Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Thank you Justine.

So this morning we pick up with our Second Story of Advent.

And this morning we take a look at the story of Mary and Joseph.

As we take a look at Mary and Joseph's story one of the first things you'll see is really the contrast between last week's story.

We have the prophecy of two births.

But when we take a look at Elizabeth and Zechariah here's an older couple advanced in years, a woman who was barren and bearing shame of being barren.

Feeling that shame of years, crying out to God for a child and God miraculously answering that prayer.

As Zechariah is praying and a serving in the temple serving an angel appears to him, this angel Gabriel.

And Gabriel's going to inform him that you have a son named John and he will be a forerunner.

Now contrast that to this story, so within six months.

And if you know, the background 400 silent years where God has not made himself or had a prophet, He has not spoken directly to his people.

often referred to these, and if you're clear with scripture is a 400 silent years, these it is in the time between the Old Testament and the New Testament where we pick up with these stories.

In the story last week with Zechariah and Elizabeth and the story of Mary and Joseph and these births is about 6 months apart.

Within a span of six months, God began speaking to his people and speaking in amazing ways with Zechariah and Elizabeth with a promise of a child to a barren woman, and a husband in their older age and specifically very clear that the picture they say, We're Beyond be able to Bear children.

Is not just the fact that Elizabeth has been barren.

And with Mary and Joseph we have a completely contrasting situation.

We have a couple who is just now getting ready to start their journey together, but they're not even technically married , they're what we call betrothed.

I doubt at this point in time Mary was expecting a son .

Neither is Joseph.

And so their situation is the complete reverse here is two young people about to be married being informed, that their life is about to be changed by a birth.

At the end of this passage, if you caught it when Justine read, are the things that we have is the Angel Gabriel is going to narrate and kind of tell us something significant.

when Gabriel looks at These two births he actually tells us what they mean and he says this :

Nothing, nothing is impossible with God.

Both of these stories are united by a single Redemptive thread that has been running literally since Genesis when things began to come apart after sin and God's promise.

There's going to be a descendant the One that would step on the head of the snake.

And it's only now that would begin to see really see God to begin to unfold these more clearly.

This Thread, that we see all throughout scripture, this Redemptive threat is literally going to come down from the throne room heaven.

And this messenger, Gabriel going to come into some pretty insignificant places.

He's going to come to to some pretty unsuspecting what we would think of it as Ordinary People.

But these unbreakable promises these threads God is is we can give us a glimpse of this beautiful story that God is weaving together to bring us toward this point.

A Salvation.

That plan, not only includes Zachariah and Elizabeth Mary and Joseph.

But literally, as we sit, and we preach the good news about Jesus that same thread, is being unfolded here this morning because God is still at work.

So this morning, I want to begin looking at ordinary places Ordinary People Extraordinary God.

Beginning verse 26.

With what I want to call a very ordinary place.

In verse 26 and it says In the six month The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth.

Nazareth.

Just a few words.

The angel Gabriel is one of Three Angels mentioned By name in scripture.

The other is Michael and the third is...

I said the first cuz I was thinking Gabriel, Michael.

I know them.

The third is Lucifer.

Three Angels that are very specifically.

And what you need about Gabriel to the other place.

We see Gabriel was actually in the Book of Daniel.

Gabriel is often times called the the angel of annunciation.

Sometimes you're here like a church called The Church of annunciation was about Jesus with Daniel.

He was about the kingdom.

With Elizabeth and Zechariah.

It was about the fact that the savior's getting ready to, there's going to be a forerunner.

This John who who we would later know, as John the Baptist and this Gabriel comes again here to Mary.

We don't know if he appeared to Joseph too there's another account of an angel with Angel, is it named?

And in that passage and here's what I can tell you, Gabriel literally sits at the foot of God and is sent from the throne room of heaven.

When God wants to dispatch him, a message about Jesus and the kingdom.

This might not be the only times we hear from Gabriel.

He may have appeared and others but here is the three times you his name.

And every time he is announcing news about the kingdom in about Jesus or his birth.

Let's look at Galillee.

I don't want to spend a lot of time and it's not just want you to get to maybe help, you see this ordinary place and if you don't recognize Luke and how he writes, then you might miss this one.

It says the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth.

Did you notice he actually gives us two points of reference, if you would simply said, Nazareth none of his modern readers, would hardly know where it was.

So, he specifically take the extra step of telling you.

It was in Galilee so that they had a frame of reference when Jesus was from Nazareth.

They had a saying, "can anything good come from Nazareth?"

What is the first things we run into this account?

Is that God is at work in some what we would consider some pretty insignificant places.

The reason I want to point that out and I don't know about you.

I grew up an Indian Mills New Jersey.

It was it was a farming community of a few thousand people .

In fact it's actully interesting: The Greek only has one word for city until they call the city, but if they could choose, if you could have, chosen a lesser term, this was not a, a town.

This was a village or west Nazareth was a handful of people.

And this is where after 400 years, an angel of God, shows up and begin to inform people that I'm about to begin to set the world upside down.

My kingdom is coming.

And God does that in some pretty ordinary places .

I want to take a look at is just two what we could only call very Ordinary People.

In verse 2 it says that an angel, came to Galillee came to Nazareth.

They said to a virgin betrothed.

To a man, whose name was Joseph of the House of David and the virgin's name was Mary.

We come to Jospeph.

If it's it.

It's not in this passage.

But if you read Matthew or mark, this is where we learn.

That Joseph was a carpenter who worked with his hands.

He is not a person of a power.

He's not a person of influence.

He's not coming from a, a a place as far as a those who would be Learned or very well-educated .

He was, he had a trade, he made his living with his hands.

If you read the scriptures apart from a few references, in fact, that after Jesus, young younger years.

We hear nothing, we did the father of Jesus and he was a carpenter.

You're the most important piece that you saw is that Joseph was of the House of David.

And this is a marker.

There's many people who would have been of the House of David of the house of David meant that he was from the tribe of Judah.

The reason it mentions of the House of David is Joseph is a descendant of King David.

And the reason that this is important ordinary person but part of a very specific tribe that God is going to use.

Is what we call the Davidic Covenant is that language isn't familiar to you.

It's just simply the promise God made to David about the fact that one day from David's own line there would be a king who will rule forever.

That first promise is 2nd Samuel, 10 7 through 11.

I'm not going to read that passage.