A Miraculous Birth John Kane

Well, good morning everyone. Welcome to Faith Bible Church. I heard that the ladies Gathering on Saturday was a real blessing. Thank you Barb for preparing and presenting that devotional with the ladies and heard really good things About it.

So God has blessed all the all those that were there and as we Kind of we're drawing near close to the this this year has been somewhat uncertain for pretty much everybody and We've seen God's hand of faithfulness throughout the year in many ways.

It's been challenging. It's been difficult but God is faithful and And truly I think at the end of this year being that it's Christmas, you know that we can in a way we can punctuate The this entire year with celebrating the hope that we have in Christ Jesus he's basically saying I'm still here remember me and Let us do that this morning in remembering him and everything that we do in our worship.

And I'd like you to join with me and praying together for our church for our country for our community for our folks and So let's just let's join together in prayer. Okay Lord God, we thank you father that you have joined us together if not in physical presence Lord But also at a heart level in a spiritual level father.

God, may you Help us today to rejoice To see your goodness and your grace and all those things around us father even through the trials and the difficulties father you are there you are present and You are our helper and we draw upon that strength that you give us father that is not within our own abilities To do what we need to do but father with you all things are possible.

So Lord, we thank you for that or we pray for those that are at home That have have kind of been unable to get out and about Lord. We pray for the church family That we can't see Lord, but we know they're there Lord.

May you Keep them close to you. I pray that they would be Drawing near to you and word and in prayer and trying to stay strong and in a time when it's difficult to be apart From each other father. So Lord bless them.

I pray or we pray for our country I know several weeks ago. It seemed a month we were praying that the results of the the election that we would accept them no matter what father knowing that you were in control of all and you still are and Lord we continue to wait but it's it's becoming fairly clear Lord as to what your plan is, but father we we rest in you we know that you have still placed people in our country and our leadership father that are that are godly people and that you would help them to be a Testimony and an impact on those around them.

So Lord, we thank you for for having your hand in that Lord. We pray for Those in our country that are hurting Businesses that have gone out People that don't have jobs that their health is failing as well father and families have been separated and Because they cannot gather but father.

I pray that you would fill that gap for them that your presence Would help them to weather this storm that you would see them through it father. But we we rest in you father and Lord help us to root witness to those around us even in our own community In our state that seems to be in in a bit of turmoil Lord from the leadership standpoint father.

We still pray for our political leaders government leaders both at the state level and the community level father that you would Help them Lord. I pray to to turn an eye to you that they would Look for the good of you and the good of the people father and not be self-serving Lord in whatever Aspect so Lord, we thank you this morning Lord, we pray that you would bless our time of worship together and as we fellowship and bring praises Sing praises to you father and bless pastor John as he brings us the word about our Savior.

We pray all these things in Christ's name. Amen. Psalm 150 reads praise the Lord praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty firmament. Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with the lute and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance. Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes. Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with clashing cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord and that's what we're going to do this morning. Our first song is going to be silent night. They found Mary and Joseph and the baby saw.

Angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them. It came upon a midnight clear Spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Let's stand together as we continue to sing good Christian men rejoice.

Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened. Come all ye Faithful. The heavenly host appeared with the angel.

Praising God. Angels we have heard on high pastor John.

Just something so beautiful about Christmas carols and just.

Just.

The hope that they bring I couldn't believe. That that's how Harold started the service because that's exactly what's on my mind is is the hope and the promise of Christmas. No matter What might be going on in our country just a wonderful? wonderful.

Thought the hope of Christmas a silent night. Well, it's about 12 days To Christmas and I looked back and there was a time one Sunday when I preached a message the 12 days of Christmas. Because it was a Sunday.

I think it was about 15 years ago, but I forgot the date. When I was looking at it, but you might remember last week. We looked at the message title the promise birth and This morning God willing. I want to call your attention to the message title a miraculous birth.

So last week a promised birth. This Sunday today a miraculous birth. Now when you think about God's promises, the Bible is literally full of the promises of God. Philippians 4 17 my God shall supply all your need according to his Riches in Christ Jesus and that isn't a promise about a full bank account.

Even though false teachers use it that way. Romans 8 28 God promises to cause all things to work together for our good for the good of believers. Proverbs 3 4 God promises to direct our paths to make our paths straight.

John 14 3 Jesus promises that he's going to prepare a place for us in heaven for all eternity and We can go on and on. I can go to verse after verse example after example of God's Promises and God made an amazing promise some 700 years before the birth of Jesus Christ and we looked at that last Sunday if you remember from Isaiah Chapter 7 verse 13.

Listen now house of David here. The Prophet comes to King Ahaz. And he says it. He says ask for yourself a sign. Anahas says presumptuously with lots of pride. Oh, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna tempt tempt the Lord my God and and and and then the the the Prophet says What are you talking about is it too slight a thing For you to try the patience of men that you will try the patience of my God as well and then in verse 14 The Prophets response therefore the Lord himself Will give you a sign.

Listen. I told you to ask for a sign in your pride in your spiritual pride. You said I'm not gonna tempt the Lord. I'm not gonna test the Lord to God that way. Well, I'm gonna give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall be with child and bear a son.

And she will call his name Emmanuel which translated is God with us.

And.

It's amazing and miraculous prophecy and so many others fulfilled in Jesus Christ is. Really what Christians should be remembering this time of the year? So with Christmas right around the corner. I want to speak with you about this promise birth.

That was a miraculous birth meaning that God suspended all the laws of nature and biology and physiology and Science on that silent night when Jesus was born some 22 ,000 plus years ago a choir of angels appeared to shepherds watching over their flocks at night and called their attention to the miraculous and history-changing virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.

No birth in the history of the human race has so universally impacted mankind. The birth of Jesus Christ was not like any other birth before or after it was a miraculous birth and when it comes to considering and studying this verse There's many many things that we could look at.

You know a diamond. I remember when My wife and I were dating and we went to look for the ring and The jeweler has that thing, you know. And he puts it in his eye and you can look at the diamond and it has many many facets many many colors, right?

And it was a little one. That's all the money I had. When it comes to appreciating a diamond you see the diamond and you put the jeweler's eyeglass in there. And then you look at it and you go I can't even believe this and you turn it in your even the small ones.

Well, that's how it is with the importance and significance of the virgin birth and What I want to call your attention of all the things that we could study this morning or look at in God's Word about the virgin birth this miraculous birth what I want to call your attention to are some of the Consequences some of the results of this miraculous verse and its implications and universal importance when it comes To where someone will spend eternity.

Jesus Christ The only begotten Son of God the long-promised Messiah was and is the eternal God who was born of a Virgin his birth was literally a miracle where God Suspended and made of no effect biology science all the natural laws of creation.

Jesus Christ was not conceived like other births are conceived. Jesus was conceived by a.

Supernatural.

Miraculous act of the Holy Spirit and this miraculous birth is of such paramount and theological Importance that apart from this birth there would be no good news of Christmas. There would be no gospel.

Without it there would be No forgiveness of sin. Without this miraculous birth there would be no eternity in heaven without it There would be no Christianity. And without the virgin birth there would be no Christmas.

You know a respected pastor once said and I I want to quote him Christianity rests on three great pillars the incarnation the crucifixion and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The incarnation alone could not redeem sinful men and apart from the incarnation there could be no Propitiary sacrifice that would avail to put away sin.

So think about that for a moment. Christianity our faith rests on three great pillars the incarnation the crucifixion and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christianity the gospel the reason for the season is held up by these three great pillars.

The incarnation referring to his virgin birth the Crucifixion referring to his death on the cross and the resurrection Referring to his rising from the grave after three days in it according to the scriptures knock down any of those three pillars and The building Collapses.

It's like Samson when he pushed those pillars right in the house of the Philistines and the roof came cumbling down and they all died. Including himself you you take out any one of those pillars. The building collapsion Collapses.

No virgin birth means no incarnation, which means no Christianity. So the incarnation God becoming man God becoming flesh and dwelling among us happen miraculously and Supernaturally by means of the virgin birth.

Now take a look with me at Matthew chapter 1 verse 18.

Now.

The birth of Jesus Christ was as follow After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example was minded to put her away secretly.

But while he thought about these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David Do not be afraid to take you marry your wife for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit and She will bring forth a son and you shall call his name Jesus for he will save his people from his sins.

So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the Prophet saying Behold the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which is translated God.

With us.

Then Joseph being aroused from sleep did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took him took to him his wife. And did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn son, and he called his name.

Jesus a.

Miraculous birth and A birth that changed the course of human history. Let's pray Father we thank you for this day this wonderful opportunity to gather together to begin to really celebrate Christmas.

The hope and the promise of Christmas God. We know Lord that.

Most.

Definitely Jesus was not born on December 25th. We understand that and but we also understand that there's nothing wrong with traditions. Traditional pumpkin pie Every Thanksgiving, there's nothing wrong with that or every Christmas eggnog in the refrigerator, whatever it might be.

Father. This is a very special tradition. We pray father that the Holy Spirit might indeed Bring your word alive to our hearts Penetrate our hearts. God plant seeds in our hearts in Enhance and and Increase our understanding of this incredible Act that you did God To send your only son to this world That we might have life and have it abundantly.

We pray in Jesus name. Amen. So many people have called Christmas the the greatest story ever told a well-known newsman back in the 1960s. Some of you are old enough to remember Harry Reasoner. I had a neighbor named me He called the birth of Jesus Christ.

I mean this is when This is I mean this is in the 60s. He called The birth of Jesus Christ the truest thing in the world. Can you remember when you would get news reports like that. And this morning? I want to call and draw our attention to the importance and significance of the virgin birth.

The miracle of the virgin birth is so Central and fundamental the Christian faith that it's you that it's universally taught in all divisions of Christendom from the Eastern Orthodox Church All the way to the Roman Catholic Church.

The virgin birth falls on one of the great fault lines of the Christian faith. The virgin birth rests on the great divide that separates those who believe the Bible is God's Word from those who don't.

The virgin birth separates those who believe in a supernatural Christ a Miraculous Christ from those who believe he was just a good man or a teacher. The virgin birth separates those who acknowledge that Jesus Christ was a gifted teacher perhaps even a prophet.

But deny that he was the very son of God come down from heaven. And this morning We'll look at and reflect on some reasons why the doctrine and the miracle of the virgin birth is So very important. Why?

Why was and is the miraculous virgin birth of Jesus Christ so Important to Christianity and the gospel. And if you want to follow along in your notes number one. Because the miracle of the virgin birth Establishes that Jesus Christ was born by a direct act of God.

Why is the miracle of the virgin birth so important and vital to Christianity in the gospel number one. Reason number one is because it Establishes that Jesus Christ was born by a direct act of God. Because Jesus Christ was born of a virgin.

It means that he was born by a direct act of God. Look at verse 18 again. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follow. Here is his testimony. Here is Matthew the tax gatherers. Testimony now the birth of Jesus Christ.

This is how it happened After his mother Mary was betrothed to Jason Joseph. That means engaged Before they came together before the marriage was consummated. She was found with child of the Holy Spirit then verse 20.

But while Joseph thought about these things behold an angel the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take you marry your wife. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Now.

The people alive at the time of Christ's birth were not expecting anything like his birth Mary. If you read through the Gospels read through Matthew 1 and 2 read through Luke chapter 1 and 2 all the way into chapter 3.

They were shocked. Mary was shocked. She was mystified. She was afraid by the angel Gabriel's words. Joseph assumed the worst. I cannot believe that I'm engaged to this woman who is with child. And that was how he felt until the angel intervened.

And in general the Jews struggled with the concept that a baby Born of a virgin would be their deliverer their conquering King. That was the Messiah. They were looking for right the one that would deliver them from the Roman oppression from this horrible life that they had under Rome and.

What's amazing is that Christ's birth happened the way that it happened and how it happened and when it happened? Because an all-powerful Sovereign God willed it to happen just as he willed light. Let there be light and there was light.

This is God in the case of creation. He said let there be light and there was light. In the case of the birth of Jesus Christ God said a virgin shall be with child and A version was with child. The virgin birth is a miracle only a.

Virgin.

I'm sorry a virgin can only give birth by a sovereign decree of an almighty all-powerful all-knowing God. No other plausible explanation exists. Jesus was born by the direct Action of God and let me bring it up to 2020.

Did God intervene? When he judged the world with the flood answer. Yes. Did he intervene by a direct act when he divided the Red Sea so the Israelites could cross answer? Yes. What about 2020. Can he intervene in the affairs of the United States of America?

Yes.

I'm not talking about the election. I'm talking about everything that's going on in our country. Absolutely. We have to understand that whoever takes that oath of office in January is who God Wanted to be there or else He wouldn't be there.

Do you understand that? God can stop evil or he can let evil have its way. Because God is sovereign. He's all-knowing and One of the promises we have to stand on no matter what direction happens is What Romans 8 28?

God is at work for our good for believers good. There's many people say right now that this kovat crisis has impacted the church in ways That people never would have believed there is a wheat and chaff Separation going on in the church right now around the United States over this very issue.

Why is the miracle of the virgin birth so important to the gospel into Christianity? Secondly because the miracle of the virgin birth verifies that no human being was involved in Christ's birth. The virgin birth verifies that no human being was involved in Mary giving birth to God's Son.

I mean, obviously she gave birth but there's the bigger picture Mary and Joseph were betrothed in The culture and tradition of their day. They weren't married yet their engagement might as well. They might as well been married in the culture and tradition of that day so in Jesus's birth Joseph.

Joseph wasn't involved. Mary wasn't and and her parents their parents were but no human being was involved and One reason this aspect of the birth is so very important is because once we add Human effort to anything that God does we trample on his glory?

Why are verses like Ephesians 2 8 and 9 so important for by grace? Are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves not of works going to church getting baptized taking communion? Right. I'm a good person.

I gave five dollars to the homeless guy on the corner of 65th Street. Nothing we do Nothing we do can save us. It has to be all God or we trample on God's glory. Critics and heretics and skeptics refuse to accept this miraculous truth and give credit for Christ's birth to Mary and Venerate her and others that were a part of that giving credit to Joseph.

He was such a if it wasn't for Joseph He never would have been born To Mary and Joseph. I mean you can just go on and on. The fact is the doctrine the virgin birth tells us no human being was involved and no human being could have been involved.

God.

Did it all?

Why is the virgin birth of Jesus Christ so important number three? Because the miracle of the virgin birth Authenticates the truth that Jesus was both fully God and fully man verse 18 again. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows.

After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Now the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was both fully human and fully divine Theologians over the years many many many many years ago.

How can we explain in a word? For example the word Trinity, right? We understand that God the Father is God Totally God. God the Holy Spirit Totally God. They have the same attributes the same character.

They're both immutable and Add Jesus to that mix. All three have the same powers have the same attributes have the same Characteristics. All three are totally loving. All three are just you understand.

They're all God. How do we bring that together? So they came up with a word that you can't find in your Bible.

Trinity.

Okay, same thing with Jesus being fully God and fully man. Theologians came up with a word it's called hypostatic union. Hypostatic union. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, but Mary gave birth to him.

The hypostatic union referring to Jesus being both fully God and fully man is something that we cannot Understand any more or explain? Adequately any more than we can explain how God created the world.

Right sit down and try to talk to somebody. Right when the scientists are saying one thing and you can well, let me just tell you. This happened over six literal 24-hour days. You mean not millions and billions of years scientists say the earth is 4 .5 billion years old.

We say that earth is seven thousand five hundred eight thousand seven somewhere in there. Give or take they say Oh give or take a couple of million. We say give or take a couple hundred right if you do the chronology of the Bible.

So we can't fully explain we can't fully understand. We can't fully explain. How did God divide the Red Sea and Then the Israelites crossed on dry. I mean it wouldn't the bottom of the Red Sea be real wet like kind of muddy, right?

Right, wouldn't it? Well, no. No they crossed on dry land. The magazine biblical archaeology biblical archaeology. Many many many years ago had an article where these scholars were investigating the crossing of the Red Sea and they said, you know Moses is a really wise man and There's this area of the northern Red Sea.

If you look on a map, you can see it. That's very shallow. So really where they crossed was not down there where it's deep. They crossed where it's really shallow and they just walked across and I'm surprised why didn't anybody say?

Okay, so if they walked across the shallow part of the Red Sea, how did the Egyptian army drown? Jesus wasn't half human and half divine. He was the God man both a hundred percent man and a hundred percent God at the same time.

He was Emmanuel God with us. Jesus was fully God becoming fully flesh, but retaining his deity and at the same time laying it aside. That's why in Philippians chapter 2 he laid aside his deity. He put it aside.

He was God. He was man a hundred percent not 50 -50. He was one person. Possessing two natures. How can I explain it? I can't I'm sorry. Why is the miracle of the virgin birth so important to the gospel into Christianity number one.

Because it means that Jesus was born by a direct act of God number two. It shows us that no human being was involved in the other than the fact. I mean, of course Mary gave birth but in the logistics of that birth number three because it authenticates the truth.

That Jesus Christ was both fully human and fully divine. She the the his birth was conceived by the Holy Spirit fully divine. Mary gave birth fully human now a fourth reason. Because the miracle of the virgin birth verifies that Jesus was born lived and died and always will be.

Without.

Sin over in Luke. Luke chapter 1. See because of the fall of man because of sin there was only one way for God's promised Messiah to be born without sin and That was by means of the miracle of the virgin birth.

Look at verse 34. Luke 1. Mary said to the angel How can this be? Since I do not know a man. Then Mary and the angel answered and said to her the Holy Spirit will come upon you and The power of the highest will overshadow you therefore also that Holy One Who is to be born will be called the Son of God?

Now did you notice? That the word one there is capitalized and that is because the translators have determined in context that the word one is referring to deity and Then there's a modifier there the word holy.

Holy means Pure and without sin. We all have heard this if you've been in church any length of time only God is holy right meaning pure and without sin and this child would be a.

Holy one.

So because of the miracle of the virgin birth Jesus was born perfectly holy as God the Father is holy with no taint of sin. Because he was born of a virgin by a direct act of God He had no inherited sin from Adam.

He couldn't and wasn't born with a sin nature. Like every person born since the fall He would have been and he was tempted as all men. But because he was holy He did not and he could not sin. Hebrews 4 15 we do not have a High priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but one Who has been tempted as we are?

But yet without sin see because of the virgin birth There was nothing in Jesus that would cause him to sin. Jesus Christ was and is holy and the truest and deepest Personification of the word. But because he was human He's tempted in all points.

Just like us.

You have you been discouraged of late. Have you been tempted.

Have you been worried? Have you been afraid? Jesus knows Exactly how we feel because he was 100 man.

But yet.

He could not and would not sin as Adam and Eve did. Is that a whole discussion or not? Wait a minute. Adam and Eve were created by God, right? Jesus direct act of God. So Adam and Eve sin, but Jesus didn't they weren't God.

That's the short answer. He was and is and what always will be. All right so the night that Jesus was born Julie was a holy night and This is because Christ was holy God had to become flesh. Because without the shedding of blood Hebrews 922 without the shedding of blood.

There's no remission of sin. But because Jesus Christ was born of Mary he was fully human but because he was conceived of the Holy Spirit He's fully God and he had to be in order. He had to be born holy in order to become the spotless Lamb of God that would take away the sins of the world.

So why is the virgin birth so important one more reason I have time for because the miracle of the virgin birth Validates the authority and the trustworthiness of the Word of God you see since the catastrophic events of the garden critics and skeptics and Enemies of God have basically taken Satan's lead and called into question the authority and the trustworthiness of the Word of God.

Critics and skeptics have always and will always question the virgin birth. Most of you some of you have cable TV. I'm sure this year if they haven't happened already There are specials about the birth of Jesus Christ.

Usually back in the day when Time magazine and Newsweek and US News and World Report when people actually read those things instead of you know Twitter they always had a cover story this time of the year about the birth of Jesus Christ and It always called into question the virgin birth.

Every TV special I ever saw other than Charlie Brown's Christmas Called into question the virgin birth and see what we have to understand by that is by default then. By simple logic people then question other parts of the Bible.

You see Isaiah prophesied the virgin birth and the Gospels especially Matthew and Luke Explicitly teach it. So when someone Here here's the thing when someone questions a virgin birth Of Christ, here's the issue.

They're faced with do they believe the Bible or don't they believe the Bible? There's there's no there's no middle ground either. The Bible is true or it's false and you have to think through this logic the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ's birth was a miracle and The same Bible teaches that his death was consummated by yet another miracle, right?

He rose after three days from the dead. Well, which one do you not believe? We're talking about the three pillars of the Christian faith. I Mean if he wasn't born of a virgin maybe he didn't die on a cross like the Bible says and maybe he didn't lay in the grave for three days like the Babel Bible says and maybe he didn't rise again after three days like the Bible teaches in other words.

If you don't believe the first miracle, how can you believe the second and let's just take it further. If that's wrong, what about creation? Maybe all these scientists are right. Maybe we did come from apes.

Maybe we aren't this beautiful image create beautiful Being created in the image of God to serve him and enjoy him all the days of our life, right? Where does it stop? Oh, you mean God causes all things to work together.

Well, he's wrong about that. He's wrong about that. I mean just throw the Bible out. Do you get that you understand that. I Hope so. I'd see a one or two shakes of the heads. How did he depart the Red Sea?

Maybe he did cross. Maybe Moses did cross in the shallow part. They just got their feet wet lifted up their togas and then somehow miraculously as the Egyptian army went into that shallow water. They got drowned they fall down in the shallow water.

You see if we question the virgin birth, we might as well question everything else. And what's another reason why the doctrine of the virgin birth is so important? Because if we question that doctrine, why not question everything else another example?

Questioning the virgin birth means questioning the only way that God has given us to be saved. Questioning the virgin birth means Questioning the single means of salvation that God has promised only by means of the virgin birth that Jesus Christ enter the world free from the sin of Adam and Provide the singular means by which men must be saved.

That's why Jesus said in John 14 for 14 6 I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me. These scriptures and numerous others all teach that Jesus is the singular Means that God has provided by which men must be saved acts 412.

There is salvation and no one else for there is no other name given under heaven that man has been given by which men must be saved. 2nd Corinthians 5 21. He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf.

So that we might become the righteousness of God in him not in anybody else. Not in Matthew the tax-gatherer not in Luke the physician. Not in Paul the Apostle. Jesus Christ could fully and precisely pay for our sin because he had no sin and no guilt of his own.

And this could only be done by means of the miracle of the virgin birth a Miraculous birth where God Suspended and made of no effect the laws of biology and science. Can you think of any more Special gift this Christmas than the gift of eternal life.

I'm sorry that $50 iTunes cards is not going to cut it that PlayStation 5. You know what they're doing they want them so bad they're robbing moving trucks. They surround the trucks with PlayStation fives on them and They jump into the back of the truck the moving truck to steal a PlayStation 5.

We sang this morning the famous Christian carol Silent night and do you know that as of about 20 years ago? It was the best-selling and most often played Christmas carol of all the Christmas carols by far double silent night.

The carol began as a poem Written by Father Joseph Murr. If you look in the hymn book, you'll see Joseph Moore. He was a Roman Catholic priest in a church near Salzburg Austria in the foothills of the Austrian Alps.

It was December.

1816 and.

A deep blanket of snow covered everything and muffled almost all. Sun. Have you ever been in snow like that so deep?

It's so quiet.

Maybe some of you have had a mountain cabin or stayed in a mountain cabin after it snows like that and you don't hear a thing.

It's actually beautiful.

Father Moore had been reflecting on the night Jesus was born and he sat down and he wrote a poem. And a few years later again in December the beginning phrase of the poem silent night Holy night kept repeating itself in his mind and he thought how wonderful it would be if the poem was put to music.

So that Christmas he made his way over to the house of the church organist named Franz Gruber. And it was Gruber that put the words to music and on December 24th 4th.

1818.

The incredible Christmas carol silent night was first sung in Father Moore's Church in Austria. What a present God has given mankind. Eternal life in Jesus Christ. You know without the three pillars of the incarnation the crucifixion and the resurrection there would be no Christianity without the miracle of the virgin birth and the incarnation that began at all other.

All the other pillars would be useless. The gospel and and and and Christianity start with the miracle of Christ's birth in Bethlehem. Christmas is a time for believers to think about the wonder of Christ's birth and Perhaps the blessings of being part of the family of God.

You know, it's a time when people that go to church should be asking hard questions. You know if you're watching by video I encourage you to take. You know, I'm sure it's a very disconnected feeling. We did it for a couple of weeks and it's it's very different.