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"Hark, the Herald
Angels Sing" |
December 18th, 2005 |
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Luke 1: 26-38, Philippians 2: 5-11
- In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town
in Galilee,
- to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a
descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary.
- The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly
favored! The Lord is with you."
- Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of
greeting this might be.
- But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have
found favor with God.
- You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give
him the name Jesus.
- He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The
Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
- and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will
never end."
- "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am
a virgin?"
- The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and
the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be
born will be called the Son of God.
- Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old
age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.
- For nothing is impossible with God."
- "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be
to me as you have said." Then the angel left her.
- Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
- Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God
something to be grasped,
- but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being
made in human likeness.
- And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and
became obedient to death—even death on a cross!
- Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name
that is above every name,
- that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on
earth and under the earth,
- and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father.
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