Sermon Tone Analysis

In All of our Being We Magnify Him (46-47)

Mary bursts into this amazing hymn of praise to the Lord above because of what Elizabeth stated to her.

She was bragging on the Lord alone and not herself at all.

All glory is given to the Lord.

We see he magnifying Him and we can do the same.

Magnify and praise the Lord for all you have.

We can easily sing here

Joy to the World

Glory to God on High

Praise His Holy Name.

This is magnifying the Lord.

This is giving honor and praise to Him in all things.

This is taking any glory and honor from us and giving it all to Him.

This is what Mary does in Luke 1:46-55

When we read this text we see that Mary states that Great things God has done and He is for, or will do 10 times.

Mary is praising God for what HE has done.

She is giving Him great glory and praise because He is worthy and only He is the reason why anything good and wonderful happens.

We see major reflections in this hymn of praise from an earlier hymn of praise from another woman who received great blessings from the Lord.

That woman is Hannah and her hymn is in 1 Sam.

2:1-10.

In that hymn Hannah says her heart exalts in the Lord, she rejoices in the Lord, that He is holy, that he brings down the mighty and arrogant, the hungry are fed, the poor are made rich, the rich are brought low, and that all who are against the Lord will be broken and scattered.

There is much similarity and connection in this.

Each of these hymns show us how to praise the Lord and magnify Him with our all.

Mary does this because she has received the greatest blessing of all; to be the mother of the Son of God.

She says my Soul magnifies God–focuses on the greatness of God and Her Spirit rejoices in Him–he has taken thought of her.

She is praising the Lord for the amazingness of what He has done and what He will continue to do.

When we praise the Lord with our soul, we are praising Him with our everything in us because our soul is our life it is who we are.

We are giving everything to Him in praise because He has given us great things.

Her Spirit rejoices in Him.

This is her passions and desires.

What drives her and what drives her drives her because that drive is set on rejoicing in the God who gave it to her.

She is committed to Him in all she does because He is great and wonderful.

He looked down on her humble estate and said that she is the one.

We will use her to bring the Son to earth as man.

We will use her because she has served me well and been humble in all she does.

She is chosen for this amazing blessing to the world.

Mary praises the Lord, as we should because Great Things HE Has Done.

In this text we will look at ten ways that God has done great things.

Each of these are coupled together in five points that demonstrate why God is Great and worthy of these amazing Praises.

The first thing we see is that...

He Blesses the Humble (48-49)

God desire humility.

He wants us to be humble in all we do.

He does not want an arrogant hair brained half cocked fool as the one He will give great blessing.

No, He desires a humble person because a humble person will give Him all the praise because they know that what has happened has only happened because God has allowed it or made it possible.

Too many today find themselves as the one who has done great things in their lives and their ways.

When instead they should look at the Lord and be like Mary here and say, “he who is mighty has done great things for me.”

One writer has stated,

Do you not hear some of this same amazement in the words of Mary’s song?

She, too, was just an ordinary young woman.

Nothing indicates she’d been born into a wealthy, famous family.

By all accounts she was an average, small-town teenage girl, and likely no one within the small orbit of her acquaintances envisioned a spectacular future ahead for her.

Yet watch what happened: “God looked on the humble estate of his servant.”

He shook this young girl’s world one day, and everything changed.

(Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, The First Songs of Christmas, 42).

One could say she was a nobody but that nobody received a great blessing from the Lord.

She could have become arrogant and bragged.

She could have built herself up because the Lord had selected her to give birth to the Son of God.

She could have become prideful, but she did not and that humility is why God selected her.

Humility is what God desires from us.

He desires humility because a humble person will be obedient to Him because they know He is great and mighty.

God desires humility and obedience and when we are both we have no idea what blessings may come but we do know that when we are humble and obedient we fear Him and worship Him.

When we do this...

His Mercy is upon those who Fear [Adore, Worship] Him (50)

We receive His mercy.

He will do many mighty and blessed things for us.

We are His alone when we fear and adore Him.

We are committed to Him alone.

We want only what He wants.

We are sold out for what He wants and we will go and do what He desires and wants.

When we fear Him and adore Him and Worship Him alone we have a deep and abiding relationship with Him.

“Having a relationship with the God of heaven makes any life extraordinary—and it’s all that makes a life extraordinary.

Mary’s experience of amazement can be yours as well when the Lord is with you and within you.” (Wolgemuth, 43)

He is what blesses and glorifies us.

It is not us.

It is not what we do.

No, it is all in what He does.

His mercy is to us and to all who fear Him.

When that is done many people will realize who He is and how wonderful life with Him is.

Too many today want to live life their way.

They do not want to submit to the amazing merciful God.

They want to go and be arrogant and be a glory hog for themselves.

Then people will come along behind them and take up for them and their crude and evil actions.

People follow people and will act as they do and defend them if they think they are great.

When they do this they miss the mercy and blessing of God because His blessings and mercy extend to those who Fear Him and Adore Him and Worship Him.

His mercy extends to generation and generation of those who fear Him.

What a wonderful praise this is.

We have His mercy when we are His and it will extend forever.

That is worth praising but you must be His before this happens.

Yes, there is mercy for all but this mercy is beyond the common mercy that all people receive.

Even those who are all about themselves will receive some form of mercy, but their mercy does not extend for generations, that is only for those who fear Him.

This is because...

His Power Brings Down the Proud and Arrogant (51-52)

He has shown strength.

He has scattered the proud.

He has brought down the mighty and exalted those of humble estate.

This means that the proud and mighty will be punished because they rest in themselves alone.

They do not care about God.

They only care about themselves and what they do.

It is all about them.

These are the people who get angry on TV and let out foul words that they should not even say anyway.