Matthew 1:23-25 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is… 1. Humanity needed a Saviour. 2. The Mediator was to come in the purity and the power of sinless human character. 3. We, as a part of the human world, must join in this longing of human hearts for a Christ. 4. When this yearning of mankind was taken up into the guidance and inspiration of God it became prophecy. 5. These things are a declaration of the one fact which lies, central and life-giving, at the heart of all our Christian thoughts and hopes. 6. We come short of the full grandeur of the gospel when we take the clause, "God with us," as signifying only one among us — a Deity moving among individuals, outside of them all, and, however friendly and gracious, still an external Person, saving them only by a work wrought all above them. 7. Then, too, it will begin to appear what Christ's own people may be, acknowledging their membership, confirmed and alive in His body. (Bishop Huntingdon,.)Let Him be one of us, that we may be one in Him. (J. C. Jones.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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