CHRISTMAS 2025
Series: OPPORTUNITIES OF FAITH
Matthew 1:18-25
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[f] because he will save his people from their sins.”22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”)4 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS
PROVES THAT
A) Jesus Birth was a SUPERNATURAL event in History
· It was Prophesized
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[g] (which means “God with us”) Isa. 7:14
· It was Proclaimed
4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, Gal. 4:4
B) Presents Jesus as ONE PERSON with TWO NATURES, Fully GOD and Fully MAN
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jn.1:1
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth Jn.1:14
9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, Col. 2:9
SO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS MAKES IN MY LIFE?
1. HE REVEALS GOD THE FATHER
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” Jon. 17:25-26
27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Matt. 11:27
2. HE RELATES TO US IN OUR FALLENCE
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor. 5:21
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Heb. 4:15
5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.2 Jn. 3:5
3. HE RESCUES US FROM OUR FAILURES
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Rom. 7:24
4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, Gal. 1:4
4. HE RESOLVES OUR FUTURE
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Cor. 4:16
AS JESUS WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN WITHOUT SIN SO TO MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO RECEIVE A NEW NATURE – ONE THAT IS NOT BORN OF NATURAL BIRTH BUT A NEW BIRTH FROM HEAVEN
