Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 341.<\/p>\n
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\nOur first period teacher is
\nBrother Sean Moynihan. <\/p>\n
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\nHis general subject is Mary of
\nNazareth. <\/p>\n
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\nToday’s topic is Mary’s trials
\nBrother Sean. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
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\nToday we’re going to speak about
\nMary’s four sword wounds. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, we’ve discussed other
\nwounds this week, haven’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nLike the wound when Jesus,
\nfriends and neighbors tried to <\/p>\n
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\nkill him and Nazareth.
\nBut this morning we’re going to <\/p>\n
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\nfocus on four.
\nAnd the first is the murder of <\/p>\n
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\nBethlehem and the surrounding
\nregion’s children. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then we’re going to take a
\nlook at when Jesus was quote, UN<\/p>\n
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\nquote, lost in the temple.
\nThen we’ll take a look at when <\/p>\n
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\nJesus was estranged from his
\nhalf brothers and the family <\/p>\n
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\nconflict that that caused, the
\nanguish that it caused for Mary.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd lastly, we’ll look at Mary
\nat the foot of the cross. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, where do we take this sword
\nwound idea? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, of course we know whether
\nit is right from Simeon when <\/p>\n
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\nJesus is presented at the
\ntemple. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Luke 2 And behold, there was
\na man in Jerusalem whose name <\/p>\n
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\nwas Simeon.
\nAnd this man was just and <\/p>\n
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\ndevout, waiting for the
\nconsolation of Israel, and the <\/p>\n
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\nHoly Spirit was upon him.
\nIt had been revealed to him by <\/p>\n
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\nthe Holy Spirit that he would
\nnot see death before he had seen<\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord’s Christ.
\nSo he came by the Spirit into <\/p>\n
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\nthe temple, and when his parents
\nbrought in the child Jesus to do<\/p>\n
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\nfor him according to the custom
\nof the law, he took him up in <\/p>\n
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\nhis arms and blessed God and
\nsaid, Lord, now you are letting <\/p>\n
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\nyour servant depart in peace
\naccording to your word. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom my eyes I’ve seen your
\nsalvation, which you have <\/p>\n
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\nprepared before the face of all
\npeoples, a light to bring <\/p>\n
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\nrevelation to the Gentiles and
\nglory of your people Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Joseph and his mother Marvel
\ndid those things which were <\/p>\n
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\nspoken of him.
\nThen Simeon blessed them and <\/p>\n
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\nsaid to Mary, He stopped.
\nAnd he said to Mary, Behold, <\/p>\n
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\nthis child is destined for the
\nfall and rising of many in <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, and for a sign which
\nshall be spoken against. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, a sword will Pierce through
\nyour own soul. <\/p>\n
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\nAlso that the thoughts of many
\nhearts may be revealed. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a powerful paradox.
\nIn the midst of celebrating <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s blessing, God’s greatest
\nblessing, he turns to Mary and <\/p>\n
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\nhe says you will be wounded.
\nYou’ll be wounded by a sword of <\/p>\n
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\nwar.
\nIt’s a paradox, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nBut we understand this paradox.
\nBerkeley, not to be confused <\/p>\n
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\nwith Eidersheim, totally
\ndifferent guy. <\/p>\n
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\nBerkeley writes in the Gospel of
\nLuke about the paradox of <\/p>\n
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\nblessedness.
\nHe writes to Mary was granted <\/p>\n
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\nthe blessedness of being the
\nmother of the Son of God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet that very blessedness
\nwas to be a sword that pierced <\/p>\n
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\nher heart.
\nThat very glory was to break her<\/p>\n
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\nheart.
\nShe was blessed, and that very <\/p>\n
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\nblessedness meant that someday
\nshe would see that son of hers <\/p>\n
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\nhanging on a cross.
\nTo be chosen by God so often <\/p>\n
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\nmeans at one and the same time,
\na crown of joy and a cross of <\/p>\n
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\nsorrow.
\nAnd we know that, don’t we, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters in our own
\nlives. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we we take comfort in the
\nfact that these trials, these <\/p>\n
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\nsorrows are always purposeful.
\nWe read in Peter and this you <\/p>\n
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\ngreatly rejoice, though now for
\na little while, if need be, you <\/p>\n
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\nhave been grieved by various
\ntrials, that the genuineness of <\/p>\n
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\nyour faith, being much more
\nprecious than gold that <\/p>\n
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\nperishes, though it is tested by
\nfire, may be found to praise, <\/p>\n
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\nhonor and glory.
\nAt the revelation of Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, whom having not yet seen
\nyou love, though now you do not <\/p>\n
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\nsee Him, yet believing, you
\nrejoice with joy, inexpressible <\/p>\n
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\nand full of glory, receiving the
\nend of your faith, the salvation<\/p>\n
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\nof your souls.
\nSo Mary had a unique paradox, <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t she?
\nAs we discussed yesterday, Jesus<\/p>\n
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\nwas the Son of her womb, but He
\nwas also her Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that was a challenge for her
\nto separate those things and <\/p>\n
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\nJesus was helpful to her in
\nreminding her about those <\/p>\n
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\nseparation.
\nRemember in Luke 11 we read and <\/p>\n
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\nit happened as He spoke these
\nthings, that a certain woman <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the crowd raised her voice
\nand said to him, Blessed is the <\/p>\n
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\nwomb that bore you and the
\nbreast which nursed you. <\/p>\n
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\nBut He said more than that,
\nblessed are those who hear the <\/p>\n
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\nWord of God and keep it.
\nSo what did Simeon say to Mary? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, in the disciples little
\nNew Testament, it really comes <\/p>\n
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\nacross.
\nIndeed, a sword from Thea will <\/p>\n
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\nPierce the soul of you yourself.
\nThe Greek uses a tautology <\/p>\n
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\nthere, right?
\nA repetition for emphasis. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is not the usual word
\nfor sword, makyra from Thea. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a sword of war, and this is
\nan example of what it looked <\/p>\n
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\nlike now.
\nIt’s a weapon of war that <\/p>\n
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\ncreated a warrior’s wound
\nbecause Mary was a spiritual <\/p>\n
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\nwarrior.
\nAnd I wonder if Mary’s biblical <\/p>\n
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\nmind, because we know it was her
\nhabit of mine to turn things <\/p>\n
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\nover in her mind if she thought
\nof how that word was used in <\/p>\n
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\nZechariah 13 Awake, O sword
\nagainst my shepherd, against the<\/p>\n
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\nman who is my companion, says
\nthe Lord of hosts. <\/p>\n
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\nStrike the shepherd and the
\nsheep will be scattered. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we know, of course, brothers
\nand sisters, that that pertains <\/p>\n
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\nto Jesus because he quotes it in
\nMark 14. <\/p>\n
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\nSo being a mother is like being
\na warrior. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we have an example of that
\nin in Judges. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Judges 5 from the New century
\nversion, there were no warriors <\/p>\n
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\nin Israel until I, Deborah
\narose, until I arose to be a <\/p>\n
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\nmother in Israel.
\nAnd the new English translation <\/p>\n
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\nrenders that warriors were
\nscarce. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were scarce in Israel until
\nyou arose, Deborah, until you <\/p>\n
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\narose as a motherly protector in
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Mary was a warrior mom.
\nAnd the most important of all <\/p>\n
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\nbattles, the spiritual battle
\nthat God had instituted, Brother<\/p>\n
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\nThomas and Elpas Israel writes,
\nGod instituted war when he put <\/p>\n
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\nenmity between the serpent and
\nthe woman. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know, throughout our
\nclasses, we’ve seen how <\/p>\n
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\nconnected Mary is to the
\npromises in Genesis. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, is brother Jason here?
\nBrother Jason? <\/p>\n
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\nI’m a little bit nervous.
\nI teach a class for brother <\/p>\n
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\nJason.
\nHe’s a principal. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know if this is a
\nperformance evaluation. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not sure.
\nTry to pay attention or at least<\/p>\n
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\nseem like it.
\nOK, in case he’s lucky. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if I were to say that to
\nJason, what is the essential <\/p>\n
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\nwarrior attribute in Hebrew?
\nHe would say Chael, valor. <\/p>\n
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\nHow’d they do on the
\npronunciation? <\/p>\n
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\nVery good Chael.
\nSarah Fisher writes that over <\/p>\n
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\nand over.
\nChael is represented as someone <\/p>\n
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\nin God’s army.
\nIt is translated as violent <\/p>\n
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\nwarriors, capable men, strong
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\nsoldiers.
\nIt’s a force, and that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nword that’s used in Proverbs.
\nThe virtuous woman is a woman of<\/p>\n
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\nChaal, and Mary was a woman of
\nChaal. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we see that this word is
\nconnected to all these Old <\/p>\n
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\nTestament people and places and
\nprophecies that are so closely, <\/p>\n
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\nclosely connected to Mary.
\nWe see it in Ruth. <\/p>\n
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\nWe see it especially related to
\nRuth slash Rachel in Ephratha <\/p>\n
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\nand of course, in Proverbs.
\nNow we want to take a look too, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause there was another person
\nat the temple and her name was <\/p>\n
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\nAnna.
\nShe was a continuing presence at<\/p>\n
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\nthe temple.
\nShe did not depart from the <\/p>\n
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\ntemple.
\nWe read, and one can speculate, <\/p>\n
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\ndid Mary have an existing
\nrelationship with Anna through <\/p>\n
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\nElizabeth?
\nYou know, I think we can infer <\/p>\n
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\nthat, yes, that would make
\nsense. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s very interesting what
\nAnna does. <\/p>\n
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\nShe spoke when she, when the
\nMessiah became apparent. <\/p>\n
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\nShe spoke of him to all those
\nwho looked for redemption in <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nSo people knew who Anna was. <\/p>\n
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\nShe was a fixture at the temple.
\nShe was there all the time and <\/p>\n
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\nshe was spreading the good news
\nabout what had happened. <\/p>\n
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\nSo she was doing that.
\nThe shepherds were doing that <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we read in Luke 217.
\nNow when they had seen him, they<\/p>\n
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\nmade widely known the saying
\nwhich was told to them <\/p>\n
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\nconcerning His child.
\nAnd as I said, these are the <\/p>\n
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\nspecial shepherds, the shepherds
\nthat were going every day with <\/p>\n
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\nthe temple sheep to the temple.
\nSo why didn’t Herod know about <\/p>\n
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\nJesus and Herod?
\nAs we know, Herod the Great was <\/p>\n
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\nthe most paranoid ruler in
\nhistory, which is a high bar. <\/p>\n
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\nHerod’s paranoia, Norman Gelb
\nwrites, was deeply embedded as <\/p>\n
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\nhe graduated to greater
\npositions of power, his <\/p>\n
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\ninsecurity expanded and
\ndeepened. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen as king, he was persuaded
\nby backbiting siblings to doubt <\/p>\n
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\nthe faithfulness of his adored
\nwife, he had her killed. <\/p>\n
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\nThe sons executed may or may not
\nhave been conspiring against <\/p>\n
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\ntheir father, but the mere
\nsuspicion that they were assured<\/p>\n
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\ntheir elimination.
\nSo this paranoid Herod whose <\/p>\n
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\npalace was over on the left side
\nof the screen, the temple on the<\/p>\n
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\nright side of the screen, he was
\nunaware for the 1st at least the<\/p>\n
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\nfirst two years of Jesus life
\nthat there had been one born <\/p>\n
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\nKing of the Jews.
\nThe only explanation for this I <\/p>\n
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\nthink is found in Psalm 34 where
\nwe read the Angel of the Lord in<\/p>\n
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\ncamps all around those who fear
\nhim and delivers them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s a special context
\nfor that, for that Psalm. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember it was David in the
\ncourt of a king who was jealous.<\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t it wasn’t Saul, it was
\nit was a Kish right, but Saul <\/p>\n
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\nwas jealous too.
\nBut Psalm 34 is is is that the <\/p>\n
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\nAngel of the Lord encamps around
\nthose who fear him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so that’s what happened for
\nthe first two years that that I <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve God had provided a
\nsanctuary for Mary and Joseph <\/p>\n
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\nBut that was to end. <\/p>\n
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\nWe read in Matthew 2.
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\nhad been tricked by the wise
\nmen, became furious, and he sent<\/p>\n
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\nand under, according to the time<\/p>\n
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\nhe had determined from the wise
\nmen. <\/p>\n
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\nfact sink in and we’ll come back<\/p>\n
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\nSo to be safe, the Angel <\/p>\n
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\ndirected Joseph to seek refuge
\nin Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course, this was to
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\nSo I believe that Joseph and
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\nIt would make sense that they <\/p>\n
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\nwould be able to blend in there.
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\nBut one of the things that we <\/p>\n
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\ncommunications pipeline between <\/p>\n
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\nAlexandria, Alexandria and
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Mary in safety would have
\nheard about the murder of the <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nBrother Robertson, as she <\/p>\n
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\nvisited, does an amazing job of
\nof kind of extrapolating on how <\/p>\n
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\nshe would have felt Rachel
\nweeping for her children, he <\/p>\n
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\nwrites.
\nThereupon a rose, a whale rarely<\/p>\n
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\nheard upon earth, the whale of a
\nmultitude of bereaved mothers. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is impossible to conceive a
\ncuter natural agony than <\/p>\n
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\nAs no human affection is
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\ncould be greater than that <\/p>\n
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\ncaused by this cruel slaughter.
\nMany have been the efforts of <\/p>\n
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\nthe pencil to depict the scene,
\nvarious, the success tragic <\/p>\n
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\nenough, all but doubtless none
\nof them coming up to the <\/p>\n
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\nepisodes in the story of human
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
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\nA long, dark, dreadful story.
\nRemember, Simeon said for a sign<\/p>\n
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\nwhich will be spoken against.
\nHow can we understand the impact<\/p>\n
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\non Bethlehem and the regions
\naround? <\/p>\n
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\nHow can we understand the impact
\non Mary who knew these families <\/p>\n
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\nwho for two years went to
\nsynagogue, went to the well? <\/p>\n
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\nWe know how important community
\nwas to Mary. <\/p>\n
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\nMary knew these families.
\nMary knew these children, in <\/p>\n
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\nfact, because of David’s house
\nliving there, she was probably <\/p>\n
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\ndistantly related to many of
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we asked God why in
\nsituations like this. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we won’t know until by grace
\nwe’re in His Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we know this, like Abraham
\nsaid, shall not the judge of all<\/p>\n
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\nthe earth do right?
\nAnd we take comfort in that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd brothers and sisters, Kyle
\ngave Mary the courage to act in <\/p>\n
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\nfaith even when she was hurting
\nat the most profound level. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd out of this tragedy comes
\nhope, the understanding of Mary <\/p>\n
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\nas a new spiritual Rachel for a
\nnew spiritual Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we see in Route 4 from the
\nWickliffe translation that the <\/p>\n
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\npeople around Bethlehem said to
\nRuth, may the Lord make this <\/p>\n
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\nwoman who enter thy house like
\nRachel, who built the House of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, and may she be an
\nexample of what of Kyle in <\/p>\n
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\nEphrata.
\nAnd of course that word is very <\/p>\n
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\nkey because it’s connected to
\nthe birth. <\/p>\n
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\nSo David Fletcher writes that in
\nMatthew, Rachel is a symbolic <\/p>\n
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\nfigure for the suffering mother,
\nin this case the suffering <\/p>\n
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\nJewish mother.
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\nchildren is also symbolic for
\nthe suffering of Mary in <\/p>\n
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\nrelation to her illustrious son.
\nSo Mary becomes the new Rachel. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s something that we had
\nkind of previewed at the cross <\/p>\n
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\nright when we talked about that
\nin Matthew 2. <\/p>\n
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\nWe read then was fulfilled what
\nwas spoken by Jeremiah the <\/p>\n
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\nprophet saying a voice was heard
\nin Rama, lamentation, weeping <\/p>\n
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\nand great mourning.
\nRachel weeping for her children,<\/p>\n
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\nrefusing to be comforted because
\nthey are no more. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the connection of Rama is is
\nalso connected to all those Old <\/p>\n
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\nTestament things that are so
\nkind of interwoven into our <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of Mary, the idea
\nof Deborah and of course Hannah.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s close to Efrata Bethlehem
\nthat Rachel dies in childbirth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so here we see the thoughts
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\nthat that she would have known <\/p>\n
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\nso well weeping for her
\nchildren, refusing to be <\/p>\n
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\ncomforted.
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\nRachel.
\nWe have the literal and the <\/p>\n
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\nfigurative.
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\nat the cross woman.
\nBehold thy son and John taking <\/p>\n
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\nMary into his home.
\nSo literally, It’s interesting. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn already has a mother who’s
\nMary’s sister Salome. <\/p>\n
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\nMary has other children to take
\ncare of her. <\/p>\n
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\nAt that time they were doubting,
\nbut they soon became believers <\/p>\n
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\nlike James.
\nBut Jesus explicitly creates <\/p>\n
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\nestablishing Mary truly as a <\/p>\n
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\nfigurative new Rachel.
\nSo figuratively, Jesus creates <\/p>\n
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\nthis new spiritual family
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n
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\nMary is a mother to a new Israel
\nunder a new covenant and she <\/p>\n
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\nbecomes Israel’s mother.
\nIt’s kind of interesting. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Thomas recognized this
\nin in 1853, he writes. <\/p>\n
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\nRachel, being the constitutional
\nmatriarch of Israel, is the <\/p>\n
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\nmother of the tribes according
\nto the adoption pertaining to <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nSo we see the types here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course, Joseph is such a
\npowerful type of Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph, Christ the first born,
\nand Benjamin and John the second<\/p>\n
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\nborn.
\nShe’ll call his name. <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph and the Lord add to me
\nanother son. <\/p>\n
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\nOf course another son is added.
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\nborn.
\nBoth are beloved. <\/p>\n
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\nBoth are born out of sorrow.
\nOf course, the initial name was <\/p>\n
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\nBen Onai, the son of sorrow.
\nMary had her new son added in <\/p>\n
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\nher sorrow at the foot of the
\ncross. <\/p>\n
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\nSo even out of unspeakable
\ntragedy, there’s hope as Rachel <\/p>\n
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\nhas a new role and a new
\ncommunity. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s go to the other example
\nof in his father’s house at age <\/p>\n
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\nSo brother Lane Rittenmeier <\/p>\n
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\ntalks about this, right?
\nThat that would have been going <\/p>\n
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\ndown to become the son of the
\ncommandment, to become an adult,<\/p>\n
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\npractically speaking, in that
\nculture. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this happens.
\nAnd of course it came about that<\/p>\n
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\nafter three days they found him
\nin the temple. <\/p>\n
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\nIt you know, they looked they
\ncouldn’t find Jesus when they <\/p>\n
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\nreturned home and his mother
\nsaid to him, Child, why did you?<\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is from the disciples
\nlittle new translation. <\/p>\n
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\nChild, why did you do us like
\nthis? <\/p>\n
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\nBehold, your father and I were
\nlooking for you while suffering <\/p>\n
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\npain.
\nAnd he said to them, why is it <\/p>\n
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\nthat you were looking for me?
\nDid you not know that I must be <\/p>\n
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\nin the things of my father?
\nAnd they did not understand the <\/p>\n
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\nthing which he spoke to them.
\nMounts translates it. <\/p>\n
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\nChild, why did you treat us like
\nthis? <\/p>\n
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\nbeen terribly worried trying to <\/p>\n
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\nOK. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, Sister Kathy and I were
\nblessed with four kids. <\/p>\n
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\nHave you have you ever misplaced
\none of your kids? <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s kind of like what
\nthey what they said to Daniel <\/p>\n
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\nBoone.
\nThey asked Daniel Boone if he’d <\/p>\n
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\never been lost and he said no.
\nBut I was a Mike bewildered for <\/p>\n
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\nSo I can remember 1 occasion <\/p>\n
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\ncoming back from a Bible school.
\nOur oldest was 12 and we stopped<\/p>\n
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\nat one of those big malls on the
\nway back. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so we said to Brayden, I
\nwant you back by this time. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can go afternoon, but I want
\nyou back by this time. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd because we’re teachers, we
\nsaid, and what time do are you <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be back?
\nI’m going to be back at this <\/p>\n
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\ntime, dad.
\nSo he’s not back. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s not back in 20 minutes. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we start looking for him and <\/p>\n
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\npeople start helping us look for
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd finally I see him and I have
\nthis picture of him in my mind <\/p>\n
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\nthat I’ll never lose.
\nHe’s ambling along. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s got his baseball hat on,
\nhe’s got a red check shirt <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s open and Michigan State
\nSpartans basketball shirt there.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd I didn’t know whether to
\nkiss him or kill him. <\/p>\n
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\nThink of Mary’s anguish.
\nThink of Mary’s anguish. <\/p>\n
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\nThink of the great mission that
\nshe had with the Son of God. <\/p>\n
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\nIndeed, the sword pierced her.
\nAnd again, three days. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, all these clues are helping<\/p>\n
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\nUnderstand that she needs to <\/p>\n
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\nseparate herself from the Mother
\nrole and become a disciple. 3 <\/p>\n
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\ndays.
\nThe wedding at Cana. <\/p>\n
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\nThree days here, 3 days in the
\ntomb, and you see the force of <\/p>\n
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\nMary’s personality just jump off
\nthe page, don’t you? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause Joseph doesn’t speak,
\nMary does. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Mary blames Jesus for
\nhurting her and Joseph and Jesus<\/p>\n
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\nrebukes her.
\nWhy is it that you were looking <\/p>\n
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\nfor me?
\nDid you not know that I would <\/p>\n
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\nhave to be in my father’s house?
\nNotice that he doesn’t address <\/p>\n
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\nestablishes the Father as a <\/p>\n
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\npriority.
\nIt’s quite intentional. <\/p>\n
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\nYour father and I sought the
\nsorrowing, Jesus said. <\/p>\n
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\nI was in my father’s house, in
\nmy father’s things. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we know that Mary thought
\nabout this, and we know that <\/p>\n
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\nMary thought about her unique
\ndiscipleship challenge, Brother <\/p>\n
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\nKhan Mitsos writes.
\nMary had a natural relationship <\/p>\n
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\nhis mother. <\/p>\n
339
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\nMary had a religious
\nrelationship with Jesus by <\/p>\n
340
\n00:23:32,160 –> 00:23:34,320
\nvirtue of them both being
\nIsraelites under the Law of <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:34,320 –> 00:23:36,840
\nMoses.
\nHowever, like the nation, Mary <\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:36,840 –> 00:23:39,800
\nneeded to transcend the natural
\nand the social and develop a <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:39,800 –> 00:23:43,520
\ntrue and spiritual relationship
\nwith Jesus based on the New <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:43,520 –> 00:23:46,640
\nCovenant.
\nAnd there are some interesting <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:46,640 –> 00:23:48,960
\nparallels that we’re going to
\ntake a look at now. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:48,960 –> 00:23:52,160
\nWe know Mary was a thinker.
\nShe thought about things deeply,<\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:52,560 –> 00:23:54,440
\nand this is one of the things
\nshe thought about. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:55,840 –> 00:23:58,800
\nThen he went down with them and
\ncame to Nazareth and was <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:58,800 –> 00:24:03,880
\nobedient to them.
\nAnd his mother treasured all <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:03,880 –> 00:24:08,600
\nthat was said in her heart.
\nShe thought about these things. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:11,080 –> 00:24:13,920
\nYou know where else that word
\nappears in the Septuagint? <\/p>\n
352
\n00:24:15,000 –> 00:24:22,600
\nIt appears here when they’re
\ntrying to make sense of Joseph’s<\/p>\n
353
\n00:24:22,600 –> 00:24:26,800
\ndream.
\nWhen he told his father and his <\/p>\n
354
\n00:24:26,800 –> 00:24:30,280
\nbrothers, his father criticized
\nhim by asking, what’s this dream<\/p>\n
355
\n00:24:30,280 –> 00:24:32,400
\nthat you had?
\nWill your mother and I and your <\/p>\n
356
\n00:24:32,400 –> 00:24:34,280
\nbrothers come and bow down in
\nfront of you? <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:34,720 –> 00:24:38,360
\nSo his brothers were jealous of
\nhim, but his father kept <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:38,360 –> 00:24:46,560
\nthinking about these things.
\nSo I’m sure, I’m sure that this <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:46,560 –> 00:24:49,840
\ntype and anti type are coming
\ntogether in Mary’s mind. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:49,840 –> 00:24:53,440
\nShe’s trying to make sense of
\nwhat God requires of her. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:56,560 –> 00:25:01,200
\nThe next sword wound that I’d
\nlike to take a look at is I have<\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:01,200 –> 00:25:04,520
\nbecome a stranger to my brothers
\nand an alien to my mother’s <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:04,520 –> 00:25:09,400
\nchildren because zeal for your
\nhouse has eaten me up. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:25:11,040 –> 00:25:16,240
\nIt seems like from the record in
\nJohn that the first sign done at<\/p>\n
365
\n00:25:16,240 –> 00:25:19,680
\nthe wedding and then Jesus and
\nhis family and his disciples <\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:19,680 –> 00:25:21,280
\nwent to Capernaum and things
\nwere great. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:25:21,880 –> 00:25:25,600
\nEveryone was on board.
\nAnd then he goes S for the first<\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:25,600 –> 00:25:29,320
\ncleansing of the temple.
\nAnd I would suggest to you, <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:29,320 –> 00:25:32,240
\nbrothers and sisters, that
\nthat’s when his brothers start <\/p>\n
370
\n00:25:32,240 –> 00:25:35,360
\nto peel away.
\nWe know this, right? <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:35,800 –> 00:25:38,320
\nI’ve become a stranger to my
\nbrothers and an alien to my <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:38,320 –> 00:25:42,400
\nmother’s children, because zeal
\nfor your house has eaten me up. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:42,960 –> 00:25:46,360
\nAnd of course, that last part of
\nthat verse is quoted at the <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:46,360 –> 00:25:50,800
\ncleansing of the temple.
\nJohn 217 Then his disciples <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:54,080
\nremembered that it was written,
\nZeal for your house has eaten me<\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:54,080 –> 00:25:56,280
\nup.
\nBut you notice it doesn’t say <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:56,280 –> 00:25:57,760
\nI’ve become a stranger to my
\nmother. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:58,640 –> 00:26:03,200
\nNo, because Mary always
\nbelieved. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:05,360 –> 00:26:11,240
\nNow we have the great examples
\nof this strife between the <\/p>\n
380
\n00:26:11,240 –> 00:26:14,120
\nbrothers and Jesus.
\nThis recorded for us in Matthew <\/p>\n
381
\n00:26:14,120 –> 00:26:19,720
\n12 and in Mark 3 and in Luke 8.
\nSo we see that the purpose of <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:19,720 –> 00:26:25,120
\nthe visit is in Mark 321.
\nBut when his own people, that <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:25,120 –> 00:26:28,520
\nliterally means the people from
\nbeside Jesus heard about this. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:28,720 –> 00:26:31,480
\nThey went out to lay hold on
\nhim, for they said he is out of <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:31,480 –> 00:26:33,840
\nhis mind.
\nThat’s a horrible translation. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:35,840 –> 00:26:38,720
\nThat word’s used 21 times.
\nIt’s only twice translated this <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:38,720 –> 00:26:40,640
\nway.
\nIt literally means knocked from <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:40,640 –> 00:26:43,960
\nstanding.
\nIt doesn’t mean that he’s unwell<\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:43,960 –> 00:26:46,680
\nor unstable.
\nBasically, they thought that he <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:46,680 –> 00:26:49,840
\nwas working himself to death and
\nthey needed to kind of <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:50,480 –> 00:26:53,880
\nintervene, not because he was
\nout of his mind, but because he <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:53,880 –> 00:26:56,440
\nwas just working himself past
\nexhaustion. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:57,480 –> 00:27:00,080
\nSo as you know, they go and they
\nthey try and see him. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:27:00,320 –> 00:27:03,480
\nMary goes with the brothers.
\nMary’s there for a different <\/p>\n
395
\n00:27:03,480 –> 00:27:07,840
\nreason.
\nMary is there because she still <\/p>\n
396
\n00:27:07,840 –> 00:27:10,720
\nfeels like she needs to keep her
\nsons safe. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:14,520 –> 00:27:17,400
\nMary was trying to do God’s will
\nby keeping Jesus safe. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:17,400 –> 00:27:21,840
\nBecause we know the record tells
\nus that the Pharisees and <\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:21,840 –> 00:27:24,800
\nHerodians were plotting to
\ndestroy Jesus already. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:24,800 –> 00:27:30,040
\nThey were plotting to kill him.
\nWe know that the crowds were so <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:30,040 –> 00:27:32,880
\nout of control that Jesus was
\nalmost trampled. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:33,400 –> 00:27:38,720
\nWe read in verse 9 and we know
\nthat Jesus literally didn’t have<\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:38,720 –> 00:27:41,280
\ntime to eat.
\nHe was so busy. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:42,840 –> 00:27:44,400
\nI think that’s the one that
\nreally got married. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:44,400 –> 00:27:46,840
\nAs a mom, you’re not eating.
\nShe need to go there. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:50,440 –> 00:27:57,000
\nBut when Jesus refuses to see
\nMary, he’s telling her that you <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:57,000 –> 00:28:01,240
\nwant to do God’s will.
\nDo God’s will by letting go. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:03,000 –> 00:28:05,320
\nIsn’t that a hard lesson for us
\nto learn? <\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:06,440 –> 00:28:09,400
\nThat sometimes doing God’s will
\nis letting go? <\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:10,360 –> 00:28:15,160
\nHe’s being silent and trusting.
\nThat’s hard, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:21,760
\nThat’s a hard lesson.
\nAnd so we see the rich type and <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:21,760 –> 00:28:25,480
\nanti type of Joseph and his
\nbrothers and Jesus and his <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:25,480 –> 00:28:30,080
\nbrothers.
\nHe is beloved of his Father just<\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:30,080 –> 00:28:33,680
\nas Joseph, the mother, Rachel,
\nand we have the new Rachel. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:33,680 –> 00:28:38,160
\nOf course they’re half brothers.
\nAnd then we see jealousy and a <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:38,160 –> 00:28:41,320
\nlack of action puts their
\nbrother in life threatening <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:41,320 –> 00:28:44,440
\ndanger.
\nAnd we read in John 7 in such a <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:44,440 –> 00:28:49,960
\nsad passage, starting in verse
\none, the Jews sought to kill <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:49,960 –> 00:28:52,960
\nhim.
\nThat’s why he wasn’t going to <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:52,960 –> 00:28:56,160
\nJudea.
\nHis brothers said to him, depart<\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:56,160 –> 00:28:59,080
\nfrom here and going to Judea,
\nthat your disciples may see the <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:59,080 –> 00:29:01,640
\nworks that you were doing.
\nFor no one does anything in <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:01,640 –> 00:29:04,760
\nsecret, while he, he himself
\nseeks to be known openly. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:05,080 –> 00:29:07,600
\nIf you do these things, show
\nyourself to the world. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:08,200 –> 00:29:10,680
\nFor even his brothers did not
\nbelieve in him. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:12,160 –> 00:29:18,920
\nTheir jealousy was putting his
\nlife in danger, just as the <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:18,920 –> 00:29:21,920
\njealousy of Joseph’s brothers
\nput his life in danger. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:24,360 –> 00:29:27,480
\nNow Mary has to make a
\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:28,520 –> 00:29:31,080
\nWe know how much Mary loved
\nGod’s Word. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:33,120 –> 00:29:37,920
\nHow much do you think that she
\nwanted to go with Jesus during <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:37,920 –> 00:29:46,120
\nhis ministry?
\nMore than anything, But Mary’s <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:46,120 –> 00:29:51,200
\nsacrifice was to stay at home.
\nWe know that women travelled <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:56,600
\nwith Jesus as his disciples.
\nWe know that that’s recorded <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:56,880 –> 00:29:58,800
\nthroughout his ministry, even at
\nthe end. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:00,120 –> 00:30:02,200
\nWe know that Mary’s sister was
\none of those people who could do<\/p>\n
436
\n00:30:02,200 –> 00:30:06,200
\nthat.
\nAnd Mary’s sacrifice was to stay<\/p>\n
437
\n00:30:06,200 –> 00:30:11,120
\nat home at a time when she would
\nhave loved to be with Jesus, to <\/p>\n
438
\n00:30:11,120 –> 00:30:14,800
\nhear his teaching.
\nOh how I love thy law. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:30:14,800 –> 00:30:19,400
\nIt is my meditation all the day.
\nAnd she would have loved to hear<\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:19,480 –> 00:30:23,880
\nJesus speak about and embodied
\nGod’s Word, but she had to stay <\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:23,880 –> 00:30:26,240
\nat home to keep the family
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:29,320 –> 00:30:35,040
\nSo after the accounts that we
\njust talked about, Mary is <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:35,040 –> 00:30:39,360
\nabsent from the gospel record
\nuntil the cross. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:41,880 –> 00:30:45,240
\nBlessed is she who believed,
\nright? <\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:45,240 –> 00:30:48,000
\nElizabeth said that, and it’s a
\ncharacteristic of Mary <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:52,520
\nthroughout her life.
\nAnd so as we talked about last <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:52,520 –> 00:30:59,040
\nday, she started to understand
\nvery early that Jesus was the <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:59,040 –> 00:31:03,360
\nLamb of God, right?
\nWe talked about yesterday how it<\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:03,360 –> 00:31:08,280
\nwas common practice to keep the
\nPassover lamb in the Manger, and<\/p>\n
450
\n00:31:08,280 –> 00:31:10,560
\nthat’s where Jesus was.
\nWe talked about the role of the <\/p>\n
451
\n00:31:10,560 –> 00:31:14,960
\nshepherds and things like that
\nvery early John the Baptist <\/p>\n
452
\n00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:17,200
\nidentifies Jesus as the Lamb of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:31:18,440 –> 00:31:21,520
\nAnd Mary’s deep biblical mind
\nwould have gone to all those <\/p>\n
454
\n00:31:21,520 –> 00:31:27,520
\npassages in Isaiah, passages
\nlike he was led as a lamb to the<\/p>\n
455
\n00:31:27,520 –> 00:31:31,000
\nslaughter.
\nAnd there was a progression that<\/p>\n
456
\n00:31:31,000 –> 00:31:34,960
\nMary understood.
\nRejected by his closest friends <\/p>\n
457
\n00:31:34,960 –> 00:31:37,720
\nand family at Nazareth, where
\nthey sought to kill him. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:31:39,800 –> 00:31:44,560
\nRejected by the larger community
\nand finally to the cross. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:31:46,640 –> 00:31:48,320
\nAnd she would have understood
\nthe cross. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:31:51,280 –> 00:31:56,640
\nMary knew what lifted up meant.
\nAnd again, I think she would <\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:56,640 –> 00:31:59,120
\nhave made some connections to
\nIsaiah. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:32:01,000 –> 00:32:04,280
\nThe verse right after this talks
\nabout how Jesus was so beat up <\/p>\n
463
\n00:32:04,280 –> 00:32:07,160
\non the cross.
\nAnd here we see in 13. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:32:07,360 –> 00:32:12,320
\nSee, my servant will act wisely.
\nHe will be raised and lifted up <\/p>\n
465
\n00:32:12,920 –> 00:32:17,040
\nand highly exalted.
\nWhen Jesus talked about lifted <\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:17,040 –> 00:32:22,680
\nup, I think Mary went here
\nbecause Jesus and Mary were very<\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:22,680 –> 00:32:27,960
\nfamiliar with crucifixion,
\nbecause Romans had a habit of <\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:27,960 –> 00:32:31,320
\nlining highways with crucified
\npeople. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:32:33,920 –> 00:32:39,440
\nIn fact, it’s it’s likely that
\nwhen Jesus and Joseph and Mary <\/p>\n
470
\n00:32:39,440 –> 00:32:44,280
\nreturned from Egypt and went up
\nto Nazareth, there was a great <\/p>\n
471
\n00:32:44,280 –> 00:32:47,040
\nrebellion that happened and and
\nSepphoris what has in the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:32:47,040 –> 00:32:49,120
\nprocess of being destroyed and
\nthen rebuilt. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:32:49,440 –> 00:32:52,760
\nBut they would have probably
\nbeen arriving back in Galilee at<\/p>\n
474
\n00:32:52,760 –> 00:32:58,000
\nthe very time that Veras, who
\nput down the rebellion in a <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:58,000 –> 00:33:04,480
\ncruel way, put a line of
\ncrosses, hundreds of crosses on <\/p>\n
476
\n00:33:04,480 –> 00:33:07,360
\nthe the Wiameras, the road that
\nthey would have taken to go back<\/p>\n
477
\n00:33:08,480 –> 00:33:16,920
\nto Nazareth.
\nBlessed is she who believed, you<\/p>\n
478
\n00:33:16,920 –> 00:33:20,520
\nknow, Jesus.
\nIt wasn’t a mystery to the 12 <\/p>\n
479
\n00:33:20,520 –> 00:33:23,760
\nwhat was going to happen, right?
\nHe says at about least three <\/p>\n
480
\n00:33:23,760 –> 00:33:27,520
\ntimes after Peter’s great
\nconfession that thou art the <\/p>\n
481
\n00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:29,120
\nChrist, the Son of the living
\nGod. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:32,080 –> 00:33:34,080
\nJesus is clear what’s going to
\nhappen to him. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:33:35,320 –> 00:33:37,960
\nSimilarly after the
\ntransgression, sorry, after the <\/p>\n
484
\n00:33:37,960 –> 00:33:40,040
\ntransfiguration, clear about
\nthat. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:33:41,640 –> 00:33:45,960
\nAnd as he set his face towards
\nJerusalem, he’s equally clear <\/p>\n
486
\n00:33:45,960 –> 00:33:51,880
\nabout what will happen to him.
\nAnd isn’t it interesting that <\/p>\n
487
\n00:33:51,880 –> 00:33:59,320
\nthe 12 were afraid even to talk
\nabout it, but Mary had the kale <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:59,800 –> 00:34:03,000
\nlike Mary of Bethany to believe
\nin Jesus. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:34:03,000 –> 00:34:08,520
\nClear teaching about his death
\nbecause as our brother has <\/p>\n
490
\n00:34:08,520 –> 00:34:12,760
\nalluded to in earlier classes,
\nMary was Abraham’s daughter. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:34:14,360 –> 00:34:17,840
\nWe know that that triumphant
\nnote in her song to Abraham and <\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:17,840 –> 00:34:20,480
\nto his seed forever.
\nAnd she was his daughter. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:34:21,840 –> 00:34:26,400
\nAnd just like Abraham did when
\nshe’s tested, when those sword <\/p>\n
494
\n00:34:26,400 –> 00:34:30,440
\nwounds were piercing her, she
\nconcluded that God was able to <\/p>\n
495
\n00:34:30,440 –> 00:34:36,679
\nraise him up even from the dead.
\nSo let’s take a look at Mary at <\/p>\n
496
\n00:34:36,679 –> 00:34:42,080
\nthe cross.
\nEvery week Jesus parents went to<\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:42,080 –> 00:34:45,280
\nJerusalem for Passover.
\nSo what did Passover week in <\/p>\n
498
\n00:34:45,280 –> 00:34:48,480
\nJerusalem look like?
\nWell, this was the crown of joy,<\/p>\n
499
\n00:34:48,480 –> 00:34:50,239
\nright?
\nGreat celebration. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:34:50,239 –> 00:34:52,159
\nAnd it would have been
\ntriumphant. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:52,159 –> 00:34:55,400
\nMary would have been in the
\naudience as she saw people <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:55,400 –> 00:35:01,160
\nacclaim her son as the son of
\nDavid. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:35:02,880 –> 00:35:04,840
\nWe will give to him the throne
\nof his father. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:04,840 –> 00:35:11,480
\nDavid cleanses the temple and
\nand children are claiming again <\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:17,960
\nthe Son of David.
\nHe teaches in the temple and <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:17,960 –> 00:35:21,400
\nJesus silences the rulers with a
\nquestion about the Son of David.<\/p>\n
507
\n00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:26,320
\nAnd then we see the cross of
\nsorrow. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:35:28,760 –> 00:35:31,880
\nJesus last Passover isn’t with
\nhis natural family, is it? <\/p>\n
509
\n00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:39,160
\nIt’s with his spiritual family.
\nHis natural family was full of <\/p>\n
510
\n00:35:39,160 –> 00:35:44,120
\nstrife at that time.
\nAnd Mary’s early Mary’s earliest<\/p>\n
511
\n00:35:44,120 –> 00:35:48,360
\nfears that the rulers like Herod
\nwould plot to seize and kill <\/p>\n
512
\n00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:51,280
\nJesus.
\nShe’s seen that play out in <\/p>\n
513
\n00:35:51,280 –> 00:35:55,800
\nfront of her and all betray her
\nson. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:35:58,240 –> 00:36:03,800
\nSee, Mary’s life like ours, we
\nhave things that prepare us for <\/p>\n
515
\n00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:08,640
\nother things, and the betrayal
\nat the synagogue in Nazareth <\/p>\n
516
\n00:36:08,640 –> 00:36:13,560
\nprepared her for being in the
\naudience and hearing his blood <\/p>\n
517
\n00:36:13,560 –> 00:36:25,900
\nbe on us and on our children.
\nShe would have seen him bear his<\/p>\n
518
\n00:36:25,900 –> 00:36:31,180
\ncross, the petabulum from the
\nAntonio Fortress to Gogotha. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:36:33,700 –> 00:36:38,000
\nBrother Andrew Walker notes that
\nit was a tremendous act of <\/p>\n
520
\n00:36:38,000 –> 00:36:41,880
\ncourage even to attend a
\ncrucifixion. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:36:42,040 –> 00:36:44,360
\nIf you are in any way empathetic
\ntowards the person being <\/p>\n
522
\n00:36:44,360 –> 00:36:47,840
\ncrucified, he writes, it was a
\ndangerous thing to approach the <\/p>\n
523
\n00:36:47,840 –> 00:36:51,520
\ncross of a dying criminal to
\nshow any support for him. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:36:52,120 –> 00:36:55,200
\nSuch behavior was likely to end
\nan arrest and death for opposing<\/p>\n
525
\n00:36:55,200 –> 00:36:57,600
\nRome’s sentence.
\nHence there was a little group <\/p>\n
526
\n00:36:57,600 –> 00:37:00,200
\nstanding afar off, well away
\nfrom the cross, watching the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:02,640
\ndying Jesus.
\nIt consisted of some of his <\/p>\n
528
\n00:37:02,640 –> 00:37:06,240
\nacquaintances from Galilee and a
\ngroup of women supporting Jesus <\/p>\n
529
\n00:37:06,240 –> 00:37:08,240
\nmother who had insisted on being
\nthere. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:37:09,360 –> 00:37:14,120
\nHow sad it was that apostles who
\nhad spent three years following <\/p>\n
531
\n00:37:14,120 –> 00:37:18,480
\nJesus did not have the strength,
\nthe Khayal, to witness the <\/p>\n
532
\n00:37:18,480 –> 00:37:26,320
\ncross.
\nYet their mother’s dead, and she<\/p>\n
533
\n00:37:26,320 –> 00:37:31,360
\nwould have seen her son prophecy
\nin Isaiah 52 from the <\/p>\n
534
\n00:37:31,360 –> 00:37:34,800
\ncontemporary Jewish Bible.
\nJust as many were appalled at <\/p>\n
535
\n00:37:34,800 –> 00:37:39,160
\nhim because he was so disfigured
\nthat he didn’t even seem human <\/p>\n
536
\n00:37:41,640 –> 00:37:43,480
\nand simply no longer looked like
\na man. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:37:45,680 –> 00:37:49,760
\nBrothers and sisters, the
\nbeatings and the scourgings left<\/p>\n
538
\n00:37:49,760 –> 00:37:57,160
\nhim unrecognizable except to his
\nmother who remembered what he <\/p>\n
539
\n00:37:57,160 –> 00:38:01,440
\nlooked like when he was 3 and
\nwhen it was 13 and when it was <\/p>\n
540
\n00:38:01,440 –> 00:38:11,680
\n23 and she sees him now at 33,
\nshe would have looked up and <\/p>\n
541
\n00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:16,920
\nsaid and seen a sign that said
\nJesus of Nazareth, the King of <\/p>\n
542
\n00:38:16,920 –> 00:38:22,920
\nthe Jews.
\nAnd she would have thought of <\/p>\n
543
\n00:38:22,920 –> 00:38:28,560
\nGabriel’s message and she would
\nhave reflected, this isn’t how I<\/p>\n
544
\n00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:30,960
\nthought it was going to turn out
\nthen, but now I understand. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:38:31,120 –> 00:38:33,320
\nI understand God’s plan.
\nHe has a greater plan. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:38:38,480 –> 00:38:40,360
\nAnd all the way along, brothers
\nand sisters, we’ve kept <\/p>\n
547
\n00:38:40,360 –> 00:38:43,240
\nreferring to that great promise
\nin Genesis 3. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:38:45,120 –> 00:38:49,200
\nAnd when Mary looked at Jesus
\nfeet, she would have seen the <\/p>\n
549
\n00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:51,760
\nnail driven through the heel
\nbecause that was the Roman <\/p>\n
550
\n00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:55,280
\npractice, driving the nail
\nthrough the heel to that strong <\/p>\n
551
\n00:38:55,280 –> 00:38:58,160
\nAchilles tendon to make sure
\nthat they would not get out of <\/p>\n
552
\n00:38:58,160 –> 00:39:01,920
\nthe cross.
\nIt’s inevitable that she would <\/p>\n
553
\n00:39:01,920 –> 00:39:08,120
\nhave thought of that.
\nIt seems like Jesus was <\/p>\n
554
\n00:39:08,120 –> 00:39:14,880
\nrepeatedly reciting Psalm 22
\nwhen he was on the cross and it <\/p>\n
555
\n00:39:14,880 –> 00:39:18,080
\nwas hard to hear.
\nI bet we know that he had was <\/p>\n
556
\n00:39:18,080 –> 00:39:21,480
\nable to get some clarity of
\nspeech out because John <\/p>\n
557
\n00:39:21,480 –> 00:39:23,960
\nunderstood and the other people
\non the that were being crucified<\/p>\n
558
\n00:39:23,960 –> 00:39:25,280
\nand understood him when he
\nspoke. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:39:26,200 –> 00:39:29,320
\nBut Can you imagine when Jesus
\ngot to Psalm the part of Psalm <\/p>\n
560
\n00:39:29,320 –> 00:39:35,480
\n22 when he said but you are he
\nwho took me out of the womb. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:39:36,680 –> 00:39:38,960
\nYou made me trust while on my
\nmother’s breast. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:39:38,960 –> 00:39:43,360
\nI was cast upon you from birth
\nfrom my mother’s womb you have <\/p>\n
563
\n00:39:43,360 –> 00:39:48,960
\nbeen my God.
\nCan you imagine Mary hearing <\/p>\n
564
\n00:39:48,960 –> 00:39:54,280
\nnone?
\nAnd there’s a part in Psalm 22 <\/p>\n
565
\n00:39:56,480 –> 00:39:59,240
\nthat cries out, deliver my soul
\nfrom the sword. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:39:59,240 –> 00:40:03,960
\nAnd when Jesus gets to that
\npart, did Mary not think, Oh <\/p>\n
567
\n00:40:03,960 –> 00:40:07,800
\nyes, please, Lord, deliver my
\nsoul from these sword wounds. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:40:15,630 –> 00:40:21,510
\nNow there’s no record of Jesus
\nappearing to Mary, but it is to <\/p>\n
569
\n00:40:21,590 –> 00:40:29,000
\nall these other people.
\nAnd honestly, for folks that are<\/p>\n
570
\n00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:33,920
\ninto Mariolatry, the worship of
\nMary, this drives them crazy and<\/p>\n
571
\n00:40:33,920 –> 00:40:35,520
\nthey make stuff up about to
\nexplain it. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:40:35,760 –> 00:40:38,240
\nBut if there’s a simple
\nexplanation, it didn’t need to <\/p>\n
573
\n00:40:38,240 –> 00:40:41,160
\nbe recorded.
\nThe risen Christ appearing to <\/p>\n
574
\n00:40:41,160 –> 00:40:43,760
\nher because she didn’t need that
\nto support her faith. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:40:43,760 –> 00:40:46,760
\nShe knew that Jesus would be
\nresurrected. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:40:46,760 –> 00:40:52,760
\nShe had the faith of Abraham.
\nJust like Abraham, she concluded<\/p>\n
577
\n00:40:52,760 –> 00:40:55,200
\nthat God was able to raise him
\nup even from the dead. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:40:56,040 –> 00:41:00,720
\nUnlike the 11, Mary believes
\nthat he has arisen without <\/p>\n
579
\n00:41:00,720 –> 00:41:06,320
\nseeing the resurrected Jesus.
\nMary believed right from the <\/p>\n
580
\n00:41:06,320 –> 00:41:11,800
\nstart because as her song cries
\nout, she believed in the <\/p>\n
581
\n00:41:11,800 –> 00:41:13,880
\ncovenant love, in the covenant
\npromises. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:41:13,880 –> 00:41:18,880
\nShe believed the God of Israel
\nwho promised to Abraham and to <\/p>\n
583
\n00:41:18,880 –> 00:41:25,720
\nhis seed forever.
\nSo the fruit of Mary’s sword <\/p>\n
584
\n00:41:25,720 –> 00:41:29,160
\nwounds is her incredible
\nfaithfulness was recognized. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:41:29,680 –> 00:41:32,720
\nWe read in Acts 1.
\nThen they return to Jerusalem <\/p>\n
586
\n00:41:32,720 –> 00:41:35,880
\nfrom the Mount called Olivet,
\nPeter, James, John and Andrew, <\/p>\n
587
\n00:41:35,880 –> 00:41:39,000
\nPhilip and Thomas, Bartholemy
\nand Matthew, James the son of <\/p>\n
588
\n00:41:39,000 –> 00:41:42,120
\nAlphaeus, and Simon the Zealot,
\nand Judas, Judas the son of <\/p>\n
589
\n00:41:42,120 –> 00:41:44,320
\nJames.
\nThey all continued with one <\/p>\n
590
\n00:41:44,320 –> 00:41:47,240
\naccord in prayer and
\nsupplication and with the women <\/p>\n
591
\n00:41:47,240 –> 00:41:53,520
\nand Mary the mother of Jesus.
\nMary’s faithful example enables <\/p>\n
592
\n00:41:53,520 –> 00:41:57,560
\nher to have the credibility to
\nbecome an integral part of this <\/p>\n
593
\n00:41:57,560 –> 00:42:04,640
\necclesia, this new ecclesia.
\nSo let’s sum up, brothers and <\/p>\n
594
\n00:42:04,640 –> 00:42:08,840
\nsisters.
\nMary says henceforth all <\/p>\n
595
\n00:42:08,840 –> 00:42:10,520
\ngenerations will call me
\nblessed. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:42:12,720 –> 00:42:20,040
\nWe call her blessed, her
\nidentity as Phillips translated,<\/p>\n
597
\n00:42:20,040 –> 00:42:23,320
\nthat I belong to the Lord, body
\nand soul. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:42:23,320 –> 00:42:26,160
\nBehold the handmaid of the Lord,
\nlet it be unto me according to <\/p>\n
599
\n00:42:26,160 –> 00:42:30,600
\nthy word.
\nWe’re blessed by the example of <\/p>\n
600
\n00:42:30,600 –> 00:42:35,160
\nher voice.
\nOn her lips is Kassad the <\/p>\n
601
\n00:42:35,160 –> 00:42:37,840
\ncovenant love, the sure belief
\nin the promises made. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:42:41,560 –> 00:42:45,160
\nWe count her blessed that she
\nshows us how to act in <\/p>\n
603
\n00:42:45,160 –> 00:42:49,120
\ncommunity.
\nAnd the way to do that is <\/p>\n
604
\n00:42:49,160 –> 00:42:53,040
\nsimple.
\nWhatever Jesus says to us, do <\/p>\n
605
\n00:42:53,040 –> 00:42:56,280
\nit.
\nWe’re blessed to have the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:42:56,280 –> 00:43:00,920
\nexample of her mission, the
\nexample of the Torah. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:43:02,280 –> 00:43:04,400
\nDo not forsake the Torah of your
\nmother. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:43:06,560 –> 00:43:10,560
\nAnd lastly, we’re blessed to
\nhave the great example of her <\/p>\n
609
\n00:43:10,560 –> 00:43:13,880
\nfaithfulness of her Kyle through
\ntrials. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:43:14,280 –> 00:43:21,520
\nBlessed is she who believed we
\ncall our blast, and we’re so <\/p>\n
611
\n00:43:21,520 –> 00:43:22,800
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