Big Idea: In our text we are introduced to Mary and Jesus. Everything in this passage suggests that Mary is insignificant in light of worldly standards. God chooses that which is most insignificant to bring forth the most significant figure in all of history, Jesus the Son.
Mary, a _____________________ Servant
Luke 1:26–27 (ESV) — 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
Mary was an unsuspecting vessel of God’s wholly undeserved and unmerited favor.
Mary had been “graced” by God in that she had been chosen to bear God’s Son (1:31, 35). She had not been chosen for this task because she possessed a particular piety or holiness of life that merited this privilege. The text suggests no special worthiness on Mary’s part.
1 Corinthians 1:26–31 (ESV) — 26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Mary was a humble servant of the Lord and her desire was to see the Lord Jesus Christ magnified in all things.
Jesus, the ___________________________ King
Luke 1:30-32 (ESV) 30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
Jesus = ____________________ ______________________
Luke 2:49 (ESV) — 49 And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
Hebrews 9:11–14 (ESV) — 11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Isaiah 53:1-6
Jesus is the greatest man who ever lived because He is the Savior of the World, He is the Son of God, and He is the King of Kings.
Questions to Consider
What is significant about Mary? How does this encourage us toward service in Jesus Christ?
What is significant about Jesus? How does this encourage us toward worshiping Jesus Christ?
