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Introduction
What are some things you trust to work even though you don’t know how they work?
Let’s admit it.
We interact with things every day that we trust without knowing how they work.
How many of you know how a combustion engine works?
Yet you get into your car, trust that it to turn on.
You may not comprehend electricity with its ohms, amps, volts, and watts, but you still flip the switch and turn the lights on.
And if it doesn’t, you keep flicking it expecting something to change.
The technology behind cell phones and Wi-Fi befuddles most of us, yet we still send texts to friends far away.
TRANSITION: Open your Bibles to and we will look at how a young woman came to trust God’s call on her life and why she was able to do that.
The Angel’s Announcement
As we look at this text, we need to see that Luke is making a parallel statement in the two announcements we see here.
In the first part of the chapter, the birth of John the Baptist is announced to a married barren woman.
John is called, “For he will be great before the Lord” (vs.
15), but this announcement, it’s going to be different.
Jesus is described as great without qualification and is called the Son of God.
God sends an announcement to a young girl.
In some back water town where ,”nothing ever good comes out of.”
Luke 1:26
“Greeting, O favoured one, the Lord is with you!” From our perspective, she was insignificant.
She’s a nobody in a nothing town in the middle of nowhere.
So why is she favoured?
She has the greatest honour that any woman has ever been given.
She was chosen to be the mother of Jesus, and her lowly estate was all part of God’s plan.
Jesus humbled himself.
To rescue us from our sins and lift us to glory, Jesus first had to enter into the misery of our lost and fallen condition.
What better way to show that he came to do than for him to be born to a woman like Mary from a town like Nazareth?
In these words, God’s grace is shining through.
God’s grace is for the lowly.
God was showing grace to Mary.
God was with her to bless her, not because of her own merit, but because of his grace.
The word the angel used for “favour” comes from the Greek work for “grace”.
It means to be treated with underserved kindness.
Through one woman sin entered into the word, through one woman God will come to recogncile God to man.
Martin Luther “O Mary, you are blessed.
You have a gracious God.
No woman has ever lived on earth to whom God has shown such grace.”
There’s this picture that has gone around Mary Comforts Eve.
By one woman, sin and death were brought into the world at the beginning.
By the child-bearing of one woman, life and immortality were brought to light when Christ was born.
Catholics = “Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of death.”
PROBLEM Treat Mary as the source of grace rather than as an object of grace.
People pray for Mary because they think she has grace to give.
What the Bible actually says is that Mary was the recipient of God’s grace, not a repository of grace.
Mary had been “graced” by God in that she had been chosen to bear God’s Son.
She had not been chosen for this task because she possessed a particular piety or holiness of life that merited this privilege.
Grace is for the lowly.
Do you think you’re to far?
Not good enough?
Done to much?
You’re in the right spot.
God’s grace is undeserved merit.
Mary was experiencing God’s grace.
Through this announcement, the greatest event in human history was about to happen.
The coming of the Son of God.
God was showing Mary unmerited favour to Mary, it was by his grace she would give birth to a son.
Obviously, Mary has a few questions about this angel showing up:
What was happening?
Why was an angel talking to her? What had he come to say?
What was happening?
Why was an angel talking to her? What had he come to say?
And the angel doesn’t leave her hanging.
Ryken, P. G. (2009).
Luke.
(R. D. Phillips, P. G. Ryken, & D. M. Doriani, Eds.) (Vol. 1, p. 32).
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
Ryken, P. G. (2009).
Luke.
(R. D. Phillips, P. G. Ryken, & D. M. Doriani, Eds.) (Vol. 1, p. 31).
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
Through this announcement, the greatest event in human history was about to happen.
The coming of the Son of God.
God was showing Mary unmerited favour to Mary, it was by his grace she would give birth to a son.
Who is this son?
Jesus => Mean’s “God saves,” or “the Lord is salvation.”
Jesus will be a saviour.
He would bring salvation to sinners by dying on the cross in shame and then rising again in glory.
Even from the announcement of his brith, his name testified to his saving work.
Jesus is the salvation of God.
Great => John the baptist was described as “great before the Lord.”
But Jesus is the Lord, so Gabriel said that he would “be great” Jesus is great.
So great is God’s greatness that he alone deserves to be called “great.”
By saying that Jesus would be great, Gabriel was proclaiming that Jesus Christ is God.
No one is greater than he is.
Jesus is great in wisdom, great in power, great in love, and great in the majesty of his divine being.
His greatness is the greatness of God.
Son of God => Divine sonship is his eternal identity as the Second Person of the Trinity—God the eternal Son.
There is one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
He will rule forever => These ancient promises were fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who is the son of David and Israel’s eternal King
These ancient promises were fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who is the son of David and Israel’s eternal King
Ryken, P. G. (2009).
Luke.
(R. D. Phillips, P. G. Ryken, & D. M. Doriani, Eds.) (Vol. 1, p. 34).
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
This was the angel’s announcement: Mary would give birth to a son named Jesus, who would be the great Saviour and the Son of God, the most powerful ruler in the history of the world.
Do you trust the angel’s promise?
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