MARY BROUGHT FORTH THE SAVIOUR : Mary was the mother of Jesus’ earthly body of flesh. But Mary is not the mother of the eternal Son of God. Jesus did not lay aside His divinity when He came to earth. He was fully God and fully man.

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Mary is the mother of Jesus’ earthly body

MARY: A Woman – With No Man Involved, Brought Forth the Saviour

Luke 1:30-38 says, “³⁰ And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. ³¹ And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.³² He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: ³³ And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 

    ³⁴ Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? ³⁵ And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. 

³⁶ And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. 

³⁷ For with God nothing shall be impossible. 

³⁸ And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.” 

In the reading of this genealogy, we fail to think about this fact, of a woman being the final piece of the genealogy puzzle to the birth of the Saviour, with no man physically involved in the process. 

Matthew 1:18-25 says, “¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 

¹⁹ Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. ²⁰ But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. ²¹ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. 

²² Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,  ²³ 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. 

²⁴ Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: ²⁵ And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.” 

There are several reasons that Jesus could not be born of a regular conception: 

(1)  Jesus could not have been born of a normal conception between a man and a woman, or else He would have been born with a sin nature like us, and thus unable to save us. 

Romans 5:12 says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” 

God used Paul to describe what it is like, living with a sin nature within us. 

Romans 7:18-23 says, “¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. ¹⁹ For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 

²⁰ Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ²¹ I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. ²² For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 

²³ But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” 

(2)  Jesus also could not have been born of a normal conception between a man and a woman, or He would not have been “God in the flesh.” 

Matthew 1:20-23 says, “²⁰ But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. ²¹ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. 

²² Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, ²³ 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.” 

The Lord Jesus Christ is God Almighty in the flesh. 

John 1:14 says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” 

Note:  Jesus is God, but that does not make Mary the “mother of God.”

Isaiah 9:6 says, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” 

Mary was the mother of Jesus’ earthly body of flesh: “For unto us a child is born...,”

But Mary is not the mother of the eternal God, “...unto us a son is given.” 

The earthly body of Jesus was born—Mary is the mother of that earthly body. 

But the eternal Son of God did not have a beginning in the womb of Mary - He has existed from eternity, and came down from heaven to the womb at the moment of conception. 

John 3:12-13 says, “¹² If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? ¹³ And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” 

Jesus was standing upon earth, and said that He had come down from heaven—and that He was yet in heaven. 

How can that be?  Because Jesus is God, and God is everywhere at once. 

This proves that Jesus did not lay aside His divinity when He came to earth.  He was fully God and fully man.  

Mary is the mother of Jesus’ earthly body, but Mary is not the mother of God. 

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