Good morning. Let's all stand together. We'll sing hymn number 145.

145. Hail, thou once despised Jesus.
Hail, thou Galilean king.
Thou didst suffer to release us.
Thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail Thou agonizing Savior,
bearer of our sin and shame.
By Thy merits we find favor.
? Life is given through thy name ?
? As cruel lamb by God appointed ?
? All our sins on thee were laid ?
? By almighty love anointed ?
? Thou hast full atonement made ?

All thy people are forgiven through the virtue of thy blood. Opened is the gate of heaven. Peace is made, twixt man and God.
? Jesus, hail, enthroned in glory ?
? There forever to abide ?
? All the heavenly hosts adorning ?
? Seated at thy Father's side ?
? Therefore sinners thou art pleading ?

There Thou dost our place prepare, Ever for us interceding, Till in glory we appear. Worship, honor, power, and blessing Thou art worthy to receive, loudest praises without ceasing, mean it is for us to give. Help me, bright angelic spirits, bring your sweetest, noblest lays. Help to sing our Savior's merits, Help to change Emmanuel's praise.

Be seated. We'll sing hymn number 318.

318. I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord.
No tender voice like Thine can't be support.
I need Thee, oh, I need Thee.

Every hour I need Thee.
Oh, bless me now, my Savior.

I come to Thee.
I need thee every hour.
Stay thou nearby.
Temptations lose their power.
when Thou art nigh.
I need Thee, O I need Thee,
every hour I need Thee.

O bless me now, my Savior,
I come to thee.
I need thee every hour.
Enjoy your pain.
Come quickly and abide.
? For life is vain ?
? I need Thee, oh, I need Thee ?
? Every hour I need Thee ?
? Oh, bless me now, my Savior ?
? I come to Thee ?

I need Thee every hour, Most Holy One.
O make me Thine indeed,
Thou blessed Son.
I need Thee, O I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.

Luke chapter one. Luke chapter one. Start reading at verse 26 and go down to verse 45.

In the sixth month, The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, shall be called the Son of the Highest, And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, God 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. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her who is called barren. For with God nothing shall be impossible. And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. And Mary rose in those days and went into the hill country without haste into a city of Judah, and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And which is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. And blessed is thee that believeth, for thou shalt be a performance of those things which was told her from The Lord.

Our great, glorious God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we always come with thanksgiving, praise, blessing your holy name. There's none like you in all this world, has an everlasting dominion, no place where you don't reign, no place where you're not God, no person you cannot save, no person that you don't have the power to overwhelm them with your grace, no place on this earth where somebody could hide from you. But Lord, we thank you for blessing us this morning. to come into this place. Always like David, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go unto the house of the Lord. And Lord, here we are, a people always in need. And Lord, we trust that you and your sovereign mercy will meet our needs, meet the needs of our mind, meet the needs of our heart, meet the needs of our soul. And, Lord, bring glory to self in the gospel today. And, Lord Jesus, we pray for those among us who are still in great trials, still carrying great burdens. Still, Lord Jesus, will you put them. And we know that your grace has upheld them day after day. And, Lord, we sung today, we need you. Lord, we need you. Not just every hour, we need you every moment. We need you for every breath we take, for every decent thought we think, for everything we do right with our hands, every time we say something right with our mouths. Oh, God, it comes from you. So, Lord, meet with us today. Have mercy upon our children and our grandchildren, and have mercy upon the lost in this congregation. We ask these things in our blessed Savior's name. Amen.

Let's all stand together and sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin.

Brethren, let us join to bless Christ our peace and righteousness,
let our praise to Him be given,
high at God's right hand in heaven.
Son of God, to Thee we bow,
Thou our Lord and only Thou,
Thou the woman's promised seed,
Thou who didst for sinners bleed,
Thee the angels ceaseless sing.
Thee we praise, our priest and king.
Worthy is thy name of praise,
full of glory, full of grace.
Thou hast the glad tidings brought
Of salvation fully wrought
Wrought, O Lord, alone by Thee
Brought to set thy people free.
Thee, our Lord, would we adore.
Serve and follow more and more.
Praise and bless thy matchless love
till we join thy saints above.

Be seated.

? ? ? I titled my message this morning, Mary Found Grace. Mary Found Grace. In the sixth month, it's said in verse 26, and in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God. You know, when he appeared unto Zacharias, he said, I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of the Lord. This angel, this is the second time he's appeared, and both times he announced the birth. First, he announced the birth of John the Baptist. who would be the forerunner for our Lord Jesus Christ. And six months later, after she was six months pregnant, he was sent to a city in Galilee, in a little town named Nazareth, to a virgin. Here we have the greatest, most blessed, blessed announcements ever made to man. that the Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnation, the birth of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. There's nothing ever more momentous that ever happened in history than Christ coming into this earth, coming through the womb of a virgin.

Now, there's three ways that God produces children. The first woman he made, be made out of a man, and they produce children. And now here's a woman who's never known a man, and she's going to have a child by herself, called the season woman. And then God makes men and women to have children. But he has a man made a woman without a man, with a man, made a man without a man, And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. And God's way of grace, God's way of grace, his way of revealing himself is set before us in a most gracious, wonderful, wonderful way. And I'm going to go down through these verses, the ones that I read, and hopefully we'll see something of the grace of God. And again, we start the revelation. Look at the revelation that Mary came, that Mary got. And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God, sent from God, unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused. But look how he came. And this is where it came to. It came to a place called Nazareth, a little old bitty village in Galilee. And it didn't come to everybody in the world. It came so quietly, so reverently. You know, the world was unconscious of this announcement. Nobody knew that this was taking place. Only God and Mary knew that this was taking place. The world didn't know about it. You know, He'd come to a little old place called Galilee, Didn't go into Jerusalem, that's the religious capital of the world. Didn't go to Rome, where the Caesar sat on the throne. Didn't go to Athens, where the Greek capital was, and people spoke Greek. But here, so he came to, so quietly, to this woman. And all this says he came to a poor woman. She was a poor woman. No one knew who she was, and it says, to a virgin. who was espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary." Mary. And no one knew her. No one knew her. She had no virtue. She had no merit. Now, I know the Catholics and them, they pray to her. They pray to her. They think that she has the power to forgive men's sins and to absolve their sins. But she has no more power to forgive sins than I do. She didn't have it then. She ain't got it now. And oh, look what, you know, she was graced of God. Look what it says down verse 28. And the angel came in under her and said, Hail thou highly favored. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Now you look over in the margin. My margin says you're highly favored or graciously accepted or much graced." She needed grace. She needed salvation exactly the way we need salvation. And God saved her exactly the way he saves anybody. She was graced. She found favor. She didn't deserve it. She didn't deserve this at all. She had no merit of her own. There's no power in her. She found favor. She didn't earn it. She didn't seek it. She wasn't looking for it. But she was given grace, just like we do. And what she is and what she became was solely, solely by the grace of God. Look what it said down in verse 30. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, thou hast found favor with God. This is just like when Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God said, you found grace in my eyes, Mary. I've graced you very much. I graciously made you accepted. And this is an astounding thing to me, how somebody can bypass the Lord Jesus Christ, bypass the blood of Christ, bypass the cross of Christ, and set somebody else up in their place. But people are doing it all over the world. And not just Mary, they're making preachers, they're making everybody to be a savior. Everybody to be able to have the power to do something. But oh no, she was much graced in the eyes of the Lord. She, you know, this is the most astounding thing to me.

You see people, they do these what they call genuflection. That means they make the sign of the cross. The sign of the cross. There was only one cross that ever amounted to anything. The whole history of the human race is made from the cross backwards, from the cross forward. That's the greatest event that ever took place in the universe. was Christ being born and Christ going to a cross and everything before that looked to Christ coming on that cross. Everything after that looked for Christ coming after that, before that cross. And so the cross is the greatest epic that ever took place. And it had to start somewhere.

Christ could not be born of a woman. You know why I said he's born of a virgin? You know why I said that? Because he could not been a son of Adam. Could not have any Adam's blood in him. The only way I can be related to him is for him to give me the new birth, give me a new heart, give me a new mind, give me a new will. That's the only way. There's no other way. And that same thing has to happen to her. She has to be graced of God. We have to be graced of God. We're graciously accepted. We're accepted. We're in the beloved. And oh, he had to be born of a virgin. No other way for him to come into this world. And people find that to be so unbelievable. But if you knew anything about your fallen nature, If you know anything about how wicked your heart is, how desperately you're lost without God, without Christ, if you had any understanding of how God viewed sin in this world, it was such a heinous act. and such a despicable crime against God that it took God to make his son come through the womb of a virgin and grow up and down a cross to deal with sin in me, you, or anybody else. It has to be that way. He could not be related to us. The only way he can be related to us is give us a new birth. Huh? And then he's called our Savior. He called our Savior. Then he's called our Lord. Then he's called our Master.

Oh, now look what else. We're going to talk about the Redeemer now. Look down at verse 31. Look what it says. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son, and this is what you're going to name him. You're going to name him Jesus. You know, John, they told him his name, but thou shalt call his name Jesus. Oh, my. Oh, what? You know what the word Jesus means? Jehovah Savior. That's what it means. Jehovah's Savior. Here's God, you know, God revealing his purpose of redemption. When He came to Mary over in Matthew 1, He says, Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He, He, this is for His born. Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from what? Their sin. And oh, my. What a name. God gave him a name above every name. There's never been a name that has the power and the glory and the majesty and the authority that the Lord Jesus Christ's name has. Oh, it soothes our sorrows, heals our wounds, and drives away our fear. And I'll tell you what, call him Jesus. Call Him Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Oh, my. And I tell you, here's God making known unto us how He's coming into this world. And, oh, now call His name Jesus. There's no other name among heaven whereby, listen, we must be saved. If we're saved, we're saved by Him. Saved by Him.

Now, look what else it says. Verse 32. He shall be, oh, what kind of character does He have? He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. Oh, what a character. He shall be great. Anybody being greater? Anybody being greater than the Lord Jesus Christ? Anybody have greater power? Anybody have greater authority? Any man have a higher throne? Any man else greater than him ever born in this world? Greater love, greater mercy, greater compassion, greater grace? Has there ever been a greater savior? Oh, he shall be great. Oh. Nobody's greater than Him. Nobody. Nobody's even come close.

Oh, I was talking with Darwin Pruitt the other day. They came by and spent the night with us. Me and him talking, if we could preach the way God gave it to us, we'd really be something. But you know, we can't tell it the way we get it. The way it comes in, it don't come out the same way. They don't, but oh my, he shall be great. What makes him great? He shall be called the son of the highest. The son of the highest. You know the first time that God called the highest? When Melchizedek met Abraham and drunk wine and bread with him, prefiguring our Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I'm the priest of the Most High God. And here He says, He shall be called the Son of the Highest. Who is the Highest? God Almighty's High. The heaven of heavens can't contain Him. And heaven's eternity. I'll tell you how high He is and how great He is. He can measure the waters in the hollow of His hands. All these nations on the earth, and all the nations it's ever been, and all the kings and rulers on this earth, you know what God said? They're just a drop in the bucket. They're just like dust on a balance. You don't, when you go into a store to have something weighed, you don't blow the dust off of it, do you? God said, the dust is a balance. He said, I do that. Oh my, that wasn't a high, high, high. And I tell you, we cannot think of God too highly. Oh, my.

Then look what else he said. You know, when it says, He shall be called great because He's the Son of the Highest. You know what that means?

He originated in heaven. He originated in heaven. Let me tell you something right now. And I don't know if you believe this or not, but here's the thing about it. Our Lord Jesus Christ dwelt in the presence of His Father. He was as old as his father. Him and his father were exactly the same age. God's eternal, Son's eternal.

Now, if you can understand that, you know, I can't, but I tell you, I do know this, that he beheld the glory of his father. He was his father's delight throughout eternity. And the scripture said in John 118 that he unbosomed his self from the Father. And he said, Father, glorify thou me with the glory that I had with you before the world what? Was! Before I ever brought the world into existence, you was.

Now, how do you explain that? I don't, but I believe every bit of it. He started in heaven. And that was this wonderful, wonderful covenant that God entered into between him and his son. He stood as a lamb slain. And our father said, you know, he said, Lord, who will go down there and bear these people's sins? Who will come and assume flesh and go into this world and bear the sins of all his people? That all I gave you. Nobody had an answer for that. But God and the Son.

And the Son said, I'll go. I'll unbosom myself from you and I'll go into this world. And I'll let everybody know who you are. I'll let everybody know the power you got. I'll let everybody know that there's nothing I say that you don't give me to say. Nothing I do that you don't tell me to do. Oh my.

He originated from heaven. He left the Father's sight. He left the Father's presence. He left the glory of heaven. Oh my. And he's back right there, right now, doing the same thing he did before he got here. Oh my.

And oh, look what it says. and the Lord shall give unto him the throne of his father David. But oh my, but God, our Lord, to go back to this greatness of our Lord, his character, son of the highest, and he talked about being great. He was so great in his earthly life. So greatly, when our Lord lived on this earth for 33 years, The scripture said he was full of grace, full of grace, and full of truth, full of grace and full of truth. He was full of mercy, full of love, full of compassion, giving blessings, manifesting his power. When somebody came to him and asked for mercy, he gave them mercy. Well, somebody come to him and said, oh, Lord, I've got a son or a daughter that's sick. I'll come. Mary and Martha said, Lord, my brother's died. If you'd have been here, he wouldn't have had it. He going to live again, Mary. He looked over 4,000 or 5,000 people and had compassion on them. Told his disciples, give them something to eat. He said, we ain't got nothing but five loaves of bread and two fish. You want us to go into town and buy a bunch of food? We ain't got enough money. He said, command them to sit down in rows of 50. He prayed, gave thanks for that bread and fish, start handing it out. Took 12 baskets back with him. What an earthly life our Lord lived.

And that earthly life was a representative life. It was a representative life. He didn't need nothing for himself, his siblings. But he represented a people, a people. He come here to represent a people before God. He come here to do and live a life that we could not never possibly live. And die a death we could not possibly die. And bear the judgment we could not bear. Oh my, my, my, he went about doing good, healing all, healing all.

And then his work, look what it says there in verse 33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and ever. Oh, his work, what's he gonna do? He's gonna reign. You know, we're coming up on Christmas. And they go put these little old nativity scenes out, they call them. And they go put Jesus in a manger. They go put him as a baby, as a baby. He's not a baby anymore. He sits at the right hand of God. And what's he doing while he's up there? He's reigning. And look what it says, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. He has a kingdom without end. You find that, you know, when John saw him, he said he was the king of kings and lord of lords. And on his thigh was written the name of the son of God. And he had a sword going forth, conquering and to conquer. Oh, my.

And he was given a throne. Whose throne? The throne of David, the king, the man after God's own heart. God said, I'm going to give you a king, set up somebody that your king shall go forever and ever and ever and ever. Oh, my. And look who he's going to reign over, the house of Jacob. Blessed is the people who has the God of Jacob for their God.

What do the world just say about Jacob? Let me tell you about Jacob. Jacob was a supplanter. He was a deceiver. And he had to leave home. He had to leave home before his brother wouldn't kill him. And while he was on his way, there was a night he went to sleep and a man got a hold of him. A man got a hold of Jacob. And you know what he did when he got through with him? Jacob could not walk the way he walked before. And his name was Jacob, the supplanter, the deceiver. And God said, when he got through with him, thou shalt henceforth be no called more Jacob, but thou shalt be called Israel, for thou hast a prince with God. And Jacob, God said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. So we have the God of Jacob. And who is going to reign over the house of Jacob? Christ is. Christ is. And all by God's blessed people, not something in the future. People say this is going to take place in the future. Keep Luke and look with me over at Acts 15. Everybody talks about this being in the future, in the millennial reign. But right here tells us that he reigns over Jacob right now. There's an organization that called their leaders potentate. But there's only one potentate in this world, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. A potentate means all-powerful. You ever met a man all-powerful? I'm not gonna call nobody potentate on this earth. I ain't gonna do it. I ain't gonna do it. Oh my, but I tell you what, he's the one and only potentate, all-powerful in this world. But look what is said here in Acts 15, 14. Simon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people, list this for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets as it is written. Now this is what he's talking about. This is what took place here when he talked about Christ coming into this world. After this, when he's declared this, I will return and build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up. Where'd he set it up at? In the Lord Jesus Christ. Set up that place again in Christ. that the rest of the men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things, known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world." Oh, my. This is not something that's going to happen. This is something that happened when our Lord came into this world. And I want to show you something else, John 19. Look in John 19. I hope I'm not taking too long. Look over here in John 19, verse 22. No, excuse me, John 19, 19. John 19, 19. And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. This title then read, many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city. And it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, write not the king of the Jews, but that he said, I am the king of the Jews. Pilate answered, what I have written, I have written. He said he knew who he was. King of the Jews. And I tell you what, he shall reign. And you know what? I want him to reign. Don't you? I want him to reign. The only problem I have is, is the resistance of my own heart. The flesh that I have to deal with keeps Christ from reigning, like I'd love him to reign in my heart. But he reigns. He reigns. He reigns. And oh my, there's never been anybody. He has the sweetest reign. You know how he reigns? He reigns in love. He reigns in grace. He reigns in mercy. He reigns in the sweetest power ever known. Oh, what a glorious reign he has over us. And then look what else. Now look at Mary's response. Let's go down here to Mary's response. First of all, in verse 29, look at Mary's response. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And then look at a response down in verse 34. Then said Mary unto the angel, how shall this be? saying, I know not a man. But she wondered in her mind. She was much troubled in her mind. She started thinking about in her mind when this angel started talking to her. And he started talking to her and giving her a message from God, said, I come from God. And she asked, she wondered and wondered and pondered, what in the world is he talking about? What does this mean? What's the meaning of this, that he's come and talked to me like this? What would an angel be coming, telling me all this things of God, telling me about all these things? And then she asked, oh my, how shall this be? Saying, I know not a man. You know, she asked, there's no unbelief here. You remember he stuck Zacharias dumb for months that No unbelief here, just a simple childlike simplicity. How can this be? Tell me how this is gonna happen. Tell me how I'm gonna have a child. This is an impossibility. I've never been with a man. There's no way I can have a baby. Oh my, how can this be? And I tell you what, that's a, If you ever find out the answer to that, you know the gospel. I'll tell you, you'll know the gospel. And the angel answered her. Angel answered her and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee. That's what has to happen to every sinner that's saved by grace. The Holy Ghost has to come and shall come upon thee. And the power of the highest You know, already talking about the highest again. Shall overshadow thee. Shall come and cast his shadow over thee. Now listen to this. Therefore also that holy thing. He didn't know how to describe it. He said holy thing. What is this? Who is this going to be? What's it going to be? Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee. Shall be born of thee. You know who he's going to be? He's going to be the Son of God. He's going to be the Son of God. And you know how many times it talked about the Son of God? The Ethiopian eunuch said, I believe that he, the Christ, is indeed the Son of God. Simon Peter, who do men say that I am? I believe that thou art the Son of God. Surely thou art the Son of God. And all to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, he that believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God is born of God. If you believe that Jesus Christ come in the flesh is born of God, you think about that baby that was in that, that just being talked about, is gonna come out and he's the Son of God Almighty Himself. Oh! son of God. Oh my. And look what she said now. Verse thirty-eight. She believed. She believed. And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me. Let it happen. According to your word. And the angel laughed. She believed. Behold, the handmaid of the Lord. I've looked up that word, handmaid, the other day. And you know what it means? It means the lowest type of servant. That means the lowest type of servant. A lot of the handmaids in those days were slaves. But it means the lowest type of servant. And that's the position she took, the lowest servant. Behold thy handmaid, I'm just a low servant. I don't know. I've got nothing. I don't know. I don't have anything. And oh, my. You know, you, according to what your word is, do it. Oh, my. Consider what she believed, that she was going to have a child and God was going to be the father of it. I don't know how else to say it. You know, he said, that's why he's called the seed of the woman. Oh, the thanks of God. Just how do you get it? How do you? That's why we live by faith. If we could understand all these things, we'd be smart as God. But God gives us these things in his word to make us stand back in awe and faith and say, Lord, how can these things be? Oh my, now look what he said. Oh my. And behold, now the angel told her this. Behold thy cousin Elizabeth. She hath also conceived a son in her old age, and this the sixth month, with her who was called a barren. Now oh my. And I tell you what, for with God nothing is impossible. But why does she believe? Why did she say, let these things happen according to your word? Why did she believe? Because she found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And he answered her question and said, with God, nothing is impossible. Now with men, with men, nothing can be done. Nothing. You know, with men, nothing. Everything's impossible with men. Everything's impossible with men. And it takes a supernatural miraculous intervention of God, just what happened to Mary. You know, God performed a miracle for John, Mary, Elizabeth, and Zacharias, and performed a supernatural act and a miracle right here for Mary. And that's just what happened to Mary. All right, let me hurry and get on with this. And Mary rose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste into a city of Judah. And she come to visit her cousin Elizabeth, and she went into the house, and she said, saluted him. Boy, it's good to see y'all. It's just wonderful to see you, see Zacharias. Also, blessed to see you, Elizabeth. Oh, my. Watch what happens now. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, When she heard Mary say, hi, good to see you, glad to be here, and all that. When she heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. You know, some of you women's had babies, the baby moves around your womb, but this one leaped. This head moved, it leaped. How do you leap in a womb? God said that baby leaped in that womb. That means it jumped up. How do you explain these things? We don't believe them. And look what else it says now. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. God filled her with the Holy Spirit right then and there. filled her full of the Holy Ghost. And that's the only way she knew what was going on with Mary. And look what it said in verse 42. And she spake with a loud voice and said, Blessed, oh, how blessed you are among women, and how blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Now listen to what she said here. Why did this, the mother of my Lord, come unto me? She knew that Mary had already, how does she know the Holy Ghost come on her? How does she know Mary had a child, gonna have a child? The Holy Ghost came on her. And that's the only way we know who the Lord Jesus Christ is, the Holy Ghost gotta come on us. And oh my. And, oh, why would this, the mother of my Lord, she understood that that child in her womb, that was gonna be in her womb, would be her Lord, her Savior, her Master. She knew that, my Lord, my Lord. For as low as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, oh, there says it again, The babe leaped in my womb and listen to this, for joy. That baby was happy. That baby was full of joy. Just because told him that Christ was gonna be born. Oh, my, my, my, my. These things just overwhelms me. And oh my, this is my last comment right here. Oh my. And blessed is she that believed. She believed. Do unto me according to thy word. And look what it says. For there shall be a performance. God is able to perform all that he promised. There shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. He said, but I'll tell you if something's going to happen, it's going to happen. Ain't that right? And let me show you this, and then I'm done. John 336. John 326, excuse me. John 326. Oh, my. You know, people overlook so many things in the scriptures, but when you start dealing with them, verse at a time, It just opens up another world. It opens up a world that the only way you can live in it, the only way you know anything about it, is for God to show it to you and you believe it. You believe the unbelievable. But you understand why it had to be. But anyway, look here in John 3 and verse 26. Some Jews come about John the Baptist to talk to him. And they came unto John, said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all come to him. John answered and said, now listen to this, a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. And you yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. And he that hath the bride is the bridegroom. And we're the bride and Christ the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, John the Baptist, which standeth and hearth him, rejoice greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my, and this is John talking now, this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Now listen to this, he must increase, but I must decrease.

Oh my, well. Every hour of every day, every moment, and in every way, I'm leaning on Jesus. is the rock of my soul. I'm singing his praises wherever I go. See you Wednesday. Lord bless you.