BREAKING THE SILENCE II: CHRISTMAS SERIES LUKE 1 VS. 26 – 28

By: Pastor Cranston Evans, lead pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church. Nassau, Bahamas.

December 18, 2020

LUKE 1

²⁶ AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD UNTO A CITY OF GALILEE, NAMED NAZARETH,

²⁷ TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND THE VIRGIN’S NAME WAS MARY.

²⁸ AND THE ANGEL CAME IN UNTO HER, AND SAID, HAIL, THOU THAT ART HIGHLY FAVOURED, THE LORD IS WITH THEE: BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN.

²⁹ AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM, SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING, AND CAST IN HER MIND WHAT MANNER OF SALUTATION THIS SHOULD BE.

{I}

DON’T BE MISLABELED

LUKE I VS. 26

LUKE 1

²⁶ AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD UNTO A CITY OF GALILEE, NAMED NAZARETH,

I KINGS 9

¹¹ (NOW HIRAM THE KING OF TYRE HAD FURNISHED SOLOMON WITH CEDAR TREES AND FIR TREES, AND WITH GOLD, ACCORDING TO ALL HIS DESIRE,) THAT THEN KING SOLOMON GAVE HIRAM TWENTY CITIES IN THE LAND OF GALILEE.

¹² AND HIRAM CAME OUT FROM TYRE TO SEE THE CITIES WHICH SOLOMON HAD GIVEN HIM; AND THEY PLEASED HIM NOT.

¹³ AND HE SAID, WHAT CITIES ARE THESE WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME, MY BROTHER? AND HE CALLED THEM THE LAND OF CABUL UNTO THIS DAY.

ONE OF THE GREATEST DEFEATS YOU CAN BIND YOURSELF WITH, IS TO ALLOW YOUR PAST TO DICTATE YOUR DESTINY.

• WHEN GOD SENDS GABRIEL OUT A SECOND TIME AFTER SIX MONTHS OF APPEARING TO ZACHARIAS, HE IS SENT TO A REGION CALLED GALILEE
  • TO APPRECIATE THIS ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE HISTORICAL BACK DROP OF GALILEE IN PARTICULAR WHAT I WAS LABELED
    • AFTER SOLOMON REIGNED AS KING HE CONTINUED ALLIANCES OF HIS FATHER DAVID ; ONE IN PARTICULAR WITH KING HIRAM KING OF TYRE
      • SOLOMON GIVES HIM TWENTY CITIES IN THIS REGION OF GALILEE
        • WHICH WAS A SUBSTANTIAL GIFT
          • HOWEVER WHEN KING HIRAM VISITS THE LAND HE IS DISPLEASED AND REFERS TO THEM AS THE LAND OF KABUL
            • KABUL
              • TO BE BOUNDS
              • PLACE OF LIMITATIONS
              • A STERILE PLACE
                • NOT ABLE TO PRODUCE
            • BECAUSE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF HIS PERCEPTION HE SOUGHT TO PLACE A CURSE ON THEM AND REFERRED TO THEM AS NOTHING
      • THIS BECAME AN AREA THUS INHABITED BY GENTILES AND REFUGEES
• IN THE MIDST OF GALILEE WAS NAZARETH
  • WHAT HIRAM NAMED AS STERILE, BOUND AND A PLACE OF LIMITATIONS
    • WAS A CITY CALLED NAZARETH
      • NAZARETH {NAZARA}
        • THE GUARDED ONE
          • YOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO GUARD YOUR DESTINY AND NOT ALLOW ONE’S PERCEPTION TO LEAD TO DECEPTION AND CAUSE YOU MISS RECEPTION OF GOD’S DETERMINATION UPON YOUR DESTINATION.

{II}

CREATE YOUR OWN IDENTITY

LUKE 1 VS. 27 – 28

LUKE 1

²⁷ TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND THE VIRGIN’S NAME WAS MARY.

²⁸ AND THE ANGEL CAME IN UNTO HER, AND SAID, HAIL, THOU THAT ART HIGHLY FAVOURED, THE LORD IS WITH THEE: BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN.

²⁹ AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM, SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING, AND CAST IN HER MIND WHAT MANNER OF SALUTATION THIS SHOULD BE.

³⁰ AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT, MARY: FOR THOU HAST FOUND FAVOUR WITH GOD.

REGARDLESS OF WHAT, WHERE, WHO, YOU WERE WHAT YOUR PAST MAY HAVE BEEN TO HEAR THE BREAKING OF THE SILENCE KNOW HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

• THE INTERESTING NOTE OF MARY IS THE ETYMOLOGY OF HER NAME WHICH STEMS FROM THE HEBREW NAME MIRIAM
  • THESE ARE TRANSLATED AS REBELLION
    • IN BIBLICAL DAYS WOMEN WERE TO BE SEEN AS SILENT AND ONE OF LESSER VALUE
      • BUT THESE MIRIAM IN THE BIBLE NEVER CONFORMED TO OTHERS PERCEPTION AND REBELLED IN A GOOD WAY TO SERVE GOD
  • UNDERSTAND MORE IMPORTANTLY IS THAT MARY QUALIFIED HERSELF TO ATTRACT THE PRESENCE AND SELECTION OF GOD.
    • I BELIEVE THAT THIS MUST BE A SEASON OF PREPARATION FOR SELECTION
      • YOUR GALILEE CAN NOT DETERMINE YOUR NAZARETH
        • MARY DECIDED TO BECOME A PERSON OF INTEGRITY
          • IMAGINE THAT GOD DIDN’T GO TO THE ONES WHO APPEARED RIGHT AND HAD WEALTH OR PROMINENCE
            • HE SELECTED A VIRGIN FROM THE LAND WHAT WAS ONE PERCEIVED AS STERILE 
              • CREATE WHO YOU ARE REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU ARE
  • WHEN THE ANGEL COMES HE PAYS HOMAGE AND RESPECT UNTO MARY
    • HAIL {CHAIRŌ}
      • TO REJOICE, BE GLAD
      • TO REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY
      • TO BE WELL, THRIVE
    • THOU ARE HIGHLY FAVOURED {CHARITOŌ}
      • TO MAKE GRACEFUL
        • CHARMING, LOVELY, AGREEABLE
      • TO PERSUE WITH GRACE, COMPASS WITH FAVOUR
      • TO HONOUR WITH BLESSINGS
    • THE LORD IS WITH THEE
      • LORD {KYRIOS}
        • HE TO WHOM A PERSON OR THING BELONGS,
        • ABOUT WHICH HE HAS POWER OF DECIDING; MASTER, LORD
        • IS A TITLE OF HONOUR EXPRESSIVE OF RESPECT AND REVERENCE, WITH WHICH SERVANTS GREET THEIR MASTER
        • THE POSSESSOR AND DISPOSER OF A THING
    • BLESSED ARE THOU AMOUNG WOMEN
      • BLESSED {EULOGEŌ}
        • TO PRAISE, CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES
        • TO INVOKE BLESSINGS
        • TO CONSECRATE A THING WITH SOLEMN PRAYERS
          • TO ASK GOD’S BLESSING ON A THING
          • PRAY GOD TO BLESS IT TO ONE’S USE
          • PRONOUNCE A CONSECRATORY BLESSING ON
        • OF GOD
          • TO CAUSE TO PROSPER, TO MAKE HAPPY, TO BESTOW BLESSINGS ON
          • FAVOURED OF GOD, BLESSED

{III}

EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY

LUKE 1 VS. 30 – 33 & 35

LUKE 1

³⁰ AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT, MARY: FOR THOU HAST FOUND FAVOUR WITH GOD.

³¹ AND, BEHOLD, THOU SHALT CONCEIVE IN THY WOMB, AND BRING FORTH A SON, AND SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS.

³² 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:

³³ AND HE SHALL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOR EVER; AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END.

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.

THIS WAS A PARADIGM SHIFTING IN THE LIFE OF MARY AND SHE NOT ONLY HEARD IT BUT SHE EMBRACED IT.

• THE ANGELS DECLARATION TO MARY
  • FEAR NOT
  • THOU HAS FOUND FAVOUR WITH GOD
  • THOU SHALT CONCEIVE IN THY WOMB
  • THOUS SHALT BRING FORTH A SON
  • CALL HIS NAME JESUS 
    • HE SHALL BE GREAT
    • HE SHALL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE HIGHEST
    • THE LORD GOD SHALL GIVE UNTO HIM THE THRONE OF HI FATHER DAVID
    • HE SHALL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER
    • OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END
• THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE
  • COME UPON {EPERCHOMAI}
    • TO COME UPON, OVERTAKE,
    • OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, DESCENDING AND OPERATING IN ONE
• THE HIGHEST SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE
  • OVERSHADOW {EPISKIAZŌ}
    • TO THROW A SHADOW UPON, TO ENVELOP IN A SHADOW, TO OVERSHADOW }

{IV}

LET GOD VALIDATE YOU

LUKE 1 VS. 36 – 42

LUKE 1

³⁶ AND, BEHOLD, THY COUSIN ELISABETH, SHE HATH ALSO CONCEIVED A SON IN HER OLD AGE: AND THIS IS THE SIXTH MONTH WITH HER, WHO WAS CALLED BARREN.

³⁷ FOR WITH GOD NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE.

³⁸ AND MARY SAID, BEHOLD THE HANDMAID OF THE LORD; BE IT UNTO ME ACCORDING TO THY WORD. AND THE ANGEL DEPARTED FROM HER.

³⁹ AND MARY AROSE IN THOSE DAYS, AND WENT INTO THE HILL COUNTRY WITH HASTE, INTO A CITY OF JUDA;

⁴⁰ AND ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF ZACHARIAS, AND SALUTED ELISABETH.

⁴¹ AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHEN ELISABETH HEARD THE SALUTATION OF MARY, THE BABE LEAPED IN HER WOMB; AND ELISABETH WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST:

⁴² AND SHE SPAKE OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND SAID, BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN, AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF THY WOMB.

WHENEVER THERE EXISTS A CALL OR PROMISE OF GOD ON YOUR LIFE, HE WILL VALIDATE AND AUTHENTICATE YOU.

• THE ANGEL NOW INFORMS MARY THAT SHE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO EXPERIENCE THE NEW BIRTHING OF GOD
  • ELISABETH (OATH OF GOD) IS IN HER SIXTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY
    • SHE WAS OLD
      • YET GOD DID IT
      • NO EXCUSE WHEN GOD SEEKS TO BLESS YOU
    • SHE WAS CALLED  BARREN
      • THE GIFT CAUSED WHAT SHE WAS CALLED TO BE CHANGED
        • THAT’S THE BENEFIT OF PURPOSE
  • THE ANGEL MAKES A DECLARATION
    • FOR WITH GOD NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE
• MARY SUPPLY WAS OF HUMBLE SUBMISSIVE SURRENDER
  • BEHOLD THE HANDMAID OF THE LORD; BE IT UNTO ME ACCORDING TO THY WORD
    • OHH THAT WE SURRENDER TO THE WORD AND PROMISE OF GOD
• HEARING THE WORD MARY IN HEARING THE WORD GOES TO THE CITY JUDAH TO VISIT HER SIX MONTH PREGNANT COUSIN ELIZABETH
  • SHE SALUTES ELISABETH AND INSTANTLY THERE WAS VALIDATION
    • ⁴¹ AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHEN ELISABETH HEARD THE SALUTATION OF MARY, THE BABE LEAPED IN HER WOMB; AND ELISABETH WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST:
      • THE FILLING OF THE HOLY GHOST CAUSE HER VISION TO CHANGE
        • ⁴² AND SHE SPAKE OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND SAID, BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN, AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF THY WOMB.