✨ What does the virgin birth of Jesus Christ mean? Why is this important? ✨

🌟 Why would God choose to work this way? 🌟

We believe that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. 🙏

📜 There is Old Testament prophecy pointing to this…

“The virgin shall conceive and bear a son” (Isaiah 7:14)

This means that Jesus is in fact the very same Jesus who was foretold of old. 🌠

It shows that Christianity is not a brand new religion, but really the continuation of the first. 📖

What does it mean for us?❓

🌿 Jesus is not born sinful.

❤️ Jesus was free from death, but he chose to die for you and the whole world.

🙌 He is fully God and fully man.

✨He has two natures, the divine and the human.

✝️ When the Son bore the cross for you, the Son, divine and human, died.

✅ He fulfilled OT prophecy.

The virgin birth paints a picture of the kind of God we have:🖼️

🌍 A God who would use something like the virgin birth to enter into this creation.

💔 He subjects himself to humiliation to save you.

🙏 He works through the lowly to save you.

👉 Remember: Mary started catching flack right away because her virtue was called into question. (Joseph was planning to divorce her.) 💔💍

The Virgin conceived and bore a son because this is where God works — in the place where the world would mock and belittle. Just like the world mocks the cross. 😔✝️

Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Content Executive.

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