‘Impossible’ is man’s word, ‘Everything Possible’ is God’s word.
God can do everything, impossible for man is possible for God.
God saves all who obey Him from death and punishment. God cause everything
happen in His will.
Woman can bear child only when contacted with man. But Mary was exceptional.
She was found pregnant without husband. According to the Law of the Jews, she
was adulterer – must be put (stoned) to death.
Mary’s life was in danger– must be put (stoned) to death.
To man - she must have had committed adultery that she bored a child without
husband – must be put (stoned) to death.
However, Jesus, the Saviour of the world, could not have been born and we
could not have received the forgiveness of God, if Mary had not risk her life.
Mary obeyed the Lord and risks her life to bear the child Jesus without
human husband. She bored the child from the Holy Spirit, not seen by man. Very
unnatural and exceptional, indeed. Not comprehensible for human being.
Who would believed if Mary defended herself that God caused her pregnant,
from the Holy Spirit. No one, not any Jew’s priest would believe her words
without eye witness, which is impossible as none can see the Holy Spirit with
naked eye. So, Mary must be put (stoned) to death.
God knows everything. He knew the Jew’s Law, too. He knew that Mary
belongs to Jew and was under Jew’s Law. God knew that Mary must be put to death
if she was found with a child without human husband. So, God commanded Joseph
to marry her. Joseph obeyed the Lord and married Mary. Thus, God saved Mary
from capital punishment, through Joseph.
Jesus, the Saviour and the Messiah (Christ) was born and Joseph named Him
‘Jesus’ as God had commanded.
SERMONIZE:
Girls, will you dare to risk your life like as Mary did?
Boys, will you be kind enough and sympathetic to safe a girl from such
risk if it ever happens in your life?
Suppose, our Missionary Pastor request you girls, ‘there is one new
believer, recently baptized, is a poor man living single without proper income
as his family had sent out of house. He need wife. Please marry him that he may
life a happy family life with you and do the Lord’s work with him in mission
field. Will you dare? It is 90 per cent less of the risk bored by Mary. Will
you dare to leave your home town and live with him in a remote village, for the
sake of God’s mission?
Boys, if our Missionary Pastor brings a poor girl from Mission field and
say, “this poor girl is uneducated, recently baptized. Her villagers sent her
out from their village after gang-raped as she become Christian. Now, she is
pregnant because of that gang rape. She must be married or lead a miserable
life. Please, marry her for God’s shake.
Boys, will you marry her for the shake of Gospel?
Mary risks her life by obeying God. Joseph saved Mary from capital
punishment by obeying God.
Therefore, Mary becomes the most loved, known, honoured woman, became the
coveted mother of the Saviour of the world and her name will never be
forgotten. Joseph became counted as the human father of the Saviour of the
world and his name will always be remembered.
Jesus became the Saviour of the world (every man). But not every man is
saved. Only those who believe in God, the Creator and who send Jesus to the
world as well as believe in Jesus – accepting Him as personal Lord and Saviour
are saved from the wrath of God and eternal condemnation, but have everlasting
life to live forever with God.
But, every man of the world can become saved, if and when they believe.
The Salvation work has been done and completed by Jesus Christ, once for all.
Jesus Has sacrificed His life, died on the cross to save all from eternal death
and rose again to make room for us in Heaven, to give the right to call “the
children of God to all who believe in God and in His name” (John 1:12).
There are many people, in many religion, who are still practicing ‘animal
sacrifice’, ‘blood sacrifices’ to please gods and goddesses; to save themselves
from the wrath of and to receive help as well as blessings from their gods and
goddesses. These people are still far from the Salvation through Jesus Christ.
These people still do not know or accepted that Jesus Christ has
sacrificed His life, body and blood for us once for all; no more need to ‘sacrifice
blood and life’ to the only true God, the Creator of all created things. Only, one
has to do this –
- “Believe that the only true God
had sent His Son Jesus Christ to this world to save all the people of the
world;
- That Jesus has sacrificed His life, body and blood and died on the Cross
on behalf of all, completed the necessity of sacrificing ‘flesh and blood’,
once for all (no longer necessary for those who believe);
- That God has raised Him (Jesus) from the dead and given Him to grant the
right (power) to call ‘the children of God’ all who believe in Him. The
Children of God are saved from the power of evil power (Sin/Satan) and its
control but are saved from the evil power and control; these people are given
the Holy Spirit by God in Jesus name – to help, guide, protect and lead a godly
life here on earth and guaranteed to live with God forever with God in Heaven
after physical dead.
- - To acknowledge, confess that he/she is sinner ( live away from God, and
under the influence of sin/satan); repent (turn away from the sinful life) and
turn toward God; ask the forgiveness of God; call Jesus to save him/her from
the power of sin and to clean him/her from sin; declare that he/she accepted
Jesus Christ and personal Lord and Saviour; thank that He (Jesus) died for him
and make him God’s child; ask to give him/her the holy Spirit – to help,
comfort and help him live a worthy life as the Child of God; say all this in
prayer in Jesus name.
SUMMARY : Matthew chapter 1, we read about the unbroken genealogy of
Jesus, stressing that Jesus is the Messiah and that Joseph is not the father of
Jesus but only the husband of Mary, by saying, “Joseph, the husband of Mary, and
Mary, the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.”
Mary was
pledged to be married to Joseph, but she was found to be pregnant through the
Holy Spirit. As such, Joseph tried to divorce her quietly. But an
angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son
of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is
conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you
are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their
sins. All this
took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive
and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means
“God with us”).
When Joseph woke up, he did what the
angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he did not consummate
their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus (when
the child was born).
