The Virgin Birth

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The Virgin Birth
What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he?
Matt. 2242
Doubted
Denied
Accept Believe
Deny Reject
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Evidence from Prophecy
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed He shall
bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.
Gen. 315 NKJV
Virgin Birth
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Evidence from Prophecy
700 Years before
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a
sign Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isa.
714
Matt. 122-23
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22. Now all this was done, that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the
prophet, saying, 23 Behold, a virgin shall be
with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they
shall call his name Emmanuel, which being
interpreted is, God with us.
Matt. 122-23
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A Sign

• Ordinary birth would not be a sign
• Something unusual
• Something supernatural

A mother giving birth
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Who is the virgin in Isa.714 ?

• Not the wife of Isaiah
• Not the wife of Ahaz
• Not a dual fulfillment

Mary Matt. 122-23
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"Almah"
Virgin KJV Young Woman RSV
Chaste Pure
Unchaste Impure
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6 times Unmarried maiden Greek Parthenos -
virgin
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Evidence from New Testament
Matthew
Matthew 1 begat 39 Times V. 16 Does not
use the word V. 20 Conceived of Holy Spirit
Was Matthew Inspired ??
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Evidence from New Testament
Mark
No account of birth Starts with public
ministry No contradictions
Jesus claimed he was the Christ
Mk. 1461-62
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Evidence from New Testament
Luke
Told that she would have a son How shall this
be, seeing I know not a man? Luke 134 V. 35
called the Son of God
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And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years
of age, being (as was supposed) the son of
Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Luke 323
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Evidence from New Testament
John
Does not expressly mention birth Begins with
pre-existence of Christ with God
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1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same
was in the beginning with God. John
11-2 14. And the
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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If Jesus was the son of Joseph how could he be
the Only begotten from the father? Jn.316 Only
through the virgin birth could the divine and
human natures of Christ be united in one person.
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• Gospels
• Matthew Luke Virgin Birth
• Mark John
• Do not contradict
• Use language that assumes the virgin birth

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Phil. 25-7
Paul
5. Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus 6. Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God 7.
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men
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Gal.44 NKJV
Paul

• But when the fullness of the time had come, God
  sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under
  the law
• Kept genealogy from father
• Born of a woman
• Virgin Birth

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The Virgin Birth

• Was Unique no other like it
• Jesus existed before his mother
• Important because
• Authority of scriptures
• Deity of Christ
• Christ as Savior

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The Virgin Birth

• If not true then Christ is not supernatural
• If virgin birth falls, then down goes
  Christianity
• Gospel rests upon the doctrine of the birth of
  Christ to a virgin !

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The Virgin Birth

• I believe the Bible account of the virgin Birth
  of Jesus !

Most Americans Believe in Virgin Birth of Jesus
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Sermon by Arthur Pigman Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road Evans, Ga. 30809 706-855-1249 evan
scoc_at_bellsouth.net www.evansgachurchofchrist.org S
unday Evening Dec. 23, 2007