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The virgin birth of Jesus is as astounding as it is mysterious. Many people throughout the years have gone to great lengths to try and disprove and deny the legitimacy of Christ being born to a virgin mother. I can’t say I blame them! For a child to be born you need a father (a man) and a mother (a woman). Saying a child can be born to a woman who has never known a man is quite simply impossible based on human means. But, that is exactly what God declared would happen and needed to happen. If Christ wasn’t born of a virgin, then He wouldn’t be the Messiah. And, as we’ll discover, He also would not be mankind’s new representative.ch post will appear on all pages listing multiple posts.

It might be the most triggering verse in all of scripture for our modern world. Fewer words, when put into syntactical order, can cause such offense to the most sensitive out there. The verse is Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27, NASB; emphasis mine)

You’d have to be intentionally ignoring the world around you today to not notice that many people believe America has a problem with racism. The concept of race has existed for thousands of years, but its definition has been changed from what it was originally.

Whether it’s philosophy, psychology, religion, or social or political issues, this current world system is attacking the church and God’s people with several layers of deceit through several different human institutions. It might seem overwhelming at first, but in reality, all these institutions have the same goal: to understand and control the world while ignoring and rejecting God.

Have you ever read the nativity story in Luke chapter two and thought, “How convenient that there was a census at the exactly right time that Mary and Joseph needed to go to Bethlehem, so Jesus could be born there?” As a kid, I can even remember people telling the story as if Mary and Joseph made it just in time to give birth to Jesus! Census, Bethlehem, baby. Was it really that easy?

The resurrected Christ who sits at the right hand of God and is exalted on high has bestowed His grace on every member of his body and calls every member to serve. But Christ has gifted some believers within the church body for a very specific purpose: to establish churches, to minister the Word of God, and to equip others for service and ministry.

Since the giving of the Great Commission, the ultimate responsibility of the church has been to proclaim the Gospel to every end of the earth and to transform the believer’s inward character in order to manifest the character of Christ. We are not called to help people find themselves. The church is not a social community where we all “live our best lives now”.

A blog can serve many purposes, but at its core a blog is meant to provide information and knowledge on various topics for a target audience. In starting a blog at Twin Cities Bible Church, we want to focus the blog on what is really important: ministering to our local church body and giving glory to God. With those motives in place, the blog ministry purpose became crystal clear: to edify those in our local body and glorify the Lord Jesus by teaching His truth with clarity and passion.

Last time we looked at the second chapter of Luke’s gospel where the angel Gabriel tells Mary that she will conceive in her womb and bear a son (Luke 2:31).

Previously, we looked at Job chapter nine in which Job asked the question: “But how can a man be in the right before God?” (Job 9:2b). At the end of the chapter, Job reaches this conclusion to his question: “For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.” (Job 9:32-33)

At the end of the eighth chapter of the book of Job, Bildad attempts to offer the suffering servant of God some hope: “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers” (Job 8:20).