and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
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… And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord. And Mary said, my soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed. For he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud and the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate. He has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever. And Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home. …
… and this is what she says, and this is the words we heard just a moment ago. Let's listen to them again. Mary says, my soul magnifies 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. And then listen to this. 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. I don't know if you can catch this, if you heard this, but this is a revolutionary song, not unlike O Holy Night that was inspired by it, a revolutionary song. Mary's song was inspired by the songs of other women in the Hebrew Bible. So we often think that only men wrote the Bible, and that's true. But there are a handful of songs captured that were composed in Scripture that were composed by women. So let me just mention a few of those. Miriam. Now Mary's name in Hebrew was Miriam, and she's named after the sister of Moses. And after the Israelites were delivered through the Red Sea from the Egyptians and from slavery, she composed a song and she began to sing. …
… core of our being. Remember Mary in her Magnificat when she cries out, my soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. That's true worship. And the Scriptures repeatedly show the opposite of true worship. The worship that Jeremiah exposed at his famous temple speech in the Old Testament when he went to the temple and he said, you people come to church, you come to the temple and you say, this is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. But you trust in lying words, words that cannot profit. This temple is going to be destroyed. If you want to see what it's going to look like, go to Shiloh, because at that point Shiloh, which had been a central sanctuary, was now in ruins. That is to say, Jeremiah, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, was giving a message to the people of Israel that their worship had become dead, outward, external formalism. They were going through the motions. …