Bible Readings:
Luke 1:26-38
Isaiah 7:1-14
John 1:1-18
Sermon Outline:
I Who is Jesus?
II The virgin birth
Isaiah 7:14 (NKJV)
14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
Luke 1:31–32 (NKJV)
31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.
32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.
Luke 24:25–27 (NKJV)
25 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Luke 24:46–47 (NKJV)
46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Christ became what we are that, He might make us what He is.
Athanasius
Filling the world He lies in a manger!
Augustine
The mystery of the humanity of Chirst, that He sunk Himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
Martin Luther
Christ voluntarily took upon Him everything that is inseparable from human nature.
John Clavin