The Birth

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The birth of Jesus is the most important date in our time. It was the time God chose to set us free from our sins, by washing our slate clean wit the blood of His Son. Today we are going to look at some of the significant things with Jesus birth. Last week I sat with Beth in her Sunday school class, and they were learning about Jesus birth. One of the things she told the class was how we can become rigid or jaded when it comes to these texts. We have heard them so many times we loose sight of their true importance, we have heard them over and over again. But this event is one that changed everything, it is the event that our time is centered around, BC before Christ and AD “Anno Domini which is Latin for the year of our Lord. This is an event that has changed everything for mankind. This birth has given us all hope, it has given us a glimpse of who God is. today we are going to be in several different scriptures, and I have three points we are going to go over.
The Birth Foretold
The Virgin Birth
The Purpose of the Birth

The Birth Foretold

Isaiah 9:6–7 ESV
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Written about 700 years before Jesus birth. These verses give us some insight into Jesus birth, and who He is. In verse 6 “a child is born” Jesus’ incarnation, He was born a child just like you and I —well almost like you and I. Jesus entered this world in a natural way just as we did through a women. The names Isaiah uses express both His divine and human qualities. Verse 7 Born a descendant of David, He will establish His kingdom in Justice, and will reign for eternity the last part of verse 7 is a guarantee that God will make all this happen.
Micah 5:2 ESV
2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Micah was also written some 700 years before Jesus birth. This verse gives us the birth place of our Savior, and that it is God’s plan. “from ancient days” it has always been God’s plan.

The Virgin Birth

We are going to look at a few verses from Luke as well as from Matthew.
Luke 1:26–27 ESV
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
The birth of Jesus is a miraculous one, it is like no other. A picture of God’s grace, a gift to His children. God chose a young girl to be the Saviors mother. She would give birth to the one who would pay the price for all of mankind's sin. She had become a part of God’s redemptive plan.
Luke 1:34–35 ESV
34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” 35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
There is a technical term used to describe what we see here it is Hypo-static union. This is Jesus fully God and fully man, His humanity and divinity are not mixed, but are united without loss of separate identity. The God-Man given to the world to restore the broken relationship between God and man. I want us to think about this. Why did God have to become man? The obvious is to be the perfect spotless lamb who takes away the sin of the world. But what else, so that He could experience life as we do, to live, to experience, sadness, joy, death. Is he not our great High Priest, who sympathizes with us because He has lived as we did.
Matthew 1:18 ESV
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
You can see from both Luke and Matthew that it was through the power of the Holy Spirit that Mary was found to be with child.
Luke 2:1–3 ESV
1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.
Although this decree was from not one of God’s people he was working unknowingly as God’s agent to bring the birth place Jesus where God had planned it to be. To fulfill prophecy.
Luke 2:4–5 ESV
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
Jesus was from the royal family line, this was an important fact. It not only showed the fulfillment of Isaiah but also His royal lineage, which was very important in that time.
Luke 2:6–7 ESV
6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
Jesus was born into this world in very humble way. Placed in a manger. He is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords but showed up in a very humble way.

The Purpose of the Birth

Isaiah 53:5–8 ESV
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Isaiah 53:9–11 ESV
9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus came to make us the righteousness of God. To show us who God is and to give us an example for us to follow. He is the true gift to Humanity

The Birth

As we go through this Christmas season, and no matter how many times we hear the Christmas story I don’t want us to be jaded, I want us to be thankful for the Gift that God has given to us, and understand the true importance of this miracle.
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