed
forever.

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Mary had the foundation for
understanding how this saving

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would take place.
Now before we continue, there’s

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three important contextual
things we need to establish.

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First of all, to accomplish his
goal, Jesus had to learn and,

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and Mary had an important role
in that, but God was Jesus most

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important teacher.
So in our discussions of Mary,

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we’re, we’re not minimizing at
all the absolutely essential

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integral role that God had.
And #3 the Bible teaches that

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moms, and I put moms in quotes
because there’s lots of moms in

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our ecclesia that never had
physical children, right?

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Talking moms.
The Bible teaches that moms are

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vitally important.
So let’s take a look at the

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first context.
In Hebrews 5, we read though he

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was a son, yet he learned
obedience by the things which he

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suffered.
And Mary’s mind would have been

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foregrounded because the Isaiah
prophecy that she fulfilled The

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next sentence is the next verse.
Curds and honey he shall eat

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that he may know.
Some translations have learn to

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refuse the evil and choose the
good.

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Luke mentions in a couple times
how Jesus grew and learned and

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Mary of course was not only
important witness to that, but

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was an important catalyst to it.
Now God was Jesus most important

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teacher by far.
Now we could do four years worth

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of Bible classes on this.
So I’m just going to pick this

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verse in John 8.
So Jesus said to them, when you

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lift up the Son of Man, then you
will know that I am he.

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I do nothing on my own but speak
only those things the Father has

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taught me.
So again, in our discussion this

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morning, we’re not minimizing
the role that that God would

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have played.
Now, moms are vitally important.

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Let’s look at Proverbs 18.
My son, hear the instruction

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Musar of your father, and do not
forsake the law Torah of your

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mother.
Proverbs 620 My son, keep your

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father’s command mitzvah, and do
not forsake the law Torah of

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your mother.
So teaching the way of God is a

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partnership between the father
and the mother.

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But did you notice that in
Proverbs the Father’s

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instruction is two different
words, but the mother is always

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Torah.
Now rabbinical thought suggests

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that this is because the mother
provides the foundational

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teaching.
She literally does the the

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literal and the spiritual ABC’s
which you rely on for your whole

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life.
And Second Timothy Paul talks to

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the profound maternal and and
grandmotherly love that was so

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evident in Timothy as a result
of Lois and his mother Eunice.

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Now you know, I was raised by my
grandmother, so I can speak to

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the example of a grandmother.
And then we have Roman 16 where

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Paul says, greet Rufus chosen in
the Lord, and his mother and

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mine.
Now Paul, Christ appeared to

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him.
Christ said, my grace is

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sufficient for you.
My strength is made perfect in

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weakness.
Paul needed a mom in the

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ecclesia, and we can speculate
that perhaps his parents

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disowned him and he’s had a mom
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So if Paul needs a mom, we all
need a mom in Ecclesia, don’t

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we?
Paul in Galatians 4 talks about

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the mother’s vital role.
So he establishes in Galatians 4

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the importance of the mother by
referencing Mary.

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That’s how he starts out in
verse four and five.

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He says when the fullness of
time had come, God sent forth

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his Son, born of a woman, born
under the law, to redeem those

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who are under the law, that we
might receive the adoption as

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sons.
And then later on in that

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chapter, Paul assumes a maternal
role.

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You know, other places he talks
about being a father in Christ,

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but here he says, no, I’m being
a mom.

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He says, my dear children, I am
suffering the pains of giving

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birth to you all over again.
And this will go on until the

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Messiah takes shape in you.
And then he finishes by quoting

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Isaiah 54.
He says that everything depends

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on the mom.
So then, brethren, we are not

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children of the bondwoman, but
of the free.

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And he’s saying that the mom
makes the difference, right?

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There’s the Hagar covenant
that’s about slavery and about

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the flesh and about Sinai.
And there’s the Sarah covenant.

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Remember it says in Isaiah, look
to Abraham your father, and

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Sarah who bore you.
And the covenant through Sarah

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is about freedom and about God
keeping his promises, and about

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Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem
above is free, which is the

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mother of us all.
So Mary prepares to give birth

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to Jesus.
We know that throughout the

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accounts, Mary is a thoughtful,
deep thinker about biblical

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things, and I’m sure her mind
would have gone to Psalm 22.

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But you are he who took me out.
And there’s an interesting

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Hebrew word there that’s not
used very often.

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Took me out of the womb.
You made me trust while on my

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mother’s breast.
I was cast upon you from birth.

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From my mother’s womb You have
been my God.

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Now it’s interesting as she was
thinking about that, that word

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get only occurs a few times and
it’s translated in weird ways,

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like it’s translated in judges
as ambush.

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No, I’m, I’m smart enough as a
man never to comment on that the

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the rigors of childbirth.
So I’m just going to leave that

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alone.
But we don’t tend to think of it

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as an ambush, right?
But the other time that it’s

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used in relation to giving birth
is in Mica.

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And I think that Mary would have
been thinking about Micah as she

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was waiting to give birth
because she knew from Micah 5

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two that she had to be in
Bethlehem.

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So here’s the reference.
And you, O tower of the flock,

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the stronghold of the daughter
of Zion, to you it shall come.

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For pangs have seized you like a
woman in labor, be in pain and

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labor to bring forth.
There’s that word, O daughter of

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Zion, like a woman in birth
pangs.

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So she made the connection
inevitably to this and being the

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daughter of Zion.
And, and I would suggest to you

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that she had begun to make that
connection to the daughter of

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Zion even earlier.
Greek scholars look at Gabriel’s

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initial word to marry Kyrie, and
that’s a special word, and

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that’s a word that’s connected
to the daughter of Zion,

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Edwards, 3, writes.
Gabriel’s initial word to Mary,

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hail, or Kyrie in Greek, means
much more than a simple hello.

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Luke’s Gospel never uses Kyrie
in a Jewish milieu to express an

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ordinary salutation, and it’s
the word that’s used in

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connection with the daughter of
Zion and Zechariah. 2 Sing and

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rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for
behold, I am coming, and I will

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dwell in your midst, says the
Lord.

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What did Mary’s deep spiritual,
biblical mind do with those

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connections?
Well, I think she took a look at

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Zechariah. 2 Sing and rejoice, O
daughter of Zion, for behold, I

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am coming, and I will dwell in
your midst, says the Lord.

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She connected that to behold,
the virgin shall be with child,

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and shall bear a son, and they
shall call his name Emmanuel,

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which means God with us.
I will dwell in your midst, God

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with us.
And I think she’s a thought of

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Isaiah 62.
Indeed, the Lord has proclaimed

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to the end of the world, say to
the daughter of Zion, surely

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your salvation is coming.
And in her great song, she

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rejoiced.
And my Spirit has rejoiced, and

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God my Savior.
So Mary had to ensure that

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Bethlehem was the birth place.
Mary knew that Jesus would be

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born in Bethlehem, because even
Herod’s advisors understood that

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that’s where it was going to
happen.

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We read in Matthew 2.
And when he had gathered all the

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chief priests and scribes of the
people together, he inquired of

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them where the Christ was to be
born.

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So they said to him in
Bethlehem, Judea.

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For thus it is written by the
prophet.

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But you, Bethlehem, in the land
of Judah, are not the least

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among the rulers of Judah.
For out of you shall come a

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ruler who will shepherd my
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But you Bethlehem and fought
that, though you are little

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among the thousands of Judah,
yet one shall come forth to me

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the one to be a ruler in Israel
whose goings forth are from a

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bold from everlasting.
So just like the the different

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translations there.
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already seen the connections
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Now you have to think that
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and they were thinking, how do
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What should we do?
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They prayed about it.
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What should we do?
Should we move?

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God answers our prayers in
unusual and unexpected ways,

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right?
I don’t think that, you know,

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being taxed was on their list of
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happen.
But God works and, and brother

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Doug did an amazing job last
night talking about the visible

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and invisible hand of God.
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unexpected ways and the prayer
was answered and it resulted in

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a 90 mile journey late in Mary’s
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Now let’s talk about the inn.
There was no room for them in

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the inn.
Now what kind of inn are we

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talking about?
Are we talking about Holiday

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Inn?
What kind of an inn?

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The inn is not an inn like we
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The inn was the Cataluma.
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It was the room in in someone’s
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It was talking about being in a
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We know that because Luke uses a
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Mary and Joseph were staying
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They weren’t staying in an inn
like Holiday Inn because Luke

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uses a different word for that.
And the parable of the Good

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Samaritan in Luke 1034, we read
that.

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So he went to him and bandaged
his wounds, pouring on oil and

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wine, and he set him on his own
animal and brought him to an inn

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and took care of him.
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This is not an inn, this is a
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house because they were going
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Barry Beitzel writes that it is
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Joseph would have sought refuge
for marrying himself in the

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perhaps by another extended
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result of the census, it was
necessary for Joseph and Mary to

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stay in the lower part of the
family house where there would

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have also been an animals
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They get there and the room that
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taken.
She’s about to give birth to the

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Son of God.
You’d be tempted to say, you

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know, I know that you like the
room, but we really have an

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emergency, so could we just.
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And so it was unusual for a
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because that was a sign that was
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So for the sign to be
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unusual.
So let’s take a look at what

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that would have looked like.
So grab my pen here.

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So here’s the Cataluma in a
house, here’s the main family

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living space, here’s the Manger.
Now the stable is out here, and

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sometimes the stable was in a
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Now I understand that when you
go to Israel and they show you

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where Mary gave birth, it’s a
cave, right?

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So that comes from the proto
Evangelum of James that says it

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was in a cave.
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I think it says pretty clearly
that it was in the house, in the

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house.
The Manger was there in the

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house.
So why a Manger?

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Why a Manger?
Because we’ve already

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established it’s in the house.
You know, sadly, all those

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nativity plays and the Charlie
Brown Christmas, not how it

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happened.
So why a Manger?

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Well, some have suggested that
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3, and it speaks to Mary’s frame
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Though the fig tree may not
blossom, nor fruit beyond the

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vines, though the labour of the
olive may fail in the fields,

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you’ll know food.
Though the flock may be cut off

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from the fold, and there’ll be
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And there’s that unusual word
really for Manger fatne.

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Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.
I will joy in the God of my

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salvation.
Now that makes perfect sense to

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me.
That’s pretty plausible.

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There’s another thing, though,
that I think is going on, and it

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has to do with Mary
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When, under the Mosaic Law, did
you bring an animal into the

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house Passover from the 10th day
to the 14th day of the month?

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And did you know, brothers and
sisters, that it was common

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practice to take that lamb and
put it in the mangers to keep it

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safe and clean?
So I would suggest to you that

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there’s something else going on
here, something that’s helping

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Mary understand this mission
about saving people from their

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sins.
So we’ll come back to that.

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The Birth, there are volumes of
books written about how Mary

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just had a completely painless
great delivery.

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No issues there.
That’s just wrong.

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I mean, certainly Mary would
have had the normal arduous

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ordeal of delivery.
Genesis 316.

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I will greatly multiply your
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You should bring forth children
now.

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The Proto Evangelum of James
identifies a midwife called

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Salome.
So like I said, the Proto

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Evangelum of James has a kernel
of fact buried in a ton of

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fiction.
So one of the things you might

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we might consider is that
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have travelled with them.
And maybe that’s why this is

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preserved, that it wasn’t a
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It was it was Salome and Mary’s
sister helping with the

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delivery.
It’s interesting that Mary is

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seeing seems to be alone here.
But Mary, I think would have

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been surrounded by family.
You know, you got to think was

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Elizabeth there?
And because Elizabeth was close

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by, a few miles away, but
although she would have been

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surrounded by family, you know,
none are mentioned.

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Let’s take a look at the
shepherds we read in Luke 2.

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Now there were in the same
country shepherds living out in

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the fields, keeping watch over
their flock by night.

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And brothers and sisters, this
was a special flock.

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And behold, an Angel of the Lord
stood before them, and the glory

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of the Lord shone round about
them, and they were greatly

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afraid.
Who’s the Angel here, Gabriel,

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in charge of all things Messiah,
Right Then the Angel said to

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them, Do not be afraid, for
behold, I bring you good tidings

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of great joy, which will be to
all people.

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For there is born to you this
day in the city of David a

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Saviour who is Christ the Lord.
And this will be the sign to

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you.
You will find a babe wrapped in

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swaddling claws, lying in a
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And suddenly there was with the
Angel a multitude of heavenly

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hosts, praising God, and saying
Glory to God in the highest and

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on earth, peace, goodwill
towards men.

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And so it was when the angels
had gone away from them into

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heaven, that the shepherds said
to one another, Let us go now to

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Bethlehem, and see this thing
that has come to pass which the

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Lord has made known to us.
And they came with haste, and

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found Mary and Joseph and the
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And when they had seen him, they
made widely known the saying

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which was told to them
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But Mary kept all these things
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So heavenly rejoicing they left
in haste.

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So if you’re a shepherd and
you’re out in the field, what’s

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job?
One?

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Don’t leave the sheep.
So we can infer that they took

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the sheep with them.
Unto you a child is born.

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Christ the Lord.
And these shepherds were

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special.
They are watching the flocks

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exclusively destined for the
temple sacrifice.

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They are the tower of the flock.
The Migdel Idar mentioned in

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Micah 48 Eidersheim goes into
great detail about why that’s

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true.
His his arguments make a lot of

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sense to me.
So Mary is confronted by the

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shepherds in charge of the flock
for the spotless animals used in

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temple sacrifice, and the flock
is outside for her to see.

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Now I found this passage, and I
invite you to help me make sense

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of it.
Not right now, but think about

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it.
So as I was doing my study, I

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came across this passage in
Jeremiah.

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I have likened the daughter of
Zion to a lovely and delicate

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woman.
The shepherds with their flocks

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will come to her.
So the passage in Jeremiah

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doesn’t really fit in this
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But you know how sometimes,
especially from the writings of

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Paul, we understand that that
prophecies aren’t always easily

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understood in the first round.
So anyway, think about that and,

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and, and enjoy talking about
that.

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If you see that there are any
connections or you can say no

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Sean, that makes no sense
whatsoever.

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That’s helpful too.
So Mary’s experience in

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delivering Jesus caused deep and
continuing thought and

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reflection.
Mary was preserving all these

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things, pondering them in her
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The disciples little New
Testament captures the kind of

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continuous action that it’s
ongoing.

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She’s thinking of these things,
and I would say to you, brothers

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and sisters, that one of the
things that she’s starting to

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understand is how Jesus will
save people from their sins.

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It would have been jarring, I
think, for Mary to see her son

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in the same place, in the
Manger, where normally she would

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have seen the Passover lamb, the
shepherds in charge of the

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spotless lambs destined for the
temple sacrifice, telling her

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that the Angel shared a message
of salvation.

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Can imagine Mary’s thought about
that and with her mind steeped

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in the promises to Abraham
remember that great song that

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triumphant final note to Abraham
and to his seed forever did she

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begin to think about that God
will provide for himself a lamb.

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So we see the days of
purification we read about in in

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Leviticus 12 and and Mary does
that.

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And you know, Bible students
have taken one verse and

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extrapolated that the reason
Mary and Joseph didn’t offer a

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lamb is because they were
desperately poor.

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That could be, I’m not being
dogmatic about this, but even if

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they were poor, couldn’t Mary
have gone to any of those

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shepherds that had the temple
flock and say, can we have a can

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we have a sacrifice?
We want to use the best?

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Can we have one?
Do you think they would have

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said no?
They would have said, please.

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I mean, Joseph and Mary
literally had a whole flock of

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temple approved lambs to choose
from.

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So I think that they chose not
to.

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I think Mary chose not to offer
the lamb because she she was

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beginning to understand Jesus
saving role, the saving role

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that John the Baptist talks
about so early at the start of

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Jesus ministry.
Behold the Lamb of God who takes

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away the sin of the world.
So brothers and sisters, I’m not

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dogmatic about that.
Just something to think about,

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OK?
Do not forsake the Torah of your

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mother and brother.
Khan Mitsos points out that the

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Gospel records emphasize that
all that Mary and Joseph did,

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they did according to the law of
God.

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That’s repeated over and over
and over again in Luke’s

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account, over five times.
It’s all about according to the

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law of God, according to the law
of God, according to the law of

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God.
So right from the beginning,

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Joseph and Mary were scrupulous
in their observance of the law,

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helping Jesus understand the law
and helping understand

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understand how He would fulfill
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OK, so teaching the Son of my
womb right from birth, this

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happens right from birthright.
Psalm 22 says it, Eidersheim

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writes.
The influence exerted upon his

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early education, especially by
his mother, seems implied

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throughout the Gospel history.
Now we know that’s important,

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right?
At birth, 25% of the brain

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development is there by age,
275%.

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By age, 590%.
Now, I’ve taught middle school

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students for a long time.
So the ground kind of dips after

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that.
But but all kidding aside, this

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is incredible, right?
And it speaks to how important

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the role of the early learning
is and the mother’s role.

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Do not forget your mother’s
Torah.

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You know, we’re blessed to have
have young folks with us and you

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just look at them and you know,
they’re learning machines.

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And you know, one of the great
blessings of being a grandparent

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is there’s no stress.
So you can sit back and watch

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the learning happen.
It’s amazing.

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So Mary had a mission that began
right from the start.

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So we know how important zero to
five are, right?

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Learning the alphabet, learning
to read.

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Think about what Mary would have
been doing, learning the stories

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of Israel, learning to pray,
learning to pray, all these

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things, learning the spiritual
and literal AB CS that Mary

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would have been sharing with
Jesus.

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We have to honour our moms and
our Sunday school teachers and

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our spiritual moms impact in
this way.

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We have to honour their work
because it’s crucial.

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Kathy’s aunt Betty Moore Sister
Betty never had children, never

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married.
She taught Sunday school for

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decades, decades.
And when she passed away, sadly

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too young as a result of
pancreatic cancer, we got all

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these emails and cards from
people that said Sister Betty

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changed my life.
Let’s be honest, brothers and

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sisters, we remember the lessons
of our Sunday, Sunday School

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teachers long after we’ve
forgotten what the adult teacher

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had to say.
So Mary would have begun those

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fundamental things with Jesus,
like learning to pray Mary

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Athens in search of the Jewish
Mary rites.

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Since the Jewish children often
learned their first prayers and

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home rituals from their mothers,
Mary would have taught Jesus to

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his earliest prayers and
instructed him in simple Jewish

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rituals.
And you have to think when his

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disciples said, Lord teach us to
pray as John the Baptist did

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taught his disciples, you have
to think that his mind would

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have flashed back to being
taught to pray.

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So we see the wise men visit the
king of the Jews.

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That’s the next scene we’re
going to take a look at.

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So we read in Matthew 2, where
is he who has been born king of

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the Jews?
For we have seen his star in the

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East and have come to worship
him.

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And of course, folks have
mentioned in passing, of course,

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this is their understanding of
the great 70 weeks prophecy and

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acting on it.
Now when the wise men come to

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visit, Jesus is not a child,
he’s a baby.

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There’s a different word there.
And the family is living in a

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house.
So this seems to be when Jesus

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would have been much older,
perhaps as old as 2.

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The Magi seek to visit the court
of the King of the Jews.

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Only Jesus the king, and Mary
the Queen Mother, are mentioned.

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Did you notice that Joseph was
sent in the account?

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It’s the king and the Queen
Mother.

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So I think the writer Matthew
invites us to see this as a

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delegation to the court of a
Davidic king.

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And there’s a passage in Psalms
that really resonates.

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So in Matthew we read they saw
the young child with marry his

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mother and fell down and
worshipped him.

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And there’s that word
proschinio, and that’s used in

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Psalm 72 in the Septuagint.
The kings of Tarshish and of the

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Isles will bring presents.
The kings of Sheba and Siebel

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offer gifts.
Yes, all kings shall fall down.

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There’s that word before him.
So a powerful and beautiful

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foreshadowing of the Kingdom
that we all long for.

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I think Mary also would have
looked at Abijah, Hezekiah’s mom

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we read in Isaiah 7.
Therefore, the Lord will give

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00:34:29,120 –> 00:34:32,719
you a sign the young woman is
pregnant and about to give birth

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00:34:32,719 –> 00:34:34,679
to a son, and she will name
Emmanuel.

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He will eat butter and honey and
learn to reject evil and choose

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good.
You know, Brother Hay Whitaker,

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brother George Booker do a great
job of connecting Hezekiah to

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this prophecy we read in in the
Second Chronicles 29.

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Hezekiah became king when he was
25 years old, and he reigned 29

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years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name was Abijah,

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the daughter of Zechariah, and
he did what was right in the

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sight of the Lord according to
all that his father had done.

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Abijah is the exemplar of a
godly mother’s impact because

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the father was a train wreck,
completely completely ungodly,

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but Abijah a budget was the
difference.

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So I think that Mary would have
inevitably thought about Abijah

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and they were the two mothers in
the Isaiah 7 prophecy, albeit it

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was Mary who fulfilled it in a
unique and miraculous way.

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OK, Now one of the things that
the Queen Mother would have done

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is she would have ensured that
the fulfillment of Deuteronomy

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17 happened.
He shall write for himself a

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copy of this law in a book we
read in Deuteronomy 17.

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And it shall be when he sits on
the throne of his Kingdom, that

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he shall write for himself a
copy of this law in a book from

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the one before the priests, the
Levites.

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And it shall be with him, and he
shall read it all the days of

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his life, that he may learn to
fear the Lord his God, and be

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careful to observe all the words
of this law and these statutes.

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That his heart may not be lifted
above his brethren, that he may

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not turn aside from the command
to the right hand or to the

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left, and that he may prolong
his days in his Kingdom, he and

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his children in the midst of
Israel.

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So Jesus would have written this
out.

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Mary would have ensured that he
did.

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You know how we know that?
We know that?

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Because Jesus quotes from
Deuteronomy more than any other

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Old Testament book.
Here’s just an example of what

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happens in Matthew.
We’re not going to go through it

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for the sake of time, but there
it is.

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And we’re blessed to be in the
company of amazing Bible

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00:37:01,280 –> 00:37:04,040
students.
So some of those amazing Bible

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00:37:04,040 –> 00:37:07,800
students are saying, wait a
second, you left out Matthew 4.

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What happened in Matthew 4?
The temptations in the

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wilderness.
You know, there’s a saying, you

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know, people think the Navy
Seal’s invented it.

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But it was actually a Greek poet
named Archelaicus who in 650 BC,

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he said in war we do not rise to
the level of our expectations.

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We fall to the level of our
training.

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And in spiritual training,
that’s true, too.

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So in the wilderness and a time
of intense stress, what book did

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Jesus quote to refute the
temptations?

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Yeah.
Deuteronomy.

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Deuteronomy 83.
Deuteronomy 616.

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Deuteronomy 6/13 Another thing
that Mary would have done is the

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Queen Mother as she would have
ensured that Jesus took care of

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the poor and marginalized.
In Proverbs 31, the commandment

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from the Queen Mother is open
your mouth, judge righteously

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and plead the cause of the poor
and needy.

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And Mary understands this and
that’s why she celebrates it in

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her song.
He has filled the hungry with

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good things and the rich he has
sent away empty.

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And this is just one quote
because Jesus whole ministry was

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a litany of caring for the poor
and the marginalized, loving the

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unlovable, accepting the
marginalized, caring for those

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who were not cared for.
So we read in Psalm 116, I am

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your servant, Lord, I serve you
just as my mother did.

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Kenneth Bailey writes that the
reader is led to understand that

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Jesus was raised by an
extraordinary mother who must

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have had enormous influence.
And I love this quote because it

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comes from a guy who doesn’t
think the Bible is true.

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He says Mary provides Jesus with
a multifaceted parental example

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of a woman who interacts
directly with the divine and

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00:39:31,680 –> 00:39:34,400
with Scripture and who takes
responsibility for her own

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00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:37,600
obedience.
The emphasis and early Christian

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literature.
He means the Bible on Jesus as

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one who obeys and submits to God
should not be separated from his

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mother’s paradigmatic example as
one who did the same.

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See, even for an unbeliever,
Mary’s example cries out.

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So did you ever think, as a
parent, how did my kids become

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good at the things they’re good
at?

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And what role did I play in
that?

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Do you ever think that you know?
It’s a it’s baffling to me, like

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all four of my kids are really
different from each other, but

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00:40:28,360 –> 00:40:34,720
all four of them have a
tremendous work ethic and I’ve

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00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:36,840
literally never talked to them
about working hard.

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So again, as an example of Mary,
it must be sister Kathy that’s

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coming through there.
But isn’t it interesting, right?

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And you know what I think it is?
It’s the power of example

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because I like to work hard.
Sister Kathy likes to work hard.

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It’s the power of example.
And especially for our young

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00:41:02,880 –> 00:41:06,760
people, they are observing
everybody.

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They’re observing their parents,
but between like 15 and 22, they

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don’t have any credibility.
So they’re observing everyone

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00:41:16,240 –> 00:41:21,120
else in the ecclesia and they’re
looking for your example.

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That’s a good example.
Let’s be like Mary.

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Let’s create eccleses where
people can say I serve you just

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00:41:30,360 –> 00:41:33,160
like my parents did.
I serve you just like my auntie

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00:41:33,160 –> 00:41:35,480
and uncle did.
I serve you just like my Sunday

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00:41:35,480 –> 00:41:42,640
School teacher did.
Mary’s mission, The Lord God

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00:41:42,640 –> 00:41:45,280
will give him the throne of his
Father David, and he will reign

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00:41:45,280 –> 00:41:48,360
over the House of Jacob Forever,
and of his Kingdom there will be

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00:41:48,360 –> 00:41:52,080
no end.
Mary understood that.

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00:41:52,360 –> 00:41:57,160
She had some had kind of an
instruction manual on how you

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00:41:57,160 –> 00:42:00,760
raise a king.
It would be great if our kids

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00:42:00,760 –> 00:42:05,440
came with instruction manuals.
I often thought that, you know,

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00:42:05,680 –> 00:42:07,480
you get them home.
I remember when we took Braden

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home from the hospital in 1987.
We plunk him in the in the

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living room.
He’s in his car seat.

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And we’re like, oh, what do we
do now?

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You know, an instruction manual
would have been good.

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00:42:18,000 –> 00:42:22,600
You know, especially to see
things like, how do you put

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things back together when they
fall apart?

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You know how we cannot avoid the
warranty, things like that.

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00:42:29,120 –> 00:42:33,720
But Mary had an instruction
manual to raise a godly child

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and to raise a king in the line
of David, and that was the

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Torah.
So he will save his people from

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his sins.
Merit began to understand that.

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00:42:45,600 –> 00:42:51,000
And over the next, the next day,
God willing, we’re going to take

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a look at what she did to keep
her son safe and the sword

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00:42:55,880 –> 00:43:03,760
wounds that she suffered.
NK Jemison writes there is no

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00:43:03,760 –> 00:43:06,760
greater warrior than a mother
protecting her child.

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00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:13,480
Queen mothers acted to keep
their sons safe.

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00:43:14,440 –> 00:43:17,800
When Adonijah sought the throne,
Bathsheba ensured that David was

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00:43:18,080 –> 00:43:21,360
would keep his vow that Solomon
would succeed him.

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According to rabbinical
literature, Abijah saved the

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life of Hezekiah when his father
Ahaz tried to sacrifice him to

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Molech.
And you have to wonder, Mary’s

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biblical mind, how did she start
to understand Daniel’s prophecy?

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How did she start to understand
what Messiah the Prince will be

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00:43:41,720 –> 00:43:43,360
cut off?
What did that mean?

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00:43:48,040 –> 00:43:54,000
So tomorrow, God willing, we’re
going to take a look at Mary’s

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00:43:54,000 –> 00:44:01,800
sword wounds because there’s
this incredibly powerful scene

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00:44:02,960 –> 00:44:06,920
where Simeon is there and it’s a
time of great rejoicing.

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00:44:08,760 –> 00:44:16,160
And then it says that he turned
to Mary and said, indeed, a

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sword will Pierce the soul of
you yourself, the disciples.

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Little New Testament emphasizes
that in the Greek that doesn’t

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always come across the soul of
you yourself.

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00:44:29,600 –> 00:44:33,600
This is a warrior’s wound
because the the word used for

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00:44:33,600 –> 00:44:36,320
sword here is that sword.
They are on Thea.

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It’s a, it’s a weapon of war.
And so tomorrow we’re going to

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see Mary’s trials, her sword
wounds as she engages in

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spiritual warfare.
We’ll take a look at Mary

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leading up to the cross as she
begins to understand more and

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00:44:59,080 –> 00:45:03,720
more the truth of the fact that
the Lord will provide himself a

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lamb.