Mary (3 of 3)
Series: The Mother's of Jesus
Scott Maze
Luke 1:26-45
Just a few more days to Christmas… are you ready? We conclude a short Christmas series designed to make room in your heart to worship Jesus, entitled The Mothers of Jesus. For the last several weeks, we’ve been examining the four mothers of Jesus, the several women who served as Jesus’ distant mothers and grandmothers. We’ve noted how unusual it is for Jesus’ genealogy to list four women’s names when women didn’t have the cultural clout and status they enjoy today. Secondly, we note that each of these women listed Jesus’ family tree, Matthew includes four women with some kind of scandal attached to their stories. We’ve looked at Tamer, Ruth, and last week we saw Bathsheba. Today, we finally arrive at the literal mother of Jesus, Mary.
While Mary has enjoyed high status throughout the centuries, she was the subject of gossip in her day. Mary’s scandal is this: she was an unwed pregnant teenager and all the tongues were wagging were in her small, conservative town of Nazareth. Now if you’ve tried to read about the story of Jesus’ birth from just one of the four Gospels, then you’ve discovered two things. First, no one Gospel tells you everything about the birth of Jesus. Second, some gospels do not tell you anything about the birth of Jesus. So you really have to read all four gospels to get the whole picture of Jesus’ birth. And when you take the time to read all four Gospel accounts of the first Christmas, you’ll discover Jesus is both completely God and He is completely human.
Jesus’ Biological Family
And because Jesus was human like anyone of us, He had a human step-father, a mother, brothers, and sisters (see Matthew 13:55-56). It’s His mother, Mary, and step-father, Joseph, who play an integral part of the Christmas story. If you read from Matthew’s Gospel, you’ll gain the perspective of Joseph hearing about Mary’s pregnancy though she was a virgin (M ...
Series: The Mother's of Jesus
Scott Maze
Luke 1:26-45
Just a few more days to Christmas… are you ready? We conclude a short Christmas series designed to make room in your heart to worship Jesus, entitled The Mothers of Jesus. For the last several weeks, we’ve been examining the four mothers of Jesus, the several women who served as Jesus’ distant mothers and grandmothers. We’ve noted how unusual it is for Jesus’ genealogy to list four women’s names when women didn’t have the cultural clout and status they enjoy today. Secondly, we note that each of these women listed Jesus’ family tree, Matthew includes four women with some kind of scandal attached to their stories. We’ve looked at Tamer, Ruth, and last week we saw Bathsheba. Today, we finally arrive at the literal mother of Jesus, Mary.
While Mary has enjoyed high status throughout the centuries, she was the subject of gossip in her day. Mary’s scandal is this: she was an unwed pregnant teenager and all the tongues were wagging were in her small, conservative town of Nazareth. Now if you’ve tried to read about the story of Jesus’ birth from just one of the four Gospels, then you’ve discovered two things. First, no one Gospel tells you everything about the birth of Jesus. Second, some gospels do not tell you anything about the birth of Jesus. So you really have to read all four gospels to get the whole picture of Jesus’ birth. And when you take the time to read all four Gospel accounts of the first Christmas, you’ll discover Jesus is both completely God and He is completely human.
Jesus’ Biological Family
And because Jesus was human like anyone of us, He had a human step-father, a mother, brothers, and sisters (see Matthew 13:55-56). It’s His mother, Mary, and step-father, Joseph, who play an integral part of the Christmas story. If you read from Matthew’s Gospel, you’ll gain the perspective of Joseph hearing about Mary’s pregnancy though she was a virgin (M ...
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