Our family is anxiously awaiting the birth of our fourth grand daughter, who is due in Wake Forest at any minute. If you have ever participated in a birth, or held a newborn baby, you know that EVERY birth — even what people thoughtlessly might call a “natural” birth, is far from “natural” — it is miraculous. That a man and a woman could come together and produce a child, who would grow inside its mother, and be born as a living, breathing, thinking, person, is an amazing and miraculous thing. We shouldn’t take such things for granted. It is a miracle from God.
But there is ONE birth that is even more miraculous than any other: the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ which we celebrate during this Christmas season. Last week we looked briefly at the genealogy of Matthew 1:1-17, and we saw that among other things, it demonstrated that Jesus was not a “myth”; that He really lived as a real man, who had flesh and blood ancestors. But now, beginning in :18, we see another side of His nature: that as God, He had the most miraculous birth in all history. Let’s look together at what these verses teach us about His most miraculous birth, and most importantly, the REASON for it! Continue reading
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