MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/5/2026
8:03 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 Intro
to “The Virgin Birth: A Divine Miracle”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
1:34-38
Message of the verses: 34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be,
since I am a virgin?” 35 And the angel
answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called
holy—the Son of God. 36 And behold, your
relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the
sixth month with her who was called barren. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God."
38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the
servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel
departed from her.” (ESV)
This morning I will begin to quote
the introduction to these verses from John MacArthur’s commentary: “History has recorded some amazing
births. Born near a small town in
Ontario, Canada, on May 28, 1934, the Dionne sisters became the first known set
of quintuplets to survive infancy. For
the first decade of their lives they were Canada’s biggest tourist attraction—bigger
even than Niagara Falls—generating several hundred million dollars in tourist
revenue. Jan11, 1974, saw the birth of
the Rosenkowitz sextuplets, the first recorded set of sextuplets to have survived
to adulthood, in Cape Town, South Africa.
The seven children born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaugthey of Des Moines,
Iowa, on November 19, 1997, are the first set of septuplets to survive
infancy. Another notable birth involved
only one child. On Jul 25, 1978, Louise
Brown was born in Oldham, England. What
was noteworthy about her however, was not her birth, but the manner of her
conception; she was the world’s first ‘test-tube-baby,’ conceived by means of
in vitro fertilization. And in 2008 a
single woman gave birth to octuplets by means of in vitro fertilization. All currently alive.
“The Bible also records some amazing
births. Isaac’s birth was nothing short
of miraculous, since his father (Abraham) was one hundred years old and his
mother (Sarah) was ninety years old and barren (Rom. 4:19). The Lord also miraculously opened the womb of
Manoah’s wife (Judges 13:2), and she gave birth to Samson. Similarly, God allowed Hannah, who had also
been barren (1 Sam. 1:2, 5) to become pregnant with Samuel. Only a few months before Gabriel’s appearance
to Mary, the Lord enabled an elderly, barren couple, Zacharias and Elizabeth,
to conceive a child (Luke 1:7, 24). That
child, John the Baptist, was called by God to be the forerunner of the Messiah,
and was the greatest man who had ever lived up to his time (Matt. 11:11).
“But the most remarkable birth of
all was that of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, incarnate; the
eternal ‘Word [who] became flesh, and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14);
supernaturally conceived in a virgin without a human father. Jesus’ virgin conception cannot be explained
away as an example of parthenogenesis (lit., virgin creation’ or ‘generation’),
which is found in some lower forms of life.
Parthenogenesis in humans, even if it were biologically possible, could
only result genetically in a female child, since women do not have the Y chromosome necessary to produce a male
child.
“The virgin birth of Jesus Christ is
foundational to Christianity, since it is the only way to explain how He could
be the God-man. To deny the virgin
birth, then, is to deny the biblical truth that Jesus Christ is both God (cf.
John 1:1; 10:30; 20:28; Rom. 9:5; Phil. 2:6; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8; 2
Peter 1:2; 1 John 5:20) and man (cf. John 1:14; Rom. 1:3; Gal. 4:4; Phil.
2:7-8; 1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 2:14; 1 John 4:2; 2 John 7), and to affirm another
false Jesus (2 Cor. 11:4), For if Jesus
had a human father, He was just a man.
And if He was just a man, He could not be the Savior. And if Jesus is not the Savior, there is no
gospel, no salvation, no resurrection, no hope beyond this life. As Paul notes, ‘If Christ has not been
raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins…If we have hoped in
Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied’ (1 Cor. 15:17,
19). We may as well ‘eat drink,
for tomorrow we die’ (v. 32). The
serious implications of viewing Jesus as mere man led Paul to pronounce a curse
on those who propagate that satanic lie (Gal. 1:8-9). “8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should
preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be
accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now
I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you
received, let him be accursed.”
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: I suppose that the virgin birth of Jesus
Christ, and how the second person of the Godhead became a man is something that
I will never fully understand, however I do believe it and will always believe
it because the result of this in my life is that He changed me, brought me from
being spiritually dead to spiritually alive with the hope (noun) of eternal
life.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trust that the Lord will bring me
out of this spiritual difficult time, to trust Him to do this and to trust how
He will do this. To trust the Lord to
have His perfect will for what is going on in my wife’s illness.
3/5/2026
8:41 AM
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