1 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,320 Please take a seat, open your Bibles. 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,480 We're going to go around the world a little bit because of 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:21,600 the topic, but open it to Luke's Gospel Chapter 1, Luke's Gospel 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,400 Chapter 1, tonight's text and Scriptures. 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,000 When you see the Jehovah Witnesses and we see him at the 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,800 beach, they set up down there and I haven't spoken to them as 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:41,880 yet, but I'm I'm pretty close to having my time. 8 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,680 And because they deny the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, they deny 9 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,920 that Jesus is the Son of God. They say he is a son of God and 10 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,840 all that they deny and every cult is defined. 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:07,400 You define a cult by their non recognition of Jesus Christ 12 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:13,520 being God in the flesh. And so tonight I want you, I 13 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,520 pray you take notes. There's a lot of going to be a 14 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,280 lot of scriptures. You you need to understand the 15 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,720 difference because Jehovah Witnesses will say, oh, we're 16 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,840 Christians. Mormons will say we're 17 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:29,320 Christians and they aren't. The Bible actually tells us that 18 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:31,840 they're wolves in sheep's clothing, that they are false 19 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:38,800 prophets and they're dangerous. And so we give Bible open to 20 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:39,920 Luke. Stay there. 21 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,360 But I'm just going to give you a couple of scriptures to start 22 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,000 off with. So we're looking at the virgin 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,240 birth. Why is the virgin birth? 24 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,120 Actually it should more technically be said the virgin 25 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:58,360 conception, the holy conception. The birth was quite normal 26 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,280 except for Mary being a virgin obviously, but the conception 27 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,520 was miraculous. In Isaiah Chapter 7 verse 14, 28 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,720 Isaiah the prophet says therefore the Lord himself will 29 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,520 give you a sign. People always want to sign from 30 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,960 God. Well the Bible is tells you 31 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 there is a sign. Behold, the virgin shall 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,680 conceive bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel. 33 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:34,280 That means God with us. In Matthew chapter one verse 23, 34 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,360 Matthew repeats this. Behold the virgin shall be with 35 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,680 child and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 36 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:49,600 which is translated God with us. These are the Then, in Luke 127, 37 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,480 in our text to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name 38 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,080 was Joseph of the House of David, we're getting a little 39 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,160 bit more information. The virgin's name was Mary. 40 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,480 So why the virgin conception anyway? 41 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,760 Why is it important? The virgin birth or the virgin 42 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:15,720 conception of Jesus is foundational to all Christian 43 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,480 theology. Without it, you have a cult. 44 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:25,120 The virgin birth was the means of incarnation. 45 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,480 That is the act of being embodied in human form. 46 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:36,560 That's what incarnation means. God becoming a man. 47 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,840 The incarnation once accomplished. 48 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,480 And you need to know this is a lasting state for our Lord 49 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,720 wasn't just Bethlehem and he rose from the dead and that's 50 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,480 that back to who he was. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 12 51 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:02,240 tells us of Jesus. But this man capital M Speaking 52 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:07,120 of Jesus, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever 53 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:14,160 sat down at the right hand of God in John chapter one verse 54 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:21,399 29, John, that is John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward 55 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:30,400 him and said, behold the lamb capital L of God, who takes away 56 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:36,760 the sin of the world. Jesus in Revelation chapter 5 57 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,120 verse 6 says John is elevated, translated. 58 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:46,560 He sees the throne of God, and he says, and I looked and 59 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,720 behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living 60 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:55,040 creatures, and in the midst of the elders stood a Lamb capital 61 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:01,120 L, as though it had been slain. So the only man made features 62 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,320 that we'll find in heaven are the scars that Christ will carry 63 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:13,440 forever from his crucifixion. The scars, the very wounds that 64 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:19,640 he revealed to Thomas, who didn't believe initially stood a 65 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,160 lamb as though it had been slain, having 7 horns and seven 66 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,200 eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all 67 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,720 the earth in Revelation chapter 5, verse 13. 68 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,600 And this is the scripture I'm going to give to the Jehovah 69 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,520 Witnesses, going to write it out, hand it to him. 70 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:44,200 I'm going to walk away and go Revelation 513 and every 71 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:50,920 creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth 72 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:57,160 and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard 73 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:03,640 saying blessing and honour, glory and power be to him who 74 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:08,920 sits on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever. 75 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,160 You can only worship God. The Bible tells us that, and 76 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:21,920 this is this verse that says everyone is to worship the Lamb. 77 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,240 Who's the Lamb? We already know that it's Jesus 78 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,360 Christ. Jesus Christ receives worship. 79 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,400 Why? Because he is God. 80 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:38,080 This incarnation began Christ's birth in Bethlehem and 81 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,800 continued, albeit in a resurrected body and now 82 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,520 forever. All this coming from an event 83 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,360 that lasted but a few hours. The actual birth, the virgin 84 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,920 birth of Jesus in that stable, in that Manger light, in a 85 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,680 Manger in Bethlehem. It was the Angel Gabriel. 86 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:07,320 When he announced to Mary, he said she would bear the Messiah. 87 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:16,840 She would not need a man because Mary Luke 134 said to the Angel, 88 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:23,080 how can this be? I mean, it can't be since I do 89 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,640 not know a man. Some of the translations have 90 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,240 since I do not have a husband. But we know under Jewish law she 91 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,720 actually does have a husband. She's a spouse husband. 92 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,160 That's why Joseph was going to remember divorcer when he found 93 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,280 out she was pregnant. How since I do not know a man, 94 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,400 the Holy Spirit Gabriel said Luke 135 and the Angel answered 95 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,360 and said to Mary, how this is going to happen? 96 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,960 The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the 97 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:05,120 highest will over shadow you. This is the conception therefore 98 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:12,320 also that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of 99 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,200 God. He gives it very clearly of who 100 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,480 she's she's going to give birth to and how miraculous this birth 101 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,640 is going to be. Matthew writes the fact of the 102 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,440 virgin birth in his list of genealogies. 103 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:37,120 In Matthew chapter one verse 16. He writes in Jacob begot Joseph 104 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:45,120 the husband of Mary and then comma of whom was born Jesus who 105 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,800 was called Christ. Joseph, Matthew says was the 106 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:55,040 husband of Mary, but it was by Mary only that Jesus was born. 107 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:03,280 In Genesis 315 the Lord gave the prophecy of Christ coming. 108 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,480 And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between 109 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:12,480 your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head, 110 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaking of Satan, and you shall bruise his heel. 111 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,640 Now the words of whom? In Matthew 116 in the Greek 112 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:27,920 language, it's important. It's a feminine singular in the 113 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:34,680 Greek language, telling us that Jesus was born of Mary only, not 114 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:39,880 of Joseph and Mary. So the question is, well, but 115 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,400 why all the fuss about the virgin birth? 116 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,200 I mean, a lot of churches don't believe in the virgin birth. 117 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,920 A lot of so called Christians don't believe in the virgin 118 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:48,480 birth. Why? 119 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,080 Why? What's the big deal about it? 120 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:57,480 Why is it important? God could have overshadowed both 121 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:04,520 parents so as to protect the baby's sinlessness had he so 122 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,280 desired. God could say, well, I'm just 123 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:12,360 going to produce this child, but through Mary only. 124 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:20,920 Remember, Isaiah 714 said this served as a sign of the 125 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,320 uniqueness of the person who was born. 126 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:32,240 Now every child born into the world is totally a new creature. 127 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,240 I think that's, you know, the most amazing people say, well, I 128 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,120 don't believe in miracles and I go just open your eyes a little 129 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,720 bit, look around, ask mom and dad when they hold the little 130 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,400 baby, do they believe in miracles? 131 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,040 And every child is a miracle. Every one of us is a miracle, 132 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:55,280 but Jesus Christ being eternal God. 133 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:00,280 John chapter one verse one in the beginning was the word and 134 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,760 the word was with God and the word was God. 135 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,840 The Jehovah Witnesses couldn't allow that to stay in their 136 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,040 Bibles so they had to rewrite the Bible and put and the word 137 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:20,440 was our God in John one verse 2. He was in the beginning with 138 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:25,160 God. So Jesus is the word in the 139 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,280 beginning was the word and the word was with God, Jesus with 140 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,720 God, the word was God. And then in John chapter one 141 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:39,080 verse 14, John says, and the word that is God became flesh 142 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:47,400 and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the 143 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:52,320 only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 144 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,960 Jesus says I am the way of the truth. 145 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:02,040 I'm all truth. Jesus existed before Mary or 146 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,640 Joseph Oregon, any of his earthly ancestors. 147 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,120 He actually brought that up when he was arguing with the 148 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:13,120 Pharisees, didn't he? If Jesus was conceived and born 149 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:20,840 just as any other child, any other baby, then he could not be 150 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:28,160 God. It was necessary for Jesus to 151 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:34,400 enter this world through an earthly mother, but not to be 152 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:40,000 begotten by an earthly father and by a miracle. 153 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:45,560 The virgin conceiving of the Holy Spirit, overshadowing 154 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:51,120 Gabriel, says Jesus was conceived miraculously in the 155 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:57,680 womb of Mary, a virgin. The Old Testament prophecies 156 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:03,600 told us that Messiah would be we read Genesis 315, born of a 157 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,600 woman, seed of a woman. Also this child, the Messiah 158 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:16,160 would be of the seed of Abraham. Genesis 2218 the Old Testament 159 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,160 prophecies tells us that the Messiah would be and come from 160 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:27,640 the tribe of Judah specific Genesis 4910 the Old Testament 161 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,640 prophecies also told us that he would come from one family 162 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:38,400 lineage of the family of David to Samuel Chapter 7, verses 12 163 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,720 and 13. So it's worth noting that Jesus 164 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:51,560 Christ is the only Jew alive who can actually prove his claim to 165 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,800 the throne of David. How is that you? 166 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:02,920 Remember that all the other records were destroyed when by 167 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:10,480 General Titus, the Roman legion 70 AD, and not a stone was left 168 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,400 on top. Another, as Jesus said would 169 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,360 happen when the Romans took Jerusalem. 170 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:24,280 So all the records but one, the record of one that's pretty 171 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,760 important. I remember when I first learned 172 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:31,920 that many years ago, and that is so out of the bad. 173 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,520 There's something amazing that all these other records are 174 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,120 gone, but we have this one and he's the only one we really need 175 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:45,440 to know about. Isaiah 714 we read it is the 176 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,600 most explicit prophecy of Jesus birth. 177 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,520 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. 178 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,280 Behold, the virgin shall conceive. 179 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,600 So the virgin shall conceive. That's the miraculous bear. 180 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:03,920 A son, a male child shall call his name, specifically Emmanuel. 181 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:11,880 Jesus would be called Emmanuel, God with us and Isaiah Chapter 9 182 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:16,640 verse 6, many of you know that passage, we get a great detail 183 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,360 of the virgin birth child who would be Messiah. 184 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:27,160 And so this one person has to fulfil all these things written 185 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,720 hundreds of years before Christ was born. 186 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:36,600 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. 187 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,640 For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son. 188 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:47,960 John 316 And the government will be upon his shoulder, and his 189 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,360 name will be called all capitals. 190 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:56,880 Wonderful counsellor, mighty God you can. 191 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,960 You don't just call Bill Smith from Nazareth, he's mighty God. 192 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:07,520 You don't do that. You don't call him Everlasting 193 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,040 Father. You don't call him Capital P, 194 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:19,520 Prince of Peace. A child would be born, a son is 195 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,000 given. He would be a ruler. 196 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,520 He is the King of kings. He would have supreme wisdom. 197 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,000 He would be God. He's the mighty God. 198 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,240 He is the eternal God, Everlasting Father. 199 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,280 He would bring peace, Prince of Peace. 200 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,960 So what's the purpose of the incarnation? 201 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,840 Many will just go, oh, just salvation, isn't it? 202 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,960 Oh, no, no, no, that that's that's the shallow end of the 203 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,080 pool. Actually, that's the wading part 204 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,560 of a pool. The purpose of the incarnation. 205 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,120 You and I need to know. So what's what is it? 206 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:04,480 1 To reveal God to us. I remember as a child I just 207 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,640 wanted to know. I wanted I used to pray as a 208 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,640 little boy 4-5 years old. I did. 209 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,839 I used to pray God, show me what you look like. 210 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:19,200 Show me how. What are you like? 211 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:27,520 I'm afraid that the only way man can see the Father is to know 212 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:33,240 about the Son. We know about the son through 213 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:40,480 his word and God was personalised and he became flesh 214 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:45,360 and dwelt amongst us in in one John John starts off 1 John. 215 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:49,920 He says we we we touched him, we heard him. 216 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,360 He was in the beginning that was was in the beginning. 217 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:03,600 Secondly, the purpose of the incarnation was to provide an 218 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,200 example for our lives. People say well how do I live as 219 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,520 a Christian? It's pretty easy. 220 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,760 Read the Bible, read the gospels, follow Christ. 221 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,880 One Peter chapter 2 verse 21 Peter wrote for God called you 222 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:24,000 to do good even if it means suffering, just as Christ 223 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,720 suffered for you. He is your example. 224 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:35,720 Good thing to tell your kids you must follow in his steps. 1 John 225 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:40,160 chapter 2, verse 6. Those who say they live in God 226 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,000 should live their lives as Jesus did. 227 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:51,360 Without Christ's incarnation we would not have that example. 228 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,120 Remember the WWJD Bengals and things that came out? 229 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:59,880 What would Jesus do? And I think that's a pretty cool 230 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,360 thing. Those, those actual, that actual 231 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,920 statement. And I actually apply it every 232 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:10,120 day of my life. I apply it big time in the 233 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,840 pulpit. I've changed so much preaching 234 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,680 from the pulpit because I put in there, would Jesus bother saying 235 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,760 that? Would he even raise that? 236 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,360 And I'm still learning. But what would Jesus say if he 237 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:28,640 was teaching today? If he was going through this 238 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,320 text, what would he say? What would Jesus say? 239 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,680 But better still, when I'm in a situation and it's difficult and 240 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,840 I've got choices how I'm going to react. 241 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:43,600 The simple point is, what would Jesus do in the situation? 242 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,080 Because the Bible is full of Jesus telling us what to do. 243 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,760 Love your enemies, pray for those that sparkly, use you. 244 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:56,560 All those things which we don't like, we put them aside and we 245 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,280 act in our own ways and then we wonder why we get ourselves into 246 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,280 trouble and why we always coming for God. 247 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:03,960 God, sorry for being such an idiot. 248 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,640 I'm an idiot when I don't do what Jesus did. 249 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,480 I'm an idiot when I don't follow his example. 250 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,360 Thirdly, without the virgin birth, the incarnation, and here 251 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:21,640 it is, we would have no Saviour, the Jehovah Witnesses, the 252 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,200 Mormons. They have no saviour. 253 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,000 They talk about Jesus, but he's not their saviour because he's 254 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:36,440 not God in the flesh. You see, sin requires death for 255 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:37,520 its payment. Why does it? 256 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,800 Because the Bible says the wages of sin is what? 257 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:47,160 Death. And so to pay for the wages of 258 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,320 sin, it requires death. But here's the problem. 259 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,280 God doesn't die, does he? He's eternal lives forever. 260 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:04,560 So the servant must be human in order to be able to die. 261 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,120 This is was the problem. When my I found out my brother 262 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:10,040 became a job witness. I rang him and said, Trevor, 263 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:12,440 what are you doing? You you joined the cult, He 264 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,960 says. He says, well, but God can't 265 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,480 die. And he didn't see because they 266 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:23,120 twist who Jesus is. God became a man so he could. 267 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,920 That was the first thing he said back to me the day I rang him. 268 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,360 I said, what's happened to you? You've you've joined a cult. 269 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:38,000 But the death of an ordinary man would not pay for sin eternally. 270 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:45,000 Makes no difference. So the Saviour must also be God 271 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:53,000 for the death to pay eternally we need a God and Saviour and we 272 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,440 have this in our Lord. Hebrews 10 you can read from 273 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:01,680 word verse one down to verse 10, but Hebrews 10 verse 4 says for 274 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,920 it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could 275 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,480 take away sins. Even though the Jews around a 276 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,200 touch on this on Sunday are going to rebuild the temple 277 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,680 start the sacrifice doesn't do anything with their sin in 278 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:20,920 Hebrews 10/9 Jesus said behold I have come to do your will, O God 279 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,520 is which is what he prayed in the garden and he takes away the 280 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,520 1st that he may establish the second verse 10. 281 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,800 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering 282 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,160 of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 283 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,560 Why once for all, Why only one crucifixion and then his 284 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,200 resurrection? Because his his death. 285 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,360 Innocent paid the price in full to Telesty. 286 00:22:51,480 --> 00:23:01,960 It's finished, paid, done. We need the virgin birth God man 287 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,280 for David's throne to fulfil the Davidic covenant. 288 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,040 Luke 131 And behold, you will conceive in your womb. 289 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,520 Bring forth the son shall call his name Jesus. 290 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,200 He'll be great will be called the Son of the highest. 291 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:25,680 The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and 292 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,880 he will reign over the House of Jacob Forever. 293 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,880 That's Israel and of his Kingdom there shall be no end. 294 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,880 That's a pretty hefty prophecy there. 295 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:42,440 There's a lot of meat there. But to have someone occupy 296 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:49,320 David's throne requires a human being to fulfil that. 297 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,040 So the Messiah must be human from the family of David. 298 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,280 That's why they went to Bethlehem. 299 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,680 Wasn't it? Tax. 300 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:08,680 But to occupy the throne of David, the throne forever, A man 301 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,120 can't do that. It requires the occupant to 302 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:16,280 never die. Only God qualifies. 303 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:22,720 God doesn't die, so the only one who ultimately fulfils the 304 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,040 Davidic promise has to be God, Man. 305 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:34,680 Fourthly, the virgin birth. Christ coming as a man, God 306 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:40,360 becoming a man was so that Satan would be defeated. 307 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:45,800 Our enemy, Satan must be defeated in the area he 308 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,680 dominates. Paul says he's the he's the God 309 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,960 of this world, isn't he? The Prince and power of the air. 310 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,400 He's the little G When Jesus was in the wilderness, driven by the 311 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,600 Holy Spirit, Satan offered him what the world? 312 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,080 Where did he get it? He got it off Adam and Eve. 313 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:08,720 I lost them. So Jesus was sent into the world 314 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:21,800 to destroy Satan's works. 5th point the virgin birth God 315 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:27,360 becoming a man gave us a sympathetic high priest. 316 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:35,160 Hebrews 4 verse 14 says, seeing then that we have a great high 317 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:42,160 priest who has passed through the heavens, who it is Jesus, 318 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,760 the Son of God. We're told, let us hold fast our 319 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:53,240 confession, for we do not have a high priest who cannot 320 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,520 sympathise. Well, God doesn't understand. 321 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,840 You're wrong. The Bible says he does. 322 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,800 God knows or God doesn't know. Yes he does, because we do not 323 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,760 have a high priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses. 324 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,720 God understands absolutely why He walked this world, He 325 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,040 breathed this air, He lived as a man in this world. 326 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:25,720 He was in all points, tempted as we are, yet without sin. 327 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:37,000 Let us because of the God man, Let us therefore come boldly to 328 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,400 the throne of grace. Why? 329 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,520 Because Jesus Christ opened the way. 330 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,640 We can come now in His blood, by His blood, by His name to the 331 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,760 Father. There's no temple, there's no 332 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,040 blockage of which the high priest only one day here, when 333 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,120 Jesus was crucified, what happened? 334 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,360 The vile was torn in two from when? 335 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,920 From the top to the bottom. And the ground shook. 336 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,800 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. 337 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,360 That's the place you go. You know, when you pray, you 338 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,920 think, oh, should I pray? I can't. 339 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,360 Don't feel like praying. You're missing out on grace. 340 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,840 You're missing out on getting what you don't deserve. 341 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,960 I miss out on getting what I don't deserve, that we may 342 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,360 obtain What? When you pray, when you go to 343 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:33,600 the throne of God, you know what you get mercy. 344 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,720 Now I need mercy. Have you done anything today, 345 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,440 Any of you? Something that you think is not 346 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,640 not really good? Had any bad thoughts today? 347 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,280 Got angry when you shouldn't have. 348 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:53,520 Got angry that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in 349 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,160 time of need. So how? 350 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,880 How often should we be for the throne of God? 351 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:04,600 Probably all the time. Our high Priest can feel our 352 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,200 weaknesses because he was tested as we are. 353 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,480 But here's the problem. But it's not a problem. 354 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,840 But here's the clarification. God has never tested. 355 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,400 God does. Well, Gee, that's hard. 356 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,600 How am I going to sort that out? God can't be tested, so how 357 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,480 could we have a high priest who sympathises? 358 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,280 Because God had to become a man so that he could go through 359 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,720 testings like he went through in the Garden of Gethsemane. 360 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:44,040 So it was necessary for God to become a man, to be able to be 361 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,160 tested in order to be a sympathetic priest. 362 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,240 Lastly, that's pretty important. This one. 363 00:28:54,680 --> 00:29:01,400 God became a man born of a virgin so that he was able to be 364 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,600 a qualified judge. Qualified judge. 365 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,680 Where's that come from? Well, the Bible tells us and 366 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,200 we're getting to that point, our world is Jesus will be our 367 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,600 ultimate judge. In John chapter 5 verse 22, 368 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,000 Jesus said himself, the Father judges no one. 369 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,720 You know this image that I had as a kid of the big old bloke 370 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,360 sitting on a throne and going around with a lever. 371 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:35,480 Father doesn't do the judging. Jesus does the judging for the 372 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,440 Father judges no one, but has committed all judgement to the 373 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:44,080 son. Verse 26, John 5 For as the 374 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:50,720 Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have 375 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:58,080 life in himself, and has given him authority to execute 376 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,320 judgement also. Why? 377 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,880 Because He is the Son of man. That's the reason He has that 378 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:10,800 authority to judge us. Every man, every woman, everyone 379 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:15,040 born in this world because he's walked this path, God became a 380 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,920 man because He is the Son of man. 381 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,920 God the Father gave him the role of judgement. 382 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,400 The Bible says that Jesus Christ is returning and He will judge 383 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:33,240 the world with righteousness. This is the title, the term Son 384 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,120 of man. This is the title that links him 385 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,480 to the earth and his earthly mission. 386 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,720 Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the Son of God, and He became the 387 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,560 Son of Man. Why is it necessary But for the 388 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:56,000 Judge to be human and have lived on earth, Why is that necessary? 389 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,000 So that when every individual and every individual will stand 390 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,400 before Christ has rejected him, The second resurrection, the 391 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:12,280 great white throne judgement, So that Jesus may put down all 392 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,360 excuses He can't say, oh, when you don't, how would you know? 393 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:21,440 You've never, I have, I did no excuses. 394 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,520 So that he may put down all excuses people might try to 395 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,520 make. But why must the judge also be 396 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:35,000 God? So that his judgement will be 397 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,720 true and just because every time God is said to judge and make a 398 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,160 judgement, particularly all through in Daniel 9:00, we we 399 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,720 saw it all through the Book of Revelation during the 400 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,520 tribulation period, every time God made a judgement, the angels 401 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,400 and everyone that is exactly the right judgement. 402 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,720 And so the virgin birth is more than a child born in Bethlehem. 403 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:10,960 The virgin birth is critical to all the foundational truth 404 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:17,120 doctrine of Christianity. And I pray that you will study 405 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:23,480 and delve even further into why Jesus was the Son of God, the 406 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,680 Son of man, and why the cults such as Jehovah Witnesses are so 407 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:34,040 dangerous and so, so wrong. Because they're Jesus, which 408 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,440 Paul wrote about the second our Corinthians. 409 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:46,080 Their spirit will send a soul to eternal damnation. 410 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,720 Because there's only Jesus, the Son of God, who can save us from 411 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:52,360 our sins.