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Jesus - The Perfect Sacrifice | Joy Teh
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You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message
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will light up your day today. I would like to share something were I
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was just thinking what actually am I going to share about, and just praying
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that God you, I pray that you will be a message that is simple,
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but yet you'll speak and remind us again about God's love for us and
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Jesus the perfect sacrifice. Amen, he is the reason. And if we
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have heard the kids sang the song just now right, made the best present
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of all is Jesus. Amen. Yeah. So today I've entitled my message
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why Jesus came, and that Jesus He's the perfect sacrifice. And we will
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look a little bit about the story about Mary and Joseph. Just to draw
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back again, how when Jesus was born and what was God's plan when he
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brought forth and he sent forth his only son into the world. So now
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I shall go straight into it, as I know that we have blessed draw
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some more at the and yes, and I know all of us will want
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to have lunch with one another. So Jesus came. Now again, I'm
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sure in the Bible there are many more verses in the Bible that mention why
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Jesus came. Now I'm not I can't cover everything, but today I will
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just mention two of the reasons why Jesus came. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.
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Jesus came to do the will of God the Father. So let's look
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at our first portion of scripture this morning, John Chapter six, verse thirty
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eight to forty. So today we'll be going to quite a number of scripture.
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We'll all go with that now. Of course XTV will assist me by
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putting it up on the screen. But I encourage all of you if you
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brought your Bibles along, whether it's your Heart Cover or your e Bibles,
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you can turn to it together, all right, and God's work together.
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All the scripture that I'm reading will be taken from the new King James version
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unless otherwise mentioned. All right, So reading in verse thirty eight, For
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I have come down from heaven not to do my own will is Jesus,
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but the will of Him who sent me. This is the will of the
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Father who sent me. That of all he has given me, I should
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lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And this
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is the will of Him who sent me that everyone who sees the Son and
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believes in him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at
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the last day. Amen. Amen. So that is the will of the
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Father for sending Jesus. So Jesus came to fulfill the will of God the
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Father. Now, when Jesus mentioned this to his disciples, he was telling
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the crowd. Okay, he first of all that he had come down from
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heaven. He made it really explicit. I have come down from heaven,
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all right, So Jesus said it, okay, that he come down from
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heaven. So now there's only one way to understand is that Jesus used to
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exist in heaven. You know how to come down from heaven? Gon,
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okay, But now he was on earth. Then he made another state.
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He said, he came to do the Father's will, not his own will.
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Again, nowadays, I do not know who would easily submit to another
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person's will. Honestly, all of us have our own will, even why
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not you know why sometimes to submit to your husband? Right, okay,
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So it's definitely not easy to the human and the carnal nature to submit to
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another person. Again, if you are hired, you're an employee, yes,
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you submit to your employer because you're paid for the job, right,
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he pays your salary, gun, so you have to summit to him.
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So you usually do it because there is either a benefit or there's something that
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there is a reason to do it, all right, willingly do something?
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Okay, okay, yeah, always in Jesus with something to God, I
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know, yeah, okay, okay. When Jesus came to earth, he
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came simply to please the Father, so he stated here so Hebrews in Hebrews
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ten, it says, when God the Father plan to save us, the
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son of God volunteered himself to offer himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
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Remember, Jesus just didn't appear two thousand years ago when he was born in
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a manger. Okay, he already existed, and that's why he can come
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down from heaven. Okay, okay. So Jesus, the son God the
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Sun, volunteered to offer himself as a sacrifice for our sins. Jesus did
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not just submit to the Father's will, but he volunteered to come to earth
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to take on human flesh and die for our sins. And that's why Jesus
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said in John chapter six, in the verse forty that we have read right,
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and this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who
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sees the sun and belize in him may have eternal life or ever lasting life.
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Jesus volunteered to do the will of God and to die on the cross.
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So this Christmas season, Jesus is not come to just give us holidays
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or family time. Now, family time and holidays are always good, music,
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food and all. That's what we do at usually at the end of
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the year and nearing the Christmas time, we have gifts, right, cookies,
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right, Okay, it's all fun and it's all good. But remember
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Jesus came to give us the assurance of eternal life. And I know that
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someone must here. We are here. We're invited by a friend. It
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could be your first time to church this morning, and I would really like
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to get to know you, So please don't rush off after the service.
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Join us at our lounge. You will love to get to meet you,
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get to say hi to you. But I pray that you will allow the
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Holy Spirit to speak to your hearts even this morning. Amen. Amen.
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So, and I wonder what Christmas will be like if we focus on humbling
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ourselves, just like Jesus did, and submitting to the will of God the
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Father. Amen. So that's the first reason Jesus came to do the will
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of God the Father. Jesus also came in my second point here, Jesus
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came to earth to die in our place for our sins. Now, from
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this point I will go on to explain a little bit more about the virgin
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birth of Jesus, and why is it so important? Okay, as we
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now, as we are celebrating Christmas. So Jesus, let's read from John
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chapter twelve, verse twenty seven, and he says, now my soul is
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troubled. Okay, Jesus said, and what shall I say? Father saved
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me from this hour, but for this purpose I came to this hour,
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all right. So Jesus, when he was go about to die on the
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cross, he was praying earnestly, and his sweat was like blood dripping.
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Okay. In fact, Jesus was praying, Oh, this is so hard,
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this is so tough, Father, if possible, I do not want
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to take this cup. Can it be somebody else? All right? Why
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does it heaving me? Why not? Jesus? So fear away? Okay,
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okay, okay, So for this purpose. But he knew his purpose,
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and he said, but Father, not my will, but your will
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be done right. But for this purpose I came for this hour. Now,
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this hour that was mentioned in this verse, okay, is basically talking
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about the all that Jesus had to go to, his betrayal, his arrests,
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his trial, and his condemnation for claiming to be the son of God,
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and ultimately his death on the cross for our sins. Now, we
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all know that the religious leaders brought him to Pilot and then they lied about
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his statement in order to have him killed. Eventually, Pilot brought Jesus before
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the crowd. And what did the crowd called for? Crucify him? Now,
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so that afternoon on Friday, Now this is the date according to the
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Jewish calendal nis Son fourteen eighty de three. Christ died on the cross for
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our sins. What does this mean? It means that Jesus substituted himself for
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us and suffered for our sins. Now, why I'm saying all this,
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later we will go a little bit more. Right, He is our substitutionary
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atonement. He did not have to die for our sins. But he did
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it willingly on our behalf. That means, just like you have two kids,
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the one that's wrong, who's supposed to get the king's not the one
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who got the king, the sister God the king like okay, okay.
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So Jesus took our place to die on the cross as a penalty for sin,
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because the penalty of sin is death right. So he took that on
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the cross from himself. Now in One Peter, chapter two, verses twenty
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four to twenty five, it says, who himself, as in Jesus,
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bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having
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died to sins, might live for righteousness. By whose stripes you were healed,
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for you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the
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shepherd and overseer of your souls. So again, whose stripes you were healed,
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He died for our sins. Amen. In March chapter ten, verse
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forty five states Jesus came to Earth to ransom many. He ransom the elike,
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for even the Son of Men did not come to be saved, but
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to serve and to give his life a ransom for many. So, again,
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drawing from scripture, we know the reason why Jesus came. Amen.
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Jesus came not need to the will of God, the Father. Jesus came
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to take our place on the cross and to die for our sins. Amen.
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Amen. Now, why is Jesus the perfect sacrifice? Why cannot be?
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If Rafael sin I die for Rafel? Why not me? Why Jesus?
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Why is Jesus the perfect sacrifice? So Christ's sacrifice of himself for our
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sins would not have been possible without the virgin birth. So Mary Joseph all
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played a part in the birth of Jesus to make this possible. Right,
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Okay, because sometimes when we read and when we see all this, all
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the skids are all because we are so used to when we know the story
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in and out. But so even myself, I was just sterving about it
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and reading about it again, yeah and again and now understanding a little bit
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more. Why is it so important? So it is important because for three
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again not these are not the only reasons it's important. I'm just drawing three
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reasons out. Okay, the virgin birth is important for three reasons recorded it
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now? Why again, scripture doesn't record everything, but the fact that scripture
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records it means it is important, okay. So it's important because the scripture
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records it. It was prophesied long time ago, seven hundred years ago in
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the Old Testament, and it reveals Christ was holy all right, via the
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virgin birth. So let's go to the first one. Now, if those
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of us we read we read the Bible, we know that the Bible does
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not record everything. It doesn't say. It doesn't talk about, for example,
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the story about when the angel Gabriel appeared to marry and to announce to
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her that she is the chosen one that will bring forth a son. The
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Bible did not mention anything about Mary's parents, Okay, so a lot of
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it will be imaginative later we can imagine how the power of her parents have
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felt. And it talks about Joseph. But they mentioned about Joseph's parents and
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other things around as well. Okay. But the fact that it is mentioned
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meaning it is important, okay, Okay. So now let's look at where
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it is mentioned in scriptures. So let's go back to the story in Louk
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chapter one, right, folks, We'll start reading from verse twenty six to
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thirty eight Verse twenty six in Luke chapter one. Now, in the sixth
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month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named
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Nezareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named whose name was Joseph of
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the House of David. The virgin's name was Mary, and having come in,
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the Angel said to her, rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord
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is with you. The blessed are you among women. But when she saw
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him, she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this
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was. Then the Angel said to her to not be afraid, Mary,
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for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in
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your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus.
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He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest. And
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the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he
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will reign over the House of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will
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be no end. Then Mary said to the Angel, how can this be,
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since I do not know a man. And the Angel answered her and
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said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power
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of the Highest will overshadow you. Therefore also that the Holy One who is
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to be born will be called the Son of God. Now, indeed,
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Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age,
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and this is now the sixth month for her who has who was called Baron.
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For with God nothing will be impossible. A man that Mary said,
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behold the mid servant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to
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your word. And the angel departed from her. So this passage shows us
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again about the story about how the angel appeared to marry. And we all
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are very familiar. Okay, So the baby will be virgin born. So
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we are told in verse one the angel appeal to marry, and his name
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was Gabriel. Okay. And this angel is not just any angel. Gabriel
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stood in the presence of God. Okay. Earlier in the chapter we read
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about it. The fact that this angel appears is significant since he normally stands
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in the presence of God, and he was like God's and misery. He's
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not just any angel who visited Mary. Now, So in verse twenty seven,
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if we were told twice that Mary was a virgin, now the normal
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Greek word for virgin just means she is not married. But in verse thirty
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four we see the word virgin again, and it explicitly just means she's not
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knowing a man. Not only was she not married, doesn't mean not married,
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not knowing a man can don't even think. Okay, So not mary
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is one thing she was not She has not been engaged in any sexual activity.
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That's what it means. Okay. So in verse thirty four we find
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that Mary told the angel she was a virgin. So how do we know
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that if she was not a virgin? She wouldn't ask that question. She
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can only ask that question, how can this be? When the Angel told
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her, since I do not know a man? Okay, Not only she's
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not married, she does not know a man. So now in verse thirty
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five, the angel gave her the answer. Okay. So the angel gave
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the answer that the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of
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the highest will overshadow you. So this will overshadow in the Greek just means
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there's a cloud, like a sense of a cloud that will envelop her.
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All right, So in some sense the Holy Spirit will come and envelop her.
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So Gabriel said that, and that's how the child will be conceived.
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And this is a miracle isn't it. People. This is a miracle,
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all right, And this is a miracle that only God can do. And
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that's why the angel Gabriel have to come and explain everything to Mary. If
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you were married, what how do you feel? I think I'm married?
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Is so braver. The fact that she can say be unto me the donn
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song according to your word? Okay, although the age group you know I'm
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talking about, Okay, Okay, So that song that says, be it
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unto me Lord, according to your word. I'm sure she was. She
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was scared. I'm sure she was worried. I'm sure she had one thousand
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Okay, it's me. I got like one thousand and one thoughts in my
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head and questions in my head. I'm like, no, they canna be
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cann it being conclate? Okay, Okay. So but yes, Mary,
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Now, it wasn't immediately, okay, that she got pregnant straight away.
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It wasn't. So I think if we read the Bible. Later on,
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she went to visit her relative Elizabeth, okay, and then she stayed there
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for three months. Then only after that it was recorded in the Bible again.
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In between, we don't know what happened. Okay, it wasn't recorded,
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but we know after the visit she was then with child. Okay.
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Then only who knows Joseph or your poor guy that I tell you he doesn't
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know at all what's going on. Okay, okay. So like we talked
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about Joseph in a while, okay, okay. But the awesome thing in
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this verse that the angel has to remind Mary is what we read earlier on
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doing worship. It's verse thirty seven. For with God, nothing will be
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impossible because I can imagine how Mary feels to be this is impossible. Okay,
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So nothing is impossible. So now this is one of the passages in
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the Bible that talks about this. And then there's another passage in Matthew.
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So Matthieu also wrote about the story. So in Methil chapter one, we
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are told that the Angel of the Lord visits Joseph in the dream. So
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this occurs because Joseph and Mary again are engaged, okay, and then he
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will eventually discover that she is pregnant. So that's why the Angel of the
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Lord have to appear to Joseph as well. Let's read Matthew chapter one,
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verse eighteen to twenty three. Now, the birth of Jesus Christ was as
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follows. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together,
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she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph, her
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husband, being adjustment and not wanting to make her a public example, was
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minded to put her away sick. But while he thought about these things,
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behold and injel the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph,
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son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your
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wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
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And she will bring forth the son, and you shall call his name Jesus
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for her safe peace people from their sins. So all this was done that
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it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord true the prophet, saying,
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behold, the Virgin shall be with child and there a son, and
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they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is translated God with us. So
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Methil added the translation of the name. Okay, okay. So now by
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then only Joseph knew that this baby is of the Holy Spirit. Prior to
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that, do you think he believed Mary? Okay? So now engagement back
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then right in the Jewish culture is such, it's like a legal contract I
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feel. Okay, I might be not fully right, but this is what
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I think. But my understanding is that your r M. Now eagerly they
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get married and they stay whatever they sign or whatever, okay, and it
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is marriage, all right, so it's legally bound and its marriage. However,
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for us, now what we practice is your URMs and maybe just the
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day before, two days before, and then you take your vows after that.
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Right, for them, they must wait one year, okay before the
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final IDs why so that it can prove whether the woman is a pure woman
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or not. Okay, So if she was a virgin, she would be
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a virgin. Is not, she will be found with child after that year.
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So that's exactly what happened to Mary, okay in the eyes of Joseph.
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All right, Yeah, so if she became pregnant, then the marriage
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will be canceled. So that's the basic purpose of this one year wait.
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So Verse eighteen mentions that before the angel visited Joseph, he discovered that Mary
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was pregnant. So meaning after Mary visited Elizabeth came back, she was with
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child. I'm sure her parents will find out now in those days when they
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arbitrath the parents are involved on all right, So the parents are involved.
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Imagine she has now the angel did the Bible record the Angel appeared to the
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parents, or the best to marry, I tell you, and or the
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best of Joseph, So did not appeal to the parents. So Mary has
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the job to tell her parents that I'm with child, and then she has
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a job to tell Joseph, and Joseph bearents that she's a child. Do
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you think they believe her? I doubted, I personally doubted that Joseph believe
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her. I doubted that Joseph's parents believe her, and I think maybe even
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her own parents did not believe her. Okay, So that is what she
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would have to go through in order to work in obedience to what the Angel
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has said to her to be the mother of Jesus. Now again the Bible
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didn't say, but I imagine we imagine all right. Then later on only
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Joseph found out, okay. So in verse nineteen reports that instead of planning
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to stone her, he can have her stone. But he was a righteous
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man adjustment. Sometimes I wonder being adjustment a righteous man, shouldn't you do
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the right thing stone her life. But just man, righteous man, doesn't
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mean it means giving grace and being merciful. Amen. So he decided to
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actually quietly like divorce her so that he doesn't have to make a scene,
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don't have to embarrass or disgrace her all right. Then God came to the
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rescue by appearing in a dream to Joseph. Amen. So, and then
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the rest of it. We have read it already. So this is the
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same message when the Angel gave to Joseph. It's the same message that the
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angel gave to Mary as well, that that Jesus would be virgin born,
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and is repeated as well. So verse twenty one tells us why Christ was
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going to be virgin born, and she will bring forth a son, and
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you shall call his name Jesus. Why because cause he will save his people
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from their sins. I'm not sure if Mary and Joseph understood it at that
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time, But without being born of a virgin birth, he is not eligible
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to be the savior of our sins. And I said, okay, So
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he was going to be born in order to save people from the sins.
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So now, very good. Again, these are not the only two passages
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in the New Testament that reveals about christ virgin birth. There are others as
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well, but I'm just drawing this now. As I mentioned, it's also
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prophesied in the Old Testament in Isaiah chapter seven, verse fourteen. Therefore,
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the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a sign. Why
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is a sign needed? A sign needed? Is only when something some you
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need to convince someone or something correct, I give you a sign, a
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sign, okay, So a sign. Behold, the Virgin shall conceive and
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bear a sign God that's not normal. And you shall call his name Immanual.
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All right. So again this message was given before any ultrasound, any
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all these technology, okay. And all we know is that his name is
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Emmanuel. And all this was seven hundred years before. And now Matthew,
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the author of the book or the Gospel of Matthew, report about this clearly
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in chapter one. So in chapter one of Matthew twenty three we read it,
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behold the Virgin shall be with child. Amen. So if you do
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not know what's the meaning of Emmanual, Metal translated it for us as well.
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Okay, So again again, because it is not only mentioned and recorded
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in the Bible, it is prophesied, and that's why it is so important.
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But again, what sums it all up is that the virgin birth reveals
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that Christ was holy. Now again, Jesus kay had to be sinless in
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order to be the perfect sacrifice. So questions for all of us, how
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could a holy God be born into this world and not be virgin born.
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If he had not been virgin born, he would have been a sinner,
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since he would have had a human father and mother, just like you and
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I. This is this is the ultimate reason for the virgin birth, all
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right, Okay, So in Romans chapter five, let's read some verses.
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Now, Therefore, just as true one man, sin entered the world,
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and death true sin, and thus death spread to all men because all sin.
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So this verse tells us that sin entered the world to Adam Adam's sin,
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and expect to all of us. So it's just like an infection like
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covid. Okay, okay, so we get we all get infected by sin.
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But in verse nineteen, if you read on, but as by one
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man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so also by one man's which is
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jesus is obedience, many will be made righteous. Amen. Amen, Amen.
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So this message is very simple. Adam caused the whole human race on
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the sin. Okay, and everyone and anyone born into this world, it's
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a sinner and only to Jesus, Amen, we can be saved. Hallelujah.
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Now I'm convincing you about the fact that that we are all born sinners.
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Okay, Psalms fifty one, verse five. It's King David road Behold,
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I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin. My mother conceive me
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all right, So we are all born sinners, and we prove that we
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are sinners every day by the fact that we do wrong right and we sin.
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Now, sometimes we are upset the fact that we are sinners. No,
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it's not my foot right Adams for whitakay, like think you're upset,
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right, Yeah, but we cannot run away, and you and I we
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sin. We violate God's standards and commands constantly. Although all of us are
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those of us who are in the Lord. Yes we depend on the Holy
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Spirit. Yes we are more than overcomers, Amen, but we all know
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that we all sin. So it is important because it's important to understand this,
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because we need to understand that our God is infinite in all his attributes,
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and that means he's infinitely holy. He is holy to the end degree.
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In one John one five, we are told that there's no shadow of
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turning with God. God does not sin. Therefore, the question is,
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how does a holy God become a human when every descendant of Adam inherits a
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sinful nature? You and I okay, and be demonstrated by sinning. So
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if you have not discovered anything so far, now remember this. How can
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a holy God enter this world in human flesh when the sin nature is passed
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on from one person to another person? How can a holy God come into
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this world and remain infinitely holy? There can only be one way, right
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the virgin birth. Amen. Now, let's read first, Peter, and
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I'm drawing to a close right now, Chapter two, verses twenty one to
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twenty five. Now going back before we read this, going back again to
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the story of Mary and Joseph. Mary, also, Mary had to take
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her step of obedience even yeah, even as she said, be it unto
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me according to your word, Lord, she for she can already foresee all
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the different troubles and the challenges that she will be in. Same with Joseph,
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as well when Joseph, and in the end Joseph married Mary, right,
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he did not deny the fact that she was pregnant. No, that
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means she was still pregnant before the wedding. Okay, So whether it was
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a disgrace to the family, whether or not at that time, whether the
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parents believed them or not, we do not know. But that was what
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they had to go through, all right. Yeah, So first Peter,
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chapter two, verse twenty one to twenty five for today's you were called because
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Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his
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steps. Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,
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who when he was revold, did not revout in return. When he suffered,
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he did not threaten, but committed himself, Him who judges righteously,
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who himself bore our sins in his own body. We read earlier on the
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tree that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. Amen,
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by whose stripes you were healed, for you were like sheep going astray,
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but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your soul. So
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Jesus lived here, and he did not sin. Why he was not born
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as a sinner, he was a holy God. Amen. So James One
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also tells us that nothing is impossible. That sorry, that it is impossible
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for God to sin. So isn't it interesting if you have if we if
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you and I are the one hanging on the cross for someone else, right,
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we will be probably like scolding the person you know you right, yeah,
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we'll be saying things that we know you shouldn't say. But not Christ,
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all right? Amen? So Christ's sacrifice, so he was the perfect
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sacrifice. Why again, it takes a sinless God who came down in human
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flesh on the cross to take away our sins. He had to be sinless
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in order to die in our place so that our sins can be forgiven.
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Amen. He was the perfect sacrifice. And he and the and the beautiful
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part is that he didn't need to do that. Jesus did it on his
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own accord. He did it willingly, and he could have let every one
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of us die and wrot in hell, but he did not a man a
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man, Halley Liliah. So the virgin birth is foundational to having our sins
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forgiven and for having eternal life, because you and I are all sinners.
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I'm a sinner. You are sinner. Jesus to our sins upon himself,
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as we have read just not in first Peter. And the only way we
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can have eternal life is by recognizing that we are first sinners. Amen.
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So that's why in our church when we give a call, if there's any
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one of you like, we want to give a call for you to respond
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and you give your heart to Jesus. The first step that we all need
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to take is to firstly admit that we have sin. Because until the admission
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of sin, we won't we don't, we won't come to a point where
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we think we need internal life and we need a savior, right. And
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the only way again to be safe is to recognize that we are sinners and
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that He forgives us and that one and we and to want him to come
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into our hearts and lives to change us. In man, let me tell
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you a story as I close. Now, there's a story told again and
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written by an unknown person. A story told about three men who were climbing
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a mountain. Now the context is in those snow mountains. I don't think
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we have that kind of experience, but yeah, we can imagine they had
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two guides. So three men climbing, one guide at the back and one
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guide at the front, and they were all tied together as mountain climbers do
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on snow covered mountains. So they were climbing the snow covered mountain, and
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the guide in the back slipped. When he slipped, he fell over the
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cliff, and since he was tied to everyone else up in the chain,
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he yanked the three men who were between him and the first guy. So
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four of them were hanging on the rope and only the guide at the top
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was hoading on. Now, the guide's eyes picked okay, was jammed into
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the ice and which with wood strength he held on while the other four men
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climbed up over him to safety. Okay, that's the only way. So
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one man holding on so that the other four men can climb the safety.
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So the four men was saved because of one man who had slammed his pick
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and desperately hung on. Well, in the garden of Eden, the first
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Adam slipped and fell, and we were all hooked into him. By our
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nature, we became sinners. And when Adam died, we all died.
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When he slipped and fell, we all slipped and fell with him. We
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were all hanging over the age and hated the word and eternal abbys. And
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there was someone else on that road. He was born of a virgin,
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a man like you and me, and he dug in. He was born
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a perfect baby, He lived a perfect life, He did everything according to
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the will of God. He dunk in, and then he died on the
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cross and rose on the day. And because he done in, all who
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was slipping and hating into abbys because of sin can be be living in Christ
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can reach safety and into eternal life. Amen. And we know that that
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guide, that first guide is Jesus. Imen. Do you have eternal life?
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Church? And I know I'm speaking to some of us today, or
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are you confident that you have eternal life? Christmas is not just a season
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about yes see, remembering again a baby being born in a manger, but
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about a holy God who was born as a sinless human in order to die
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on the cross for you and I so that you and I can have our
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sins forgiven and spend eternity with God as opposed to an eternity in hell.
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So this summarizes the reason why Jesus came to earth and was born as a
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human man, a human baby. He had to be sinless in order to
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die in our place so that our sins can be forgiven and that we can
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be reconciled with God. He came to save you, He came to save
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me. At the same time. He didn't just come to save us and
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leave us alone. He came to set in motion the destruction of the works
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of the devil. Amen, hallelujah. And that is why he came.
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And this is what Christmas is all about. Amen about Jesus, about God
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himself. God the Son who pre existed, as I said earlier on,
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chose to be sent forth. Send forth here also means they had like omitting
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and decided that God the Son will come forth in human flesh. That's the
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only way, born of a virgin birth, the only way so that he
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can save us. And all this was planned from the beginning of time.
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God. Oh ready, God the Father had planned it all to save you
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and I how can we not accept Jesus' immen hallelujah. So I want to
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close with this verse. In Collosions, chapter one, in verse thirteen and
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fourteen, he says he has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed
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us into the Kingdom of the Son of His Love Amen, in whom we
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have redemption through His blood the forgiveness of sins. Hallelujah. We hope you've
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been blessed by this message. For more information on our church, please visit
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that this week is going to be a good week, a hit for you. God bless