The IMPOSSIBLE GOD

Believe the Lord Chooses well

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary

The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Nazareth (Place)

NAZARETH (PLACE). The town of Jesus’ youth in Lower Galilee, just N of the valley of Jezreel (M.R. 178234). The Sea of Galilee lies 15 miles to the E while the Mediterranean lies 20 miles to the W Nazareth is identified by Matthew (2:23) and Luke (1:26; 2:4, 39) as the village of Mary and Joseph, the place where Jesus grew up (Luke 2:39, 51) and the village he left to visit the towns and villages of Galilee to begin his ministry (Mark 1:9). Luke mentions a synagogue in Nazareth (4:16) where Jesus spoke as an adult and where his message was not well received (4:28–30). Evidently later in his ministry, it was well known that Jesus was from Nazareth (Matt 21:11), which did not always evoke an amiable response (cf. John 1:45–46).

English Standard Version Chapter 1

45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.Thou that art Highly Favoured

The Lord is with thee

Blessed art thou among women

She was troubled with the greeting but the angel said you found favor(grace) with God

We serve a God full of Grace. Grace is the favor of God to human beings. It is an undeserved gift which can be requested, which is freely and unilaterally given and not coerced, and which can be withheld.

Grace is characteristically a favor for a specific occasion given to an inferior by a superior, a person in authority. This uncoerced and unilateral favor is more than a disposition of passive benevolence on the part of God. Its something God wants to do!

God’s grace is available

God’s grace is available

in aiding the poor,

delivering the oppressed Psalm 9:13-14 Be gracious to me, O LORD!

Be gracious to me, O LORD!

See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death, 14  that I may recount all your praises,

O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

14  that I may recount all your praises,

that in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may rejoice in your salvation.

healing the mortally ill   Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!” 11  You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth

O LORD, be my helper!”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

11  You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;

you have loosed my sackcloth

healing the mortally ill

and clothed me with gladness, 12  that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

12  that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.

O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

forgiving sin ( after repentance) and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God,

forgiving sin ( after repentance) (; ).

Return to the LORD your God,

forgiving sin ( after repentance) (; ).

for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

forgiving sin ( after repentance) (; ).

slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;

and he relents over disaster.

The Lord will put greatness in you

The Lord will put greatness in you

English Standard Version Psalm 103

The LORD is merciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Kselman, J. S. (1992). Grace: Old Testament. In D. N. Freedman (Ed.), The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol. 2, p. 1085). New York: Doubleday.

The Lord will put greatness in you

The angel predicted five things about Mary’s Son.

1. He will be great.

2. He will be called the Son of the Most High (cf. v. 76). The Septuagint often used the term “Most High” (hypsistou) to translate the Hebrew ‘elyôn (cf. v. 76). Mary could not have missed the significance of that terminology. The fact that her Baby was to be called the “Son of the Most High” pointed to His equality with Yahweh. In Semitic thought a son was a “carbon copy” of his father, and the phrase “son of” was often used to refer to one who possessed his “father’s” qualities (e.g., the Heb. trans. “son of wickedness” in [KJV] means a wicked person).

3. He will be given the throne of His father David. Jesus, as David’s descendant, will sit on David’s throne when He reigns in the Millennium (; , ).

4. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. Jesus’ reign over the nation Israel as her King will begin in the Millennium and continue on into the eternal state.

5. His kingdom will never end. These promises must have immediately reminded Mary of the promise of Yahweh to David (). David understood the prophecy as referring not only to his immediate son (Solomon) who would build the temple, but also to the future Son who would rule forever. David stated that Yahweh had spoken of the distant future (). Mary would have understood that the angel was speaking to her of the Messiah who had been promised for so long.

Believe and Act in Faith

Mary accepted the words of the angel. Verse 1:37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”

38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

1. He will be great.

It takes FAITH to believe the impossible. The angel said that she would give birth to our savior. She realizing she is a virgin asked how and He said the Holy Spirit would overshadow her.

2. He will be called the Son of the Most High (cf. v. 76). The Septuagint often used the term “Most High” (hypsistou) to translate the Hebrew ‘elyôn (cf. v. 76). Mary could not have missed the significance of that terminology. The fact that her Baby was to be called the “Son of the Most High” pointed to His equality with Yahweh. In Semitic thought a son was a “carbon copy” of his father, and the phrase “son of” was often used to refer to one who possessed his “father’s” qualities (e.g., the Heb. trans. “son of wickedness” in [KJV] means a wicked person).

This may seem an unusual act. In her case of be impregnated it is. For this the only immaculate conception ever recorded. Yet Gabrielle uses a word overshadow that Mary could relate to. This word espiskiazo in the Greek literally means to cover. Its used in the synoptic Gospels overshadow, cover, envelop. Cf. ; see also ; ;

3. He will be given the throne of His father David. Jesus, as David’s descendant, will sit on David’s throne when He reigns in the Millennium (; , ).

Which all deal with the Holy Spirit overshadowing the Peter, James and John on the Mount Transfiguration. When we heard the Lord Speak concerning Jesus “ This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”

4. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. Jesus’ reign over the nation Israel as her King will begin in the Millennium and continue on into the eternal state.

Yes the overshadowing of the Holy SPirit, Presence of the Lord will arrest our attention and remind us to do what Jesus said.

Mary said let me be according to thy word. That should be our response. Let me be according to thy word! What does the word say concerning you.

• I am a child of God.But to all who have received him--those who believe in his name--he has given the right to become God's children … (). • I am a branch of the true vine, and a conduit of Christ’s life.I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me--and I in him--bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing (, ). • I am a friend of Jesus.I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father (). • I have been justified and redeemed.But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (). • My old self was crucified with Christ, and I am no longer a slave to sin.We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin (). • I will not be condemned by God.There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (). • I have been set free from the law of sin and death.For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death (). • As a child of God, I am a fellow heir with Christ.And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)--if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him (). • I have been accepted by Christ.Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God's glory (). • I have been called to be a saint.… To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours (). (See also , , and .) • In Christ Jesus, I have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption … (). • My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who dwells in me.Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you ()? • I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with Him.But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him (). • God leads me in the triumph and knowledge of Christ.But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place (). • The hardening of my mind has been removed in Christ.But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read./netbible2/index.php?header=&book=2co&chapter=3 It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away (). • I am a new creature in Christ.So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away--look, what is new has come ()! • I have become the righteousness of God in Christ.God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God (). • I have been made one with all who are in Christ Jesus.There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female--for all of you are one in Christ Jesus (). • I am no longer a slave, but a child and an heir.So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God (). • I have been set free in Christ.For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery (). • I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ (). • I am chosen, holy, and blameless before God.For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love (). • I am redeemed and forgiven by the grace of Christ.In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace (). • I have been predestined by God to obtain an inheritance.In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will (). • I have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation)--when you believed in Christ--you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit (). • Because of God’s mercy and love, I have been made alive with Christ.But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you are saved ()! • I am seated in the heavenly places with Christ.… And he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus … (). • I am God’s workmanship created to produce good works.For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them (). • I have been brought near to God by the blood of Christ.But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ (). • I am a member of Christ’s body and a partaker of His promise.… The Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus (). (See also .) • I have boldness and confident access to God through faith in Christ.… In whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ's faithfulness (). • My new self is righteous and holy.… Put on the new man who has been created in God's image--in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth (). • I was formerly darkness, but now I am light in the Lord.… For you were at one time darkness, but now you are/netbible2/index.php?header=&book=eph&chapter=5 light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light (). • I am a citizen of heaven.But our citizenship is in heaven--and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ … (). • The peace of God guards my heart and mind.And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (). • God supplies all my needs.And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus ().

5. His kingdom will never end. These promises must have immediately reminded Mary of the promise of Yahweh to David (). David understood the prophecy as referring not only to his immediate son (Solomon) who would build the temple, but also to the future Son who would rule forever. David stated that Yahweh had spoken of the distant future (). Mary would have understood that the angel was speaking to her of the Messiah who had been promised for so long.

Hendriksen, W., & Kistemaker, S. J. (1953–2001). Exposition of the Gospel According to Luke (Vol. 11, p. 92). Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.