<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 And on her road up, she was engaged to a man who had been married before and had four sons: Joseph. And on her road up along to her house, a Light shined in front of her. And in the Light stood a big Angel, Gabriel, the Archangel. And He said, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou among women. You've found favor with God," and told about what was going to take place. And she was going to have a Child, knowing no man, and was going to call His Name Jesus.
Six months before that, the same Angel came to a priest, and told him his wife, Elisabeth, was going to have a baby after his days of ministration at the temple, Shiloh, and was going back, and he doubted it. He questioned how could it be, her being old, when he had many examples to go by, Sarah, and Hagar, many before. But this little woman didn't have no example. She just had to take God at His Word.

L-13 And here it is. Listen, audience. The girl never questioned the Angel. It had never happened in all the world. Never had there be a baby borned virgin birth. And she didn't question Him. She just took God at His Word. And immediately, she begin to rejoice, and begin to testify, telling the people that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man, didn't tell what the disgrace was. She didn't know how she was going to have it. She didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she felt life. She took God at His Word and begin to rejoice before anything happened. There you are.
Every man and woman that's ever breathed on this earth that's ever amounted to anything, has been man and women who's done the very same thing: took God at His Word. She was testifying to everybody she was going to have the baby before any visible sign. And if Mary could do that on something that had never happened, how much more ought you and I to do it tonight on the basis of faith in God's Word, when hundreds each night are being healed? How much more should we believe it?

L-14 Simeon believed it. God's always had a remnant somewhere that believed it. Aren't you happy tonight to be one of His remnant? Aren't you happy that you're a believer, that God has give you grace in your heart to come and believe these things, which are fundamentally, solid Gospel?
Now, as Simeon begin to get older, still testifying, I'd imagine the people said, "The old man is... And something went wrong with him." But he believed it.
Now notice, if God has made a promise, God is under obligation to fulfill His promise to every individual that will accept that promise. You believe it?

L-15 Now, then in this time, the baby was born in Bethlehem of Judaea. There's a few stargazers come up and watched it, the star come across and hang over the baby. They went and worshipped. But news didn't get spread around like it would today. And if--if he would be happen again today, they'd just say, "Some fanatics are gathered up there." There wouldn't be much to it. They don't pay any attention to Him. They wouldn't today. They wasn't concerned.
But the Angels came and sang to some shepherds on the hillside. Every time there's a king born, people sing. There was nobody on earth here to welcome Him, so a bunch of peasants, and Angels sang to them. When you think of His hailing to the earth the first time that Angelic Beings come down from the heavens and sung to the peasants, "Today, in the city of David is born Christ the King." Oh, my, what a visitation to the earth.
It was a Jewish law that every mother for her purification and the circumcision of a baby, as every Jew baby was born, had to be brought to the temple after eight days and circumcised.


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