We must humbly receive the good news about Jesus Christ with joyful surrender to Jesus.
1. God sends Gabriel to Mary.
“He might have gone to Jerusalem and picked out Caiaphas’s daughter, who was fair, rich, clad in gold embroidered raiment and attended by a retinue of maids in waiting. But God preferred a lowly maid from a mean town.”—Martin Luther
“From all indicators, her life would not be extraordinary. She would marry humbly, give birth to numerous poor children, never travel farther than a few miles from home, and one day die like thousands of other before her – a nobody in a nothing town in the middle of nowhere.”—R. Kent Hughes
2. Gabriel gives the good news to Mary.
3. Gabriel explains the good news to Mary.
“Christians must face the fact that a denial of the virgin birth is a denial of Jesus as the Christ. The Savior who died for our sins was none other than the baby who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. The virgin birth does not stand alone as a biblical doctrine, it is an irreducible part of the biblical revelation about the person and work of Jesus Christ. With it, the Gospel stands or falls.” –Al Mohler