The King has Arrived

One of the greatest days of my life was watching the miracle of my children come into this world. So tiny and helpless. I know many of you have experienced the same thing. While each one of my children’s birth were special and unique to me and my wife. Our children were born like any others in this world.

Today alone nearly 385,000 people will be born worldwide. This adds up to around 140 million births each year. We don’t give much thought to the babies that born to those who we do not know.

So then why does 45% of the world’s population (3.6 billion people) pause to celebrate this one birth, the birth of Jesus. As we look at the story of Jesus birth from an outside perspective there was nothing remarkable about his parents. They were regular everyday folks from a town in the middle of nowhere. IF you had seen Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem you would have given little thought to their existence. Jesus being born in a barn or stable is not unique. People have been born in strangers places than this. I read just recently that woman gave birth in a chic-fil-a restroom.

So then what is so significant about the birth of Jesus?

Matthew 1:18–23 CSB

The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit. So her husband, Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly. But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: See, the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel, which is translated “God is with us.”

Two Impossible things took place

I. Jesus was born of a virgin.

Now for most of us..I do not need to explain the impossibility of this. Had Jesus had an earthly father his inheritance would have been what ever Joseph could give him. Yet Since Jesus father was God himself he would inherit all that the father himself has. All of heaven was promised to Jesus the son.

II. The God even the universe cannot contain was somehow contained within the body of an infant.

The impossibility that the infinite one could and would take on flesh.

III. Just as amazing as those two impossible events are there is a third . And it is found in the title of Immanuel or “God with us”.

This is what the people of Israel had been waiting for. God condescended from heaven and took on flesh to dwell with in a world of sin. Jesus came and experienced the temptation, pain, and grief of the broken human experience. He in every sense of the word was “God with us”. Yet he did not come as some type of social experiment or to gain knowledge he came to redeem a lost world from their sin.

This message is written on our very hearts. Every story ever written is about love, redemption, or rescue. Here in this account of Christ’s birth we see the promise plan had begun.

1 Corinthians 11:23–26 CSB

23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.