#34: Holiday Gifts - A Mary Life

Allen Jackson Ministries

Ben Hayes

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🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mary is not in the Christmas story because she was smarter, or stronger, or kept the rules better than some other girl. She is in the Christmas story because the Spirit of God was able to do something remarkable through her life. God intruded on the hopes and dreams Mary had for herself and completely changed the life journey she would take as the mother of God’s Son. Pastor Allen Jackson shows how Mary was yielded to the purposes of God across the years—from the angel’s visit, to the manger, to the foot of the cross, and beyond—then reminds us of the outcomes when our own lives are lived in the Spirit.

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0:00.0	Well, the fruit of the spirit is the outcome when you and I choose to cooperate with the
0:10.6	spirit of God in our lives. The fruit of the spirit is character-based.
0:15.7	It's the power of God to bring transformation to your life or mind from the inside out.
0:22.3	It requires cooperation on our part. The best indicator of
0:26.2	spiritual maturity is the fruit of the spirit because it suggests to whoever
0:31.0	observes that fruit that there is a life there that is increasingly
0:35.4	yielded to the spirit of God. It's not based on length of service or tenure in the
0:40.2	church. Hey guys, this is Alan Jackson Ministries.
0:48.2	You can get the outlines for this episode at Alan Jackson.com.
0:51.8	slash podcast.
0:53.6	If these messages help build you up
0:55.6	or encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower,
0:58.6	leave us one of those five star ratings.
1:00.8	Hopefully that will help others find out about them as well.
1:03.0	Now it's on to Pastor Allen.
1:05.0	Be blessed.
1:06.0	We've been working on this topic called holiday gifts.
1:11.0	We actually started the week before
1:13.0	Thanksgiving. Before Jesus left he gathered his closest friends and he
1:19.4	said I'm going away and where I'm going you can't come. But it's better for you if I go because if I
1:25.2	go the Father will send you a gift, the person of the Holy Spirit. You'll be your
1:30.9	counselor, you'll be your helper, and you'll do the things I've been doing.
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