Title: Jesus! conceived by the Holy Spirit
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Text: Matthew 1:18-21
In Genesis 1:27-28, “God created male and female in his own image, and he blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Conquer the land. Rule over living things.” In other words, the human race, which started with Adam and Eve, has passed 6 billion now, 6,000 years later, because He blessed the world by saying, “Let the world be filled with people.”
From a spiritual point of view, all of them belong to the first man, Adam. Because he was a natural man and sinned, he became a being who could not save himself. However, in order to save them, God sent another Adam into this world as the Spirit of truth, unlike the world, and that person is Jesus Christ.
Regarding Jesus, who was born from heaven, today's text says, “He was conceived by the Holy Spirit.” The declaration that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit is a confession of faith in the truth, which is more precious than the principles of the world.
Usually people are born to parents. Therefore, even his fianc e, Joseph, who had accepted this general reason, could not tolerate the pregnancy of his fianc e. Joseph, a righteous man about the pregnancy of his fianc e, who is not my child, was thinking of breaking the marriage quietly and silently, but an angel, the angel of the Lord, had a dream, saying, “The one conceived by Mary your fianc e is of the Holy Spirit.” You will obey the precious work of God.
Verse 24, “Joseph woke up and took his wife, as the angel of the Lord had commanded, and they did not have sex with her until she bore him a son, and he called his name Jesus.”
Because Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16), overcame temptations in the wilderness with the Holy Spirit (Matthew 4:1), cast out demons with the Spirit (Matthew 10:28), preached the gospel with the Holy Spirit, and He healed a man (Acts 10:38) and sent the Holy Spirit to us (John 16:13; Acts 2:1). Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and did all things by the Holy Spirit, and by sending the Holy Spirit, He is still working among us.
We cannot fully know or believe in Jesus except in the Holy Spirit. This is because our faith in Jesus, our devotion, and our confession are all the work and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
The declaration that “Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit” is,
First, Jesus was without sin.
All descendants of the first Adam are sinners before God. However, only Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, the last Adam, is without sin (Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 3:5; 1 Peter 2:24). Shiram has original sin and self-crime, but the Holy Spirit is without sin because of the Spirit of God. Even Jesus, conceived by the Holy Spirit, is without sin. Only the sinless One can forgive the sins of sinners, and Jesus was without sin to forgive those sins, but he died on the cross like a heinous sinner among sinners.
Second, he was not born of blood or of the flesh (John 1:13).
The text refers to the believers in Jesus or reflects the spiritual attributes of Jesus. He came as a descendant of Abraham (Matthew 1:1), and he was born of the lineage of David according to the flesh, but this is the reason in the world (Romans 1:3), and Jesus came by the will of God. Therefore, in Luke 22:41 and below, the Lord prayed earnestly and labored so that the drops of sweat became drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Heavenly Father's will, his will, is more important than my will and more precious than anything else in this world. Yes, even today, people who are filled with the Holy Spirit can be seen working tirelessly to live according to Heavenly Father's will. Jesus did not come from blood or the will of the flesh, but according to the will of God.
Third, the Word became flesh (John 1:4).
① He came according to the words of the prophecy. Through the prophets for many years, the coming of the Messiah was foretold, and when the time came, Jesus followed that prophecy.
② He came by following the word of truth. The Word is truth (John 17:17). “Sanctify us by the truth; your word is truth.”
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