1. The Word WHEN He became flesh

2. Max Lucado’s book God came Near What was it like watching Him pray? When He saw a rainbow, did He ever mention a flood? Did you ever feel awkward teaching Him how He created the World? When He saw a lamb led to the slaughter, did He act differently? How did He act at funerals? Did the thought ever occur to you that the God to whom you were praying was asleep under your own roof? Did you ever accidentally call Him Father?

3. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David: And He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:32-33)

4. “The Incarnation is the central miracle of Christianity, the most grand and wonderful of all things that God has ever done.” Philippians 2:7 – Jesus, “Made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.”

5. THE MOMENT OF THE WORD BECOMING FLESH Galatians 4:4 “but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law.”

6. THE PROPHETIC MOMENT Isaiah 7:14 “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Micah 5:2 “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” Isaiah 11:1-2 “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of His roots: and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”

7. A PERFECT MOMENT The time was right culturally The time was right politically The time was right religiously

8. A Precise Moment Genesis 3:15 – “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

9. THE MIRACLE OF THE WORD BECOMING FLESH A virgin birth – Matthew 1:18 “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as His mother Mary was esoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.” – Matthew 1:22 “Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” – Luke 1:26-27 “And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.” – Matthew 1:16 “ And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”

10. Al Mohler – “ Christians must face the fact that a denial of the virgin birth is a denial of Jesus as the Christ…The virgin birth does not stand alone as a biblical doctrine, it is an irreducible part of the biblical revelation about the person and work of Jesus Christ. With it, the Gospel stands or falls.”

11. A VITAL BIRTH Matthew 1:21 “ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins.” Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”

12. THE MOTIVE OF THE WORD BECOMING FLESH He Became one with us Hebrews 2:14 “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same.”

13. Dr. Robert L. Moyer “In Jesus divine omnipotence moved in a human arm; In Jesus divine wisdom was cradled in a human brain; In Jesus divine love throbbed in a human heart; In Jesus divine compassion glistened in a human eye; In Jesus divine grace poured forth in human lips.”

14. The word became one for us.

15. If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer. But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.