Luke
1:31-37
An
Angel Promises the Birth of Jesus
to Mary
- My
family and I would like to
wish you and your family a
very
Merry
Christmas!!
The Christmas
Story
1:31
"You
will be with child and give birth
to a son, and you are to give him
the name Jesus.
32
He will be great and will be
called the Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the
throne of his father David, 33
and he will reign over the house
of Jacob forever; his kingdom
will never end."
34
' How will this be," Mary asked
the angel, "since I am a
virgin?"
35
The angel answered, " The Holy
Spirit will come upon you, and
the power of the Most High will
overshadow you. So the holy one
to be born will be called the Son
of God.
36
Even Elizabeth your relative is
going to have a child in her old
age, and she who was said to be
barren is in her sixth month.
37
For nothing is impossible with
God. "
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This
is the Word of the Lord ... It
is meant to change the way
that we think, and the way
that we live.
Commentary
by Bob
Pardue
Mary
- Have
you ever really stopped to
think of what a miraculous
event this is?
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- Mary, a
virgin, giving birth to a
child is a miracle that many
people find hard to
believe.
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- But,
there are many things in our
society nowadays that I
sometimes find difficult to
believe. A few are
..
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- Computers
- How can a chip (don't even
know for certain what a chip
is) hold millions of pieces of
information?
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- The
Internet - How does it
work and who actually runs
it?
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- A
light switch - When I flip
it a light magically
appears
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- The
human body - A miracle in
itself.
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- A
lightning bug -
Astounding!!
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- And
on and on ...
- Just
because we can't explain all
these things does not mean
they do not exist, does
it?
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- Is not
the existence of the birth of
Christ to a virgin just as
possible? Let's look also at
the author of this version of
the Christmas
story.
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- Luke
was a medical doctor, and he
knew perfectly well how babies
are made. It would have been
just as hard for him to
believe in a virgin birth as
it is for us, and yet he
reports it as
fact.
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- Another
attribute of Luke was the fact
that he was a painstaking
researcher who based his
Gospel on eyewitness accounts.
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- It is
widely believed that he talked
with Mary about the events he
recorded in the first two
chapters. This is Mary's
story, not a fictional
account.
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- Christians
and Jews, who are all of one
mind that God is the Creator
of the universe, should have
no trouble believing God has
the power to create a child in
a virgin's womb. He created
Adam from nothing.
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- If you
still find yourself having a
difficult time in believing
the story of Christ's birth,
just pray to God for
guidance.
Love in
Christ
-
Bob
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steps
to salvation.
Bob
Pardue
is a member of First
Baptist
Church
in Lancaster, SC. He is ordained
from Rich Hill Baptist in
Lancaster.
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