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SPEAK TO NEED

Doubt is a place of Double mindedness is a place if instability...Do you still believe in miracles?

Do you believe that God can do something new right now that is beyond your thoughts and imagination?

A word from down here can be helpful or harmful but a word from above can give you new hope!!!

You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself.

He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all.

Young Christians may think much of themselves.

Growing Christians think themselves nothing.

Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing.

The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

~ C.H. Spurgeon

Hallelujah!!!

PLEASE STAND WITH ME FOR THE READING OF GOD’S HOLY WORD!

State Key Verse: For nothing will be impossible with God.  (Luke 1:37)

I like to preach this morning as the Holy Spirit guides from the thought...

State the Title: NEW HOPE! <ASK SOMEBODY NEAR YOU… DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE FAVORED

NEW HOPE!

Prayer of Illumination: Father, send your Holy Spirit and fill us that our hearts are receptive to your word.

Help me to be faithful to your word, give me clarity needful for our journey, give me your power to preach with the authority you have given, and passion for your glory to be revealed, guide us by your wisdom, may I decrease and you INCREASE LORD JESUS and set all captives free, loosen every chain in Jesus name.

INTRODUCTION

THE GLORY OF GOD IS REVEALED TO US IN VISABLE FORM CLOKD, FIRE OR LIGHT (SHEKINAH, DOXA OR KABOD), TO SPEAK OF THE GREATNESS OF GOD, PRAISE GOD’S GLORY FOR HIS WORK OF CREATION (PS 19) AND ACTS OF SALVATION AND FINALLY OUR ULTIMATE STATE OF BEING AS OUR BODIES ARE RAISE IN GLORY TO BE RESIDE IN THE ABIDING PRESENCE OF GOD’S GLORY.

PAUL sees the seed of mature spiritual life ready to sprout ......

Who: The gospel according to Luke is the third account of the gospel of Jesus Christ and was originally the first scroll of a two-volume work (the second scroll being Acts).

These volumes are one quarter of the New Testament.

The Holy Spirit led Paul’s physician friend, Luke, to author the Third Gospel.

Luke is the only gentile author of NT.

They are both written to “most excellent Theophilus” or translated “beloved of God.” Someone who is a believer of high social status.

The original readers are likely Gentiles as Luke explains Jewish customs.

What: The Gospel of Luke stress the blessing of salvation of God which Jesus Christ brings in response to faith.

Salvation brings healing from disease, liberation from demonic control, restoration of life from death, rescue from disaster, and forgiveness of sins.

When: Luke joined Paul on his second missionary journey in Troas and accompanied him to Philippi (Acts 16:10).

The Gospel of Luke was written around (AD 58-62)

Where: From Macedonia

Why: Our text is part of “The Infancy Narrative.”The

mention of “the sixth month” in 1:26, 36 ties this episode in closely with the preceding one (note “five months” in 1:24), and the angel’s news about Elizabeth (1:36) keeps the two angelic announcements closely linked, thus preparing for the meeting of the two pregnant mothers in 1:39–56.

The similar announcements to Zechariah and to Mary by the same angelic messenger prepare the reader for the parallel accounts of the births of John and Jesus in 1:57–66 and 2:1–20.

But there is also a significant escalation between the two announcements, both in the status of the one to be born (prophetic forerunner as compared with Son of God) and in the scale of the miracle involved (a woman beyond normal child- bearing years compared with a virgin without sexual intercourse).

Luke’s gospel presents pronouncements to behold concerning the birth of Christ.

But, what shall we to behold to birth new hope in us ?

WE ARE TO...

I. LOOK FOR NEW EXPECTATIONS (vv.

30-33)

A. ________ Mary is a virgin, no experience with a man, is living in Nazareth not a prominent village in Galilee, engaged in marriage but also under Roman rule where the emperor are known as the son of god.

Augustus Caesar

LIFE IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS

look at our text, first interjection

Paul is commanding them to be cheerful, keep things in good repair, keep your spirits up, think in harmony, be agreeable… Doing all that, and the God of love and peace with be with you for sure.

B. Jesus is the promised Messiah, from the line of David, and the fulfillment of Jewish messianic prophecies.

The angel prescribes the names for both John (1:13) and Jesus.

Neither name is explicitly interpreted in Luke, but the meaning explained in Matthew 1:21 would be a natural deduction from the name “Yehoshua” (“Joshua”), which means “Yahweh saves.”

“Jesus” (the Greek form of “Joshua”) was one of the commonest male names in first-century Palestine,² so that its owner needed a further distinguishing epithet, in this case Jesus “of Nazareth.”

Virgin prophecy fulfilled

Son of Most High fulfilled

Nathan the Prophet shares with King David looking beyond his son Solomon to the one who would be the ultimate messianic King fulfilled.

Jeremiah

Do you know you are favored of God?

C. WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTING ______________?

WHAT ARE YOU HOPING FOR? WHAT HAS GOD BIRTHING IN YOU THAT IS CHANGING YOUR WORLD VIEW AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE?

FOR HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN OUR WAYS AND HIS THOUGHTS HIGHER THAN OUR THOUGHTS.

GOD HAS FAVORED YOU BY HIS GRACE ALL THING ARE POSSIBLE, BY HIS GRACE ALL THINGS WORK FOR GOOD!

At the time of our text the concluding words of Paul 4th and final letter before he comes for his 3rd visit he sets forth challenges for the Corinthian Church grow up.

But, how does he challenge them and us to mature in or faith?

To grow...

II.

LOOK FOR EVIDENCE OF NEW CREATION (vv.

33-37)

A. ______ Has anybody here ever been in a place where you didn’t want anyone around you?

I you were on a desert Island by yourself on the south pacific you would be alright… Amen… I have been there, but you know eventually if you are healthy you are going to miss people....

watch this; Second interjection

B. GOD is doing something new and surprising.

With Elizabeth he is doing something surprising, but he done this before with Sarah, Abraham’s wife, the mother of Issac who is the Father of Jacob.

Mary had faith in God… LOOK AT HER QUESTION IT WAS NOT CAN GOD, HOW WILL GOD?

But with Mary, God is not just doing something surprising, he is doing something new; It is both unique in history and unprecedented creative act of God through the Holy Spirit.

The only thing we have close to this is Adam’s creation.

Second Adam

This question makes sense only if Mary understands that the promise is of an immediate pregnancy rather than one to follow in the normal way after the marriage is consummated.

In that case Mary, like Zechariah, understandably finds the angel’s message hard to credit.

But unlike Zechariah, she does not ask for a sign, and when the angel has explained the divine purpose, she shows no reluctance in accepting it (1:38).

The village teenager is more responsive to the promise of God’s supernatural power than is the Jerusalem priest.

C.

ARE YOU EXPECTING GOD TO CREATE YOU NEW ________?

HOW ARE YOU PRAYING, ARE YOU PRAYING LIKE YOU KNOW GOD WILL?

At the time of our text the concluding words of Paul 4th and final letter before he comes for his 3rd visit he sets forth challenges for the Corinthian Church grow up.

But, how does he challenge them and us to mature in or faith?

To grow...

III.

LOOK FOR A NEW DEDICATION (v.

38)

A. _______ The more word (Gospel message)we hear and receive about Christ the more dedicated to God we will become.

Look; the last interjection.

B. Mary yielded to the Holy Spirit embracing both the impossible but also the personal cost of her new trust in GOD for Christ.

We are one as remain in Him

C. ARE YOU GROWING IN YOUR DEDICATION TO GOD? ARE YOU SURRENDERING ALL THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE CAN HAPPEN?

Recapitulation: We mature in faith living in love and peace, showing love and peace, by living in communion with GOD.

Exhortation ; That’ll Preach!

Final Application

THE PEACE THAT I HAVE THE WORLD DIDN’T GIVE IT TO ME:

In times of trouble and weakness God does his greatest miracles

He will birth a new thought

He will birth a new opportunity

He will birth a new attitude; Why?

To show you he is with you; that he is Emmanuel

He is the God who is with you