In verse 16, Jesus says one word.

If you got a red letter edition, you got one word in the red there.

What is it?

Mary.

Mary.

And, oh, Lord Jesus, she knows because she knows the way he says her name.

You see, intimacy with God, has to start right here.

So I knew already, and you know how I knew I was going to use this?

Because over and over again, women on Twitter answered when I said,

what word from the scriptures in red means so much to you?

Do you know how many of them answered answered Mary? Quotations around it.

Not one of their names was Mary. What were they saying? The fact that he knew her name,

and she knew him well enough that she recognized his voice, Mary.

Now, when I looked up the meaning of the name Mary, it had been a while since I'd looked it up,

and I was just delighted.

I remembered the second I saw it, how varied it was, because the Greek transliteration of the word

Mary that we see in our English words here is coming from Merriam or Miriam.

And Miriam is a personal name, but it's got a very uncertain meaning.

It could mean a host of things.

And so I'm reading straight out of the Greek dictionary.

These are some things that it means.

It perhaps means, I'm quoting, bitter, God's gift, beloved, or defiant.

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