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Introduction
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2) Hail
Hail
· The Marine Band sings “hail to the Chief” whenever the President enters the room.
This is a cheerful greeting word.
· The first world of the angel Gabriel to Mary was “Hail.”
· Placing an emphasis on this word – To understand the emphasis, we must know the setting and context of Mary’s world
a. Residence
Residence
Residence
Many atheist say Jesus could not have existed because Nazareth was a made up town built by theology - http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/nazareth.html
They argue:
The OT never mentions Nazareth
Talmud never mentions Nazareth
Josephus never mentions Nazareth
Paul never mentions Nazareth
To counter this:
The absence of Nazareth in literature does not prove the small town did not exist; rather proves just how obscure the town was in the first century
Archaeologists have discovered Nazareth to be a real and authentic place that existed during the time of Jesus Christ - https://ehrmanblog.org/did-nazareth-exist/
Getting back to the point, here is what we know about Nazareth:
small - upwards to about 400 people - http://www.jesus-story.net/nazareth_about.htmReligion
Religion
Poverty
Obscurity
Corrupt town - Nathaniel
c. Relationship
Religion
Even though Mary was young, she would have noticed the religiosity of her time:
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The Apostle Paul would later write a universal truth
Pharisees - God’s word not sufficient - They added so much red tape to God’s word
Sadduccees - God’s word should be understood in light of contemporary thought
Zealots - Nationalsim was the answer
Herodians - Pluralism
There was not anything to be cheerful about when it came to her residency or religious situation
Relationship
The one area in her life that was moving in the right direction was her relationship
She was engaged to a God-fearing man, who loved and passionately followed after the Lord.
Yet, the message the anger was about to deliver would put that relationship, and any future relationship in serious jeopardy.
So why “Hail”?
The answer is God was about to use her to magnify His purpose and glory.
If we will shun profane and vain babbling that lead to ungodliness and distorts the truth.
Highy Favoured
A man heard a message on the end times and decided to make all he could before the economy collapsed.
He took his life savings, went to the race track, and prayed for wisdom on how to bet.
(He hadn’t heard my message on gambling!)
Just before the first race began, the man noticed a Catholic priest who came onto the track, sprinkled some water, waved his arms and made some signs over a horse.
The horse won by seven lengths.
The same thing happened on the second, third, and fourth races.
The man waited one more race, just to make sure.
The same thing happened--the horse the priest blessed won.
So on the sixth race he waited until the priest did his thing and then he ran off and placed his whole life savings on that horse.
The race began.
The horse ran fifty feet and fell over dead.
The man was horrified.
He ran down to the priest and said, “Priest, I have to talk to you!” “Yes, what is it my son?” “Priest, I watched you; in every race, the horse you blessed won.
So I went and bet everything I had on this horse, but it died!
What happened?”
The priest shook his head sadly and said, “You must be a Protestant.”
“Why do you say that?” asked the man.
“Because,” said the priest, “you don’t know the difference between a blessing and the last rites.”
There is a big difference with how catholicism view Mary and us.
The difference is not trivial like a horse race but eternal - where Heaven and Hell hang in the balance.
At a pro-Catholic web site
They view Mary as the most selfless person of all humanity
She received more of God than any other saint
Her being Immaculate meant she was free from every taint of selfishness that might obscure God’s light in her being
They cannot separate the Son from the Mother - they refer to her as the Mother of God!
They take all of this from the phrase she was full of grace!
https://www.catholic.org/prayers/merton.php
Does full of grace show up in the Bible?
IN the Greek “full of grace” - "plaras karitos," occurs Once
How do they view her as full of grace - She has all of God
There are two problems with this:
The immediate context
The word “Favoured” means “Grace”
Grace speaks more about the giver than the receiver
The text of the Bible
in 2 ways:
a Her sinfulness
b How she is mentioned on the Bible
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Why is this so important:
This does not tell us why she was highly favoured
full of grace received is correct
full of grace to bestow - incorrect
Honored
The word “blessed” means to “speak well of someone”
People speak well of her
This is among women , not above women
What made her blessed?
The Lord is with Thee
What is ti for people to speak well of us?
it is not in the things we do but in the Lord who is with us!
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