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Call to worship
Welcome everyone!
What a unique day we get to be a part of today!
The next Sunday Christ as will not be until 2033
That means these two days will not line up for another 11 years.
That is pretty significant!
I want to read from John 3:13-17 for our call to worship
John 3:13-17 “No one has ascended into heaven, except He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes will have eternal life in Him.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.”
LET US STAND AND WORSHIP!
“What Child if This”
Words and Music by Christ Tomlin
PRAYER OF PRAISE
Lord, we are humbled that You, the King of Kings would call us to know You.
We thank you that You brought us here today to worship and adore You.
We ask that You would help us to clear our minds and hearts as we come before You this morning to worship You.
We ask that Your Spirit would full this room and fill these temples that our worship would be pleasing to You.
AMEN!
“O Little town of Bethlehem”
Words and Music by
LIGHT ADVENT CANDLE
This morning we are lighting our final advent candle which is the Christ candle.
The color of the candle is white because it represents the purity of Jesus the Christ.
No one else could do what Jesus has done for us, because only Jesus was absolutely pure.
It took a perfect sinlessness sacrifice to redeem those who are born into sin so that we could become children of God.
Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.”
(John 15:13)
“Silent Night”
Alcepela
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
Lord, as we open up Your Word, we ask that You would open up our hearts.
We ask that You would remove all distractions from this place, that You would clear our minds and hearts, and teach us today how to better follow You.
We ask that Your Holy Spirit would illuminate the Scripture today in such a way that our lives would be changed forever.
We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
SERMON
Introduction
Christmas growing up
I thought I saw Santa in the window
I remember my parents going out and buying gifts and I thought they got in a car wreck and died because they were gone so long
What will our kids remember?
I want my kids to know their parents made it about Christ
We still so presents
But when my kids grow up, I want them to say, they made it about Christ
They read us the Christmas story every year
They talked about the birth of Jesus at the dinner table
They made the worship of Jesus a priority over the Christmas culture has created
This is why today is so special
Most of my kids may not get to come to church with us on Christmas again
Some of you may not be here for the next Sunday Christmas
So let’s ponder that, and keep these memories buried deep within our hearts
And one day we will say, “remember when that Arctic blast came, and set record lows, and Christmas fell on a Sunday, and we got Up and went to church and worshiped Christ on Christmas.
Those are memories I want us to treasure in our hearts
There are two major events in Jesus’ life that are indispensable from the gospel.
One is the fact that He resurrected from the dead after being nailed to the cross.
And the other is His virgin birth.
The Bible testifies of the virgin birth not once but twice in Matthew 1 and Luke 1…..and that is sufficient enough for us to stand on.
I personally believe if either one of these events were removed from the gospel story, our faith would be majorly impacted.
Most people in here believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, but historically that has not always been the case.
In fact, one’s position on the virgin birth was at one times a litmus test of believing in the supernatural was whether or not someone believed in the virgin birth.
Because if you could accept the virgin birth, then you would most likely accept the rest of His miracles.
What I want to do today is point out some significant aspects of the virgin birth and explain why I believe it is indispensable from the gospel.
Turn with me to Matthew 1:18-25
Scripture testifies that Mary’s pregnancy was of a divine origin
Matt 1:18 “Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.”
“Mary had been betrothed to Jospeh”
We often think this means she was engaged like we in our Western culture today.
But in that culture to be betrothed means that they had already entered into a legal agreement to be married.
When two people were betrothed, they entered a formal pre-nuptial contract before witnesses, which gave the man legal rights over the girl.
These rights could only be broken by a formal process of divorce.
Also in most cases the terms “husband” and “wife” were already being used during this time Which was usually around a year.
And if one of the partners happen to die before they were officially married, the other became a widow or widower.
Scripture makes it clear that Mary was found to be pregnant, “Before they came together”
This is referring to the absence of sexual relations between the two.
As is with Christian beliefs today, the marriage bed was to remain pure until the couple was officially joined together in a covenant marriage.
In fact when Joseph found out Mary was pregnant, he was ready to kick her to the curb!
Why? BECAUSE HIS SOON TO BE WIFE WAS PREGNANT AND IT WAS NOT BY HIM
Because the witness of Scripture says, She became pregnant “by the Holy Spirit”
Scripture repeats this truth in verse 20: “for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit”
And again in verse 23: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son”
Which is emphatically declaring that Mary became pregnant by the Holy Spirit, not by Joseph.
But what does that mean?
“by the Holy Spirit”
The key to this verse is in that little preposition “by” which means origin.
In other words the origin of Mary’s pregnancy was not from a man, but literally from the Spirit Of God.
This means that this child Jesus did not have an earthly father, HE HAD A HEAVENLY FATHER.
His mother was woman, but His biological Father is God Himself.
Had Jesus been born today
No man would have be paying child support.
Because no matter who Mary claimed to be the father, all DNA tests would have come back negative!
This is why Jesus is the Son of God!
Application
The virgin birth reminds us that our salvation is supernatural
Salvation is something that God through the Holy Spirit does to us!
It is work of God, and if God does not do it, it does not happen!
Had God not sent the Holy Spirit to Mary, she would have never brought forth new life
If God does not send His Spirit within us, then we will not have new life!
Salvation is not merely someone following the rules of Christianity, coming to church, doing the religious things others do.
It is a supernatural act of God upon one’a life!
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