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The Supernatural Birth Of Jesus!
The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God.
“And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.
The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.
I. The PROCLAMATION that REVEALED it!
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
II. The ANTICIPATION that SURROUNDED it!
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.
There were 400 years of prophetic silence until God sent the angel Gabriel to deliver a prophetic message to a man named Zacharias!
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John.
“It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
III. The VISITATION that ACCOMPLISHED it!
“And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.
“He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;
and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.”
Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”
The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.
“And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.
“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
The word “nothing” is: No Rhema from God will be impossible to fulfill!
When did Mary experience the encounter that resulted in her conceiving in her womb?
And Mary said, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah,
and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
“And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?
“For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.
“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”
Elizabeth gives us a clue as to when Mary conceived in her womb when she said, blessed is she who BELIEVED there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord!
IV. The OPPOSITION that RECOGNIZED it!
Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”
V. The LIFE that DEMONSTRATED it!
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
VI. The CRUCIFIXION that Questioned it!
Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Crucify Him!”
And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,
“He saved others; He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.
VII. The RESURRECTION that ANSWERED it!
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
VIII. The ASCENSION that SEALED it!
Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.”
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
The Supernatural Birth of Jesus was necessary for God to give you His indescribable gift!
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Who is this gift for?
“For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
