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II HOW UNION WITH CHRIST RELATES TO
LORDSHIP ILLUSTRATED BY THE UNION OF
JESUS AND MARY
A. MARY IS THE FIRST PICTURE OF THE CHURCH
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
1. HER CONTRIBUTION WAS TO GIVE
CHRIST TO THE WORLD (COLOSSIANS
1:28-29)
2. SHE GAVE CHRIST TO THE WORLD
WHEN, BY A MIRACLE, THE HOLY
SPIRIT FORMED CHRIST IN HER (LUKE
1:35)
3. MARY WAS A RECEIVER OF THAT ACT
OF GRACE (LUKE 1:38)
4. IN THE FULNESS OF TIME, SHE GAVE
CHRIST TO THE WORLD (GALATIANS
4:4)
B. MARY’S UNION WITH JESUS ILLUSTRATED
WHEN JESUS WAS 12 YEARS OLD PICTURES
OUR UNION (MARK 3:33-35; JOHN 12:26)
1. JESUS WAS SUBMISSIVE TO HIS
PARENTS (LUKE 2:41-42)
a. MARY HAD EXPECTATIONS
OFJESUS BASED ON HER
RELATIONSHIP TO HIM (LUKE
2:44)
b. JESUS DISAPPOINTED THOSE
EXPECTATIONS (LUKE 2:48; LUKE
2:43)
2. JESUS PRESENTED A PRINCIPLE TO
MARY WHEN HE WAS 12 YEARS
OLD(LUKE 2:49) HE HAD TO BE
ABOUTHIS FATHER’S EVERYTHING

3. MARY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE
PRINCIPLE BUT PONDERED IT IN HER
HEART (LUKE 2:51)
C. 18 YEARS LATER, WHEN JESUS BEGAN HIS
MINISTRY AND TURNED WATER INTO WINE,
MARY UNDERSTOOD (JOHN 2:2-5)
1. THE PRINCIPLE: WHATEVER HE