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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: December 21, 2014 | 10:00am
SERMON SERIES:
Singing Through Advent
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In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
What we have before us here is an example of a first century baby shower. You’ll notice Mary didn’t confide in her own mother, definitely not Joseph. No. Women, you know it’s true that those pregnant tummies are like magnets. I could swear my wife has a sixth sense for when there is fellow woman in term nearby. So, of course, Mary goes immediately to her sister-in-arms, or should I say her sister-in-bellies, Elizabeth. These two women, each as unlikely as the other to find themselves in maternity wear, are holding hands and leaping for joy because somehow, by a stroke of the miraculous, they are going to be moms.
This is quite a pair, Elizabeth and Mary. Elizabeth, who is laughably beyond her childbearing years, and Mary, who as a virgin and unwed, finds herself in a situation that’s not so much humorous as it is horrifying. To the outside world, it was a scandal; for Mary, it must have been downright terrifying. That is, until God gets to her. For each of these women, God interrupts their expectation and surprises them with unexpected good news.
Download the entire transcript here: Luke 1 39-55 Mary’s Song
Download this week’s Advent devotional here: Advent Devotional 2014 Week 4
