Cristy Li

God did not withhold His Own Son but gave Him up for all of us,
will He not with Him also give us everything else? –Romans 8:32 (NRSVCE)
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God’s Love in Christ Jesus

Friends: If God is for us, who is against us? God did not withhold His Own Son but gave Him up

for all of us, will He not with Him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge

against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died,

yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will

separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship or distress, or persecution, or famine, or

nakedness, or peril or sword? As it is written,

“For Your sake we are being killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” (Psalm 44:22)

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am

convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to

come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to

separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus Our Lord! –Romans 8:31B-39

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God has called you through our proclamation of the Good News
so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. –2 Thessalonians 2:14 (NRSVCE)

Lord My God, I trust in Your mercy. (Psalm 13:6)

Look upon me, answer me, Lord My God!

Give light to my eyes lest I sleep in death,

Lest my enemies say, ‘I have prevailed,”

lest my foes rejoice at my downfall.

Lord My God, I trust in Your mercy. (Psalm 13:6)

I trust in your mercy.

Grant my heart joy in Your salvation,

I will sing to the Lord, for He has dealt bountifully with me! –Psalm 13:4-6 (NABRE)

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The Angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin named Mary and said, ‘Greetings favored one! The Lord is with you. –Luke 1:26-28 (NRSVCE)
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Mary’s Song of Praise

Mary said, “My soul magnified the Lord

and my spirit rejoices in God My Savior,

for He has looked with favor on the lowliness of His servant.

Surely, from now on, all generations will call me Blessed;

For the Mighty One has done great things for me and Holy is His name.

His mercy is for those who fear Him from generation to generation.

He has shown strength with His arm,

He has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly;

He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy, according to the promise

He made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.” –Luke 1:46-55

The Birth of Jesus Foretold

In the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a

virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the House of David – The virgin’s name was

Mary and he (Gabriel) came to her and said, ‘Greetings favored one! The Lord is with you.’

Mary was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.

The Angel (Gabriel) said to her, ‘Do not be afraid Mary, for you have found favor with God and

now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son and you will name Him Jesus. He will be

great and will be called the Son of the Most High and the Lord God will give to Him the throne

of His ancestor David. He will reign over the House of Jacob forever and of His Kingdom there

will be no end.’

Mary said to the Angel (Gabriel) ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?’

The Angel (Gabriel) said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most

High will overshadow you; Therefore the Child to be born will be Holy; He will be called Son of

God and now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son and this is the

sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.’

Then Mary said, ‘Here I am, the Servant of the Lord, let it be with me according to your word.’

Then the Angel (Gabriel) departed from her.

Mary Visits Elizabeth

In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she

entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,

the child leaped in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a

loud cry, ‘Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why has this

happened to me, that the mother of My Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of

your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who believed that there

would be fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.’ –Luke 1:26-45

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The Word of The Lord endures forever.
That Word is the Good News that was announced to you. –1 Peter 1:25 (NRSVCE)

Beloved: I am grateful to God, whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did,

when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.

For this reason I remind you to rekindle the Gift of God that is within you through the laying on

of my hands; For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a Spirit of Power and of

love and of self-discipline. Do not be ashamed then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me

His prisoner but join with me in suffering for the Gospel, relying on the power of God, who

saved us and called us with a Holy calling, not according to our works but according to His own

purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began but is now

revealed through the appearing of Our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought

life and immortality to light through the Gospel…I am not ashamed, for I know the One in

whom I put my trust — Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in

the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the Good Treasure entrusted to you, with the

help of the Holy Spirit living in us. – 2 Timothy 1:3; 6-10; 12B-14

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“For the wages of sin is death but the FREE GIFT of God
is ETERNAL LIFE in Christ Jesus Our Lord.” –Romans 6:23

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