Christ's Coming- Mary & Joseph

Introduction

Jesus Christ came into the lives of Mary and Joseph in miraculous fashion but all in the fulfilment of God’s perfect plan for the redemption of all mankind.

Let us look into this passage of scripture and see how He came and why the details of His coming are so important to consider.

He Came as a Man- Through the Womb of a Virgin (Vs. 18-20 & 23a)

- Jesus had brothers and sisters so the claim of Mary’s perpetual virginity is a false claim.

Yet to claim that Jesus was merely conceived as a child of Mary and Joseph is also a false one.

It is imperative that Jesus be born of a virgin. We find this born out in scripture when we are told that Mary was “found with child of the Holy Ghost”

The fact that Jesus was born of a virgin was the fulfilment of prophecy. - a virgin shall conceive- 700 years prior to Jesus birth

Yet this is also significant because this proved that Jesus was not just a man but was in truth the God-man. Jesus as God existed throughout time and space and His birth through the womb of Mary is only His entrance into humanity.

We must accept the truth of scripture concerning this supernatural detail of Jesus’ birth.

Jesus entered this world seemingly like any other child that has ever been born except for the fact that He had no human father for His father was God.

Jesus coming through the womb of a virgin became the Son of Man- fully human and able to identify with the struggles of mankind.

Jesus would walk this earth for around 30 years experiencing everything from a human perspective, identifying Himself with humanity

Jesus would walk this earth for around 30 years experiencing everything from a human perspective, identifying Himself with mankind.

Jesus understood the weakness and frailty of mankind and is able to identify with you and I. - high priest touched with infirmities

He would be raised the son of a carpenter and his wife, as part of a normal family with brothers and sisters, experiencing all that humanity had to offer. At 12 years old we find him in the temple listening in and asking questions and astonishing them with His wisdom. Then one day (around 30 years old ) He would step forward and begin to declare himself to be God!

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Jesus understood the weakness and frailty of mankind and is able to identify with you and I. - high priest touched with infirmities

He Came as God- Robed in Human Flesh (Vs. 23b)

Isaiah’s prophecy tells us that Jesus would be called Emmanuel or “God with us”. This is the true nature of Jesus Christ’s existence in the world.

He was the God-man! Though Jesus became a man, He never at any point ceased to be God!

Others made the claim that Jesus was God ( & ). Jesus Himself declared that He was indeed God ()

As God He had the power to perform many wondrous works. These he performed as the proof of His deity. ()

He came to be the spotless, sinless sacrifice to fulfill God’s plan for the redemption of mankind.

As a man, He was tempted to sin, yet as God, He alone had the power to resist sin and temptation in every instance. , - made sin for us

He lived a perfect sinless life so that He could die a sacrificial death for you and me.

As God He had the power to perform many wondrous works. These he performed as proof of His deity. ()

He Came as Savior- Mediator Between God and Men (Vs. 21)

It was necessary that Jesus Christ would come as the God-man because it was His purpose to become the mediator between God and men. ()

It was in Jesus that sinful men could be reconciled to God once more.

Sin had separated mankind from God since the days of the Garden of Eden yet in the heart and mind of God was a plan that would find its fulfilment in Jesus Christ for the reconciliation of man to Himself.

God had a desire to once again have a direct relationship with you and I, but our sin stood in the way. Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins so that we might once again have a personal relationship with God in Him.

“ ...God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them…” ()

You and I have the opportunity to have a personal relationship with God because Christ came as the God-man to bring us to God ()

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them

Christ made a way for all, yet it is up to every individual to determine whether they will receive or reject Christ’s offer of salvation.

It was Jesus Christ that would bring man back into relationship with God.

You can have a personal relationship with God, your sins, which have separated you from God, can be forgiven if you will only believe upon the God-man, Jesus Christ!