Saved By Birth

SAVED BY BIRTH – A

Elder Colin G Dawson July 15, 2017

One bible version wrote of Jesus’ birth in this way

( “Now the birth of Christ was on this wise . . . . )

Another said

Mary’s anticipation of the birth of her son—the promised King—grew with each flutter of movement, evidence of the new life inside her. As her body swelled, she probably imagined what it would be like to give birth to God’s Son. Mary’s quiet reflection after giving birth to Jesus in a stable suggests that she recognized the incongruity (it lacked human logics and human understanding) of their circumstances (). The Messiah had been born as a commoner, not a king. The anticipated ruler had arrived without human fanfare—celebrated by only a few shepherds. When Mary “treasured up all these words,” she was not merely cherishing a tender moment with her newborn son. Mary had been given a glimpse into God’s plan—one that involved a lowly teenage peasant girl and a group of poor shepherds. Her story reminds us that God can accomplish His plans through anyone and anything. All we can do is prepare to be surprised and resolve to devote ourselves to His plan over our own.[1]

WHY WAS JESUS BORN?

says, she will bring forth a son and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sin.”

also tells us that this babe to be born has come to ‘seek and to save that which was lost” That is to save His people from their sins.

But it was not an accident NOR a coincident Luke recalls Isaiah in CHAPTER 9 verse 23 repeating “Behold a virgin shall be with child, and they shall call His name IMMANUEL, which is translated “God With us”

Isaiah the prophet stated it this way “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulders: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (9:6)

Hence “and -speaking of Joseph, he – did not know her until she had brought forth her firstborn Son” and he called His name Jesus.

His name was JESUS because He would save His people. Many of us only think that it was only at the cross that SALVATION was effected but it began with the at the creation of this world and continued with the birth of our SAVIOR,

Paul said that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin, ().

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. ()

And so we see that His blood was shed to save us from the foundation of the world and at Calvary. But I want to let you know that giving birth also involves the shedding of blood. Especially so through the shedding of the placenta.

Dr Luke more than all the other gospel writers, wrote extensively about the birth of the Savior. KATA LOUKAN, according to Luke (read emphasizing vs 4 the CERTAINTY)

So rings out with praise and prayer and thanksgiving that caused those mentioned to be filled with the Holy Spirit from the promise: from the message heard (faith come by hearing and hearing comes by the word of the Lord) from the bible read (the words that I say to you they are spirit and they are life):

And the result? REVIVAL, REFORMATION, REJUVENATION, RENEWAL and RESTORATION, cause by the birth.

Lets look at a few verses. (FOLLOW CLOSELY) The pastor Zacharias and the church called Elizabeth (WOMAN , have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.) were righteous before God and kept ALL His commandments But they had no converts: no child (no babe in Christ) because the church was barren.

VS10 So they began praying outside of the Church. Daniel speak of the morning and the evening OBLATION (sacrifice in worship). Genesis puts it in (3:8) Adam heard the VOICE of the Lord waking in the “cool of the day”. This Spirit of Prophecy says happens twice per day, morning and evening (7am and 7pm on the prayer line)

Vs13 Then a messenger from God appeared and tells Zacharias that his prayers has been answer (was it he alone who was praying? The whole church was but the prayers were in one accord - united)

This brought joy and gladness – REVIVAL vs 14, and REFORMATION vs16 “turn the hearts of the fathers and the children to God.”

But look at vs 17, he will go before Jesus in the spirit and power of the 2nd Elijah preaching the Present Truth. To God be the glory. The SDA church preaching the 3Angels Message of is the last Elijah.

VS 18 But the church had only old people the young people not coming or to church or AY or prayer meeting so they were not winning new believers.

VS21 Laboring for the church in prayer may exceed the set time for prayer

Then Gabriel told pastor Zacharias he will not be able to hear and talk until the prophecies happen because of his unbelief that the church is going to get new believers - babes in Christ.

So we see the birth of John and in order to name him VS 63 say he didn’t send for his phone, he sent for his TABLET. And after he typed in the baby’s name -John – he could hear and speak again.,

Hence, Zacharias in giving prophecy of the Lord, sang it like praise and wordship. Lets us read it together, . What a blessing this child has brought.

A people SAVED BY BIRTH

WEBMD – Infant Mortality Rate

Nearly seven U.S. babies die out of every 1,000 live births. More than 28,000 American babies die before their first birthday.

In one way, the U.S. has improved since 1960. Back then, 26 in 1,000 infants died. That was good enough to land the U.S. in 12th place.

We've advanced since then, but not as fast as many other nations. By 1990, the U.S. had fallen to 23rd place.

"The U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than rates in most other developed countries," note CDC researchers Marian F. MacDorman, PhD, and T.J. Mathews. "The relative position of the United States in comparison to countries with the lowest infant mortality rates appears to be worsening."

Premature birth is a factor in more than two-thirds of infant deaths.

MacDorman and Mathews report the data in the CDC's October 2008 National Center for Health Statistics data brief, "Recent Trends in Infant Mortality in the United States."

Infant Mortality Rates by Country

Here is the complete list of infant mortality rates per 1,000 live births for 2004:

1. Singapore 2.0

2. Hong Kong 2.5

3. Japan 2.8

4. Sweden 3.1

5. Norway 3.2

6. Finland 3.3

7. Spain 3.5

8. Czech Republic 3.7

23. USA 7

Research into stem cells grew out of findings by Ernest A. McCullochand James E. Till at the University of Toronto in the 1960s.[2][3]

Un developed developed

Stem cells are undifferentiatedbiological cells that can differentiate into specialized cells and can divide(through mitosis) to produce more stem cells.

They are found in multicellular organisms. In mammals,

there are two broad types of stem cells: 1.embryonic stem cells, and 2.adult stem cells, which are found in various tissues.

In adult life, stem cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing adult tissues.

In a developing embryo, stem cells can developed into all the specialized cells—but also maintain the normal turnover of regenerative organs, such as blood, skin, or intestinal tissues. These types of stem cell are pluripotent, totipotent, unipotent and multipotent, but I know my Jesus is OMNIPOTENT. “All thing were made made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.”

There are three known accessible sources of autologous adult stem cells in humans beings: these are not obtained from the birth experience

1. Bone marrow, which requires extraction by harvesting, that is, drilling into bone .

2. Specific (Adipose) tissue (lipid cells), which requires extraction by liposuction.

3. Blood, which requires extraction through apheresis, wherein blood is drawn from the donor (similar to a blood donation), and passed through a machine that extracts the stem cells and returns other portions of the blood to the donor.

By definition, the auto-type cells are obtained from one's own body, just as one may bank his or her own blood for elective surgical procedures.

Stem cells are also be taken from umbilical cord blood and the placenta just after birth. Of all stem cell types, the auto-type harvesting involves the least risk.

Embryonic and the auto-type stem cells generated through transfer or dedifferentiation have also been proposed as promising candidates for future therapies.

This is shocker! This mean that the old cells can be changed into young cells again, Just as when Jesus said “walk in the newness of life” or “We shall be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” To God be the glory We have proof we will be totally restored.

NEW SCIENCE PubLICATION

21 November 2011

Fetus donates stem cells to heal mother’s heart

By Andy Coghlan

Why wait to be born to develop a healing hand? Fetuses will give up stem cells to repair their mother’s heart. The discovery could explain why half the women who develop heart weakness during or just after pregnancy recover spontaneously.

Hina Chaudhry a researcher of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine here in New York City did mated normal female with males genetically engineered to produce a green-fluorescing protein in all their body cells. Half the resulting fetuses also produced the protein, making it easy to spot any fetal tissue in the mother.

Chaudhry’s found some fluorescent cells in the mothers’ damaged heart tissue, where they had accelerated repair by changing into new heart cells, and blood vessel cells.

Chaudhry says that the phenomenon is a new mechanism to us: the fetus promotes its own survival by protecting its mother’s heart. Because the cells are easy to obtain from the placenta and unlikely to cause immunological reactions, they could provide a new and potentially limitless source of stem cells for repairing damaged hearts.

“The study is the first to show conclusively that fetal cells contained in the placenta assist in cardiac tissue repair,” says Jakub Tolar, director of stem-cell therapies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Previous research has identified fetal stem cells in other damaged organs of pregnant women, including the brain, liver, kidney and lung. Fetuses also produce cells that are known to protect the mother against breast cancer.

The benefits to the new believer in this life comes from the fact that they are justified by faith in Jesus Christ, adopted in the family of God, the church, and sanctified daily by prayer and the reading of the scriptures.

They have assurance of God's love, They have peace of mind that passes all understanding, they have joy in the Holy Ghost, and they have grace as they walk in the newness of life in Jesus.

They experience this walk in the spirit, in prayer and in communion with Jesus

The benefits to the individual MEMBER:

· The Members is revived and restored to their first love.

· He/she has been praying constantly – means he is in the will of God

· He/she has been studying in order to have an answer to give for their faith means they are approved unto God

So then, The previous article could have read “Why wait to on baptism of water the born-again experience to develop healing to the body. The church that develop heart weakness during or just after evangelism recovers spontaneously.

The new believers will promote their own survival by protecting their mother’s heart: God is their Father and the church their mother who gave labor of love won them to Jesus Christ.

Consider the woman as the church with Old believers. Individual members who witness and labor for the baby to be born and then nurture them in the faith.

The fetus, - the new believer - who can be nominated to any ministry and these new converts, through the Holy Spirit can be a regenerative power to that ministry or any other areas of the church such as the heart, the lung, an the liver/kidney etc.

If the organs such as the lungs is the WORSHIP MINISTRY; THE HEART – PRAYER MINISTRY; PERSONAL MINISTRIES - THE STOMACH: COMMUNITY SERVICES - THE HANDS AND FEET OF OUTREACH SERVICES and other ministries have new members to add to the work with new inspiration and abilities, They act like the babe in the stem cell research.

They through the Holy Spirit starts the REVIVAL AND this CAUSES REFORMATION in the established members and the respective ministries.

All of this because of the born-again experience of new believers: Salvation by the Birth of the child

Then as the church, and the membership heals its identity begins to become clear. Signs of a healthy church cannot hid.

Because: (LOUDLY)

The dragon will be wrought with the woman (which is the church and will come) to make war with her babes in Christ who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ, . Who are the babes in Christ? “Those who are born of the water and the spirit.” “but I hear the spirit say onto the church, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. The church of the Living God.

9TESTIMONY 19.1

“In a special sense, Seventh-Day Adventist have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world. On them is shining wonderful light for the word of God.

They have been given a work of the most solemn import – The proclamation of the first, second and third angel’s messages.

There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention!

“BUT WHY SHOULD WE DO EVANGELISM” Why should we witness?

There are Biblical reason to do EVANGELISM:

1. Evangelism is telling those you love, those you labour for, that Jesus loves them so much He died for them

Evangelism is God’s means of saving people (; ;14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

3. Evangelism is God’s means for building His church ( through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, 20having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.)

4. Evangelism is God’s means of unifying His church ( “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.) ( Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.)

5. Evangelism is God’s means of personal spiritual growth ( Peter will grow as he fed the sheep) the most spiritually mature are those who worked for and ministered to the lost, then and now

6. Evangelism is God’s means of finishing the work. ( “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations, and then shall the end come.”

7. Evangelism is actively preaching the good new of salvation to a lost and dying world, Evangelism is a work of every believer and should be the priory of the church of the living God --

Babies Make the Difference

A remarkably revealing article appeared in the August 15, 1983, issue of Time entitled, “What Do Babies Know?” Michael Lewis, a psychologist, presides over the data being gathered by the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Among the startling facts: Babies are born “legally blind.” Although unable to see, a newborn nevertheless holds up a hand, as if examining it, within seven minutes after birth. Their ears function well. Within a few weeks they recognize the sound of their mother’s voice. Incidently, babies seem to prefer the tone of the female voice over that of the male. At twelve hours old, an infant which has never tasted anything, not even his/her mother’s milk, gurgles with satisfaction on receiving a drop of sugar water. At twenty-three days of age the baby can imitate adults.

Beyond risks and costs of rearing children today, having a baby is an act of faith and hope. “It represents a belief in better things to come.”

When a wrong needs righting, a truth needs telling, a song needs singing, a soul needs saving—God sends a baby into the world to accomplish it.[2]

Make me a healthy, fruit-bearing branch of the living Vine. "Without Me," Christ says, "ye can do nothing" (). In and through Christ we can do all things. {RY 138.1}

[1] Grigoni, M. R., Custis, M., Mangum, D., Whitehead, M. M., Brant, R., Barry, J. D., & Vince, E. (2012). Mary: Devoted to God’s Plan (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

[2] Jones, G. C. (1986). 1000 illustrations for preaching and teaching (pp. 58–59). Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers.