The Road To Bethlehem: A Virgin Shall Be With Child

Today we continue on the Road to Bethlehem and we come back to Isaiah. This time we come to chapter 7.

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

• A few weeks back, we looked at Genesis 3:15 and saw (among other things) that the Messiah was to be born to a virgin. In other words, He was going to have an earthly mother but not an earthly father.
• We had looked in Matthew 1:18 and read about how that part of the Genesis prophecy was filled in Jesus.
• Have you ever wondered why (other than this prophecy) the Messiah had to be born to a virgin?

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned

Romans 5:12

• Sin. That's why the Messiah had to be born of a virgin. Because of Adam's sin, we have all inherited sin and the death that is the result of sin.
• Many wise men, believe that sin is passed down through the father and since everybody has an earthly father, everybody has inherited sin.
• The father, as you might recall from last week when we studied "Everlasting Father" represents the first of it's kind. In other words, If the father sinned, all of his descendents like him sin.
• But Jesus, the Messiah, did not have an earthly father. Therefore, He did not inherit the sin of Adam.
• Another aspect of the Messiah being born to a virgin is that, well, it would be a miracle since normally there needs to be a mother and a father to make a baby.
• But remember we're talking about a Messiah whose name would be "Wonderful" and that Hebrew word means miraculous!