Sermon Tone Analysis

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

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).

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).

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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.

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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

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.