The Virgin Birth of Christ

Friday, December 25, 2015

Allow me to say only a few things here concerning the virgin birth of Jesus. We find it intimated in God's chastisement of Adam and Eve, and the old serpent in the Garden of Eden, when he said the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, and he should bruise her heel. If Christ were to be born in the common course of nature, the Lord would have said the seed of the man should bruise the serpent's head. But he said the seed of the woman. Gen. 3:15. The very first promise of a Redeemer is a strong point in the argument of the Virgin birth. No human could have any power or virtue, to redeem the rest of humanity. Then the prophet Isaiah, hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, writes, "Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanual." Isa. 7:14.

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