Not So Familiar Christmas Scripture: Isaiah 7:14
This post is today’s devotional by Dr. David Jeremiah…
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Not So Familiar Christmas Scripture: Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14
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The virgin birth of Christ makes possible His sinlessness. This is one of the most wondrous and marvelous aspects of Jesus of Nazareth. He’s the only person in history who lived righteously on earth – a full life of eating and drinking and socializing and working and talking and sleeping, yet totally free from the taint of sin. There was no moral failure in His dealings, and He was untainted by evil. He was pure and perfect to the depths of His being, and He maintained that purity every moment of His life.
Because our Lord was conceived in the womb of a virgin who had been overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, He was holy and pure, uncontaminated by the blood disease of sin that has infected every other man and woman on the globe. It is a mystery, but it is marvelous; and it’s vitally important. Jesus could not have died for our sins had He not Himself been sinless.
Today take a moment to praise God for providing us such a Savior and for giving us such an amazing story.
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Revelation 1:1 – 5:14
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Posted on December 15, 2012, in Christmas, Jesus and tagged Christmas, God, hope, Immanuel, Isaiah 7:14, Jesus, joy, thankful, Virgin birth of Jesus, wonderful. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
>> “The virgin birth of Christ makes possible His sinlessness”
The Bible tells us that the life of the flesh is in the blood.
Medical science tells us that not one drop of the mother’s blood passes to the unborn child . . . only the father’s blood. Therefore, Jesus was uncontaminated by Adam’s sinful nature, passed down throughout mankind through the blood.
Throughout the Gospels we see that on a few occasions, people tried to kill Jesus but He ‘passed through the midst of them’. Jesus could not die, because death was the penalty of sin, and Jesus had not sinned – therefore could not die.
When Jesus bore the load of the sin of the world and ‘became sin for us’ [2 Cor 5:21] He became subject to death and willingly gave His life a ransom for all who would believe.
What an incredibly amazing God!
Wow, Cloudwatcher, thank you for this detailed explanation of Jesus’ sinless nature. We absolutely do have an incredibly amazing God!