![]() ![]() It must have been very confusing to Mary and her mind must have been filled with questions. The angel had just revealed some amazing things to her, things that had never been heard of in the history of the world. I am really impressed by Mary’s response here. Was Willing (Luke 1:38) – Read the verse. Don’t water down your minds with the world’s junk. In this day and age television, video games, and the internet have watered down serious thinking. Also when we encounter things in life we should think about what purpose God may have in it and what He wants for us to learn. So we have to study it, examine it, and meditate on it. But it is sometimes confusing and not very easy to understand. He has revealed a lot to us in the Bible. God wants us to be learners, to be thinkers. God doesn’t want us to be content with what we already know. She kept in mind every detail of what was happening and tried to figure out what meaning God intended. She could have thought it is too confusing it is too impossible to understand, might as well not even try! But she didn’t. She didn’t just walk blindly through it without caring about the things God was doing. A lot of confusing and amazing things were happening in her life and in the world. She was continually pondering and thinking over everything that was happening. Meditated (Luke 1:29, Luke 2:19) – One thing I see about Mary throughout the account of Christ’s birth is that she meditated. But she had many good qualities that we can learn from. This same term is used in Ephesians 1:6 for the grace that that God bestows on believers. One thing we see about Mary is that she was favored by God. Out of the billions of women who have lived in this earth God chose Mary to be the mother of Jesus. So we sometimes go in the opposite direction. Because of this Protestants often try to minimize Mary as much as possible. Catholics have basically turned Mary into an idol, worshipping her and praying to her. We will look at the characters of Christmas. We are going to look at some of the characters that were involved in Jesus’ birth and how they reacted to it. Today though we are going to look at the birth from a different angle. ![]() We discuss the humble birth in the manger and so on. These show God’s sovereignty and also give evidence that the Scriptures are true and Jesus was the true Messiah. We discuss the prophecies about the Messiah that Jesus fulfilled. Intro: Normally when we discuss Christmas we discuss the virgin birth. ![]()
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