Fear Not! You Have Found Favor With God
Dave Riddle - 12/17/2023
Key Passage: Luke 1:26-38
Grace
- Luke 1:28
- Greetings: Be of good cheer. Root word: grace.
- Favored one: to provide someone with special honor. Root word: grace.
- “Grace to you, oh highly favored one”
- The same message Paul has for the Ephesians.
- The same message is given to each of us in the good news of the gospel.
Mary Was Very Perplexed
- Luke 1:29
- diatarasso: very disturbed. Disturbed wholly. Agitated with alarm.
- The only time this word is used in the Bible.
Don’t be afraid. You have found favor with God
- Luke 1:30
- The message Gabriel shares with Mary is not one that most people would have associated with favor.
- Unplanned pregnancy
A natural, reasonable, very human reaction
- Luke 1:34
- Compare to Zechariah’s reasonable reaction in Luke 1:18
A supernatural, outlandish, very divine answer!
- Luke 1:35
I am the Lord’s servant
- Luke 1:38
- The Lord’s slave
- May it be done as you have said
- Blessed assurance.
- Trusting, believing, submitting to God’s way.
- Even when it seems far fetched.