The birth of the child is a miracle. So for Israel this is the miracle of Israel.
Israel was brought into existence to bring into the world God. Bring into
the world the Word of God, the prophecies of God, the works of God, the kingdom of God.
But ultimately to bring God himself. And so what happens when a child is born?
It changes everything in your life. So what happens when the child of Israel is born?
It changes the history of the Jewish people. If you take the history
of the Jewish people from Abraham to now, you can divide it into two parts. Abraham
to Messiah, and Messiah until the second coming. And you have the two thing ...
everything changes. When, even though most of the Jewish people have not
yet accepted him, even though many did, but though most did not, nevertheless he still is
the center of Jewish history. It's divided right in the middle. That first century
everything changed. The Jewish history changes. The Temple changes. The religion change ...
Everything changes when he comes. Something happened 2,000 years ago.
And that is the birth of the child who came to Israel. And that's the sign that even
to this day Jewish history is centered around his coming. But then there's
another realm. Let's take it to another dimension this birth of a child, birth of
a baby. There is another mother here. Not just ...
there's Mary, then there's Israel. But then there's another mother. It says
in Romans, it says we know that the whole creation has been groaning as in
the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so but we
ourselves having the firstfruits of the Spirit groan inwardly as we wait eagerly
for our adoption as children the redemption of our bodies in this hope we
were saved. The whole creation, listen to this, this is amazing thing, we can go
right over it. The whole creation has been groaning in the pains of childbirth
right up to this moment. It has been groaning. What's it saying? The creation
itself was created to bring forth, bear the life of God. The whole creation.
That's why God creat ... it's like the creation was made to be joined to God
like a bride ... that's why it's groaning in childbirth,
to bring, to be married to God. It says in the prophecies in that day your whole
land will be called married. To join to God and then it will bring into
the world the life of God. God's love, the, the world, the creation was, was created
to bring forth God's glory, God's love, to bear his fruit. And so the child born
in Bethlehem is the fulfillment of the entire creation. The birth, the birth of
a baby is hope. It's the hope of the entire creation. It's the child of the creation.
The birth of a child makes things new, makes everything new. Well the birth of
this child made everything new. ... for all who receive it makes, it makes
everything new. ... he in fact, he made history new. It wasn't just, it wasn't,
God gives a new beginning to the world through this birth. It wasn't just Jewish
shepherds who came, to see him. It was the Magi, the Gentiles who came because
he was also for them. A child born is the birth, is the joining of the father and mother.
So in this case he's the joining of of heaven and earth in one child.
He's, he's, he's the joining of the spiritual and the physical together.
God and the creation all joined together. And so as a child is the miracle
to the parents, this is the miracle of the creation that God actually sends
his life into the world. Not just the Jewish world, but into the entire pagan world,
every world. And what happens? We said you know when a child is born,
it just changes your life. It is so dramatic that he literally divi ... not only affects
Jewish history, he divides the history of the world in two. BC AD divided by his birth.
That's how much this child has changed the world. And a child changes the world,
well it changes your life. Well a child, this child has changed the world.
But there's another part of this mystery. One more miracle.
One more. Of one more mother who is having the baby. Galatians 4, verse 19.
One more mother. My little children for whom I am in labor until Messiah is formed
within you. See what happened at Bethlehem is also what happened to you.
You see if you are born again, it doesn't matter who you are, in one sense you are
having a baby. That means what we just looked at has to do with you, your life.
What does that mean? Let's, let's now apply that to you. You are, doesn't matter, man, woman,
child, doesn't matter, you are, you were created in the image of God to bear
the life of God through your life into the world. You were made to be the vessel
of his life. That means your whole life, the purpose of your life is to bear God
everywhere you go. To bear the love of God, the joy of God, the presence of God,
the, the knowledge of God, the truth of God from your being, from your heart, from
your soul, from your life. Your life is meant to carry his life and bring it forth.
That the life of God is supposed to, is, is to come through you. And that's
why you can never be fulfilled until that moment. Until that happens your
whole life is like waiting for a birth until it happen ... until he comes into your life.
The birth of a child brings hope. So the new birth in your life is what
brought you hope. It brings something in your life that you didn't have as you
have it now if you're born again. The birth of a child brings excitement!
Do you remember when you were born again? Excitement! Newness! New purpose. It's, and
it's the fulfillment of what you were made to be anyway from the beginning.
The birth of a child makes you fruitful. So the new birth has, it's a very, the only
thing that makes you fruitful. What is the birth of a child?
We said, we said it's the joining of the father and the mother. So your new,
the new life that's in you, that new self is, represents the joining of God and you.
In other words now you have God's nature in you, but it's you. It's not
somebody else. It's you. But it's God's nature together, joined together. You have
the nature of God. You are now, if you're born again, you have, you have, the child
about you, you've got light inside of you. You've got, it's something that's holy and pure
and righteous. It's joined to God. It's got God, it's God, but it's you, joined
to God. It's the life of God, but it's you. To find out how you can receive more of
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