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TITLE: MARY MAGNIFIES HER SAVIOR

TEXT: LUKE 1:46-50

INTRODUCTION: (1) THAT GOD WOULD BECOME MAN IS AN INCREDIBLE TRUTH TO ME.

* IN FACT AT TIMES, IT IS MIND BOGGLING TO CONSIDER THE WONDER, THE MIRACLE, THE LOVE AND THE CONDESCENSION OF THE ADVENT OF CHRIST TO THE EARTH.

** THINK THROUGH THESE PHRASES WITH ME FOR A MOMENT TODAY.

*** THE INFINITE ONE BECAME AN INFANT.

**** THE CREATOR LAID IN A CRADLE.

(2) THE MOST HIGH SLEPT IN A MANGER.

* THE SOVEREIGN BECAME A SERVANT.

** DEITY TOOK ON HUMANITY.

*** THE CREATOR BECAME A PART OF HIS CREATION.

**** AND MY RESPONSE IS, “OH THE WONDER OF IT ALL.” IT IS A REVEALED MYSTERY. THESE TRUTHS ARE HARD FOR ME TO GRASP.

(3) FOR THE INCARNATION IS A PROFOUND TRUTH.

* CHARLES SPURGEON IN HIS PREACHING ONE ADVENT SUNDAY HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THE PROFOUNDNESS OF THE INCARNATION.

** HE SAID: “IT MUST REMAIN TO US THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES THAT GOD HIMSELF WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH.

*** GOD THE INVISIBLE WAS MANIFEST; GOD THE SPIRITUAL DWELT IN MORTAL FLESH; GOD THE INFINITE, UNCONTAINED, BOUNDLESS, WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH.

**** WHAT INFINITE LEAGUES OUR THOUGHT MUST TRAVERSE BETWEEN GODHEAD SELF-EXISTENT AND THEREFORE, FULL OF POWER AND SELF-SUFFICIENT, BEFORE WE HAVE DESCENDED TO THE FAR-DOWN LEVEL OF POOR HUMAN FLESH, WHICH IS, AT ITS BEST, BUT AS GRASS, AND IN IT’S ESSENCE, ONLY SO MUCH ANIMATED DUST!

(4) WHERE CAN WE FIND SO GREAT A CONTRAST MAN BETWEEN GOD AND FLESH!” (END QUOTE)

* NOW TO ME THERE IS NO GREATER MYSTERY, GOD WHO IS HOLY BECAME HUMAN, EMMANUEL – GOD WITH US.

** AND THINK OF IT FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW: THE GREATEST INVASION OF ALL TIME WAS NOT NORMANDY, NOR THE GULF WAR, OR OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM – IT WAS THE NIGHT GOD CAME TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET EARTH!

*** NOW THINK ABOUT THIS. THREE EVENTS SHAPE ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AS CHRISTIANS TODAY: CHRISTMAS, THE CROSS AND THE RESURRECTION.

**** AND 3 PLACES FRAME ALL THAT WE BELIEVE TODAY: BETHLEHEM, GOLGOTHA AND THE EMPTY TOMB.

(5) AND WITHOUT THE MANGER – WE COULD HAVE NO CROSS.

* AND WITHOUT THE CROSS AND WHAT WOULD FOLLOW, THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, WE WOULD HAVE NO HOPE.

** SO HOPE SPRINGS FORTH FROM WHAT WE CELEBRATE AT CHRISTMAS.

*** AND AS WE COME TO OUR TEXT TODAY, HOPE AND PRAISE AND WORSHIP PROCEED FROM MARY’S HEART IN RESPONSE TO HER HEARING FROM THE ANGEL GABRIEL THAT SHE WOULD CONCEIVE THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT A CHILD WHO WOULD BE THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH, WHO WOULD BE NAMED JESUS.

**** HER OFFSPRING WOULD BE HOLY AND HUMAN, THE SON OF GOD.

(6) AND AFTER GABRIEL DEPARTS FROM HER, MARY HURRIES TO A TOWN IN JUDEA FROM NAZARETH IN GALILEE WHERE SHE WAS AT TO SEE HER OLDER COUSIN ELIZABETH WHO WAS PREGNANT WITH JOHN THE BAPTIZER, A MIRACLE IN ITSELF AS SHE WAS OLDER AND BARREN.

* AND ON HER WAY, MARY, NO DOUBT MEDITATED ON THE MARVELOUS MYSTERY WHICH HAD BEEN REVEALED TO HER.

** SHE – AN UNMARRIED YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAD LIVED A LIFE OF PURITY, BEING A VIRGIN, WAS GOING TO BECOME THE MOTHER OF THE SON OF GOD!

*** AND AS SHE ARRIVES TO VISIT WITH ELIZABETH AND ZACHARIAS HER HUSBAND, MARY GREETS ELIZABETH AND THE BABY IN ELIZABETH’S WOMB LEAPS FOR JOY AND ELIZABETH IS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.

(7) AND IN A LOUD VOICE SHE EXCLAIMS IN LUKE 1:42&43: “BLESSED AMONG WOMEN ARE YOU AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB! AND HOW HAS IT HAPPENED TO ME, THAT THE MOTHER OF MY LORD SHOULD COME TO ME?”

* NOW MARY HEARD THIS FROM ELIZABETH WHICH CONFIRMED WHAT THE ANGEL GABRIEL SAID TO HER.

** AND HER RESPONSE IS RECORDED IN LUKE 1:46-55. AND THE POPULAR TITLE FOR THIS RESPONSE TO THE ANGEL’S ANNOUNCEMENT AND ELIZABETH’S WORDS IS “THE MAGNIFICAT”.

*** AND THIS TITLE IS TAKEN FROM THE WORD OF THE LATIN TRANSLATION OF THE WORD MAGNIFY OR EXALTS OR GLORIFIES DEPENDING ON WHICH TRANSLATION YOU HAVE.

**** AND THIS IS MARY’S SONG, A HYMN OF PRAISE IN RESPONSE TO WHAT SHE HAS BEEN TOLD.

(8) AND MARY’S SONG HAS FOUR STANZAS TO HER HYMN OF PRAISE.

* STANZA NO. 1 COVERS VERSES 46-48,

STANZA NO. 2 COVERS VERSES 49&50,

STANZA NO. 3 COVERS VERSES 51-53 AND

STANZA NO. 4 COVERS VERSES 54&55.

** NOW IN OUR STUDY TODAY BECAUSE OF TIME, WE ARE GOING TO COVER STANZAS ONE AND TWO WHICH COVER VV. 46-50.

*** AND THE FIRST TWO STANZAS OF THIS HYMN OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP OVERFLOW WITH AWE AND EXALTING 3 ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

**** SO I’VE TITLED OUR MESSAGE TODAY, “MARY MAGNIFIES HER SAVIOR.”

(9) AND UNDER THAT THEME WE’LL LOOK AT TWO THINGS, NO. 1 THE AWE OF MARY ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS THAT HAVE TRANSPIRED, VV. 46-48; AND NO. 2 THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD THAT SHE EXALTS, VV. 49&50.

* AND WITHOUT FURTHER INTRODUCTION, LET’S MOVE TO OUR FIRST POINT TODAY, THE FIRST STANZA OF THE MAGNIFICENT, THE AWE OF MARY. LOOK AT LUKE 1:46 PLEASE.

I. THE AWE, (READ V. 46)

A. NOW I USE THE WORD AWE TO BEGIN WITH, FOR TRULY THIS IS MARY’S RESPONSE TO WHAT SHE HAS HEARD.

* THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE OF REVERENCE, WONDER AND WORSHIP.

** AND HER AWE BEGINS, MARY SAYS: “MY SOUL EXALTS THE LORD.”

*** NOW THE WORD EXALTS IN THE NAS, TRANSLATED GLORIFIES IN THE NIV, MAGNIFY IN THE KJV AND MAGNIFIES IN THE NKJV, IS A GREEK WOULD WHICH LIT. MEANS TO MAKE GREAT, TO ESTEEM HIGHLY, TO EXTOL, TO LAUD, TO CELEBRATE, TO GIVE GLORY AND PRAISE.

**** AND MARY IS SAYING MY SOUL MAKES GREAT THE LORD, MY SOUL ENLARGES THE LORD.

1. AND OF COURSE, GOD CANNOT BE MADE ANY BIGGER, BUT HE CAN BE ENLARGED IN ONE’S LIFE.

* FOR WE MAGNIFY OR ENLARGE GOD WHEN WE TAKE INTO OUR THINKING SOME NEW ASPECT OF GOD’S GREATNESS.

** FOR EXAMPLE WHEN WE MEDITATE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE MAGNIFICENT TEXTS OF CREATION, PERHAPS GENESIS 1:1, PSALM 33:8&9, PSALM 148:5, COLOSSIANS 1:15-18, JOHN 1:1-3 OR HEBREWS 1:1-3, WHEN WE DO THIS, OUR THOUGHTS REGARDING GOD ARE ENLARGED, MAGNIFIED, WE HAVE GREAT, HUGE, BIG THOUGHTS OF HIM AND SMALL THOUGHTS OF OURSELVES.

*** LIKEWISE, MEDITATION ON CHRIST’S DEATH AND ATONEMENT IN THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS WILL EXPAND OUR THEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE.

**** AND THE FULLER OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S GREATNESS, THE GREATER OUR ABILITY TO ENLARGE HIM.

2. WELL, MARY, AFTER THE ANNUNCIATION OF GABRIEL AND HER VISITATION WITH ELIZABETH, HAD BEGUN TO THINK BIGGER AND GREATER THOUGHTS OF HER GOD THAN EVER BEFORE.

* I MEAN HER THOUGHTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN, “A GOD WHO COULD DO WHAT HE DID IN MY WOMB, WHAT MUST HE BE ABLE TO DO IN THE UNIVERSE.”

** SO HER SOUL ENLARGED THE LORD AND HER MOUTH POURED FORTH GREATER THOUGHTS THAN EVER BEFORE. NOW LOOK AT V. 47 AS THIS CONTINUES.

B. READ V. 47. NOW MARY’S SONG CONTINUES AS SHE REJOICES IN GOD HER SAVIOR.

* AND THE VERB REJOICED LIT. MEANS TO EXULT, TO REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY, TO BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD.

** AND JOY JUST FILLS HER HEART AS SHE THINKS OF THE TRUTH THAT GOD WAS THE GOD OF HER SALVATION.

*** FOR SHE CALLS GOD, MY SAVIOR. AND SAVIOR HERE LIT. MEANS DELIVERER, PRESERVER, THE ONE WHO SAVES.

**** AND THIS IS A PROFOUND TRUTH THAT INDICATES THAT MARY RECOGNIZED HER OWN NEED OF A SAVIOR AND THAT SHE KNEW THE TRUE GOD AS HER SAVIOR.

1. BUT LET ME TAKE THIS A STEP FURTHER, WHOM SPECIFICALLY WOULD BE HER SAVIOR?

* THE ANSWER IS THE VERY CHILD THAT WAS CONCEIVED IN HER WOMB BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

** IN FACT, SHE KNEW THAT BECAUSE WHEN GABRIEL MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO HER ABOUT THE CHILD IN LUKE 1:31, THAT SHE WOULD NAME HIM JESUS.

*** AND WHAT DOES THE NAME JESUS MEAN?

**** THE ANSWER IS SAVIOR, JEHOVAH IS SALVATION, JEHOVAH WILL SAVE, A FORM OF THE HEBREW JOSHUA OR JESHUA, AND MATTHEW 1:21 BRINGS FORTH THIS TRUTH. (READ IT).

2. AND MANY A JEW KNOW WHAT JESUS MEANT. JESUS MEANT SAVIOR, HER SON WOULD BE HER SAVIOR.

* AND IMPLIED IN THE TRUTH OF NEEDING A SAVIOR MEANS WHAT? THAT YOU ARE A SINNER IN NEED OF A SAVIOR.

** AND MARY’S WORDS REMIND US THAT MARY NEVER THOUGHT OF HERSELF AS IMMACULATE (MEANING FREE FROM THE TAINT OF ORIGINAL SIN).

*** MARY ACKNOWLEDGED HER NEED OF A SAVIOR, AND IF YOU NEED A SAVIOR, YOU ARE A SINNER, AND NO SINNER SHOULD EVER BE WORSHIPPED.

**** AND ONLY GOD IS WITHOUT SIN AND HOLY AND THUS SHOULD BE WORSHIPPED.

3. YET SADLY, MARIOLATRY, THE WORSHIP OF MARY, HAS BEEN PRACTICED BY PEOPLE WHO TURN HER INTO AN IDOL AND VENERATE HER.

* THAT IS FLAT OUT WRONG AND SINFUL. MARY WAS A VIRTUOUS YOUNG TEENAGE WOMAN, A CHOSEN VESSEL, ONE WHO WAS BLESSED AS WE’LL SEE.

** BUT SHE REALIZED HER NEED OF GRACE AND A SAVIOR. AND MAY WE NEVER WORSHIP ANY MAN OR WOMAN, BUT GOD AND GOD ALONE!

*** BELOVED MARY REJOICED IN GOD HER SAVIOR. AND HER AWE AND THE RESPONSE OF HUMILITY IS BROUGHT FORTH IN OUR NEXT VERSE. LOOK AT V. 48 PLEASE.

C. READ V. 48. NOW THIS VERSE HAS BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD WHEN TAKEN OUT OF IT’S CONTEXT. OUR CONTEXT IS WORSHIP AND PRAISE, AWE AND WONDER IN WHAT GOD WOULD DO.

* AND HERE IN V. 48 WHAT SHINES FORTH IS A DEEP SENSE OF HUMILITY AND AWE FOR HER GOD HAS HAD REGARD, LITERALLY HE HAS LOOKED UPON HER HUMBLE STATE, HER LOWLY POSITION IN SOCIETY.

** FOR YOU SEE “HUMBLE STATE” MOST LIKELY REFERS TO HER LOW SOCIAL POSITION, THE BETROTHED WIFE OF A VILLAGE CARPENTER WHO WAS POOR AS WE PUT OTHER SCRIPTURE TOGETHER.

*** MARY WAS A POOR NOBODY FROM A NON-PLACE, GOD’S BONDSLAVE, A FEMALE SLAVE OF THE LORD.

**** THAT’S HOW SHE VIEWED HERSELF. SHE HAD PROPER PERSPECTIVE. AND GOD CHOSE TO USE THE HUMBLE AND LOWLY AND RESISTS THE PROUD, AS JAMES 4:6 SAYS: (ALSO READ MATTHEW 23:12).

1. AND AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, BETTER KNOWN AS ST. AUGUSTINE UNDERSTOOD THIS TRUTH AND WROTE: “FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LEARN GOD’S WAYS, HUMILITY IS THE FIRST THING, HUMILITY IS THE SECOND, AND HUMILITY IS THE THIRD.” (END QUOTE)

* AND THE NECESSITY OF HUMILITY IS A COMMON THREAD IN SCRIPTURE AND THE CHRISTMAS STORY, FOR CHRIST COMES TO THE LOWLY, AND HE USES THE LOWLY AND THOSE PEOPLE ARE BLESSED, FOR MATTHEW 5:3-5 SAYS: (READ THEM).

** AND AS WE’LL SEE AS WE MOVE ON IN V. 48, MARY WAS BLESSED.

*** FOR SHE COMMUNICATES IN THE WONDER OF HER POSITION AS AN ORDINARY YOUNG TEENAGER IN A PEASANT TOWN, PEOPLE WOULD CALL HER BLESSED.

**** “FOR BEHOLD, FROM THIS TIME ON GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED.”

2. NOW LEST WE MISUNDERSTAND THIS, REMEMBER MARY HAS JUST PRONOUNCED HER HUMBLE STATE.

* FURTHERMORE, THE WORD BEHOLD OR LOOK WAS AN EXCLAMATION OF SURPRISE. MARY IS IN AWE, WE HAVE HERE A STATEMENT OF WONDER THAT GOD WOULD USE HER, AND ALL GENERATIONS ARE GOING TO PRAISE GOD BECAUSE OF THE MARVELOUS MANNER IN WHICH HE HAS HONORED HER.

** AND IT WAS A HUGE HONOR TO BE CHOSEN TO BRING FORTH THE SON OF GOD INTO THE WORLD, MARY WAS TRULY BLESSED, AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BLESSING AND COUNT HER BLESSED.

*** BUT AGAIN, WE DON’T WORSHIP HER. MARY WAS PRIVILEGED, USED BY GOD, A SPECIAL PERSON, BLESSED, AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AND REJOICE THAT GOD WOULD CHOOSE HER AND THAT GOD WOULD BLESS US THROUGH HER BY BRINGING FORTH OUR SAVIOR.

**** MARY WAS HIGHLY FAVORED AND BLESSED BEING THE MOTHER OF THE MESSIAH. AND GENERATIONS SINCE THAT TIME THAT KNOW CHRIST, COUNT MARY BLESSED.

3. BUT WE WILL SEE, ALL THE PRAISE WILL GO BACK TO THE GOD WHO MANIFESTED GRACE TO HER.

* FOR AS WE MOVE ON, WE GO FROM THE AWE OF MARY TO THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD THAT BROUGHT HER AWE. LOOK AT V. 49 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL START TO SEE OUR 2’D AND LAST POINT TODAY, THE ATTRIBUTES, WHICH IS ALSO THE 2’D STANZA OF MARY’S SONG.

II. THE ATTRIBUTES, (READ V. 49)

A. NOW MARY PRAISES GOD FOR 3 OF HIS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES IN VV. 49&50, HIS POWER, HIS HOLINESS AND HIS MERCY.

* AND FIRST OF ALL HIS POWER, AND THIS IS BROUGHT FORTH BY THE WORD MIGHTY IN REFERENCE TO GOD WHICH MEANS ABLE, POWERFUL AND STRONG.

** SO IN ESSENCE THE REFERENCE TO GOD AS THE MIGHTY ONE MAKES REFERENCE TO GOD’S POWER.

*** AND IN HIS POWER GOD DID GREAT THINGS FOR MARY.

**** FOR MARY HAD EXPERIENCED GOD’S POWER AT CONCEPTION WHEN ACCORDING TO LUKE 1:35 IN THIS CONTEXT, “THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH OVERSHADOWED HER.”

1. AND THEN PROPHETICALLY THE ONE MARY CARRIED IN HER WOMB WAS IDENTIFIED IN ISAIAH 9:6 AS THE MIGHTY GOD (READ IT).

* AND THEN BECAUSE OF GOD’S MIGHTY POWER, MARY NOT ONLY WOULD HAVE HOLY OFFSPRING, BUT ELIZABETH WHO WAS BARREN AND OLD CONCEIVED, AND WHAT FOLLOWS THAT TRUTH IN THIS CONTEXT IN LUKE 1:37 IS (READ IT).

** AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD BECAUSE HE IS THE MIGHTY ONE, HE IS ALL-POWERFUL. AND MARY CALLS GOD HERE THE MIGHTY ONE IN RESPONSE TO WHAT HE WAS DOING THROUGH HER.

*** BUT NEXT IN V. 49, MARY SPEAKS OF GOD’S HOLINESS, FOR SHE SAID, “HOLY IS HIS NAME”.

**** AND MARY WAS THE FIRST TO KNOW THAT THE SON SHE WOULD BRING FORTH WOULD BE “THE HOLY ONE”, BECAUSE GABRIEL HAD CAREFULLY INSTRUCTED HER IN THIS IN LUKE 1:35.

2. AND THUS SHE PRAISED GOD, SAYING, “HOLY IS HIS NAME.” AND GOD’S HOLINESS MORE THAN ANY OTHER OF HIS ATTRIBUTES DESCRIBES HIS ESSENCE, HIS BEING, HIS NATURE.

* HE IS ABSOLUTELY PURE, HE IS WITHOUT SIN, A GOD OF LIGHT, HE IS INCAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING WRONG, HE IS SEPARATE, SET APART, FOR HIS HOLINESS IS HIS UTTER OTHERNESS, HE IS NOT LIKE US IN ANY WAY AND SIN OFFENDS HIS HOLINESS.

** MARY SAID, HOLY IS HIS NAME. SHE DIDN’T SAY SHE WAS HOLY, BUT THAT GOD WAS HOLY.

*** BUT MOVING ON WE’LL SEE THE LAST ATTRIBUTE IN HER HYMN OF PRAISE IN V. 50. LOOK AT V. 50 PLEASE.

B. READ V. 50. NOW THE THIRD ATTRIBUTE MARY BRINGS FORTH IN HER HYMN IS MERCY.

* GOD’S MERCY IS UPON EVERY GENERATION TOWARD THOSE WHO FEAR HIM.

** AND THE WORD MERCY IN THE GREEK HERE HAS TO DO WITH KINDNESS OR GOOD WILL TOWARDS THE MISERABLE AND AFFLICTED, JOINED WITH A DESIRE TO HELP THEM.

*** AND BELOVED THE INCARNATION AND ADVENT OF CHRIST WAS TRULY AN ACT OF MERCY. FOR WE WERE MISERABLE AND AFFLICTED BY OUR SIN, BUT GOD MOVES TO HELP US, TO SAVE US, TO RESCUE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS THROUGH THE SAVIOR WHO WOULD BE BORN AND DIE AND RISE AGAIN.

**** SO CHRISTMAS IS MERCY TIME. AND SINCE CHRIST’S BIRTH, UPON EVERY GENERATION, THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, REVERENCE GOD, THOSE WHO VENERATE HIM, THOSE WHO TURN TO CHRIST, MERCY IS GIVEN.

1. SO THERE ARE 3 DIVINE PERFECTIONS OF WHICH MARY SINGS – POWER, HOLINESS AND MERCY, BUT IT IS MERCY THAT BRINGS THEM TO BEAR ON GOD’S OWN.

AND AS I WRAP UP THIS TEXT TODAY, MARY MAGNIFIES THE LORD IN RESPONSE TO WHAT HE HAD DONE AND WHAT HE WAS DOING.

* AND I ASK TODAY IN APPLICATION, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THE INCARNATION, THE ADVENT OF CHRIST? WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THE TRUTHS OF CHRISTMAS?

** WILL YOU MAGNIFY THE LORD BY YOUR LIFE? ENLARGE HIM, TO BE THE GLASSES THAT PEOPLE NEED TO SEE HIM AS BIG?

*** DO YOU PRAISE HIM FOR HIS POWER? DO YOU PRAISE HIM FOR HIS HOLINESS? DO YOU PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MERCY?

**** BELOVED, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TODAY? DO YOU REJOICE IN GOD YOUR SAVIOR? DO YOU CELEBRATE AND LIVE FOR YOUR SAVIOR FIRST AT THIS BUSY TIME?

2. ARE YOU SO BUSY WITH THE TEMPORAL THAT YOU LOSE YOUR ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE?

* DO YOU KNOW JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?

** IF YOU DON’T, I CALL YOU TO THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SINS.

*** AND IF JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR, GET LOST IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE WONDER OF IT ALL, HAVE GREAT THOUGHTS OF HIM THROUGH MEDITATIONS OF THESE WONDERFUL TRUTHS AND BE A LIGHT IN THIS DARK WORLD.

**** AS MARY MAGNIFIED HER SAVIOR, MAY WE MAGNIFY HIM ALSO.