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Dec
1 – An Unusual Child
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth
to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign:
This is a work of the Lord. Creator of the Universe. God of the ages. Jehovah Jireh is going to provide. This is a sign for all. You will not miss this. When man refuses to take responsibility for
our own actions and ways. God will
provide a way. Ahaz would not believe or
ask the Lord. You have not because you
ask not. The Lord gives signs to point
to something He is doing. He did not
want you to miss His will.
The virgin will
be with child: This was going to be a supernatural
event. Nothing like this has happened in
history and it will not be repeated or duplicated.
Why is the Virgin Birth Important?
- One reason for Jesus' virgin birth is that
it identified Him as the Messiah. Isaiah prophesied that a virgin would be with child.
- Another reason for the virgin birth is that
having a biological father would have annulled Jesus' deity. He could not
have been the son of Joseph and the Son of God at the same time. Every
person born of man has inherited Adam's sin nature (Romans 5:12,17,19). It was only as God that Jesus could be
the perfect sacrifice for sin, so it was the Holy Spirit who conceived
Jesus (Luke
1:35).
- The virgin birth is also a picture of our
role in salvation: acceptance. Joseph had no part whatsoever in the
conception of Jesus. Mary's role was passive; she merely accepted God's
gift. As Ephesians
2:8-9says, the
work of salvation is done by God alone. Neither holiness nor salvation can
be brought about by the effort of man.
- Those who reject the virgin birth also
reject the deity of Jesus, the sin nature of man, and the inspiration of
the Word of God. Therefore, a denial of the virgin birth is antithetical
to the Christian faith. God is all-powerful. Jesus is God. The Bible is
God's Word.
- It is
the see of the woman who will crush the head of the serpent
And will give birth to a son. His gender was
known. Jesus would carry the heir ship
of His family. As a male He would have
the glory of the family and the right of the first born. It was predicted that the Messiah would be
male. First,
1.
Jesus Christ had
to come as a man to rule on the throne of David, the first king of
- Jesus Christ became a man to reveal the
Father (John 1:14, 18). The Word became flesh and dwelt among us (literally
placed His tent among us). No man has seen God in all His glory except the
very unique, special Son who has a special relationship with the Father,
and He has clearly explained Him. The writer of the New Testament book of
John declares we have seen, touched, and held the very Son of God who
became a man to reveal the Father (1 John 1:1).
3.
Jesus Christ had to become a man to
redeem mankind. Jesus had to have a body in order to pay
4.
the penalty for sin (Hebrews 10:1-18).
Without the shedding of blood there is no removal of sin. Jesus had to be a man
to pay the penalty for sin, but He must be God to satisfy God’s perfect demands
for sin. Therefore, Jesus became a man
to rule, to reveal, and to redeem.
And will
call him Immanuel. There is no name more significant than
"Immanuel". This name, which Matthew refers to in his Gospel (Matthew
1:23), was first given to Jesus by the prophet Isaiah 700 years before His
birth (Isaiah 7:14). Matthew tells us, means "God with us." Jesus
Christ is Immanuel, "God with us,"
The
birth of Jesus Christ in
The true message of Christmas is one to
stagger the imagination: The Second Person of the Trinity, the only begotten
Son of the Father, the eternal Word, our Creator wills to clothe Himself in our
nature, and to become man, our brother, one of us. God Himself lies in the
manger, completely human, completely Divine.
The Lord has done this. It is His work, What we need to do it live in the reality of
this and consider what we have heard as we celebrate communion.
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