Weekly Sermons

Receive the Promise              Luke 1:26-38

Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)

An Unexpected meeting (and greeting)                               V. 26-28

Isaiah 7:14; 9:1-7

The words highly favored one, or highly graced one, or one full of grace, come to Mary in the _____________ form. She was a recipient of God’s grace, not a fountain of grace. We don’t get grace from her, we get grace from where she got it!

To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us ACCEPTED (bestowed grace upon us) in the Beloved.                       -Ephesians 1:6

A Unique assignment – bearing the Savior!                         V. 29-33

Your purity and spiritual ____________________ doesn’t earn God’s favor, but it does catch His eye, and He rewards His children who love and obey Him! Godly Mary got a unique assignment.

An Understandable Q________________________            V. 34

The Unsurpassed birth – the Incarnation of God the Son    V. 35-37

For He made Him who knew no sin to become sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.                        -2 Corinthians 5:21

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.          -John 1:14

Theologians call it the incarnation, the -in-________________-ment of the Son of God!

“Nothing will be impossible with God’s every word!”

The Unhesitant R_________________ of the promise        V. 38

And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it!”    -Luke 11:27-28