Expect the unexpected (Expectation)
Unexpected. Did you know that the truck Joe ant? Closes its Jewels over two thousand times faster than the blink of an eye. Look at that. The title of this morning's message is expecting the unexpected.
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So that's time to main passage for today, which is Luke 1 verses 26 to 38 on a reading from the new King James Version. Is the ferry from its familiar passage, but because of the word of God, it's the word of God is always fresh Revelation to be had from that. There's always something personal for us today. At Luke 1 verse 26 to 38 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of colony names. Nazareth to a virgin betrothed. To a man, whose name was Joseph of the House of David, the pageants name was Mary And having come in the angel said to her Rejoice, highly favored. One, the Lord is with you. Blessed, are you among women? But when she saw him, she was trouble, that's his thing, I'm considered what manner of greeting. This was and the angel said to her, Do not be afraid. Mary for you. Have found favor with God. I behold, you will conceive in your way when I'm bring full to son and shall call his name. Jesus. He will be great and will be cool. But some of the highest on the Lord, God will give him the Throne of his father David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom that will be no. And then Mary said to the angel, how can this be? Since I do not know him and I'm a virgin I'm the angel on sidon said to her the holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the highest will overshadow you who is to be born will be called the son of God. Now and days, Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age and this is now the six months of her who is forbearance. For with God, nothing will be impossible. Then Mary said, behold the maidservant of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word and the angel departed from her. Before we look at this passage, it's worth reminding ourselves that whilst the news of Jesus birth was unexpected to Mary and tons of the pot. She suddenly learned she was to play in it, it's coming. I was not going to have been prophesying it literally, for centuries, through various profit. For example, I saw 7 verse 14, Bethel. The Lord himself will give you a sign. The budget will conceive and give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel. This points to the manner in which Jesus was to be born adult site to one of his name Emmanuel, meaning God With Us. This indicates both Jesus human, but I'm to his divine nature. And it was written approximately 700 years before he was born.
Mike have five of us to says but you Bethlehem ephrathah but you are small among the clans of Judah. Out of you will come to me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose Origins are from from old from ancient time. We know Jesus is born in Bethlehem of prophesied, the place of his birth and it was also written approximately 700 years before Jesus birth. I'm in La, so no mention is Jose. I remember this one out of Egypt. I called my son. Wanting to drink by an Angel of the Lord, Joseph Mary. And the very young Jesus and fled to Egypt, to avoid the slaughter of parrot is a very young boy, by Harrod and approximately 750 years before Jesus was born. And there are many other Prophecies of Jesus birth.
It's easy for us to read these prophecies because I relate to something to someone to Jesus who we know, has already been done, what you needed to do and come back to heaven. To be with his without a father, but these prophecies have been read and post office entrance before they took place. The Mary to suddenly discover the part that the Lord has assigned for her to play and his grand plan for the whole of mankind, must have been a lot to process to say the least. It's one thing for us to read about God's plan to his people, it's another to realize your part in it. The part that the Lord wants you to play in it, and he does have a part for each one of us to play. I suspect that Mary wouldn't have chosen that sells to be Cheese's. Mama, such a tremendous privilege and such an awesome responsibility.
If the parts of parts of the Lord has chosen for you to play in his overall, plan seemed too much. That's good in one sense, it means that you have to depend on him to do it and you'll have a greater degree of success than you could in your own strength. As it says, in 2 Corinthians. 9:12, my grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in weakness.
It's worth noting that nothing does nothing stated in the Bible about Mary being chosen because of her great skills and abilities. She was chosen because she was favored of God. That's his choice. She was chosen because of the time and place in which she left for both plan for Jesus to be carried out to Fuccillo, prophecies about him. It was necessary for him to be
I personally believe that Mary was also chosen because of her character. She humbly received and accepted this awesome assignments. Both would have known how she would respond, so they said, no way in my opinion removed her choice from I'm not attempting to say, Tyree reason why I was chosen by the way. Sometimes we can question, why go to the chosen us to play a particular part or parts in life, especially when we kind of times feel so inadequate to do them. So overwhelmed, It's really important to remember that like Mary was told in Route 129. We are favored of God. Also, I might marry there's probably more than one reason why God has chosen us to do what you supposed to do. We may find out what two of the reasons are and we might not
go to Choice. It is exactly that. He is love a success and 1, John 4:16, his wisdom is perfect. Proverbs 26. In the Amplified translation says the book is skillful and godly wisdom from his mouth, come knowledge and understanding. Go to put, make mistakes. He's also big enough to handle it when we do. It's important that we learn to trust God choices, including his choice above.
Like Mary with favored of God regardless of our opinion of the party party chooses for us to play in life. And it's exactly that his choice and Emmanuel God is with us. When something is beyond our experience or understanding of life, it can be difficult for us to accept it and just take all the trees. What? That's exactly what we need to learn today. Look up, Mary's cousin, Elizabeth said to have prophetically and Luke 1:45. Blessed is she who believed for that will be a fulfillment of those things which was told her from the Lord. Blessed is she who believed? That will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord. I'm so excited without What if you don't know what part or parts of speech apply in life? Pray stuff, go to Anza and carry on doing what you know today. What's it sounds like an obvious? It may be simplistic answer. Mary, probably saw that. She had a fair idea of what life hell for her. I was going with that plan. Then God, showed up, be more precise, an angel. God is able to meet us to reveal himself, to let you know that he retains. He's not trying to hide his plan for us. Returning to a passage in Route, 126 the angel Gabriel was sent by God to set your calendar. Nazareth is in Lubbock Allen in Northern Israel. About 64 miles at the crow flies north of Jason. The word translated City head is pounding, all the translations on the village. Almost everything I've read about not surest indicates, it was a village. So I don't know why it says.
Route 127. And his name is Joseph. According to the a knife, a cultural background Study Bible. The betrothal. Was often a year in Jewish tradition suggests, that couples in Galilee would not left on Schaefer. And during that time Betrothal involved a financial agreement between families. That could be ended and if I do for sore. It was a much more formal Arrangement and engagements in our culture today. It's helpful to understand the impact on Joseph. Some of which we can appreciate that. Anyway, I'm their respective families of Mary becoming pregnant during the betrothal.
Luke 1:28. And having come in the angel said to her Rejoice, highly favored. One, the Lord is with you. Every child of God who comes to him through faith. In Jesus Christ has the favor of God. Psalms 51 verse 12, size shoe lynard, you bless the righteous. You surround them with your favor after the shield. It's not alright. Rochester and his favor. We are declared righteous for the cleansing process of the blood of Jesus. And God's favor. Protects us. Surely Lord. You bless the righteous. You surround them with your favor, as with a shield. Rejoice, highly favored. One, the Lord is with you. Through faith in Jesus. We are all favored of God. A Jesus is Emmanuel God With Us. In John 4:15 Jesus said, live in me and I will live in ye the truth but the Lord Is With Us, couldn't be clearer if we live a bind continue reminding him which is what the Greek hand mean. Basically, that means to do our best to live, go sway, loving him, others and ourselves with his help, not to earn his approval, but in response to his love for us. God is with us. A success unless I fought you on bus 10. Remembering that remembering that the one who has called us to do, whatever. He's told us today,
he's with us and will enable us to live ready for the unexpected.
That fast means a lot to me because it helped me to get through something that's on you. I have today, anticipated being difficult and didn't want today. It doesn't have to be complicated. God is with me. You can hold onto for words of truth and keep saying them over and over to yourself and it blocks out other fools because no matter how many thoughts we have, we can only have 159 just your time. God is with me. Thinking on that meditation, not whatever. Truth in the Bible is helpful important to you and your situation. It's a simple way of focusing on him to help us to do what you supposed to do to play all parts in his grand, scheme of things. I was really touched off fast as I hated to attend it. All women's group, do you rise and shine brunch with each? Given a few loveliness. Okay. Including a Kiest and I knew which one I wanted because I talk we find the cases but there were many different designs and I need a few Jeep because Because of how they were giving giving out. I couldn't have arranged together one. I wanted if I tried but I did guess it kind. I was giving a lovely said, she won with Isaiah 41:10 on it.
Bethel like the angel said, rejoice. The great fire, o means to be cheerful. Be call me happy. Be glad the dictionary states that it's worth. It can also be used as a greeting J. There's nothing wrong with saying, hi.
Like to be ready to talk sometime but God's favor and presents with us on small thing and circumstances can change these truth. Thank God. We always have reasons to rejoice in him and these are just two of them. Moving on to Best, Buy T1, and behold, you will conceive in your wing and bring forth a son and shall call his name. Jesus Jesus with the gratefulness the Hebrew name, Yeshua, but we notice Joshua, And the Hebrew roots of the name. Mean the Lord is salvation when translated from the Hebrew into the original, Greek of the New Testament, the name, Yeshua become something, which in English because Jesus God's name and salvation of combined to express that the Lord and he alone saved his people from the curse of sin and eternal. Praise God, that she does. When an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream to reassure him that Mary was pregnant by the Holy Spirit. The gospel of Matthew tells us that the angel said, You shall call his name. Jesus, that he shall save his people from their sins. It is a fairly common name, among Jews around that time for this reason. People spoke of Jesus of Nazareth in order to distinguish him from others with the same name.
In Revelation 2:17 in the classic amp. Amplified translation Jesus says it's the one who ever comes. I will give a white stone with a new name engraved on the sign, which no one knows or understands except he who receives that think about the significance of Jesus name. Something about that new name that God has for each of us who I would come, he stays faithful to the Lord to the end. Maybe all of us who are listening right now. When I think about the significance, significance about new name, But wouldn't do it wasn't significant.
Luke 1:35. An angel on certain set to her. The holy spirit will come upon ye and the power of the hottest will overshadow one to be born will be called the son of God. Nothing is written about. What? What experience was like, the merry enough. We don't need to know. I mentioned that it wasn't something that you could easily put into it. So you know, ugly and angry Jess. But the Holy Spirit came upon Mary on the power of the highest overshadow. The power of Your Love fuel light of the souls of light of life itself, overshadowed One way of understanding that were to have a shadow in. The Greek is to envelop in a haze of brilliancy. so the pallet of pure love pure lines and the source of life itself enveloped Mary in a haze of brilliancy, And that is how Jesus our savior his birth. We will shortly, celebrate was conceived.
Luke 1:37 for with God, nothing will be impossible. The diction definition of the Greek sense of the word for nothing means negative I'd like you to think that was something you all having to deal with. It's difficult. Maybe it looks impossible and you don't know how it's all going to work out. So, you could spice With Me Now by faith to your situation and I will do it tomorrow but with God, nothing will be impossible.
Let's create a habit of speaking this truth to our respective situations so that we can make them in our thinking. So we can so that we got to the stage that whenever we think it's not impossible, the very difficult situation. We choose to think I can say with God, nothing will be impossible. Nothing unknown. It's impossible with God. No one is beyond Redemption. Romans time 10 verse 9. In the NIV says, if you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart, that God raised him from the dead. You will be saved and John strain running Sage. It says it sounds like it's a result of the Holy Spirit. Give me a call us and you both like coming to live in them. If you say Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart, that God raised him from the dead and ask him to come into your heart, and give you his holy spirit as he promised, then you will be saved. You can do this anytime even right now and let me strong and encourage you to do. So, if you haven't already, Then you can also Rejoice because in Jesus you are highly favored and the Lord is with you, I'm with God, nothing will be impossible.
Luke 1:38, Mary such the angel. Let it be to me, according to your word. That's so simple and yet. So profound I choose to submit to the word of God, no matter how impossible, it stays all the consequences, which would have been significant to Mario money from
Mary's obedience to the Lord will say I had a massive impact on Josephus when I take you on a stepchild so to speak. But Jose is wrong with old age. Your part in God's plan, maybe to take his supporting role in someone else's Mission. Someone else's fishing, just to put someone else in whatever capacity. This is no less significant than the road with the person who has more visibility, perhaps Publix a usually says to lead and whatever it is. Like Joseph, you make a difference? It's really important that you don't undervalue Your Role or yourself because you say it is less important or unimportant if you'll do today.
Big from 38, let it be to me according to your word and the angel departed from her. What does that mean to us to you, with regard to your promise, or anything that God has spoken to you through his word, maybe through a prophecy or however he's spoken to you? What does it mean for you to submit to that word regardless of your circumstances? What you say, how you feel about it at cetera? It could be a promise of healing, a promise of provision Direction about Samantha such as forgiving. Someone may be about God's plan for your life. It might require action on your part or at this stage mean lining up. Your thoughts, with both schools is where the matter. And she's going to think and speak accordingly. The angels and departed from Mary but God did not know. She enjoys have been left with all the consequences of a commitment to a by God. The brightness rocket times to say the nice. But God, always guided and provided a table for us. Expecting the unexpected to summarize so far. Play God's plan and purpose for Mary was unexpected to her, but his plan was prophesied to Century. Mary was his choice for a particular job and she submitted to it. God's plans and purposes for us to you may be unexpected but we would do well like, Mary to submit to them. Number to, Luke 1:28, Rejoice, highly favored. One the Lord is with you. In Jesus, we two can Rejoice with favored of the Lord, and he is with us. Living mine for the fish trade will help us to live ready for the unexpected.
Number three, Luke 1-37 with God, nothing will be impossible with this tree embedded into a being. We can live ready for the unexpected.
I'm not say Luke from 38, let it be to me, according to your word learning to live in suppression field. Cloud will enable us to live ready for the unexpected. I'd like to finish my looking for something that tableside touchdown lost weight, it's worth reminding ourselves that Jesus will stay with while celebrating is not the end. Jesus death on the cross, to pay the price for a sense. All the times I've ever broken will break the law of love. Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, your mind and so I'd love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus, death is not the end. Jesus, resurrection from the dead only had one of his many nines. The first one is money so that all who received the truth of what she did for us and ask him to be noticed that lies is not the end. Jesus is coming back.
Revelation 17 says, look, he's coming with the clouds and every eye, will see him, even those who passed him. And this is what he looks like. I described by the Apostle. John in Revelation 1:13, 18 like a son of mine, dressed in a robe reaching down to his face. I'm going to Golden sash around his chest, the hair on his head was white, like wool as white as snow. And his aunts would like blazing fire. His feet, like from glowing in the furnace and his voice is like the sound of Rushing Water in his right hand, he held Seven Stars. I'm coming out of his mouth was a short double edged sword. His face is like the sun shining in all its brilliance. When I saw him, I fell at your feet just like Dad and he placed his right hand of, man, that do not be afraid. I am the first and the lost. I am the living room. I was said, and now look, I am alive forever and ever
Must expect. The unexpected is the type of today's sermon. Jesus return is expected. Scripture is very clear about that as we live expectant of Jesus return, it's good to know what you look like. The Apostle, John glenney found a scary experience fully at Jesus feet, and stay dead. But what was Jesus immediate response. Do not be afraid and he gets jumped on the reason why I am the first in the law. I am the living one. I was sad and now look, I am alive forever and ever, and he is the reason we live now that it's a reason to rejoice. Even Jesus doesn't know when he's coming back, as we were reminded by a memory of us this week. I'm helping you out here. No, I'm nice. Not even the angels in Heaven, nor the son, but only the father. It's so important that we live ready. Expecting the expected because it will happen. We prepare to celebrate Jesus's birth in so many different ways. Let's also remember to be prepared for the unexpected as well as the expected. Let's keep reading the word of God. Let's keep learning and practicing what it means to stay tuned into the Holy Spirit to live like Jesus. He said, he only did what she saw his father doing and said that. We're ready for his return. Thank you.
