First Christmas Headlines!

Concerning Zacharias and Elizabeth! Luke 1:4-23

1st A Barren Godly Couple Declared Righteous By the Living God!
2nd God Breaks His Silence After 400 Years!
3rd God Hears and Answers A Long Forgotten Prayer!
4th Godly Couple Promised and Given a Godly Son in Their Old Age!
5th A Christmas Promise Met With Doubt, Resulting in Difficulty 18-20
6th God Fulfills His Word, Regardless of Man’s Doubt! 39-45

Concerning Mary! Luke 1:26-37

7th An Impossible Word Met With Faith and Courage!

1. Who is this Woman, Mary? Why is This Faith?

¬ Mary, A Seemingly Insignificant Woman From a Seemingly Insignificant Place That God is Going to Use in a Very Significant Way!

Nazareth, an Insignificant Place on the Map.

John 1:45 “We have found Him whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph” 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, Come and see.

¬ Mary, A Young Virgin Betrothed to A Carpenter.

Consider Your Calling! 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

2. A Woman of Incredible Character!

¬ Favored and Pleased By God!
The Grace of God Saves You Through Faith!

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 Not as a result of works, so that no one may boast!

This Grace That Instructs You! Titus 2:11-14

¬ Possessing God’s Presence!

3. A Woman Who Believes a Most Impossible Word!

Blessed is she who believed there would be a fulfillment of the word spoken of her.

This is Faith! This is the Faith that Will Always Birth a Courage to Believe!

Concerning Joseph: Courage to Obey! Matthew 1:18-25

Who Is Joseph?

1. A Righteous Man, Committed to Do Live Life Right!

Righteous People Do Life God’s Way! They Live Life Right!

2. A Courageous Man! Who Completely Obeys God!

¬ Marry Mary (The child is by no man!)
¬ Name Him Jesus (Deliverer, Savior, To Make Free)

Matthew 1:23 BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON,AND THE SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL, which translated means, “GOD WITH US”

Romans 11:26 and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.” 27 “And this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”

Matthew 1:25 And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took Mary as His wife, but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son ; and he called His name Jesus!