Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress and I'm glad to serve as your Bible teacher every day on this great radio station on today's edition of Pathway to Victory.

When Mary said to Gabriel, I'm your bond servant God. Mary was only 13, but she knew what she was saying.

She knew that her acquiescence to being the mother of the Lord might very well end the relationship with the man she loved more than any other person on earth.

You know, that's an extraordinary sacrifice for anybody to make, but for a teenage girl think about that.

Welcome to Pathway to Victory with author and pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress.

Throughout the history of the church, Christians have had some wildly differing views about the mother of Jesus.

So what's the proper way to regard this remarkable young woman named Mary?

Today on Pathway to Victory, Dr. Robert Jeffress turns to the defining passage on the mother of Jesus and her prominent role in the Christmas story.

Now here's our Bible teacher to introduce today's message. Dr. Jeffress, thanks David and welcome again to Pathway to Victory.

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More details later but right now it's time to resume our teaching series called Celebrate the Savior. Today I'm presenting a message titled Mary Mary Quite Extraordinary.

Take your Bibles and turn to Luke chapter 1, look at verse 26 with me. Now in the sixth month, I have to stop there, what do you mean six months?

Well remember this is Elizabeth's story. Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, it was in the sixth month of her pregnancy that the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth.

Look at verse 27, Gabriel came to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph of the descendants of David and the virgin's name was Mary.

And coming in Gabriel said to her, Hail favored one, the Lord is with you. The Latin translation says, Hail one who is full of grace.

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