Classes 1 & 4 from this series were used in GCT Episodes 388 & 394, respectively.<\/p>\n
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\nto our son Mary.
\nDeveloping godliness in youth my<\/p>\n
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\ndearly.
\nBeloved brothers and sisters and<\/p>\n
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\ndear young people, the apostle
\nPaul said when writing to the <\/p>\n
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\nGalatians.
\nWhen the fullness of time was <\/p>\n
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\ncome, God sent forth His Son,
\nmade of a woman, made under the <\/p>\n
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\nlaw to redeem them, that were
\nunder the law, that we might <\/p>\n
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\nhave the adoption of sons, or as
\nit should really be, that we <\/p>\n
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\nmight receive sonship when the
\nfullness of time was come. <\/p>\n
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\nFor 4000 years God had waited
\nfor that day that He had long <\/p>\n
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\nforeseen to come.
\nHis own people had rejected him <\/p>\n
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\nmany times and had now become
\nalmost totally unresponsive. <\/p>\n
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\nThrough the prophets.
\nThat he’d he’d raised up and <\/p>\n
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\nsent to them early.
\nSpeaking. <\/p>\n
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\nLate and crying and.
\nAppealing to their hearts. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s no more response.
\nThe wickedness of both the <\/p>\n
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\nJewish and Gentile worlds was
\nrising rapidly to its peak, and <\/p>\n
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\nthere was only one last thing we
\nknow from the parable. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was only one last thing
\nGod was prepared to try. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was nothing else He could
\ndo in order to save. <\/p>\n
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\nHumankind but send his own Son
\nin the likeness of sinful flesh.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd when the fullness of time
\nwas come, God, being an <\/p>\n
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\nintelligent and emotional being,
\nknew exactly what that meant. <\/p>\n
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\nHe knew exactly what men were
\ngoing to do to that Son when he <\/p>\n
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\nsent him into the world.
\nHe knew the. <\/p>\n
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\nCruel agony of rejection that
\nwas going to come. <\/p>\n
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\nHe knew that they would mistreat
\nhim and put him to death, but <\/p>\n
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\nthe whole.
\nOf his purpose, the whole of the<\/p>\n
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\nsalvation of individuals like
\nAbraham and David, and those who<\/p>\n
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\nhad gone before, all depended on
\nthis son who was yet. <\/p>\n
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\nTo come whom God had seen, seen
\nin his foreknowledge the seed of<\/p>\n
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\nthe woman.
\nAnd when that day came, God <\/p>\n
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\nlooked in Israel, in the House
\nof David, for a woman to bear <\/p>\n
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\nhis son.
\nA woman to whom he could entrust<\/p>\n
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\nthe early development and the
\ncharacter building of his only <\/p>\n
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\nbegotten son.
\nWhat criteria would he use in <\/p>\n
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\nchoosing out a woman from
\namongst all? <\/p>\n
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\nThose who at that time lived and
\nbelonged to the house. <\/p>\n
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\nOf David, their father.
\nWould he look for a stable <\/p>\n
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\nfamily?
\nWould he look? <\/p>\n
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\nFor someone who was who was well
\nable to maintain a lifestyle, <\/p>\n
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\nthat would be.
\nEasy and satisfactory. <\/p>\n
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\nWould he look for someone who
\nwas well educated? <\/p>\n
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\nThat could guide that son.
\nWould he look for someone in <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle class so that he was
\nprotected from the the vices of <\/p>\n
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\nthe rich?
\nAnd the poverty of the poor, <\/p>\n
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\nwell, when we come to consider,
\nas we will briefly tonight, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters and young
\npeople, that wonderful young <\/p>\n
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\ngirl that God chose, we’re going
\nto learn a great deal about our <\/p>\n
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\nFather in heaven.
\nWe’re going to read this record <\/p>\n
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\nvery carefully.
\nOur study tonight is going to be<\/p>\n
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\nvery different from our last few
\nstudies. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to look very
\ncarefully at what God did and <\/p>\n
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\nwhat He said and consider what
\nthe Father considers to be <\/p>\n
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\nreally important, more
\nparticularly in the life of a <\/p>\n
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\nyoung sister.
\nBut it’s just as applicable to <\/p>\n
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\nus all, whether we’re young,
\nold, male, or female. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s look at how the record
\nintroduces Mary to us in Luke <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 1, Luke chapter 1, and
\nverse 26. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the sixth month, that is, in
\nthe sixth month of Elizabeth’s <\/p>\n
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\npregnancy, she was expecting
\nJohn. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the sixth month, the Angel
\nGabriel was sent from God under <\/p>\n
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\na city of Galilee named Nazareth
\nto a virgin Espouse to a man <\/p>\n
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\nwhose name was Joseph.
\nOf the House of David. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Virgin’s name was Mary.
\nIt seems to be just a very <\/p>\n
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\nordinary introduction, doesn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nBut think about.
\nWhat that’s really saying. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we read it carefully, we’re
\ntold quite a bit. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause this Angel Gabriel, who
\nwe were told in verse 19 of that<\/p>\n
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\nsame chapter, stood in the
\npresence of God himself, was <\/p>\n
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\nsent from God.
\nNow why say that? <\/p>\n
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\nGod is intimately concerned
\nabout what’s going to happen in <\/p>\n
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\nthis scene.
\nWhen angels came on past <\/p>\n
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\ninstances, we didn’t have to be
\ntold that they were sent from <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nBut now, explicitly, we are told<\/p>\n
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\nthat Gabriel, who stands in the
\npresence of God, was sent from <\/p>\n
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\nthe face of the Father out.
\nAnd who did he go to? <\/p>\n
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\nWhere did he go?
\nHe went to. <\/p>\n
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\nGalilee despised Galilee of the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nThat no one would.
\nEver. <\/p>\n
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\nExpect an Angel of God,
\nespecially one with a special. <\/p>\n
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\nMission from him.
\nPersonally would ever go to And <\/p>\n
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\nthen in Galilee he came to a
\ntown called Nazareth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd whoever heard of anything
\ngood? <\/p>\n
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\nComing out of Nazareth and then
\nin that city, despised as it <\/p>\n
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\nwas.
\nIt came into the House of a <\/p>\n
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\nhumble virgin whose name means
\nbitterness, and from the <\/p>\n
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\nhighest, loftiest heavens.
\nGod has come down and is <\/p>\n
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\nvisiting one of the lowliest
\nhouses in all of Judea, and <\/p>\n
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\nappears to a woman, a young
\nvirgin by the name of Mary. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Angel wasn’t sent to
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nBrethren and sisters and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nHe didn’t go to a palace.
\nHe didn’t go to a wealthy family<\/p>\n
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\nof status.
\nHe went to a city of Galilee <\/p>\n
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\nnamed Nazareth and to a humble
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she was probably a young
\nmaiden who was only in her late <\/p>\n
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\nteens at this stage.
\nAnd look what the Angel says in <\/p>\n
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\nverse 28.
\nThe Angel came in unto her and <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, Hail thou that art highly
\nfavoured, the Lord is with thee,<\/p>\n
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\nblessed art thou among women.
\nAnd there is the first words <\/p>\n
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\ndivinely we hear about Mary.
\nThis is God’s assessment. <\/p>\n
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\nHe has scanned all throughout
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nHe has waited for. 4000 years
\nfor this moment and now it’s <\/p>\n
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\ncome.
\nHe has picked the right 1A <\/p>\n
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\nvirgin whom we are told is
\nhighly favoured. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at the margin graciously
\naccepted before God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Mary verse 29, when she saw
\nhim, was troubled at his, at his<\/p>\n
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\nsaying, and cast in her mind
\nwhat manner of salutation this <\/p>\n
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\nshould be.
\nAnd the Angel said unto her, <\/p>\n
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\nFear not, Mary, for thou hast
\nfound favour with God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he repeats.
\nAlmost the same words. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the Greek that he used before
\nin verse 28. <\/p>\n
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\nThou art highly favoured.
\nThe Greek in fact uses the same <\/p>\n
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\nword, grace on both occasions.
\nThe word troubled there in verse<\/p>\n
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\nverse 29 really just means to be
\nagitated. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she passed in her mind she
\nwas considering what, what on <\/p>\n
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\nearth this could all mean.
\nWho was this man and why was he <\/p>\n
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\nsaying what he was?
\nAnd no doubt in her mind, she <\/p>\n
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\nimmediately thought that it may
\nhave been an Angel. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the Angel tells her as she
\nthinks very quickly about what’s<\/p>\n
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\ngoing on.
\nThe Angel says thou hast found <\/p>\n
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\ngrace with God.
\nAnd twice he mentions that in 2 <\/p>\n
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\nverses, Thou hast found grace
\nwith God. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know, brethren and
\nsisters, that there are only 5 <\/p>\n
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\nother individuals in scripture
\nwho are so honoured? <\/p>\n
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\nJesus was 1.
\nNoah was another Moses, Samuel <\/p>\n
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\nand David were the others.
\nShe is the only woman to be so <\/p>\n
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\nfavoured with that salutation.
\nAnd twice the Angel says it, <\/p>\n
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\nthat thou hast found grace with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd verse 31 says, And behold,
\nthe Angel goes on, Thou shalt <\/p>\n
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\nconceive in thy womb, and shall
\nbring forth a son, and shall <\/p>\n
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\ncall his name Jesus.
\nHe should be great, and should <\/p>\n
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\nbe called the Son of the
\nhighest. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord God shall give unto
\nhim the throne of his Father <\/p>\n
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\nDavid.
\nAnd he shall. <\/p>\n
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\nReign over the House of Jacob
\nForever, and of his Kingdom <\/p>\n
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\nthere shall be no end.
\nAnd her mind must have been <\/p>\n
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\nracing.
\nThis obviously to her meant that<\/p>\n
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\nthis man was talking about the
\nMessiah. <\/p>\n
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\nShe knew the promises to David.
\nObviously she knew Daniel’s <\/p>\n
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\nprophecies, which.
\nHad pointed to her very own day <\/p>\n
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\nthat considering the 70 weeks
\nprophecy that was given in <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:19,480 –> 00:11:23,320
\nDaniel Chapter 9, that those who
\nwere godly in Israel at that <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:23,320 –> 00:11:26,720
\ntime had considered and pondered
\nand and thought about it and <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:26,720 –> 00:11:31,440
\nworked out that in their own
\ntimes the signs of the times <\/p>\n
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\npointed.
\nTo the very time in which she <\/p>\n
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\nwas living.
\nAnd she knew that. <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:37,360 –> 00:11:40,120
\nThat the Messiah must be in
\nDavid’s line. <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:41,720 –> 00:11:47,600
\nAnd she knew, too, that she was
\na daughter of David. <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:48,160 –> 00:11:50,720
\nCould it all be true or was this
\na dream? <\/p>\n
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\n00:11:51,640 –> 00:11:56,200
\nThere was an awesome
\nresponsibility began to began to<\/p>\n
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\nrest in her mind if this meant
\nthat Messiah was going to become<\/p>\n
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\nwas was going to be coming and
\nthis was the messenger of Yahweh<\/p>\n
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\nto tell her that she was to be
\nthe bearer of that great son. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat would she say, what would
\nwhat was going through her mind,<\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters and young
\npeople to bear God’s? <\/p>\n
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\nOnly begotten Son, What an
\nawesome responsibility to bring <\/p>\n
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\nhim up in godly ways, that he
\nmight be the sinless Saviour of <\/p>\n
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\nthe human race.
\nBrothers and sisters and young. <\/p>\n
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\nPeople, you think about it, what
\ngreater work could God have ever<\/p>\n
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\ngiven to any human being on
\nearth at any time, man or woman?<\/p>\n
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\nWhat greater thing could the
\nCreator of heaven and earth ever<\/p>\n
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\nhave asked a human being to do
\nthan to bear and then guide and <\/p>\n
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\n00:12:57,880 –> 00:13:04,560
\nbring to maturity His own Son,
\nthat he might be sinless and <\/p>\n
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\n00:13:04,560 –> 00:13:08,960
\nsave the race?
\nThe whole destiny of the human <\/p>\n
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\n00:13:08,960 –> 00:13:12,760
\nrace depended on this son, and
\non what happened to him in His <\/p>\n
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\nvery earliest days was going to
\nbe dependent upon the mother <\/p>\n
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\nwhom He chose.
\nOf course, God was going to be <\/p>\n
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\nvery carefully guide and protect
\nthat child, and the influence of<\/p>\n
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\nHis hand was always going to be
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nBut, brothers and sisters, never
\nlet us underestimate the power <\/p>\n
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\nof the mother upon a child of
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\nAnd oh, this is going through
\nher mind. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what would have you asked?
\nWell, look what she said in <\/p>\n
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\nverse 34.
\nThen Mary said unto the Angel, <\/p>\n
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\nHow shall this be, seeing I know
\nnot a man. <\/p>\n
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\nShe never questioned that it
\nwould happen. <\/p>\n
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\nShe said how she had none of the
\nincredulity of Sarah of old, who<\/p>\n
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\nlaughed in her tent and said,
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\nto me?
\nShe had the faith of Abraham, <\/p>\n
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\nwho, considering that it was
\nimpossible that he could have a <\/p>\n
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\nson, still believed what God had
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
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\nShe had the faith of David, who
\nbelieved that God would raise <\/p>\n
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\nhim up a.
\nHouse, a great and mighty house <\/p>\n
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\nin the day yet to come.
\nIt’s an inquiry, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, that shows that she’s.
\nThinking very clearly. <\/p>\n
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\nThough it’s an awesome situation
\nthat she’s in, but accepting in <\/p>\n
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\nthe spirit of David and Abraham,
\nher forebears look at verse 35. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she listened very carefully
\nto these words. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Angel said unto her, The
\nHoly Spirit shall come upon <\/p>\n
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\nthee, and the power of the
\nHighest shall over shadow me. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore also that holy thing
\nwhich shall be born of thee <\/p>\n
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\nshall be called the Son of God.
\nAnd behold, he goes on to say, <\/p>\n
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\nthy cousin Elizabeth, she also
\nhath conceived a son in her old <\/p>\n
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\nage, and this is the 6th month
\nwith her that was called Baron. <\/p>\n
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\nFor with God nothing shall be
\nimpossible to have a son and <\/p>\n
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\nhave no human father.
\nIt had never ever happened in <\/p>\n
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\nWas. <\/p>\n
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\nIn.
\nShort a human impossibility and <\/p>\n
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\nlook at the amazing answer that
\nshe gave in verse 38, and Mary <\/p>\n
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\nspontaneously said, behold the
\nhandmaid of the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nBe it unto me according to thy
\nword. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Angel departed from her.
\nYou know the Angel didn’t ask <\/p>\n
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\nfor any response from her.
\nThe Angel came to tell her what <\/p>\n
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\nwas going to happen.
\nBut Mary, having listened very <\/p>\n
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\ncarefully to all those words and
\nher mind bursting with the <\/p>\n
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\nenormity of the revelation,
\nshows tremendous faith with no <\/p>\n
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\nevidence at all in something
\nthat was humanly impossible. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a marvellous woman she was.
\nDo you know what? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen she went to see Elizabeth,
\nLook what Elizabeth said as soon<\/p>\n
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\nas she saw her.
\nShe. <\/p>\n
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\nBy under the inspiration of the
\nHoly Spirit, says in verse 45. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd blessed is she that
\nbelieveth, for there shall be a <\/p>\n
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\nperformance of those things
\nwhich were told her of the Lord.<\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, that verse is not
\nterribly well translated. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the punctuation that’s not
\nvery good. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the RSV says this.
\nBlessed is she who believed that<\/p>\n
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\nthat which was spoken to her <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the.
\nLord, she believed implicitly <\/p>\n
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\nthe moment the Angel had said
\nit, not just because she <\/p>\n
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\naccepted anything at at faced
\nvalue and just blind faith. <\/p>\n
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\nHer mind was ticking over
\nthrough all of that, brethren <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters and young people,
\nand there was no evidence. <\/p>\n
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\nShe was told that in her womb
\nwould grow a child and had come <\/p>\n
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\nto be the Messiah.
\nShe had no evidence of that at <\/p>\n
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\nthis stage.
\nAnd yet there’s a willing <\/p>\n
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\nimplicit obedience and
\nsubmission to all that God had <\/p>\n
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\nsaid.
\nShe didn’t say young people. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, can you just give me a few
\ndays and I’ll just turn it over <\/p>\n
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\nand then I’ll come back to you
\nwith an answer. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was no thought of self.
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\nloss, though some of those
\nthings might have darted through<\/p>\n
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\nher mind.
\nThe Angel, not having asked her <\/p>\n
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\nfor response, receives this
\nspontaneous, beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nexpression of faith.
\nOh, what a wonderful spirit <\/p>\n
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\nthere is in this girl, a spirit
\nof response to what God’s <\/p>\n
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\nrequirements are.
\nCan we see the point, young <\/p>\n
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\npeople?
\nIf only we could match that <\/p>\n
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\nlevel of faith and obedience in
\nall that God has said, and just <\/p>\n
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\nspontaneously say, Here am I,
\nLord, be it unto me, according <\/p>\n
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\nto thy will.
\nYou know, our answer goes <\/p>\n
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\nfurther than that.
\nIt actually reveals something <\/p>\n
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\nabout Mary herself.
\nIt gives us an insight into the <\/p>\n
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\nmind of this, this truly lovely
\nyoung sister. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd note this.
\nShe’s probably almost in shock <\/p>\n
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\nbecause of seeing the Angel and
\nthe. <\/p>\n
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\nThe enormity of the revelation
\nthat’s just been proclaimed to <\/p>\n
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\nher, she didn’t have time to
\nrush off and get her Bible or <\/p>\n
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\nher concordance reference.
\nBooks or anything? <\/p>\n
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\nElse and what spontaneously
\ncomes out of her mouth is the <\/p>\n
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\nlanguage of messianic Psalms.
\nCan you believe that? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know where she was
\nquoting from young people? <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters, do you
\nknow where she was quoting from?<\/p>\n
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\nBecause she knew where she was
\nquoting from. <\/p>\n
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\nThe words of the farms just came
\nstraight out of her mouth. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s an interesting
\nobservation, and you might like <\/p>\n
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\nto make a note.
\nWe’re not going to look it up at<\/p>\n
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\nthe moment, but in Psalm 86 and
\nat verse 16 and Psalm 116 also <\/p>\n
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\nat verse 16, those psalms speak
\nof the Son of God’s handmaid <\/p>\n
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\nmessianically.
\nAnd you know what? <\/p>\n
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\nThis is saying to us it is
\nspontaneously comes from her <\/p>\n
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\nmouth.
\nIt must clearly imply that she <\/p>\n
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\nwas longing and waiting for
\nMessiah to come. <\/p>\n
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\nShe wasn’t necessarily expecting
\nthat she was going to be the <\/p>\n
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\nmother, though.
\nThere may have been many in <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael who hoped that one day
\nthey may be given the privilege <\/p>\n
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\nof being the mother of God’s
\nSon, but she was earnestly <\/p>\n
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\nlooking for Messiah.
\nAnd she’d poured over those <\/p>\n
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\nPsalms.
\nShe’d read them time and again, <\/p>\n
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\nand she’d caught the spirit of
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’d sing what God was going to
\ndo, that there would be a son of<\/p>\n
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\nhis handmaid and the words that
\njust come. <\/p>\n
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\nOut of her mouth on that
\noccasion are. <\/p>\n
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\nBehold, the handmaid of the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a marvellous thing if we
\nknew our Bibles like that, <\/p>\n
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\nsisters as well as brethren.
\nBut that’s not all we know about<\/p>\n
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\nher mind.
\nShe went to see Elizabeth and <\/p>\n
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\nafter Elizabeth.
\nHad said those words we read a <\/p>\n
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\nmoment ago in verse 45.
\nWe find that Mary spontaneously <\/p>\n
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\nin verse 46 of this chapter.
\nBursts into a song. <\/p>\n
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\nOften referred to as the Song of
\nMary, as if. <\/p>\n
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\nAs if she’d sat down and written
\nthis thing out and was then <\/p>\n
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\nbeing prepared to sing it, or
\nothers to sing it at some later <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration.
\nIt just comes out as soon as <\/p>\n
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\nshe’s there.
\nShe’d obviously been thinking <\/p>\n
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\nabout all these things as she’d
\nrun across the Hill Country. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom Nazareth right down to
\nBethlehem. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when we read very carefully
\nthose words from verse 46 <\/p>\n
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\nthrough to verse 55, there is a
\ntremendous spirit that comes out<\/p>\n
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\nof these words.
\nAnd by the way, the record here <\/p>\n
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\ndoes not say that she was
\nspeaking under inspiration. <\/p>\n
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\nIt may have been true, but the
\nrecord doesn’t say it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt does say it about Elizabeth,
\nbut it doesn’t about Mary. <\/p>\n
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\nBut her mind was was churning
\nover all these things, pulling <\/p>\n
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\ntogether the scriptures and
\ncontemplating the enormity of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Commission that had been
\nlaid upon her that would once <\/p>\n
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\nand for all.
\nChange the direction and the <\/p>\n
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\ndimension of her life.
\nVerse 46. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Mary said, My soul doth
\nmagnify the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nMy spirit hath rejoiced in God
\nmy Saviour, for he hath regarded<\/p>\n
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\nthe lowest state of his
\nhandmaiden. <\/p>\n
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\nFor behold, from henceforth all
\ngenerations shall call me <\/p>\n
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\nblessed with a spirit of
\nthankfulness there, young <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nThat. <\/p>\n
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\nSpontaneously welled up in her
\nheart. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the girl that God chose.
\nHer spontaneous reaction to the <\/p>\n
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\nnews was implicit faith and
\nobedience. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen she speaks to Elizabeth and
\nconfides in her the first words <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nCome out of her mouth are. <\/p>\n
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\nShow her sense of gratitude and
\nthankfulness to all that God has<\/p>\n
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\ndone.
\nWhat a spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we can all learn from that
\nbecause we live in an unthankful<\/p>\n
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\ngeneration.
\nIt’s one of the characteristics.<\/p>\n
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\nOf our age, but let’s learn from
\nMary verse 51 goes on to goes on<\/p>\n
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\nto speak of her wider
\nunderstanding of the purpose of <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nHe hath showed strength with his<\/p>\n
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\narm.
\nHe hath gathered the proud in <\/p>\n
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\nthe imagination of their hearts.
\nHe hath put down the mighty from<\/p>\n
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\ntheir seats and exalted.
\nThem of low degree see. <\/p>\n
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\nThe insight of this young
\nteenage. <\/p>\n
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\nGirl.
\nHe’s looking. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s looking through the
\nscriptures and casting her mind <\/p>\n
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\nthrough all those.
\nThings that she knew. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd is pulling out from there,
\nbrethren and sisters and young <\/p>\n
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\npeople, those things that God
\ntruly delights in. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she’s right on track because
\nGod cannot stand the mighty and <\/p>\n
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\nthe proud and the lofty who
\narrogantly parade their own <\/p>\n
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\nrighteousness and themselves
\nbefore him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe will look to them that I’ve a
\nmeek and a contrite spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she speaks of it there in
\nverse 52. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 53.
\nHe hath. <\/p>\n
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\nFilled the hungry with good
\nthings, and the rich hath sent <\/p>\n
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\naway empty.
\nHe hath hope, and his servant <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael in remembrance of his
\nmercy. <\/p>\n
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\nShe knows something about God,
\ndoesn’t she? <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s read her Bible.
\nShe’s thought about it. <\/p>\n
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\nAs he spake verse 55 to our.
\nFathers to Abraham and to his <\/p>\n
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\nseed.
\nForever. <\/p>\n
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\nShe knew what the promises were
\nall about. <\/p>\n
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\nShe knew what the character of
\nGod was like. <\/p>\n
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\nShe knew why God had given
\npromises. <\/p>\n
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\n00:24:59,000 –> 00:25:03,480
\nShe knew the intent of the
\nFather in the heavens. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:25:03,840 –> 00:25:07,400
\nAnd she’s in her teens, young
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:25:09,120 –> 00:25:12,800
\nNo wonder God looked favourably
\nupon her. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:25:14,200 –> 00:25:16,880
\nAnd she speaks of the wider
\ndevelopment of the purpose of <\/p>\n
346
\n00:25:16,880 –> 00:25:19,880
\nGod.
\nWhat fantastic understanding. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:21,600 –> 00:25:29,760
\nBut her words are based fairly
\nand squarely on the prayer that <\/p>\n
348
\n00:25:29,760 –> 00:25:33,600
\nHannah gave in First of Samuel
\nchapter 2. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:34,400 –> 00:25:37,120
\nI’m not going to turn to that
\nnow, brothers and sisters and <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:37,120 –> 00:25:40,240
\nyoung people.
\nBut she’s not just sighting <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:41,000 –> 00:25:45,680
\nHannah’s prayer, she’s
\nexpounding it. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:47,840 –> 00:25:50,400
\nWhy Hannah?
\nWhy did her mind go back to <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:50,400 –> 00:25:52,120
\nHannah?
\nAnd how come she remembered all <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:52,120 –> 00:25:54,320
\nof these things?
\nCould you cite Hannah’s prayer? <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:54,560 –> 00:25:57,360
\nI tell you young people,
\nbrother, sisters, I can’t. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:00,840 –> 00:26:04,240
\nShe could, and she could go one
\nstep further. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:26:04,760 –> 00:26:08,000
\nShe knew what it all meant.
\nBut why did her mind go back to <\/p>\n
358
\n00:26:08,000 –> 00:26:11,280
\nthere, to Hannah’s prayer?
\nWhy did you know? <\/p>\n
359
\n00:26:11,280 –> 00:26:16,640
\nBecause she did that, Hannah was
\nthe first person, and a woman at<\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:16,640 –> 00:26:19,840
\nthat, in the Old Testament to
\ntalk of the Messiah. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:21,640 –> 00:26:24,600
\nOf course, the Messiah had been
\npromised in other terms as the <\/p>\n
362
\n00:26:24,600 –> 00:26:27,360
\nseed of the woman and Abraham’s
\nson and so on. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:26:27,760 –> 00:26:33,280
\nBut there in Hannah’s prayer, we
\nfind her referring to Messiah in<\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:33,880 –> 00:26:35,960
\nSeptuagint.
\nIt’s the same as the Greek for <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:35,960 –> 00:26:39,440
\nMessiah in the New Testament.
\nAnd she doesn’t stop there. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:39,440 –> 00:26:43,080
\nShe weaves in many illusions
\nfrom the Psalms. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:47,520
\nHer mind is just full of
\nscriptural connotations of <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:47,520 –> 00:26:49,800
\nMessiah because it was the time.
\nThat she was. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:49,800 –> 00:26:53,920
\nAnticipating so keenly, she
\nlooked for the return of her <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:53,920 –> 00:26:57,240
\nLord into the midst of Israel,
\nbecause Daniel had said it was <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:57,240 –> 00:27:01,520
\nthe time he would come, and
\nshe’d given her time, her mind <\/p>\n
372
\n00:27:01,520 –> 00:27:04,320
\nto those things.
\nAnd she’s only a young teenage <\/p>\n
373
\n00:27:04,320 –> 00:27:07,720
\nsister.
\nWhere’d she spent? <\/p>\n
374
\n00:27:08,840 –> 00:27:14,280
\nThe other part of her teenage
\nyears, where had she spent her <\/p>\n
375
\n00:27:14,280 –> 00:27:19,400
\nlunch times?
\nYoung sisters in department <\/p>\n
376
\n00:27:19,400 –> 00:27:26,240
\nstores, chasing fashions?
\nReading romantic novels? <\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:27,040 –> 00:27:34,800
\nWomen’s magazines?
\nWhat do we feed our minds on, <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:34,960 –> 00:27:38,000
\nbrother and sisters?
\nWell, what comes out of our <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:38,000 –> 00:27:46,720
\nmouth most readily will tell us
\nwhat our minds are feeding on, <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:48,640 –> 00:27:50,920
\nand if it.
\nFrightens you to see what comes <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:50,920 –> 00:27:53,600
\nout of your mouth at times.
\nBrethren and sisters and young <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:53,600 –> 00:27:58,560
\npeople, start feeding your mind.
\nWe all have to do it, don’t we? <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:59,440 –> 00:28:02,080
\nWe’re wretched and we go off the
\ntrack and our minds get <\/p>\n
384
\n00:28:02,320 –> 00:28:07,600
\nconcentrated on this or that and
\nwe get completely waylaid from <\/p>\n
385
\n00:28:07,600 –> 00:28:11,560
\nscriptural.
\nIdeas and the Spirit of God and <\/p>\n
386
\n00:28:11,600 –> 00:28:15,520
\nthe expectancy of of Christ our
\nLord. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:17,200 –> 00:28:23,080
\nBut this young sister didn’t
\nknow that on that day in that <\/p>\n
388
\n00:28:23,080 –> 00:28:30,360
\nhouse an Angel would appear and
\ngive her such great news. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:28:33,000 –> 00:28:40,160
\nIt was her reflective mind, her
\nmeditative spirit, her her <\/p>\n
390
\n00:28:40,160 –> 00:28:45,440
\nthinking mind, brothers and
\nsisters that God really <\/p>\n
391
\n00:28:45,480 –> 00:28:50,160
\ndelighted in.
\nShe not only knew what the Bible<\/p>\n
392
\n00:28:50,160 –> 00:28:57,720
\nsaid, she’d thought about it
\nlong and hard and turned it over<\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:57,720 –> 00:28:59,720
\nin her minds and her quiet
\nmoments. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:01,120 –> 00:29:03,240
\nBut she’s.
\nAlso portrayed in the record of <\/p>\n
395
\n00:29:03,240 –> 00:29:05,320
\nLuke.
\nAnd I wonder whether you’ve ever<\/p>\n
396
\n00:29:05,320 –> 00:29:08,320
\nnoticed this.
\nShe’s portrayed in the record of<\/p>\n
397
\n00:29:08,320 –> 00:29:17,600
\nLuke here as an observant,
\nreflective, thinking young <\/p>\n
398
\n00:29:17,600 –> 00:29:21,360
\nwoman, and I’ve chosen those
\nwords deliberately. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:29:29,870 –> 00:29:36,670
\nThere are four specific terms
\nthat are used in just these two <\/p>\n
400
\n00:29:36,670 –> 00:29:39,400
\nchapters in Luke here.
\nThat tell us. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:29:39,920 –> 00:29:47,680
\nAbout Mary’s mind, by the way,
\nthese details are on the Bible <\/p>\n
402
\n00:29:47,680 –> 00:29:52,880
\nmarking sheet for tonight, so
\nthere’s no need to copy those <\/p>\n
403
\n00:29:52,880 –> 00:29:54,240
\noff the overhead if it’s
\ndifficult. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:29:55,960 –> 00:30:01,680
\nBut in chapter 1 and verse 29
\nthere we find this term she cast<\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:01,680 –> 00:30:06,200
\nin her mind what manner of
\nsalutation this should be. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:09,040 –> 00:30:13,240
\nAnd of that word Vine says it
\nmeans to reason through, to <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:13,240 –> 00:30:15,520
\nbring together different reasons
\nand to reckon them up. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:15,520 –> 00:30:19,760
\nIt’s actually used sometimes in
\nin terms of accounting to to <\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:19,760 –> 00:30:24,120
\nmake things balance, to bring
\nthings together in the mind and <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:24,120 –> 00:30:26,240
\nto reckon them up.
\nAnd she was doing that it, it <\/p>\n
411
\n00:30:26,240 –> 00:30:30,520
\nseems evident that there was a a
\nlittle bit of a pause between <\/p>\n
412
\n00:30:30,520 –> 00:30:35,920
\nthe angels speaking and and
\nbefore he went on, and she was <\/p>\n
413
\n00:30:35,920 –> 00:30:38,680
\nthinking about all these things.
\nThere were a rush of thoughts <\/p>\n
414
\n00:30:38,680 –> 00:30:40,240
\ncame into her mind.
\nShe was trying to put them all. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:30:40,240 –> 00:30:42,800
\nTogether and wrecking things up.
\nAnd though at that stage she may<\/p>\n
416
\n00:30:42,800 –> 00:30:47,120
\nnot have been able to do that,
\nwe find that she was a person <\/p>\n
417
\n00:30:47,120 –> 00:30:52,240
\nwho actually tried to store
\nthings away and think on them <\/p>\n
418
\n00:30:52,240 –> 00:30:55,760
\nlater in chapter 2 and verse 19.
\nThere are two. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:30:55,760 –> 00:30:58,280
\nTerms there that are used in
\nthat very same verse. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:59,360 –> 00:31:04,560
\nThis was in the context of when
\nthey had after the birth of <\/p>\n
421
\n00:31:04,640 –> 00:31:11,760
\nJesus and the angels had come
\nand spoken and told Mary and <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:11,760 –> 00:31:14,120
\nJoseph all the things that had
\nhappened out in the hills of <\/p>\n
423
\n00:31:14,120 –> 00:31:15,600
\nJudea.
\nIt says. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:31:15,600 –> 00:31:19,800
\nBut Mary kept all these things
\nand pondered them in her heart. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:31:20,120 –> 00:31:23,800
\nTo think means to preserve what
\na kink quotes think very safe. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:31:24,840 –> 00:31:28,600
\nAnd while we’re told in verse 18
\nthat all they that heard these <\/p>\n
427
\n00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:31,320
\nthings wondered at those things
\nwhich were told by them by the <\/p>\n
428
\n00:31:31,320 –> 00:31:35,920
\nshepherds, Mary is singled out
\nhere because it says in verse 9.<\/p>\n
429
\n00:31:35,920 –> 00:31:41,640
\nBut Mary was different.
\nShe kept them. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:31:42,960 –> 00:31:44,880
\nShe kept them and pondered them
\nin her heart. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:31:45,240 –> 00:31:48,240
\nShe preserved those words she’s
\nheard, listened very carefully <\/p>\n
432
\n00:31:48,240 –> 00:31:51,760
\nto all the words that those that
\nthose shepherds. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:31:51,760 –> 00:31:53,480
\nHad told her.
\nShe didn’t know some of the <\/p>\n
434
\n00:31:53,480 –> 00:31:55,760
\nthings that they’d said.
\nIt hadn’t been revealed to her <\/p>\n
435
\n00:31:55,760 –> 00:31:58,760
\nvia Gabriel.
\nAn Angel hadn’t told her some of<\/p>\n
436
\n00:31:58,760 –> 00:32:02,040
\nthose things, and when someone
\nelse came and said they saw a <\/p>\n
437
\n00:32:02,040 –> 00:32:04,960
\nhost of angels in heaven, and
\nthey spoke these words and we <\/p>\n
438
\n00:32:04,960 –> 00:32:10,680
\nsaw all this manifestation, she
\nlocked it away in her mind and <\/p>\n
439
\n00:32:10,680 –> 00:32:12,840
\nshe pondered them.
\nShe put one thing with another <\/p>\n
440
\n00:32:12,840 –> 00:32:16,560
\nwhen considering circumstances.
\nShe was clearly a very. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:32:16,560 –> 00:32:20,880
\nReflective person that kept
\nchurning these things over and <\/p>\n
442
\n00:32:20,880 –> 00:32:27,080
\nin chapter 2 and verse 51, after
\nthey’d lost Jesus temporarily in<\/p>\n
443
\n00:32:27,080 –> 00:32:30,600
\nthe in Jerusalem and had come
\nback and found him and he’d <\/p>\n
444
\n00:32:30,600 –> 00:32:39,760
\nanswered his mother in a way
\nthat had surprised both her and <\/p>\n
445
\n00:32:39,760 –> 00:32:43,320
\nJoseph.
\nVerse 51 says, and he went down <\/p>\n
446
\n00:32:43,320 –> 00:32:46,360
\nwith them and came to Nazareth
\nand was subject unto them. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:32:46,360 –> 00:32:50,880
\nBut his mother kept all these
\nsayings in her heart. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:54,360
\nIt means to keep with care, to
\nhave one’s eye upon throughout, <\/p>\n
449
\n00:32:54,520 –> 00:32:57,320
\nso she never ever let go of
\nthose things. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:32:58,080 –> 00:32:59,680
\nBrethren and sisters and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:03,360
\nAnd through all that, she.
\nDidn’t take well. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:33:03,360 –> 00:33:07,040
\nSo it seems it didn’t have a
\npencil and paper in the Manger <\/p>\n
453
\n00:33:08,640 –> 00:33:14,480
\nin the stable in in Bethlehem.
\nShe remembered it all, she <\/p>\n
454
\n00:33:14,480 –> 00:33:18,240
\nremembered every word and she
\nkept on going over it. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:33:18,360 –> 00:33:20,760
\nYou know, we are a brain lazy
\ngeneration. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:33:22,200 –> 00:33:24,040
\nOur education system’s not
\nhelping. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:33:24,880 –> 00:33:29,200
\nBecause it’s said that knowledge
\nis increasing at such an <\/p>\n
458
\n00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:32,040
\nalarming rate that most of what
\nyou learn at school will be out <\/p>\n
459
\n00:33:32,040 –> 00:33:35,600
\nof date in five years time.
\nIn some fields even shorter <\/p>\n
460
\n00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:37,600
\nperiods.
\nAnd so it’s no good learning <\/p>\n
461
\n00:33:37,600 –> 00:33:39,440
\nanything.
\nAll we should be doing is <\/p>\n
462
\n00:33:39,440 –> 00:33:44,160
\nlearning how to find out
\ninformation when we need to find<\/p>\n
463
\n00:33:44,160 –> 00:33:46,560
\nit out.
\nYou know that policy is <\/p>\n
464
\n00:33:46,560 –> 00:33:48,120
\nsuicidal.
\nWhen we come to the. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:33:48,120 –> 00:33:51,560
\nBible young people suicidal.
\nDon’t listen to it. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:33:52,320 –> 00:33:57,160
\nUse your brain.
\nCommit things to memory. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:33:57,760 –> 00:34:00,040
\nTry and remember you have to
\ntry. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:34:00,240 –> 00:34:04,120
\nOur brain is a muscle and it
\nwill work better with exercise. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:34:05,040 –> 00:34:09,560
\nSo when our young children are
\nencouraged to learn verses from <\/p>\n
470
\n00:34:09,560 –> 00:34:12,400
\nthe Bible, parents encourage
\nthem to do. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:16,400
\nIt because they will be stood in
\ngood. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:21,840
\nStead in later years, train the
\nmind to think about things. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:34:22,639 –> 00:34:24,120
\nTo look at the.
\nCircumstances. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:34:24,120 –> 00:34:25,280
\nBecause that’s what she was
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:34:25,480 –> 00:34:28,360
\nShe was taking what she saw
\naround her, what she’d heard, <\/p>\n
476
\n00:34:28,360 –> 00:34:32,600
\nwhat she’d heard from the Bible,
\nand put it all together, while <\/p>\n
477
\n00:34:32,600 –> 00:34:35,480
\nothers just wondered at the
\namazement of some of those <\/p>\n
478
\n00:34:35,480 –> 00:34:37,480
\nevents and forgot it the next
\nday. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:40,480
\nShe was very different.
\nShe was a. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:47,280
\nYoung woman of deep
\ncontemplation, observant and <\/p>\n
481
\n00:34:47,320 –> 00:34:53,199
\nalways thinking about how things
\nfitted in to the grand scheme of<\/p>\n
482
\n00:34:53,199 –> 00:34:57,400
\nthings that the Creator had in
\nthe beginning and now was about <\/p>\n
483
\n00:34:57,400 –> 00:35:00,160
\nto work out in her very own
\nlife. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:35:01,960 –> 00:35:06,600
\nYou know God is honoured when we
\nthink about Him and His Word and<\/p>\n
485
\n00:35:06,600 –> 00:35:08,240
\nHis will.
\nHe’s. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:35:08,360 –> 00:35:11,360
\nHonoured by that.
\nWhen we try to grapple with the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:35:11,360 –> 00:35:15,880
\nprinciples of His ways and His
\nword in relation to our own <\/p>\n
488
\n00:35:15,880 –> 00:35:18,760
\nlives, and we weigh up
\ncircumstances and we agonize <\/p>\n
489
\n00:35:18,800 –> 00:35:22,080
\nover things and we pray to Him
\nand put it before Him, and we <\/p>\n
490
\n00:35:22,120 –> 00:35:25,880
\nthink things through and we try
\nto put our lives in order to go <\/p>\n
491
\n00:35:25,880 –> 00:35:27,920
\nin a certain direction.
\nGod, he’s honoured by all of <\/p>\n
492
\n00:35:27,920 –> 00:35:31,160
\nthat.
\nYou know, we see Mary and Joseph<\/p>\n
493
\n00:35:31,200 –> 00:35:35,680
\nfor that matter, doing just that
\nin the record that we have have <\/p>\n
494
\n00:35:35,680 –> 00:35:41,960
\nof them here because God wanted
\nHis Son to be influenced. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:35:42,320 –> 00:35:48,840
\nAnd to imitate that godly,
\nreflective spirit, God wanted <\/p>\n
496
\n00:35:48,840 –> 00:35:54,480
\nhis own son to be like that.
\nNow let’s take a lesson from <\/p>\n
497
\n00:35:54,480 –> 00:35:57,640
\nthat, because.
\nHere is the great creator. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:35:57,640 –> 00:36:01,040
\nOf heaven and earth.
\nThat’s looked around and has <\/p>\n
499
\n00:36:01,040 –> 00:36:05,720
\nfound the right sort of mind
\nthat he’s really interested in <\/p>\n
500
\n00:36:05,720 –> 00:36:09,480
\nwhat he really values is
\nstarting to show in the life of <\/p>\n
501
\n00:36:09,480 –> 00:36:12,280
\nthis young teenage girl.
\nJust hold your hand in Luke and <\/p>\n
502
\n00:36:12,280 –> 00:36:18,160
\ngo back just a few pages to
\nMalachi Chapter 3 to words that <\/p>\n
503
\n00:36:18,160 –> 00:36:21,480
\nwe are all very familiar with.
\nBut we want never to lose the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:36:21,480 –> 00:36:22,320
\npower.
\nOf. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:36:22,680 –> 00:36:27,320
\nYoung people because they’re in
\na time of. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:36:29,560 –> 00:36:33,080
\nGreat apostasy and.
\nDeceptiveness of heart in. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:36:33,080 –> 00:36:40,960
\nIsrael Malachi is sent and he
\nsays this verse 16 Then they <\/p>\n
508
\n00:36:40,960 –> 00:36:46,040
\nthat feared Yahweh spake often
\none to another, and Yahweh <\/p>\n
509
\n00:36:46,040 –> 00:36:48,880
\nhearkened and heard it and a.
\nBook of Remembrance was written.<\/p>\n
510
\n00:36:49,200 –> 00:36:55,520
\nBefore Him, for them that feared
\nYahweh, and that thought upon <\/p>\n
511
\n00:36:56,720 –> 00:37:01,240
\nHis name.
\nAnd they shall be mine, saith <\/p>\n
512
\n00:37:01,240 –> 00:37:05,640
\nYahweh of hosts, in that day
\nwhen I shall make up my jewels, <\/p>\n
513
\n00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:08,400
\nand I will spare them as a man
\nspareth his only son that <\/p>\n
514
\n00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:10,520
\nserveth Him.
\nThey are very precious. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:37:10,520 –> 00:37:15,240
\nTo him, they’re like jewels.
\nThey’re his and they will be <\/p>\n
516
\n00:37:15,240 –> 00:37:22,200
\nclaimed as his in that day.
\nOh, it might be a difficult time<\/p>\n
517
\n00:37:22,200 –> 00:37:28,080
\nnow to think upon his name.
\nBut there’s real purpose in all <\/p>\n
518
\n00:37:28,080 –> 00:37:31,480
\nthat God does.
\nWhat is to think upon his name? <\/p>\n
519
\n00:37:31,640 –> 00:37:35,160
\nWhat does God’s name embody?
\nBrethren and sisters and young <\/p>\n
520
\n00:37:35,160 –> 00:37:38,880
\npeople.
\nIt embodies His purpose. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:37:39,160 –> 00:37:44,040
\nHis name bespeaks his purpose.
\nHow many of you think about his <\/p>\n
522
\n00:37:44,040 –> 00:37:47,680
\npurpose, the extension of his
\npurpose, what it will mean in <\/p>\n
523
\n00:37:47,680 –> 00:37:50,320
\nthe earth, what it will mean in
\nthe lives of individuals? <\/p>\n
524
\n00:37:50,480 –> 00:37:53,600
\nDo you just think about the
\nKingdom and what it will be like<\/p>\n
525
\n00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:56,640
\nand why?
\nBut it embodies more than his <\/p>\n
526
\n00:37:56,640 –> 00:38:00,160
\npurpose.
\nIt embodies his very character, <\/p>\n
527
\n00:38:00,480 –> 00:38:02,600
\nthe characteristics that he
\ndelights. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:06,160
\nTo see in every one of us.
\nAnd those that thought upon, <\/p>\n
529
\n00:38:06,160 –> 00:38:09,840
\nthose thought carefully about
\nthe circumstances of their own <\/p>\n
530
\n00:38:09,840 –> 00:38:17,000
\nlife in the context of his name
\nare very precious to him, Very, <\/p>\n
531
\n00:38:17,120 –> 00:38:20,720
\nvery precious indeed.
\nAnd he chose one of those <\/p>\n
532
\n00:38:20,720 –> 00:38:23,120
\njewels.
\nHe chose one of those jewels. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:38:23,240 –> 00:38:26,200
\nTo be the mother.
\nOf his only begotten Son, <\/p>\n
534
\n00:38:27,440 –> 00:38:31,840
\nreflective thinking is is fast
\ndisappearing. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:38:32,840 –> 00:38:35,320
\nIt’s disappeared just about from
\nsociety. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:38:35,520 –> 00:38:41,080
\nIt’s fast disappearing in our
\nown ranks because the age is <\/p>\n
537
\n00:38:41,080 –> 00:38:45,120
\ngetting faster.
\nWe don’t have time to think, do <\/p>\n
538
\n00:38:45,120 –> 00:38:47,200
\nwe?
\nBut we must. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:38:48,160 –> 00:38:51,640
\nWe’ve got to find time to think.
\nI find it a very difficult thing<\/p>\n
540
\n00:38:52,240 –> 00:38:55,600
\nwhen the phone goes non-stop and
\nthere’s so many things to attend<\/p>\n
541
\n00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:58,720
\nto and do and go to and we’ve
\ngot to be here this at this <\/p>\n
542
\n00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:00,240
\ntime.
\nSo we push ourselves and we’re <\/p>\n
543
\n00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:03,240
\nthere and we do this and we pick
\nup our our bags and we go there <\/p>\n
544
\n00:39:03,240 –> 00:39:07,640
\nand, and all the other myriad of
\nthings that we have on our minds<\/p>\n
545
\n00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:09,640
\nand it wears us down, doesn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
546
\n00:39:09,640 –> 00:39:12,400
\nAnd we can’t think.
\nAnd sometimes I get so <\/p>\n
547
\n00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:16,440
\nfrustrated I sit down in my
\nstudy at night and think there’s<\/p>\n
548
\n00:39:16,440 –> 00:39:18,560
\nso many things going around in
\nmy mind. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:39:18,560 –> 00:39:21,640
\nI can’t think about divine
\nthings. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:25,840
\nEver felt like that?
\nBut we’ve got to learn to have <\/p>\n
551
\n00:39:25,840 –> 00:39:34,480
\nquiet time to make it, because
\nGod loves those who think upon <\/p>\n
552
\n00:39:35,080 –> 00:39:37,680
\nhis name.
\nWe’ve got to not let the Hurley <\/p>\n
553
\n00:39:37,680 –> 00:39:41,320
\nburly of this age.
\nPush us around and to think <\/p>\n
554
\n00:39:41,320 –> 00:39:46,920
\nabout the real issues.
\nThe real issues of life. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:39:47,920 –> 00:39:53,040
\nAnd of the truth and parents,
\nlet’s set an example. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:39:53,640 –> 00:39:56,400
\nOh, it’s very difficult.
\nLife is very busy with a young <\/p>\n
557
\n00:39:56,400 –> 00:39:58,480
\ngrowing family, isn’t it?
\nWe all know. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:39:58,480 –> 00:40:03,640
\nThat, but let’s set an example.
\nIn a world of depraved <\/p>\n
559
\n00:40:03,640 –> 00:40:07,920
\nwickedness, where people’s minds
\nare going over and over and over<\/p>\n
560
\n00:40:07,920 –> 00:40:13,320
\nall sorts of ungodly and
\nself-centered things, we’ve got <\/p>\n
561
\n00:40:13,320 –> 00:40:17,160
\nto desperately pull together,
\nall of us brothers and sisters <\/p>\n
562
\n00:40:17,760 –> 00:40:19,480
\npull together and help each
\nother. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:40:20,680 –> 00:40:24,760
\nTo think about the name.
\nAnd come together as families <\/p>\n
564
\n00:40:24,800 –> 00:40:29,240
\nand as groups of young people
\nand talk about those things that<\/p>\n
565
\n00:40:29,240 –> 00:40:35,400
\nreally matter.
\nOh, it’s easy to say, but it’s <\/p>\n
566
\n00:40:35,400 –> 00:40:39,920
\ndesperately important that we
\nall, all of us, young and old. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:40:39,920 –> 00:40:45,520
\nTry to do that.
\nBecause when Jesus came along, <\/p>\n
568
\n00:40:46,080 –> 00:40:52,920
\nhe was very deeply, very deeply
\ninfluenced by the spirit of his <\/p>\n
569
\n00:40:52,920 –> 00:40:57,440
\nmother.
\nHe had thought long and hard <\/p>\n
570
\n00:40:57,800 –> 00:41:00,640
\nlong.
\nBefore he ever got to his public<\/p>\n
571
\n00:41:00,640 –> 00:41:04,360
\nministry about issues of.
\nAll. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:41:04,360 –> 00:41:08,920
\nKinds he could never have
\nanswered as he did some of the <\/p>\n
573
\n00:41:08,920 –> 00:41:12,680
\nquestions that we find him so
\nmasterly handling. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:41:13,120 –> 00:41:17,400
\nIn his ministry had he not
\nchurned and thought and and <\/p>\n
575
\n00:41:17,480 –> 00:41:19,720
\npondered and meditated and.
\nKept. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:41:19,720 –> 00:41:22,640
\nThose things in his heart and
\nput scripture with scripture and<\/p>\n
577
\n00:41:22,640 –> 00:41:26,040
\nexperience with scripture and
\nthought about that experience <\/p>\n
578
\n00:41:26,040 –> 00:41:33,400
\nand observed.
\nPeople and God saw that his Son <\/p>\n
579
\n00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:36,200
\nneeded that.
\nInfluence. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:41:37,280 –> 00:41:38,760
\nAnd don’t our children need
\nthat? <\/p>\n
581
\n00:41:40,920 –> 00:41:44,200
\nWe need it too, and we need to
\nbe like that to each other. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:41:44,320 –> 00:41:45,920
\nBecause God is not looking for
\nrobots. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:41:46,560 –> 00:41:49,040
\nHe doesn’t want somebody to just
\npress the button and outcomes an<\/p>\n
584
\n00:41:49,040 –> 00:41:53,000
\nanswer or exactly the right
\nthing at the right time just by <\/p>\n
585
\n00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:56,480
\npressing a button.
\nHe’s an intelligent creature, <\/p>\n
586
\n00:41:58,280 –> 00:42:04,480
\nand he will be pleased by the
\nintelligent and reasoned <\/p>\n
587
\n00:42:04,480 –> 00:42:12,480
\nresponse of hearts who fear Him.
\nIt’s interesting to notice, but <\/p>\n
588
\n00:42:12,800 –> 00:42:17,680
\nin the life of Mary and and
\nJoseph and many others of many <\/p>\n
589
\n00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:20,280
\ngenerations, many of those young
\npeople that we’ve already looked<\/p>\n
590
\n00:42:20,280 –> 00:42:27,120
\nat over the past few days, God
\njust does not reveal all that <\/p>\n
591
\n00:42:27,120 –> 00:42:33,560
\nthey needed to know at once.
\nHe will tell them so much. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:42:33,920 –> 00:42:36,800
\nThere will be so much revealed.
\nAnd for us, it’s just the same, <\/p>\n
593
\n00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:39,360
\nis it not?
\nHe didn’t tell Mary, for <\/p>\n
594
\n00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:44,920
\nexample, where Jesus was to be
\nborn, But she’d worked out that <\/p>\n
595
\n00:42:44,920 –> 00:42:48,480
\nit had to be in Bethlehem, and
\nshe’d wondered how she’d get <\/p>\n
596
\n00:42:48,480 –> 00:42:50,640
\nthere.
\nAnd she must have churned over <\/p>\n
597
\n00:42:50,640 –> 00:42:55,920
\nthat for months and months until
\nsuddenly, one day an <\/p>\n
598
\n00:42:56,760 –> 00:43:03,320
\nannouncement was made and the
\nworld was to be taxed and they <\/p>\n
599
\n00:43:03,320 –> 00:43:07,600
\nhad to go to Bethlehem.
\nAnd she saw in all of that the <\/p>\n
600
\n00:43:07,600 –> 00:43:13,640
\nhand of God tell her that at the
\nbeginning she wondered how the <\/p>\n
601
\n00:43:13,640 –> 00:43:16,360
\nprophecies would be fulfilled
\nfrom Micah and other places, <\/p>\n
602
\n00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:19,040
\nthat he was to be born in bed.
\nAnd she knew that, but she <\/p>\n
603
\n00:43:19,040 –> 00:43:20,320
\ndidn’t know how it would come to
\npass. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:43:20,520 –> 00:43:22,320
\nBut she exercised her mind upon
\nthat. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:43:22,320 –> 00:43:25,440
\nSo I told no instructions about
\nhow to bring that child up. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:28,400
\nShe wasn’t told many of the
\nthings that the shepherds came <\/p>\n
607
\n00:43:28,400 –> 00:43:32,680
\nand told her, but she exercised
\nher minds on all those things. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:43:34,280 –> 00:43:40,200
\nAnd what a tremendous lesson and
\nexample she is for us all, and <\/p>\n
609
\n00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:47,040
\nparticularly tonight to our dear
\nyoung sisters and our young <\/p>\n
610
\n00:43:47,040 –> 00:43:50,760
\ngirls.
\nI want to talk. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:55,400
\nFor a moment to you
\nspecifically, everything that <\/p>\n
612
\n00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:59,960
\nwe’re going to consider really
\nis of as much applicability to <\/p>\n
613
\n00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:03,840
\nbrethren.
\nOf any age and sisters of any <\/p>\n
614
\n00:44:03,840 –> 00:44:06,600
\nage.
\nBut let’s just take this young <\/p>\n
615
\n00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:10,640
\ngirl.
\nAnd don’t think that, because we<\/p>\n
616
\n00:44:10,640 –> 00:44:14,160
\nare not brethren, and we don’t.
\nOr will not be called. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:44:14,160 –> 00:44:20,560
\nUpon in ecclesial service to do
\ntalks or to be a chairman. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:44:21,080 –> 00:44:27,200
\nThat there is therefore no need
\nfor us to do any Bible study or <\/p>\n
619
\n00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:33,880
\nthinking or meditation about
\ngodly things here. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:44:33,880 –> 00:44:36,520
\nMary was given.
\nListen to this. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:44:36,760 –> 00:44:42,640
\nMary was given a task greater
\nthan any brother or any speaker <\/p>\n
622
\n00:44:43,440 –> 00:44:47,280
\nhas ever been given in all human
\nhistory. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:44:49,040 –> 00:44:53,760
\nAnd she needed to be prepared.
\nAnd mothers in Israel? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:44:54,160 –> 00:45:01,200
\nHave got a task almost second to
\nnone to influence the heritage <\/p>\n
625
\n00:45:01,200 –> 00:45:03,640
\nof Yahweh.
\nYou know children. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:45:03,640 –> 00:45:07,120
\nAre just not our.
\nChildren, they belong to God. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:45:07,120 –> 00:45:11,600
\nThey’ve been loaned to us in
\norder that we might for a short <\/p>\n
628
\n00:45:11,600 –> 00:45:15,920
\ntime, guide and influence their
\nminds in godly ways, that we <\/p>\n
629
\n00:45:15,920 –> 00:45:18,760
\nmight give them back to Him in
\nloving service. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:45:18,920 –> 00:45:21,760
\nThey may be of use to Him One
\nday. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:45:22,160 –> 00:45:26,400
\nWe hope and pray in the Kingdom
\nof God to turn the the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:45:26,400 –> 00:45:29,720
\nwickedness of this world around
\nand forever to be in fellowship <\/p>\n
633
\n00:45:29,720 –> 00:45:31,520
\nwith him in the in the days
\nahead. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:45:32,640 –> 00:45:38,400
\nYou know He wants brethren and
\nsisters, our sons grown up, as <\/p>\n
635
\n00:45:38,400 –> 00:45:43,080
\nthe psalmist said in Psalm 144,
\nour sons grown up in their youth<\/p>\n
636
\n00:45:43,560 –> 00:45:46,600
\nand our daughters.
\nAs cornerstones after the <\/p>\n
637
\n00:45:46,880 –> 00:45:49,000
\npolished after the similitude of
\na palace. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:45:49,040 –> 00:45:51,520
\nPalace and just notice in
\npassing. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:45:52,240 –> 00:45:58,480
\nThat daughters are the
\ncornerstones, and there is a <\/p>\n
640
\n00:45:58,480 –> 00:46:03,080
\ndifference in that Psalm between
\nsons and daughters, in how the <\/p>\n
641
\n00:46:03,080 –> 00:46:07,440
\npsalmist saw them.
\nMothers have a unique and very <\/p>\n
642
\n00:46:07,440 –> 00:46:09,040
\nimportant.
\nRole to play. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:46:09,760 –> 00:46:15,680
\nFor God in heaven in bringing
\nmany of his children to a state <\/p>\n
644
\n00:46:15,680 –> 00:46:21,160
\nof mind that they might respond
\nin intelligent and reasoned <\/p>\n
645
\n00:46:21,160 –> 00:46:24,760
\nservice before him.
\nYou know mothers have a very <\/p>\n
646
\n00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:28,000
\npowerful influence fathers have
\na powerful influence too. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:46:28,160 –> 00:46:32,000
\nBut mothers are more powerful
\ninfluence over their children at<\/p>\n
648
\n00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:37,000
\na younger.
\nThere’s a more powerful <\/p>\n
649
\n00:46:37,000 –> 00:46:40,640
\ninfluence over their children at
\na younger age, and they can <\/p>\n
650
\n00:46:40,720 –> 00:46:47,640
\ninfluence so, so powerfully the
\nattitudes and the values the. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:46:47,640 –> 00:46:50,840
\nWay of thinking.
\nAnd the godly development of <\/p>\n
652
\n00:46:50,840 –> 00:46:55,960
\nyoung children, both for good or
\nI’ll, as the records of the king<\/p>\n
653
\n00:46:55,960 –> 00:47:01,480
\nso plainly outline, when the
\nmothers in Israel’s dynasty and <\/p>\n
654
\n00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:05,600
\nin Judah’s Kingdom are often
\nmentioned when either a very <\/p>\n
655
\n00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:08,120
\ngood or a very wicked king came
\nalong. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:47:09,440 –> 00:47:13,600
\nThis is a tremendously important
\nword that’s largely <\/p>\n
657
\n00:47:14,120 –> 00:47:18,080
\nunderestimated and denigrated in
\nthe by the age in which we live.<\/p>\n
658
\n00:47:18,560 –> 00:47:22,800
\nBut you know, young sisters,
\nyou’ll never ever be able to <\/p>\n
659
\n00:47:22,800 –> 00:47:27,200
\nbring up a Son of God or a
\ndaughter of God in your house <\/p>\n
660
\n00:47:28,040 –> 00:47:29,840
\nunless in.
\nYouth you have. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:47:29,840 –> 00:47:36,720
\nLearned the value of godliness
\nin your life unless you think <\/p>\n
662
\n00:47:36,720 –> 00:47:39,960
\ncarefully about the direction
\nand the issues of life. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:47:39,960 –> 00:47:45,520
\nUnless you feed your minds with
\ngodly things, you won’t have <\/p>\n
664
\n00:47:45,520 –> 00:47:47,320
\ntime.
\nLady, you go and ask a mother <\/p>\n
665
\n00:47:47,320 –> 00:47:52,080
\nwith four children how much time
\nshe’s got to read the work, the <\/p>\n
666
\n00:47:52,160 –> 00:47:56,040
\nliterature of the truth and the
\nthe the Bible every day. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:47:56,040 –> 00:47:58,120
\nShe’ll find time if she’s a
\ngodly. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:47:58,120 –> 00:48:04,400
\nWoman, but she’ll tell you she
\nwill do it under extreme <\/p>\n
669
\n00:48:04,400 –> 00:48:09,000
\ntiredness late at night, early
\nin the morning, catching a nap, <\/p>\n
670
\n00:48:09,120 –> 00:48:11,320
\ncatching a a chance here or
\nthere. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:48:12,880 –> 00:48:17,960
\nYou know, I’ve been very
\nencouraged young people over the<\/p>\n
672
\n00:48:17,960 –> 00:48:23,920
\nlast few days to see the the
\nspirit in which many young <\/p>\n
673
\n00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:26,840
\npeople.
\nAnd included in that a great <\/p>\n
674
\n00:48:26,840 –> 00:48:30,920
\nnumber of our young sisters and
\nour young girls who have <\/p>\n
675
\n00:48:30,920 –> 00:48:36,400
\ndiligently stayed up at night or
\ngot up early in the morning in <\/p>\n
676
\n00:48:36,400 –> 00:48:39,560
\norder to ponder over the records
\nthat we’ve been looking and to <\/p>\n
677
\n00:48:39,560 –> 00:48:43,480
\nmark something in their Bible
\nand to think about God’s ways <\/p>\n
678
\n00:48:43,480 –> 00:48:46,200
\nand his.
\nWord God will. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:48:46,200 –> 00:48:50,200
\nBless that spirit young girls,
\nhe’ll bless it. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:48:50,320 –> 00:48:55,000
\nAnd young lads, make no mistake
\nabout it, like he blessed this <\/p>\n
681
\n00:48:55,600 –> 00:48:57,640
\ngodly.
\nYoung girl, you know this world <\/p>\n
682
\n00:48:57,640 –> 00:49:03,280
\nhas gone crazy in so many ways.
\nIt’s inverted God’s values on <\/p>\n
683
\n00:49:03,280 –> 00:49:09,880
\nalmost every hand and openly
\nchallenges and decries the value<\/p>\n
684
\n00:49:09,880 –> 00:49:12,840
\nand the role of motherhood of
\nall things. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:49:13,520 –> 00:49:16,480
\nWhat a tragedy that is.
\nLook at these words. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:49:24,940 –> 00:49:27,220
\nHorrific.
\nThey just about burn the screen.<\/p>\n
687
\n00:49:28,460 –> 00:49:34,180
\nThey’re words that were spoken
\nby one Simone de Beauvoir at the<\/p>\n
688
\n00:49:34,380 –> 00:49:37,220
\nWorld Conference in the
\nInternational Year of Women in <\/p>\n
689
\n00:49:37,220 –> 00:49:43,160
\n1975, at the rural watershed of
\nwomen’s liberation movement. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:49:44,040 –> 00:49:48,240
\nAnd in the concluding remarks
\nwhen the World Action Plan was <\/p>\n
691
\n00:49:48,240 –> 00:49:53,040
\nbeing formulated, she said no
\nwoman should be authorized to <\/p>\n
692
\n00:49:53,040 –> 00:49:54,880
\nstay at home to raise her
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:49:57,400 –> 00:50:02,040
\nWomen should not have that
\nchoice precisely because if <\/p>\n
694
\n00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:04,800
\nthere is such a choice.
\nToo many women will make it. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:50:07,200 –> 00:50:11,280
\nIt’s a way of forcing women in a
\ncertain direction, and we see it<\/p>\n
696
\n00:50:11,280 –> 00:50:14,880
\nas part of a global reform of
\nsociety which will not accept <\/p>\n
697
\n00:50:14,880 –> 00:50:19,840
\nthat old segregation between men
\nand women, the home and the <\/p>\n
698
\n00:50:19,880 –> 00:50:23,760
\noutside world, as long as the
\nfamily and the. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:50:23,760 –> 00:50:30,240
\nMyth of maternity and maternal
\ninstinct are not destroyed. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:50:30,920 –> 00:50:35,120
\nWomen will still be oppressed.
\nOh, there might have been some. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:50:35,120 –> 00:50:36,920
\nMotive behind that because in
\nmany. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:40,320
\nCountries of the world, for many
\ncenturies, many women have been <\/p>\n
703
\n00:50:40,320 –> 00:50:44,560
\noppressed by men.
\nBut what blasphemous nonsense. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:50:46,880 –> 00:50:52,880
\nAnd from that time forward, with
\ngreat determination, there’s <\/p>\n
705
\n00:50:52,880 –> 00:50:58,000
\nbeen a powerful worldwide lobby,
\nparticularly effective. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:50:58,000 –> 00:50:59,680
\nIn the Western countries of the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:51:01,120 –> 00:51:05,160
\nThe eventual result of which has
\nbeen, in almost every Western <\/p>\n
708
\n00:51:05,160 –> 00:51:11,200
\nnation, the passing of what we
\nknow as equal opportunity <\/p>\n
709
\n00:51:11,200 –> 00:51:18,000
\nlegislation, the proliferation
\nof childcare centres, enormous <\/p>\n
710
\n00:51:18,000 –> 00:51:20,600
\nsums of money going into women’s
\nshelters. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:51:20,600 –> 00:51:26,320
\nAnd childcare centres and
\ndrastic changes to the marriage <\/p>\n
712
\n00:51:26,480 –> 00:51:30,520
\nand divorce laws of countries
\naround the world, including <\/p>\n
713
\n00:51:30,520 –> 00:51:33,400
\nAustralia.
\nAnd initially there was great <\/p>\n
714
\n00:51:33,400 –> 00:51:36,040
\nresistance from conservative
\nmiddle. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:51:36,040 –> 00:51:40,680
\nClass society who was brought up
\non a set of values which were <\/p>\n
716
\n00:51:40,680 –> 00:51:44,600
\nbasically biblically based and
\nconservative and right. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:51:46,280 –> 00:51:50,640
\nAnd you know what?
\nThe activists knew that they <\/p>\n
718
\n00:51:50,640 –> 00:51:53,040
\nwould never, ever change
\nsociety. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:51:54,200 –> 00:52:00,200
\nUntil they got at the minds of
\nchildren and the equal <\/p>\n
720
\n00:52:00,200 –> 00:52:04,600
\nopportunities legislation was
\npushed onto the education agenda<\/p>\n
721
\n00:52:04,600 –> 00:52:09,560
\nfor implementation and in the
\npublic education sectors of <\/p>\n
722
\n00:52:09,560 –> 00:52:13,200
\nevery state in this country and
\nin almost every country in the <\/p>\n
723
\n00:52:13,200 –> 00:52:17,160
\nWestern world.
\nYou will find equal opportunity <\/p>\n
724
\n00:52:17,160 –> 00:52:23,160
\npolicy reigning supreme and by
\nthat I mean this, that girls are<\/p>\n
725
\n00:52:23,160 –> 00:52:28,600
\nto be actively encouraged to
\nseek further education, to set <\/p>\n
726
\n00:52:28,600 –> 00:52:33,120
\nup career structures from an
\nearly age, to be. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:52:33,120 –> 00:52:36,200
\nActively discouraged when they
\nleave school, from having a <\/p>\n
728
\n00:52:36,200 –> 00:52:38,280
\nfamily or staying at home if
\nthey do. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:52:39,040 –> 00:52:43,600
\nTo be encouraged actively, to be
\nassertive, to be proactive, to <\/p>\n
730
\n00:52:43,600 –> 00:52:46,840
\nbe more vocal.
\nThey’re told I’m wrong without <\/p>\n
731
\n00:52:46,840 –> 00:52:50,000
\nboys at school.
\nNow you ask your children if <\/p>\n
732
\n00:52:50,000 –> 00:52:52,280
\nthey’re at school, if they’re
\nnot getting this sort of message<\/p>\n
733
\n00:52:52,480 –> 00:52:56,520
\nin social education classes and
\nsocial conditioning that’s going<\/p>\n
734
\n00:52:56,520 –> 00:53:03,400
\non within our school societies,
\nboth private and public systems,<\/p>\n
735
\n00:53:05,160 –> 00:53:11,320
\nthey’re told to rethink.
\nThe stereotypes rethink the <\/p>\n
736
\n00:53:11,320 –> 00:53:14,080
\nfamily.
\nYou know, the education <\/p>\n
737
\n00:53:14,080 –> 00:53:17,480
\ndepartment of SA has a document
\nthat that is basically it’s <\/p>\n
738
\n00:53:17,480 –> 00:53:22,360
\npolicy document on the cover.
\nIt has, apart from the title, a <\/p>\n
739
\n00:53:22,360 –> 00:53:26,960
\npicture of the family that
\nthey’re educating. 1 mother, two<\/p>\n
740
\n00:53:26,960 –> 00:53:29,240
\nchildren, no.
\nFather. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:53:31,120 –> 00:53:36,440
\nRethink Relationships don’t get
\nbound up in marriage. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:53:37,320 –> 00:53:41,760
\nIt’s likely to hurt you.
\nThink about it, Children are <\/p>\n
743
\n00:53:41,760 –> 00:53:44,560
\nbeing told challenge traditional
\nroles. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:53:44,720 –> 00:53:48,440
\nThey’re no longer workable in
\nthis sort of society. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:53:48,920 –> 00:53:51,320
\nYou know, brothers and sisters
\nand young people, that <\/p>\n
746
\n00:53:51,320 –> 00:53:57,400
\nlegislation is working
\nmarvellously, marvellously well.<\/p>\n
747
\n00:53:57,880 –> 00:54:01,920
\nThey’re brilliant strategists.
\nThey knew that if you go head on<\/p>\n
748
\n00:54:02,200 –> 00:54:05,640
\nto conservative, middle-aged
\nsociety, you’ll never, ever <\/p>\n
749
\n00:54:05,640 –> 00:54:07,960
\nchange it.
\nBut you get down to little <\/p>\n
750
\n00:54:07,960 –> 00:54:10,960
\nchildren who don’t know any
\ndifferent and you start <\/p>\n
751
\n00:54:11,280 –> 00:54:15,240
\nbrainwashing them, and I use
\nthat term brainwashing them, by <\/p>\n
752
\n00:54:15,640 –> 00:54:18,440
\nmaking an environment where the
\nlanguage has changed and <\/p>\n
753
\n00:54:18,440 –> 00:54:20,720
\neverything about it is all now
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:54:22,080 –> 00:54:26,680
\nEventually thinking will change.
\nWithin society all there is <\/p>\n
755
\n00:54:26,680 –> 00:54:30,400
\nactive discrimination of women
\npromoted into executive <\/p>\n
756
\n00:54:30,400 –> 00:54:34,400
\npositions and administrative
\npositions within education <\/p>\n
757
\n00:54:34,400 –> 00:54:39,000
\nbodies.
\nVery important within schools, <\/p>\n
758
\n00:54:39,000 –> 00:54:42,680
\nagain very important because
\npolicy has to be influenced <\/p>\n
759
\n00:54:44,280 –> 00:54:47,720
\ndecision making in many schools
\nin this state. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:54:48,240 –> 00:54:49,680
\nBrothers and sisters.
\nIs. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:54:49,800 –> 00:54:54,560
\nAbsolutely hamstrung by
\nfeminists, and that’s no <\/p>\n
762
\n00:54:54,560 –> 00:54:59,120
\nunderstatement.
\nHamstrung and people, <\/p>\n
763
\n00:54:59,160 –> 00:55:03,120
\nadministrators, principals are
\npowerless with their hands <\/p>\n
764
\n00:55:03,120 –> 00:55:08,000
\nbehind their backs by equal
\nopportunity legislation that <\/p>\n
765
\n00:55:08,000 –> 00:55:14,840
\ntells them what they have to do
\ndespite what they know is best. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:55:15,320 –> 00:55:19,480
\nTo do now.
\nThat whole movement is based, <\/p>\n
767
\n00:55:19,560 –> 00:55:22,000
\nonce again, on humanistic
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:55:22,320 –> 00:55:27,880
\nNo God, no absolutes.
\nWhy should there be a difference<\/p>\n
769
\n00:55:27,880 –> 00:55:31,280
\nbetween males and females if we
\nall evolved anyway? <\/p>\n
770
\n00:55:31,760 –> 00:55:33,360
\nWe all came out of a lump of
\nJelly. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:55:33,920 –> 00:55:36,040
\nWho’s to say there’s any
\ndifference? <\/p>\n
772
\n00:55:36,200 –> 00:55:39,520
\nWhy should there be?
\nAnd so goes the reasoning. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:55:40,200 –> 00:55:46,000
\nGirls, Beware of that subtle
\nindoctrination, because that’s <\/p>\n
774
\n00:55:46,000 –> 00:55:48,520
\nwhat it is.
\nOh, it sounds very plausible. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:55:48,720 –> 00:55:51,280
\nAnd on occasions.
\nYou may be called together. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:55:51,720 –> 00:55:54,800
\nAs a group of girls at school,
\nit’s happened in the school that<\/p>\n
777
\n00:55:54,800 –> 00:56:00,520
\nI work at, girls have been taken
\ninto a room for three days where<\/p>\n
778
\n00:56:00,520 –> 00:56:04,240
\nno male was allowed to step into
\nthe room. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:56:05,840 –> 00:56:10,280
\nAnd top ranking feminists from
\naround this city came in and <\/p>\n
780
\n00:56:10,280 –> 00:56:14,360
\ntalked to them and taught them
\nhow to be more aggressive, how <\/p>\n
781
\n00:56:14,360 –> 00:56:18,640
\nto direct their careers, how to
\nthink about this and that and. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:56:18,920 –> 00:56:21,520
\nBuild their minds with all sorts
\nof things. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:56:23,160 –> 00:56:26,560
\nIt’s being aggressively
\nmarketed, aggressively marketed <\/p>\n
784
\n00:56:27,240 –> 00:56:30,520
\nwithin our school system.
\nAnd I say, brethren and sisters,<\/p>\n
785
\n00:56:30,560 –> 00:56:34,760
\nall power to the move to
\nestablish a school within our <\/p>\n
786
\n00:56:34,760 –> 00:56:37,280
\nown community.
\nWe’ve got the ability to do so <\/p>\n
787
\n00:56:37,920 –> 00:56:43,160
\nthat’s going to be based on
\ngodly principles because that <\/p>\n
788
\n00:56:44,080 –> 00:56:49,120
\nunderpinning philosophy is
\nripping society apart. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:56:50,240 –> 00:56:53,840
\nIt’s a movement, brethren, and.
\nSisters, that’s even affecting <\/p>\n
790
\n00:56:53,840 –> 00:56:57,120
\nthe English language.
\nCan you believe it? <\/p>\n
791
\n00:56:57,680 –> 00:56:59,440
\nIt’s affecting the English
\nlanguage. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:56:59,720 –> 00:57:03,440
\nYou ask any young people in
\nsenior secondary school today <\/p>\n
793
\n00:57:03,680 –> 00:57:06,800
\nthat happened to be doing any of
\nthe subjects like English or the<\/p>\n
794
\n00:57:06,800 –> 00:57:11,840
\nsocial sciences, and if they use
\nsexist terms in their writing, <\/p>\n
795
\n00:57:11,960 –> 00:57:16,000
\nthey will be downgraded.
\nI know there are young people in<\/p>\n
796
\n00:57:16,000 –> 00:57:21,120
\nthis hall here tonight who have
\nbeen told by teachers you didn’t<\/p>\n
797
\n00:57:21,120 –> 00:57:23,760
\nget an A.
\nThis is a very impressive piece <\/p>\n
798
\n00:57:23,760 –> 00:57:25,360
\nof work.
\nBut I have to give you AC <\/p>\n
799
\n00:57:25,640 –> 00:57:30,000
\nbecause you’ve used this
\nlanguage, because you’ve said he<\/p>\n
800
\n00:57:30,120 –> 00:57:34,160
\ninstead of she, because you’ve
\ncalled this husband and wife <\/p>\n
801
\n00:57:34,160 –> 00:57:41,040
\ninstead of partner.
\nOur young people are facing <\/p>\n
802
\n00:57:41,040 –> 00:57:45,080
\nthat.
\nIt’s a serious business. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:57:46,720 –> 00:57:54,920
\nIt’s conditioning, but rapidly
\nwe’re beginning to see the <\/p>\n
804
\n00:57:54,920 –> 00:58:02,400
\nconsequences of such a policy.
\nYou see the rate of marriage <\/p>\n
805
\n00:58:02,400 –> 00:58:06,520
\nbreakdown is increasing
\nalarmingly. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:58:07,480 –> 00:58:11,680
\nFamily.
\nProblems only two years. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:58:11,680 –> 00:58:15,280
\nAgo when I had a Home group in
\nthe school that I was teaching <\/p>\n
808
\n00:58:15,280 –> 00:58:21,000
\nat in.
\nNot a very bad suburb, I <\/p>\n
809
\n00:58:21,000 –> 00:58:26,080
\nsuppose, not certainly in the
\nworst areas to teach in this <\/p>\n
810
\n00:58:26,080 –> 00:58:33,440
\nstate. 65% of the children in
\nthat Home group had one parent <\/p>\n
811
\n00:58:33,440 –> 00:58:37,440
\nat home.
\nAnd there’s all sorts of social <\/p>\n
812
\n00:58:37,440 –> 00:58:40,200
\nproblems, as we well know, that
\nare coming out of that. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:58:41,280 –> 00:58:44,680
\nSociety is turning God’s values
\nupside down. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:58:44,880 –> 00:58:48,600
\nBut the worst thing is they’re
\ntrying to influence our children<\/p>\n
815
\n00:58:50,440 –> 00:58:54,840
\nand to some degree, brethren and
\nsisters, I say succeeding. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:58:58,440 –> 00:59:02,800
\nWhat is the truth?
\nWhat is the truth? <\/p>\n
817
\n00:59:04,960 –> 00:59:12,160
\nAbout equal opportunity, young
\npeople, do you know You know God<\/p>\n
818
\n00:59:12,160 –> 00:59:18,200
\nin the beginning made man and
\nwoman differently by different <\/p>\n
819
\n00:59:18,200 –> 00:59:21,480
\nprocesses for a very good
\nreason. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:59:22,080 –> 00:59:24,720
\nHe made them that they might
\ncomplement each other, not to <\/p>\n
821
\n00:59:24,840 –> 00:59:28,440
\npaint with each other.
\nHe made the woman second, the <\/p>\n
822
\n00:59:28,440 –> 00:59:31,640
\nman first.
\nHe made the woman as a help fit <\/p>\n
823
\n00:59:31,720 –> 00:59:34,960
\nfor the man that she might draw
\nfrom him the latent <\/p>\n
824
\n00:59:34,960 –> 00:59:39,000
\ncharacteristics that were there
\nand together form a beautiful <\/p>\n
825
\n00:59:39,000 –> 00:59:44,280
\nharmony of characteristics and
\nbe able to develop the divine <\/p>\n
826
\n00:59:44,280 –> 00:59:48,560
\ncharacter together.
\nAnd their roles are very clearly<\/p>\n
827
\n00:59:49,080 –> 00:59:55,240
\nestablished in the Scriptures.
\nBut before God in a spiritual <\/p>\n
828
\n00:59:55,240 –> 00:59:59,760
\nsense, young people, man and
\nwoman, are equal in the sight of<\/p>\n
829
\n00:59:59,760 –> 01:00:03,800
\nGod as the apostle Paul.
\nSaid ye are. <\/p>\n
830
\n01:00:03,880 –> 01:00:08,880
\nAll one in Christ Jesus, there
\nis no male, no female, there’s <\/p>\n
831
\n01:00:08,880 –> 01:00:11,600
\nno race barriers, there’s not
\none greater than another. <\/p>\n
832
\n01:00:11,880 –> 01:00:15,440
\nThey’re you’re all male and
\nfemale, all sorry, one in Christ<\/p>\n
833
\n01:00:15,440 –> 01:00:19,440
\nJesus, Peter said.
\nYou’re ears together. <\/p>\n
834
\n01:00:20,240 –> 01:00:25,080
\nOf the grace of life.
\nBut that’s not to say that God <\/p>\n
835
\n01:00:25,080 –> 01:00:29,880
\nhas not clearly defined roles
\nand responsibilities. <\/p>\n
836
\n01:00:30,480 –> 01:00:34,040
\nThat have been based upon the
\npattern of His creation, which <\/p>\n
837
\n01:00:34,040 –> 01:00:37,840
\nHe alone as Creator knows what
\nis best for each. <\/p>\n
838
\n01:00:37,840 –> 01:00:44,280
\nOf those two groups, and the
\nwisdom of this world in their <\/p>\n
839
\n01:00:44,280 –> 01:00:47,760
\nutter folly, has chosen to
\nignore it. <\/p>\n
840
\n01:00:49,200 –> 01:00:53,000
\nAnd that’s not new, because
\nthey’ve ignored it on many <\/p>\n
841
\n01:00:53,000 –> 01:00:55,000
\noccasions in many ages in the
\npast. <\/p>\n
842
\n01:00:55,240 –> 01:00:57,920
\nIn the 1st century, exactly the
\nsame thing happened. <\/p>\n
843
\n01:00:57,920 –> 01:00:59,800
\nI like to come first to
\nCorinthians Chapter 11. <\/p>\n
844
\n01:01:10,520 –> 01:01:13,000
\n1st of Corinthians Chapter 11
\nverse 3. <\/p>\n
845
\n01:01:17,880 –> 01:01:21,320
\nBut I would have you know, said
\nthe apostle, that the head of <\/p>\n
846
\n01:01:21,320 –> 01:01:24,960
\nevery man is Christ, and the
\nhead of the woman is the man, <\/p>\n
847
\n01:01:25,640 –> 01:01:31,120
\nand the head of Christ is God.
\nThere is a clear distinction. <\/p>\n
848
\n01:01:31,400 –> 01:01:33,760
\nThere are clear levels of
\nheadship which God has <\/p>\n
849
\n01:01:33,760 –> 01:01:35,760
\nestablished.
\nThat are appropriate. <\/p>\n
850
\n01:01:35,760 –> 01:01:41,360
\nGod, Christ, man, woman.
\nEvident in all that he does and <\/p>\n
851
\n01:01:42,320 –> 01:01:46,960
\npurposeful.
\nIn the development of of his <\/p>\n
852
\n01:01:47,120 –> 01:01:49,920
\npurpose throughout the earth.
\nYou know, in Corinth, in the <\/p>\n
853
\n01:01:49,920 –> 01:01:54,360
\ndays in which Paul wrote these
\nwords, women were removing their<\/p>\n
854
\n01:01:54,360 –> 01:01:59,960
\nhead coverings as a protest
\nasserting equality of rights, <\/p>\n
855
\n01:02:00,160 –> 01:02:02,920
\nthat it wasn’t fair that the men
\nwere. <\/p>\n
856
\n01:02:02,920 –> 01:02:05,080
\nAllowed to do this or that and
\nthey weren’t. <\/p>\n
857
\n01:02:06,360 –> 01:02:07,880
\nAnd Paul had to deal with the
\nissue. <\/p>\n
858
\n01:02:08,800 –> 01:02:11,360
\nAnd he said, in effect, brothers
\nand sisters and young people, <\/p>\n
859
\n01:02:12,400 –> 01:02:19,120
\nthat those women were showing
\nboth their own ignorance and <\/p>\n
860
\n01:02:19,120 –> 01:02:24,440
\ntheir own wrong motivation.
\nBecause the head covering was in<\/p>\n
861
\n01:02:24,440 –> 01:02:27,760
\nrecognition of a divine
\nprinciple of headship that got <\/p>\n
862
\n01:02:27,760 –> 01:02:30,960
\nit always established right.
\nFrom the beginning, it’s a <\/p>\n
863
\n01:02:30,960 –> 01:02:35,080
\nprinciple which is divine.
\nAnd it’s in operation throughout<\/p>\n
864
\n01:02:35,080 –> 01:02:40,240
\nall this dispensation of things.
\nAnd it’s not only applicable to <\/p>\n
865
\n01:02:40,240 –> 01:02:45,280
\nmarried women and married men or
\nbaptized girls and not <\/p>\n
866
\n01:02:45,280 –> 01:02:48,120
\nunbaptized girls.
\nIt’s a universal principle that <\/p>\n
867
\n01:02:48,120 –> 01:02:51,480
\nGod has established just as
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
868
\n01:02:51,480 –> 01:02:55,520
\nIs subject to God, so the
\necclesia ought to be subject to <\/p>\n
869
\n01:02:55,520 –> 01:03:00,680
\nChrist.
\nSo likewise, in the same way is <\/p>\n
870
\n01:03:00,680 –> 01:03:04,080
\nthe woman to be subject to the
\nman in this dispensation. <\/p>\n
871
\n01:03:04,320 –> 01:03:07,160
\nIn the time to come, in the age
\nto come, we will be equal to the<\/p>\n
872
\n01:03:07,200 –> 01:03:08,960
\nangels.
\nThere will be no difference. <\/p>\n
873
\n01:03:09,960 –> 01:03:13,760
\nBut it’s sad to see, despite
\nPaul’s clear statements here and<\/p>\n
874
\n01:03:13,760 –> 01:03:15,440
\nelsewhere, that we.
\nHaven’t got time to look at <\/p>\n
875
\n01:03:15,440 –> 01:03:18,600
\ntonight.
\nIt’s sad to see in recent times,<\/p>\n
876
\n01:03:19,080 –> 01:03:24,840
\nyoung girls and sisters, that
\nsome of our girls are not at an.<\/p>\n
877
\n01:03:24,840 –> 01:03:28,680
\nAge.
\nOf clear mental ability. <\/p>\n
878
\n01:03:29,120 –> 01:03:33,240
\nAnd appreciation of divine
\nthings, Not wearing hats to <\/p>\n
879
\n01:03:33,240 –> 01:03:38,520
\nmeetings, removing them the very
\nmoment the piano or the organ <\/p>\n
880
\n01:03:38,520 –> 01:03:40,640
\nstops, as if to make a
\nstatement. <\/p>\n
881
\n01:03:41,880 –> 01:03:48,840
\nIf that’s coincidental to a
\nforceful campaign for equal <\/p>\n
882
\n01:03:48,840 –> 01:03:52,240
\nrights and to denigrate
\neverything that’s been <\/p>\n
883
\n01:03:52,240 –> 01:03:56,560
\nbiblically said about it in our
\nage, well, so be it. <\/p>\n
884
\n01:03:57,400 –> 01:03:59,680
\nBut it’s an awful coincidence if
\nit is. <\/p>\n
885
\n01:04:00,640 –> 01:04:04,000
\nYou see, God is.
\nAligned for men and for women. <\/p>\n
886
\n01:04:04,240 –> 01:04:08,600
\nVital roles for each, vitally
\nimportant, both of them. <\/p>\n
887
\n01:04:09,200 –> 01:04:13,200
\nAnd they’re not the same.
\nThey’re equally important and <\/p>\n
888
\n01:04:13,200 –> 01:04:16,240
\nall we have to do.
\nBrethren and sisters, young or <\/p>\n
889
\n01:04:16,240 –> 01:04:21,600
\nold is understand the role that
\nGod has for us. <\/p>\n
890
\n01:04:22,920 –> 01:04:27,880
\nYou know, there’s, it’s vital to
\nour, to our families and to our <\/p>\n
891
\n01:04:27,880 –> 01:04:33,520
\necclesias that our sisters
\nespecially see in this age of <\/p>\n
892
\n01:04:33,520 –> 01:04:38,520
\ndistortion of values, see very
\nclearly what some of those <\/p>\n
893
\n01:04:38,520 –> 01:04:42,960
\nissues are.
\nYou know, the New Testament <\/p>\n
894
\n01:04:42,960 –> 01:04:47,840
\nmakes it very clear that the
\nrole of sisters in the ecclesia <\/p>\n
895
\n01:04:48,640 –> 01:04:54,520
\nis generally not public.
\nBut it’s just as important as <\/p>\n
896
\n01:04:54,520 –> 01:04:57,400
\nthe role of any.
\nBrother in the meeting and this <\/p>\n
897
\n01:04:57,400 –> 01:04:59,600
\ncrazy.
\nWorld is out there educating our<\/p>\n
898
\n01:04:59,600 –> 01:05:02,200
\ngirls.
\nAnd bombarding our sisters <\/p>\n
899
\n01:05:02,200 –> 01:05:05,720
\nduring the day through the radio
\nand whatever else, and telling <\/p>\n
900
\n01:05:05,720 –> 01:05:08,960
\nthem that they should be the
\nsame as males, they should be <\/p>\n
901
\n01:05:08,960 –> 01:05:12,000
\nmore aggressive, they should
\nstand up for what they think. <\/p>\n
902
\n01:05:12,320 –> 01:05:14,760
\nDon’t be pushed around you make
\nyour own way. <\/p>\n
903
\n01:05:14,840 –> 01:05:18,040
\nYou have your career, you do
\nwhat you like, when you like and<\/p>\n
904
\n01:05:18,040 –> 01:05:19,880
\ndon’t listen to what the men
\nsay. <\/p>\n
905
\n01:05:21,320 –> 01:05:24,640
\nSisters, if that’s coming across
\na radio all day, don’t listen to<\/p>\n
906
\n01:05:24,640 –> 01:05:29,680
\nit because we’re influenced to
\nwhat continually goes through <\/p>\n
907
\n01:05:29,680 –> 01:05:32,520
\nour minds.
\nBrother Thomas in a well known <\/p>\n
908
\n01:05:32,520 –> 01:05:34,280
\npassage in Elpis Israel, said
\nthis. <\/p>\n
909
\n01:05:35,480 –> 01:05:38,360
\nAnd truer words for this age,
\nthey never were. <\/p>\n
910
\n01:05:39,440 –> 01:05:42,280
\nWhen women aim for an equality
\nfor which they are not <\/p>\n
911
\n01:05:42,280 –> 01:05:46,760
\nphysically constituted, they
\ndegrade themselves by the <\/p>\n
912
\n01:05:46,760 –> 01:05:50,680
\nexhibition, and in proportion as
\nthey rise in assurance they sink<\/p>\n
913
\n01:05:50,680 –> 01:05:53,440
\nin.
\nAll that really adorns a woman, <\/p>\n
914
\n01:05:54,480 –> 01:05:56,880
\nyoung girls and young.
\nSisters, take that. <\/p>\n
915
\n01:05:57,240 –> 01:06:00,920
\nAnd think about it.
\nThe apostle Paul and brother <\/p>\n
916
\n01:06:00,920 –> 01:06:05,520
\nThomas were not anti women.
\nThe apostle gives some advice. <\/p>\n
917
\n01:06:05,520 –> 01:06:09,000
\nLet’s look at it quickly in
\nTitus chapter chapter 2 and <\/p>\n
918
\n01:06:09,040 –> 01:06:12,920
\nTitus chapter 2, just as one
\nexample. <\/p>\n
919
\n01:06:13,840 –> 01:06:17,680
\nAnd there are many others.
\nIn First Timothy chapter 2, for <\/p>\n
920
\n01:06:17,680 –> 01:06:25,920
\nexample, we’ll look at Titus 2
\nand at verse three he says for <\/p>\n
921
\n01:06:25,920 –> 01:06:31,200
\nwe ourselves sorry, wrong.
\nChapter Titus 2 and chapter and <\/p>\n
922
\n01:06:31,200 –> 01:06:36,440
\nverse three, he says the aged
\nwomen likewise, that they be in <\/p>\n
923
\n01:06:36,440 –> 01:06:40,760
\nbehaviour as becometh holiness,
\nnot false accusers, not given <\/p>\n
924
\n01:06:40,760 –> 01:06:43,000
\ntoo much wine, but teachers of
\ngood things. <\/p>\n
925
\n01:06:43,160 –> 01:06:46,560
\nThat they may teach the young
\nwomen to be sober, to love their<\/p>\n
926
\n01:06:46,560 –> 01:06:50,400
\nhusbands, to love their
\nchildren, to be discreet, chaste<\/p>\n
927
\n01:06:50,840 –> 01:06:55,120
\nkeepers at home, good, obedient
\nto their own husbands, that the <\/p>\n
928
\n01:06:55,120 –> 01:06:59,120
\nword of God be not not
\nblasphemed. <\/p>\n
929
\n01:06:59,760 –> 01:07:02,080
\nIt’s not an onerous task, but
\nwe’re going to be to be <\/p>\n
930
\n01:07:02,080 –> 01:07:06,280
\nsubjected unto all sorts of
\ncruel torture and treatment and <\/p>\n
931
\n01:07:06,280 –> 01:07:08,120
\nto be made to do things against
\ntheir will. <\/p>\n
932
\n01:07:08,360 –> 01:07:10,840
\nThat’s not what Paul is talking
\nabout. <\/p>\n
933
\n01:07:10,840 –> 01:07:14,080
\nUnder any circumstances, there
\nought to be a very beautiful <\/p>\n
934
\n01:07:14,080 –> 01:07:17,440
\nbalance.
\nIn family life but there are <\/p>\n
935
\n01:07:17,440 –> 01:07:20,320
\nroles that the apostle talks
\nabout older women adorning <\/p>\n
936
\n01:07:20,320 –> 01:07:22,840
\nthemselves as he says in another
\nplace with. <\/p>\n
937
\n01:07:23,000 –> 01:07:26,000
\nGood works which in the sight of
\nGod are of great value. <\/p>\n
938
\n01:07:26,000 –> 01:07:32,840
\nSisters understand that good
\nworks, the hidden man of the <\/p>\n
939
\n01:07:32,840 –> 01:07:37,120
\nheart, are of great value to God
\nand can achieve in a cleansing <\/p>\n
940
\n01:07:37,120 –> 01:07:41,160
\nlife more than words from a
\nplatform can ever do. <\/p>\n
941
\n01:07:42,960 –> 01:07:45,640
\nWe can teach by word and
\nexample. <\/p>\n
942
\n01:07:46,120 –> 01:07:48,400
\nAnd it’s sadly.
\nLacking in our community and <\/p>\n
943
\n01:07:48,400 –> 01:07:50,720
\nyoung sisters.
\nDo you think your role’s a <\/p>\n
944
\n01:07:50,720 –> 01:07:53,720
\nboring one?
\nWell, it’s only because you’ve <\/p>\n
945
\n01:07:53,720 –> 01:07:56,880
\nbeen influenced by the thinking
\nof this evil age if you think <\/p>\n
946
\n01:07:56,880 –> 01:07:57,720
\nthat.
\nLife is a. <\/p>\n
947
\n01:07:57,720 –> 01:08:02,120
\nBoring one in bringing up the
\nthe future kings and priests of <\/p>\n
948
\n01:08:02,120 –> 01:08:05,200
\nan age which is going to be the
\ngood most glorious time that <\/p>\n
949
\n01:08:05,200 –> 01:08:07,680
\nthere has ever been on earth.
\nWhat an enormous. <\/p>\n
950
\n01:08:07,680 –> 01:08:11,120
\nResponsibility, that is, and
\nevidently it wasn’t being done <\/p>\n
951
\n01:08:11,120 –> 01:08:16,160
\nin the 1st century either,
\nbecause Paul says older sisters <\/p>\n
952
\n01:08:16,200 –> 01:08:20,000
\nteach the younger ones that the
\nword of God be not blasphemed. <\/p>\n
953
\n01:08:20,359 –> 01:08:24,080
\nGod has put into the hands of
\nour sisters a tremendous work, a<\/p>\n
954
\n01:08:24,080 –> 01:08:28,800
\ngreat responsibility.
\nThere may not be outward <\/p>\n
955
\n01:08:28,800 –> 01:08:32,479
\nrecognition, an adulation now in
\nthe age to come, there will <\/p>\n
956
\n01:08:32,479 –> 01:08:34,359
\nthere will be great praise and
\nhonour. <\/p>\n
957
\n01:08:35,200 –> 01:08:40,359
\nBut shaping the next generation,
\nshaping the next generation of <\/p>\n
958
\n01:08:40,359 –> 01:08:44,479
\nthose who are coming to know God
\nand allowing public work of the <\/p>\n
959
\n01:08:44,479 –> 01:08:48,800
\ntruth to proceed by their
\nsupport and their their care and<\/p>\n
960
\n01:08:48,920 –> 01:08:51,960
\nencouragement in the home is a
\nvital work. <\/p>\n
961
\n01:08:52,120 –> 01:08:53,439
\nRemember the?
\nWords of the Psalm. <\/p>\n
962
\n01:08:54,120 –> 01:08:59,479
\nOur daughters are to be as
\ncornerstones, polished after the<\/p>\n
963
\n01:08:59,479 –> 01:09:06,560
\nsimilitude of a palace.
\nSolid, beautiful, unmovable, and<\/p>\n
964
\n01:09:06,600 –> 01:09:09,520
\ngloriously precious in the sight
\nof God. <\/p>\n
965
\n01:09:10,479 –> 01:09:15,000
\nAs if in a.
\nPalace and done by quiet godly <\/p>\n
966
\n01:09:15,000 –> 01:09:19,880
\nworks an example a caring
\nsympathetic spirit that only <\/p>\n
967
\n01:09:19,880 –> 01:09:25,800
\nwomen crying can extend the fall
\nwhere sisters there is a vital. <\/p>\n
968
\n01:09:25,800 –> 01:09:27,920
\nWork in the Ecclesia.
\nYoung girls don’t. <\/p>\n
969
\n01:09:27,960 –> 01:09:29,720
\nEver let anyone tell you
\notherwise? <\/p>\n
970
\n01:09:29,960 –> 01:09:33,720
\nAnd it’s often more effective
\nand more powerful than that of <\/p>\n
971
\n01:09:33,720 –> 01:09:37,560
\nmany brethren.
\nNow Paul appreciated the work of<\/p>\n
972
\n01:09:37,560 –> 01:09:40,359
\nmany sisters.
\nYou pick up Romans 16 at your <\/p>\n
973
\n01:09:40,359 –> 01:09:42,880
\nleisure and read it and you see
\nwhat he said about some of the <\/p>\n
974
\n01:09:43,120 –> 01:09:46,640
\nmarvellous work of sisters and
\nbearing the yoking youth, <\/p>\n
975
\n01:09:46,640 –> 01:09:49,600
\nsisters and young girls.
\nWhat better way to bear the <\/p>\n
976
\n01:09:49,600 –> 01:09:54,240
\nyoke?
\nThe yoke of self denial, being <\/p>\n
977
\n01:09:54,240 –> 01:09:58,720
\ncompassionate and caring of
\nconcern, ministering to others <\/p>\n
978
\n01:09:58,840 –> 01:10:01,600
\nwasn’t.
\nThat’s the spirit of our Lord <\/p>\n
979
\n01:10:01,600 –> 01:10:06,760
\nHimself and encouraging build.
\nWhen brethren and sisters in the<\/p>\n
980
\n01:10:06,760 –> 01:10:10,320
\nequator of God can cooperate in
\nthose complementary roles <\/p>\n
981
\n01:10:10,320 –> 01:10:15,720
\ntogether, what a glorious and
\nhappy place it will be. <\/p>\n
982
\n01:10:18,520 –> 01:10:24,000
\nBut the circumstances that we
\nfind in Mary’s life from this <\/p>\n
983
\n01:10:24,000 –> 01:10:27,800
\ntime onwards are very
\ninstructive. <\/p>\n
984
\n01:10:28,000 –> 01:10:32,480
\nWe’re not going to look at them
\nin any detail, but we know that <\/p>\n
985
\n01:10:32,640 –> 01:10:37,560
\nshe lived in despised Nazareth
\nin what was almost certain <\/p>\n
986
\n01:10:37,560 –> 01:10:41,320
\npoverty.
\nShe offered, for example, the <\/p>\n
987
\n01:10:41,320 –> 01:10:44,320
\noffering of the poor when she
\ncame to Jerusalem, and she would<\/p>\n
988
\n01:10:44,320 –> 01:10:47,600
\nhave offered better if she was
\nable her own. <\/p>\n
989
\n01:10:47,680 –> 01:10:51,280
\nThe spirit in in her song
\nidentifies with the poor and the<\/p>\n
990
\n01:10:51,280 –> 01:10:55,000
\ndowntrodden.
\nAnd isn’t it interesting that <\/p>\n
991
\n01:10:55,000 –> 01:11:00,440
\nGod saw fit to put his Son into
\nthat environment? <\/p>\n
992
\n01:11:01,000 –> 01:11:05,920
\nBrother Roberts once said the
\nlap of luxury is notoriously <\/p>\n
993
\n01:11:05,920 –> 01:11:08,080
\nunfavourable for the development
\nof character. <\/p>\n
994
\n01:11:08,240 –> 01:11:11,480
\nAnd so it is.
\nAnd perhaps we ought to take <\/p>\n
995
\n01:11:11,480 –> 01:11:15,600
\nthat as a warning, parents.
\nBut her trauma went on. <\/p>\n
996
\n01:11:16,640 –> 01:11:19,080
\nThere was a great deal of
\nunknowns in her life and. <\/p>\n
997
\n01:11:19,280 –> 01:11:22,760
\nAnd she had to face the.
\nStigma of being an unmarried <\/p>\n
998
\n01:11:22,760 –> 01:11:27,920
\nmother in Israel and the talk of
\nthe town and all the innuendo. <\/p>\n
999
\n01:11:28,120 –> 01:11:30,760
\nAnd patiently bear with that.
\nIf she explained to me, well, <\/p>\n
1000
\n01:11:30,760 –> 01:11:33,440
\nthey didn’t believe her and that
\nno one in that generation called<\/p>\n
1001
\n01:11:33,440 –> 01:11:37,480
\nher blessed.
\nEven though it was prophesied <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:11:37,480 –> 01:11:40,800
\nthat she would, it didn’t matter
\nwhat she said. <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:11:41,320 –> 01:11:46,440
\nHer reputation was destroyed and
\n30 years later the scribes and <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:11:46,440 –> 01:11:50,720
\nPharisees threw those words into
\nthe teeth of Jesus when they <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:11:50,720 –> 01:11:55,960
\nsaid, we be not born of
\nfornication. <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:11:56,920 –> 01:12:01,920
\nWe know who our Father was, so
\nthey never forgot. <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:12:04,320 –> 01:12:08,640
\nAnd she was called upon to
\naccept great difficulty, mental <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:12:08,640 –> 01:12:13,520
\ntorture through her very
\nearliest years, as with <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:12:13,520 –> 01:12:19,280
\ndifficulty, she struggled to
\nbring up the Son of God in a <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:12:19,280 –> 01:12:21,880
\nhome that we know had at least
\nsix other children. <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:12:23,440 –> 01:12:25,520
\nThere was the tragedy that she
\nalmost. <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:12:25,520 –> 01:12:31,360
\nLost Joseph but got intervened
\nand spoke to him through an <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:12:31,360 –> 01:12:36,040
\nAngel and there on the back of a
\ndonkey. <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:12:36,440 –> 01:12:41,880
\nShe travelled to Bethlehem only
\nto be turned around and cast out<\/p>\n
1015
\n01:12:41,880 –> 01:12:47,680
\nfrom every venue that they
\nturned into and ending up in a <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:12:47,680 –> 01:12:50,720
\nstable.
\nThe king of the world was born. <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:12:51,520 –> 01:12:57,200
\nThe king of the world, you know,
\nGod’s telling us something. <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:12:58,960 –> 01:13:03,760
\nHe’s not interested in what man
\nthinks is important and great. <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:13:04,800 –> 01:13:08,080
\nBut as Paul said in first of
\nCorinthians chapter 1, he said <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:13:08,760 –> 01:13:12,160
\nGod has chosen the base things
\nof this world and things which <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:13:12,160 –> 01:13:14,400
\nare the spies and things that
\nwhich I’m not to bring to <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:13:14,400 –> 01:13:17,120
\nnaughty the things that are.
\nThat no flesh should glory in <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:13:17,120 –> 01:13:18,960
\nHis presence.
\nAnd so it was. <\/p>\n
1024
\n01:13:19,400 –> 01:13:21,840
\nAnd she was forced to flee to
\nEgypt and amidst all the. <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:13:21,840 –> 01:13:24,520
\nUncertainty of that.
\nAnd to come back again to the <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:13:24,520 –> 01:13:25,840
\ninnuendo.
\nBack in Nazareth. <\/p>\n
1027
\n01:13:26,000 –> 01:13:28,480
\nOh, what a terrible.
\nEarly life it was brethren and <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:13:28,480 –> 01:13:31,520
\nsisters and young people.
\nSisters, Just think about all <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:13:31,520 –> 01:13:36,720
\nthe trauma that she went through
\nand all that time in her youth, <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:13:36,720 –> 01:13:41,600
\nGod was preparing her for the
\ngreat work of influencing His <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:13:41,600 –> 01:13:44,040
\nSon.
\nAnd so that young lad began to <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:13:44,040 –> 01:13:47,440
\ngrow.
\nAnd began to delight because of <\/p>\n
1033
\n01:13:47,440 –> 01:13:49,880
\nhis mother’s instruction in
\nGod’s way. <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:13:50,480 –> 01:13:53,480
\nAnd he grew to love his Father
\nin heaven and divine ways. <\/p>\n
1035
\n01:13:53,840 –> 01:13:57,040
\nHe learned to think like his
\nmother and reflect. <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:13:57,040 –> 01:14:00,880
\nOn his father.
\n‘S thoughts and his ways. <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:14:01,400 –> 01:14:04,520
\nAnd he saw in his mother a
\npatient example under <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:14:04,520 –> 01:14:08,040
\ntribulation.
\nHe saw that in that home. <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:14:08,240 –> 01:14:11,960
\nHe learnt what it meant to just
\nclose your mouth and accept the <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:14:11,960 –> 01:14:15,240
\ninnuendo of men.
\nHe learnt what it meant to be <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:14:15,240 –> 01:14:19,280
\npoor and to suffer.
\nHe learnt all of those things by<\/p>\n
1042
\n01:14:19,280 –> 01:14:21,200
\nsinging.
\nThe pressures of family life <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:14:21,200 –> 01:14:25,240
\nbore down upon him.
\nBut Mary grew by all of those <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:14:25,240 –> 01:14:33,080
\ncircumstances in her youth, and
\nGod bore it upon her that she <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:14:33,080 –> 01:14:39,360
\nmight, with this precious gift,
\nperform a mighty work in Co <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:14:39,360 –> 01:14:43,600
\noperation with him.
\nYoung Sisters. <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:14:43,960 –> 01:14:50,120
\nThat’s the role that you have.
\nAnd brethren, we too have the <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:14:50,120 –> 01:14:55,360
\nrole of development in
\ncooperation with God amidst <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:14:55,360 –> 01:15:00,760
\nlife’s joys and sorrows.
\nGod hasn’t said that He will <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:15:00,760 –> 01:15:04,640
\nprovide a a flower strewn
\npathway to the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:15:06,560 –> 01:15:10,800
\nBut the experiences of life will
\nmake so much more sense if in <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:15:10,800 –> 01:15:17,280
\nour youth we can develop our
\nminds and think, meditate and <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:15:17,280 –> 01:15:21,480
\nreflect upon the marvellous
\nthings that he’s done. <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:15:23,960 –> 01:15:28,840
\nWhat a beautiful character Mary
\nis in her youth. <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:15:30,280 –> 01:15:44,840
\nWhat have we seen?
\nThat God delights in those who <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:15:44,840 –> 01:15:50,560
\nshow faith and willing obedience
\nto Him, the delights in those <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:15:50,560 –> 01:15:55,880
\nthat think upon His name and
\nreflectively consider the <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:15:55,880 –> 01:15:59,960
\ncircumstances of their life.
\nAnd that youth is by far the <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:15:59,960 –> 01:16:04,840
\nbest time to develop such godly
\nthinking, that we may in time be<\/p>\n
1060
\n01:16:04,840 –> 01:16:08,840
\ncalled upon even youth to suffer
\nunjustly for the name of Christ <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:16:09,440 –> 01:16:15,320
\nand to bear it patiently because
\nGod life was not to be easy for <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:16:15,320 –> 01:16:19,480
\nany of God’s servants.
\nWe’ve learnt that societies <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:16:19,480 –> 01:16:23,440
\nchange the divinely appointed
\nroles of men and women, but <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:16:23,440 –> 01:16:29,400
\nfulfilment and blessing and true
\nhappiness will only come by <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:16:29,400 –> 01:16:33,000
\naccepting God’s way in Co
\noperation with Him. <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:16:42,600 –> 01:16:46,320
\nThank you, Brother Andrew.
\nLet us brothers and sisters and <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:16:46,320 –> 01:16:50,600
\nyoung people take the lessons
\nfrom the life of Mary to <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:16:50,600 –> 01:16:54,160
\nthoughtfully consider the Word
\nof God and willingly submit <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:16:54,160 –> 01:16:56,600
\nourselves to what God requires
\nof us. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:16:58,040 –> 01:17:01,800
\nWe’ll close tonight’s meeting
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