Our Bible study this morning was on "Mary the Mother of Jesus" Mrs. Lim Li Ching took us through the various portions of Scripture showing the role Mary played in the life of Jesus beginning from the Christmas story.
Then we moved on to "the boy Jesus at the temple (Luke 2: 41-51); 'the wedding at Cana' (John 2: 1-12) where Jesus performed His first miracle of turning water into wine. Our focus then moved on to 'Mary at the cross of Jesus.' The close mother-son relationship now had to be severed by death and replaced by the John-Mary relationship. Finally we moved to 'Mary and the apostles.' Luke provided this final glimpse when he stated that after the Ascension, Mary joined in continual prayer with the apostles (Acts 1: 14) Nothing more is recorded of her. Mary had fulfilled her task of bearing the Messiah. Once this work was accomplished she had to join other believers and be like them. When Luke recorded Peter's Pentecostal speech of Paul's work, he made no reference of Mary. Her place was in the church not in heaven as the dispensatrix of grace.
It was a very interesting study of Mary whom we honour by giving her the dignity that is hers in Scripture. However, we do not worship her. We worship God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit - the Holy Trinity.
I am very grateful to Mrs. Lim Li ching for role she plays in our Adult Bible class. Every now and then she takes a couple of studies. This allows me to have break especially when we have to conduct meetings either at our own or another church.
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