She
Will Give Birth To A Son
And
Will Call Him Immanuel
(Which
Means 'God Is With Us').
Scripture
Isaiah
7:14
14 All right
then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will
conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him
Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).
Isaiah
9:6-7
6 For
a child is born to us,
a son is given to us.
The government will rest on his shoulders.
And he will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
a son is given to us.
The government will rest on his shoulders.
And he will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen!
Isaiah
53:5-6
5 But
he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
Observation
Amazingly
the Prophet Isaiah wrote about the coming of the Messiah, the coming
of the Christ Child 700 years before Jesus was born.
We
can read in Isaiah about how Jesus would be born; it would be a
virgin birth.
And
we can read in Isaiah about how Jesus would suffer and die. Isaiah
wrote in graphic detail about how Jesus would be mistreated and
rejected.
He
described how Jesus would suffer: He would be beaten. He would be
whipped. He would be pierced.
And
Isaiah tells us why God allowed this to happen to Jesus in Isaiah
53:6, “All
of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to
follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.”
And
in Isaiah 9:6-7 we read about Jesus' present and future reign, “His
government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness
and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity.”
To
which I say, “Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
Romans
5:8
John
3:16
“For
this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal
life.”
Application
I
will take time this morning to marvel at all that God did for me by
coming into this world as Jesus!
John
1:14
The
Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw
the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father,
like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.
MESSAGE
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year! This has
been a very, very good Christmas! It has not been perfect, but it has
been so much better than last Christmas. Christmas is all about
relationships and the sharing of Your love with those we love. Thank
You for showing me how it is done. You put 'skin on' … You became
'Flesh' to show me how to love like You love. Help me to love people
like You love them. Give me a bigger heart for the people that You
bring into my life! Thank You for Your Son. He is the Indescribable
Gift!
Daily
Bible Reading: 1 John 1,2,3,4,5; I added: Isaiah 7, 9, 53
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