Worship Preparation - November 2, 2025
Read the sermon text: Luke 1:39-56
Read the sermon summary: This Sunday, the two birth announcements, given separately to Zechariah and Mary, are joined in the story in a meeting between Mary and Elizabeth. Each announcement resulted in mysterious joy. Elizabeth knows the Lord has looked upon her to take away her reproach. Mary believes the promise of a son and humbly entrusts herself to the Lord. In our passage for this Sunday, we see that the meeting of mothers and their unborn children gives way to joy and praise to God for fulfilling his promises. John, in his mother's womb, leaps for joy. Elizabeth is filled with the Spirit and exclaims "with a loud cry." And Mary magnifies the Lord and rejoices in God her Savior. We see that in addition to humble faith, the proper response to God fulfilling his promises is great joy and praise towards God.
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Before The Throne Of God Above
Verse 1
Before the throne of God above
I have a strong and perfect plea
A great High Priest whose name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in heav'n He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart
Chorus
Hallelujah
My life is found in Jesus Christ
Hallelujah
For I am His and He is mine
Verse 2
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Saviour died
My sinful soul is counted free
For God the Just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me
Verse 3
Behold Him there the risen Lamb
My perfect spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I Am
The King of glory and of grace
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased with His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Saviour and my God
With Christ my Saviour and my God
Verse 4
I bow before the cross of Christ
And marvel at this love divine
God's perfect Son was sacrificed
To make me righteous in God's eyes
This river's depths I cannot know
But I can glory in its flood
The Lord Most High has bowed down low
And poured on me His glorious love
And poured on me His glorious love
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Charitie Lees Bancroft | Vikki Cook
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