The
Christ Child
If the first coming of Jesus
brought great Joy…
What will His second coming
bring?
Two videos of the song, Mary Did You Know
I hope you enjoy them; I could not make up my mind which I liked
best.
It is Christmas Eve and we are thinking
of a young woman named Mary in labor.
Her labor and pain will only last a few more hours
and she will hold in her arms the joy
she has been waiting for, for so long.
But the labor pains started
long before Mary was born.
Heaven and Earth have been in pain
since the fall of Adam and Eve, the mother of us all.
From that time,
God and the children of Adam and Eve,
have been
looking forward to a new birth;
a hope of seeing a day of deliverance
that would bring joy back to the world.
A joy like the joy Adam and Eve experienced
in the Garden of Eden when they walked with God.
So who is this Child
Heaven and Earth
has been waiting for?
There are more than 300 Messianic prophecies
in the Old Testament that this Child Jesus
fulfilled in His life, death and resurrection.
The chances of one person fulfilling
a mere 8 of these prophecies
are 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000.
For one person to fulfill 48 of these prophecies,
the number becomes staggering—
1 chance in 10 to the 157th power (1 with 157 zeros after it).
Add to that the 250 other prophecies,
and it becomes impossible for any other person, except
Jesus,
to ever fit that particular sequence of time and
events.
The One Heaven and Earth has been waiting for
was called the “Messiah”
in the Old Testament
and in the New Testament the “Christ” -
both words mean “anointed.”
In the Old Testament, Priest, Kings and Prophets
are referred to as being “anointed.”
Jesus has become our High Priest to intercede on our
behalf.
He is the King of righteousness.
The Prophet whose Word cannot return void.
Jesus is also the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Again Heaven and Earth is in labor waiting for deliverance.
God was born into the world like you and I.
He fulfilled the Prophecies of the Old Testament.
Now we wait for Him to come again, but not as a baby…
we wait for Him to come and set up His eternal
Kingdom.
Are
you looking?
Scripture
Reading
Isaiah 9:6-7 NIV
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there
will be no end.
He will reign on David's throne and over his
kingdom,
establishing and upholding it with justice
and righteousness from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Romans 8:18-29 NIV
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not
worth comparing
with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the
sons of God to be revealed.
20 For the
creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice,
but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from
its bondage to decay
and brought into the glorious freedom of the
children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning
as in the pains of childbirth right up to the
present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the
firstfruits of the Spirit,
groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption
as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is
seen is no hope at all.
Who hopes for what he already has?
25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we
wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our
weakness.
We do not know what we ought to pray for,
but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans
that words cannot express.
27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of
the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in
accordance with God's will.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the
good of those who love him,
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