(Luke) 04 - Unbelief-Faith of Mary — Ed Miller

Of gathering in this place. Thank you for all that have come and we just ask you now to meet the needs of our heart. Unveil for us in a quickening way our Lord Jesus. We thank you that you'll guide our devotions and our meditation and we just pray because we've gathered we'll say that it was good that we met together around the Word of God trusting the Holy Spirit.

So we give our time to you with thanksgiving and we just thank you in advance for meeting us and showing us Christ. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. All right if you'll open please to Luke chapter 1. We're in the Gospel of Luke.

We have outlines here I think most of you have them but let me just handle so those who don't have them can receive them and I think back there. Welcome. Just a little outline that we're going to be following.

Actually it's for your own. We probably in fact we will not even refer to it this morning but that's something you can tuck away. We're in the Gospel of Luke and the message of Luke's Gospel. Thank you.

Luke’s Gospel and the Certainty of Faith

The message of Luke's Gospel is the presentation of our Lord Jesus as the Son of all mankind. The Son of all mankind. We're using as a key text chapter 19 and verse 10. Luke 19 10 says, For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

I pointed out in our two introduction lessons that Luke was not a Jew. He was a Gentile and that makes him the only Gentile writer of any book in the New Testament. He's the only one that was not a Jew that wrote any scripture and as a Gentile writer he presents the Gospel from the standpoint of the Gentiles and it's to all mankind.

And so this title, Son of all mankind, is unique and belongs to this presentation of Luke, of our Lord Jesus. For the past couple of weeks we've been introducing this wonderful Gospel to your heart. I'm going to ask you to look please at chapter 1 verse 3 and 4.

It says, It seems fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theopolis, so that you might know the exact truth about the things that you have been taught.

In verse 4, so that you might know the exact truth about the things that you've been taught. Luke tells us why he's writing, that you might know the exact truth. It's a book of assurance. It's a book of certainty.

It's a book to give you confidence. I hope you're trusting the Lord before we start this study. I know as you go through Luke you'll trust him more at the end of the study than you do at the beginning.

Because the book is designed to give you confidence. And the more you study Luke, the more you're going to know these things and be fully assured of them. I told you last week that in verse 3, this Theopolis, who is he writing to, this fellow named Theopolis?

Well, nobody knows. And so what we're doing is just taking the meaning of his name. Theopolis means lover of God. So whoever he was, if he was some nobleman or some slave owner or whoever he was, doesn't matter.

His name means lover of God. And God has put this in the Bible. God has given us the gospel of Luke so that those who love God might be fully persuaded. That's the point of the whole gospel. And all the way through, as we go through it, I'm going to call attention on the things certainty to the heart.

We'll just underscore those all the way through. Now last time we had begun an overview of chapter 1. If you just glance at the chapter, you'll see it's a big one. There's 80 verses in chapter 1. That's one thing about Luke.

He's very not only prolific in that he's written more than any other writer in the New Testament, even more than the Apostle Paul, but he's also prolific. In every book, he just can't find the end of a sentence.

There's only one person who wrote a longer sentence than Luke, and that's Paul. Ephesians chapter 1 contains the longest sentence in the Bible. And he just didn't know what a period was. One time, Lillian has a habit of not ending sentences.

So one Christmas, we gave her a bag of punctuation, just so she could end her sentences. That tells especially when she's on the telephone. When everybody's ready to leave, she says, well, and then it starts all over again.

I'm dead when I leave here. Anyway, Luke chapter 1 has two stories in it, basically. Number one, the story of Zacharias and Elizabeth when they received news that they were going to parent John the baptizer.

And then the announcement by Gabriel, the angel to Mary, that she was going to be the mother of the son of all mankind. The story of Elizabeth and Zacharias actually takes two parts. The chapter begins with that story, and then the chapter ends with that story.

In other words, from verses 5 to 23, Zacharias and Elizabeth. And then beginning at verse 57, to the end of the chapter, Zacharias and Elizabeth. And in between that is the story of Mary and the annunciation, how God announced to her through the angel.

Now there's overlapping, you know, because Mary spent at least three months, or about three months, with Elizabeth. So there's some overlapping. The heart of the message of chapter 1 can be summarized in these three words, certainty through faith.

That's the point of chapter 1. And you can see how the Lord outlines this chapter. It's a contrast between unbelief and faith. The unbelief of the old priest, Zacharias, and the faith of the young maiden of Mary.

And there's this contrast. A glance, if you would, at verse 18. And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this for certain? For I am an old man, my wife is advanced in years. Zacharias said, How will I know?

And then in verse 34, we see Mary. And Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I am a virgin? Now they both ask the question. And on the surface, it almost looks like the same question. Zacharias said, How can this happen?

My wife is old. Mary said, How can this be? I'm a virgin. Except Zacharias gets blasted for unbelief, and Mary gets credit for faith. And so we know there's a difference in the way that they ask the question.

And we were trying to illustrate that. See, Zacharias was really saying, Prove it. This is impossible. And when Mary asked the question, she wasn't saying, Prove it. She said, How? How are you going to do this wonderful thing?

She didn't doubt it. She just wanted to know the mold. She wanted to know the process by which God would do it. Whereas Zacharias said, Are you kidding me? Have you seen my wife? Do you know how old I am?

This is not possible. Give me a sign. And so one was unbelief, and one was faith. And sometimes unbelief and faith on the outside can sound the same. But we'd better not judge one another. Someone might ask a question and say, Why is that unbeliever asking that question?

You don't know if it's a questioning question or an inquisitive question. I don't know if it's questioning or inquisitive. God loves inquisitive questions. He has never refused, no matter how honest it is, if there's a desire to know, God will meet an inquisitive question, because it's rooted in faith.

The questioning question is rooted in doubt, and God hates it, and it's illustrated here. The simple outline for chapter one is this. Unbelief, the first 25 verses. Faith, verse 26 to 55. And then the chapter ends, unbelief turns to faith.

At the end, Zacharias comes to have this tremendous faith. So you see, the outline is very logical. Unbelief, faith, unbelief is turned to faith. And that's what this is all about, to illustrate certainty through faith.

Now before we look at our new material, let me just mention, I won't develop it, if you missed last week's lesson and would like it, just see Lillian, we have the tapes. We tape it every week, and we'll give those out to anybody who wants them.

There's no cost. We just hope, we pray, that you have a hungry heart and desire to see these things. But let me just mention the observations. First of all, from verse 13. If you'll glance at verse 13, the angel said to him, do not be afraid, Zacharias, your petition has been heard.

We call attention to the fact that this was an old prayer. Don't forget, Zacharias and his wife are very elderly now, and the angel shows up and says, your petition has been heard, your wife's going to have a baby.

And probably in his heart he says, where have you been? I made that request 50 years ago, and you're just getting around to answering it now? And so this idea that God might delay an answer to prayer, but he will never forget your prayer.

He might delay it, but he'll not forget it. Sometimes God answers, and you've long forgotten that you even prayed, and God comes through with an answer. Sometimes God answers, and by that time you don't want that answer.

When you pray, you want one thing, but later on when God answers. And so we see this point illustrated that God never forgets prayer. The second observation is from verse 20, and we developed it last time.

Because he didn't believe, it says, you shall be silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe. And I showed you last time, I won't go through it again, but that he was made both deaf and mute.

They had to speak to him inside. He couldn't hear, he couldn't speak. The illustration in verse 20 is this, until the day these things take place. The point being this, you and I very often are going to be tempted to unbelieve.

Do not think that my unbelief will stop God's will. Don't think your unbelief will stop God's will. He didn't believe, but his wife still got pregnant, and John still came, and God's will was still done.

Who gets hurt by unbelief? Not God, not his purpose, not his plan. You see, Zacharias was supposed to come out as the high priest, quote number 6, the Lord bless thee and keep thee and make his face shine upon thee, be gracious unto thee.

He was supposed to give the high priestly benediction, but he couldn't do it. And you see that illustrated in verse 21 and 22. The people were waiting for Zacharias, were wondering at his delay in the temple.

When he came out, he was unable to speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them and remained mute. God's will will not be stopped by unbelief, and the only thing that's hurt is me.

If I don't believe God, I'm hurt, and I will not be able to bless others. And that's wonderfully illustrated there. The third observation was from verse 6. It says, they were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments of the Lord blamelessly, and all the requirements of the law.

Call attention to this, because Zacharias is accused of unbelief. Don't think unbelief only finds its way into the heart of the callous and rebellious. This was a godly man, the choicest servant of God, in the best time, sometime fall victim to doubt and to unbelief.

And that also is illustrated here. And then finally look at verse 18. And Zacharias said to the angel, how shall I know this for certain? And don't forget why Luke's writing. He's writing this gospel that you might be certain.

It's for certainty. And here Zacharias is saying, I want to know for sure. You would think that Luke would applaud that and give him an attaboy. But instead he accuses him of unbelief. And he's only saying, how can I know for sure?

And Luke's point is this, the way to know for sure is not to get a sign. The way to know for sure is to believe God. Certainty comes through the simplicity of childlike faith. And so he was illustrating this.

We developed all of that last time. All right, that brings us to our new material. I want to continue this discussion on doubt versus faith, doubt illustrated by Zacharias and faith by the Virgin Mary.

Luke’s Jewish Opening and the Bridge Between the Testaments

But before I do that, I'm going to ask you to bear with me for a little donkey work. Because sometimes to get the background helps you to enter into this. I want you to get the big picture. I'm going to come back to Zacharias and Mary and the contrast between doubt and faith and the point of the certainty of faith.

But let me get the big picture before you. I laid stress for three weeks in a row, and I even mentioned it this week, that Luke was a Gentile writing to Gentiles. He was not a Jew. If ever there is a non-Jewish book in your Bible, it is Luke.

Luke is a non-Jewish book. Having said that, there are no more Jewish chapters in the Bible than Luke chapter 1 and 2. It is the most Jewish chapter and the most non-Jewish book in the whole New Testament.

It opens up in the holy city of Jerusalem. That's Jewish. The first scenes are in the holy temple. That's Jewish. The characters in the first two chapters are the priests, Zacharias and Simeon, in chapter 2.

That's very Jewish. Chapter 1, verse 10, they were all gathered at the hour of prayer. That's Jewish. The appearance in verse 11 of Gabriel in the holy place, before the veil and at the altar of incense, that's very Jewish.

Luke opens almost on the edge of two dispensations. I told you Luke, not Matthew, is the connection between the Old and the New Testament. God has been silent for 400 years. What did he say the first time he spoke?

Matthew doesn't tell you. The first time he spoke, Luke is who tells you that. In Revelation chapter 10, there is a great angel pictured with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea. Not sure I know what that means, but it pictures to me of Luke.

I know it doesn't mean Luke, but I just picture him one foot in the Old Testament, one foot in the New Testament, and sort of standing in between them both and bringing both together. He's bringing the Old and the New together.

So this Gentile book starts off Jewish, and then after chapter 2, you'll not find anything more Gentile than the gospel of Luke. Zacharias and Mary not only picture unbelief and faith, but it's bigger than that.

The first picture of the church in the New Testament is Mary. Mary is God's picture of the church, the first one. Now later on, he's going to give you seven other pictures of the church. But Mary is the first picture of the church.

And I have an idea in that same regard that Zacharias, the father of John the Baptizer, sort of represents the whole priesthood, the whole system, the whole Jewish form, and the Jewish unbelief. And so you've got Zacharias representing the Old and their unbelief, and then Mary representing the New, the church, and their faith.

And Luke sort of brings the Old and the New together, and he represents the whole priesthood. In fact, I have an idea that the judgment that was put on Zacharias, his deafness and his muteness for his unbelief, and then finally at the end, his unbelief was turned to faith.

God said he's going to do the same thing to Israel. And they have been struck the same way with unbelief. But the last chapter hasn't been written, and Israel has a future, and they're going to come back.

And all of that's in another place. But I think Zacharias pictures all that as Mary pictures the church. Now let me illustrate this strong Jewish emphasis by showing you the connection between the Old and the New Testament.

Four hundred years God had not spoke. There was silence. No word from God, no vision, no prophecy, no oracle. God said nothing. That's between Malachi and Matthew. In between there, God never said a word.

Now let me describe when God first speaks. We sort of read this la, la, la, but oh my, if you can get into what was happening here, then you could see what a powerful thing took place. In chapter 1, verse 5, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a division of Abijah.

He had a wife from the daughters of Aaron. Her name was Elizabeth. It's one thing to be able to trace your lineage, especially if you were a priest, back to the priestly families. But Elizabeth traced hers to the high priestly family, to the house of Aaron.

That's an amazing thing. In fact, Exodus chapter 6, verse 23, tells us the name of Aaron's wife. Aaron the high priest, the first high priest, anybody know the name of his wife? Elizabeth. It was Elizabeth.

And probably because she was in that family, Elizabeth now, we're in the tribe of Aaron, so we're going to name our baby Elizabeth, and that's probably how she got her name. Anyway, on this special day, a tremendous privilege was given to this priest who married the daughter in the family of the high priest.

Verse 8 and 9, it came about while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division, according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

What's that all about? Now, of course, you've got to be like the Bereans and check these things out to see if they're so. Don't take my word for it, but I'm asking you to trust me, at least through the Bible study, so we don't have to go looking up chronicles and all of this.

I'll tell you the story, and then you can check it on your own. Aaron the high priest had four sons. Two of those sons were judged because of sin. Nadab and Abihu, God sent lightning, wiped them out. That's the story in itself.

Of the other two sons, those two sons turned into 24 families. Well, that's a lot of priests, and you only have one temple. And so they had a problem. What are you going to do with all these priests from 24 families?

We had, before Grandpa died, you all remember Grandpa, dear man, 106 years old. We gathered one time for a family picture, and we could hardly fit in so many people. And so families grew. Well, these priestly families grew too.

And so here's the plan that was devised. Out of the 24 families, this happened in the days of David, and it's recorded in Chronicles, David decided to divide the priesthood up into 24 courses. And so each family had a course.

There's approximately 50 weeks in a year, 24 courses. So what they decided was every family could get to serve two weeks in the temple. And that's how they would do it. But just because your course was chosen didn't mean you were chosen.

Because every course had a lot of priests. And so what they would do is when it came your family's turn, they would cast lots. Now, I'm not going to go into all of the controversy of how they cast lots.

For our discussion, they just grew strong. The point is they had to decide who was going to get to serve. And notice verse 7. It says they were both advanced in age. How old? We don't know how old. The Bible doesn't tell us.

Numbers chapter 8 said if they were just Levites, they'd have to retire at age 50. So we know these weren't Levites. These were high priestly families. So they got to serve past 50. In fact, they were probably way up in age.

So here's a man waiting for the lot to fall on him. Josephus, the church historian, tells us that some priests never got to serve in all their lives. They never got to serve in the temple. And they waited for the privilege of the lot to fall on them.

Now there were many duties and different priests had different duties. But there was one duty that was singled out above all. If your lot fell that you could serve or minister the incense in the holy place.

That was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Let's say you got lucky. I speak as a fool. Let's say your lot came up twice. Let's say when you're 40 years old you get the privilege to go into the temple and minister incense in the holy place.

And then 50 years later you're now 90 years old and the lot falls again for a second time you get to serve incense. You've got to turn it down. You had your turn. You were only allowed to do this one time.

You could serve other things. You could deal with the table of showbread or the seven pronged candlestick or the labor or the altar. You could do other things. But you could only minister the incense one time in your life.

See we just sort of read this la la la. It fell on Zacharias. The lot fell. And he had a once in a lifetime opportunity. He didn't know God was going to break the silence after 400 years and talk to him.

He didn't know that an angel was going to show up Gabriel the angel and talk to him at his side. All he knew is I've got the privilege of a lifetime. I've waited a long time. I'm an old man now. And God praise God has given me the opportunity to go in the holy place and to minister this incense.

Josephus tells us that at that time in Jerusalem in Jerusalem alone there were more than 24 ,000 priests waiting for their turn. Most commentators make it around 18 to 20 ,000. He says 24 ,000. The point is you didn't often get this tremendous privilege.

But verse 5 the lot fell to the division of Abijah. That's his family. And then in verse 9 it falls to him to burn that incense to the Lord. And so this old priest robed in white barefoot with a holy censer in his hand goes to stand before the sacred altar of God.

Many at that time were sort of plain priests. And can I help you? Okay that's fine. We're real informal here. Now many at that time were playing at the priesthood. But we know Zacharias wasn't playing.

He was righteous and he took this privilege very, very seriously. Verse 6 said he was righteous, blameless before God. Then verse 11 an amazing thing happened. An angel of the Lord appeared to him standing to the right of the altar of incense.

We just sort of read this again, la, la, la. According to verse 19 the angel answered and said, I'm Gabriel who stands in the presence of God. I've been sent to speak to you, to bring you this good news.

According to the Bible the name Gabriel just means the hero of God. This angel of God, Gabriel is the messenger of mercy. Michael sort of has the ministry of wrath, Michael the archangel. Gabriel hadn't been around now on the earth.

Last time he showed up was 500 years before this. He went to Daniel and he spoke to Daniel. Now suddenly here's this priest, this barefoot priest and Gabriel the angel appears to him and says God's about to break the siren.

He's about to connect the old with the new. And what does this angel say? Of course verse 12 it says Zacharias was troubled when he saw him and fear gripped him. The English by the way does not do those Greek words justice.

The Greek word there is so powerful. When it says fear gripped him, the Greek word is an outward tremor. Now that man starts shaking in his, he was barefoot, I was going to say he was in his skin. He was frightened and you can imagine why.

Now what message did the angel bring? How did he break the silence of God? We won't read it because we're going to pick that up. That's the first thing God said when he broke the silence, Jesus is coming.

That was his message. And for after 400 years and he said he's going to come in the power and the spirit of Elijah. Now how did the Old Testament end? You familiar with the last verse in the Old Testament?

The last verse in the Old Testament says I'm going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. He'll restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, the hearts of their children to their fathers lest I come and smite the land with a curve.

The Old Testament ends I'm going to send Elijah. 400 years pass. God says through Gabriel Elijah's coming. Your son is going to come in the spirit of Elijah. Now the question comes is, does John the baptizer fulfill that prophecy?

The answer is partially. You say well how do you know it's partial? It says he's going to come in the spirit of Elijah. Jesus said in Matthew 11, 14 if you accept it he himself, speaking of John, he himself is Elijah which wants to come.

So Jesus said he fulfills the prophecy. Then John got beheaded. John died. Later on they were questioned what about the second coming? What about your return? What's it going to be like? Matthew 17, 11 he said Elijah must come first and restore all things.

So it's not fulfilled because after he died Jesus still said Elijah is still coming. So there's this partial fulfillment he came in the spirit of Elijah. Anyway back to the point. The message linked the old with the new.

Zechariah pictures the old and the unbelief that goes with it and now Mary. Let's introduce her in faith and then next time we can develop it a little more. Mary is the first picture of the church in the New Testament.

Mary as a Picture of the Church

Now let me first give it to you generally and then we'll home in on the record and I'll give it to you specifically and then next time as the Lord gives us grace we'll apply it a little bit. First generally no one can read the Bible honestly.

No one who has a heart and loves the Lord can read the Bible and not see the high privilege that Mary was given to become the mother of our Lord. Nobody can ignore that. Now it's true some have gone too far with that but sadly some to balance the veneration that's been given to Mary have swung to the opposite extreme and they neglect the privilege that was given to Mary.

I think in fairness every earnest student of the Bible has to admit that no woman on the planet earth was ever given a higher privilege than Mary was given to become the mother of Messiah. You see only one person could have that.

Of all the millions of women that ever lived on the earth only one person could have that tremendous privilege and that was Mary. So let me show you how Mary was selected to be God's illustration of the church.

First in a general way what was Mary's chief contribution to the history of redemption? And I think beyond any doubt irrefragably her contribution was she gave Jesus to the world. We all agree on that.

That's the main thing about Mary. She gave Jesus to the world. What's the great mission of the church? And the answer is to give Jesus to the world. How'd she do it? Listen carefully. The Holy Spirit by a miracle formed Christ in her without the help of man and in the fullness of time she gave Christ to the world.

How's the church supposed to give Christ to the world? Listen carefully. The Holy Spirit by a miracle formed Christ in her without the help of man and in the fullness of time she gives Christ to the world.

Mary is God's great picture of the church. The very first one. And of course she took a beating for it too and so do we. But it's exactly God's picture and the way she did it is the way we're to do it.

Mary’s Childlike Faith and the Miracle of Christian Living

Now let me home in a little closer to Mary and her personal life and just for the sake of analysis give you three principles illustrated from the text. How is Mary a perfect model of the church? Let me give you three principles.

First of all, she is one of the clearest pictures of childlike faith. Oh the simplicity of her faith will take your breath away. Of course in one sense she was a child. You know she was only about fourteen years old they say.

At the most eighteen years old. I've had teenagers. I've had six teenagers. How I would have longed to see faith like this in my teenage years. I didn't even come to know the Savior until I was sixteen years old.

And I just can't imagine somebody the age of Mary having the faith that she expresses here. She's believing without precedent. And notice verse thirty-four, Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I'm a virgin?

And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason the Holy Offspring shall be called the Son of God. Zacharias had a lot of precedence when he disbelieved God.

Sarah was barren, Rachel was barren, Rebecca was barren, Hannah was barren. Many illustrations of God open barren wombs. Mary had no precedence. Never before had God used a virgin. She had to trust God for something he had never done before.

And she did it so easily. This childlike faith, this simplicity is so beautiful. Now when she arrived at Elizabeth's house in verse forty-five, Elizabeth greeted her with these words, blessed is she who believes that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.

Of course you know Elizabeth. For six months she was living in the house with an unbeliever. And every time she tried to talk to him she was reminded of his unbelief. And every time he tried to communicate with her they were reminded of unbelief.

And here comes Mary. And Elizabeth said, oh blessed is she that believes. What simplicity in faith. In verse thirty, the angel said to her, do not be afraid Mary, you have found favor with God. Some translations said you are highly favored.

This doesn't mean that Mary is the dispenser of favor. It means she is the recipient of favor. She received favor. This beautiful child simply believed that God would fulfill an unprecedented thing and work that miracle in her.

Now what is this childlike faith? See we just sort of say Mary is a picture of the church and we draw some parallels. Oh that's pretty, I've never seen that before. Listen to the reality of it. Do you believe that the virgin birth was a mighty miracle?

Do you believe that? Do you realize that's the secret of the Christian life? It's as much a miracle for you to live the Christian life as it was for Mary to conceive the son of man in her womb. And the simplicity of faith is saying that I will trust God to work the miracle in me to live a Christian life.

You don't have to be a theologian. You don't have to have a degree from a seminary to know that you can't turn the other cheek without a miracle. That you can't go the second mile without a miracle. That you can't love your wife as Christ loved the church without a miracle.

That you can't count affliction and joy without a miracle. That you can't rejoice ever more without a miracle. That you can't do anything without a miracle. We don't think the Christian life is a miracle.

We say I'm going to try harder to live the Christian life. You can't try harder. You've got to come like Mary came and trust God to do an unprecedented thing in your life to work that kind of a miracle.

And every time you do it right, God has reenacted the virgin birth. Every time I do it right, God has reenacted the virgin birth. He's formed Christ in me. And that's what it's all about. And that's what the Christian life is.

It isn't doing a bunch of things and trying to live right. It's allowing God by the Holy Spirit to form Christ in you in such a way that by and by it will be manifested. And then that manifestation will turn into a birth and you will have the privilege of fulfilling the Great Commission and giving Christ to the world.

It's a glorious thing and the way he's written it is absolutely wonderful. Now the second principle not only was simple childlike faith, I trust God for the miracle, but look at Mary's surrender. I don't think in all the scripture you're going to have a fuller, more comprehensive expression of total surrender than verse 38.

Mary said, Behold the bondservant of the Lord. Be it done to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her. You know one of the most amazing things about this whole story is that all of heaven was waiting for the permission of Mary.

God never forces anybody. He didn't force her to do this. He presented it to her and he was waiting for her permission. And she could say yes. We sort of read this thing la la la. You realize when she said, Be it done unto your handmaid, what she was saying, she said yes to the reproach of Christ.