What did Mary the mother know about the life of Jesus? What did the deciples know about what would happen to Jesus at the end of His life? Did Mary know the affact of her gift to Jesus?

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Granite Bay SDA Church

Aron Crews

Mary, Did You Know?

This was recorded at the Granite Bay Hilltop SDA Church, located in Granite Bay, California.

Hope you are blessed by the message and that it draws you closer to God.

Our sermon today is entitled, Mary, Did You Know?

And you may be thinking, whoa, Pastor Aaron, this is the wrong time of the year.

Well, we know that Mary was a mother, was she not?

But the sermon title, actually, I may be tricking you a bit because we're not going to be talking so much about the Mary that you think I'm going to be talking about, but rather a different Mary in the Bible.

So actually what I'm gonna do is connect these 2 Marys together.

A famous Christmas song, I won't read all the lyrics here, but most of us are probably familiar.

Did you know that he would walk on water?

Did you know that your baby would save our sons and daughters?

Mary, did you know, and this is my favorite line in the song, that the child that you delivered will soon deliver you.

So the question that the song is asking, Mary did you know, did you know, did you know, did you know?

We do have somewhat of a answer to that question in the Bible, and that's found in Luke chapter 1, verse 32, where an angel is talking to Mary, telling her some of the things that she ended up knowing, right, about Jesus and her and his birth.

While that's doing its thing, oh, it's up on the screen there, it says, he will be great and he will be called the son of the highest and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end." Right, so Mary did know that the child that she was gonna be giving birth to, the name was Jesus, meaning God saved.

The angel told Joseph in a dream that he would also be called Emmanuel, that means God with us, right?

So Mary did know a number of things that this child that she would be birthing is the Messiah, the promised son of David, the promised son of God, the 1 to rule over Israel.

So she knew, to answer the song's question, She knew some things about Jesus.

But now we're going to focus on the area that Mary did not know.

Shortly after Jesus was born, he was brought to the temple and there Simeon prophesied under the Holy Spirit while holding the baby Jesus and he said the following.

He said, Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against.

And then, this whole thing he's speaking to Mary, he says, yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

So Mary had an idea of what Jesus was going to be.

She knew He was the Son of David, the Son of God, the promised Messiah.

But here we get an insight into her understanding of the mission of the Messiah was not yet fully developed as it should have been.

Her understanding of the Messiah was that of the popular Jewish conception of the day and that would be that this promised Messiah would be a military leader that would bring the nation of Israel to the pinnacle over all the nations of the world to rule over them militarily etc etc right And so here we get a prophecy, a glimpse into what's going to happen to the heart of Mary.

This isn't talking about a literal sword, but rather metaphorically speaking that her conception of what her son would be, not die, rule over the world, would have to be crushed and she would have to behold as she did a few years later, her son, the promised Messiah that she thought would reign forever over Israel, be ignominiously tortured and crucified to death.

And in those moments, her conception of the Messiah was totally shattered and that sword was pierced through her heart.

The language here of the fall and rising of many in Israel applies to all of Israel, but it applies to every human.

If we are going to accept Jesus, Before we rise and stand up for Jesus, we first have to do what?

Fall down and worship at the feet of Jesus.

But more than that, we have to fall down and be broken.

Our ideas of what God is like must be broken and shattered and reconstructed into the image of who God really is and that is Jesus dying on the cross.

So here we realize that Mary did not fully know exactly the mission of her son of Jesus.

But it wasn't just Mary who had these misconceptions about the mission and role of the Messiah.

It was the very disciples of Jesus themselves.

We could give many examples of this, but probably the most the superlative example of them misunderstanding the mission of the Messiah would be when Jesus asked them in Matthew chapter 16 who do men say that I am and they responded well some say Jeremiah some say a prophet some say so so on and so Forth and then he asked them.

Peter responded and answered, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

Just like Mary, the disciples knew, this is the Messiah, this is the Christ, this is the Son of God.

But then, Jesus continued on and said, you know, good job Peter, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who dwells in heaven." And then he goes on to explain more clearly the mission of the Messiah.

In verse 21 he says, from that time Jesus began to show to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised the third day." Now, how did the disciples respond when they heard this part of the Messiah's mission.

Were they like, oh wow, thanks for letting us know, Jesus.

We're getting ready for your crucifixion.

No, Peter, speaking up for them, took Jesus aside and began to what?

Peter was so convinced in his own mind that the mission of the Messiah did not involve suffering, being crucified, that he takes Jesus aside and he says, man, you're a little mixed up in your own identity here and what's going on.

This is not part of the role of the Messiah.

I mean, just think of the audacity that Peter would have had to do this.

So similar to Mary, but maybe not with as much boldness of Peter, Peter did not have the correct conception of the mission and role of the Messiah.

Jesus, of course, took him aside and said, Get behind me, Satan!

Right, you're not mindful of the things of God, but the things of man.

But this wasn't the first time that Jesus told his disciples.

It wasn't like 1 time Jesus in passing just mentioned, by the way guys, I'm going to be crucified.

At least 3 times in Scripture, it's recorded that Jesus told his disciples plainly of what was going to happen to him.

Here we have in Mark chapter 9, this is the second occurrence recorded, Jesus tells them that he's going to go to Jerusalem, suffer many things, and be put to death.

And the disciples, we have the note in Mark 9 verse 32, but they did not understand this saying and were afraid to ask him for further clarification.

Do You mean like, like die, like you're gonna die some clothing?

And they were even embarrassed to ask him further about this.

Then again, Jesus says in Matthew chapter 26, verse 2, now this is a few days now before his actual crucifixion, and he says to his disciples, You know, and it's interesting, listen to the language.

Or maybe I would like to supply, you should know, right?

Because they didn't really know, but you should know.

You know that after 2 days is the Passover and the son of man will be delivered up to be crucified." So at least 3 times Jesus told them very plainly he was going to suffer, he was going to be put to death, and his disciples didn't understand, didn't want to follow up, didn't want to investigate that any further.

If your Lord and your King, your exemplar, suffers and is put to death, that means that, gulp, that may happen to me, right?

And that was the human nature, not wanting to see their Lord go through this because that would mean that they also would have to be subjected to suffering, persecution, and death.

So now we're gonna focus on from 1 Mary to another Mary and ask this Mary the question, Mary, did you know that Jesus was going to be crucified?

Mary, the mother of Jesus, knew that he was the Messiah, knew that he was the Son of God, but she did not know that he would be crucified.

Does this Mary, Did she know that Jesus would be crucified?

Did she believe that this would actually happen?

We have recorded in Matthew 26, a few verses after what was just read, when Jesus explicitly said, I'm gonna go be crucified.

There is a feast that Simon the leper hosts for Jesus in Bethany.

Verse 7, a woman, we know this woman's identity is Mary, we get this from other Gospels, a woman came to him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

But when his disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, Why this waste?

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