Title: Meeting of two pregnant women
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Bible Text: Luke 1:39-45
meeting of two pregnant women
All four Gospels begin differently. The Gospel of Matthew begins with the genealogy of Jesus, and the Gospel of Mark begins with the baptism of Jesus, except for the childhood of Jesus. The Gospel of John begins with the incarnation of Jesus, who became the Word, and the Gospel of Luke, unlike other Gospels, begins with a story of pregnancy. Luke was a doctor. He is known as “the beloved physician” (Colossians 4:14). It is common knowledge that the Gospel of Luke, written through a doctor, was written medically, but it is not. There is absolutely no scientific or medical opinion. The story of pregnancy in Luke's Gospel is regarded as the thesis of an ignorant blind believer with no medical common sense.
Mysterious Pregnancy
Luke, a physician, begins the Gospels with a mysterious pregnancy. Luke brings up the seemingly impossible pregnancy of two people. The first is Elizabeth's pregnancy. She was the wife of the priest Zacharias and was known to be barren (verse 36). Because Elizabeth was barren, they had no children, and the husband and wife were old (verse 7).
It is an important topic in the Bible that women who cannot conceive become pregnant. Abraham's wife Sarah became pregnant with Isaac in her old age. Hannah was also infertile, and while praying for a long time, she was told that she would become pregnant with Samuel. As in the story of Hannah, Elizabeth's husband, Zacharias, is a priest and hears the news of the conception while burning incense in the temple. The angel said to Zacharias that your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call him John (verse 13).
The protagonist of the second appearing mysterious pregnancy is Maria. She is physically fertile. But Mary was not married and was a virgin who did not know the man.
Many people do not believe in the virgin birth. How can a virgin bear children? But the angel tells Mary: “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and the Holy One to be born is the Son of God, and no word of God is impossible.” -Nothing is impossible with God-
“Mary said to her, “I am the maidservant of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:35,37).
God's work of redemption begins through the pregnancy of the virgin Mary. The angel Gabriel said to Mary, “You have been favored.” Giving birth to life is grace.
God has opened the door for infertile women. He is the God who makes even the maleless virgins become pregnant. It is God who fertilizes. Pregnancy depends entirely on God.
The history of God's creation is mysterious. Mysteries are areas that are not understood by human knowledge or experience. Humans tend not to accept anything outside of their knowledge. But how big are your palms to hold Pacific waters? How do you measure the world by your own standards?
Modern people are reluctant to accept supernatural truths. They believe that the science they believe in explains everything. But while science can explain natural phenomena, it cannot create them. Science has absolutized naturalism and removed the supernatural part of God. Elizabeth's pregnancy, Mary's pregnancy, is a supernatural mystery of God.
Efforts to understand everything are developing human civilization, but it is human arrogance to deny even the realm of the mystery of life. God is the creator of life. God is life itself. We are beings born on this earth in the providence of God and the mystery of life. Therefore, the very fact that I am alive is a mystery. Life is sacred. Life itself is a simple gift from God.
The conception of life is entirely the sovereignty of God. God makes a woman pregnant and through pregnancy makes another woman. Had Mary remained a virgin, she could not have been the Maria we know today. She became a holy mother because she received the working of the Holy Spirit and conceived the Messiah.
The meeting of fetuses
Two pregnant women met. The older Elizabeth and the unmarried virgin Mary met. What the two have in common are pregnant women. Now, a fetus is wriggling in their womb.
But in the midst of their meeting, an amazing thing happened. It is the fact that Elizabeth had a special reaction to the pregnant John the Baptist with Jesus Christ in her womb. “Elisabeth heard that Mary greeted her, and the child leaped in her womb” (verse 41). Jesus said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth, we thank you for hiding these things from the wise and prudent and revealing them to little children” (Matthew 11:25). A six-month-old fetus recognized the pregnant fetus, Jesus, just before.
We are often indifferent to the fetus. Some think they are not yet life. However, the surprising fact is that by six months, it is about 30 centimeters long and weighs about 1 kilogram. From this moment on, the fetus prepares to walk by kicking.
The fetus has developed a gripping power and can open and close its eyes in response to light. Also, a sound canister has been created that can make a voice, and you can hear the sound.
The fetus grows in the womb, and prenatal education is done by the mother. A fetus means that the mother makes it through prenatal education. If you want to be a musician, you need prenatal education in music, and if you want a scholar, you will be taught prenatal education. Read picture books and children's books to the fetus. Talk to the fetus. Telling a story affects the fetus's brain.
When Elizabeth saw Mary, she was filled with the Holy Spirit, and the fetus jumped and played in the womb with joy as well as the mother. The unborn Jesus in Mary's womb and the unborn John in Elizabeth's womb met and exchanged joy. The two got along well with each other. In this historic meeting of the two embryos, we foresee the future history of salvation.
All parents want their children to grow up with good friends. I worry about meeting bad friends and being affected. When John the Baptist was in his womb, he met Jesus in his womb. This is the only encounter with the fetus that the Bible deals with. Elizabeth rejoices over Mary's visit. When he met Mary who was pregnant with the Son of God, he said, “What is this, when the mother of my Lord comes to me? Behold, the child leaped for joy in my womb when I heard the sound of thy greeting” (verses 43-44).
May your souls and your children dance for joy in Jesus. I hope that the sisters who are now pregnant will become a worship service that experiences Jesus. It means to worship in which the baby in the womb dances.
The Blessing of a Believed Woman
Elizabeth says in a loud voice that Mary is the blessed one. “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb” (verse 42). “Blessed is the woman who believes that the word of the Lord will be fulfilled” (verse 45).
What is the blessing? Believing is a blessing. Mary believed it would be just as it was said. Mary believed the word of God that had been communicated to her. The Thessalonian church was blessed because "...when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you did not receive it as the word of men, but as the word of God, truly it is, and this word also works in you who believe" ( 1 Thessalonians 2:13)
What blessings do you long for? What kind of blessing do you want your children to have? It is believing in God. “Therefore, know that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God…” (Deuteronomy 7:9)
God raised the Messiah from Mary's womb. David said, “You formed my heart; in my womb you made me” (Psalm 139). The mother's womb is the mother's womb. It refers to the source of creation of man, the divine source. John the Baptist's mother was Elizabeth. He said that he would receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb, so that many of the children of Israel would return to God (Luke 1:15-16). Elizabeth was a mother filled with the Holy Spirit.
Seeing Jesus preaching, a woman cried out in a loud voice. “Blessed are the womb that bore you and the milk that fed you” Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28).
Timothy's faith came from his mother, and his mother's faith came from his maternal grandmother. The Bible says this about Timothy's faith: “This faith was first in your maternal grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that it is also in you” (2 Timothy 1:5).
Luke 7:28 describes John the Baptist as “the greatest among those born of women”. The princes and heroes of the world are only those born of women. It means that he is the mother's son. Please pray with a dream that the child I gave birth to will be called a great person.
When Moses' mother saw that Moses was handsome, she could not afford to throw it away, so she hid and nurtured him for three months, then put it in a reed box and floated it on the Nile River. Proverbs 31:1 says: “These are the proverbs of King Remeel, which his mother taught him.” Lemeel means “one who belongs to God.” King Lemeel was born to his mother and raised as a king by his mother. I hope that your children will also be raised as those who belong to “Remeel” God.
When two pregnant women met, they each met God. Elizabeth became the mother of a prophet who was a cry of madness, and Mary became the mother of Jesus, the savior of mankind. Jesus said to Mary on the cross: “Behold, my son!” How proud were you? May your children have the honor of saying, “Behold, a son” and “Behold, a daughter.”