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From all indicators, her life would not be extraordinary.
She would marry humbly, give birth to numerous poor children, never travel farther than a few miles from home, and one day die like thousands of others before her—a nobody in a nothing town in the middle of nowhere.
Luke 1:26-
GABRIEL (ANGEL) [Heb gabrı̂ʾēl (גַּבְרִיאֵל)].
Gabriel (whose name means “God is my warrior”) is one of two angels named in the Hebrew Bible (; ), the other being Michael (, ; ).
Luke 1
Humility is fertile ground for divine activity.
Nazareth - was the wrong side of the tracks.
It was not a place of prestige and piety.
You expect God to show up in Jersualem.
No ONE! NO ONE expected NAZARETH!
Nazareth doesn’t even appear in the Old Testament.
Nazareth, a shoddy, corrupt halfway stop between the port cities of Tyre and Sidon
Kent Hughes
Nazareth, a shoddy, corrupt halfway stop between the port cities of Tyre and Sidon.
Remember what Nathanael said when he found out Jesus was from Nazareth?
Mary was a peasant teenage girl who was almost certainly illiterate.
Girls didn’t attend school so the only knowledge she had of the scriptures was what she might have picked up here and there.
Scholars estimate that she was between the ages of 12 to 14.
Kent Hughes
From all indicators, her life would not be extraordinary.
She would marry humbly, give birth to numerous poor children, never travel farther than a few miles from home, and one day die like thousands of others before her—a nobody in a nothing town in the middle of nowhere.
God often favors those the world forgets.
Look what happens in the story plot.
Look what hands to this nobody when you add Jesus to the story!
Notice how Mary reacts - You don’t understand - I have college, and a career.
I have to think about my retirement.
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Luke 1:31-
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We had a point of controversy at our wedding!
One of the things that they wanted played was the song “Ava Maria”.
This song extols Mary!
What makes her so special this nobody from nowhere?
Jesus transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Luther said,
He might have gone to Jerusalem and picked out Caiaphas’s daughter, who was fair, rich, clad in gold embroidered raiment and attended by a retinue of maids in waiting.
But God preferred a lowly maid from a mean town.
The Christmas story is not about how great Mary is but how great Jesus is.
Who is Jesus
The Son of the Most High (v.
32)
He is the rightful Air of the Davidic rule (v.
32)
He is the eternal king who will never be part of the kingly succession.
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The Son of God
Mary is a nobody who becomes a somebody because of her connection to Jesus.
John 1
Remember with God the impossible becomes actual.
Verse 37 literally translates - “For not impossible will be everything with God”.
Notice how Mary reacts - You don’t understand - I have colage, and a career.
I have to think about my retirement.
Remember Christ has every right to reprioritize your life.
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