That He had reasonable soul, which was a created spirit, and that the Divine nature was not instead of a soul to Him. They – and we – need faith to receive the blessing of God, faith to see the miracles of God all around us, faith to make the impossible, possible for us. It is beneficent. They were without Jesus. For, first, it lacks the condition of the assent of the whole body of the faithful. To destroy sin is to take away evil by the root. Luke 1:35-45 With God Nothing Is Impossible (Kegel), All Rights Reserved | © 1997-2020 Richard Niell Donovan. How could the events of two thousand years ago across the world mean fullness of life to us now and the promise of eternal life to come? Is it not undisciplined desire? The Holy Ghost did not minister any matter unto Christ from His own substance. He truly was before He was conceived in the womb of the virgin, and distinct from that being which was conceived in her. Take the case of the Reverend Robert Schuller. – Luke 1:35, NASU The angel Gabriel was sent by God to the virgin Mary in Nazareth to tell her that she would bear a son ( Luke 1:31-35 ) and that she was to name him Jesus. The whole system of Rome does make the Virgin Mother the special mediator between God and man. (2) we take our share in the furtherance of his mission of mercy. For not only is there no passage which can be alleged as even tending to prove it, but against it stand arrayed the clearest sentences of Holy Writ. The sufferings of His body were indeed very great; it was filled with exquisite torture and pain; but His soul sufferings were much greater, as I observed in a former discourse. GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE Robert Schuller built his parking lot church and later erected a church building to go with it. Nothing is impossible for God. It is assented to neither by the Eastern, nor by our own branch, of the universal Church. There are many gifts given us by God, if we are open to them. This Jesus is the Son of God who existed before His physical birth. III. The other is, that the power of the Highest, which is infinite power, should overshadow her, to wit, make her, though a virgin, to conceive by virtue of the efficacy of infinite power, by which the world was created, when the same Spirit moved on the waters, cherished them, and framed the world. Sermon. There was only one crowd. The hungry went away hopeful, but the well-fed went away worried about the future. I proceed to show that CHRIST WAS TRUE MAN. I COME TO SHOW WHAT WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND BY CHRIST'S BECOMING MAN. In its duration. Luke 1:35 The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. 2. God makes all things possible. Luke 1:35 As Luke writes of this conversation, he mentions the Holy Spirit just as he did earlier in verse 15 and as he does six more times in his first two chapters: (1:41, 67, 80, 2:25, 26, 27). One is, that the Holy Ghost should come upon her, not in an ordinary way, as in the conception of all men (Job 10:8, "Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me together round about)"; but in an extraordinary way, as on the prophets, and those that were raised to some extraordinary work. (1) The immaculate, sinless conception of the child Jesus, that holy thing, a holy thing though proceeding from a sinful creature, not tainted with sin, as all other children are. 3. Before he left, Whitfield took a diamond ring and scratched on the windowpane of his room, “One thing thou lackest !” These four words pierced the heart of that family. Δύναμις ὑψίστου, the power of the Highest) Often these words are put in conjunction, Spirit and Power, as in Luke 1:17; but in this passage the Power of the Highest rather denotes, by Metonymy,[9] the Highest, whose Power is infinite. Just as Paul paid bills by being a tent maker, Luke could have paid his bills by being a doctor. So that, though it proceeded from a creature infected with original sin, there was no sin or taint of impurity in it. The answer is well worthy of notice. She was the seed of Abraham; and so Christ was that seed of Abraham, in whom all nations were to be blessed (Galatians 3:16). The only disproof science can offer is based upon probability. 3. In its main characteristics. Again, He assumed our nature with all its sinless infirmities: therefore it is said of Him (Hebrews 2:17), "In all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren." To open this a little three things are to be considered here. Luke 1:35 King James Version (KJV) 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Blessings galore can be ours with faith in Jesus. And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse” (Mal. IV. There are those to whom the voice comes which has found its expression in the 45th Psalm, verses 10 and 11. We can reach out to others with the wonderful message of God’s love in Christ. TRY SERMONWRITER! That is the one great thing men live for — to gratify desire. There is no sphere in life in which woman can minister better, in which she can do greater work for God, for the Church, and for those for whom Christ lived and died, than within the limits of the home. Two expectant mothers, one old, one young. For this decree informs us, that "this pious, devout., add laudable institution emanated from our predecessor Sixtus the IVth." If there have been billions and billions of children born and non of them was conceived by virgins, then science can tell us that it is most improbably that the Virgin Mary did conceive. 4:5-6). It is very remarkable, that the fact of the miraculous conception should be found in the first of the four Gospels, — written at a time when many of the near relations of the holy family must have been living, by whom the story, had it been false, had been easily confuted; that it should be found again in St. Luke's Gospel, written for the peculiar use of the converted Gentiles, and for the express purpose of furnishing a summary of authentic facts, and of suppressing spurious narrations. Amongst all its defacement of the truth of Christ, this is perhaps the plainest and one of the most hideous features of Roman superstition. The great law of Christian life here is this — always be true to conscience; never allow yourself to do what you believe to be contrary to God's Will for you, but do not limit another Christian's liberty by your own rule of conduct or your own conviction as to what is lawful or expedient. The Mystery of the Holy Incarnation. She was, however, but a mean woman, the family of David being then reduced to a low outward condition in the world, having long before lost its flourishing state; so that our Lord "sprung up as a root out of a dry ground "(Isaiah 11:1, and Isaiah 53:2). 1. Check out these helpful resources How could a virgin conceive? You may go to a concert, but not to a theatre, you may ,go to a dinner party, but not to a ball — everything put down as clear as it can be. Schuller began preaching on Sunday mornings from a portable pulpit erected in the parking lot and his congregation came in casual clothes and sat in their cars picking up the sermon over the portable speakers provided by the theatre. Children's Sermon for Luke 13:31-35. But even this is not all; since we cannot fully estimate the falsehood of this reference until we compare it with the decree itself. In no mere metaphorical language, we really love Him, and to give Him joy is our joy. Two words meant to go together: Christmas and Miracle. The properties of either nature are preserved entire. AND THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, AMEN. That He had a real being and existence before His incarnation. Science can in no way disprove the miracle of Jesus’ conception and birth. This teaching, therefore, points us not to Christ, but to Mary, as the well-head of our restored humanity; and thus does it directly shake the great doctrine of the incarnation. Every citizen, because he is such, is pledged to depart from all iniquity, to pursue and practice all righteousness. 1. Here, then, we have(1) an admission that, for the validity of the decree, it must be possible to assert that it is the ancient truth which it enacts; and next(2) the rest pretended proof which can be given that the doctrine was thus held of old. But by this union the human nature is so united with the Divinity, that each retains its own essential properties distinct. And thus He is of the same nature that sinned, and so what He did and suffered may be imputed to us. Always think highly of the family. Following our text for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, we hear the Canticles of praise to God: The Magnificat of Mary (1:46-55) The Benedictus of Zechariah (1:67-79) … Continue reading "Commentary on Luke 1:26-38" It is impossible that the Majesty of the Divinity can receive any alteration; and it is as impossible that the meanness of the humanity can receive the impression of the Deity, so as to be changed into it, and a creature be metamorphosed into the Creator, and temporary flesh become eternal, and finite mount up into infinite. It teaches sinners to look to her as more tender, more merciful, more full of pity, more able to sympathize with their infirmities, than is that true High-priest, who is such as "became us," because He is fitted by the perfect holiness, and yet true brotherhood with us, of the nature He assumed, "to have compassion upon the ignorant, and upon them that are out of the way." Impossibilities can happen. December 22 & 23, 2012, The Fourth Sunday of Advent. We can concentrate on what we can do rather than what we can not. There have been "saviors of society" from whom this poor wounded world might well have prayed to be delivered, men who tried to cover their own hideous selfishness under a fair and striking name. As the soul and the body are united, and make one person, yet the soul is not changed into the perfections of the body, nor the body into the perfections of the soul. 3. Luke 1:35-45 With God Nothing Is Impossible (Kegel) ... Luke 6:17-26 Just a Plain Sermon (Molin) There was only one sermon that day. Mary is called blessed because she believes the Lord’s promise. Luke 1:26-38 (ESV) 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. How could the death of this one man reconcile a whole world? Now Sixtus IVth succeeded to the papacy almost at the close of the fifteenth century; so that this is the earliest act which the Pope can allege to prove his proposition, that "the Church has never ceased to lay down this doctrine." There are beings within the mind's easy conception that far overpass the glories of the statesman and the monarch of our earth. The angel tells her how she should " conceive and bring forth a Son," namely, by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is the power of the Highest, the Spirit of God being the true God, and so the Highest. For it is not merely accidentally that it thus endangers our faith in the true incarnation of our Lord, and points our eyes from Him to His mother as the medium between God and us; but this dangerous delusion is a part, and the crowning part, of a whole system which really places on the Mediator's throne the virgin mother instead of the incarnate Son. Luke 1:35. It is true for this congregation and each one of us in our personal lives through faith in the living God. Positively considered. Was it not ordered by some peculiar providence of God, that the two great branches of the primitive Church, the Hebrew congregations for which St. Matthew wrote, and the Greek congregations for which St. Luke wrote, should find an express record of the miraculous conception each in its proper Gospel? III. Scripture: Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 1:20-23, Luke 2:11-12. In its extent. From what remote antiquity then is this proof drawn? Indeed this is a glorious union. We are able to disprove by positive evidence the only other conceivable suggestion by which it could be justified, namely, that though not enunciated sooner, yet that within the bosom of the Church the doctrine was held implicitly from early times. He says not, Therefore that holy thing shall be the Son of God, for he was the Son of God before, by virtue of His eternal generation; but, therefore he shall be called, i.e., owned to be really so, and more than a man. For we have not simply to deal with abstract laws, but we have to deal with individual characters. Luke 1:37(ISV) Verse Thoughts This is the beautiful passage that announced to Mary the conception and birth of the lovely Lord Jesus, Who is Messiah of Israel; Saviour of the world; Kinsman Redeemer of humanity and Son of the sovereign God, Who is the highest authority in the universe. For this, so far from implying, even at that late period, the implicit holding of the doctrine which is here insinuated, actually provides a special prohibition to guard against any being led by the fact of the festival to condemn those who deny the immaculate conception, "because the matter has not been decided by the Apostolic See." Check out these helpful resources Biblical Commentary Sermons Children’s Sermons Hymn Lists. But more positively, this assumption of which I speak is that whereby the second person in the glorious Godhead did take the human nature into a persons! Whereas, if He had been created as Adam was, it could not have been claimed in a legal and judicial way. The very last words of the last book of the Old Testament read: “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. Think of the Christmas story. Scripture: Luke 1:1–4. When someone tells you that, you are not sure which you wish to hear first. We do not need to focus on scarcity but abundance; not see the glass as half-empty but half-full. And when tested by this rule, the unlawfulness of this attempt will be most clearly proved. Luke 1:35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. The actions and passions of His life show that He had true flesh. What they have claimed to be, Jesus the Savior was and is. 1:35 The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee - The power of God was put forth by the Holy Ghost, as the immediate Divine agent in this work: and so he exerted the power of the Highest as his own power, who together with the Father and the Son is the most high God. For the Church has most clearly pointed out this doctrine, when she did not hesitate to propose the conception of the Virgin for the public devotion and veneration of the faithful. The greatest gift of all is faith in the Lord Jesus. Who would have imagined that the Son of God would be born in a stable and laid in a cow trough or that three kings would come from afar bearing expensive gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Now this sanctification of the human nature of Christ was necessary. They were of little faith for not only was the “Crystal Cathedral” built, but it was entirely paid for by the time it was dedicated. That Christ was to be born of a virgin, was prophesied and foretold many ages before His incarnation, as Isaiah 7:14. Neither implicitly, then, nor in open declaration, has this dogma been a doctrine of the Church of old. 1Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Call us at 888-634-2038. And now, if we try this newly-propounded article by these conditions, we shall be able to prove its unlawfulness. Then there are those who are called aside by sickness, those whom God in His wonderful way leads by constrainings that must be submitted to, to a separation not only from the world outside, but sometimes even from the family within. For the sake of truth and for the love of souls, we, whose rule of faith is God's Word, and whose interpreter of Scripture is true catholic consent, are bound to hold faster than ever to these our real principles. Again, as it was produced miraculously, so it was assumed integrally; that is to say, Christ took a complete and perfect soul and body, with all and every faculty and member pertaining to it. I. I AM TO SHOW WHO SHE WAS THAT WAS THE MOTHER OF CHRIST AS MAN. 5. Nov 10, 1980. It was therefore requisite to an affinity with us, not only that He should have the same human nature, but that it should flow from the same principle, and be propagated to Him. II. . There are limitless possibilities for those willing to put their faith and trust in God. So we have the expression, the … Everything was going great until the arrival of the magi, the three kings. Behold the wonderful love of God the Father, who was content to degrade and abase His dear Son, in order to bring about the salvation of sinners. The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. They did not have vision. . Among other things your message said, “Look to Jesus.” You reminded me of the optical illusion where if you look correctly you can see the face of Christ rather than just ink blots. THE DIGNITY AND POWER HE SHOULD ATTAIN. Christ is sensibly touched with all the infirmities that attend our frail nature, and has pity and compassion upon His people under all their pressures and burdens (Hebrews 2:17, 18). Luke 1:34 Luke 1:36 Luke 1:35. HIS MINISTRY - Philemon 1:24. If any should presume to assail it, let him know that he will incur the indignation of the Omnipotent God, and of His blessed apostles Peter and Paul.". It was most conformable to the infinite dignity of His person, that a supernatural and a Divine person be concerned as an active principle in it. The gospel of Luke is but one of four gospels, but it is surely one of the great books of the Bible. What seemed impossible, God made possible for Dr. Schuller. It is to protest anew against this monstrous effort to corrupt, by man's additions, the revealed truth of God.

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