The Story of Christmas: Nothing is Impossible with God

The Story of Christmas: Nothing is Impossible for God Luke 1:5-19, 26-38

The Story of Christmas is about the impossible! You see our God is a God of Miracles and that is what our passage this morning definitively reveals to us! So turn with me in your bibles to Luke 1:5-19 and 26-38 as we continue in our series on The Story of Christmas: Nothing is Impossible for God.

(1.) The story of Christmas is a testament to us that Nothing is Impossible for God. You see our God is a God of miracles. His angelic messenger Gabriel even states to Mary in vs. 37, “For nothing will be impossible for God.”

And you must understand it had been some Four Centuries since man had heard a world from the Lord at the time of these events, that’s 400 years people. We get that figure from historical record because of the OT book of Malachi being the last PROPHETIC WORD from God until these events, and low and behold listen to what Malachi 3:1 says, “Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 3:1

Malachi 3:1 NASB95

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts.

(A.) Thus, we have two examples of God’s impossibilities in Luke Cht. 1 beginning with a priest named Zacharias and his wife Elizabeth. Now Zacharias is just showing up for another day at the office. His office just happens to be the Temple of God. He had drawn the lot so it’s his responsibility to offer the incense offering. So, he strolls up to the Alter of Incense, as he has done countless times before, and there is someone already there waiting!

The Angel Gabriel first speaks to the priest Zacharias, with a word from God, during his duties in the Temple Holy place according to vss. 5-23 after four hundred years of nothing! And in his conversation with Zacharias, Gabriel informs him that he and his wife, Elizabeth, prayer had been heard. (Look at vs. 13)

Now this is important so pay attention! Both Zacharias and Elizabeth are senior adults now, thus WHO KNOWS HOW LONG ITS BEEN SINCE THEY “STOPPED” PRAYING FOR A CHILD!

People there is a powerful and amazing bible LESSON here about God and YOUR prayers! Even if you stop praying your request, the Holy Spirit of God, apparently, DOESN’T LET IT GO! He does not lose track! He does not forget! And He does not just drop it in the file folder of the impossible, “For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Folks, there is nothing Impossible about our prayers! And just because God has not answered it yet, just because you have let up and stopped lifting it up DOES NOT MEAN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD! Nor does it mean that YOUR PRAYER IS DEAD!

(B.) And that brings us to the second passage and the next impossible work of God – a pregnant virgin! The phrase “in the Sixth Month” is a reference to Mary’s relative Elizabeth’s pregnancy. Elizabeth is Zacharias’ wife. Thus, it is believed that Jesus and John the Baptist, the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, are at the least cousins.

Gabriel, likewise appears to a young maiden, a virgin, named Mary to give her news that she has been chosen to bear the Son of God. (Look at vss. 30-33)

What makes Mary special, besides her ancestry, which you can read about in cht. 3, she was of the bloodline of King David, is that she, like Zacharias was Available!

Keep in mind both Zacharias and Mary are sinners in need of God’s grace! No one is absolved of sin, no matter how great, nice, or good! What availed them to God’s impossible work in and through their lives was not their perfect righteousness. The bible tells us in both the Old and New Testaments that there are NONE righteous. However, there are those WHO desire and SEEK to the do the will of God. Zacharias in his Priestly commitments, and Mary in her desire to be humble and obedient to God’s will for her life both ordered and centered their lives around seeking and doing God’s will!

That has been a steady truth throughout the whole of God’s word:

Ps. 34:2 says, “My soul will make its boast in the LORD; The humble will hear it and rejoice.”

Ps. 138:6 says, “For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.”

God tells us in Isa. 66:2, “‘All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be,’ declares the LORD. “But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”

Even Christ Jesus taught in Matt. 18:4, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

And in Matt. 20:26-28 Jesus says, “It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

And in Luke 14:11 Jesus tells us, “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

The story of Christmas tells us that in order for God to do the impossible in your life you must humble yourself before Him!

Vs. 38 tells us that Mary Responded, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38

For Mary, it was simply a matter of trusting God yielding to Him her life and her body!

For you it may mean trusting Jesus as your Savior and Lord.

Or trusting God with your prayer need, that he can do the impossible.

Maybe, it committing to serve Him is some way that you cannot possible comprehend or make sense of, you simply know that He is calling you.

The Story of Christmas tells us God is able to do and work the impossible, He is simply waiting for you to accept the message!