O, Magnify The Lord (part 2) - [Luke 1:46-56]

What am I I'm the longest book in the

New Testament I Contain 50 % of material that's not found anywhere else in the

Bible. I Have at least 15 unique parables in me.

I Start off with the beginning of Jesus with the baptism and end with the Emmaus Road and Ascension I'm derived from eyewitness accounts of the

Lord Jesus and And of course, you know the answer the question who am I the gospel of Jesus according to Luke, please turn your

Bibles to chapter 1 as we're marching through the gospel of Luke gospel means good news

And I have good news for you this morning that Jesus has been raised from the dead and that he has had his

Minister Luke by the power of the Spirit of God give us an account of his life Before we was born and after he was raised from the dead and this is one of those books

That's one of the most exciting books in all the Bible We can learn about the boyhood of Jesus his baptism his ministry in Galilee when he calls the twelve disciples to himself

He cast out demons. He heals women. He sends out the twelve. He feeds the multitude

He goes to Jerusalem and preaches along the way with all kinds of parables

Of course Judas turns against the Lord Jesus and there's the Lord's Supper and Passover and garden

Gethsemane agony Jesus is arrested. He's tried. He's killed and he's raised from the dead

He has a conversation on the nice rose road And then he is ascended into heaven and what we do at this church if you're new to the church

We're just preaching through the Bible verse by verse in a Christ -centered way Which is very easy when you're in the gospel of Luke because everything drives

To chapter 1 verse 4 remember chapter 1 verse 4 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught

Luke wants to make sure you dear Christian and even if you're not a Christian that you know

These are the facts of the case. I believe it was Luther who said something like Jesus died

That's history Jesus died for sins That's theology and Jesus died for sinners like me

That's wonderful. And so everything revolves around this sometimes in our lives

We say to ourselves, it's so difficult to live with the trials that I have That are the truths of Scripture really true is

Jesus alive Am I wasting my whole life for something? That's not true. Look at all the other people

They seem to be having a nice life and they don't believe in Jesus And so this is a really good book for Christians to say.

Yes. In fact, these things are true there's an orderly account written by Luke inspired by the Spirit of God and you just see from the beginning to the end here is

The Lord Jesus in all his glory and you say that's right. There's no one like Jesus He didn't no one preached like he did no one acted like he did nobody could forgive sins like he did and it's true

I believe everything in this gospel and I believe that it helps my assurance and my certainty even in difficult times

Now we're up to chapter 1 verses 46 through 56 where Mary sings a song as you know

There's the foretelling of the birth of John the Baptist and we all knew what was going to happen right after that when

John the Baptist Comes on the scene something else is going to happen and when the forerunner comes prophesied in Malachi 400 years earlier that when

Elijah that someone in the spirit of Elijah comes a Forerunner before the king then the king certainly going to come

And so we see John the Baptist and his birth foretold and then we see in verses 26 and following Jesus's birth foretold and while Zechariah the priest didn't believe

Gabriel who was talking the words of God sent by God Mary in fact did and she visits

Elizabeth and we know what happened there and then Mary begins to sing a song of praise

If you'd like to know what I'm after today when I'm preaching. I think preachers should have a goal or a purpose

Here's my purpose That you sing this song with Mary Regularly that you sing this song with Mary and you can even see by the way, it's indented with some margin

That's larger verses 46 through 55. It's really a hymn It's it's a psalm and I would say this to you when you read the

Psalms the book of Psalms. What do you say? Oh Psalm 51 that's for David.

He sinned against Uriah. He sinned against Bathsheba. He sinned against Israel That's a nice Confession and penitent

Psalm for David. Is that what you say? I hope you say that but I hope you say much more don't you with David?

Cry out and say against you and you only God have I sinned and done what was evil in your sight?

Oh God created me a clean heart Using the language of making things out of nothing in Genesis 1 about God created the heavens in the earth

God in me I need a new heart. Don't you read the Psalms? Not just analytically, but you sing along with him when you say

Psalm 23 the Lord is my shepherd You don't just say yeah, the Shepherd is David Shepherd You say the

Lord is what my shepherd so it's the exact same thing here This is not a song to be analyzed and looked at and say is it

Mary wonderful? Although she was blessed among women But it's a song for you to look at and for me to look at and say that's the kind of song

I'd like to sing That's the kind of song that I should be singing knowing who God is in spite of my circumstances

So my goal today is super simple. We're going to walk through This part two of Mary's song of praise and I want you to be able to sing with her

By the way, if you're a Christian, you'll be able to sing this song by the power of the

Holy Spirit Remember last week, by the way, I said our worship service is set up with kind of a flow.

There's Revelation read Old Testament and then we respond with what? Singing because when you see

God's hand in something in nature or in Scripture Then you sing and then we have the

New Testament singing a reading and then we have singing and it goes back and forth like that Well, guess what

Mary was told she was going to birth the Messiah She's a virgin and the Spirit of God hovers over her and make sure that Baby Jesus inside of her is going to be perfectly holy so he can die for the sins of others if he was sinful

He'd have to die for his own sins. And what does Mary do when there's revelation to Mary she responds with what?

She sits on her hands and she zips her lip No, you see it even here this revelation response.

There's revelation There's response you see a baby being born natural revelation and you say what?

Think I told you when Maddie and Gracie were born here in Worcester, of course There's always a fight between our children

Not a big fight small f fight because two children were born in California and two were born in st. Vincent's Worcester Mass who's better who's on first and so Actually, Maddie was born at the old st

Vincent's Gracie was born at the new st Vincent's and when both of those children were born out they came and you know just that moment where you're thinking there's a baby and I said

I said Because revelation demands response. I said ain't evolution grand

The nurses gave me a sedative And so you just notice that in Scripture, by the way, but something really good happens to you

If anyone is cheerful James 5 says let him what? Sing and we're singing people and we don't have the notes

But but we have this great song that we're supposed to sing along with It's called the

Magnificat why because remember in verse 46 Mary said my soul magnifies the

Lord that word magnifies is the first word in the original putting emphasis and Latin Magnificat means to magnify it means to enlarge it means to have a good view of God This week.

I did my own homework that I asked you to do as well or suggested and I found my old

Magnifying glass for my grandmother and I set it out of my counter to remember That I'm either going to magnify my problems my health problems my personal problems other kind of things or the magnifying glass

Needs to be on who God is and of course when I magnify God when Mary magnifies

God when you magnify God You're not making him bigger You're not giving him something that he's lacking because God is

God And if I take my magnifying glass and I look at my watch I'm not doing anything to the watch, but my perception of the watch is more detailed

And I can see oh those features are enlarged and I can see that tiny little number that tells me that it's

May 21st Etc. So when Mary is magnifying God She's trying to get a good vision of who he is and reflect upon that and so she with her soul with her spirit

Begins to sing like David Oh magnify the Lord with me

We have troubles we have trials I believe last week I said let's have a template for an outline how we can sing like Mary in spite of our problems and Our trials how can you sing for joy even though?

There's difficulties we saw last week remember number one. How do you sing for joy one remember your lost condition?

It's good for Christians not to have their nose rubbed in their sinful condition But to remember and so do you see even

Mary doing that in verse 17 God my Savior? Mary knew that she was a sinner

She needed a Savior and she is reminded of that and when you realize you're sinful and God has saved you anyway

When you realize what you deserve and what you get Then you have great praise.

I've often said and tried to preach this to my own heart that if you buy the world's

Selling point that says you deserve it all the world never delivers and the difference is grief anxiety bad moods

But if you realize what you deserve what I deserve because of sin sin against a holy

God that is eternal hell And then what we get the Spirit of God today forgiveness

Reconciliation we're right with God and future in heaven with God himself worshiping the Lamb on the throne the difference there is what?

Praise and so when you remember your lost condition just remember you say to yourself And what if I would have died if I'm in my sins what world would

I have gone? it's good for Mary she called Jesus Savior and It's good for us to remember.

I mean remember before you were saved if you were like me I Didn't know how bad

I was before I got saved did you did you really realize how bad your fallen condition was

I? Mean I thought I was living it up I thought I had Jesus as a little health insurance a little life insurance a little hell insurance and of course

I believed in Jesus I wouldn't believe in any other kind of God, but it was a fake knowledge. It was a false knowledge And my mind was set on the flesh and that Bible then the

Bible says then we're hostile to God And so Mary says you know what

I need a Savior She goes on to say in verse 48. I have a humble estate. I'm a servant and And she just begins to realize her condition between a holy

God And herself is a big gap, and she can't do anything about it

And so we looked at number one remember your lost condition number two we talked about rehearsing the truths about who

God is Rehearsing the truths about who God is so you'd like to praise God even though even though the trials

Remember your lost condition, and then remember who God is Specifically look at some of the titles for God the names of God in verses 46 through 55

Verse 46 the Lord He's the sovereign King as we just mentioned a moment a moment ago in verse 47

God the Creator my Savior verse 49 literally the

Mighty One Holy is his name What we do when we're in a big trial, and we say do you know what

I'm focused on myself the magnifying glasses on myself The magnifying glasses on my own problems.

They keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and they're multiplying I need to have my direction someplace else for Mary.

She could have said what am I gonna do? I'm gonna look pregnant. I'm a virgin. This is not gonna. Go well.

I'm gonna have to tell people I never slept with Joseph They're gonna all think I did and I'm lying she could have got going over and over and over and over But she lifts her eyes upwardly

And she remembers who God is I have lots of problems in my life

Here's one of my problems if I'm not very diligent, and that is I somehow

Disassociate Jesus from his benefits. I know about reconciliation.

I know about redemption I know about propitiation assuaging God's wrath. I know about forgiveness.

I know about justification I know about active obedience of Christ. I know about double imputation are those things good to know about I hope so they're in the

Bible But who's the one who gave me all those and for Mary while she's going to talk about the deeds of God She's not going to forget the one who gave them those blessings to her

Sinclair Ferguson said while we can distinguish Christ's person and his work in analytical theological categories

They are inseparable from each other Since there's no work of Christ that takes place abstracted from and in that sense outside of his person

The blessings of Christ's work cannot be appropriated apart from receiving Christ himself with all his benefits

That's the total price when you get Jesus you get the benefits and for Mary sovereign

God Lord Savior Mighty one holy is his name

And now we move to number three how to sing for joy in spite of your circumstances

Remember your lost condition rehearse the truths about who Jesus is number three reflect on what

Jesus did and will do So it's pretty simple when you think about praising

God Who is he what he's done if I were to say to you how would I praise God? We'll think about who he is and what he's done

I mean, we just started off with a little something different Oh, yes Let's remember our condition because then the rescue is going to see seem that much better Reflect on what

Jesus did and will do if you take a look at this Song it reads almost in one way like a resume.

I Now notice that younger people have figured out with resumes you put a lot of action verbs collated called designed

Implemented overseen Oversaw That's exactly what happens here

There's all these things what God has done all these action verbs rules saves regards does pities humbles exalts fills helps speaks

And so when Mary praises God he she says I'm gonna praise him for who he is

Titles attributes, and I'm gonna praise him for what he's done, and we'll do that's what we should do.

That's what We're called to do as well. She first off starts in a very personal way verse 48

She'll move to general, but she starts off with personal Verse 49 excuse me for he who is mighty has done great things

Here's the personal part for me He who is mighty has done great things for me.

What in the world do you think she's talking about there? What act what event? The virgin conception

The virgin conception God the mighty one has done something for me, and she praises him for that Reminds me of Psalm 71

Who has done great things? Oh God who is like you? I mean even if you've got the worst news in the world for some kind of problem

Can't you say dear Christian should you not say? The Lord has done great things for me.

Can't you say that of course you can't tear in the eye though He slay me yet. I'll trust in him you can say with me

He's done great things for me the God of the universe has done great things for me And you'll notice as we go through the book of Luke Luke focuses a lot on a personal

Way that God deals with people some people think God's abstract. He's different. He's aloof. He's stoic

He's this God who rules and reigns, but he's not he doesn't know the people he doesn't understand the people we even have

Insight into Mary where it said she treasured these things in her heart Because we have this very personal look at people and God personally taking care of Mary I Love what

God said to Israel you shall fear the Lord your God Deuteronomy 10 you shall serve him and hold fast to him

He is your praise He is your God who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen

Moses said the same thing who is God and what he's done. That's how we praise him She expands her praise though not just to what

God has done for her And this is good for all of us because we can praise God for what he does for other people

Do you notice in verse 50 and his mercy is not just for me Mary? It's good to praise

God for what he's done for you Absolutely, but it expands and I think this is something we rarely talk about but it's important Praising God for what he's done in the lives of other people and his mercy is for those who fear him verse 50 from generation to generation

Do you notice we move from first person singular to third person plural

And I know that warms your heart. It's one of those moments of just praise I know you want to raise your hand for that, but what's happening here with grammar.

She praises God for who he is Because he's done something for her personally and now she expands it first person singular third person plural from the individual to the general

Essentially she quotes psalm 103 verse 17 But the steadfast love of the

Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him His mercy verse 50 when you think of mercy

I want you to think about many things including this Mary was a Jew she steeped in Old Testament writings

She knows Hannah's song and when you hear mercy in the Old Testament, you should be thinking about steadfast love loyal love

Covenant love that's what she's talking about here So this whole song is about the

God's faithful that you can trust in God Hebert even further defines mercy as quote the self -moved spontaneous loving -kindness of God Which causes him to deal in compassion and tender affection with the miserable and the distressed

And she starts singing about that God and And whose mercy is it?

It's the Lord's and who gets the mercy? What's the text say verse 50 for those who fear him?

You fear God Did you know the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord? How should you fear

God? How do you fear God? Well, if you're an unbeliever, here's how you fear

God if you're here today, and you're not a believer One day you'll die and have to stand before God and you'll have to pay for your sins

And it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of living God, right? It's appointed for man who wants to die and then judgment that be frightening this

God that you sinned against Yes, it's not too late by the way to trust in the Lord Jesus even today But if you're a

Christian, you don't have to fear condemnation, right? There's no condemnation in Christ Jesus. Then. How do you fear?

Well, it depends on your relationship with God If your relationship to God is you're an unbeliever

And he's a king and which he is and he's a sovereign and he's a creator and he's a judge Well, then you better fear but what if this

God this great God this transcendent God this holy God is your father? And you're his son or daughter based on the

Lord. Jesus's work. Then do you fear do you cringe? You know the proverbial dog you walk past it's been kicked so many times

It just moves to the side because it's just going to get kicked again Of course, we understand there's a difference between servile fear for the unbeliever duck

And there's the kind of fear that says for a son or a daughter My dad's great

My father on earth protects me. He provides for me. He's always been there when

I'm in trouble I call my father and I want to honor him. I want to honor him even in my life

Fearing God and Philippians chapter 2 means that I want to live a life To honor such a great

God and so for us as Christians, we don't have to fear God Not one of your sins will come up on judgment day.

Did you know that not one? I already know the verdict for you and judgment day no condemnation

So in light of such a great God who would do that at the expense of his son His holy blameless son

We say we want to fear God not cringing slavish ducking fear but a reverential fear a fear that says

I have the greatest father ever and I want to honor him and I want to Fear him

Rightly, it says in first peter one and even if you call on him as father who judges impartially

Conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile Friends, it can't be the fear of saying

I don't even know if i'm a christian or not Let's just think about it in human terms. What good father would go around and say, do you know what son or daughter?

um, I I know you're 13 and you want to know if actually You're you're part of my family or not

And if you have my last name or not if you keep on obeying enough, I I think i'll give you my last name

But in fact, that'd be a good way to manipulate people. I don't i'm. Sorry grace. I didn't do that to you You would have been maybe It's great.

Great to have gracie in the congregation, but now I owe her two dollars, I think No, you're my son.

You're my daughter till the very end no matter what there's nothing you can do to separate You from me and my love and if that's my love sinful

Not perfect what about the heavenly father's love true or false Perfect love cast out fear

How can that be you're supposed to fear god I can give you psalm after psalm. You better fear god. You better fear god.

You better fear god. How can perfect love cast out fear? answer because it casts out the fear that says

Right, we all said in the abedroth family growing up my sister and my brother

I've said it many times before I call the seat behind dad When we're going to drive

I call that remember I called it You're in the house two hours before the trip. I call that And I was the oldest kid.

So I usually got it I got that seat and I got my dad's wrath too because You are in christ dear christian, he couldn't love you anymore

He doesn't even love you less when you sin Because his love is unchanging

He started loving you in eternity past and he won't stop He loves you so much when you sin, you'll be disciplined.

That's true chastened. That's true But that is even a loving act from the father

You can't out sin the savior and that should not make you want to go Wild and licentious and lawless and antinomian.

It should make you with fear saying The right kind of fear I want to live my life in such a way that my father is honored by my conduct

He would be proud of me. Hey, that's my son And so when we go back to this passage in verse 50 and his mercy his steadfast love

Is for those who fear him from generation to generation It's talking about that kind of son and daughter fear that cast out the wrong kind of fear

Now if you look at verses 51 through 55, I'd like you to notice verbs as I read them i'd also like you to know verb tenses

In these last days luther said god has revealed himself in greek and hebrew letters We have to know about grammar because it's important every word is important.

So I want you to notice verbs and tenses, please verse 51 through 55 He has shown strength with his arm

He has scattered the proud and the thoughts of their hearts He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate

He has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away empty

He has helped his servant israel In remembrance of his mercy As he spoke to our fathers to abraham and to his offspring forever

Now, what did you see a lot of verbs? Yes, you did shown scattered brought

Exalted, etc. What tenses were those verbs? Those verbs were what?

past tense So what do we do by the way big picture? Can you praise god?

In light of our former condition for who god is and what he's done in the past. Would that be fine?

Can you praise god for how faithful he's been in your past? Absolutely That's one option another option is this

That mary is praising god for what the son will do And she uses past tense because it's as good as done

It's a prophetic way of using the past tense Saying this is going to be an accomplished fact.

It's going to happen and you say I don't know that kind of maybe seems a stretch Let me read to you romans 8 verse 30

And those whom he predestined he also called those whom he called he also justified and those whom he justified he also

Glorified are you glorified? Have you been called predestined justified are you glorified is your body glorified?

I sure hope not if this is a glorified body I mean not only is my son growing taller than I am i'm shrinking so it gets worse.

It's magnified Like my back glorified mind motions will

What paul is saying in romans chapter 8 is the work of god is so completely done when he starts the work

It's as good as finished. I'll give you a past tense verb to confirm that glorified. We're not glorified, but it's as good as done god regularly uses

Past tense verbs to say I will keep my word to the extent i'll use past tense make sense

That's exactly what he's doing here. Of course, or she's doing here She realizes what god has done exodus god has taken israel out of egypt

God has slain goliath the philistine God has humbled belshazzar

And he's humbled nebuchadnezzar and you just go right on down the list of great things.

God has done He has gotten water out of a rock. He has given manna from the sky. He's given quail from the sky

He has sustained two million people And now wilderness wanderings you could just go through the list of what god has done

He creates out of nothing genesis chapter one. He keeps his people in exodus and the list goes

And of course if you want to praise god for the past things That's perfect But here this is the most amazing thing to me about this little song of hers

She's praising god for what jesus is going to do even though jesus is in the womb Yeah, do you have thoughts and hopes if you're a young parent you're maybe a pregnant mom and you think

You know what? I I wonder what this little one will grow up to be. I wonder what he or she will accomplish

We kind of have dreams for our children not financial dreams But we want them to do so well spiritually and marry a godly spouse

And I have those hopes and dreams for my children ever think that way For mary she knows via the spirit of god.

This is what my son is going to do He's still in the womb and she's using past tense verbs to say this child that i'm going to bear is going to do these things so in light of that Let's see what some of these things are that jesus is going to do that jesus

Is the one mary is talking about while he's still growing inside her body

She knows that this is going to happen. She's convinced of it and she uses past tense verbs Singing with joy the deeds of god past present and future

Now before we look at these What's the last time you praise god?

For what he's going to do in the future We don't really do that, but shouldn't we do that?

Jesus you're going to come one day and it's revelation chapter 19 and a white horse

Sword coming out of the mouth language in this great revelation language Jesus is going to come back and he's not coming back next time on a donkey.

He's not coming back to save sinners He's coming back for judgment god. I praise you one day.

You're going to make every wrong, right? I'm looking forward to the day when jesus comes back

Wouldn't that be a good way to praise god? And so we think yes, that's exactly true She knows of course i'm praising god for what he did in the past.

She understands egypt exodus She's praising god for present things. I now

Have a baby inside of me and i've never been with a man and now this baby Is going to rule the world

Verse 51 he's shown strength of his arm. He scattered the proud and the thoughts of their hearts Did that happen in the old testament absolutely will that happen with the lord jesus

To show strength with his arm now, of course in the old testament when you see that language God doesn't have an arm.

He doesn't have an eye doesn't have anything like that. It's anthropomorphic language It's language that we use for accommodation to say god's strong He's got strength and he scattered the proud and the thoughts of their hearts

Did in fact jesus do that to proud people even on earth with the pharisees and the scribes and the prophets?

The hypocrites and the lawyers. Yes, will he not do it in the future for all those that are so proud? they won't bow the knee to the lord jesus and confess that he's

God of course I'm the alpha and the omega revelation 1 8 says the lord god who is and who was and is to come the almighty

Same root word. They're showing strength in verse 51 Will jesus take care of all the proud who are self -sufficient in the future?

Yes Verse four. I mean the verse goes on to say in verse 51. He scattered the proud and the thoughts of their hearts side note the thoughts of their hearts

I thought my heart emoted I thought my heart felt I thought my heart didn't talk well

For us it's a lot of we have head knowledge and we don't only have heart knowledge And instead of going from my head to my heart before it goes out of my mouth

It goes from my head and out my mouth, right? That's how we talk Okay, I understand what you're saying I don't correct people on the spot here very often unless you're in my discipleship lab and you say lucky

I was watching something online and the person said, you know We've got some people at our church that are so like myopic and aggro

And self -righteous that I can't even say good luck around them without getting corrected Thoughts of the heart well the heart for the jew and the heart for the gentile

The heart was mission control center The heart was thinking the heart was who you are.

And so when we say thoughts of the heart, it's very simple It's not just well my my my heart somehow feels and my mind thinks

No She is praising god

For what the sun's going to do Scattered the proud in the thoughts of their heart verse 52.

He's brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate He's done that in the past and guess what he's going to do it in the future

Not necessarily at the first coming But there's two comings of christ and he's come the first time the second time he's going to come

And this is exactly what he's going to do and she praises god Jesus said in luke 14 everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted the king of king the lord of lords

Will bring down every mighty one from their thrones you think okay?

It doesn't take long before you think assyria babylon rome china russia the united states

He brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate Doesn't that sound like jesus?

Those that are proud and mighty he he humbles and those that are humble He comes alongside and lifts up You can probably experience that in your own life probably have

Mary anticipating what jesus will do in the future and he praises she praises god for that Two men went up into the temple to pray one a pharisee the other tax collector the pharisee standing by himself prayed thus god

I thank you. I'm not like other men extortioners unjust adulterers or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week

I give tithes of all that I get But the tax collector standing far off and not even lift his eyes to heaven but beat his breath saying god

Be merciful to me the sinner Jesus said I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled but the one who humbles himself will be exalted

Verse 53 more action words More verbs that are past tense knowing that this is going to happen in the future

Has it happened in the past? Will it happen right then? Yes. Will it happen in immediate future? Yes Ultimate future.

Yes. What do I mean by that verse 53? He's filled the hungry with good things and the rich he sent away empty even jesus on earth feeding the 4 ,000 men feeding the 5 ,000 men feeding them his own body as it were figuratively speaking

He's the manna from heaven and then the ultimate Feeding the hungry when he returns.

I mean, this is just the way jesus does it. It's the great reversal proud Humble, he makes the proud humble.

He takes the humble and exalts them One of the pharisees asked to eat with him and he went into the pharisee's house and reclined a table

Jesus did behold the woman of the city who was a sinner When she learned that he was reclining at table in the pharisee's house brought an alabaster flask of ointment standing behind jesus

His feet weeping she began to wet his feet With her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment

What do you think the proud said? Now when the pharisee who invited him saw this he said himself this man if he was a prophet

He would have known who and what sort of woman this is who's touching him for she's a sinner Jesus answered said to him simon.

I have something to say to you and he said say a teacher Certain money lender had two debtors one owed 500 denarii the other 50

When they could not pay he canceled both of the debts Now which one of them will love him more?

Simon answered he didn't really want to say the one I suppose for whom he canceled the larger debt

You have judged rightly Turning to the woman. He said to simon. So jesus turns to the woman but is talking to simon

Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water from my feet But she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair

You gave me no kiss but from the time I came in she's not ceased to kiss my feet You do not anoint my head with oil, but she's anointed my feet with ointment

Therefore I tell you her sins which are many Are forgiven for she loved much

But he who is forgiven little Loves little and he said to her your sins are forgiven

Then those who are at his table with him began to say among themselves. Who is this who even forgives sins? And jesus said to the woman your faith has saved you

Go in peace and mary praises god for things just like that that jesus will do

Verse 54 he's helped us serve in israel I think he's helped us serve in israel in the past.

That's certainly true He's helped us serve in israel right now with john the baptist announcement as the forerunner fulfilling malachi

Jesus the birth fulfilling isaiah chapter 7 And in the future the jewish people that he's going to be preaching to as he is in his public ministry in remembrance of his mercy

As he spoke to our fathers to abraham and to his offspring forever That's what the lord.

Jesus will do And I think the the good news for us this morning is let's make sure

That we can sing a song of praise Even if life is difficult as we focus on what we deserved who god is and what god does and then what god will do

Remembrance of his mercy does god forget his mercy What in the world is that in remembrance of his mercy

This is just a poem And of course, he doesn't need to remember anything But it's language that we can understand god remembered

Noah Did he forget about noah? Jesus was said

That jesus was was asked by the thief on the cross Remember me in paradise.

I know you're forgetting about me now, but remember me later Is that what it means? When god remembers it's language that we can understand that he's going to do something about it

The summary is simple Mary uses past tense verbs to praise god because she's praising god for who he is, but what he will do in the future

I want to say in verse 56 Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home She's not yet married to joseph.

She's betrothed and she goes home. We don't even really know why Maybe she stayed until john was born from elizabeth.

We don't know And then lastly and we'll make this quick how to sing for joy in spite of remember your lost condition

Rehearse truths about jesus and who he is reflect on what jesus did will do

And number four, let's keep the alliteration going ruminate on the old testament Ruminate on the old testament saturate yourself

With scripture Here's what we think wrongly Zechariah is in the temple. He's the priest.

He knows his bible mary's 13 14 12 years old. She doesn't know her bible When you read this passage

Some commentators say there are at least 15 allusions to the old testament It just was in mary.

If you read hannah's song things like this Listen to hannah's song in first samuel 2 my heart exalts in the lord

The lord makes poor and makes rich he brings low and exalts he raises up the poor from the dust

He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor

Does that sound like what I just read? I think the answer is yes She had psalms memorized and written on her heart

She sang them at home. She Learned about them in the synagogue Hannah's song she knew

I Think mary had the word of christ richly dwelling within her And if you want to pick up A lot of cues that you can recognize in the new testament.

We need to be people who understand the old testament And she didn't do it in a way that said now i'm quoting the old testament, but you could just tell it was in her

Which makes me think? dads Moms keep teaching your children the bible

Those of you that do way to go I hope I can sit at the dinner table with you as you lead your family in family worship

If you're not teaching your children the bible today's a good day to start just say to the family I should be teaching the bible.

I haven't been I have all kinds of excuses, but I won't give them Please forgive me open up your bibles. Let's go

And by the way When you teach your children the bible the way I did it is I tried to be excited Because if I was excited the kids would be excited

Oh, it's bible time again today kids Open up your bible Real thrill here

It's okay. If you play some games on your phone while i'm talking I understand Second timothy three but as for you timothy continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed

Knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you've been acquainted with the sacred writings

Which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in christ timothy's mom timothy's grandma was teaching him these things

Somebody taught mary as well. And when she begins to praise god, it's not really chapter and verse

It's just her mind is so saturated with bible with the old testament. It just comes out Psalm 103 habakkuk chapter 3.

It's just coming out in her own words inspired of course by the spirit of god Training our children to glorify god by studying god's word by singing god's word

To join with mary my soul magnifies the lord and my spirit rejoices in god my Savior There's going to be another song we're going to study

And that's going to be zachariah's song, but that will be in a couple weeks My goal today was simple.

I want you to be able to sing the song with mary about magnifying the lord

So you don't magnify your problems And I want you dear congregation and I want it for myself as well.

Not just to praise god for what he's done in the past Not just to praise god for what he's doing now

But to praise god for what he will do in the future. That's guaranteed with past tense verbs

And I also want to learn how to praise god not just for what he does in my life But what he does in the lives of other people, right?

That's the message of mary. Let's pray. Thank you father for your word We want to magnify you we want to rejoice in you the god of our salvation

Would you forgive us for being people That all too often complain grumble

Whisper, there's so many sins of the tongue and we fall short

Like with james they'd all be solved if what coming out of our mouth was praise

Praising you Would you help us to do that? On behalf of the congregation and with the congregation

I praise you that you're going to send the son back to take care of everything.

That's wrong Those that call evil good and good evil. The lord. Jesus is coming back

And we don't have to be concerned about doing things and being anxious about that. We can rest in you and trust in you