Summary
Guided by the Spirit, Simian came into the temple and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary under the law. We started this series looking at two births, looking at the birth of or the pregnancy of John the Baptist, looking at the pregnancy for Jesus or the pregnancy of Mary with Jesus. Jesus Christ entered into humanity born with flesh like you and me fully man, fully God, born fully under the law, but unlike you and I, he was not born with the same heart, the heart that is born in darkness. And so we celebrate the birth of Jesus because it is God, born in the flesh, born with the heart that is pure, born to grow up and live perfectly under the burden of the law, born to grow up and resist every temptation that you and I cannot. The miraculous birth of Jesus Christ was with the very specific purpose that he would grow and that he would take his perfect life to the cross, the cross at the foot where Mary stood, watching her beloved, her beloved son die, taking on your sin, taking on my sin, bringing all of the sin of the whole world onto himself and suffering the punishment. And we know that we have been called by his spirit to be new creations, to be born again, not because we deserve it, not because we can do it because God has called us forth through the waters of baptism.
Video citations
- "Two Births" 12-29-24 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke the second chapter, if you're using a Pue edition of the Bible, this can be found on page 51 in the New Testament. Luke chapter 2. In this…