ODJ: teenage pregnancy
March 25, 2011
The Lord Himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! (Isaiah 7:14).
READ: Luke 1:26-38
If your teenage daughter or your fiancé told you she was pregnant but was still a virgin, would you believe her? For when a single person becomes pregnant, the evidence of sexually immoral conduct is highly probable. That’s because, beyond medically engineered fertilization, it’s impossible to get pregnant without sexual contact. There’s no other acceptable or reasonable explanation—unless, of course, you were Mary, Jesus’ mother.
A pure, young Jewish girl engaged to be married to Joseph, Mary—much to her confusion and distress—was told by an angel that she would “conceive and give birth to a son” (Luke 1:31). She understood the biological impossibility of the situation when she said, “How can this happen? I am a virgin” (v.34). A medical doctor would certainly have concurred! Joseph’s decision to break the engagement, albeit discreetly (Matthew 1:19), revealed that he didn’t believe her explanation of a divine conception either (Luke 1:35). It required another angelic visitation to convince him otherwise (Matthew 1:20-21).
It’s possible today for a woman, a virgin even, to become pregnant by artificial insemination or the controversial embryo transfer. But Luke, who was a medical doctor himself (Colossians 4:14), documented the world’s first and only virgin conception of a pregnancy—the conception of a human life without fertilization from the human male (Luke 1:34-35). Human parthenogenesis is scientifically impossible even today. But nothing is impossible with God (v.37).
To the nonbelieving world, the virgin birth of Jesus is a scientific mockery. But for Christians, it’s a miraculous necessity—a sign from God. For in it, He fulfilled His 700-year-old promise (Isaiah 7:14). Mary’s baby boy was called “the Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32). And she named Him Jesus (v.31), for He came to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). —K.T. Sim
As a Christian, do you find it hard to believe in the miraculous conception of Jesus? Why is it vital that we believe that Jesus was born of a virgin?
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That last question bothers me. Why must Jesus be born of a virgin. It’s not normal. Is it? Why would GOD suspend the law of procreation at this single instance? Jesus is special no doubt but must his birth make us feel we can’t be that holy as if is? I hope I’m not askin too many questions.
Hmmnnn, interesting question dea. Jesus birth does not make us feel we cant be that holy…rather u should see it as somethings special and awesome….Just like your superhero. lol. really in a way…Jesus came in a special and awesome way not to make us feel demeaned but 2 let us know we too can be that special cos we would live in HIM.
To answer ur ? directly..The Holy Spirit has never entered anyone to produce a child….. He is Holy and He needed the closest being who is pure inside and out…Once you have sexual intercourse …you are joined with that person in a kind of way…in the spirit. Jesus could have come through a normal way but who would believe…His coming has already being prophesied from the beginning…yearssssssssss before it happened..it s been planed so when He came…it had to be as planned for the scriptures to be fulfilled.
Isnt that awesome… i cannot get over it.
I need 2 stop…am talkin 2 much.