CHAOS Week 2
Virgin Birth
Pastor Bill Hines
Part of Chaos
December 8, 2019

In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.”
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” —Luke 1:26-34

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary…“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” —Luke 1:27, 34

Rejecting the virgin birth:

Implies God’s Word is

truth.

Ascribes sin of

to Mary and Joseph

Implies Jesus was an

and .

Why we believe in a virgin birth:

The

the virgin birth.

How long will you wander,
O unfaithful daughter?
The LORD will create a new thing on earth—
a woman will surround a man.” —Jeremiah 31:22

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. —Isaiah 7:14

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. <cite>---Genesis 1:1-3</cite>

The

the virgin birth. Matthew 1:16

Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,

      the son of Heli, <cite>---Luke 3:23</cite>

When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” —Luke 2:48-49

The

demands the virgin birth.

God’s blood because?

His blood is

but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. —1 Peter 1:19

His blood is

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. —Acts 20:28

His blood is

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. —Hebrews 9:12

His blood is

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. —1 John 1:7

His blood is

May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, —Hebrews 13:20

The

demands the virgin birth.