062 The Virgin Birth Of Christ

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Nigh. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We are

your host, Mariah and Matthew. Tonight we're going to start a special series

on the Fundamentals, a Testimony to the Truth. This is a series of

essays, and this is where the term comes from a fundamentalist, this is

where it comes from. This was a series of essays written and they were

compiled by R. A. Cory. So you can get the Wikipedia on

this. Just look up the Fundamentals and you will run right square into it.

So this is all Maria's idea. So why don't you describe how we

got to this point. Well, I was puilling out an application for a

Bible camp and they were asking me a lot of questions about what I believe

and why, and it was very thorough questions. They were like, what

do you believe happens when you sin? What do you believe in the Trinity?

And all these things? And then they would have me give a list

of scripture evidence to prove why I believe these things. And so I was

studying my Bible looking for all the best scripture to fill out this, and

I was reading mostly in like Matthew and John and the Apostles, and I

was I realized that a lot of the the pillars of what we believe as

Christians can be found not only in the four Apostles, but written or said

directly by Jesus. And I just thought that was the coolest thing. And

so when Dad asked me what he wanted to do a series on, I

said, hey, why don't we do Why don't we do the pillars of

Christianity? And I just thought that would be so cool. So that's where

it came from. And it's at that point that I informed her that,

well, you're talking about the fundamentals of Christianity. So we ordered this book

from ore A toy Uh. It is a compilation of all the essays compiled

into one volume, and it's pretty massive, say Mariah, yes, it

is well worth the money. I strongly suggest everybody get it. As a

minor fact, I might start putting this into care packages for people, but

it's not too small A print and let me see how many pages it is

year It's about four hundred and fifty pages, so very thorough. But it's

done by different authors. And these were a series of essays that were that

was originally constructed and produced and published to combat liberalism, of course, because

liberalism is not there's no such thing as liberal Christianity. There never was.

There is the Bible, and that is the whole truth and nothing but the

truth. And these liberals have completely systematically tore it down and they have everybody

believing that it is not inspired, it is not in errant, and it

is not infallible. Yes it is, Yes it is. So the first

thing on our list on this itinerary is the virgin birth of Christ. This

all begins with the miraculous conception. Yeah, so give me your speel on

it. What's your thoughts? So basically, when when I first started studying

this, I was like, how like how important can it be? You

know? And then I started reading these articles and I started really studying it,

and I was like, Wow, this is a lot more important to

our belief than I originally thought that it was. Let me actually read this

part in this article. It's on page two hundred and two, it says

the virgin hold on my statement publicly made in printed has never been confuted that

those who accept a full doctrine of incarnation, that is the true entrance of

the eternal Son of God into our nature and for the purposes of man's salvation,

with hardly an exception except with it the doctrine of the virgin birth of

Christ, while those who reputate or deny this article of faith either hold a

lowered view of Christ's person or more commonly, reject his supernatural claims altogether.

Right, So this is the foundation. This is where they start. If

you're going to undermine the Lord Jesus Christ, this is where you're going to

start. He was not miraculously conceived. Now, if you're a preacher saying

that, you're obviously antichrist, correct, I mean, this is the baseline

truth. If you say Jesus Christ was not miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit,

that is Antichrist. You're Antichrist. That's literally what you are, what

you're saying, what you're preaching, and you've only facilitated going to seminary getting

a theological degree to destroy the church systematically from within. That's that's what you're

doing if you're doing this now. You and I talked a little bit earlier

that you came to the realization that that. And I like how you warned

it, because you worded it in a very unique way, that this is

akin to the Unpardonable sin. Yes, now you came up with that all

on your own. That's not for me, and that's not from this book.

So reiterate your thoughts on that. So, I don't know what bookmarked.

Could you remind me of the verse the and vernleson. I know it's

a Matthew the Unpardonable Sin Matthew, Chapter twelve, verse thirty through thirty two.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does

not gather with me scatters. Therefore, I say to you, any sign

and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be

forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be

forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be

forgiven him, either in this age or in the age two come. And

So I thought about this while I was reading in Luke and Matthew the Birth

of Christ and in John, the first chapter in John, and so the

first chapter in John was talking about the Trinity, and that really interested me.

And then I went to read in Luke the Conception of Mary and Gabriel

right talks about how Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, and the Bible

literally states very specifically that the virgin birth happened. So if you don't believe

in the virgin birth, you just don't believe in the Bible. So basically,

the virgin birth happened through the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was born in

Virgin Mary through the Holy Spirit. So I guess what I'm trying to say

is if you disrespect the Holy Spirit, you disrespect Christ, and you disrespect

the Trinity. You yeah that that's now in those passages you read, Jesus

said you can blaspheme against me or and then he said the son of Man,

but the last being what the Holy Spirit has done. That's a part.

Now we have to understand this is directly coming from Matthew chapter one,

verse eighteen. It says it here. It says, now, the birth

of Jesus Christ was as follows. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph

before they came together, she was found to be with child of the Holy

Spirit. To deny the miraculous conception of Christ is to deny the Holy Spirit's

power thereof This is exactly what, of course, you mentioned it that Gabriel

says this in Luke the first chapter, verse thirty five of Luke chapter one.

The Angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon

you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you. Therefore, also

the Holy One who is to be born will be ca called the Son of

God. So in both instances you have Matthew writing it, and here you

have Gabriel saying it. The miraculous conception was of the Holy Spirit. It

was not Joseph and Mary consummating the marriage. This conception did not come about

that way. This conception came about through the Holy Spirit. So if you

pull this lynch pin out of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is no longer

Lord, nor is he Christ or Messiah. To disrespect the Holy Spirit is

to disrespect the very core of what Christ is. That's right, yes,

yes. And another thing is, if we look at the facts here,

if you deny the virgin birth of Jesus, you are denying the Bible.

You are directly denying what the Bible. Yes, And I was thinking about

this earlier. I was like, if God can create? First of all,

listening about this, God created every living creature that is alive, right,

And we don't even really know how babies are made. I mean,

we know, we know what happens between a man and a woman, but

we don't know what what happens physically to cause that egg to grow and grow

and grow and to know exactly what to do to become a human and then

to perceive the breath of Christ. So if God can create miracles every single

day of creating babies and giving them the breath of life, don't you think

that he could? Don't you think that he could create the Son of Man

without any help from anybody? Well? It absolutely, absolutely, and undeniably,

absolutely and undeniably, And you have to realize that's why the Bible tells

you that you know, God niche you together in your mother's womb. Now,

I mean, we could spend a lot of time on that as far

as genetic goes and the genetic structure, the double helix and all that kind

of stuff, But that's truly not necessary because we're all here and it's a

mitter effect. That creation itself is a testament that there is a creator.

There must be, because every mathematician knows this. That the odds are past

the point of probability. There is no way this randomly happened. There's no

way, and we can we can also prove this with death. This is

the best perfect way to do it because the moment that you die, everything

is there. You need to live. All the chemicals are there, your

body's still warm, you have food in your digestive tract. They've never been

able to come to grips with this that they don't know what doesn't It's not

electricity. You can take a cadaver and shock it all you want, all

you want to the fact of the matter is the only reasonable conclusion you can

come to is that it is in fact what the Bible says, and you

must have God's breath of life, and it says from his own nostrils.

If you don't have that, you don't live. This being the case,

not only must he creates you, he must animate you with the breath from

him, his own nostril. So this is a this is a double fail

save. So God doesn't need your help creating anything, especially not his son.

And so have another thing here that I highlighted and I wrote notes on.

The ordinary Christian is a witness here in reading the Gospel, he feels

no incongruity in passing from the narratives of the vision of birth to the wonderful

story story of Christ's life and the chapters that follow, then from those to

the pictures of Christ's divine dignity given in John and Paul. The whole is

of one piece. The virgin birth is as natural as the beginning of life

of such an one, the divine son, as the resurrection is at the

end. And the more closely the matter is considered, the stronger does the

impression grow. It is only when the scriptural conception of Christ is parted with

the various difficulties and doubts come in. So basically, what this is saying

is, you're not gonna believe in the virgin birth if you don't believe in

Christ. That's right, a Christian. Let's go back to the childlike faith.

A Christian who has the childlike faith is going to read the Bible and

believe it. They don't need scientific proof. First of all, the second

of all, if you if you start needing that scientific proof, let's just

read that last sentence again. It is only when the scriptural conception of Christ

is parted with that various difficulties and doubts come in, including and not limited

to the virgin birth of Christ, right right, And that puts it right

square on the head. And he said something interesting, He said, the

virgin birth is as important as the miraculous resurrection. Yeah, how can you

believe in the miraculous resurrection of Christ and not in the miraculous birth? You

can't. Yeah, You're you're undermining yourself because if he was annoyed, you

understand once you say this, you have to understand what you're really saying.

If you take away the miraculous conception, you're saying that Jesus was just a

man. And you're saying that he did not resurrect himself. You're saying that

God the Father had to resurrect him. Okay, it undermines the Lord Jesus

Christ did not need anybody to resurrect him. He resurrected himself. And if

you if you were to say that Jesus was God and deny the miraculous birth

of Christ. That would be worse. That would be worse because now you're

disrespecting the Holy Spirit, and that is the unpardonable sin. So that's that's

a pretty interesting how you this was all your thought process, not my thought.

Prop says you got to that in a pretty clear and concise way.

That No, the Bible clearly states that the Holy Spirit conceived in Mary.

It was the Holy Spirit that conceived the child, not the consummation of her

marriage to Joseph. It plainly said these things systematically. It said, now

we also have to remember some some very important things here. Let's go back

to the turn of the calendar. Right. You know this that the Lord

Jesus Christ cracked time itself. Now these god haters have changed it. When

I was in school, it was it was it was BC and A D.

Those things meant before Christ and after his dominion. Okay, now they've

changed it into Christ. No, he didn't do that. Now it's now

it's it's CE and B C ear whatever. Joan, let's go back there.

When we go back there, you were betrothed for one year. Did

you know this? Everybody knows this all historians know this. You can go

to all the rabbinical sources and they will lay it out, plain and simple.

You were betrothed for one year. Okay, these verses, even though

they didn't tell you how long, it was very clear that after Mary was

betrothed to Joseph. Okay, let let me read verse eighteen of Matthew Chapter

one again. Now, the birth of Jesus Christ was as followed after his

mother. Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together. So sometime while

they were engaged, she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit.

Do you understand, Yes, this engagement time, you were considered still

married. And more importantly, you have to realize that you were treated as

if you were married. If if one of the members of this union were

to die. Do you understand that? So during this time, this betrothal

time, if Joseph would have died, it would wouldn't have mattered. Mary

would have been allotted the inheritance according to being his wife. Do you understand

what I'm saying? No one will doubt this child. This is a matter

of fact. There are thousands of sources that prove this. Okay, So

this is when this happened. This is key, critical important. You realized

that this is when it happened, that this interim time, that the Holy

Spirit came to her, and it was the Holy Spirit that conceived the Christ.

This was a miraculous conception. And let's make that clear. It was

miraculous conception. Yes, it was a miraculous conception, of which there are

many in the Bible, but this one is different. There are many times

of miraculous conception, one being Hannah, right, but that was not the

Holy Spirit. The Bible was very clear that God answered her prayer and in

due course with her husband, they conceived. She and her husband conceived.

That conception was not of the Holy Spirit. It used none of the language

that you find in Matthew chapter one, verse eighteen. And of course we

even have a Ruth another miraculous conception. She had been married right to a

man from Moab. They'd been married from quite some time, and she never

had a child. However, her and Boaz conceived correct. So there's many

instances of those where God steps in and allows them to conceive. But no,

that's not what this is saying. This is the Holy Spirit, this

is the Son of God. Yes, this is the child, This is

the prodigy of God, the Father through the Holy Spirit. Yes, that's

what this is, and both. I didn't even when I was little.

I didn't even ever consider the fact that anyone would believe anything different. Besides

the miraculous conception. It's literally part of the Christmas story. Every child knows

about the miraculous conception. That's right, everybody knows. That's why. That's

why these God haters that infiltrate the Church as liberals, they call themselves liberals,

they seek to destroy this very thing because you're right, child, because

no one can take this from a Christian child. Everybody knows the Christmas story,

right, I mean you literally had it hammered down, right. I

used to. We had late twenty different Nativity scenes and we played with all

of them as kids, without our own Christmas stories all the time, right,

because you were allowed to play with the nativities. I mean, I

was raised in such a way by such loving Christian parents that by the time

I was eight, Right, But as soon as I can remember Christian,

the Christian belief was fact. There was no question about it. Of Course,

the Christmas story happened. Of course, Jesus was born of the Virgin

Mary. Of course God is real. He's my savior, and he proved

that a trillion times. Who else raised the dick? Okay? Who else

brought Lazarus back to life? Okay? Who else made the land to walk?

Who else could make a child born blind? See? This reminds me

of a verse I was reading earlier, and I'm I don't know if I

could find it again to do that highlighted or anything. But it's a verse

where Jesus is talking about anything that the father does, the son does,

and of himself. The father doesn't do it for the son. The son

does what the father does, right, But it's not the father doing it.

It's not it's not the exactly, it's not that. That's what I

said earlier. Jesus didn't need God to resurrect him. Jesus proved himself to

be God the Son when he resurrected himself. I wish I could find that

verse again. I didn't highlight it or anything. I know it's in here.

It's in here somewhere in there. So you know you were raised,

you were trained up in the way you should go. Now you said about

eight that's incorrect. You were systematically trained. By the time you were nine,

nothing could be taken from you. You already knew everything. Yeah,

so even before I was nine, I'd say, by this, well as

as young as I could remember, right, I mean immediately when I was

introduced to the idea of evolution, I lacked at it. Literally the first

time anyone ever told me about the idea of evolution, I was like,

so those people are idiots, right, that is a joke. Yeah,

because because your thought process could not be undermined. Because look, and the

idiot knows this, lightning striking a mud puddle does not produce a toad,

only only an idiot. Once you that's why I encourage you. I've always

encouraged you to investigate science, investigate how it works, why it works.

You come to these all conclusions because look, it doesn't take a rocket scientist

to figure out that. Okay, let's say we evolved. Now, the

problem is is that two had to evolve at the same place, at the

same time in the exact same way. That is not mathematically probable. Period,

It's not mathematically probable. It did not happen. Yeah, and you've

you've talked about this a lot, like what happens when immutin is born.

They die, They die, and let's systematically investigate that. Okay, we

can prove here, right here, right now, that God created your rya.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist. Okay, can you live without your

lungs? Okay, So what you're saying is is that your lungs cannot survive

without your kidneys. So the only way for you to have been born alive

was all these systems. Your respiratory system, your skeletal system, all these

systems would have had to been in place from the very beginning. This goes

to include your reproductive system, because your reproduction, reproductive system, it's dependent

on all other systems, the nervous system, the cardiovasculation. I could go

on and on and on. There's no way your kidney's evolved without your lungs.

There's quite simply no way. It's impossible. This is why anyone of

any intelligence when they start investigating this, when people say we evolved, they

begin to laugh. It's a farce, it's a joke. Only an idiot

would believe that, literally, only an idiot. Ye. So if God

can create us, he shares anything can create his son, right, exactly

exactly, and that was a blessing that Mary was chosen to be the capsule

of this son, the Son of God. That that's right, and we

need to talk about this. So you realize the next step from this where

other people go. They take another step. They say, well, if

that's true, we have to believe in the immaculate conception. You know what

the emmaculate conception is. Don't you that Mary was without sin from her birth?

Yeah? Who alone was without sin? Jesus? Okay, so you

just elevated her to a divinity if you say that Mary was involved in an

immaculate conception. So this is another way the liberals do it. They'll take

the truth and add to it. So this is another way you can spot

these liberal god haters. They cannot give themselves up. They come at it

from different ways. Some of them will try to take away from the scripture,

some will try to add to it. And I think right now is

a pretty good time that we just read these two stories. You know,

we just read these two portions of scripture. It's Matthew chapter one, eighteen

threugh of twenty four and Luke one eighteen thirty six. So I'll read one

and you give your comments on it. Okay, I'm already in Luke,

all right, Matthew, all right, Matthew. Chapter one, verses eighteen

through twenty four. Now, the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows.

After his mother Mary was patrolled to Joseph, before they came together, she

was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph, her husband,

being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example, was

minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things,

behold, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him at a dream, saying,

son of David, do not be afraid to take to you, marry

your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

And she will bring forth a son, and you shall call his name

Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. So all this

was done that it might fulfill which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet,

saying, behold, the Virgin shall be with child and bear's son,

and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which translated God with us. Then

Joseph, being aroused from sleep dead as the Angel of the Lord commanded him,

and took to him, his wife, your thoughts. Well, so

all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the

Lord through the prophet, saying, behold, the version shall be with child

and bear as soon, and they shall call his name Emmanuel. I find

it interesting that, or well, I shouldn't say I find it interesting because

it's the Bible, is the word of God. But I like how it

brings in the scripture from the Fourth and New Testament, because part of the

time we've been talking about this, I've been wondering, how do you convince

a Jewish person of the miraculous birth of Christ. Well, this would be

the best way to do it. To go to their Bible, which they

call that the tonokh, that's the Old Testament. They call it the Tanakh,

and prove it to them be of the prophets. And that's exactly what's

being done here in Yeah, I mean, that is the way to do

it. The the apostles who wrote or well, through the divine intervention of

the Holy Spirit, of course, wrote these books, Luke and Matthew and

John. It was the Holy Spirit that wrote them. Yes, they are

inspired. These were written at a point in time where everybody was Jewish.

Right, all all the Christians at that time were Jewish. And these books

are the perfect way to convince a Jewish person of Christianity because it's it's all

there. I mean, everyone was Jewish at the time. They it's been

prepared for the Jewish. That's right. The New Testament, the apostles are

what what what flips it? Right? What answers its equations? Eighty eight?

Right, it is the It is the Lord Jesus Christ that answers all

the equations from the Old Testament. Oh, it is literally the culmination of

prophecy itself. So you know, and I hope that you caught it.

That there. It said it twice. Also in verse twenty, the Angel

said that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. So twice

in that portion, God rams at home. Yeah, He's like, just

in case you were wondering, just in case there's heretics in your pulpits,

this is the child of the Holy Spirit. Do not be afraid. I

mean I did I forget his name for a second. Joseph, That's what

Joseph was afraid of. He was afraid that the baby Jesus was conceived of

another man, right, and this angel steps in and said, no,

this baby was Knocrins. You done, man, This baby is a miraculous

birth. It's the product of the Holy Spirit. That's right. Now.

Can I ask you something, Oh, do you think it's important that that

this is Gabriel. Gabriel sits at the throne of God. Well er stands

in the thrown room of God. Well, this is very important that you

realize that Gabriel is put into play for a very specific reason, because Gabriel

is the one that delivered the prophecies to Daniel. He's in both Daniel eight

sixteen and Bote and in Daniel nine, chapter twenty one. So immediately when

this angel said I'm Gabriel, this immediately dawn on Joseph. You mean you're

the one that is going to facilitate fulfilling all these prophecies in Daniel. So

it literally triggered to a Jew, it triggered massive events here. This is

why he didn't argue with the angel. He just kind of absorbed what was

happening, realizing that, oh, my goodness, these people were reading the

Old Testament, right, they knew Daniel intimately, Joseph knew exactly which Gabriel

he was talking to and ging just talking about Gabriel doesn't joke around, right,

Gabriel means business. So so this is, you know, what a

perfect what a perfect set of verses. And it's amazing. How if you

pull this out, if you extract this out from the narrative, Salvation itself

collapses. I mean, I'm just thinking about this. How as a kid,

as a child, how would you have explained Christianity to me? Without

the birth of Christ? How would I have ever understood it? You wouldn't

because Mariah, you intimately knew where you came from. You knew you were

born as a baby, and you knew that you were not yet an adult.

You knew that you were just a big baby. You had grown into

childhood. This is the lynchpin in your mind. Child. You must,

you absolutely must train up a child in this very way. This is why

this was ambered home to you and you don't even remember its event horizon,

because as a child, you had to be introduced to the gospel in the

child narrative, in the miraculous conception of the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean,

Christmas. Christmas story is how I got to know Jesus. Yes,

yes, it's like literally someone decided to say, Mariah, once upon a

time there was this, Yes, this baby born named Jesus, and he

was going to be the savior of the world. And he's your savior and

your best friend. I mean, do you remember my favorite book when I

was learning how to read? What do you remember it? It was that

Christmas story book and it had the little one tactile pages. It was made

out of cardboard and the shiny pieces in it. Oh yeah, yeah,

yeah, that's the book that made me learn how to read. I read

that all year. I'd open it up and i'd bring to mommy. I'd

be like, read this book to me again. That was Well, that's

how you have to do it with a child, because this is why the

Salvation story begins at the miraculous conception. If you look, you can't go

up to a five year old and start explaining to them Moses went up on

a mountain and God struck the rock with lightning, and this is the Ten

commandments. This is what you need to know. You're that child is not

going to be connected to that reality though I have no idea what you're talking

about. For example, Okay. For example, how would a child be

ever able to conceptualize lightning striking a rock and riding on a rock. They

don't understand that. What does a child understand it? A child understands a

child's life. Once a time, upon a time, you had a best

friend, and this is how the story starts. Well, exact amundo,

child, and you realize there's so many things like this that no one can

take from you. I mean literally speaking, if I was to come up

to you and start asking you questions and undermining the virgin birth of Christ,

you would literally laugh at that. I would. I'd probably look at them

like they were crazy. I mean, I've had some pretty I've had some

pretty weird conversations with people I've told you about some of them. I'd give

them a look. I mean, I probably maybe wouldn't laugh at them,

but i'd certainly, you know, if I wasn't trying to talk them out

of it, i'd definitely just walk away, right, you would have to

walk away. But yeah, I mean, Jesus has been and I know

this is this is a very streamline thing to say that. You know,

I've been a Christian since I was just a little kid. And that's not

really a testimony, but I really have been. Jesus has been my friend

since I was a baby. Right, Jesus has known me since I was

a baby. I grew up with him. The Holy Spirit builled our household.

When I was a child, I knew Jesus, right. I mean

I used to. I used to walk outside and I just feel like daddy.

It's Jesus smiling at me from heaven whenever I saw a cloud. Well,

child, most people, when I can't call you child anymore, can

I congratulated? So you just Mariah. You have to realize that most people

were not trained up. You were trained in the Lord. And it wasn't

just being taught a bunch of lessons. I was given a gift. I

wasn't just lectured about all these things. I have to know when I was

a baby, I was given the gift of the promise. That's right,

that's right, that's right. And you have to admit there is nothing special

that you were taught from your from your siblings. Correct. You were all

trained in the way you should go. Yep. It all starts with the

virgin birth of Mary. And that is why disrespect of the Holy Spirit is

the unpartnerable sin. It all starts with the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

All right, let's go to Luke chapter one, verses twenty six through thirty

six. I have you want to read it? Okay, start in verse

hearing marrid this now, in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent

by God to the city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to

a man whose name was Joseph of the household of David. The virgin's name

was Mary, and having come in, the Angel said to her, rejoice,

highly favored one, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among

women. But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and

considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the Angel said to her,

do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son,

and shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and he will

be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give him

the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of

Jacob forever and of his kingdom, there will be no end. Then Mary

said to the Angel, how can this be? Since I do not know

a man? And the Angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit

will come upon you, and the power of the highest will overshadow you.

Therefore, also the Holy One who is to be born will be called Son

of God. Now, indeed, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived

a son at her old age, and this is now the sixth month for

her who was called Barren. So we have it worded in a different way.

We have more information. There's more details here separate than Matthew. But

this is absolutely a witness one and to the other. This is where it

begins. This is where salvation begins. This is it right here. And

if you do not drill this home, if you do not preach this from

the rooftops, you are doing a huge disfavor to the children, for their

faith will be undermined by those who hate them. Just make no mistakes.

Rules hate them, they hate children, They hate God. So well,

we should say that about all the rules. Because some people just call themselves

the pools. They're not exactly the kind of people they Well, if they

only call themselves a liberal, that makes them a liar. I know where

liars go. Do you know where liars go? Yes? So it's not

wise immense words with somebody like me. It's just not so. You know,

Having looked over this, I take it to you that this was just

refreshing reading out of the fundamentals. It just basically reinforced what you already knew.

Right, Well, it did give me some more pointers, and they

got through a little bit of it, though, Well, give us some

more pointers out of it. What else did you? I mean, I

see you've got several things out one one of was the coolest thing, one

of the coolest things that I saw that I underlined was basically I haven't written

down on my notes, but I'm gonna try to find the exact quote.

Okay, I'm just gonna read it from my notes. Then the virgin birth

is as important as the miraculous resurrection. It is in this way we believe

that without accepting the birth of Christ, we cannot accept him as being God

at all. Furthermore, the childlike faith of the real believer is that which

compels us to read the whole Bible and believe every part of it. That's

right, If do you believe in the miraculous resurrection of God. You believe

in the miraculous posion of God, and you're not a Christian. If you

do not believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, you're not a Christian.

You're not saved. You are defeating your own purpose because the only reason,

the only way you are saved is through His resurrection. I mean, if

you don't believe in the miraculous worth of Christ, in my opinion, you're

not a Christian. And you're not that the end is just as important as

the beginning, if not more, they're equal. It's an equation. It's

simple mathematics. So was this encouraging to you? Yes, So you know,

what would you say to to the person who's, you know, investigating

these things, what would you suggest that they do. I would suggest that

they read Luke and Matthew and John and Mark, and not just the beginning.

I think they should read through the whole thing, the whole life of

Christ. If you are wondering about the miraculous birth of Christ and the importance

of the birth of Christ and the pinnacle of the life of the world,

the height of our history is the life of Christ. If you are having

questions about that. You need to read the whole story. You need to

read the entire Gospels. Matthew Mark looking John you, that is a very

safe thing to say. You are correct. I mean, who do you

know that knows the Bible more than me? No? Do you know anybody

that's even remotely close to nothing? You know, I don't know anybody who

is even remotely close to doing as much of anything. So what I'm saying

is very important because I know that you know that I know so much.

I mean that gives weight to what I said. You need to read the

four Gospels and digest that before you go any further. And if you're afraid

of doing it, if you're afraid you won't be able to do it and

read the whole thing, just pray. I mean, how many times does

the Bible say that if you ask God, he will give himself to you.

And I've done it before too. I've had trouble connecting with God so

many times in my life, and I just, in all honesty from my

own experience, in my own Christian walk with God, just ask and He

will reveal it to you. He will give you that need to read.

Just whatever you need to. He's going to open himself up to you,

just like a book he did, you know. I mean, this reminds

me of the sermon on Sunday, right that the pastor, well, I

mean, let's just call him proper right. I mean, I was raised

calling people brother and sister so properly. If I was going to show him

the proper respect, even though he don't know it, I would call him

brother Sherwood And his sermon was about Asa and Second Chronicles, chapter fifteen,

verse fifteen really sticks you in the eye. And all of Judah rejoiced over

the oath where they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with

their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave

them rest all around. I mean, the whole sermon last Sunday was if

you seek God, you will find him. You will find him, that's

right, And you'll find him because he wants to be found. She wants

to give you that opportunity. The first thing that he's gonna answer you,

the first thing he's going to give you is the promise that he already gave

you. That's right, he already gave you that promise. I mean,

you're one of as soon as as you ask that prayer, you're already one

of the stars in the sky. You're already one of the grains of sand.

That's right, That is exactly right. That is and you know this

is no more true. Let's go to the beginning of that chapter. Second

Chronicles, chapter fifteen to first two verses. The spirit of God came upon

as a riot, the son of Obit, and he went out to meet

Asa and said to him, hear me, Asa, and all of Judah

and Benjamin. The Lord is with you while you are with him. If

you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake

him, he will forsake you. There is no more truer statement than that

God is walking with you if you want to walk with him. Child,

I mean, look at all the many things you've seen me do. Let's

just say, mathematically with the Bible, it's not possible, is it.

It's not possible. I mean I've had many people tell me that there's no

way you could see that. There's no way there's no way you could see

that. I'm telling you, I have told you. And now that you're

an adult, now you know it's true. If you walk with God,

he will walk with you. And if you reject him, make no mistakes,

you will be rejected by Him. And it's that simple. So don't

don't be afraid to learn these things. You know, if you have questions

about it, I mean, yeah, it's good to have somebody right there

with you to help you. But you don't need someone to help you.

You don't need us. If you have more questions, you don't need Matthew

Miller. You can. You don't open the Bible for yourself, and don't

be afraid to ask for that blessing. That's right because God expects you to

have a childlike faith. You don't need all the technical information, even though

I can give you a lot of it, right, you don't need it.

You just don't need it. I mean, I could sit here and

give you a higher discourse at a core level. I could explain to you

how conception occurs, but that doesn't cut it here, child, because this

child was not conceived by a mechanical process. The Lord Jesus Christ was conceived

by a spiritual process. And just read it and believe. I mean,

we were just talking about it when I was but I grew up believing.

Reading the Bible isn't hard for me. But as long as you just read

it and believe it, you're gonna have no trouble knowing it's true. I

mean, let me read that again. The whole is of one piece.

The virgin birth is as natural at the beginning of the life of such a

one the divine son, as the resurrection is the end. Christian is a

witness here in reading the Gospel. He feels no incongruity in passing from the

narratives of the virgin birth to the wonderful story of Christ's life in the chapters

that follow, because you won't have any problem. You'll be like, yeah,

that happened. It will be just like reading a story, like reading

a history book, even though it's shocked the disciples themselves, right, yeah,

I mean you once you got to that story and Jesus rebukes the wind

and the disciples start freaking out, they're like, well, who is this

that even the winds and the waves they obey him. You weren't shocked,

were you? No, even though the disciples were shocked, Because better to

believe without seeing than one who has seen and believes, And so literally,

you have it better than the disciples, you know the end, from the

beginning, they did not, but do. And I am more excited than

anything to see Jesus one day. You know. Do you want me to

tell you a secret? Hm, there is a favorite person that I have

in the Bible. Guess who did that's one of the disciples. Nope?

Is it Jesus? Nope? Jesus is my favorite person in the Bible.

Nope? Is it? I don't know. There's so many people. Come

on, you can't I mean, okay, let's go back to the birth

name. Off the people in his birth, the three Disciples, Joseph mary

Ezekiel. Is that his name? The a guy who gave birth to John

or John's dad and mom, and the shepherds and Herod and and then there's

John. And then I named all the people. Well, there is one

called Simeon. And they brought Jesus to the temple to dedicate him. And

the Lord had promised him that he would not die before he's seen Jesus.

And guess what God granted it to him. He is my hero because I

have the same request. Before I die, I want to see Jesus.

Stampede across creation and set these God haters straight. I want to see it

with my own eyes. I want to be one of the ones that are

alive and remain when he punches through our upper atmosphere. I want to be

like Simon. Anyway, now you know the biggest secret of all to my

memory, I don't think I've told anybody that ever. Anyway, I do

remember that story though, Right, Okay, why don't you pray us out

of here? Why don't you pray it's out of here? Because I'm telling

you tube well, I'm spoiled, and I'm telling you do Jesus, thank

you for this day, and thank you for everything that you've given to us.

I pray that you would open our eyes to new miracles every day,

miracles in your word and in your Bible. That we can learn more about

you, and that we can just have our eyes opened to your unending love

and all of your blessings. And I pray that each and every one of

us would be able to learn from you from now to the end of our

days. And I pray that you would be with each and every one of

us in spirit, and that you would just give us blessings. Amen,

aymen, and Amen, and until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God

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